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PRESIDENT'S REPORT Welcome to 2012! Another action packed year is planned, with both Term 1 & Term 2 already jam packed with interesting activities. Be sure to read the newsletter right through & phone early for the events you are interested in. We are successful in having Noelene Brown, Ambassador for Ageing and former Actor, speak at our AGM on 7th March, starting at 10.30am in the Tasman Room, Club Sapphire. We are very excited at this as she is a great Ambassador & a gifted speaker. Please show your support by coming along. Noelene will also be appearing at a View Club Dinner on 6th March in the Sapphire Room, Club Sapphire. I have booked two tables so if you are interested in going please contact me as I will need names & numbers. Dress is formal & you pay on the night. The Centenary of Merimbula being gazetted a Town is being celebrated from 27th March to 7th April, and Peter Charlton has invited us to join in as a group. We would like members of groups to come along on 7th April & join in the street parade dressed in something, or carrying something, that represents your group. We would also like to have a roster of people to staff a U3A information stall that day. There will be a flyer sent to the groups closer to the day when a timetable has been set up. We will again be celebrating Seniors’ Week, on Sunday 18th March. I have applied for a grant to assist in catering so lunch will be either free or at a very low cost. We will be holding it at Mandeni and it will involve a rotation of activities, eg; bush craft painting, archery, golf, tai chi/yoga, bush walk, bird watching, scrabble, etc. I would very much like anyone who would like to lead one of these activities, or lead their own activity, to contact me please. It should be a fun day. We also have an activity for those who live closer to, or in Eden. See the details inside. I know people in Eden want to be involved in some of the activities but are looking for leaders closer to them. Hands up anyone who can help! There is also a wealth of other U3A excursions, both International & National, available. We have brochures on these & I will get the information up on to the website in January. Look up our website, it’s all about you. ** *Term 2 plan **. The major activity for 2012, hopefully, will be what we are calling a ‘Gab Fest’. It is still in the planning stages & we have invited other U3As to attend a three day shared learning experience with us. It will be 18th, 19th & 20th May. It will consist of a series of workshops, inspiring speakers, mini excursions & a dinner. Full details next term. It will be a busy two terms so get your dates up on the calendar now & remember a healthy committee is a changing committee, so please take the enclosed nomination forms seriously and nominate someone or accept a nomination yourself. Feel free to come to a committee meeting at any time & observe what happens, or offer your general help. Dates to remember** : Registration Day 25th January. Leaders’ Meeting 3rd Feb. AGM 7th March. Senior’s Week 18th March. ** ** Merimbula Centenary 7th April. ** **// ‘Get outside everyday. Miracles are waiting everywhere’ //**
 * NEWSLETTER - TERM 1, JANUARY 2012 **

// Judith //

__ U3A Sapphire Coast – 2012 Registration Day __ Held on Wednesday, 25 January, 2012, at Twyford Hall Supper Room, starting at 9.30 am. Please print all information and bring your completed form to registration. The Treasurer, U3A Sapphire Coast, PO Box 798, Merimbula, 2548. Make cheques payable to ‘Sapphire Coast U3A Inc.’ NOTE ** : New Members and Continuing Members who have paid their 2012 fees since October 2011 **
 * All members, new ($25) or renewing ($20), //MUST// fill in an enrolment form. Enrolment forms are enclosed in this Newsletter. **
 * If you can’t attend Registration Day then post your enrolment form & fees before ** Friday 10 February ** to: **
 * won’t need to make any further fee payments at the 2012 Registration Day. **

**U3A ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING** Wednesday 7th March 2012 starting at 10.30am In Tasman Room, Club Sapphire, in Main Street, Merimbula. All members are invited to attend this meeting, and encouraged to submit comments on issues and/or provide solutions. The Guest Speaker will be Noelene Brown, former Actor and now Ambassador for Ageing. Morning tea will be provided. Members interested in joining the U3A Committee are encouraged to be nominated for election prior to the AGM. All positions can be taken over if you like, but several will definitely be vacant! These are the positions of Treasurer, Vice President and Newsletter Producer. So if you wish to take over a position, please use the nomination form enclosed in this newsletter to apply for that position. Get 2 other U3A members to nominate you

DINNER WITH NOELENE BROWN Noelene will also be appearing at a View Club Dinner on Tuesday 6th March in the ‘Sapphire Room’, Club Sapphire. If you are interested in attending phone U3A President Judith Reid on 0407 433 312 to make a booking. You will need to pay for your dinner on the night

U3A LEADERS’ MEETING Friday, 3rd February 2012, from 4.00pm until 6.00pm In Tasman Room at Club Sapphire, Main Street, Merimbula The U3A Sapphire Coast Committee Invites all Course Leaders for 2011, and New Leaders for 2012, to the Leaders’ Meeting. It will be an orientation evening, with an opportunity to thank all our voluntary class leaders, and to meet and welcome those new leaders who have offered interesting classes for the 2012 program. Drinks & nibbles will be provided.

U3A TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES The Sapphire Coast U3A committee or leaders may organise travel opportunities for members to visit other U3A groups and take part in their events or courses. For example, U3A in the ACT, U3A at Mallacoota etc. If you are interested in such a travel opportunity please attend the AGM or committee meetings and make a statement. And maybe you could join an Overseas tour with U3A Melbourne City Inc. – For Example: * Live & Study in France in the Loire Valley. Tour starts 2nd July 2012. * Three Countries, Three Universities tour – England ~ Wales ~ Scotland. Tour is in August 2012

REMINDER --- ALBURY TRIP This 5-day tour is organised by Travel World, Bega, from 2nd May to 7th May 2012 **. ** We’ll travel via Cooma, Kosciusko National Park & Corryong to Albury, and stay in Albury for 4 nights. A local guide will lead tours in Albury and surrounds, including Monument Hill, a memorial to WW1 soldiers, the winery Pfeiffer Wines for a picnic lunch and wine tastings, and Corowa, home of Federation, to visit the Federation Museum. Later we’ll head to the magnificent Ovens Valley and the pretty alpine village of Bright for the Autumn Festival and the Gala Day parade which gives a carnival atmosphere. Then we’ll visit a farm, Inverness Park, go to Kinross Woolshed Hotel in Holbrook for lunch, then to the Bonegilla Migrant Centre, and to the Bandiana Base Military Museum //, // a comprehensive display of artefacts from the Boer War to Vietnam. We’ll head for home via Rosewood’s Boggy Creek Station and Cooma. The cost will probably not exceed $900. To book contact Karen Ingram at Bega Valley Travel and supply your booking fee or deposit. The cost will probably not exceed $900. Remind Karen Ingram that the U3A leaders related to this trip are Ceri Brown and Margaret Brown.

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