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Monday, February 17, 2025
Thanks Barossans!
Friday, February 14, 2025
Our Inaugural ANZAC Poetry Competition
Are you a seasoned poet ... or perhaps a budding poet with a hidden talent waiting to break out?
Whichever, here's a golden opportunity to enter our ANZAC Poetry Competition, to honour those who served and still serve our great nation, and win a prize while showing how good your poetry is!
Further details may be downloaded in Adobe PDF file format that contains an information sheet, details of the conditions of the competition and an entry form. You can download it here.
If you're keen to demonstrate your ability at poetry like the great masters: Tennyson, Keats, Shelley and many more, try your hand at writing something grand and submit it to us as soon as possible.
We look forward to receiving your submission.
The sooner you submit your application the better. We'll acknowledge receipt and let you know when the judges have made their decision.
You could be the winner!
Acknowledgement: The competition has been organised by Kym Milne.
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Visit our Sausage Sizzle at Mitre 10
It's on again! Our fundraising sausage sizzle at Mitre 10, Nuriootpa from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm, Saturday 15 February 25.
Our friendly volunteers will fill the air with the hunger-inducing scent of cooking sausages and bacon that will remind you that breakfast doesn't always mean cereal or a piece of toast.
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We'll have sausages (of course) and, bacon and egg rolls (Even Bunnings don't have them), and several types of soft drinks.
We can accept cash or EFT sales via our secure SQUARE system.
As a not-for-profit veteran organisation, we rely on fundraising to cover our operational costs and to provide our community with ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day events, and more.
Sausage sizzles and sales of memorabilia are our major sources of income and we are always pleasantly surprised at the support afforded us by the local community. Thank you.
We also acknowledge the ongoing generosity of the Barossa Coop and Mitre 10 without whom we wouldn't be able to run these events several times annually.
Will we see you there on Saturday? Hope so.
Friday, February 7, 2025
Management Committee Meeting Feedback
The Management Committee met on Tuesday, 4 February 25 for the first time this year.
ANZAC DAY 25
Most of our meeting time was spent discussing the new ANZAC Day arrangements now that we cannot access the Soldiers' Memorial Hall for an 11 am commemorative service.
We've included the 11 am service for many years, however, the Soldiers' Memorial Hall is being upgraded and while the upgrade is in progress, all public activities have been suspended.
The Committee decided on a new program, the details of which are:
6:30 am - DAWN SERVICE at the Garden of Remembrance, Murray Street followed by a Gunfire Breakfast that may include Two-Up this year
10:45 am - MUSTER FOR THE MARCH in Basedow Road at the intersection with Murray Street.
11:00 am - STEPOFF and march down Bilyara Road to the Hut.
12:00 pm - LUNCH at the Hut.
Arrangements with stakeholders and third-party players who need early advice have either been completed or are underway so that by 25 April 25 everything will fall into place as expected.
As this is a significant change, please advise as many of your friends and colleagues as possible.
Advocacy
Dr Jack Urlwin has completed his advocacy training and is now available to assist people with DVA applications and appeals. You can read more under the Advocacy tab above.
Maintenance and Improvements
We discussed the numerous changes that have been made to the Hut during the past year and specifically over the Christmas-New Year break with thanks to Tony Boyle, David Babbage, and others who worked to update the Hut's appearance.
If you haven't visited for a while, you should be pleasantly surprised at the gardening, new paint job, static soldiers near the flag pole, modified front doors, and some internal additions. You won't see the new glasswasher installed in the bar. You won't know that the kitchen stove is unserviceable and is being replaced.
You may be wondering where the money came from to afford all these upgrades. Most of it was made possible by the inordinately generous donation of Lamberts Wine Estate's Jim Lambert who donated two pallets of wine to us. This followed two successive years when we ran Fashion Shows in conjunction with the then Barossa-based Dressed for Success at Lamberts Estate.
Our members were involved in getting these shows set up and a couple of our ladies actually did some modelling as they wove their way through the tables.
Many of the attendees also purchased memorabilia that we had on display within the venue, so we did very well financially.
Club Wine
Last year your Committee decided to purchase a quantity of wine from Gomersal Wines and this purchase is well underway thanks to the dynamic members of our team who organised it.
Ultra Labels & Flexpack designed the label that appears below and did so at no cost to the sub-branch, which is wonderful. We were all impressed with the design, the background of which is a better blue than that shown in this graphic.
Between the words, "2021 SHIRAZ" and "The Hut" is a line that divides the bottle front label from the rear label that has a short history of our Hut.
How good is that?
The wine will be available for sale around mid-March and as we spoke about how we looked forward to it, most of us said we had hoped not to wait. But time is going faster this year, don't you think?
AFL Sausage Sizzle
President David has been discussing our members running a sausage sizzle on behalf of the AFL located at the footbridge that leads to the Adelaide Oval. Everything would be provided and we would simply need to provide feet on the ground to run it for a donation to the sub-branch.
Given that we are experts at sausage sizzles, this would be a breeze.
We'll keep you posted about this project.
The Hut Open Day
Your Committee is interested in expanding our engagement with the communities that surround us.
One plan being mooted is to hold an Open Day in which we invite the community to come visit us perhaps between 10 am and 3 pm to look at our memorabilia (and hopefully to buy some) and while with us discuss membership or just have a coffee, tea or other beverage.
Well, as they said in one of the old cartoons on TV, "That's it Folks".
Don't be afraid to leave a comment below and tell us what you think of our plans?
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Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Our First Happy Hours for 2025!
Will you join us for our first Happy Hours of 2025 on Friday, 7 February?
The phrase "Happy Hour" being singular is really a misnomer.
We have several hours in which we are happy, surrounded by our fellow members and occasional visitors. Visitors are always welcome.
Sometimes we have a major meal to which members are asked to RSVP. These are usually once per month and are very popular.
Other evenings we have a small offering of finger foods that often include sausage rolls, small pies and, ... well, you get the idea.
If you need somewhere to go on Friday, 7 February, come to The Hut for several happy hours. We'll look forward to seeing you.
In the meantime, why not click on the link below and see what new badges or other memorabilia you could add to your collection.
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