tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88272266343816103632024-03-10T18:38:42.532+10:00ASOPA CEOsCheck where this is goingASOPA CEOshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498225903216119014noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827226634381610363.post-4389277621978152532012-10-20T22:35:00.001+10:002012-10-21T07:26:30.221+10:0050TH ANNIVERSARY FOR CLASS 62/63 IN CANBERRA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Report from Diane Bohlen (Speakman)<br />
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Well is all over except for the memories. The 50th anniversary reunion of class 62/63 was held in Canberra on the 9, 10, 11 October. Thank you to the organisers Ian Mclean, Bob Davis and Jeff Chapman for making the event interesting and enjoyable. Thank you to the 38 participants who turned up in wintery Canberra to make the event a success.<br />
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We started off with a 'Meet and Greet" session at the "Tradies Club" which was attached to the Quality Hotel where most of us were staying so that made travel easy. It is no longer difficult to recognise each other as we all grow old disgracefully and we picked up with our friendship as if it was only yesterday when we last met and it certainly doesn't feel 50 years since we were all mates at ASOPA. Bill and I were so keen to meet everyone that we forgot our cameras for this session. However, we all mingled in the bar area where Jeff collected money for the banquet and gave us a souvenir cap which would identify us at venues and be a great memento.<br />
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After a few drinks and much chatter and chortles we adjourned to the restaurant for a meal together. It was fun catching up with old mates.<br />
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The next morning those who wanted set off for the Botanic Gardens. Most of us depended on GPS.s to get there and once again the organisers made sure everyone had a lift. Some headed for the warm cafe, others opted for the interesting bookshop, and the tough ones donned their coats, braved the cold and wandered through the beautiful native gardens. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">David, Lorraine, Margaret, Susan, Bill W, Colin H.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bill B and Joe.</td></tr>
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At lunch time everyone arrived at the cafe where we once again enjoyed a meal together filling up 3 long tables. The atmosphere was relaxing and friendly.<br />
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After lunch there was a myriad of activities to entertain us in Canberra. Some went to museums, art galleries, shopping or just had a nanny nap. We went to Floriade, which had been on my wish list for many years. Then it was back to the hotel for a scrub up ready for the banquet at the Hellenic Club.<br />
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It was a short walk to the club, (well done organisers). We all met in the Foyer of the very posh club before winding our way upstairs to the Ginseng Chinese Restaurant.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joe had a collection of coats to keep him warm in his camper van.</td></tr>
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Here we had a separate area for our noisy crowd, where we could move easily from table to table to find those we hadn't had a chat with yet. The meal was plentiful and delicious. The company unparalleled.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jeff and Robyn</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Warwick, Kanjana and daughter. Jamie in front.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diane, Colin H and sister Cheryl.</td></tr>
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We slept well after the big day and looked forward to the farewell breakfast at "The Oaks Brasserie"at Yarralumla Nursery. Thank goodness for GPS's and for the winter woollies that I packed. Friday turned out to be freezing cold, apparently most of southern Australia copped a deep freeze for that day. Luckily the outdoor restaurant was tightly clad in protective plastic drops and had the heaters going full blast. It was conducive weather for a hot breakfast.<br />
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It was sad to say good bye to everyone especially as we were reminded of how many of us (10) have already passed on. Hopefully someone will take the baton and get us all together again soon.<br />
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ASOPA CEOshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498225903216119014noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827226634381610363.post-28951483488412766992012-09-07T15:35:00.000+10:002012-09-07T15:35:58.331+10:00Lunch for 4Colin suggested to meet for lunch, so a group of four gathered at the Swiss Restaurant Des Alpes in Mitchelton today for a great lunch.<br />
