Jan—March 2013 CLUB FUNCTIONS GERMAN - AUSTRIAN AUSTRALIAN Please Note: The success & continuation of any CLUB (WODONGA) INC. function is dependant on your attendance. 01-Mar-2013 Friday Happy Hour I SSUE 2/13

03-Mar-2013 Monthly Luncheon Mick Tenace 1960 - 2013 NewsletterNewsletter F EB 2013 08-Mar-2013 Friday Happy Hour 15-Mar-2013 Friday Happy Hour Heather Wilson 22-Mar-2013 Friday Happy Hour 28-Mar-2013 Thursday Happy Hour (Easter weekend) BUFFET 05-Apr-2013 Friday Happy Hour 07-Apr-2013 Monthly Luncheon Ross Sganga LUNCHEON 12-Apr-2013 Friday Happy Hour Sunday 3rd Mar 2013 19-Apr-2013 Friday Happy Hour Bill Larsen Bar open 11am. Food Served at 12 noon 26-Apr-2013 Friday Happy Hour Door tickets $10 members $12 non-members 03-May-2013 Friday Happy Hour which entitles you to a Free Wonderful Luncheon of 05-May-2013 Monthly Luncheon Anthony Tenace German & Australian food with a choice of three (3) meats 10-May-2013 Friday Happy Hour from the selection available and lots of salads to choose from.

17-May-2013 Friday Happy Hour Heather Wilson Afternoon tea or coffee ($1.50) and cakes ($3.50) will be available . 24-May-2013 Friday Happy Hour Music by Mick Tenace HAPPY HOUR, EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT Bar opens 6:00pm, Happy Hour 7 - 8pm All Welcome! Meals served 6:00 – 8pm, Meals from $7.00 Come and enjoy the Food & Drinks, Music Families and children welcome and Company with family and friends!! Coffee/Tea $1:50 and Cake $2:50 available Monthly Raffle: 6 tickets for $5 3 Meat Trays, Fruit & Veggie Box Raffle & the Members draw Bring a friend, they may be future members. Drawn at 8:30pm, live music once a month 150 is the limit so book early to avoid missing out. Please book with Rose Oeser on 02 6024 6576

Volunteering: The Club is run by VOLUNTEERS. Have you looked up what the word Volunteering means? Volunteering, the practice of people working on behalf of others without being motivated by financial or material gain.

2 BIRTHDAY, ANNIVERSARY AND GET WELL WISHES 15 Presidents Report Jan 2013 Dear Members! The Committee would like to wish everyone who has a birthday this Month,

I hope you are all as well as can be, A Happy Birthday with Many Happy Returns.

I don’t want to mention the weather…… Birthdays Don’t be afraid of Birthdays. When you think I am sure I am not the only one that about it you are still only a day older then the day before

has had enough of the heat; nevertheless we We’d also like to wish every body else with still had very good rollups on Happy Hours Anniversaries during this month a very and the monthly Luncheon in February. Happy Anniversary.

I would like to take this opportunity on behalf of the Committee to take a moment to think of some of our members who have not For those Members who are not well, been so well lately. or perhaps even in hospital, we would like to wish them all a Speedy Recovery. We hope to see you all back I am happy to be able to report we have 3 new entertainers sched- at the Club soon!

