GUEST SPEAKER Supporting This Very Worthy Cause
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Calamvale Branch Inc. July 2021 Lunch will be served in the restaurant and after lunch we will move to the lounge area to enjoy some entertainment and dancing (hopefully). Tickets are on sale at today’s meeting. They are $10 each. We will be going into the restaurant at 12:00 pm. Annual General Meeting. The AGM will be held at the September meeting this year. To all our Guests and Visitors All positions become vacant at the AGM ----------------------------------------- and need to be filled so that we can continue with our Branch meetings and President’s Message activities. Being on the Committee is .. rewarding and we do have a bit of fun. So Good morning members. As I write my please consider putting your hand up for a message we are in lockdown until at least position on the Committee. 6:00pm on Saturday. I hope you are reading my message at our meeting, but if Please have fun at our meeting today if we we are still in lockdown the newsletter will are here, and if not, I look forward to seeing be sent to you by email or post. Please you next week at our Christmas in July stay well and comply with the directions lunch or at our next meeting. during this new Covid outbreak. Please stay safe and be kind to each Big Morning Tea for Cancer. I am other. pleased to let you know that with your …….Lila support for the raffle, your donations, a o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o donation from Leeane Enoch and a Todays contribution from members funds we were able to donate $1,300 to the Queensland Cancer Appeal. Well done everyone in GUEST SPEAKER supporting this very worthy cause. Craig Zonka Calamvale Quilters. I am very pleased to Brisbane let you know that the Calamvale Quilters ABC Breakfast Radio were presented with a Queensland Premiers Certificate for the volunteering Presenter work that we do. It was presented to us at o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o the Algester State School fete by Leeanne Enoch the State Member for Algester. Our CHRISTMAS IN JULY members are honoured to receive this Wednesday 14th July recognition. At Greenbank RSL Christmas in July. Remember we will be Tickets $10 holding our Christmas in July celebration On sale Today at the Greenbank RSL on Wednesday, July the 14th. See Joyce Morrison Newsletter printed courtesy of Advanced Dental Care, Mt Gravatt – 3349 2261 THIS MONTH’S BUS TRIP Brisbane River Cruise Wednesday July 21st This month we are cruising up the Brisbane River on a guided tour to the Breakfast Creek area where we will disembark and walk about 500meters to the Breakfast Creek Hotel for FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK lunch. Hello everyone, After lunch, we board the boat for the return trip to South Brisbane. We should return back You have probably noticed by now that I to South Brisbane around 2.30pm where you am not at the meeting today. I have can enjoy what Southbank has to offer. Free begun a new journey and finally found my bus trips home stop at 3.30pm. way back into the workforce. I wish I could How do I get there you ask? tell you how its going but as I am writing You will be able to travel via Brisbane City this, I have not yet started. But do not fret, Council buses (or train) to the Cultural yet! I am hoping to be able to continue as Centre Bus STOP (or South Brisbane Secretary for the time being and will see if Railway Station) and I can negotiate Wednesday meeting departing your local bus mornings off. stop/Railway Station no I will be working for the ATO call centre as later than 9.00am. a customer service specialist, so if you If you are using your have any tax debts you may be hearing seniors bus pass, it shouldn’t cost you from me, we can have a catch up on the anything as bus/rail transport for seniors is phone. free after 8.30am. I must make an apology for a post branch Buses available are the 117 from Acacia meeting email I sent out in early June, Ridge, or the 140, 150 from Browns Plains unfortunately I placed the email and 130 & 135 from Algester/Parkinson. addresses into the Cc column instead of People travelling from the the Bcc column, this exposes everybodys Algester/Calamvale/Parkinson area, will meet email address to all recipients. I at Drakes Shopping Centre at 8.45am and apologise for this error as I was not fully travel as a group to the Cultural Centre Bus concentrating on my task at that moment. Stop. If I am not able to make it back to Most bus trips usually take about 45 minutes meetings I would like to thank each and from out this way. every one of you for making the NSA Meet at the Big Brisbane Wheel (BIG White Calamvale branch such a wonderful Ferris Wheel) no later than 10.00am and we branch to be apart of. I have really will make our way to the jetty for the River enjoyed being a part of this branch and it Cruise leaving at 10.30am. has really helped me through the past few It’s about a 10-minute walk to the jetty years with the loss of my parents and dealing with our covid world. Thank you to Morning tea will be your own choice to everybody, for all your support, generous provide or purchase at Southbank or on the words, humour and kind ways. boat. I really hope I get to stay and continue. $50 per person. For bookings Phone Pat Wilson All the best, Tania 0417 493 785 www.nationalseniors.com.au that each sheep produces about a litre of milk per day. Awassi Queensland breeds the Awassi primarily for their milk. They are considered one of the best milking breeds in the world for quality and quantity. The milk is naturally homogenised, high in fat and proteins, low in lactose and makes JUNE BUS TRIP very high-quality cheese. AWASSI CHEESERY The meat is also a viable commodity, Today we were off to Awassi Cheesery Awassi Queensland sells their lambs to at Grantham. It was a really foggy start selected restaurants around Australia. to the day and looked promising with the The texture and flavour of this meat are sun trying to break through. sought after for making traditional Middle Eastern dishes. There were 39 of us on the trip and we had our favourite driver Henry, he really The wool is used for a variety of products. looks after us. On the way we had a Specially selected fleeces are used for short comfort stop, the fog had lifted, the spinning and weaving, being made into sun was out, and we were in for another floor mats using local artists. The wool is good day. also being trialled as garden mulch as a natural release of nitrogen into the soil It was an interesting journey once we from the wool also allows for natural plant left the highway. We travelled on a very growth. narrow road eventually ending up on a dirt road all the way to the farm. We It was a very interesting visit, and we have been on a few of these were very well looked after by our hosts. adventurous journeys. We left Awassi cheesery around 11.30 When we arrived, we had morning tea am and headed off for lunch at the Royal supplied by the wonderful people at Hotel in Gatton. We have been here a few Awassi. We were given a wide selection times over the last year and this time of very nice cheeses to taste. Di Piggot, some of our dishes were a little who runs the farm with her partner gave overcooked and we were not impressed us a talk about the workings of the farm with that, although the rest of our food and how they came to set it up. was quite good. Awassi Cheesery After lunch some of us went off browsing While still in its infancy stage, Awassi through the Gatton shops before boarding Queensland continues to develop the the bus for home. amazing breed of Awassi sheep to It was another successful day out. Well Australian conditions. As the herd grows the business expansion has included a done to Pat and Lyn, you are doing a purpose built cheesery. magnificent job. The artisan and bespoke cheesery is Editorial by John Butchard located in the beautiful Grantham Hills. All cheese is handmade from 100% sheep’s milk on the farm. We were lucky to arrive just in time to see the sheep being milked and told www.nationalseniors.com.au JULY June Mead Dino Sonego Joyce Daly Carol Garrard Calamvale Quilters Group Awarded Eric Bartles Lynette Wilson Never in our wildest dreams did we think our Con Janouris Denise Ryan small group would be recognised. Rosemary Pam Noy was phoned with an invitation to attend Queensland Day on the oval at Algester State School and receive an award from the -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- Premier. It was a well Organised day run by the Algester and Parkinson Lions club. Hon Leanne Enoch had visited our group several months ago after hearing about us.