Club Notes...
Warragul Garden Club
While work in gardens slows off a little over some of winter, members are enjoying walks to see the glorious autumn colour that many deciduous trees provide at this time of the year.
The leaves make great mulch for garden beds, to make compost, or in some locations, be left to enjoy as they decompose naturally under the tree. What a beautiful sight to behold.
At the May meeting local photographer Nigel Beresford was guest speaker. Members learnt how to take the better photos of flowers using our mobile phones. He gave members plenty of good advice and was most generous in sending us some links to use in our quest.
Members are encouraged to send some special photos to be uploaded on our club websitewww.Warragulgardenclub.org
The next excursion will be to see the tomatoes, eggplants and blueberries growing at Flavorite, Warragul.
At the next meeting on Monday, June 26, guest speaker will be Lynda Hoare from the Warragul Food Hub, and we look forward to seeing many beautiful native flowers on our show bench display.
Visitors are welcome and new members are meetings. Come and join us at 9:30am on June 26 at the Senior Citizens Centre, corner of Mason and Barkly St, Warragul.
Warragul Bridge Club
Four tables competed last Wednesday at the Community House.
The Howell movement was again in place. Last week an errant entry saw Anne George and David Belcher increase their win scoring 6760/2830 239 per cent and also top scored.
This week Emilia O’Brien and Stephan Van De Sluis as well as Alan Kuipers and Ken Hutchison score slams (all 13 tricks worth 2220 points) and mother and son Nina and Simon Fraser, Angela Larsen and Heather Cupples, Joan Coster and Clive Ayerst scored mini slams (12 of 13 tricks 1370 pts).
The percentage winners were Emilia and Stephan 7460/3560 209 per cent, Nina and Simon 6150/4380 140 per cent, Alan and Ken 5700/4950 115 per cent, Angela and Heather 5780/5660 102 per cent, Joan and Clive 4550/5560 82 per cent, Min Weggelaar and Dick Powell 4470/5660 79 per cent, runaway winners two week’ ago Chris Samplawski and Michael Thorne 4690/6110 77 per cent and last week’s winners Anne George and David Belcher 3550/6470 55 per cent, highlighting how fortunes of bridge can change.
The top three scorers were Emilia and Stephan completing a good afternoon, Nina and Simon, Angela and Heather.
Bridge returns tomorrow afternoon. Assembly time is 12.45pm for a 1pm start.
Warragul and District Historical Society
At the last meeting of the Warragul and District Historical Society the guest speaker was June Dineen.
June is president of Friends of Warragul Trees, which began in 2019 and has had great help from the more established Drouin group. By using a power-point presentation June was able to show many of the trees of Warragul that the group has listed of great interest and importance. She spoke about how important the parks and roadsides are with the retained growth of the trees in those areas.
June emphasised the trees are the lungs of the earth and they are a habitat for animals. This was true especially with the older trees that may be rotten inside but still growing and a reminder of in pioneer times how such trees were used for first homes, churches and farm storage.
On conclusion June stressed the Friends group has to respect the developers, the shire and people in their dealings about the preservation of precious trees.
With the photographs of the trees and parks that were shown and the descriptions of what is growing along the roadsides many of our members will be wanting to go for a local drive to view them.
Monday, June 26 is the next general meeting with Baw Baw Food Relief manager Anne Pascoe as guest speaker with a power-point presentation.
The meeting will be held upstairs in the Old Shire Hall, 72 Queen St, Warragul at 7.30pm. Visitors are very welcome.
Budgerigar Society
Only a handful of members were present for the meeting on the King’s Birthday Monday to see a slide presentation of all the winning birds from the previous weekend’s Australian National Championship, which was held in Ballarat. The presentation gave members an idea of what they need to look for in breeding a champion bird with examples shown in each of the 28 varieties.
With the State UBC Championship coming up in September members are pairing up birds now to have babies ready for the championship.
Darren Macfarlane gave an insight in to what he looks for in pairing up birds to achieve the best results. In the natural world birds start to look at nesting after the winter solstice and budgies are no different; this is why most breeders put pairs into breeding boxes after this long weekend.
Some of the members had birds for sale or exchange on the night, which helps the club achieve the numbers of varieties required to be able to fill each variety in state shows.
Whilst we did not have any member have a national winner John Rowe and his brothers Greg and David achieved 13th place in the Black-Eye Self class. Overall Victoria won the Championship Shield.