uled in for the year’s entertainment, and we are looking forward to We have had at least 3 of our members in Hospital. bring you these new entertainers. George Stark has been in the Wodonga Hospital, If you take a glance at the financial report you will see we have Anneke Terpstra Horstman has been in the Royal built up the balance again after paying for the sealing of the Car Melbourne Private hospital, We hope they both get well soon. Doreen Krahe had surgery at Wodonga park. As mentioned some months ago we have now made a start and is home again on the project for the Disabled Toilets. We have obtained infor- Please if you are having an “Event”, e.g. Birthday, Wedding Anniversary, mation from the Wodonga City Council as to what the require- Visitors or a Get Together and you would like others to know about it this is ments are and what approval/permits are needed the page to let them know. Please contact Leo with the details,Ph.02 6059 7124, 905 or Email, [email protected] A Fridge (second hand) has been purchased for the downstairs Bar. We (the club) is not exempt from BIG BILLS, this quarters The next Newsletter will be printed at end of end Mar2013. electricity bill is $760 the water bill is $943. These are all part of Articles for inclusion in the Newsletter most welcome our overheads, and we have to thank you the members who sup Pease send to Editor Leo Toussaint Ph.02 6059 7124 or port the club in one way or another, that we have the money Email, [email protected] by 30 Mar 2013 to pay these bills. That’s all for this time take care. GERMAN - AUSTRIAN AUSTRALIAN See you at the Club. CLUB (WODONGA) INC., Rose K. Oeser. P.O. Box 20, 5 McFarland Rd., WODONGA Vic 3689 Ph 02 6024 6905 14 NEW MEMBERS AT THE CLUB Our Next Major Project 3 At the last Committee meeting, the committee accepted the following applicants Now that the Car Parks have been asphalted our attention has turned to the into membership of our Club. They are Disabled Toilet and hopefully it will be completed this year. GUSTAV & HERMINE DAWN SANDER At the moment we have only $1505.09 in the building maintenance Account GERHARD MUELLER (Westpac Account) therefore all profits from our weekly & Monthly Raffles will be deposited into that account. Please make them and all other new members welcome Regular events at the club Coming events Mr Sepp Schauer from the Austrian Association of Australia (the man who Tuesdays Shooting: air rifle shooting at the club’s licensed 6 lane indoor brought us Die SCHMALZLER and Die KREUZBERG-REBELLEN) has plans range. More shooters welcome to bring three groups to Australia between Jun 2013 and Feb 14. Wednesdays Darts: Four teams now playing in the AWDDA Competition. new players always welcome. 1st is the ALPINKRAINER AUSTIROL. It is still early in the planning stages but suggested dates are Thursday 27 or Friday 28 June 2013. Which date Wednesdays Skat: They play skat every Wednesday evening starting at would you the members prefer? 7.00pm till approx 10.30 pm. All welcome to come and play, have a chat and a bit of fun. They are always looking for new players

FUNCTIONS

Your Club is available for hire to Members and Friends for

Weddings, Birthday Parties Family get togethers & Conferences etc

Bookings can be made with Rose Oeser on 02 6024 6576

or leave message on the Club Phone 02 60246905. 2nd is a brass band called Die ODRADN planned for Sept. 2013 and The normal requirement for a booking is 50 or more people

Please note: a small party (under 30 people) for a member on a

Friday evening or at a Monthly Luncheon / B-B-Q can be arranged

German & Austrian Radio Show FM 2REM 107.3 Presented by Ingrid & Elko Neviandt Monday evening 8.00pm to Midnight