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Diane and Bill Bohlen, Colin Huggins,and Joseph Crainean attended.<br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">I returned to a huge list of emails and must admit that I have deferred responding - so "No. I haven't karked it; just a big bit lazy and fazed by the size of the task of taking you all off my "waiting" list.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Henry B</span>ASOPA CEOshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498225903216119014noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827226634381610363.post-71424684292810089322012-03-04T07:25:00.006+10:002012-03-04T14:42:49.905+10:00LUNCH IN BRISBANE<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial;">Peter and Margaret Lewis visited Brisbane for a few days, so it was fitting to organise a lunch with Brisbane Asopians. Diane and Bill's Birthday Bear Group also joined for a great lunch at Brisbane's Swiss Restaurant "Des Alpes" at Mitchelton last Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Prime among them is the voice of her long-suffering but very supportive </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">husband, Denis (Jim Broadbent).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Except, he's not there. Denis had passed away several years earlier. So </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">although Margaret has staff around her, plus an armed guard, her sole family </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">contact is with daughter Carol (Olivia Colman).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Always she stays true to the ringing words of her small-businessman father </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">(Iain Glen). "Never go with the crowd, Margaret. Go your own way."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">And so we see Thatcher take her nation through the Falklands War, the 1984 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">miners strike, the failed IRA assassination bombing attempt at the Tory </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">convention and ultimately German reunification when the Berlin Wall comes </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">down.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">If she doesn't win an Oscar at this month's Academy Awards ceremony in Los </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Angeles, I'm giving up writing film reviews and handing in the laptop</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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<i>I totally agree with Richard. I was sceptical about an American Actress playing a British Dame.</i><br />
<i>But having seen her performance I admit I was wrong about Meryl Steep, she was brilliant.</i><br />
<i>Bill</i>ASOPA CEOshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498225903216119014noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827226634381610363.post-54247764098367128992012-01-27T09:10:00.002+10:002012-01-27T19:07:55.598+10:00News from 'Dubbo Dave'<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Sorry Keith Rod, I took so long to tell you the news after telling you at the party that things were not travelling that well..I have included a couple of other Asopians on the roll out.<o:p></o:p><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Bill could you please put it on the blog so if anybody else is interested they can have a read..I don’t know if the blog is for this sort of news if it isn’t ..no worries<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Well the news is that I had my pet scan and I have two tumours ( they call them lesions) not 1 as we first thought in the liver.. the good news is that they are not very far apart<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">The oncologist has referred me to a liver surgeon who I will go and see this Tuesday<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">The liver surgeon’s job on the first visit is twofold..he has to<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">1 Look at the latest pet and cat scans and see if he can do the procedure and if the procedure will be of benefit to me<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">2 Look at me and see if I am up to this big operation and long recuperation period<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Realise this news is a bit nebulous but that’s where we are at the moment...Keep you in the loop<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Dave from Dubbo</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><i>To which Rod added:</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><i>I think that when you put this on the blog…some reference should be made about Dave’s state of mind…</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><i>He is very positive as we found out at the lunch a week ago and will certainly not “lay down and die”….</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><i>Elissa is a great supporter and I am sure his many friends are including him “in their prayers”…</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><i>I have no doubt he will get through it..<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><i><br />
</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><i>Regards,<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><i>Rod.</i></div><br />
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After talking with Dave at Bob's birthday bash, I too was impressed with his positive attitude. I am sure we all wish Dave all the best and hope the outcome is successful.ASOPA CEOshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498225903216119014noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827226634381610363.post-23013150826970959132012-01-20T13:45:00.001+10:002012-01-20T14:50:15.097+10:00Berowra Get-TogetherFrom 'Dubbo' Dave on a recent Berowra get-together:<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Was going to call our meet up an ASOPA Reunion but I thought that was a bit over the top.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Well the story goes like this..the three remaining 1962/1963 Asopians who still live in Sydney met at Berowra on the far northern outskirts of Australia’s biggest city ( population wise that is)<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Someone once told me that Brisbane is bigger in area.