Giralang resident marks 100th birthday

Andrew Brown
Updated July 14 2017 - 11:18am, first published 9:31am
Triple figures: Sheilah Barrie with a photo of herself when she was 21. She will mark her 100th birthday on July 22. The Giralang resident has lived in Canberra since 1925. Photo: Andrew Brown
Triple figures: Sheilah Barrie with a photo of herself when she was 21. She will mark her 100th birthday on July 22. The Giralang resident has lived in Canberra since 1925. Photo: Andrew Brown

Sheilah Barrie can remember back to a time when Canberra was just a “little, friendly, country town”, and when you had to use dirt roads to get around.

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Andrew Brown

Andrew Brown

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I've been part of the Canberra Times since 2016, after reporting at local papers in Sydney's north-west. Since starting at the paper I've had stints on the Sunday Times, on the early morning breaking news round, and now as a general reporter, covering the ins and outs of anything and everything happening in Canberra, with a focus on health.

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