German & Austrian Music and News direct from . For your listening requests please ring the station during the program on 02 6040 1482 3rd is Peter & Monika Hana from Vienna with the Transatlantik Schrammeln Quartet from . or Ring Ingrid or Elko at other times on 02 6059 3010 for requests I can’t see us having all three but the 1st & 3rd ones are a possibility. Treasurer's4 Report, German-Austrian Australian Club (Wodonga) Inc. February 2013 Luncheon 13 Financial Statements for the period 28 Jan 2013 to 26 Feb 2013 Income Feb Expenditure Feb Membership Fees $45.00 New Assets $320.00 Donations $0.00 Maintenance $701.99 Raffle $1,060.60 Gas & Elec $269.75 Friday Night Meals $1,267.15 Kitchen Resupply $1,961.78 Bar Sales $3,553.50 Bar Resupply $1,412.05 Kitchen Sales $92.00 Raffle $120.00 Sunday BBQ Meals $455.50 Postage $103.10 12 13 Interest $0.00 Stationary $122.95 Functions $1,011.00 Sundries $23.00 Badges $0.00 Telephone $0.00 Sundries $0.00 Insurance $0.00 Hall Hire & Deposit $0.00 Rates $0.00 Total Income $7,484.75 Members Draw $0.00 Functions $100.00 Security $115.00 Total Expenditure $5,249.62 14 15 Income for the reporting period $7,484.75 Expenditure for the reporting period $5,249.62 decrease in funds for the reporting period $2,235.13 Plus balance B/F from 28-Jan-13 $22,107.95 Operating balance at end of the reporting period $24,343.08 Hume Westpac Monies in Bank Accounts $18,478.24 $1,505.09 19,983.33 Cash on hand (Floats & Petty Cash) $4359.75 16 17 Balance $24,343.08 Bills to the value of $4,016.18 were passed for payment at the Feb 2013 Com- mittee meeting. Water Rates ($943.68) General Rates ($751.35)and the Elec- tricity Bill ($763.19) accounted for $2458.19 of the bill passed for payment. Leo Toussaint, Treasurer German Austrian Australian Club (Wodonga) Inc 29 Oct 2012

18 19 20 .(6) 12 Arno & Joy Hoppe (17) From Mansfield, Jani & Karl Thiele. German news 5 (7) Frank, Dot Worland with Sally & We may not see them for a while as they Brian are going on an extended holiday with The latest news from Germany as found on the internet

(8) Valdo & Sofija Petrovic their caravan. (9) Leon & Maisie Putnins (18) Vern Elliot & Fran Aalpol-Elliot Black Forest gateau granted protected status The Black Forest gateau, Germany’s (10) Anneke’s & Natasha’s Family and (19) Margart Melgaard friend most famous contribution to the cake (20) Fun on the Dance floor to finish off world, is to join the ranks of Cornish the afternoon (11) Hasso & Gisela Wittwer pasties and Stilton after the European (12) Beverly Wendt & Friends (21) The Secretary Alan Mitchell working Commission granted the multi-layered (13) Phyllis & Ron Bradley with Fran behind dessert protected status the bar and Gus & Dawn Sander Brussels’ decision came after a pro- (14) Lawrence O’keefe & Eva Hopp tracted lobbying campaign by Baden- (15) Susie & Eddie Nawrocki, Rose & Wurttemberg, the region in south-west Vic on the dance floor Germany where the Black Forest is lo- (16) Helmut & Ursula Wiemann 21 cated. Invented in its modern form, apparently, by Bonn confectioner Josef Keller in 1915, the cake’s appeal took it far beyond its Black Forest home turf. Riding a wave of popularity it became a ubiquitous staple of cake shops and dinner par- ties in 1970's Britain, but at the same time its quality suffered owing to the du- bious results of Britons’ often muddled interpretations of the exotic Continental gateau. 6 7 Now any dessert that wishes to be called a Black Forest gateau has to stay true to the original ingredients and must include a fiery kirsch alcohol made from Black Forest sour cherries. Without the local drink a cake cannot be clas- sified as a Black Forest gateau. The insistence on the use of Black Forest kirsch reflects the dessert’s original German name kirschtorte—or kirsch-cake—which was lost long ago in transla- tion. The protected status has received the backing of local bakers, who have strived for years to stay true to the original cake despite its various mutations 8 9 overseas. In the Black Forest region local bakers have long had to abide to a set of regulations for the production of the gateau. France to return art stolen in WW2 The French government has launched a new bid to return paintings stolen by the Nazis to their rightful owners - or, given the seven decades that has passed - their descen-

