More than 100 years of precious footy memories
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April 24, 2021 12.02am
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MELBOURNE
More than 100 years of precious footy memories
Well done the National Trust for highlighting the significance of the Jack Dyer Stand in the face of its demolition by Richmond Football Club as part of Punt Road Oval’s re-development (Sport, 21/4). The stand is over 100years old and has witnessed much of football history, as well as being the former home of the Richmond Cricket Club. Spectators have watched their heroes play from here. Memories of premierships are well and truly etched in its fabric.
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Linda Lui is President of the Indochina Friendship Association Buddhist Temple where she helps distribute masks and food regularly.
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On a recent Friday afternoon, Linda Lui hands out steamed rice and mung beans to people in a long line of cars outside the IndoChina Friendship Association Buddist Temple on Stockton Boulevard.
Lui grew up in Sacramento’s Vietnamese American neighborhood known as Little Saigon, and has been involved with this Buddhist Temple since she was a young child. Now, she’s the president, and has been working to give out free food and face masks to community members since the start of the pandemic. But many of the volunteers and those involved in the Temple’s efforts are aging or elderl