Mood: sad
Topic: ecology
Picture: Peter Gray shown here at right, 3rd from the top. His funeral is this Saturday in Newcastle NSW.
We are advised Peter died after a long struggle with cancer over the
Easter weekend just past. The editor of SAM met Peter once at the pictured Marrickville Town Hall meeting over a coal mine at Anvil Hill on 24 June 2007.
We got his picture after chatting, aware that he had won a famous legal precedent as the plaintiff against the NSW Government, a case which was not appealed and can be found here:
Gray v The Minister for Planning and Ors [2006] NSWLEC 720 (27 November 2006)
with costs order in Peter Gray's favour here:
Gray v Minister for Planning & Ors (No 2) [2007] NSWLEC 91 (27 February 2007)
We received this email recently:
Subject: Details for Pete's funeralDear friends,
Thank you all for the outpouring of warmth and the tributes to Pete that you have made in the last two days. Stay together and keep sending the love around.
Naomi and Pete’s family and all of us hope that you can come to Pete’s funeral service and celebration of his life on Saturday 7 May, at 11am.
The Service will begin at 11am at Newcastle’s Christchurch Cathedral, (46 Newcomen Street, Newcastle)
There will be a burial ceremony at Morpeth Cemetery (Butchers Lane, Morpeth -- for those not from Newcastle, Morpeth is more than half an hour away from the Catheral) after the conclusion of the funeral service, starting at 1:30pm.
There will be a wake at the Croatian Bowling Club, on Alfred Street, Wickham (in Newcastle). The Bowling Club will be open to us from 3pm and there will be food for all. At 4pm, at the Croatian Club, there will be a presentation of photos and story-telling for all to participate in.
You are all welcome to attend all or any of these ceremonies to say goodbye to Pete.
In lieu of flowers, Pete asked that people coming to his funeral make a donation to the Mount Oak Community. There will be details of how to do this available on Saturday.
If you have any digital images of Pete that you would like us to include in a slide-show on Saturday, please send them by Thursday so we can include them.
Love and thanks to all
George
Georgina Woods
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"Against the propaganda of terror and the propaganda of luxury, have you a nice simple answer?" Ezra Pound, 1962.