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Let’s mix it up and learn from the best GENFRIENDS – I’m always up for word invention and I rather liked this one.

Since, it hasn’t made the dictionary yet, I take its meaning as a positive term for intergenerational friendships.

A recently published report Truth about Age, McCann World Group noted that individual cultures value ageing in different ways, for instance the people of India believe being respected by society is the key to ageing well, while British value a sense of humour, however across the board intergenerational connections promoted a healthy, happy ageing.

With this information in mind, we have presented The Intergenerational Issue. The great thing about intergenerational connection is that depending on the connection or program, friendships can be made, education gained and wisdom shared by two or more generations.

This month, we tracked

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down a few stories that personify the meaning of intergenerational.

To that end, we have featured the O’Reilly clan – how they have worked together for four generations expanding their tourism business and nurturing the land for future generations.

From another angle, Tracey Johnstone reports on the genXchange program.

This program focuses on a sharing between educational institutions and the aged care industry.

Initially, it came out of a student’s research project and is all about connecting people in the community and reducing social isolation. The underpinning philosophy supports the transfer of

wisdom on one hand, and new skills and new relationships on the other hand.

We also bring you up-to-date with one of Australia’s most important care-giving institutions Meals on Wheels - which, of course, relies on the generosity of more-able bodied volunteers.

On September 15, Federal Minister for Aged Care Ken Wyatt announced an additional $8 million in government support for services delivering meals to private homes through the Commonwealth Home Support Program - (See our inside feature story).

You may not be aware, but Grandparents’ day is celebrated this month on Oct 25.

This means we all have a chance to celebrate in our own way.

For the grandparents, who have had to take on a direct parenting role for their grandchildren it means an opportunity to have their message to the Government amplified.

This year the CWA is conducting a support campaign asking the government for considered recognition of the part these grandparents play in the wellbeing of our society.

Read the full stories in our Wellbeing section.

At times, we all require good, honest sounding boards, and for me that means my three sisters, who generously offer a running commentary on my editorial efforts!

Of late, they have told me to take care in writing about too many extraordinary older people, it can make them feel inadequate.

My reply is that the goal is to write about inspirational people, regardless of whether or not they are extraordinary.

Let’s face it, is it ever too late to live the dream?

So, here’s to all my genfriends - may you be inspired and enjoy the Big Read ahead.

Cheers Gail

Golf Charity day raises funds for The Friendlies

GREAT DAY OUT: Golf day participants Gavin Ross, Peter Kitching, Alan Gray and Barry Dangerfield.

OVER $11,000 has been raised for expanding cardiology services at the Friendly Society Private Hospital at the second annual Friendlies Foundation Charity Golf Day. Chairman of the Board Les Hancock thanked the 95 players who came along for their support of The Friendlies Foundation.

“We have had tremendous support for the golf day this year, not only from players, but also our sponsors and

those who have donated prizes,” Mr Hancock said.

“Not only did everyone have a great day, but it was a great boost to our fundraising efforts with 100% of funds raised going to support expanding our oncology and cardiac services to deliver the best outcomes for our patients.”

In 2016, The Friendlies Foundation donated $20,000 to help expand the Day Oncology Unit to the largest private day

oncology unit between the Sunshine Coast and Townsville.

“During the next five years, the Friendly Society Private Hospital plan to further expand cardiac services, with the need to build another cardiac and vascular cath lab. The Friendlies Foundation will help to support this expanding area, enhancing patient services for the Bundaberg community.

Mr Hancock also thanked the sponsors for their

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Fighting for Right

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Meet the person with you in mind Tracey Johnstone

AGED Discrimination Commissioner Dr Kay Patterson has set a clear agenda and she plans on using every element of her public sector education experience and network to deliver deep change in issues vital to ageing Australians and the broader community.

“I hope by the end I can say I have made a difference for older people,” the 72-year-old said.

Dr Patterson has been in the role for one year and every month is out of her office every month, spending time on the road meeting industry leaders and decision makers in the capital cities and regional areas.

