Fortnightly News 2/8/2024
Issue 15 of 2024
2nd August 2024
Dates to Remember
Monday 16 September – early advice of the date of the Club’s 2024 AGM
Wednesday 25 September – the Club will share an information stall (along with Canberra and Tuggeranong Seniors) at COTA’s ACT Seniors and Better Ageing Expo at the Old Bus Depot building, Kingston
SPEAKING OF THE BOOK FAIR……
One of the three main teams working every week to sort, categorise, clean, pack and store donated books in preparation for the 2025 Big Book Fair. Definitely a social activity as well as making an enormous contribution to the Club’s financial well-being.
The teams are looking for some extra help with moving and storing boxes of books. Once packed, the books are stored in either the storeroom or in the shipping container and some help with trolleying them to and fro would be really appreciated. If you have some time – and a few muscles – available, on a regular or semi-regular basis, Judy Henderson would love to hear from you and show you what is involved. Judy is in the book sorting area on Monday afternoons between 2 and 4 pm.
NAME BADGES
We are planning another order for Club name badges – as below
The cost is $11.50 for a badge with a magnetic back, or $10.50 for one with a pin fastening. Please let Polly know asap if you would like to order one.
Jenny Gregory
President
Woden Seniors Inc.
PO Box 345, Woden ACT 2606 Tel: (02) 6282 2573
Email: president@wodenseniors.org.au
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Scratch for Seniors at CIT Tuggeranong for National Science Week!
As part of National Science Week, which runs from August 10 – 18, the Australian Government is again supporting creative computing workshops for seniors using Scratch.
Aimed at people over 55 years of age, the workshops will let you unleash your imagination to produce amazing, colourful, musical, moving creations, that can be shared with anyone. It’s fabulous for keeping the brain active and all you have to know to get started is how to use a mouse.
Two free workshops, with lunch provided, will be held at CIT Tuggeranong from 10am to 1pm on August 10 and 17, but registration is essential.
To register for one of these workshops, please visit:
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/957232116027 (for Aug 10) or https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/957237401837 (for Aug 17)
or email: u1518303@anu.edu.au.
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Thanks to Cindy for finding this one.
If you have ever been in a choir, this will strike a note….
The Alto’s Lament
It’s tough to be an Alto when you’re singing in the Choir
The Sopranos get the twiddly bits that people all admire
The basses boom like trombones while the Tenors shout with glee
But the Alto part is on two notes, or if they’re lucky, three.
And when we sing an anthem and we lift our hearts with praises
The men get all the juicy bits and the telling little phrases
Of course the Trebles sing in tune and always come off best
The Altos only get three notes and twenty-two bars rest.
We practice very hard each week from Hymn Book and the Psalter
But when the leader looks at us our voices start to falter
“Too high” he says, “Too low, too fast! You held that note too long!”
It doesn’t matter what we do, it’s certain to be wrong.
Oh, shed a tear for Altos, they’re the martyrs, and they know
In the ranks of choral singers, they’re considered very low
They are so very humble that a lot of folk forget ‘em
How they’d love to be Sopranos, but the vocal chords won’t let ‘em.
And when the final trumpet sounds and we are wafted higher
The Sopranos, Basses, Tenors – they’ll be in the Heavenly Choir
While they sing “Alleluia” to celestial flats and sharps
The Altos will be occupied with polishing the harps.
(This poem was found stuffed behind the vestry door at All Saints
Church, Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield, UK.)