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    The Westsider: April, 2025

    The Westsider is a not-for-profit, monthly community newspaper, written by volunteers and delivered to hundreds of pick-up points across the inner west each month.

    Reviews

    A Vietnamese feast at Footscray Park

    Gary Lee -
    Festivals for Vietnamese Lunar New Year, known as Tết, offer a variety of traditional dishes that reflect the rich culinary heritage of Vietnam.
    Recipes

    Homemade focaccia

    Marie Muccio -
    Focaccia is the perfect side to soups and salads, a wow factor on your grazing boards, or delicious as a sandwich bread.
    Recipes

    Chilli crab spaghetti

    Lizzie Moss -
    Blue swimmer crabs provide an ordeal but the resulting simple sauce is a luxury dish.
    Recipes

    Wyndham Women’s recipe of the month

    Contributor -
    Aliaa Haroun speaks about the importance of the Wyndham Women's Support Group and provides a traditional Egyptian recipe for Khoshari.
    Reviews

    Wine vs wine – April 2025

    Richard Slater & Grant Foulkes -
    Wines reviewed this month: 2022 Devil’s Lair Cabernet Sauvignon and Fowles ‘The Exception’ Shiraz.
    Health

    Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder is real and it sux!

    Contributor -
    PMDD is a mood disorder caused by normal hormone levels and fluctuations and a fundraising event will take place at Mamma Chen's on April 12th.
    Health

    It might seem ‘ick’ …but it can save your life

    HEALTH -
    A bowel test on a 50 year-old catches the disease and potentially saves a life.
    Parenting

    How do I support my anxious teen?

    Contributor -
    When anxiety becomes overwhelming forr a teen and impacts daily life, it’s important to understand what’s happening and how to help.
    Sport

    Nurturing champions: Celebrating 70 years of grassroots soccer in Sunshine West

    Hazel Lekkas -
    Children have been nurtured and supported at Sunshine Heights Junior Soccer Club over the years, where ordinary people make a big difference in young lives
    Edition

    Editor’s note – April 2025

    Editor Barbara Heggen -
    I’ve come to the conclusion that there are basically two types of people in this world; ‘me’ people, and ‘we’ people.

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