Harbour City Bears in mourning
The Harbour City Bears will hold a memorial service for vice president John Richardson at the Metropolitan Community Church on Monday.
Richardson died suddenly last Tuesday, leaving behind his loving partner Peter. Peter and John were the first Australian couple to legally marry in Canada.
“The committee of Harbour City Bears remembers our friend John for his energy and enthusiasm as vice president,” Harbour City Bears president Jonny Bastin said.
“His dedication to ensure our Bear Essentials festival was a fantastic event for our members and guests, plus his desire to improve the well being of our community as shown by his passion for fundraising for Inspire.”
The service will be held at MCC, Crystal St, Petersham at 3pm on Monday, March 22, followed by drinks at Saddle Bar, above the Midnight Shift, at 5pm.
A request has been made that, instead of flowers donations be made in John’s name to Inspire, the Harbour City Bears’ charity of choice this year – http://www.inspire.org.au/donate.php
Help with grieving
ACON offers free and confidential counseling services and have staff who are trained to assist people dealing with loss and grief. Phone (02) 9206 2000 or free call 1800 063 060 or visit www.acon.org.au/mental-health/Counselling/Access.
Lifeline offers a 24-hour telephone helpline. Phone 13 11 14 or visit lifeline.org.au. They also provide a nation-wide online service finder tool for linking into local support.
The Gay and Lesbian Counseling Service of NSW operates a phone-based service seven days 5.30 – 10.30 on (02) 8594 9596 or visit glcsnsw.org.au.
The Men’s line can be contacted on 1300 789 978 or visit www.menslineaus.org.au
Thank you for your wonderful friendship over the years John. Rest in peace my friend.
Hugs
Your friend
Graham
The link to the donate page that is above does not work, it takes you to a page saying:
“We’re sorry but the page you requested could not be found.”
The actual link to donate is:
http://www.inspire.org.au/donate.php
You don’t need the 2 in the link.
To the Harbour City Bears my thoughts are with you all at this time of grief and mourning. John will be a great loss to the Bears and to the GLBT Community in general.
RIP John.
Editor’s Note: Thanks ZacD, link has been corrected.
To Peter and all our dear friends at Harbour City Bears, we extend the hand of friendship, love and support this difficult time.
To our readers, if you have the means, please give generously to Inspire in John’s name.
Scott Abrahams
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SSO Media