She has another four years with her support team of three to achieve some lofty, but worthwhile goals around her three chosen focus areas – elder abuse, homelessness for women aged 50 to 70, and seniors in the workplace.

■ Elder Abuse Report On June 14 the Australian Law Reform Commission released its 43 elder abuse law reform recommendations to safeguard older Australians.

“There is a lot of momentum around that,” Dr Patterson said.

She is now meeting regularly with a team of five from the Attorney-General’s office to develop a national plan out of the ALRC report and a first-time prevalence

Dr Kay Patterson AO. study.

“I have said to both the attorney and shadow attorney that I would rather focus on getting this report implemented rather than writing another report.”

Even though the report is about law reform, Dr Patterson said, “There are things that aren’t in the report that I think need addressing later on.”

Registration of Powers of Attorney is a focus area for her. She has also spoken to the Australian Banking Association’s CEO Anna Bligh about finding a practical implementation for this recommendation since the banks have been pushing for this to happen.

■ Homelessness Women who are working, and aged between 55 and 70 and renting, if they become sick or lose their job and can’t pay their rent, they will become homeless.

“I think you need a range of solutions because someone at 55 will have very different needs of someone who is 65. I would like to form a council of women who see this as a major issue and

could invest into a property fund so that a person who has a bit of super can buy some equity so her rent is doable on the pension then years down the track.

Women who have been working have all sorts of resources; they have networks, and when the time comes they may be able to use them.”

For others who don’t have networks and resources, she says it will put downward pressure on social housing.

“Can we use their capacity to work or their super, using different solutions for the different women within that group to give them some housing?”

■ Willing to Work Since the mid-1990s and through to the adoption of the Age Discrimination Act in 2004, Dr Patterson pushed for the removal of the compulsory retirement age.

Her vision now is to see implemented as many as possible of the commission’s Willing to Work report recommendations.

Dr Patterson includes among her concerns about Australia’s older workforce that Australians are living longer than they had imagined they would and a lot of older people weren’t in superannuation from the beginning because it wasn’t portable, which means many of them are approaching retirement with less super.

“And, many companies

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AGEING ISSUES: Dr Kay Patterson has three major ageing issues she will target in the next four years.

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realise there is a big people dip after the Baby Boomers and there aren’t people coming in to fill those places,” she said.

“Many companies are realising that suddenly they may have a dearth of people and what they’ve got to do is keep their people working longer.”

Another area of focus for Dr Patterson is education.

She is targeting human resources and health students with the aim to get more human relations courses about older people and the positive things of employing older people into education institutions.

“The culture they set now is the culture they will inherit when they are older,” Dr Patterson said.

“If young people coming up behind them in clinical situations or employment, see people dealing with

older people in an understanding way that gets the fact they don’t always want to have full-time job, that’s the culture they will experience. If they don’t do that, they get the culture that currently exists which is less than helpful in understanding the motivation of older people.”

Her next target is the Human Resources Institute of Australia, working with them to ensure professional development around older worker issues.

“I am attending any event they invite me to, to talk to them about what they can do in their businesses and giving them examples of best practice,” she said.

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Her final target is seeing materials developed, similar to those produced for students, that will help industry leaders to become better informed about the value and importance of older workers.

She is looking to groups such as the Institute of Company Directors to get directors to ask questions about diversity.

“It will affect their bottom line if they lose all that knowledge,”she said.

“If they see older people in their company being looked after, and employing them, or making sure they can transition to retirement, then they are going to be more loyal to that company, because that’s what is going to happen to them.”

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Cover Story: O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat

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Behold, the regenerative

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They were in their mid-50s, worked all their lives, they had a lovely asset but no money. They had put all their money back into the property.

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TO UNIVERSITY research students the rainforest regeneration of O’Reilly’s property, in Lamington National Park is something to behold.

“It’s highly valued as dairy land that has gone back to rainforest without any replanting,” Shane O’Reilly said.

At 55-years-old, Shane is the third European generation to live on the land.

He speaks in a relaxed tone and notes that the Rainforest Retreat, though now boasting architecturally designed unit, day spa and 25m infinity edge poll is still an unpretentious place.

