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The Entire Year of 2017 Yarns (12 The January 2017 SouthernNEWSLETTER OF THE CLUB YarnOF WINNIPEG INC. D O W N U N D E R downundercalendar JANUARY 2017 Australia Day and Waitangi Day 150 and Annual “Bakeoff” Saturday 28th, 2017, 6 pm Scandinavian Cultural Centre, 764 Erin St. This is a FREE fun social event where we celebrate our respective national days and enjoy great food prepared by some of the finest chefs in Winnipeg – YOU! This year your mission is, should you choose to accept, to compete for 1st Prize, Grand Champion, Best in Show with a SALAD. There are endless possibilities with salads – so be creative. Other dishes will of course also be welcome to balance the fare, eg, meat, veggies and desserts. There might also be a fun trivia quiz on New Zealand and Australia – and more prizes! And don’t forget – the bar will be open…. RSVP to Judy 204-275-7083 or [email protected] This year Canada is celebrating its150th Confederation would be when Australia APRIL 2017 anniversary of Confederation. One perk for became an independent nation on 1 January Calling all Australians April 27-28 us here in the great white north is a free pass 1901 when the British Parliament passed leg- Representatives of the Australian High from Parks Canada for all Canada’s national islation allowing the six Australian self-gov- Commission will be in Winnipeg on Friday April parks coast to coast for all of 2017*. erning colonies to govern in their own right 27, 2017, to renew passports, approve new New Zealand celebrated her 150th as part of the Commonwealth of Australia. passports, and address any notarial issues or anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Whether there will be a 150th celebration of questions. There will also be an Alumni Waitangi in 1990. Waitangi Day is the 6th that in 2051 remains to be seen. networking reception for Australian alumni in February. In the meantime, one of our Downunder the evening of Thursday April 28. Alumni are Australia Day is celebrated on 26th Janu- Club’s most popular gatherings will be our graduates of an Australian university, vocational ary in commemoration of the 1788 arrival of celebration of both Waitangi Day and Aus- or training institution, and exchange teachers. the First Fleet of British Ships at Port Jack- tralia Day on Saturday 28th January. Also a All the details, including how to book online, are son, New South Wales, and the raising of good opportunity to pay your membership included with this issue of the January Yarn. the Flag of Great Britain at Sydney Cove by dues. Questions? Contact Jenny at 204-228-9959. Governor Arthur Phillip. So the 150th was *Apply online, by phone or in person, as 1938. However, the equivalent of Canada’s noted on their website: [Link] RSVP Let us know you are coming, RSVP to Dual Canadian citizens need [email protected], or call Judy at a valid Canadian passport 204-275-7083 or look for the new RSVP page If you are a dual Canadian citizen used to trav- under EVENTS on our website. elling to or transiting through Canada by air with a non-Canadian passport, you will no longer be able to do so as of November 10, 2016. Advertise in The Southern Yarn. Contact Jenny You will need a valid Canadian passport to board your flight. (228-9959, [email protected]) for all the If your country needs you to enter and exit that country using a passport issued by its gov- rates. Send your submission by email to [email protected] ernment, you will still need a valid Canadian passport to board your flight to Canada. Make sure to carry both passports when you travel. find us on facebook or the web Exception: If you are an American-Canadian dual citizen with a valid U.S. passport, you www.downunderclub.mb.ca don’t need a Canadian passport to fly to Canada. However, you will still need to carry proper email: [email protected] identification and meet the basic requirements to enter Canada. For more information: [Link]. Thanks to member Toby Elson for sending us the link. online needed. Santa was especially nice to me this president’s year, he gave me a new Golf putter, with the editorially ramblings assurance it would transform my game - yours Peter Munn what a guy!! Charlie Powell First of all, I wish a Stay warm, G’day, Happy and Pros- I’ll see you at the Australia Day/Wai- When we went to see The Castle at a theatre perous New Year to tangi Day event. in Winnipeg it was the first time we experi- our club members. My family had a very enced spontaneous applause at the end of a enjoyable Christmas season: our Toronto Regards, movie! That classic movie about the Aussie based prodigal son Tyler flew in, along with Peter battler deserved it. There is an update on his girlfriend Hannah, so the whole gang the fate of the Kerrigan’s house in OZ News was here. Tyler earned his keep shoveling on p.3. some of the record snowfall we had in Win- This month we get to know (p.4) Sir nipeg starting Christmas Day. We were due George Grey – explorer in West Australia, to have Christmas dinner at Jodi’s home, and Governor of South Australia and two-time the forecast was so ominous earlier in the Governor of New Zealand. Murray Burt has day that we took along cots and sleeping provided his update on doings in the Com- bags just in case we were about to be snowed monwealth, p.5. Then in Birds I View (p.6) in. But the snow arrived late enough that the we feature cormorants. alternate sleeping arrangements were not Thanks again to our contributors this month – Murray Burt, Peter Munn, Jenny 150 years ago Gates, Judy, Tara, Toby, Kim and our spon- sors. John A The Dominion of Canada wasn’t born out of revolution or a sweeping outburst of nationalism. Rather, it was creat- ed in a series of conferences and orderly negotiations, culminating in the terms of Confederation on 1 July 1867. The union of the British North American colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Province of Canada was the first step in a slow but steady nation-building exercise that would come to encompass other territories, and eventually fulfill the A box of home… dream of a country a mari usque ad mare (from sea to sea). Read more online: [Link] Kiwi Food Box For our Kiwi members, Ethan Gordon Add-on flights wants to introduce you to a new monthly New Zealand are available from subscription box catering for those Kiwi $ all major cities. expats across the world who miss that On Sale! taste of home. Wanna know more? Check out their website – kiwifoodbox.com Winnipeg to Auckland rtn $1,575 (incl. taxes & fees) Departures 26th Jan to 21st Jun or 24th Jul to 17th Sep Down Under Box or 1st Nov to 10th Dec. Must Book by 31st Jan 2017 With our help you can send a piece of Aus- Make the most of Free Airfare Stopovers on your way to New Zealand: tralia anywhere in the world! 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The annual various sources, see web links in online edition event now attracts all sorts of creative tractor ideas – and prizes/bragging rights as reward. Read more online: [Link] In May, researchers from Deakin Univer- sity in Victoria published evidence that a small number of devils are able to fight off Ever been to Humpty Doo? the disease to the point where the facial It’s on the Adelaide River, between Darwin tumours disappear. And in August a team and Kakadu, and can claim Australia’s from Australia, the US and UK found evi- largest barramundi farm. Ian Grinblat also dence that some devils have evolved genes Not only Little Bo Peep … reports in Australian Food News that anoth- that resist the disease. Read more online: A Whanganui farmer has lost 1400 lambs, er large one is Mainstream Aquaculture, [Link]. worth about $120,000, to rustlers in what near Werribee, Victoria. In fact every state might be the largest stock heist in the coun- except Tasmania has something on the go try. Police say a property owner near Fordell when it comes to farming these favourite newszealand had reported the theft. It is the latest in a Aussie fish. Read more online: [Link] source: NZ Herald, unless otherwise noted series of stock thefts from rural properties throughout several districts, though most Worth a visit others involved just a handful of stock at a Named after a cor- time.
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