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DONALD SIMPSON COMMUNITY CENTRE NEWSLETTER November DONALD SIMPSON COMMUNITY CENTRE NEWSLETTER November 2016 1 Contents In closing I wish to thank all those who manage and volunteer at the Centre as well as all of you who support it in any way. I wish you the Cover: A rainy Centre afternoon - very peaceful compliments of the season and look forward to an enjoyable and prosperous 2017 in your company. From the Chairman , Message to the Members 2 Centre News, AGM, Melbourne Cup Luncheon 3 Tony Christinson Features Pages, History of Parchment Craft, DSC Board Chairman Walking Group, Manager’s Christmas Message, Christmas closing times 4,5 Poetry Page, Dylan Thomas, Banjo Patterson, Dante Gabriel Rosetti 6 Travel Pages Out With a Difference and Away MESSAGE TO DONALD SIMPSON With a Difference. 7,8,9 COMMUNITY CENTRE MEMBERS Invitation to Members’ Christmas Party 10 In keeping with the Board's responsibility to keep From the Chairman members informed, this is an advice to members As we approach the end of another year, we can that the Centre Board has recorded the following look back with some satisfaction on our activities resolution in relation to the proposal to extend the and achievements for 2016. A glance at the activity Centre to develop a Community Hub: schedule on our website will reveal that some The Board of the Donald Simpson Community activities have ceased and new ones begun. I don’t Centre (the Centre) expresses its objection to the intend to list them here but wish to reiterate to following aspects of the Community Hub proposal: members and potential members that we are willing to undertake new initiatives and welcome 1. The inclusion of residential accommodation any suggestions. These may not always be (e.g. auditorium is rented out and used by feasible and we may need your help to plan and members for noisy activities both day and night); commence them. 2. The intention of one of the parties to conduct Our conveners are invaluable in all our activities a competing coffee shop on Hub premises (the and it must be realised that someone has to Centre’s café is integral to our future financial convene and manage any new activity. Even if viability) someone from the Centre begins an activity, we Motion 1: must eventually find a convener to maintain and manage it – so be warned; this is probably the THAT relevant stakeholders, including the main reason for some people keeping their peace Redland City Council, be notified that the Board of and not making the suggestion. the Centre does not support a Hub Development which includes these 2 elements. One of the major topics throughout 2016 has been the development of an extension to the Donald Further, the Board of the Centre has genuine Simpson Centre premises to develop a community concerns about the lack of risk assessment of hub. This hub would house several other social and practical aspects of the Hub in terms of: organisations and change the nature of the Centre. · Parking At first, this seemed like an enhancement of what we are about with other like organisations · Traffic flow cooperating with us to create a more complete · Loss of amenity in the park community venue. · Destruction of the park environment Those of you on our email list will have received, provided all is well with your internet connection, a · The continuing viability of the Centre message about decisions taken by the Board of · The adverse effects of the construction phase the Centre in relation to the hub development. For on the Centre’s operation those who did not receive that message for any reason, it is reproduced at the end of this article. · The likelihood that the original cooperative As it states, a meeting is being sought with the nature of the development could reasonably be Mayor to discuss our concerns. We will be keeping achieved. members informed of developments. As our name A meeting has been sought with the Mayor to states, we are a community centre and our discuss these issues. community consists of our members and potential members and it is our responsibility as a Board to Members will be kept informed of any significant seek the best possible conditions for the Centre developments. and to maintain open lines of communication. 2 Board Members: Peter Armstrong, Jenny Chesher, C entre News Susan Denne, Larraine Dillon, David Ferguson, Marcell Gorman, Peter Mann. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING At its October meeting, the Board elected Noni Silman to the twelfth Board membership. The Annual General Meeting was held on Monday 26 September. Attendance was pleasing for and Melbourne Cup Lunch AGM with about 50 members signing in and a number of guests from other organisations for this A very well subscribed lunch was conducted on 1 AGM in our thirtieth year. November for the big race. After some pre-race problems with television and internet services, Two event should be mentioned: election of the bravely overcome by Manager Thomas, we saw new board for 2016-17 and the appointment of our the race on the big screen in the auditorium. first two Life Members. Prior to the race, a chicken salad lunch was Life Membership served by our excellent volunteers and diners The Board proposed a rule change to allow the were able to enjoy a free bubbly or punch and Centre to appoint life members who are deemed purchase a chaser from our drinks bar. worthy to receive this honour. For our first life At $10 per person, this is a very successful and members, the Board thought that it should affordable event for the Centre which we will recommend that the AGM appoint two members continue as long as there is a demand. with the longest membership of the Centre. Our recommendation was accepted by the meeting and appointments were made to Life Membership of: Some of our DSC winners Antje-Jans (Anne) Beuker who joined on 1 May 1987 when she bought a brick and had her name entered on the board at the back of hall. Anne attends the Centre to play Bingo on Thursday with her daughter and carer, Louise. Lorna Robinson who joined on 4 September 1987 and has served on the Management Committee of the Centre. Lorna is a member of the Handicraft Group which meets at the Centre on Fridays. “You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” ― Harper Lee 2016 Life Members Antje-Jans (Anne) and Lorna Board Members 2016-17 The following members were elected to the Board for 2016– 2017. There was no ballot as no positions were contested. Chairman; Tony Christinson Deputy Chairman: John White Secretary: Chris Sheehan Treasurer: Paul Barnes 3 Features Page greeting cards for all occasion, mural decorations, boxes, bags, lampshades, realistic flowers, framed artworks like fans, sceneries, and any decorative The History of Parchment Craft pieces. The choices are endless and are only limited to one’s creative imagination. Hey! Did you know that there is another world out there? It is said that once you enter it, “you are The good news is that The Donald Simpson trapped” forever. But there is a sunny side to it, Centre is the Portal through Parchment Craft once there you will never wish to get out. It is World. Contact Saint Peter aka Flor at 0438 320 called … Parchment Craft World! 648 for more information and she’ll open the gates of the new world. Have a lovely Christmas Parchment Craft goes back to the earliest days of everyone and a safe New Year. Cheers! written text since the 14th Century, and was conceived in countries like Germany, Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands and from which, later in the 19th century, it spread to France, Paris, Europe and South America, from where it has spread the world over, thus it’s fascinating history. Parchment was invented in the Turkish city of Bergama (Pergamum in Latin) when people had to find an alternative to papyrus because of the local wars preventing the importation of its raw materials. Parchment in its original form is the skin of sheep or goats, specially tanned for writing or painting on, Samples of parchment craft as displayed at the Donald where today, we, of course, use a paper substitute. Simpson Centre. It is believed that Parchment Craft has been used in Spanish cloisters in the 15th Century to decorate Donald Simpson Walking Group holy tracts or even book binding. When you see John and Helen some of the early bookbinding done by Spanish Simon moved to and French book binders, you will notice that they Cleveland last have used parchment that has been washed in October after some compound to make it translucent and has downsizing from then been embossed and pricked. Very primitive the family home in tools like a needle tied on a piece of wood, an Sydney. As for- empty ballpoint pen or knitting needles and a piece mer members of a of felt for embossing were originally used, where competitive run- today we now use machine-made tools that vary ning club and a recreational walking club, they from one to ten needles and different sizes and were happy to discover the local Donald Simpson shapes of embossing tools. Walking Group. In the wake of Columbus trying to convert the John was a sprinter and took an early interest in natives of the New World, the church of Spain coaching. Later, he took up distance running to followed where the Spaniards took them with not further his coaching experience. Finding that he only their Language and Religion but also their enjoyed the longer events, he eventually Ecclesiastical crafts.
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