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August 2009 VOL Registered by AUSTRALIA POST NO. PP607128/00001 THE August 2009 VOL. 32 No.4 The official journal of The ReTuRNed & ServiceS LeAgue Of AustraliA POSTAGE PAID SURFACE ListeningListeningWA Branch incorporated • PO Box 3023 Adelaide Tce, Perth 6832 • established 1920 PostPostAUSTRALIA MAIL N AN UA rd L 3 9 S S T 27-28 June, S A 2009 E T R E CONG State Presidents State Fromelles Annual Report Congress Project Page Pages Page 12 16-17 28 Rick Hart - Proudly supporting your local RSL Belmont 9373 4400 COUNTRY STORES BunBury SuperStore 9722 6200 AlBAny - kitcHen & LaunDrY onLY 9842 1855 CIty meGAStore 9227 4100 Broome 9192 3399 ClAremont 9284 3699 BunBury SuperStore 9722 6200 JoondAlup SuperStore 9301 4833 kAtAnnInG 9821 1577 mAndurAh SuperStore 9586 4700 Country CAllerS FreeCAll 1800 654 599 mIdlAnd SuperStore 9267 9700 o’Connor SuperStore 9337 7822 oSBorne pArk SuperStore 9445 5000 VIC pArk - Park Discount suPerstore 9470 4949 RSL Members receive special pricing. “We won’t be beaten on price. 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Professing that RSL Welfare Officer, Mrs Margot Harness, has it is important to “smell the roses” in life whenever (again!) retired from her “eligible service” at possible, the Harnesses are taking a well-earned ANZAC House. holiday to England, a cruise to the Canary Islands and visiting Europe over the forthcoming weeks. Mrs Harness, a former Senior Advocate, returned RSL State President: Mr Bill Gaynor, speaking at the to RSL employment in mid-2007, after a short retirement gathering for Mrs Harness said: “Margot retirement which ended after popular, long-term has shown a very professional, caring and considered Welfare Officer: Mrs Patricia Rowland, resigned. approach to a very difficult and demanding job …” On 17th July - her last day – Margot said that although and thanked her for her efforts over the last two the challenges and stresses of her job had often years. He wished the couple a happy and fulfilling been extremely demanding: “Dealing with so many retirement. Both will continue to serve on the veterans and ex-service personnel and their spouses Veterans’ Affairs Committee. and families has been immensely rewarding. Serving The incoming Welfare Officer is Ms Rosalind Howat the RSL and having contact with many remarkable – originally from Glasgow. She brings considerable and gracious veterans has been a huge privilege that expertise to the job that was gained in previous I wouldn’t have missed for the world”. employment with the Salvation Army and as Welfare Margot and Mike Despite three episodes of cancer in the past, her Officer for the Federal Police in WA. Margot made and expressed the hope that she will enjoy her time husband, Mike (20 years in the RAAF and a Vietnam of point of welcoming Rosalind Howat to the fold, with the ANZAC House team as much as she did. Rosalind Howat – Welfare ‘Back to the Bush’ Veterans’ Reunion Spokesperson for the Officer Bruce Rock Veterans’ As a child Rosalind was Enforcement Agency, where she Group Paul Hutton, always taking home waifs developed a sound understanding who organised the and strays, so it was no big of the implications of overseas annual reunion of deployments on both the surprise that she chose a personnel and their families. veterans, donated a career in Welfare. photograph of the Rosalind is now looking forward ‘Peace Window’ at Rosalind migrated to Australia to assisting Veterans and their families and feels privileged to St Peters Anglican from Scotland in 1982. Over the Church, Bruce Rock. last 20 years she has worked in have this opportunity. a variety of Community Service Rosalind is available at ANZAC Mr Hutton, on behalf of Organisations assisting clients to House, Monday to Friday from the group, said that he was better cope in crisis situations.
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