The Jubilee JULY / AUGUST / SEPTEMBER 2021 LATEST NEWS
FRIENDSHIPS, FUN AND FABULOUS ACTIVITIES Enjoy a great day out and make some new friends with the Jubilee Wanderers activities program. We visit some great places and share in some wonderful activities - all the while enjoying good conversation. We can even pick you up and take you home after. Why not find out more? Check out pages 8-11 and phone us to book your activities today.
Enriching later life 87 Central Avenue, Indooroopilly, Qld, 4068
07 3871 3220
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STAY CONNECTED PROGRAM WRAPS UP The activities in Jubilee Community Care’s Stay Connected project have come to an end. The project, funded by the Department of Health, began in early 2020 before being disrupted by COVID-19 restrictions. It bounced back this year to wrap up at the end of June. About 70 people took part in the activities which included mindfulness, cooking and nutrition, and exercise classes. Friendships were made and informal feedback suggested the programs were very well received. Now, as part of the project, the University of Queensland is gathering and analysing participants’ feedback to gauge the benefits to seniors who attended the innovative activities. It is expected the findings will be released in the coming months so stay tuned!
SERVICE CHANGES WITH PUBLIC HOLIDAYS There will be changes to Jubilee services with the upcoming Royal Queensland Show public holiday on Wednesday, August 11 and the Queen’s Birthday public holiday on Monday, October 4. On these days essential services of personal care, medication assistance and meal preparation will be provided while domestic assistance, social support, respite and shopping services will not be. Please confirm with our office your preferred arrangements for services that fall on these days. Also, please note that your services supplied on August 11 and October 4 may not be with a known support worker and might not be at your preferred time due to staffing limitations. The office will be closed on these public holidays. For more information phone the Jubilee office on 3871 3220.
JUBILEE’S FIRST STEPS TO SUSTAINABILITY Jubilee Community Care has taken steps to go green with the installation of some environmentally-friendly products at our office. With the assistance of a grant from the Gambling Community Benefit Fund, Jubilee was able to install solar panels on the roof of the office in Indooroopilly. As a result Jubilee’s electricity bills have reduced significantly, allowing the organisation to designate more money into operations that benefit our clients directly. Also installed recently was a Zip HydroTap in the kitchen while the remaining funds from the grant were used to buy a defibrillator. The Jubilee - Jubilee Community Care’s Newsletter
BEWARE OF A NEW MYGOV IDENTITY SCAM WHICH ASKS FOR YOUR PERSONAL DETAILS Seniors are being warned of a new scam which purports to be from the Australian Government asking them to update details. Scammers pretending to be from the “myGov customer care team” are sending emails telling people they need to verify their identity by clicking on a link which goes through to a fake myGov website. The authentic myGov website is a secure government portal to access online services such as My Aged Care in one place. The image above is one example of the format this scam email can take. It has screen shots of the myGovID app at the top. This makes the email look real, but it is fake. The email tells you myGov and the government need to verify your identity. It says you need to do this because of government rules. The scam email includes a link. It tells you this link is a secure form and to open the link and update your information. If you open the link, you’re taken to a fake myGov website where it asks you to sign in with your myGov details. The scam website asks you to give details like your name, date of birth, address and phone number. It may also ask for credit card details like a card number, expiration date and 3-digit security code. If you get an email like this don’t open any links, download attachments or reply. The authentic myGov portal will never ask you to open a link in an email or SMS text message. It will never ask you to sign in through a link in an email. Instead, you will only get links from myGov in a myGov Inbox message. You can only see these messages after you’ve securely signed in to your myGov account. The real myGov will also never email asking for personal or credit card details. If you have mistakenly acted on the scam email there are steps to protect yourself. If you’ve opened the link in the email and given your sign-in details, change your myGov password. You should open a new internet browser window and type in my.gov.au to go to the authentic myGov website. If you’ve given the scammer your bank or credit card details, contact your bank straight away and tell them what’s happened. Also, if you have clicked on a link or provided your personal information, you can contact Services Australia’s Scams and Identity Theft Helpdesk on 1800 941 126. Enriching later life
HENRY FINDS JOY, COMPANIONSHIP AND ADVENTURE WITH ACTIVITIES GROUP Jubilee Community Care Wanderer Henry shared his life story with the Healthy@Home aged care consortium recently, talking about his war days and his joy at being part of Jubilee’s activities program. Jubilee is part of the Healthy@Home consortium and today we share an excerpt of Henry’s story with you. The problem with advanced age, according to 96-year-old Henry Martell, is that your school friends, university chums and army mates are no longer around to discuss the old days. And so Henry, and his 90-year-old wife Diana, relish their friendships made through Jubilee’s Wanderers activities program. “I have some good friends there who are not quite as old as I am, so that is handy for me,” Henry says. “I’ve made quite a few friends there. One is now 102.” Henry, a World War II veteran, has outlived all his army mates and, having moved to Brisbane in retirement, missed the company of his Melbourne friends. He was introduced to Jubilee by the Department of Veterans