10 11 dants 6 Hunt begins for legendary 11 £1billion in Nazi gold An Israeli investigator has begun a hunt for Nazi gold worth an estimated £1 billion which legend says was dumped in a lake near in the closing days of the Second World War. Tropical Islands Resort: A beach inside a huge former February 2013 Luncheon originally built to house airships is surrounded On this and the next 2 pages are the photos taken at the February Luncheon at by snow in Krausnick, Germany. But inside the which 125 Members and Guests attended. hangar, conditions could hardly be more differ- (1) The music was by ent... Ross Sganga. (2) Sharon Assigal Danc- ing with her Father, Law- rence O’Keefe. (3) Doina Eitler & Hans Watz on the Dance Floor. (4) Some of the Regulars on table 14. (5) Natasha Terpstra and 2 her family and a special 1

friend It was a former Cargoship hangar, a project that folded in the 90s due to lack of investor confidence The Beast from the East dumps snow on Europe A caravan carrying a bicycle at the rear is covered in snow in Duesseldorf, western Germany. Full stories available from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/ 3 4 The History of the first fifty President: Rose Oeser Years of the German– Phone 02 6024 6576 Cafe Grove Austrian Australian Club Vice President: Wolfgang Huber (Wodonga) Inc. “DREAMS 198a High St Wodonga & MEMORIES” written by Phone 02 6056 7116 Doina Eitler Secretary: Alan Mitchell Mon - Fri ... 7am - 6pm available from the Club Phone 02 6021 5757 Saturday ... 7am - 4pm Office @ at club price of Treasurer: Leo Toussaint Sunday ... 8am - 4pm $20.00 a copy. Phone 02 6059 7124 5 Public Officer: John Colville Ph. 02 6024 5655 FIND10 A WORD - Town and Municipalities in Bergstraße, -Dieburg This Months Jokes 7 and other districts of in Germany. What is the Message this month OIL SHORTAGE!!! Groß-Bieberau Münster There are a lot of people who can’t understand how we came to have a oil/petrol shortage here in Austra- Alsbach-Hähnlein Groß-Rohrheim lia (hence the higher price at the bowsers). Babenhausen Groß-Umstadt Nidda Well, there is a simple answer. Nobody bothered to check the oil level so we did not know we were get- Groß-Zimmern Ober-Ramstadt ting low. Reinheim The Reason for that is purely geographical. All our refineries are in NSW or Victoria Elz Rimbach but all the DIPSTICKS are in the ACT Eppertshausen Lautertal Schaafheim One liners Fischbachtal Lich Seeheim-Jugenheim 1. If you take an oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented. Fürth Wald-Michelbach 2. If people from are called Poles, Why aren’t people from Holland called Holes. Gedem Messel Weiterstadt 3. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery. Modautal Zwingenberg 4. If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled. Mörlenbach 5. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular. Griesheim Mühltal 6. 6. Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker? G N E S U A H N E B A B D M A N W H I 7. When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say? 8. Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not R R W M I E H S E I R G Ü B M I A C G called a racist?. O E R E I N H E I M R N T E N E L A R 9. Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?] ß M S S I L B I B O S S S E A L D B O 10. Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things? 11. Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one? B M B H L T L E ß T T S C Z D N M N ß 12. 