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| Kerry LGDVC, blowing bubbles at Woden VIEW Club Fashion show |
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Government House Open Day Canberra (GHOD)
What a great day it was for VIEW Clubs today. Area AA03 was represented as were AA02, AA01.
The weather gods smiled upon us as it was a sunny day with a breeze to refresh the afternoon weary workers at the VIEW Clubs of Australia.
The VIEW Clubs tent sold woderful Devonshire teas, sold crafty craft works and had a PR Team rounding up new recruits. LGDVC now has 4 new members.
Enjoy the photos
The weather gods smiled upon us as it was a sunny day with a breeze to refresh the afternoon weary workers at the VIEW Clubs of Australia.
The VIEW Clubs tent sold woderful Devonshire teas, sold crafty craft works and had a PR Team rounding up new recruits. LGDVC now has 4 new members.
Enjoy the photos
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
AGM 2013
Welcome to the year 2013!
Out going President Anne McVP read the minutes of the 2012 AGM, thanked the out going committee and stepped down.
Past National Councellor Rhonda thanked the President and out going committee for their work and welcomed the new committee which comprises President-Fiona, Secretary-Bernie, Treasurer-Pauline and finance committee Kerry, Mary, Delegate-Fran and PR-Lydia.
Expecting this will be a great year for LGDVC!
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| That's the nice thing about having your own private venue, you can sit and chat with other members. Just a great atmosphere |
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| The new committee for 2013 L-R in red Pauline, Bernie, Kerry,Lydia front Fran, Fiona |
President Anne's Report for 2012
LGDVC PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2013
There
have been notable achievements in the Club this year in the areas of
administration and finance.
Over the
course of this last year the members helping in different areas became the Club
Committee. I thank June, Fiona, Bernie, Kerry, Mary, Lydia, Pauline and Heather
for this work. For our small club this is a more flexible arrangement than the
team approach that we had been trying and this works very easily. We’ve been meeting
monthly over a cuppa and cake and had very friendly and lively discussion. With
a minimum of effort we’ve organised the activities and lunches.
Financially
we’re doing very well indeed without needing to become stressed over
fundraising activities. As you’ll hear in detail from the Treasurer’s report
that we are supporting both local students and a Learning For Life student and still
having a good credit balance in the bank as a result of our inexpensive, self-catered
lunches.
Our
involvement with other VIEW Clubs and with the VIEW organisation is very
creditable. We’ve had members regularly attending Bungendore, Queanbeyan,
Cooma, Goulburn and ACT Clubs’ activities as well as events run by The Smith
Family and VIEW from Area, State and National. There will be more details in
the Delegate’s report.
We’ve
had a busy year of speakers and activities at our lunches for members and
guests. For these I’ve provided a summary.
·
International
Women’s Day with a short history of the beginnings of IWD in different parts of
the world.
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Back to
School day with members dressing in parts of old school uniforms and doing old
school activities and games.
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Guest
speaker Peter Hugonnet speaking on Women in Submarines and the necessary arrangements
to accommodate a small number of women within a large number of men in a
formerly men-only area of work.
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An
outline of the resolutions being put to the National VIEW Convention followed
by discussion on the resolutions.
·
Guest
speaker Dr Peter McCullagh spoke about the recovery process from brain injury
and the associated time spent in a coma. He stressed the vital role that the
active support of family and friends play in the extent of recovery.
·
8th
birthday party – was held on a pirate theme from the cockatoo saying “pieces of
eight, pieces of eight” in the story of Long John Silver. The pirate theme
included costumes, table decorations, room decorations, games and activities. A
very successful event for the many visitors and ourselves.
·
A quiet
lunch with “Table Topics” in which we discussed our favourite books.
·
Guest
speaker was from Society of St Vincent de Paul. He spoke about poverty today
with the greatest number of homeless people now being older women who are
alone.
·
Elections.
Our guest speaker was Jarod, a tertiary Learning For Life student. He’s had a very rocky road with health problems in his
tertiary studies and would not be achieving any of it without the broad based
assistance from the LFL programme. A story of great courage.
·
Our
Christmas dinner was held at the George Harcourt Inn.
My thanks
to all of you for your participation and my best wishes to the Club and the
Club members for 2013.
Anne 19-2-2013
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Photos of events attended by members of LGDVC
LGDVC Eight birthday celebrations
President Anne cutting LGDVC 8th birthday cake with ZC Margaret looking on
Pirate Pauline, Fran and Helen
Pirate Fiona holding up the group to get her "pieces of eight"
Pinning the tail onto the pirate, Marie?
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Back to school February 2012 |
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| Gala 2012 area AA03 clubs in attendance: Goulburn, Bungendore, Lake George, Queanbeyan, Cooma (did I miss anyone?) |
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| VIEW ladies at Gala having fun |
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| Area AA03 at Gala |
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| Gala 2012 area leaders |
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| home cooked meal to share |
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| Sunny Bywong hall |
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| Self serve |
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| Yummy lunch |
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LGDVC luncheon |
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Friday, March 9, 2012
International Women's Day March 8 2012
Happy International Women's Day!
