Highton VIC 3216
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OUR NEWSLETTER
Wishing you all a Happy New Year.
2022 Reopening Postponed: We'll advise new date
Line Dancing resumes MONDAY 24th January 2022
Bingo resumes FRIDAY 28th January 2022
New "Dine with Friends" Activity - postponed for now
"Dine with Friends"on the 3rd Monday of the month. Each month a venue in Geelong will be chosen to meet with friends and dine at your own cost. There will be a sign up sheet so we can book the venue.
Fundraising: We are pleased to announce that our donation to the Cancer Council this year was $2,110. A fantastic effort, thank you everyone.
38th Birthday Celebrations - Friday 18th March 2022
Reserve this date. Details to come.
COVID Rules at the Centre
You must be fully vaccinated to enter the Centre.
Do not enter the Centre if you are feeling unwell. Masks are mandatory. Density limit is 1 per 2 sq metres.
Remember to register.
Sanitise when entering and before tea/coffee- it is for the safety of every person using the centre. At the end of a session all participants are required to ensure ALL areas touched are cleaned. Hospital grade disinfectant and paper provided for your use.
Cleaning register to be signed.
These requirements are designed to keep our community safe and open.
Welcome to our new committee members Joan and Brian Goudge. Brian has taken on the role of Maintenance Officer which involves reporting any maintenance issues to council. Brian has a trade background and has already been busy.
Joan has taken on the role as Minute Taker to help out Secretary/Treasurer Sandy. Thank you Brian and Joan.
The club is looking for people to take on the role of updating the Webpage and also the monthly newsletter. Please let a committee know if you are interested.
Our garden is looking great, but weeds are a problem. If you have time to spare our garden bed west of the club needs some weeds removed. Also with the warmer weather the plants need a water. Please lend a hand if able.
Some thoughts to help us get through COVID-19
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Look for something positive in every day, even if some days you have to look a little harder
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Just in case you have forgotten today.You matter. You are loved. You are worthy. You are magical.
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We don't have to agree on everything to be kind to one another.
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Smile for no reason.
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Be teachable, you are not always right.
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I have learnt silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind
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Communication is one thing, but your tone while communicating is everything.
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When you can't control what is happening, challenge yourself to control the way you respond and to what's happening.
That's where the power is.
Activities at the Highton Senior Centre:
Check out the Activities page of this web site
or have a look at our monthly newsletter to see our activities.
Feel free to come over and pick up a copy of the newsletter from the foyer at the Club.
MEMBER JANUARY BIRTHDAYS:
Happy Birthday to all our members who have a Birthday in January
VOLUNTEERS
The Highton Senior Club relies on volunteers for all their activities, so if you are able to lend a hand please see President Elaine.
We are grateful that the following members have accepted responsibility for organising activities:
- Bowls: Beryl - Tues & Sat; Vivien - Wed & Sat
- Bingo: Vivien, Beryl, Elma, Angela
- Line Dancing: Ivy, Mila, Shirley,
- Table Tennis: Vivian, Gabriel
We are grateful that the following members have accepted responsibility to help the club stay operational:
- Building maintenance & General upkeep: John, Brian.
- Cleaning: Chris, Matt.
- Events co-ordinator: Angela
- Garden: Jillian, John, Brian
- Kitchen: Vivien - Everything to do with the kitchen.
- Opening of Club: John, Sandy
- New Activities: Sandy
- Newsletter: Elaine, Sandy, Heather
- President: Elaine
- Renters: Sandy, Elaine
- Secretary: Sandy
- Treasurer: Sandy
- Website: Elaine, Sandy
CLUB ACTIVITIES
- Refer to the Activities Page for days, times and costs, if any, for all activities.
- Please let us know if there is anything you think we could add to our activities, especially if you would be prepared to help lead the activity. We're always keen to expand our range of activities offered to members.
