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OLDER people without smartphones are struggling to check-in to local businesses, says Jenny Mobbs, CEO of Council on the Ageing ACT. “Lots of older people don’t have a smartphone, and we’re hearing that they’re being made to feel like an inconvenience to businesses,” she says.  “We’ve had people met with confusion, or made to wait while they find someone who knows what to do or to take their details.” This has been echoed by letter-writer Jeanne O’Malley in this week’s Seven Days column, who wrote complaining of the loneliness of facing “an electronic wall of resistance...

Date Time National Multicultural Festival Community Panel Reference Group announced Five members of the community have been appointed to the newly established National Multicultural Festival Community Panel Reference Group. This Reference Group will work to strengthen engagement across Canberra’s multicultural community in the lead up to the National Multicultural Festival. 2022 is the much anticipated 25th anniversary of the Festival. The Reference Group will play a key role in providing input on aspects of the overall delivery of the Festival and advice on strategies to encourage the part...

In this sponsored post, “CityNews” speaks with experts passionate about the Woden Valley.  WODEN Valley, one of the ACT’s original 18 districts used in land administration, has question marks around the origin of its name.  It is said to be named after a nearby homestead, whose owner Dr James Murray titled it “Woden” in October, 1837, after the Old English god of wisdom. While, historian Dr Harold Koch believes the name may have its origins in the Aboriginal words “wadyan” or “wadhan”, meaning possum. But regardless of its origin, the valley, subdivided into about 12 subur...

“We want to begin our ‘Silver is Gold Festival’ by involving the community in re-imagining ageing through the expression of art and photography,” Ms Mobbs says. ACT Seniors Week is to change with its organisers, revealing a new name for a year-long concept of events. This is a sponsored post. ACT Seniors Week is to change with its organisers, the Council on the Ageing (COTA) ACT, revealing a new name for a year-long concept of events. It’s to be called the “Silver is Gold Festival” – sparking connection and re-imagining ageing”, says COTA ACT CEO Jenny Mobbs. A community com...