Kalannie CWA

Happy Birthday 🎉

CWA of WA

🥳 Mavis Mincherton turns 100 🥳

🎂 Today marks a very special day for Mavis Mincherton as she celebrates her 100th Birthday. We went and visited Mavis today at Wongan Hills hospital to pass on our congratulations on reaching this major milestone.

💐 Shire President Cr Mandy Stephenson delivered Mavis some beautiful flowers and a card on behalf of the Shire of Wongan-Ballidu and Councillors, wishing Mavis a Happy Birthday on her special day. The card from King Charles hasn't yet arrived but hopefully it's on its way 😉

💙 Mavis shared stories of being born in Bassendean and moving to Salmon Gums when she was 6 years old, where her parents then farmed. Mavis and her family moved to Ballidu in 1953 and has lived in our region ever since. Mavis was a keen bowls player, where she met her late husband Gibb Mincherton playing in Wongan Hills. Mavis has been a member of CWA since 1944 and has been an honoured member of the Wongan Branch for many years.

🎉 We are sure you will join us in wishing Mavis a very special Happy Birthday on this wonderful milestone. Pick up a copy of this week's Boomer to read Mavis' full story.

Afternoon Tea at Football today will raise money for the Cancer Council. 🌼

Lots of lovely ladies at our scarf making workshop today. New scarves just in time for this cooler weather. 🧣

Kalannie Community Resource Centre
The Good Yarn

We are looking for some cuttings or plants to fill in some of the empty spots in the garden at our CWA rooms. 🪴 🌱
Please let us know if you have some your willing to donate.

Next week we are creating felted scarves, contact Ricki to select your colour - places limited. 🧣

Take care this long weekend. 🚙

🚨 Double demerits are in place across WA from midnight tonight to Monday 5 June inclusive.
Take care on the roads this long weekend!

GREAT NEWS • the Minister for Transport has announced funding to upgrade passive rail crossings in regional WA, this is a good and worthy investment of our taxpayer dollars!

Congratulations to Lara Jenson and the families and supporters that have been campaigning for change - it’s a significant milestone toward improving safety for everyone on our roads and for rail users.

The work continues to ensure appropriate lighting on trains is mandated across our nation.

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Meeting Today

All welcome. 🌏

See you then.

An event that might interest our locals. Sounds like it will be a lovely day.

Did you know that our markets are all undercover!? Perfect what ever the weather 👌

One week to go 🥳

Our two workshops still have spaces if you are interested
• Everlasting Posy Workshop
• Botanical Perfume

Let us know if you want more information

Can't wait to see you all there

Cake stall on now at Kalannie Primary School. 🍰

ANZAC Assembly to follow.

🌸🌸🌸 FUNDRAISER 🌸🌸🌸

This year we have decided to do a little fundraiser with Lucinda's Everlastings.

Seeds are
$10 for 10g packet
$20 for 20g packet
$40 for 50g packet

Message us to purchase or we have some packets available at the Kalannie Community Resource Centre with all funds going to Kalannie branch CWA.

Thank you.

Meeting today at 1pm, all welcome.

See you then. ☕️

Cookbooks available from the Kalannie CRC now.

Great gift for a loved one while supporting a good cause. 💝

More information about the following cookbook Easy, Reliable & Tasty can be found on pages 12 & 13 of the Kapers 👇 https://kalanniecrc.wixsite.com/kalanniecrc/kapers-weekly-downloadable-issue

On Wednesday we were very honoured to have our State President (and previous longtime Kalannie Branch member) Anne Gething attend our AGM.

Thank you Anne for making the trip back to Kalannie. Was fantastic to catch up again.
We very much appreciated your attendance, wonderful input and advice during our meeting.

THANK YOU 💐

CWA of WA

EASY, RELIABLE AND TASTY RECIPE BOOK
RAISING FUNDS TO IMPROVE TRAIN LIGHTING AND SUPPORT THE PASSIVE LEVEL CROSSING SAFETY CAMPAIGN

During the CWA of WA State Conference 2022 in Gingin, the issue of Improving Train Lighting and Passive Level Crossing Safety around Australia was introduced to members by passionate campaigner, Lara Jensen, a member of our Kirkalocka Branch whose brother, Christian and his friends were killed when their car collided with a wheat train near Jennacubbine in 2000.
Lara has dedicated her life to ensuring no other family suffers such a tragedy and has been lobbying Government and industry to improve safety standards since this time. Our Association joined the journey with her and the 12 other affected family members, over a year ago (as did CWA of NSW) to add our voice to this devastating problem which poses serious dangers to regional motorists.

