At the present time the plans involve an early morning street procession, a fete, an official assembly and an evening dinner for Saturday 3 October. More activities could be added but it has been pleasing to see other groups planning reunions for the same weekend.

Pavers for the planned commemorative walkway are selling well. If you would like to be part of the 150th celebratory walkway and have a brick included in remembrance of you, your children or a family member attending the school details are available at our Facebook page Bellingen Public School 150 or a committee member will have details available in front of IGA on Thursday 19, Thursday 26 and Friday 27 March.

Some anecdotes or stories of your memories of BPS have already started coming in and it is not too late to perhaps get yours included, as it will add to the interest in the book being written.

One included in the 125th Year Book from R Heelis (Chirp) was about Summy's lunches. "Most of us at the Old School would remember Summy's lunches. I remember it most for its power of bribe. You had to send some kids over to get the lunches and many a time I would have said "If you can't behave you won't go to get the lunches." It usually worked every time.

Robyn Smith (nee Brownlee) has also sent us her recollections of living in the School Residence (now the Neighbourhood Centre) as the children of the Headmaster Joe Brownlee.

Memories of Living in the Bellingen Public School Residence 1960-1966: "As a ten year old, I climbed every tree in the school grounds. All the camphor laurels trees too. I particularly loved a pine tree, that grew near the road across from the RSL Club (Diggers Tavern). I used to sit in it and watch the people coming out of the RSL Club and the cars and people go by."

Those trees are still standing in Maam Gaduying, Meeting Place Park today.