A very big thank you to Delvene Delaney for her wonderful film Love of an Icon – a tribute to John Cornell and Paul Hogan and many others in the television and film industry in Australia.
I haven’t been in a theatre where people applauded at the end in a long time. As one old bloke said to me proudly as we exited, ‘that’s what we’re about, isn’t it.’
Another big thank you to our local treasure Mandy Nolan for all her years of teaching comedy, and keeping us the funniest shire in Australia. I did her course three times and when a friend recently asked, ‘how did your Virgin Suicide go?’ I answered: ‘the first time getting up was the scariest thing I’ve ever done. My version of jumping out of an airplane’. Thank God Mandy was always there as our parachute if needed.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