“The staff are good, the guests are friendly – it’s a relaxed, communal feel,” he said.

The first O’Reilly settled there in 1911, four years later the Lamington Park was declared a state forest.

— Shane O’Reilly

ECO RANGERS: Intergenerational connections grow as environmental knowledge is shared and enjoyed.

In 1994, World Heritage status was bestowed on Lamington in recognition of its high biodiversity, and the fact it contains a living museum of the

evolutionary steps taken in the development of Australia’s modern day flora.

It now includes 20,200 hectares of varying forest

types, from temperate Antarctic Beech forest high on the border ranges through the sub-tropical rainforests, to the dry eucalypt forest of the

northern escarpment.

O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat, in the Gold Coast hinterland, has been a family owned and operated business since first opening in 1926.

After devoting more than 40 years to the business, the second generation family members, including 84-year-old Big Pete O’Reilly who built the Australia’s first tree-top walk 30 years ago and still spends a day a week on the property, retired in the late 1990s, and so charged the third generation with the responsibility of carrying on the business into the new millennium.

Fortunately, this is a

family who had foresight and goodwill to care both for themselves and the land.

As Shane O’Reilly tells it, when he returned to the property in 1989 after working in an international hotel, his parents and uncle and aunt who ran the property, were ready to retire.

“They were in their mid-50s, worked all their lives, they had a lovely asset but no money. They had put all their money back into the property,” Shane said.

“They could have sold, but they didn’t want to.

“They were happy there.”

With that in mind, he put together a retirement

Indigenous history in the Lamington region PRIOR to European settlement, the Lamington region was inhabited by Aboriginal people of the Yugambeh language for thousands of years.

The Yugambeh group inhabited the Gold Coast and hinterland, roughly between the Logan and Tweed rivers.

This group lived as distinct family tribes in various regions, although interaction between them was well established.

The family tribes that lived closest to Lamington National Park are the Birinburra, Kombumerri, Wangerriburra and Migunberri people.

The Yugambeh peoplewere well established with their environment. They understood seasons, plants and animals and used these to provide a comfortable lifestyle.

Whereas early European farming methods required toil from dawn to dusk in order to achieve a small return, (European crops where not suited to early Australian environments), the Yugambeh people were able to feed a large

group with just a few hours walk a day.

Trading of food was well established between Aboriginal groups and early Europeans relied on trading with the Aborigines to survive.

The Yugambeh people monitored plant and animal resources to ensure that food gathering was both efficient and sustainable.

They gathered nuts, honey and other plant material, perhaps even planting many of the nut trees that grow today.

Using an assortment of weaponry, they hunted a wide variety of species.

Nets were used to catch fish, flighted birds, land fowl along with land animals to the size of a kangaroo.

Dingoes were trained to aid in the hunting of wallabies and kangaroos.

Social gatherings such as corroborees were well attended, attracting visitors from as far as Grafton, Tenterfield and Maryborough.

These corroborees were held for a variety of reasons, for example,

dances, initiations, feasts, fights and tournaments.

Ornate body decorations were often worn to corroborees and included feathers, paints, leaves, flowers, animal skins and tails.

Although these gatherings could be highly ritual occasions, there was always one or two men “funny men” amongst the dancers that would provide everyone with entertainment from their antics.

After Europeans settlement, the lifestyle of the Yugambeh people was gradually eroded.

Various attacks of native lifestyle by convicts, free landholders, government acts and other European intervention has meant that today much of the previous way of life of the Yugambeh is now forgotten.

However, many are still active in attempt to preserve what still remains, such as preserving the Yugambeh language, and ensuring it is passed on to future generations.

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Cover Story: O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat

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beauty of the landscape THIRD GENERATION : Shane O’Reilly.

PHOTO: ADAM HEAD

Morans Falls is part of the diverse environment.

strategy for them and by the mid 1990s they were ready to retire.

Shane spent an idyllic childhood on the land before heading to boarding school.

His intimate knowledge of the land and family

photographs allow him to follow the dramatic growth, landscape changes and weather patterns across a century.

