The maiden name of the person was Lorraine Roosmalecocq (Miss Ceylon 1966). She married Leonard Peiris in 1968, but is unable to trace the progeny after that. Are you able to assist? I knew Lorraine in SL and am trying to find out whether she is still alive. Further, is she ...
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Read More →“And now, the end is near, and so I face, the final curtain”, My way, was a song written by Frenchmen Claude Francois & Jacques Revaux who also recorded it in 1967, to no big success, but then Paul Anka, another Showbiz legend and songwriter rearranged the song ...
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Read More →Had no idea that Cinderella was a real person. I used to read all these stories as a very young lad and being who I was, tended to believe that these were all “fairy-stories”. Anyway, not being sceptical enough to believe that fairies were not real, just figments ...
Read More →The High Commission of Sri Lanka in Canberra Celebrated 2021 Vesak with an alms giving and a Dhamma sermon. The High Commission staff offered Buddha Pooja at the Sri Lanka Buddhist Vihara in Canberra on the Vesak poya day on 26th May followed by “Heel Dhanaya” to the resident Venerable ...
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