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">At the meetup was Rod & Cheryl Hard..Keith Ingrid & Ingrid’s mum, Libby (who proved to be a very agile senior by negotiating our precipitous steps)<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Would love to say it was a beautiful Sydney summers day unfortunately it wasn’t ...It was overcast & windy..so much so that we couldn’t have the lunch outside..but we got over that.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Rod & Keith both brought lovely bottles of wine..they looked good..I had a sip of all of them..as many of you know I haven’t had any alcohol since October 2010..but my resolution for 2012 is not to whinge about it..I still love to sip at other people’s wines before the taste gets too much for me.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Topics of the day included ..what our kids were doing..Rod & Cheryl’s boy is just finishing his apprenticeship and their daughter is just starting Year 12.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Keith & Ingrid’s boy is working in Keith’s office.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Keith is easing out of the business and doing a fair bit of work on New Guinea matters..which he is enjoying.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Keith & Ingrid are going on a cruise up and down the coast of South America in about a month’s time ...we are assured it is not of Italian origin and doesn’t carry 4000 people.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">We had a very amicable and friendly discussion on New Guinea and Australian politics..not like the old days when we would chuck plates at each other..oh the joys of being young.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">A highlight of the day was when somebody murmured under their breath “ukulele” well that’s all it took and before you could say “Hank Williams” Elissa and I flashed our ukes and before the horrified guests could escape they copped a blast of “You are my Sunshine” and the late great Leadbelly favourite “Midnight Special”.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Still can’t work it out but the party finished soon after that .<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><br />
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</div>ASOPA CEOshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498225903216119014noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827226634381610363.post-76805060748335761082012-01-15T17:48:00.001+10:002012-01-15T17:49:55.743+10:00That iPhone marimba is NOT in the Ninth SymphonyJudith Jones sent the following interesting article from the Herald Sun newspaper:<br />
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</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>FYI - if you're going to see an orchestra play, turn your phone on silent.</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><strong><br />
</strong></span></div><div style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-top: 0px;">New York's Philharmonic Orchestra stopped mid-performance after an audience member's iPhone just kept on ringing.</div><div style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-top: 0px;">Conductor Alan Gilbert called a halt to the final movement of Gustav Mahler's Ninth Symphony to sort out the issue of the iPhone, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/01/12/ringing-cellphone-disrupts-new-york-philharmonic-performance/" style="color: #164983;" target="_blank">Fox News</a> reports.</div><div style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-top: 0px;">After several minutes of intermittent buzzing from that distinctive iPhone "marimba" ringtone, Gilbert stopped to face the owner.</div><div style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-top: 0px;">"You have a phone ... Fine, we'll wait," he said, according to the WQXR's classical music blog.</div><div style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/the-other-side/that-iphone-marimba-is-not-in-the-ninth-symphony/story-e6frfhk6-1226243835993">Read full story here</a></div>ASOPA CEOshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498225903216119014noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827226634381610363.post-91186274290860371102012-01-13T16:20:00.000+10:002012-01-13T16:20:52.685+10:00From Henry Bodman:<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last Friday, Bill Welbourne and I met up at Bill Bergen’s funeral in Bathurst.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The ceremony was conducted in the local Catholic Cathedral and it took four clergy resplendent in their red cassocks to do the job ( and direct the traffic of people wishing to add their part to the eulogy segment)</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Thoughout the ceremony a variety of music and musical groups played their farewells to Bill – all of whom had been effected by Bill’s participation and/or guidance at some stage. The Dutch community had its representative and, predictably, that contribution was very frank and direct (qualities which many speakers recorded as a major part of Bill Bergen’s personality. Certain grandchildren recorded that their grandfather had an opinion on everything and delivered that opinion regularly and often ….in short, there was none of the soppy , emotional comment which too often slips into this segment of funerals. (Having attended a funeral per week for the past eighteen months I claim to be able to comment in this way.)</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The wake after the ceremony was conducted in a building which would have been at home close to Buck Palace (the Nuns’ quarters high on a hill…”Closer My God to Thee??”)</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Significantly. At that function Bill W introduced me to part of the harem…the dancing part. So now we have two dancing parts and a Sue.