IWD at Lake George
In this week where women around
the world are celebrated, it is great to focus on women not as victims,
but as agents of change. This was the message yesterday at the
UN Women breakfast. The Lake George day VIEW Club was represented
by Lydia Teodorowych at the National Convention Centre where the special
luncheon was held.
ABC war correspondent Sally Sara spoke of her experiences on the
frontline in Afghanistan, an environment she described as having
no 'practical' barriers that excluded women - no toilet facilities,
armed men who throw pebbles at you while you sleep, suicide bombers
at your local supermarket, interviews with 'warlords'.Not the sort of experience I would relish.
Sally spoke about a female helicopter pilot in the Afghan army who
takes her 5 year old daughter with her on missions and has been doing so since her daughter was 2 months old
She does this because there is no
child care. Her sister who was also a pilot died during child birth in 2007.
She spoke about women in India, living in slums in extreme poverty,
buoyed by the opportunities for their granddaughters receiving the school
education that they did not. Without people such as Sally sharing these
personal stories, the rest of us remain ignorantly in the bubble of our
safety zone. Sally has now returned to be the ABC's regional and rural
affairs correspondent, and a much deserved rest from the battle front she experienced.
IWD at Lake George
International Women's Day at Lake George Day VIEW Club.
Lake George Day VIEW Club was host to visitors from the Goulburn Day VIEW
Club and the Bungendore Bridge Club when International Women's Day (IWD),
was celebrated at the March luncheon meeting.
Guest speaker was Zydre Pember who gave a fascinating account of her
experiences as an expatriate Australian who over a 32 year period only lived
in Australia for 4 years. Zydre contrasted her life living for 13 years in
three different African countries: Malawi, Botswana and Ethiopia; eight
years in Bangkok, Thailand ; and five years working in Geneva, but living
just over the border in France. Zydre held the attention of the audience
with a lively speech sprinkled with humour, danger, poverty, pathos, and
frustration.
Zydre made us envious when she described what it was like living like a
Queen for 21 years: without cooking, cleaning, washing, ironing and a baby
sitter always available. With her free time she undertook voluntary work,
learnt to sew and crochet and took up jogging. She also explained that this
life of luxury was balanced by the responsibility of being responsible for
the lives of their employees including bailing out of jail her gardener who
had been stabbed.
It was in Botswana, a politically stable and peaceful place, that she felt
most frightened when she woke up to the sound of rifle and machine gun fire,
explosions and tanks rumbling down the road. Zydre, her mother and her
three boys crawled into a secure corridor in the dark and waited until all
activity ceased. The South African defense force had invaded Gabarone, the
capital city, to flush out ANC sympathisers and activists who had taken
refuge in Botswana. Not only were these people flushed out, they were
killed, shot and blown up in their homes.
Ethiopia was the first country where Zydre witnessed extreme poverty, felt
pity then apathy, guilt and then anger at feeling apathetic. Zydre opened
our eyes to the plight of young girls who could live out their lives as
destitute outcasts if it was not for The Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital which
was founded by Australian Dr Catherine Hamlin and her late husband, Dr Reg
Hamlin from New Zealand. The Fistula Hospital is dedicated to the treatment
and care of women who suffer horrendous childbirth injuries, known as
obstetric fistula.
Of Thailand, Zydre said that she tolerated her eight years there more than
she liked it and was very pleased to spend five years living in France and
exploring Europe while working in Geneva. Zydre's speech was very well
received by all who attended and she concluded by saying that all people, no
matter where, crave love, cherish family and want security. In the absence
of social security, the family unit is critical to survival as is obtaining
good well paid work. Zydre and Robert Pember retired in 2007 and enjoy
living on acreage in the hills overlooking Bungendore.
Photograph:
Margaret Gooch (National Councillor), Anne McVilly-Price, Zydre Pember
(guest speaker), Brenda Rogers
In this week where women around
the world are celebrated, it is great to focus on women not as victims,
but as agents of change. This was the message yesterday at the
UN Women breakfast. The Lake George day VIEW Club was represented
by Lydia Teodorowych at the National Convention Centre where the special
luncheon was held.
ABC war correspondent Sally Sara spoke of her experiences on the
frontline in Afghanistan, an environment she described as having
no 'practical' barriers that excluded women - no toilet facilities,
armed men who throw pebbles at you while you sleep, suicide bombers
at your local supermarket, interviews with 'warlords'.Not the sort of experience I would relish.
Sally spoke about a female helicopter pilot in the Afghan army who
takes her 5 year old daughter with her on missions and has been doing so since her daughter was 2 months old
She does this because there is no
child care. Her sister who was also a pilot died during child birth in 2007.
She spoke about women in India, living in slums in extreme poverty,
buoyed by the opportunities for their granddaughters receiving the school
education that they did not. Without people such as Sally sharing these
personal stories, the rest of us remain ignorantly in the bubble of our
safety zone. Sally has now returned to be the ABC's regional and rural
affairs correspondent, and a much deserved rest from the battle front she experienced.
Monday, February 20, 2012
2012 first photos of the new year
Pauline selling her home grown fresh produce at the February Wamboin Produce Markets
Lina chatting to a customer at her jewellery stand at the February Wamboin Produce Markets
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