Affairs almost a decade ago and remains an enthusiastic member of the Wanderers. During the past seven years, Henry and Diana have been on outings to villages, country clubs, hotels, restaurants, and animal farms – and they still love boarding the bus and getting out with companions. “It’s a very special group,” the retired academic says. “People come from all around Brisbane, so we do a lot of tootling around picking everyone up before we head off. “They do a great job. We have been to places we had never heard of and never would have thought of going.” Although Henry says “at 96, you slow down a bit”, he doesn’t seem to have slackened off yet. Every week he and Diana head off somewhere on an adventure. “I never would have thought of going to a golf club near Ipswich for lunch, but that’s where we went (recently) and we enjoyed it. It’s very pleasant,” Henry says. Henry was born in Sydney and after matriculating from Sydney Grammar School at 18 in 1942, he went straight into the Army. The day he turned 19, he was told he would be one of about 20 Australians to join an American troop ship in Brisbane headed for the US base at Torakina on Bougainville Island. “All sorts of things happened during this time,” he says. “Some I remember very well and some it’s better to forget.” One of his more memorable experiences was The Jubilee - Jubilee Community Care’s Newsletter
after the invasion of North Bougainville where the troops were at risk of running out of ammunition. “We were told to take ammunition up to them, so we loaded up a small ship (about the size of small trawler) and crawled up the coast hoping we didn’t get picked off,” he says. “When we got there, we couldn’t beach the boat because of a reef so I had to get into the water and wade to shore with the boxes of ammunition. “There was lots of noise as the Japanese were closing in. Bullets were flying. We had to carry this stuff through the water.” When it was finally landed, Henry discovered that in the rush and turmoil, he had left his rifle on the boat, but when he returned to get it, his boat was gone. “It was in the line of fire and had left,” he says. “It was a very bad business getting them out under fire, picking people off as they tried to escape on the little ships.” He then turned to help carry the wounded through the water to a small hospital ship that was more the size of a yacht. “For a long time, I blotted it out of my mind,” he says. “When I got back to Torakina the CO decided I had to go to another small island. We went by plane ... the exit door wouldn’t stay shut so we took it in turns to lean against it to stop it opening.” He was on the remote island when the war ended. “One day a New Zealander arrived in a plane and said, ‘by the way, the war is over’. Eventually we were picked up and taken back to Torakina,” he says. In all, he spent four years in the Army, his last posting being to an ammunition area near Muswellbrook where, while in charge of the sergeant’s mess, he was introduced to a young warrant officer from New Guinea. “We got on and spent our weekends in Sydney. Eventually I married his sister.” Henry’s wife Diana was born in Rabaul, New Guinea, where her father was the island manager for Burns Philp. She and her mother had managed to escape just a fortnight before the Japanese invasion and went to Sydney. The couple were married in Cornwall 67 years ago. After the war Henry went straight to university in Sydney and then moved to the United Kingdom where he became the landlord of a pub in Devon for two years. JOIN OUR JUBILEE WANDERERS From there he went on to manage ACTIVITIES PROGRAM plantations in New Guinea for a few years, then finally settled in Melbourne, where he There is something to suit everyone in the Jubilee Wanderers activities program. was a tutor and lecturer in Asian studies. He was at LaTrobe University when it Find out more about it today. Check out opened in 1967, and moved to Melbourne pages 8-11 of this newsletter or visit the activities section of our website. University until his retirement and move to www.jccagedcare.org.au Brisbane more than 30 years ago.
A STRONG LEGACY AND PASSIONATE STAFF ARE THE BACKBONE TO A BRIGHT FUTURE
LONG-SERVING FORMER DIRECTOR SHAUN RILEY FAREWELLED AT TWO FUNCTIONS
By the time this newsletter goes to print a number of momentus changes will have occurred at Jubilee.
The Jubilee Community Care family of clients, staff and volunteers bade farewell to former director Shaun Riley last month. Shaun led Jubilee through a time of huge growth during his 12 years before stepping down in an official capacity in February.
I refer to the signing off by three substantial figures in Jubilee’s history who have each provided more than a decade of service to the Changing of the guard ... Nicky, Judy, Shaun and Darren. organisation. Director Shaun Riley, our Client Support Manager Nicky Panagopoulos and Jubilee’s Management Committee president Judith Salecich all say goodbye after what can only be described as a truly mighty contribution. For a third of Jubilee’s existance these three individuals have nurtured and guided the fortunes of this business with diligence, care and integrity at all times, focused on making a difference to the lives of our clients. I trust that Judy, Shaun and Nicky feel the appreciation of all associated with this business as they say their goodbyes and that they reflect on their time in service with Jubilee as a positive and meaningful part of their lives. In other matters, in June I had the pleasure of hosting a series of sessions with our support workers which provided me with the chance to introduce myself, discuss the business and various other items with them. I was so genuinely impressed with the interest in the information exchanged on the day and the desire of our staff to share ideas and contribute thoughts about how as a business we can better serve our clients.
Shaun hears words of thanks from client Henry. He was honoured at two functions - one at Corinda giving clients the chance to say goodbye, pictured on this page, and another with staff, management committee members and volunteers at St Lucia a week later.
