Mount Beauty & District Men's Shed

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A Shed Male Cancer Awareness Day – Sat 24th Oct 10am to 2pm

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A Male Cancer Awareness Day is being held on Saturday 24th October 2015 between 10am & 2pm at the Shed. The Neighbour Centre is running the day and there is a full program with some very attractive prizes. The program includes: fly fishing workshop, a GP discussing cancer awareness, nibbles & BBQ, Yogo for mindfulness & stress, Prizes: Helicopter flight, lunch/dinner vouchers, massages and more.

RSVP to Trish Dixon as soon as possible as places maybe limited. Email is best <salsasage@hotmail.com> or mob: 0429 170 365.

Please come along and support this Day and learn something that may save your life. Cancer concerns us all.

Members tool sale — The Shed has many donated tools it cannot use and will have these for sale at the Rotary Garage Sale on Saturday 31st October 2015. Prior to this on Thursday 29th October members will have ‘FIRST PICK’ of the tools. You need to be at the Shed (green container near the Shed) between 1:30pm and 3:30pm to pick up a bargain.

 

Click [HERE] to view an updated Shed Slideshow of the Internal Construction

 

New Shed postal address — 2 Tennis Court Ave. Mount Beauty Vic  3699. Shed telephone No: 5754 4676

 

BBQ Lunch & Meeting – Friday 16th October

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Ian, Dick & Bruce

Ian, Dick & Bruce

Come along to the Shed’s 42nd members BBQ Lunch & General Meeting. 

  • When: Friday 16th October 2015
  • Start Time: 12 noon
  • Where: Mt Beauty Senior Citizens Clubrooms, Tawonga Cres. Mt Beauty
  • Cost: $5/person
  • Who is invited: Members, potential members & visitors.

Program: Mark Hardidge our very own Chef de Shed will again be providing us with many BBQ delights. There will be the usual socialising, camaraderie and fellowship. Our own bush poet Ivin Beeston will be demonstrating (on the front lawn bowling green) Disc Bowls and Ladder Golf. A Shed construction update will be provided by project manager Ian Howley.

Important Information  

New Shed postal address — 2 Tennis Court Ave. Mount Beauty Vic  3699

A Male Cancer Awareness Day is being held on Saturday 24th October 2015 between 10am & 2pm at the Shed. The Neighbour Centre is running the day and there is a full program with some very attractive prizes. The program includes: fly fishing workshop, a GP discussing cancer awareness, nibbles & BBQ, Yogo for mindfulness & stress, Prizes: Helicopter flight, lunch/dinner vouchers, massages and more. RSVP to Trish Dixon as soon as possible as places maybe limited. Email is best <salsasage@hotmail.com> or mob: 0429 170 365.

Click [HERE] to view an updated Shed Slideshow of the Internal Construction

Click [HERE] to view the Victorian Men’s Shed Association September Newsletter

Seniors Week – Shed Open Day — Wed 7th October

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Men’s Shed Open Day — As part of  Seniors Week (this week) the Shed is holding an Open Day on Wednesday 7th October between 10am and 2pm.

This is to provide members, friends and visitors a chance to come down and have a look at the work being done to out-fit the internals of the Shed. It’s also an opportunity to have a chat with committee members about Men’s Sheds generally and what is planned for our Shed. You also get a ‘guided tour’.

Tea, Coffee and some nibbles will be available so please come along — and bring a friend.

Opening of the Beechworth Men’s Shed — Some members are planning to attend this function on Wednesday 28th October. If interested please let secretary Paul L’Hullier know by Tuesday 13th October. Contact: Mob: 0400 056 247 or Email <paullhuillier@bigpond.com>. We plan on taking a few car loads of men across.

Bookcase

No it’s not a Coffin. It’s an Ian Sharp project that ended up as a very impressive bookcase for the Shed. Thanks to Warwick Mitchell for all the help.

bookcase finished

Fundraising for the Sutton’s

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The UKV Lions Club is conducting fundraising activities for Bill & Yvonne Sutton over the next couple of weeks.

The Lions Club have asked the Men’s Shed for assistance with the fundraising. This will take the form of a raffle for a trailer load of wood or a $200 sales voucher from Bunnings. Does this sound familiar to our own fundraising Footy/Netball Gate Raffle. We are the raffle ticket selling experts so so lets get behind the Lions Club and help them out.

They need assistance to sell tickets from Monday 28th September to Friday 2nd October from 9am to 12noon each day in Mount Beauty.

Nick Brown (a Lion & also a Shed member) is co-ordinating this activity and would like to hear from you. Please telephone him on — mobile: 0417 014 431 or email: <nbrown14@bigpond.com> if you can assist. Nick will meet the volunteers each day at 9am in Hollonds St, opposite Season Cafe, with chairs, a table and raffle tickets etc.

Lets get behind this Lions initiative and support one of our own Shed members (Bill).

Make a Donation — UKV Lions has opened a bank account at the Bendigo Bank and if anyone wishes to make a donation to this fundraising effort, the details are:

  • BSB # 633-000
  • Account # 155632672
  • Account Name:  Upper Kiewa Valley Lions Club – Community Account. 
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2015/16 New Committee & Membership Fees

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At last Fridays Annual General Meeting (AGM) the following people were elected to the Shed committee for 2015/16.

Executive

  • President: Dick Puttyfoot
  • Vice President: Campbell Ford
  • Secretary/Treasurer: Paul L’Huillier

Ordinary Members

  • Ian Howley
  • Rod Hyde*
  • John Driver
  • Mark Hardidge
  • Graham Caulfield
  • Doug Hamilton*
  • Irvin Beeston*

*new member

Membership Fees were approved at $35.00 for an individual member and $50.00 for a business/organisation. Fees are due by 30 September 2015. Click [HERE] to download, print off and fill-in the Renewal Application Form. A number of payment options are given on the Form including via Direct Credit — the preferred method.

Also check out the Seniors Online website at <www.seniorsonline.vic.gov.au>. It has heaps of information for us seniors especially how best to use our Seniors Card.

Annual General Meeting (AGM), Newsletter & AED Workshop

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The Shed’s fourth AGM is being held on Friday 18th September 2015 at the Mt Beauty Senior Citizen Clubrooms, Tawonga Crescent, Mount Beauty starting with the usual monthly BBQ at 12 noon followed by the AGM.

Come along for the social camaraderie and to support this unique community project. When completed the Shed will provide a valuable and remarkable asset for the UKV community. Currently we have 62 individual and four organisations as members.

For the latest UKV Shed News click [HERE]

For a 2015/16 Nomination & Proxy Form click [HERE]

To read the 2013/14 AGM Minutes click [HERE]

Defibrillator Workshop — Paramedic/Ski Patroller Glen McIlroy will be conducting this one hour workshop on Wednesday 9th September at 12 noon at the Shed. It’s important that as many members as possible attend this session so they are familiar with the AED’s (Automated External Defibrillator) operation. AED’s use simple audio and visual commands and are designed to be simple to use for the layperson.