He’d See the Humour

BERNIE Rischke would have found humour in having a seat in a fairy garden named after him; he found humour in many things.

Bernie Rischke dressed as a Wizard at the fairy garden fundraiser at Elizabeth Park.

His wife Stacey said he would have loved the fairy seat.

“I think it’s lovely, it reminds me of a bee, painted black and yellow and very happy,” said Stacey.

“He didn’t think he was very good with kids, until his grandson Connor came along and changed that,” she said.

“I think he’d think it was funny that his legacy was a chair in a fairy garden,” she chuckled.

Bernie passed away on May 30 last year and was instrumental in establishing the fairy garden as part of the team at the Scone Neighbourhood Resource Centre and was the main helper for Santa each year.

Lee Watts, manager of the Resource Centre said Bernie enjoyed a sense of the absurd and would have enjoyed that we remembered him in this way.

“We didn’t really needs something to remember him, because we remember him everyday, but now there will always be a seat in our garden that brightens the garden and our day,” she said.

“Where ever we move, the garden will move with us and so will Bernie’s seat,” said Lee Watts.

Noel Davis from the Men’s Shed made the chair and John Newling painted it.

(#wemissyouBernie – Ed)