If you would like to know more about breeding, showing or would just like to join the club, make contact via the club’s website - https://bawbawbudgerigarsociety.weebly.com or Facebook page. The next monthly meeting will be Monday, July 3.
Genealogical Society
The West Gippsland Genealogical Society will hold its next meeting on Thursday, June 22.
This month’s speaker is Heather Arnold who will discuss Carol Catani, a civil engineer who worked in Australia for the Victorian Government for the majority of his career. One of his major achievements was the draining of the Koo wee rup swamp.
At the last meeting Stephen Hawke, president of the Genealogical Society of Victoria spoke on the topic of researching pre 1800 England with a variety of resources.
Gwenda gave a brief review of Victoria and Its Metropolis and the valuable information contained within the three volumes on early settlers in Melbourne and surrounds.
We have copies of our recent book publication; A Tribute to Those Who Served Vol 2 – Remembering WW1 Service Personnel who are buried or memorialised in Drouin Cemetery, West Gippsland, available in our library or check out our website.
The WGGS library is open Wednesday and Thursday, 10am to 2pm, second Saturday of the month, 10am to 3 pm and fourth Sunday of the month, 2pm to 4 pm. Visitors are welcome.
New members are welcome. Download the application form or call into the library and get help to further your family history research.
The society meet on the upper floor of the Old Shire Hall, Queen St, Warragul at 7.30pm.
Further detail about the society can be obtained from president Barbara Clayton, phone 5611 3871 or visit the website; www. westgipplandgenealogy.com
Senior Citizens
Warragul Senior Citizens is encouraging community members to join them in a warm winter environment for activities throughout the week.
The program of activities includes:
Cards (canasta) on Mondays at 1pm
Indoor bowls on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at 1.30pm
Hoy (bingo) on Wednesday at 1pm
Card group members play 500 on Thursdays.
Bus trips, luncheons and shows also are planned.
A pie and mash luncheon will be held on Tuesday, June 27 at noon, $10 a head.
Community members are welcome to attend senior citizens, held at the corner Mason and Barkly Sts, Warragul. Contact Robert (0403 162365) for more information.
Warragul VIEW Club
Jo Algie was guest speaker for the May dinner meeting.
Jo is team manager at Drouin ambulance and spoke on the recycling program for old uniforms. These are first de-badged and are distributed within Australia and overseas, to a range of organisations. These include Thailand Ambulance, fire and flood relief workers, homeless people and migrant seasonal workers in Australia. Some uniforms are remade for disadvantaged children.
The program has been operating for four years and has repurposed 22,800 uniforms.
Jo has been recognised for her work by receiving the premier’s award for recycling.
The club has been successful in receiving a grant from Warragul Lions Club. This is to purchase a Warragul VIEW Club banner which the club can display when holding events in the community.
The club supports 10 students on Learning for Life scholarships. VIEW Clubs around Australia are the largest community sponsor of The Smith Family.
Education is one of the most powerful change agents. We help young Australians to overcome educational inequality caused by poverty. Children cannot choose their circumstances and sadly one in six are currently growing up in poverty.
If you are interested in finding out more, come along to the club’s next dinner meeting. Guest speaker for June is Michelle Theunissen who is a dancer and has performed in the Lion King.
The next meeting is Wednesday, June 28, 6pm for 6:30pm at The Black Tie. For bookings or apologies, contact Lyn Kennedy 0409 022078 by noon on the Monday.
Warragul Stroke Support Group
Member for Narracan Wayne Farnham MP was an entertaining and informative guest speaker at Warragul Stroke Support Group’s meeting held at the Community House.
Wayne became a politician because he is passionate about his community. His goal is to help individuals and to make a difference.
With a wicked sense of humour, Wayne described the trials and tribulations of being sworn into his role as a Liberal member of parliament.
Wayne talked about the formalities of being sworn in, his nerve-wracking maiden speech, the many mistakes he made that first week and he admits that he is still learning all the many protocols. It has been a sharp learning experience.
He has been lost in the basement and is still becoming accustomed to having such a small office without a window.
Wayne works long hours, anywhere from 60 to 70 hours per week. Much of this involves research.
After his presentation, Wayne fielded many difficult questions regarding social housing, the budget and Victoria’s debt, funding for a new hospital, our timber industry, the cuts to support for stroke survivors and the suspension of a fellow liberal member.
He said being an MP was surreal, considering he didn’t go any further than year nine at school.