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Good news: Jess is back!

Jessica Good.
IT’S been less than two years but the former face of ACT WIN News, Jessica Good, is back in town!

With her hubby and almost 10-month-old baby, Hugo, in tow, Jess and the family has decided to swap the country life of Young for a “change of pace and a new challenge”.

Jess left Canberrra, and her high-profile job of WIN News anchor, to edit “Lifestyle Magazine” in Young alongside her husband, who was managing the publication.

Although they are still shareholders in the company, the young family “want to call Canberra home”.

Between looking after baby Hugo, Jess has just taken up a part-time position at the Home Loan Centre as marketing and communications manager.

“I’m so happy to be back,” she says.

 

Edward out of the cloisters

UC’s media manager Ed O’Daly has stepped out from the university’s cloisters for a job at the business end of Government – senior communications officer in the Chief Minister’s office.

Now known as “Edward”, his life in the fast lane appears to be a tentative one. An email from UC said: “Ed O’Daly will be away from the university until November.” Which means he’s heading home straight after the October election!

Former WIN News reporter and newly-wed Amanda Powell (now Jones) will now be in charge of the university’s media office.

 

Cowra comes of ‘Age’

“CC” hears that “The Queanbeyan Age”, which has been edited across the border for the past few years from “The Chronicle” offices in nearby Fyshwick, will now join the Fairfax Regional Network. And while this means it is sensibly heading back to NSW, we hear it will be edited even further away from home, in Cowra!

The weekly, paid newspaper is one of the oldest papers in the country, first published in 1860 under the masthead “The Golden Age”.

Arise, Sir Tony

YOU read it first… “CityNews” hinted weeks ago that former Canberran Tony Llewellyn-Jones is taking over from Philip Quast as Sir Humphrey Appleby for the coming Gold Coast and subsequent seasons of “Yes, Prime Minister”. And now it’s been confirmed. Quast is leaving to perform in a Melbourne Theatre company show.

 

All bitters but not twisted

THERE’S a new twist on the cocktail menu at one of Canberra’s newest bars, Bellabar, and it’s all thanks to senior mixologist Jared Thibault.

Say, what? Mixologist?

“It’s someone that takes ingredients from scratch and creates their own concoctions, instead of taking someone else’s and re-doing them,” explains Jared who hails from Rhode Island, and has worked in numerous resorts across the US.

Jared, who has worked alongside some of the world’s best mixologists, was sent to Canberra’s Rydges Lakeside to teach the staff at Bellabar his tricks of the trade.

For Jared, bitters are the key to his 13 signature cocktails, and when “CC” says bitters, we’re not talking your typical Angostura Bitters.

All up, he’s collected 24 different bitters from Habanero – the perfect ingredient for his “Smoking Guns” beer-based cocktail, to chocolate, walnut, peach and Tiki – a pineapple flavoured bitter.

He says originally he aimed to collect 30 varieties, but “they aren’t as easy to find here as they are back home”.

“For any sweet cocktail, add the right amount of bitters and it makes it more balanced, I’m all about balance,” he says.

Jared’s hoping his visit will cause a shake-up Canberra’s bar scene.

“There’s some great bars out there, Knightsbridge, Hippo, Kremlin, they are all great guys, but I feel like they all do a lot of the same thing,” he said.

“All their cocktail lists have caprioskas, mojitos, and you can come here and you can get that.

“For me, a cocktail menu should be something you’re not familiar with.”

 

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