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Watch this space!!!!!!!!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">…….vale Bill Bergen</div><!--EndFragment-->ASOPA CEOshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498225903216119014noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827226634381610363.post-6130410800136210682012-01-03T09:46:00.003+10:002012-01-04T10:16:42.465+10:0050th Anniversary Reunion of ASOPA Class of 62-63<div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is to inform you that your presence is required at the</span></div><div id="yiv1734134869yui_3_2_0_15_1325220807116182" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; text-align: center;"><span class="yiv1734134869tab" id="yiv1734134869yui_3_2_0_15_1325220807116191"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="yiv1734134869tab" id="yiv1734134869yui_3_2_0_15_1325220807116173"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="yiv1734134869tab"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold;"> </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">50th Anniversary</span></b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b> Reunion of </b><b>ASOPA Class of 1962-63</b></span></div><div id="yiv1734134869yui_3_2_0_15_1325220807116195" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i>in our nation's proud capital</i> - <i><b>CANBERRA</b></i></span></div></div><div id="yiv1734134869yui_3_2_0_15_1325220807116205" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><div style="text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i>from 9-11 October, 2012</i></span></div></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br />
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</i></span></div><div id="yiv1734134869yui_3_2_0_15_132533089064373" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><b id="yiv1734134869yui_3_2_0_15_1325220807116233"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By Order of the Organising Committee<var id="yiv1734134869yui-ie-cursor"></var></span></b></div><div id="yiv1734134869yui_3_2_0_15_1325220807116238" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"></div><div id="yiv1734134869yui_3_2_0_15_1325220807116113" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Hon Robert Davis & Ian McLean Esq.</span></div><div id="yiv1734134869yui_3_2_0_15_1325220807116242" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"></div><div id="yiv1734134869yui_3_2_0_15_1325220807116246" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Further details to follow in the coming months</span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><span id="yiv1734134869yui_3_2_0_15_1325220807116250" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>(excuses for absence shall not be entertained)</b></span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><span id="yiv1734134869yui_3_2_0_15_1325220807116250" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; text-align: center;">Bob and Ian have created an E-Mail accound for the event</div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; text-align: center;"><a href="mailto:Canberra2012@yahoo.com.au">Canberra2012@yahoo.com.au</a></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; text-align: center;"><b><i>(Attendance limited to Class of 62/63)</i></b></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><span id="yiv1734134869yui_3_2_0_15_1325220807116250" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></div>ASOPA CEOshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498225903216119014noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827226634381610363.post-15480089378044054792012-01-01T12:09:00.000+10:002012-01-01T12:09:27.103+10:00Bill Bergen passed away<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bill Wellborne writes about his ASOPA friend Bill Bergen who passed away last Friday:</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Verdana;">Bill and I were great mates and</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Verdana;"> this </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Verdana;">is confusing to some of our 1962-63 ASOPA colleagues. We were different in many ways but this made our friendship all the more interesting.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Verdana;">I was the athlete and Bill loved his music. He had a strong Roman Catholic faith and I was Anglican. Bill met his wife Joan when they sang in the church choir, prior to ASOPA. My late wife Pam and his wife Joan became firm friends after we married while at college. My wedding was in December 1962 and his was September 1963.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Verdana;">At college we often dined together, played Canasta and sometimes saw a movie. We convinced our wives to enroll for the 6 month E Course for teachers to commence in Rabaul in February 1964. Our wives actually arrived in Rabaul a day ahead of Bill and me in November 1963.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Verdana;">They were met by Father Franke and the were temporarily accommodated in Wanlis flats. We were then posted... Nodup T School for me and I think Rabarua for Bill. The following February our wives started the E Course but they could not cope as they were both pregnant.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Verdana;">Bill and I had to confront Frank Boisen, the District Education Officer, to tell him the news. Frank mumbled as strode off hitching up his pants, “'That's the trouble with Wanlis...There's not enough room to bend over or swing a cat.!'”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Verdana;">In May my son Tony was born and around the same as Joan gave birth to Helen. