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Refurbished Rugby Boots Project – By Senaka Amerasinghe Source : Old Antonian Social Club Australia 41st Annual Dinner Dance Souvenir Diehard old Antonian Palitha Anthony, based in Negambo, Sri Lanka in his quest to find solutions to the multitude of issues facing the Antonian fraternity was instrumental in initiating this project. Cost escalation of all items in Sri Lanka is the order of the day and Rugby boots are no exception. Purchasing a pair of Rugby boots is prohibitive to most households in Sri Lanka. Palitha spoke to his good friend in Sydney Shane Thambimuththu on the issue and Shane immediately started collecting boots in Sydney. Shane wanted our assistance to collect boots from Melbourne and so we did and along with the boots collected by Shane, in 2023 we dispatched 65 refurbished boots and Rugby shorts to college in 2 boxes (Tea chests) and we also added an additional box ...

Extract from Old Antonian Social Club of Australia (OASC) 39th Dinner Dance Souvenir President’s Message Welcome to the 39th Annual Dinner dance ushered by the Old Antonian Social Club of Australia. The event is taking place after a lapse of 2 years due to the COVID 19 pandemic which paused all activities world over. We are now back with new found vigour in our 41st year to serve our 168-year-old Alma Matar. We also provide the environment to foster commandership to our fellow old Antonian community in Australia mainly living in Melbourne with the many social gatherings we organize. It is pertinent to note that the year 2020 went by all of us, shell shocked trying to grapple with the rampaging COVID 19 menace. In 2021 we managed to partake in a few outdoor activities by mainly meeting our annual Cricket commitments by fielding teams. We also undertook a fund-raising campaign to ...