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eLanka Newsletter – 9th November 2022 – 3rd Edition Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter Sri Lankan girl happy to play for Australia – Des Kelly Gayan Senanayake – Sri Lanka’s Cricket Cheering Leader – Talks exclusively to eLanka in Australia – His Life, His Passion & Memories! New Zealand and England look the favourites but an India- Pakistan final will be a winner – BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE (eLanka Sports editor) Photos of the Felicitation Event for Dr Harold Gunatillake OAM “A NEW AIRLINE FOR SRI LANKA” – by Des Kelly “Kai Tak Heart Attack” – By GEORGE BRAINE Announcement – New Committee STCOBANSW/ACT 2022-2023 Summer of Cricket in Australia – Teams, Dates and Venues across Australia A rare insight into Lionel Wendt – the man, the artist-By Yomal Senerath-Yapa Silverscene Official Newsletter of the Silver Fawn ...

Nov 9, 2022 Posted by In Articles, eLanka Newsletters Tagged , , , ,
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The two years that changed my life-By Dr Nihal D Amerasekera Source:Island In 1958 my father moved to Kolonnawa. We could see the Government Factory from our verandah. The factory chimneys spewed smoke all day and all night. We lived constantly under this cloud of pollutants. At the edge of our property was a tall perimeter fence of the Kolonnawa Oil Installation. For three years we lived next to this ‘time bomb’ which could ignite any minute with devastating consequences. In those days we believed the Government was trustworthy and worked for the benefit of the people. We’ve been let down so many times. After 10 long years at Wesley College I had reached the top of the pile. Now I was a sixth former and a prefect with all its trappings of prestige and privileges. The science laboratories were my domain for a formidable and forbidding two years. ...

Nov 7, 2022 Posted by In Articles Tagged ,
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Seeking to contact Boris Schrader and Glen Scharanguivel I would be ever so grateful if you could ask your readers for information about two friends who were at school with me. Boris Schrader and Glen Scharanguivel They were both from the Salvation Army in Slave Island and joined the boarding at Wesley College Colombo and remained with us from 1950-57.  Friendships are one of God’s finest creations. Those that are made at school during our formative years remain strong in our hearts and minds throughout our lives. The great dispersal at the end of our school careers come as a shock to us all. We then embark on our journeys through life in the wider world getting on the treadmill to carve ourselves careers and raise our families. It is not until these life’s obligations are fulfilled do we get the time to look back and trace our school friends who meant so much ...

Dec 3, 2020 Posted by In SEEKING TO CONTACT Tagged ,
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