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Verdana;">We often dined together in Rabaul. At home one evening in 1966 we were enjoying a fondue and listening to some grand music on Bill's huge state-of-the-art tape deck. The newly constructed terrace houses were built close together and were known as the European Compound. Some were rented privately.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Verdana;">A German group was carousing noisily and even played their national anthem. Bill was fed up with this and taped it and played it back at twice the volume. There was some muttering, then silence followed. Later on Bill was posted to Bougainville and I went over to the Lands Department in Port Moresby. But we always kept in touch. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Verdana;">We left PNG after after Independence in 1975. Bill and Joan decided to live at Bathurst even though parents lived in Sydney. They wanted to settle in an area with four seasons and one that had good cultural and education facilities.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Verdana;">Bill taught in the convent schools for a while and then became a businessman. He had a electrical shop selling lights and he ran a laundromat. He sold these after he built his rental units in Durham Street, Bathurst.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Verdana;">I would visit them and we would have eggs Florentine for breakfast at their son Chris's reaturant in central Bathurst. Bill and Joan were practicing musicians and, right up to his death, Bill was in charge of the Bathurst Orchestral Group.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Verdana;">He and Joan often travelled to music festivals in country NSW and New Zealand. Their younger daughter Penny is a brilliant violinist who once was a member of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. She now works as a journalist in Alice Springs. She spent time in Holland where Bill was born 71 years ago. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Verdana;">Bill was born in Rotterdam, Holland on 19 June 1940. During the war his father volunteered as a cook when he was captured by the Germans. He was a butcher by trade. The family lived together in an upstairs apartment while big pots of stew were cooked downstairs. So they survived the war.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Verdana;">His father joined the Dutch army and went to Indonesia after the war. Sukarno and the Moslems vied for control and independence for Indonesia. Bill attended school and one day there was heavy shooting. His dad collected him and got his family to close the shutters and to stay inside. Moslem terrorists shot all the red coated police and army personnel they could... about 100.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Verdana;">The family returned to Holland and he went to school there. They returned to Indonesia in 1947 after things settled down and Bill had to have lessons in Indonesian after they got Independence. His father was a sausage maker and got a job in Borneo but he tossed it in as there was lots of violence there.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Verdana;">He didn't want to go back to Holland so where? South Africa, Argentina, Canada or Australia? And that's how Bill ended up in Australia. He attended primary and secondary schooling here and learnt the piano after school. Through his Roman Catholic connections he got a job at a garage and then studied science/ industrial chemistry for first year university.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Verdana;">Bill then worked for a paint maker who offered more money once Bill was approved for ASOPA. Bill was to join the 1961-62 ASOPA intake but he had a cut on his face from a close shaver which needed to be checked out by a specialist for a possible skin problem. He was automatically included in the 1962-63 intake.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Verdana;">Bill's love of music which stayed with him to the end. He was in pain from asbestosis and was heavily drugged when admitted into Bathurst Hospital a week ago. On Christmas night at 3 am Helen sang <i>Silent Night</i> and her father struggled up and managed to sing a few lines with her.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Verdana;">Bill is survived by his wife Joan, his two daughters Helen and Penelope and his sons Christopher and Timothy.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Verdana;">His funeral is set down for 11.30am on Friday 6 January at St Michael and St Johns Cathedral, Bathurst.</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><!--EndFragment-->ASOPA CEOshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498225903216119014noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827226634381610363.post-89706803789396931852011-12-19T09:37:00.000+10:002011-12-19T09:37:16.919+10:00Bob's Birthday Bash Moves SouthFollowing from the blog's last post, Bob Davis celebrated his birthday again a little bit further south. Ian McLean reports:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Bob Davis' birthday bash in our nation's capital at the Weston Club</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">was a nice mix of family, friends, former colleagues at Canberra</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Grammar School ... and stalwart Asopians Keith and Ingrid Jackson, Rod </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Hard and Ian McLean.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">The brief remarks by guests about their recollections of Bob's earlier</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">days soon turned into a "Roast" with the stories and the language</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">become increasingly raunchy, and hilarious (you had to be there).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;">Rod chatting with Bob's son-in-law and daughter.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;">Bob cutting his birthday cake under the supervision of his</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;">amazing grandson Ned and granddaughter May.</span></td></tr>
