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CTV News
7 days ago
- General
- CTV News
‘Make every day count': Insights on having a happy life from a 101-year-old lawnmower
Adam finds out a century of insights from a 101-year-old lawn mower. LANGLEY, B.C. — Although today is a special day, Dave Faulkner began it in an ordinary way. 'I get up every morning about 6 o'clock,' Dave says. 'And I make porridge.' It's the same breakfast the 101-year-old has been eating since he could show his age with one hand. 'We didn't even have a telephone,' Dave recalls. While Dave remembers communicating through postcards and travelling on horses, he will never forget enduring the Great Depression. 'You couldn't afford to buy a new thing,' Dave says, adding he was taught how to maintain everything. 'You gotta have old stuff and fix it.' Now instead of using a walker for stability, Dave pushes a cart filled with tools, so he's prepared for any possibility. 'You never know what I'll run into in a day,' Dave says. Dave's especially grateful to be good with his hands, since things have gone so bad with his eyes. 'I got a spot in the middle of my vision that blacks out.' Dave says he's almost blind, and 'feels' how to prepare his ride-on lawnmower. While his limited peripheral vision is foggy, Dave's passion for mowing couldn't be clearer. 'I like it,' Dave smiles. 'It's exciting.' When asked how excited he is, on a scale of one to 10, Dave takes a moment before answering, 'Eight.' While lawn-mowing day's score is strong, Dave's work ethic is even stronger. 'Make every day count,' Dave says. But if you ask Dave what he's learned at the end of the day really counts, he'll tell you about the 75 years he spent with his beloved Elsa. 'I married a lovely lady,' Dave says. 'She looked after me and I tried to look after her.' Dave will also tell you how proud he is of his three kids, including Jan, who's visiting today. 'I love when they visit,' Dave says. 'Something will happen, and you get a little laugh or a giggle.' While Dave suggests you always put family first and never think twice about doing the right thing. 'Just try to be honest about everything,' Dave says. And help people whenever you can. Although Dave's too humble to mention it, his son says his dad volunteered in the community for decades. While Dave doesn't know the secret to his longevity, he has no doubt about the meaning of life. 'Try to be happy,' Dave says, before adding the best way to do that. 'Try to make other people happy.' And that is how you make every day, no matter your age, feel like 10 out of 10.
ABC News
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Perth photographer Rob Baxter publishes book of city's early punk, new wave scene
It was 1976 and Rob Baxter was a photography student at Central TAFE when he began combining his love of music with his camera. "My photos really are me walking around as a teenager and then in my early 20s … just documenting what I was into," Baxter told Mark Gibson on ABC Radio Perth. "I was transfixed by New Wave and punk, which happened — really started — about '76," he said. "Living in Perth and growing up in Perth, I didn't want to be here. I wanted to be in England. I wanted to be in America. "It was, and it always is, isolated. So, I think that a lot of the inspiration came from those bands." He has now delved into his archives and self-published a book full of his photographs and memories of that time. Some of the band members became famous, others are now distant memories. "In the book, it's a cross-section, a snapshot in time. It really is a snapshot of that period," Baxter said. "It's biased. It is very much my favourites. In one set of images, a very young Dave Faulkner, later of Hoodoo Gurus fame, performs with his band The Victims at their final gig in 1979 at a venue called Hernando's Hideaway. "The Victims were certainly one of my favourite punk bands. Probably the most famous punk band really ever to come out of Perth," he said. "The very mention of Hernando's Hideaway will conjure up memories for people. "That was a fantastic punk venue. "[The Dave Faulkner image] is one of my favourite photos. Putting the book together, Baxter said he tried to focus on Perth and the story of the city's music history in the '70s and '80s, warts and all. "It's not necessarily the most famous bands. It's the bands that wrote their own songs," he said. "Independent bands who were inspired by the Sex Pistols in the UK and the American bands like Talking Heads and Blondie. "This is very exciting for me because I finally got these photos in a book."