'l am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'l do' is the I I H T C I E R E E E K F W S H I E U longest sentence? E Z O C C A O R I L A I Ü I C Ä C L M 13. If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be de- lighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and B ß L H S H B N S R E T R N H H H L S dry cleaners depressed? E O B E R R A M S T A D T G A H E E T 14. What hair colour do they put on the driver's licences of bald men? R R I H A C O T I S A T H E A C L S A 15. I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks? A G E D H H E L E R N D E N F A B A D 16. Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to U I D X M I E H S N E B T B H B A R T them? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the postmen can look for them while they deliver the mail? M I E H N E G U J M I E H E E S C G G 17. You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive. N H C A B N E L R Ö M T P R I L H E E 18. No one ever says, 'lt's only a game' when their team is winning. R O C M I E H N E P P E H G M A L J D 19. Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went bonkers E H N E S U A H S T R E P P E Z C T E 20. Ever wonder about those people who spend $2.00 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backwards: NAIVE. G O R X H E I M E R T A L A T L H Ü M 21. Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool? M I E H T R E P M A L A U T E R T A L 22. If 4 out of 5 people suffer from diarrhoea, does that mean that one enjoys it? F I S C H B A C H T A L A T U A D O M 23. Maybe it’s true that life begins at fifty... But everything else starts to wear out, fall out or spread out 8 12-Jul-2013 Friday Happy Hour Drago 9 2013 CLUB FUNCTIONS 19-Jul-2013 Friday Happy Hour Please Note: The success & continuation of 20-Jul-2013 Annual Ball Silver Echoes any function is depended on your attendance. 26-Jul-2013 Friday Happy Hour 01-Feb-2013 Friday Happy Hour 02-Aug-2013 Friday Happy Hour 03-Feb-2013 Monthly Luncheon Ross Sganga 04-Aug-2013 Monthly Luncheon Dutch Duo 08-Feb-2013 Friday Happy Hour 09-Aug-2013 Friday Happy Hour 15-Feb-2013 Friday Happy Hour Bill Larsen 16-Aug-2013 Friday Happy Hour Drago 22-Feb-2013 Friday Happy Hour 23-Aug-2013 Friday Happy Hour 01-Mar-2013 Friday Happy Hour 30-Aug-2013 Friday Happy Hour 03-Mar-2013 Monthly Luncheon Mick Tenace 01-Sep-2013 Monthly Luncheon Killing Time 08-Mar-2013 Friday Happy Hour 06-Sep-2013 Friday Happy Hour 15-Mar-2013 Friday Happy Hour Heather Wilson 13-Sep-2013 Friday Happy Hour Drago 22-Mar-2013 Friday Happy Hour 20-Sep-2013 Friday Happy Hour 28-Mar-2013 Thursday Happy Hour (Easter weekend) 27-Sep-2013 Friday Happy Hour 05-Apr-2013 Friday Happy Hour 04-Oct-2013 Friday Happy Hour Bill Larsen 07-Apr-2013 Monthly Luncheon Ross Sganga 11-Oct-2013 Friday Happy Hour 12-Apr-2013 Friday Happy Hour 13-Oct-2013 Monthly Luncheon Silver Echoes 19-Apr-2013 Friday Happy Hour Bill Larsen 18-Oct-2013 Friday Happy Hour 26-Apr-2013 Friday Happy Hour 25-Oct-2013 Friday Happy Hour Heather Wilson 03-May-2013 Friday Happy Hour 01-Nov-2013 Friday Happy Hour 05-May-2013 Monthly Luncheon Anthony Tenace 03-Nov-2013 Monthly Luncheon Movados 10-May-2013 Friday Happy Hour 08-Nov-2013 Friday Happy Hour 17-May-2013 Friday Happy Hour Heather Wilson 15-Nov-2013 Friday Happy Hour Bill Larsen 24-May-2013 Friday Happy Hour 22-Nov-2013 Friday Happy Hour 31-May-2013 Friday Happy Hour 29-Nov-2013 Friday Happy Hour 02-Jun-12 Monthly Luncheon Dutch Duo 01-Dec-2013 Monthly Luncheon Ross Sganga 07-Jun-2013 Friday Happy Hour 06-Dec-2013 Friday Happy Hour 14-Jun-2013 Friday Happy Hour Bill Larsen 13-Dec-2013 Friday Happy Hour 21-Jun-2013 Friday Happy Hour 14-Dec-2013 Members Christmas Party Edelweiss 28-Jun-2013 Friday Happy Hour 20-Dec-2013 Friday Happy Hour Heather Wilson 5-Jul-2013 Friday Happy Hour

07-Jul-2013 Monthly Luncheon Movados 31-Dec-2013 New Year Eve Party Dutch Duo Please destroy the copy printed last month it had errors