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</span>ASOPA CEOshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498225903216119014noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827226634381610363.post-81208751222055160982011-12-14T09:40:00.002+10:002011-12-14T11:47:48.061+10:00The Moose turns 70Last Sunday family and friends gathered at Tweed Heads to join Bob (Moose) Davis on his 70th birthday. A group of Asopians were also present:<br />
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</div>ASOPA CEOshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498225903216119014noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827226634381610363.post-5035373953418477632011-11-05T14:23:00.001+10:002011-11-05T14:24:08.118+10:00Burra S.A. VisitOn a recent trip to South Australia, with a group of friends, we stopped at Burra and called in on Val who kindly served afternoon tea for us.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Val lives in The Smelters Home, a former Burra hotel built in 1849, a very nice historical place.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We stayed in Los Angeles for a couple of weeks with our daughter Sonya, SIL Bernard and grandson Fox. They showed us around LA and of course tinseltown where they live. It was great spending some time with them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq7ztyiYwSKHnqInULDA3T_avOrwIpcDeD0pzJpU0xXkiEw4kZDsn9BOgfbhS_ayxjeslWL6Hw_HNcUMtPxoLEBvWVYd4lEz4bQdemN5R_5C3Ebx_uaHHU0s39XbSsbM2Gdpp5kPzbtw_k/s1600/DSC04654.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq7ztyiYwSKHnqInULDA3T_avOrwIpcDeD0pzJpU0xXkiEw4kZDsn9BOgfbhS_ayxjeslWL6Hw_HNcUMtPxoLEBvWVYd4lEz4bQdemN5R_5C3Ebx_uaHHU0s39XbSsbM2Gdpp5kPzbtw_k/s640/DSC04654.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>The family together in Los Angeles</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then we flew to New York where we stayed for a couple of days before joining our 23-day cross country tour as shown on the map above.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE1aGDPPWJkUbla2GKFEBbxU1BYvoAIz1OxDq7sbP6evpWX5SYO5eERlwaoU3T7sK4QPmNfaGI9HK9IE33N03g7ntOegK6nKgd3Y5fIQblBzZt9Puv1Tp1aa53EbScGRgafWDiImzYDmsC/s1600/DSC04950.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE1aGDPPWJkUbla2GKFEBbxU1BYvoAIz1OxDq7sbP6evpWX5SYO5eERlwaoU3T7sK4QPmNfaGI9HK9IE33N03g7ntOegK6nKgd3Y5fIQblBzZt9Puv1Tp1aa53EbScGRgafWDiImzYDmsC/s640/DSC04950.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <i>A boat trip took us out to the Statue of Liberty</i></div><br />
In Yellowstone National Park we came very close to a grizzly bear, on the same day some poor hiker was attacked and killed a little further in from where we were.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Some of the waterfalls in the Yellowstone National Park are fabulous as is the scenery everywhere in the park.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQDFrcuwxtE0PbQbFDje1hfiWhwjxro-9elU6AzaUqCeg0wCJyC6CtK3ehmCUI1MBoNKBDtN8T1F41owQnSgYzLy0LsZrXWYnNt0Ol2l1XLfV-mmQydZrB9Y6a9x6yWAk3xin9xOAdWLEa/s1600/DSC05367.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQDFrcuwxtE0PbQbFDje1hfiWhwjxro-9elU6AzaUqCeg0wCJyC6CtK3ehmCUI1MBoNKBDtN8T1F41owQnSgYzLy0LsZrXWYnNt0Ol2l1XLfV-mmQydZrB9Y6a9x6yWAk3xin9xOAdWLEa/s640/DSC05367.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Waterfall in Yellowstone</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">From Las Vegas, we took a helicopter flight over the Hoover Dam into Grand Canyon where we landed in the canyon for a champagne lunch.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA_ZEdeFxu-9EQJlSjEiMVLAvqipMwl-kVE8DkvrOYIDZNGSN8LfuFUnvifANgKgUNiA4B26KZe3WjSk71ZKLqg26GOeptPLcGOQtKWCarM9EN_ijg6Nl-qLM-tqnLnmkJG98xS59RsSzF/s1600/DSC05592.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA_ZEdeFxu-9EQJlSjEiMVLAvqipMwl-kVE8DkvrOYIDZNGSN8LfuFUnvifANgKgUNiA4B26KZe3WjSk71ZKLqg26GOeptPLcGOQtKWCarM9EN_ijg6Nl-qLM-tqnLnmkJG98xS59RsSzF/s640/DSC05592.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Flying over Hoover Dam</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And finally we arrived back in Los Angeles which was the place the old Route 66 terminated at Santa Monica Beach.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikINqgTQ7XoiR75-JyRS-kvCcCHiDvG8FgNusR4D3Ow-1zjFWOU7SGSS0b5LbVNeJVb6VgCP4Wpw4BZ1FJdn0kGN5QEGi7u1Nd2aEoyCZYum6LOq0FfcJI-Jga1w3TqEF113ox4CmBPmc5/s1600/DSC05676.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikINqgTQ7XoiR75-JyRS-kvCcCHiDvG8FgNusR4D3Ow-1zjFWOU7SGSS0b5LbVNeJVb6VgCP4Wpw4BZ1FJdn0kGN5QEGi7u1Nd2aEoyCZYum6LOq0FfcJI-Jga1w3TqEF113ox4CmBPmc5/s640/DSC05676.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Route 66 ends at Santa Monica Beach</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>ASOPA CEOshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498225903216119014noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827226634381610363.post-64862498437527508582011-06-03T17:05:00.000+10:002011-06-03T17:05:27.407+10:00MINI REUNION IN SOUTH AUSTRALIAIn April, Colin, Peter and Margaret went to SA to visit Val, Lorraine and David. They are all from the 62/63 ASOPA intake. Margaret supplied the following photos and information.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigjWuQ2ZlRie7R8qjSNQ-NvGqO6ZVGz5EgJU6PeSqRVtuRfRzfBzItPzVTHiPWre34qoXlce3jOZJglKLn7jWWyZSj37QZ5qTtDwYZoc1p7gAmQfXSHmBWB0qvRqF9GWW54lWyZj5ORdDh/s1600/P4270712.