At the client function Shaun expressed his gratitude at the opportunity to bid farewell while highlighting several milestones and humorous stories about his time at Jubilee. “I’ve been touched by the individual communications from clients and families who have shown their appreciation of Jubilee and of our wonderful staff and volunteers,” he said on the day. “I made a decision to move to a career outside of Jubilee ... it provides an opportunity for me to renew myself and also for Jubilee to renew itself and I wish (executive director) Darren and others well in that journey. I’m proud of what we have achieved at Jubilee and our services to all of our past and present clients.”
I witnessed genuiness, warmth for our clients and excitement about the journey that we take on together in the months and years ahead. Our support workers are our front-line – the face and the heart of Jubilee – and I was so impressed with the quality of our people. Testament to what I witnessed on the day was the volume of ideas and the thought bubbles that have flooded into the office since our time together – keep the ideas flowing team. The message from my small contribution to this edition of Jubilee’s newsletter is that we are indeed standing on the shoulders of three giants but we do so surrounded by amazing staff determined and motivated to continue the legacy whilst also crafting a new future together. Darren Sonter, Executive Director Enriching later life
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Sherwood RSL. $15 bus fee. Buy own lunch.
Bodytrack exercise class. 10.30-11am.
Cork & Chroma Sip & Paint, West End. $30 plus $15 bus fee. Buy own lunch.
Bodytrack exercise class. 10.30-11am.
The Slab Hut – Arts & Crafts at Samford. $15 bus fee. Buy lunch.
Bodytrack exercise class. 10.30-11am.
Walkabout Creek Cafe, The Gap. $15 bus fee. Buy own lunch.
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Fish & chips at The Fishmongers Wife, Hawthorne. $15 bus fee. $21 fish/chips today.
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Corinda Bowls Club Trivia. $10 Morning tea 9am-11am; or afternoon tea 1pm-3pm, at St Lucia Hall. $15 bus fee bus. Buy own refreshments. Zoom Morning Chit Chat with includes refreshments. Talk about your favorite holiday memories and bring photos. Vicki. 10am-11am.
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Trade Coast Central Heritage Park Interpretive Centre . $15 bus fee. Buy own lunch.
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Morning tea 9am-11am or afternoon tea 1-3pm, at St Lucia Hall. $15 bus fee includes refreshments. Hear our local community police discuss safety and the latest on scams.
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St Johns Cathedral concert featuring soprano UQ Healthy Jaimee Dowsett. $10 cathedral donation and Living exercise $15 bus fee. Buy lunch. class. 1-2pm.
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JULY 2021 ACTIVITIES
WE PICK YOU UP, TAKE YOU OUT AND DROP YOU HOME! PAYMENT IS VIA DIRECT DEBIT. ASK FOR DETAILS WHEN YOU BOOK
JUBILEE WANDERERS ACTIVITIES PROGRAM 3871 3220 TO BOOK YOUR PLACE
Bodytrack exercise. 10.30-11am.
Rocklea Flower Market & lunch, Yeronga RSL. $15 bus. Buy own lunch.
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Bodytrack exercise class. 10.30-11am.
Let’s go shopping at Mt Ommaney Centre. $15 bus. Buy lunch.
Bodytrack exercise class. 10.30-11am.
Horizon & Grind Cafe, Middle Park. $15 bus. Buy own lunch.
Bodytrack exercise class. 10.30-11am.
Cafe 63 Sinnamon Park & Salvo’s Op Shop! $15 bus. Buy own lunch.
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Fish and chips, Manly. $15 Bodytrack exercise class. bus. Buy own lunch. 10.30-11am.
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Morning tea 9-11am; or afternoon tea 1-3pm at St Lucia Hall. $15 bus includes refreshments. Let’s make Christmas cards.
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La Bonne Saigon, Jindalee. $15 bus. Buy own lunch.
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Ewe Nique Hobby Farm. $15 bus. UQ Healthy $25 includes tour/talk/morning Living exercise tea. Buy own lunch. class. 1-2pm.
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Dinmore cottage high tea. $15 bus. Buy own lunch.
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Morning tea 9-11am; or afternoon tea 1-3pm at St Lucia Hall. $15 includes refreshments. Play board games, puzzles etc
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Morning tea 9-11am or afternoon tea UQ Healthy 1-3pm at St Lucia Hall. $15 bus includes Living exercise. refreshments. Hear a mystery speaker. 1-2pm.
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Who loves Greek food! Visit Kafe Meze Graceville. $15 bus fee. Buy own lunch.
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The Art & Craft Cottage, Ipswich. $15 bus. Buy lunch at the Fourth Child Cafe.
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Morning tea 9-11am; or afternoon tea UQ Healthy 1-3pm at St Lucia Hall. $15 bus includes Living exercise. refreshments. Michelle K Boutique pop- 1-2pm. up fashion shop.
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Oxley Dog Squad. $15 bus. Buy own lunch.
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AUGUST 2021 ACTIVITIES
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