Woden Seniors Inc

50 years of providing Community Service to the over-50s of Canberra

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Fortnightly News 18/11/2022

Issue 23 of 2022     

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18thth November 2022

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SAVE THE DATE

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Description automatically generatedFor the first time in a while…. (fingers crossed!!) we are planning to have

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  CHRISTMAS LUNCH             

FRIDAY 16 DECEMBER

     12.00 – 2.00 PM

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The cost will be $6 per member – and yes you can pay with a Club Voucher if you wish.  The Club will subsidise the cost of the meal.

Booking is ESSENTIAL – we need to limit numbers, so please see Polly to put your name down to be sure of a place!

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DON’T FORGET…

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The Club will close for the Christmas break from Friday 23 December and re-open on Monday 16 January.

During this period we will be spending some of the very welcome 2022 Book Fair income on replacing the faded, aging, and wrinkled carpet in the Club foyer, in the Anne Murray Room, in Polly’s office and in the Hall 1 verandah area.  You will be glad to know we don’t plan to replace any faded, aging, and wrinkled Club members!

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Book Fair 31 March, 1 and 2 April 2023

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The 2023 Book Fair is fast approaching. Once the summer holiday season is over it will be upon us before we realise.

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Each of the three processing groups is working away each week busily preparing the donated books and other items and the storage areas are filling up.  However there is still plenty of space for more donations.

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If you are doing some spring cleaning and would like to donate some excess items, we would love to receive clean, re-saleable books, comics, CDs, DVDs, audio books, puzzles, and games. 

Unfortunately, we cannot accept encyclopedias, Readers Digest condensed books, magazines, First Aid manuals, cassette tapes, video tapes, vinyl records, computer software and computer games and dirty, tatty, incomplete books.

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Our Book Fair group are always on the lookout for people with specific skills relating to social media, rare books, and business or event management, to name a few. Please let Polly know if you think you can assist.

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‘Save the date’ bookmarks can be handed out from now on. There is a supply on the table in the foyer. Please take some and start giving them out.

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CLUB NAME BADGES

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Club name badges are now available to order.  They will look like the picture above, and the cost is $10.50 for a badge with a magnetic back, or $9.50 for one with a pin fastening.

Polly has a form to complete if you would like to order – you can choose to have your full name – e.g. Joe Blow or just your given name e.g. Joe if you prefer

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We will place an order every time we have twenty names – they cost more if we order fewer than 20.

It really helps everyone if we can help our remaining brain cells as they struggle to remember names!!  I’d love to see an outbreak of name badges around the Club.

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Jenny Gregory
President                                            

Woden Seniors Inc.

PO Box 345, Woden ACT 2606

Tel: (02) 6282 2573

Email: president@wodenseniors.org.au

www.wodenseniors.org.au 

              

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 COMMUNITY NOTICES AND INFORMATION

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PROBUS CLUB

Weston Creek Ladies Probus Club: The club meets on the second Tuesday of each month at the Canberra Southern Cross Club, Woden. The meeting starts at 10.00 am and finishes at midday.   There is a general meeting followed by a club speaker and a guest speaker.   Members meet for lunch afterwards in the club restaurant.

The ladies in our club are friendly and welcome new members.  They enjoy regular lunches, day trips away, a Christmas in July at the Royal Canberra Golf Club and a Christmas party at the Southern Cross Club.   Longer trips away are planned in conjunction with other Probus clubs. The more active members of the club do a regular Wednesday morning walk in Weston Park and have coffee afterwards.

If you are interested in coming along as a visitor, please contact Robyn on 62880449.

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Electronic Direct mail information for community organisations

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Digital Health Record, or DHR, is now live across the ACT.

DHR is the ACT’s new digital health system. It will be used to keep all health records on a person who uses any of our ACT public health services. This will include:

 Canberra Hospital
 Calvary Public Hospital Bruce
 Centenary Hospital for Women and Children
 University Canberra Hospital
 Community Health Centres
 Walk-in-Centres in the ACT
 Clare Holland House

This means your public health records will be stored safely in one system – instead of multiple IT systems and paper records.

This will help our health professionals find your information faster, so they can spend their time focusing on what’s most important – you. 

Most of the health information that will be stored in the Digital Health Record is already being collected, either on paper or in existing clinical IT systems.

The Digital Health Record is hosted in multiple secure data centres in Canberra. These data centres have well established security controls that enable them to store secret data belonging to the Australian Federal Government.

Find out more dhr.act.gov.au

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… and the last word…

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From the Golacks….thanks

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 Here are some interesting facts on longevity.

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Some things to ponder as we age:

         The inventor of the treadmill died at the age of 54

          The inventor of gymnastics died at the age of 57

          The world bodybuilding champion died at the age of 41

          The best soccer player in the world, Maradona, died at the age of 60

 And then..

          KFC inventor died at 94

          Inventor of Nutella brand died at the age of 88

          Cigarette maker Winston died at the age of 102          

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The inventor of opium died at the age of 116 – in an earthquake 

          Hennessy cognac, Irish inventor died at 98

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How did doctors come to the conclusion that exercise prolongs life?

          The rabbit is always jumping, but it lives for only 2 years.

          The turtle that doesn’t exercise at all, lives 400 years.

So

         Have a glass of wine..

        Take a nap …

       And IF you wake up, have bacon & eggs!

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