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigjWuQ2ZlRie7R8qjSNQ-NvGqO6ZVGz5EgJU6PeSqRVtuRfRzfBzItPzVTHiPWre34qoXlce3jOZJglKLn7jWWyZSj37QZ5qTtDwYZoc1p7gAmQfXSHmBWB0qvRqF9GWW54lWyZj5ORdDh/s640/P4270712.jpg" width="640" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Val lives in a heritage listed corner hotel (Smelter Inn 1849), in Burra Nth on the Barrier Highway. We stayed in the top end of the single storey bulding which Val has set up very comfortably with bedrooms, sitting rooms and a kitchen. The bathroom has been updated with a heated floor which you sure need as tempertures plummet!</span></div><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Val took us on many sight seeing tours. We travelled through little villages before coming across Martindale Hall.Wow this building is really something, having featured in the movie <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1665744682">Picnic at Hanging </a></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi749666585/">Rock</a>. It</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> is a large square building with rooms radiating around a square downstairs hall overlooked by a second storey with a glorious staircase. it is managed and run as a B&B set up as well for 'Host a Murder' parties.</span></span></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Antique Fair was set up over the weekend at the High School and Town Hall. We arranged for Lorraine and David to come up from Adelaide for lunch and have a potter. It was lovely to have a catch up and the collegians had great discussions</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">.</span></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We went to the Anglican Church St Marys which is part of the Willochra Diocese. There is a magnificent organ within however the dear old organist played the hymns far too quickly! It was a very cold morning!</span><br />
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</tbody></table></div></span></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Val took us back to Adelaide and kindly placed us in the Grande at Glenelg, a beautiful position overlooking the Ocean. We left the following morning for Newcastle; Colin left very early for Brisbane.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br />
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</div>We used to drive up to Sirinumu Dam on Sundays in my Ford Falcon sedan. Don't think that would be possible now.<br />
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The pictures were taken by Ben and Rebecca who both still work in Papua new GuineaASOPA CEOshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498225903216119014noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827226634381610363.post-41014878234375233972011-03-22T14:41:00.001+10:002011-03-22T14:44:12.649+10:00Ted Egan needs your help<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Bill,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Ted Egan, of Northern Territory fame, and who shared part of his training with kiaps at ASOPA has called on our assistance in tracking down Don Gaffney, a past teacher in PNG.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Col and Wendy Booth were quick onto the scent having run across Don on Kar Kar. They initially got word that Don might have been teaching at the great black/white board above. There is now doubt about that and we are trying to establish where he might be contacted - probably somewhere in Brisbane - if the Booths' lead is accurate. Who can spread the light?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Ted is eager to make contact as Don had a great version of "Frankie and Johnnie were Lovers" -in pidgen.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Ted's email address is </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="mailto:ted@tedegan.com.au">ted@tedegan.com.au</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Cheers and beers,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Henry B</span>ASOPA CEOshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498225903216119014noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827226634381610363.post-75223921519328837312011-02-28T19:57:00.000+10:002011-02-28T19:57:22.663+10:00A Sunday Gathering in Fig Tree Pocket<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><b></b></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b><div style="text-align: left;">On Sunday, local Asopians and their spouses we were invited to lunch at Henry and Janelle's home in Fig Tree Pocket, a leafy suburb of Brisbane. </div></b></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was lovely to cool off near the pool, we should have taken our togs. I am sitting with Ros who has also been very ill with throat cancer and the aggressive treatment since we last got together. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It is so sad to hear of our friends getting ill. Since our first reunion of ASOPA students back in 2002, we have lost friends and many have been ill. The joys of growing old. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">However, we did enjoy relaxing by the pool with friends and partaking of a delicious seafood lunch and a glass or two of wine.</div><br />