Therefore, it is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of their new recipe book which has been lovingly and carefully collated by Lara's sister, Annemaree Jensen, to raise funds for their Improve Train Lighting And Passive Level Crossing Safety campaign.
Their recipe book is $45 including free postage to anywhere in Australia. It is a gloss-bound softcover book with 233 recipes spanning the full range of savoury and sweet recipes including entrees, chicken, beef, beef mince, lamb, pork & bacon, seafood, savoury pastries, vegetables, salads, cakes, biscuits, slices, muffins, desserts and more. Rural photos divide sections of the book.
Anyone interested in purchasing a copy of the book can contact Annemaree Jensen email: [email protected] Please provide a telephone number when you email Annemaree so she has an alternate way to contact you when the cookbooks are ready to be dispatched.

Here is a paragraph from the introduction to the cookbook with a summary of the campaign:
"If you have driven anywhere in rural or regional Australia, you would have noticed that semi-trailer trucks are lit up by around 36 lights plus 2 headlights. In contrast, trains are equipped with only one or two headlights and two small ditch lights that are directed at the track. This is despite the fact that trains weigh at least 3,000 tonnes, are on average 1.5 kilometres long and take over a kilometre to stop, whereas semi-trailer trucks are far lighter, only around 36 metres long and take less than 200 metres to stop. We are fighting for improved train lighting to immediately address this double standard. We are also pushing governments to install widely available and cheap solar-powered flashing light technology at passive level crossings in addition to legislating for lights on trains, instead of ignoring this widely available technology."

Thank you for your support.

How awesome do these look?
Thanks to the ladies who joined us for craft today, we had a lovely time.

Join us tomorrow to make a wreath, can be a Christmas or everyday theme.

$15pp - All welcome, hoops supplied, bring scrap material if you have some and scissors or pinking shears.

See you then.

Please beware of these scams.

Crochet and knitting enthusiasts - we want you!

Get ready for a dress that will impress this spring 👗 We are creating an installation of hundreds of crocheted everlastings and other beautiful WA wildflowers to be sewn onto a dress and displayed at Aspects of Kings Park Gallery Shop.

There are so many talented crafty members in Perth, and we would love you to be involved in creating pieces for this celebration of WA wildflowers.

Dust off those crochet hooks and knitting needles, pull out some wool and create something magical for thousands of visitors to see this September. You can drop off or post your creations!

Find out more on our website, including handy flower patterns to get you started 👉 https://bit.ly/3vAfJeR

📷 A Shade

We had a lovely morning making scarves today. They were fun and easy to make and turned out absolutely beautiful. Perfect for this cold & rainy weather. 🧣 ☔️

We will do another workshop sometime for those that were unavailable today, comment below if your interested in the next one and what day would be best.

Kalannie Community Resource Centre

Our scarf workshop is almost full, please confirm your attendance ASAP to make sure we have enough kits.

If you’ve RSVP’d and your spot is confirmed please bring a towel, rolling pin and bubble wrap if you have them.

Oh and don’t forget your lunch. 🥗

There will be no craft day this week due to the school holidays.

We will see you on August the 2nd for our next craft meet where we will be making felted scarves. (More details to come.)

Looking forward to catching up then.

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COVID is continuing to spread through our community. To keep our members safe tomorrow’s meeting (22nd June) will be our first ever meeting held online via Zoom. 💻

Members will be emailed a link tomorrow morning in preparation. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you need help logging in.

The Kalannie CRC is also open and can help you get setup and connected with Zoom.

See you then.

Unfortunately we will have to postpone today’s meeting (Wednesday 15th June) due to lots of COVID around town. We feel this is the best option to keep our members safe. 😷

We will let you know of a new date and hopefully can catch up then.

Join us next Wednesday 8th June to do some painting. 🖼 🎨

$15 pp to cover costs of material - everything supplied.

RSVP to Julie 0427335578

THANK YOU to Kalannie Primary School for allowing us to have our annual Cuppa for Cancer & CWA Cake Stall before their assembly yesterday. We hope you all purchased something delicious for the lunch box & freezer. 🧁 ☕️

From the donations for a cupcake and coffee we raised just under $200 for the Cancer Council 🌼 and just over $300 from the cake stall going towards our CWA.

A big thank you to our members for all their yummy baking we couldn’t have done this without you! 🤗

Do you have one? What’s your family favourite recipe? 📖 👩🏽‍🍳

This Thursday the 26th at 1:10pm we are holding our yearly 🌼 Cuppa for Cancer 🌼 join us for coffee & cake at Kalannie Primary School.
P&C meeting and School Assembly to follow.

It’s also an opportunity to stock the freezer and purchase some delicious baked goodies at our CWA cake stall. 🍰🍪

Our CWA rooms are in need of a spring clean and we have some seeds to plant. 🌸

This Wednesday 18th May; let’s gather at 10:30am for a inside & outside busy bee. Bring your lunch for afterwards.

General Meeting will follow at 1pm.

A reminder the Cadoux Mothers Day markets are on today.

Meet at CWA at 9:30am to carpool.
Contact Julie: 0427335578

Next Tuesday we are heading to Cadoux for their Mothers Day Markets, who wants to join us? 🌸🌺🌼🌻🌹

Meeting today at 1pm.
See you there.

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