It’s the name game
IT’S official — the Portland Cement Works is no more. At an information session at the Portland RSL on Thursday the new owners planning an exciting redevelopment of the site unveiled the name for the project — The Foundations. It even has its own logo and website (thefoundations.com.au). Representatives of AWJ Civil said the title had been considered appropriate for a project emerging from the foundation of a heritage listed industrial site. If anyone in the audience totally disapproved they weren’t saying so. The company representatives conceded that despite the renaming as The Foundations the site would still be the ‘cement works’ as far as residents were concerned. It’s a classic case of ‘what’s in a name?’
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Bitter memories
THERE will be more firefighters at the Lithgow Workmens Club tonight than at any time since 1999. Back on May 26 1999 a fire destroyed a major portion of the club including the auditorium and ground floor bowlers lounge and bar. Tonight there’s a dinner at the club to mark the centenary of the Cook Street fire station and among those present will no doubt be present and past firies who fought the Workies blaze. It is notable that tonight’s function is just three days short of the anniversary of that event.
