U3AW News

NOTE: Changes to our scheduled program

Unfortunately, the U3AW Committee has had to make several changes to this semester’s program due to presenters’ ill health, required interstate travel, family matters – and the weather! We hope to offer most of the cancelled sessions in future programs.

This week’s changes:

CANCELLED: Fossil Bluff excursion

CANCELLED: Why don’t our overseas trained health workers stay here? REPLACED BY: Following the Kanawinka Fault Line Rees Campbell and Col Meyers – see details below.

Further changes will be noted in future Weekly Bulletins and on the website, wynyard.u3anet.org.au

What’s coming up this week.

All sessions held at the Wynyard Showground Reception Centre unless otherwise stated. Refer to the U3AW Semester News for full details of all sessions.

Monday 30 Sept

9:15-12:00 Excursion: Fossil Bluff CANCELLED

2:00-4:00 Ukulele Tunes 3     Margaret Cartwright              Vacancies

This is a basic course for complete beginners, and for ‘strummers’ interested in playing tunes on a ukulele. You will learn how to play notes using fingers of your other hand on frets for well-known tunes which we will play in unison and in harmony and rounds. All you need is a ukulele. If you can tune it, even better.

Tuesday 1 Oct

9.30-12.30 WynJammers Ukes Group           Mike Dixon      Vacancies

Meets each Tuesday in the Poultry Clubrooms. It’s not too late to join this vibrant group.

Poultry Clubroom

Wednesday 2 Oct

RESCHEDULED: 10:00-12:00 Following the Kanawinka Fault Line – Australia’s youngest volcanoes r            Rees Campbell and Col Meyers                      Vacancies

Kanawinka means “Land of Tomorrow” in Buandik, and the name of a geological fault line from Naracoorte Caves to Portland. Come with us as we explore some of Australia’s youngest volcanoes in all their manifestations. We’ll visit scoria cones, craters, maars, lava tubes and caves, tumuli and waterfalls. As we became 5-minute volcanologists, we travelled the longest lava flow from its source at Mt Rouse to the sea and explored the most ancient site of aquaculture in the world.

2:00-4:00 An Informal Chat with Rick Eaves                         Rick Eaves            Vacancies

Former ABC radio, film and on-line producer, Rick Eaves, will entertain us with stories from his 35 years in media and the arts. His first job was as the last “copy boy” at the Examiner newspaper. Rick is also a brilliant photographer and has a few books under his belt. An excerpt from his own profile reads: ……” a freelance photographer and writer for sixteen years. My great passion is simply for my home, the beautiful island State of Tasmania… “

Thursday 3 October

9:30-12:00 Recipes from a German Family home 2 Sylke Nielsen   No vacancies.

Continuing our cooking series, we will head to Europe. Join Sylke Nielsen as she demonstrates some recipes from her home region, including a Hungarian dish that German’s love and have adopted as their own. It’s the unique flavours and styles that make this region one of the most popular in the world. The Germans make the humble potato into one of the most delicious vegetables, and where would we be without paprika?

You will have the opportunity to watch, taste and learn to cook your own at home.

Week 2 Kartoffelpuffer and Apple Strudel.

Live Well Kitchen 28 Saunders St, Wynyard

2:00-4:00 Rounders 3 Maureen Corbett                   Vacancies

Rounders is all about group singing. It doesn’t involve a bat, ball or running and is definitely not competitive. There are no prerequisites, and you can join at any time. Why not give it a go?

Friday 4 October

1:00-3:00        Book Club # 1 Anne Hamilton           No vacancies             

Poultry Clubrooms

If any of the sessions with vacancies interest you and you haven’t yet enrolled, you cando so byemail [email protected]

Community News

What’s happening at the Wynyard Community Garden now that Spring has finally sprung?

There’s a lot going on. Planning for the Garden’s Open Day on Friday 25 October is in full swing. The Wynyard Community Gardens Open Day is now part of the “Tulip Festival month of fun” and plenty of fun and bargains will be on offer. 

Highlights: Landcare has donated over a hundred native plants for sale at the Open Day. There will be music, mosaics, a huge raffle and a used, round raised bed — diam 800mm, green and in good condition – will go to the highest bidder on the day.

The Wynyard Community Garden will have a marquee at the Tulip Festival on Saturday 12 October in Gutteridge Gardens. And for something completely different – Curtis Poke will be there, selling carabiners made on his 3D printer from plastic bottle tops.