{"id":2481,"date":"2020-10-29T16:08:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T05:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nswvga.com.au\/cms\/?p=2481"},"modified":"2024-03-10T15:47:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T04:47:53","slug":"charity-book-launch-at-deniliquin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nswvga.com.au\/cms\/2020\/10\/charity-book-launch-at-deniliquin\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity Book Launch at Deniliquin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The article below is reproduced by kind permission of the Deniliquin Pastoral Times, published on Tuesday, October 13, 2020:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Proceeds from a book launched in Deniliquin on Sunday will benefit research into Motor Neurone Disease.<\/p>\n<p>The book was written by poet Noel Hayes with cartoons by Deniliquin\u2019s Alan Lord and former local resident John Jansen. It was published locally by Garry Baker.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Grandmas, Grandpas and Birdies\u2019 is dedicated to veteran golfers across Australia, and its launch took place at registration day for the Deniliquin Golf Club\u2019s Veteran\u2019s Week of Golf.<\/p>\n<p>The official launch was conducted by president of the NSW Veteran Golfers Association Ian Vidler.<\/p>\n<p>Noel Hayes has written more than 10 books and generously donates all profits to a charity or specific cause. When compiling his book about veteran golfers he asked Vidler to write the foreword and decide which charity should benefit.<\/p>\n<p>As well known veteran golfer and Jerilderie resident Ian Sneddon had passed away from MND last year, Vidler nominated research into the disease as the preferred recipient of book sale funds.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Sneddon\u2019s wife Robyne travelled to Deniliquin for the launch and was presented with a framed photograph and tribute poem to her late husband.<\/p>\n<p>Due to COVID-19 restrictions in Victoria, Hayes was unable to attend the launch.<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-outer\"><div class=\"table-container group\"><table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%; text-align: center;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2482 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nswvga.com.au\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Book-launch-photo1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nswvga.com.au\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Book-launch-photo1.png 672w, https:\/\/www.nswvga.com.au\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Book-launch-photo1-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><br \/><br \/>Alan Lord, Robyne Sneddon, Ian Vidler and Garry Baker<br \/>at the \u2018Grandmas, Grandpas and Birdies\u2019 book launch.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div><div class=\"table-scroll-notice\"><p>Scrollable <i class=\"fa fa-long-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/p><\/div><div class=\"table-gradient\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Grandmas, Grandpas and Birdies\u2019 is available at Deniliquin Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p>The Veteran\u2019s Week of Golf continues until Friday.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article below is reproduced by kind permission of the Deniliquin Pastoral Times, published on Tuesday, October 13, 2020: &#8220;Proceeds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nswvga.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nswvga.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nswvga.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nswvga.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nswvga.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nswvga.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2484,"href":"https:\/\/www.nswvga.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions\/2484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nswvga.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nswvga.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nswvga.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nswvga.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}