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Wednesday 14th December at 8 pm: Wangaratta Choristers Christmas concert in Wangaratta, see below.
Saturday 17th December at 6 pm: Lurg district Christmas party and community BBQ, see below.
Saturday 17th December at 6.30 pm: A night under the stars at Glenrowan PS, see below.
Wednesday 21st December at 12.30 pm: Christmas break-up 'Drop-In' at the Old Police Station in Siege Street, see below.
Monday 6th February 2012 at 12 noon: Monday Community Lunch at Multi-Purpose Centre, see below.
Wednesday 9th February 2012 at 7 pm: Glenrowan Improvers meeting at the Old Police Station, see below.
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1953 September
Readings
Somebody was reading the on-line Glenrowan Gazette on 1953 occasions last month.
The daily average for September 2011 was 65 readers, our second best month overall and quite an increase on the average for the first six months this year. September had 572 unique readers so many had a look several times.
The on-line Glenrowan Gazette had just over 55 readers every day for the first six months of 2011.
During each of these six months, there was close to 500 different people who read the newsletter - most of them had a look at least three times per month. ♣
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Transition from Winton to Wangaratta High School
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Glenrowan Primary School Concert:
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| Catching Fruit Flies in a Trap | |
| It is hard to visually see a fruit fly, but not if they ends up in your trap. Start by trapping the males now to kill them off before the onset of females. • Please keep away from children and pets! ♣ |
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| The Glenrowan Improvers Inc will again arrange celebrations of Australia Day in Glenrowan. The Glenrowan Improvers' monthly meetings as well as all of their events are open to all members of our community: Welcome to you all! ♣ |
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| Indigenous Art at the Wangaratta Gallery |
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 image verso: Ngola Pollard Napaltjarri, My Country (detail), acryl on canvas, 2011, 81 x 152 cm |
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| Southern Cross Cultural Exchange is currently seeking HOST FAMILIES for exchange students arriving in February 2012 - for three, five and ten month programs. Future host families need to apply now to allow for the necessary arrangements and paperwork to be completed. The students are between 15 and 18 years of age and come from many countries, including European countries, Japan and USA. Hosting is an opportunity to introduce your family to different customs, values and ideas whilst improving your language and make lifelong international friends. The student exchange is an opportunity to share our Australian culture and lifestyle with young people from overseas. For further information and expressions of interest, contact the local to-ordinator, Jan James on 5765 2395 - ASAP. ♣ |
Southern Cross Cultural Exchange is a non-profit organisation, founded and based in Australia since 1983. |
visit the website:
Southern Cross
Cultural Exchange
| Australia Day 2012 in Glenrowan | |
The Glenrowan Improvers Inc will again arrange Australia Day celebrations in Glenrowan - on the day: Program: |
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| Enquiries: Glenrowan Improvers Secretary Paddy Milne on 0407 311 899 | |
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| The workshops recently conducted on the initiative of the Rural City of Wangaratta with the aim of developing a strategic community plan for Glenrowan & Hamilton Park, made it apparent that there are a lot of activity groups and organisations in the Glenrowan district - have a look at the list to the right below: |
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| All of these groups and organisations are a great resource for our community, a resource of engagement, knowledge and experience in a wide range of fields. Some groups have a more or less commercial base, but most are run by volunteers. All are however working for the progress of our community - whether it be financially, environmentally, physically or aesthetically. The discussions in the community planning workshops revealed that many of the groups and organisations do not know about each other and therefore go without valuable in-put and support, both in regards to experience and to hands-on-deck. Sometimes two groups might even be working on much the same idea, doubling the work rather than sharing the load. To amend this, the need for a community forum was expressed in a widely distributed e-mail penned by Jenny Wallis a few weeks ago. The time is ripe for establishing a regular community forum for all activity groups and organisations in Glenrowan, Hamilton Park and the wider Glenrowan district. This forum could have an open structure where all groups keep operating as at present, but agree to hold their meetings in a shared location three times per year - in March, June and September? |
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| Following an opening session where each group presents their current work and future projects, the community forum participants could then continue with their group/organisation meetings at separate tables/rooms. Suitable venues would be the primary school, the multi-purpose centre or the memorial hall. Ideally, a light meal/fingerfood should accompany the opening session to enable an early start: 6 pm? Such a community forum will stimulate cross- fertilisation of ideas between the groups and enable a pooling of resources for each project. The forum will also present an opportunity for any engaged resident to come forward with their ideas, visions, and dreams for our community. ♣ |
• Your opportunity to write - however short! - what you think about the idea for a
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Winton PS visiting Whorouly PS for Zimboyz Acrobatics Show • from Winton PS' weekly newsletter |
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• find more results from the Glenrowan Indoor Bowls Club games by clicking on the image above
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October Wednesdays Bowling 11th October 18th October 25th October |
Members welcome any interested bowlers or would-be bowlers
to join them
every Wednesday
at 1 pm at
the
Glenrowan Memorial Hall, located at
the Recreation Reserve.
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| On Monday the 7th of February, eighteen Senior Citizens gathered at the Glenrowan Multi-Purpose Centre for their first community luncheon for 2011. The community luncheon, organised by the Rural City of Wangaratta, is held on the first and third Monday of each month, commencing at 12 noon with a delicious 2-course meal for just $7.50 per head. Residents of Glenrowan district and Wangaratta who fit the Senior Cits “bill” - or are just in need of some company - are eligible to attend, but pre-booking is essential: Please contact Jo Bosch on 5721 3212 by the Wednesday prior to the Monday lunch. The next luncheon will be held Monday 6th February 2012. Following the luncheon, most people stay on for the Senior Citizens meeting and take part in various activities, including carpet bowls and card games. ♣ |
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| • please click on the business name above for link to webpage ♣ |
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| Christmas Break-Up 'Drop-In' | |
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Christmas is fast approaching and we are planning our Christmas celebrations. To keep costs down we have decided to have a buffet luncheon at our regular meeting place, the Old Police Station, this year. |
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| This novel concerns a family who migrates from America to the former Belgian Congo, in 1959. The head of the family is the father, who is a fanatical Christian missionary, and the other members consist of his long-suffering wife, and his four daughters, ranging in ages from 5 to 18. The story is narrated by all the female members in turn, and the writer allows their personalities and characters to be revealed by the clever use of language, turn of phrase, and even spelling. We thus see events through several different eyes, as they all come to terms with their unseeing father’s zealotry, the harsh reality of a life of poverty in the jungle and the daily grind to feed themselves - all set against a backdrop of the fight for independence of the country which eventually becomes Zaire. Towards the end, we see the lasting effects their experiences have on them, as they write as adults. - We all enjoyed the writer’s ability to create word pictures of life in a village in the Congo, and the ability to transmit a picture of a person’s character through the use of language. Even though the subject matter of this book could have been rather depressing, it does not leave the reader feeling this way. This was one of our longest novels so far, close to 600 pages, but it is very readable. As our last book for the year, we gave it a score on average of 4/5. ♣ |
The Poisonwood Bible
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Harvest at Winton Primary School
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• from Winton PS'
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Editor: Elin Melgaard Reporter: Joy Higgins Treasurer: Bill Gent
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