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</div>ASOPA CEOshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01498225903216119014noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827226634381610363.post-31769715809502542082011-02-23T15:37:00.001+10:002011-02-23T15:38:34.464+10:00News from Dave (Dubbo) Kesby<blockquote style="font-family: Helvetica;" type="cite"><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Dear Friends, </b></span></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Helvetica;" type="cite"><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Since my last email sent to you on New Year’s Day things have moved along.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>You might remember we were hoping that I had the wild gene..well I had it and so I can receive this drug called “Erbitux” which keeps me alive.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Well I have been to the clinic 6 times and I have received the drug 4 times.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The 2 times I missed out are of interest..the 1</b></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>st</b></span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> time I went I had such a bad reaction to the drug that I collapsed on to the floor and they had to revive me and give up for that week.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>They had to work out what pre med to give me so that I could tolerate the drug. On about the 3</b></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>rd</b></span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> time I went they decided not to give it to me as I looked so bad..One of the side effects of the drug is that I get really bad acne and I looked that bad with the acne that bad another dose would have really put me over the edge. Since then I have really attacked the acne so now all I look like is an old bugger who has drunk too much whiskey.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>My son Pete who follows English Soccer reckons I look like Sir Alex Fergusen, the coach of Manchester United.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I am really looking after the face at the moment as I have a couple of Social functions coming up where I have to see other people..So I am doing the face twice a day every day..when it was at its worst I thought about buying a face mask.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The only other news is that the drug makes me tired but Elissa keeps me organised and going to different things..we have joined the the seniors upper north shore table tennis group..we have just had 3 days down at a beach south of Burrell lakes on the South Coast which was fantastic..the salt water did wonders for my face..we participated in the Sydney festival seeing The Jersey Boys and enjoying a night listening to Paul Kelly ( for overseas readers of this blog..he is one of Australia’s greatest song writers ) She has organised me into 2 day long workshops on the ukulele which I enjoyed .I can now play “You are my Sunshine” and I am working on “ I saw the light” ,a great Hank Williams song of 1948..I think she is planning on us seeing Don’s Party at the Opera House. She is not here at the moment she is out at Cherrybrook earning a dollar..she goes once a week. But as I have said in all of my previous emails..she is my hero..whenever it gets too much she just thinks of alternatives.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I am still a non drinker..I haven’t had a beer since October..I still feel like a drinker though..love to go to Dan Murphy’s and look at the specials look at other people drinking and wish that I was with them. There is another person at the clinic I go to ( the clinic has 16 chairs it’s an amalgamation of 2 clinics and is very crowded) who is on the same drug as me..he has 2 beers every night I had to ask him why..the answer was that his bowel cancer metastasised to his lungs and mine went to the liver and my liver rejects alcohol ( I know that this is in the too much information department but there it is).<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Anyway people thanks for reading my email..I hope it will be the last for a while..that means I will be going to the clinic once a week Elissa picking me up, the premed drugs they only give to you if you have someone picking you up..they send you off to cloud cuckoo land..and everything is good..no more news thanks again for your wishes and thoughts..we have had good Catholics.. good Protestants..good Jews..and good Buddhists all wishing Elissa and I good news..it must have done some good because we are still here so once again thanks for reading my story. I hope I have included everybody....all the best<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">ROTARY CLUB OF TOOWONG</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">PREMIER FILM NIGHT</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Wednesday, 23rd February 2011</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">at the</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Regal Twin Cinemas</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Honour Avenue - Graceville</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">6.00pm - Champers and nibbles night</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">7.00pm - Screening of "Conviction"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Cinema management relaxed about drinks and food</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>in the cinema</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>All profits to the Rotary International Polio Plus programme</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>$20 per head</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br />
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<b>Email - <a href="mailto:hmacdb@ozemail.com.au">hmacdb@ozemail.com.au</a></b><br />
<b>Phone (07) 3378 8383</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">To read it - <a href="http://australianrules.com.au/news/780/78/Richard-s-Top-10-movies-2010">CLICK HERE</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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