COVID-19
Apparently one of the symptoms of COVID -19
is having no taste
Looking back on all my exes-
I think Iv'e been infected for years
VACCINE ALERT
OPEN YOUR EYES AND HEARTS TO NEW WAYS
HEALTHY EATING IS IMPORTANT SO TOO IS HEALTHY THINKING
Give yourself 'mind snacks' that help you in the day...not hinder you.
If you are pigging out on fatty, self depreciating thoughts, throw them in the mental chook bucket as they come to peck you.
Feed your mind with plenty of positive lightweight happy thoughts.
Author Rachael Treasure
OUTBACK WISDOM
Take life by the throat and shake the living life out of it .
Take charge of your life, and work at making each day better than the one before ....
it is up to you.
Smile, no matter how much you dislike the job you have to do..
Always look for the best in people .
Take a problem and turn it into an asset.
Author Sara Henderson July 1995
SHE'LL BE RIGHT JACK
He lived way out in the outback
Not far from the Birdsville Track
Nothing seemed to worry him
They called him "She'll be right Jack"
One year he lost a thousand sheep
When the rain was really slack
When confronted by his banker
His reply was "She'll be right Jack"
His wife ran off with a stockman
Almost took the shirt off his back
When the boys in the pub said sorry
He simply said "She'll be right Jack"
Well one day our man went to Heaven
To our earth he would never come back
As he firmly shook hands with St Peter
He grinned and said "She'll be right Jack"
SENIORS TEXTING CODE
ATD: At The Doctors
BFF: Best Friend Fell
BTW: Bring The Wheelchair
BYOT: Bring Your Own Teeth
FWIW: Forgot Where I Was
GGPBL: Gotta Go Pacemaker Battery Low
GHA: Got Heartburn Again
IMHAO: Is My Hearing Aid On
LMDO: Laughing My Dentures Out
OMMR: On My Massage Recliner
OMSG: Oh My, Sorry Gas
ROFLACGU: Rolling On Floor Laughing Can't Get Up
TTYL: Talk To You Louder
WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is opportunity, benefit from it
Life is beauty, admire it
Life is bliss, taste it
Life is a dream, realise it
Life is a challenge, meet it
Life is a duty, complete it
Life is a game, play it
Life is a promise, fulfil it
Life is sorrow, overcome it
Life is a song, sing it
ACCEPT THINGS AS THEY ARE
We must learn to accept ...
To accept life, and to accept ourselves,
not blindly and not with conceit.
but with a shrug and a smile,
To accept in the end existence
not because it's just or reasonable
or even satisfactory,
but simply and plainly because it is all we've got.
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended.
But having these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness.
You can choose not to let little things upset you.
WINNERS
This is the beginning of a new day.
I have been given it to use as I will.
I can waste it or use it for good, but what do I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.
When tomorrow comes this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something I have traded for it.
I want it to be good and not evil, gain and not loss, success and not failure, in order that I shall not regret the price I have paid for it.
LET'S ENJOY LIFE
Happiness is always there within reach no matter how long it lasts.
Let's enjoy life and don't live a complicated life.
Life is too short.
Work as if it is your first day .
Forgive as soon as possible.
Love without boundaries.
Laugh without control and never stop smiling.
Please think of those with cancer or any other illness..
KINDNESS
5 Minutes is all it takes to.....
Leave an anonymous thank-you note on a colleague's desk.
Return a shopping trolley to the trolley bay and save someone's car from being dented.
Make someone a cup of tea and start a conversation.
Praise a shop assistant and wish them a happy day.
Collect your neighbour's garbage bin.
Share a joke with someone who needs a laugh.
THINKING BACK
You will find that when you look back on life, the moments that stand out are the moments when you have done things for others.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived.
SLOW DOWN THERAPY
In a hurry? Of course you are.
Remember a happy peaceful time in your past. Rest there.
Each moment has a richness that takes a lifetime to savor.
Allow yourself time to be lazy and productive.
Rest isn't a luxury, it's a necessity.