His two children, not yet teenagers, are enjoying a similar childhood and whether they follow in his

Thirty-years-ago the tree-top walk was constructed. It is thought to be the first of its kind in the world.

footsteps is up to them.

But why wouldn’t they.

Shane has said each generation has added their own direction to the retreat, for instance Big Pete O’Reilly’s birdwatching excursion is this year celebrating a

40th anniversary.

While Shane talks about the eco rangers project that provides conservation awareness and time out for the parents.

“It gets kids away from their iPad,” he said.

O'Reilly family timeline until 2012.

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genXchange

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Connecting gen friends Tracey Johnstone

GENXCHANGE – have your heard the word yet?

If not, be on alert, because it will soon be in your neighbhourhood. genXchange is the brainchild of Queenslander Charlotte Mellis, who has nurtured the cross-generational collaborative project through the pilot stages and is now driving it, to roll out nationally in 2018.

On Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, the local genXchange group coordinators, Sam Wall and Kristen Ottley, said they were bringing local university students and community elders together in a way that gave meaning and purpose for themselves, and had them involved in the community.

“It gives them (seniors) the opportunity to prove they have so much value

and knowledge to give,” Sam said.

“We want to create awareness around social isolation and it’s a dignified way of sharing wisdom without being derogatory towards any generation,” Kristen added.

“Both generations have something to share and we want to get rid of the stigma around old age and redundancy which a western culture seems to give to elders.”

Sam and Kristen are working with a group of about 70 seniors and 11 occupational therapy students, who are using their volunteer involvement as practical experience for one of their study units.

Each Tuesday members of this genXchange group meet across various activities – computer classes, Spanish lessons, arts and crafts, walking or participating in community

gardening. On a Wednesday the Breaky Club group serves meals to the homeless, socially disadvantaged and isolated at the Maroochy Neighbourhood Centre.

Debra, 63, is a member of the gardening group.

She said genXchange was letting her get in touch with the “younger generation”.

“I am learning what they want to do and how they feel and see life, and their future,” Debra said.

“What I can teach them I will find out along the way.”

Sam, 26, said, “We are creating friendships and connections rather than seeing it as a chore that we have to do.

“I have learnt to engage with them. I used to have, like most people, an ageist way of thinking.

From this program, it has broken down a heap of barriers for me.

GEN FRIENDS: Emma (USC student and genXchange member) and Jack (genXchange member) at Smell the Roses garden and social club.

PHOTOS: TAYLAH BERGANN

“I am able to have a really authentic conversation, really easily.

If the best thing I can do is listen and be actively engaged with these people, that’s great.”

“I love being able to do that, coming here every Tuesday and treating them the same as my friends and anyone of my generation,” Sam added.

Kristen, 28, chimed in,

“Seniors are wiser people.

They look a little bit different, but they are still young at heart. That’s the one thing I have really learnt the most.”

Charlotte said genXchange has partnered in Brisbane with Aveo Springfield for a cooking program and creating vertical gardens, in partnership with students from the

genXchange members at Express Yourself (Speak Spanish or Knit for a Cause) at the Sunshine Coast's Maroochydore Library.

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Charlotte said, “As we roll out we will be partnering with universities and other education providers around Australia who will be accessing the platform to register their details for students who will be able gain approved credit points for their qualifications based on the partnership with the universities.

“In exchange for that there is a huge amount of value to be gained by connecting with a genfriend, someone in their community of a different age.”

She is also hoping to partner with aged care providers, retirement villages and hospitals to develop a program which suits their community’s needs.

To join in with genXchange, go to www.genxchange.org.

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Talk ‘n’ Unlocking the means to defy

MOMCHILOVSTI, telemeres, epigentics, RADD, lutathione – these words might sound rather out of the ordinary, but as the conversation around longevity grows longer and louder, these words are gathering familiarity.

Dreams of drinking from the fountain of youth have long been part of the human race.

These days the dreams are fast being replaced with scientific research. In 2013, Google announced the creation of Calico, short for the Californian Life Company. It is focused on longevity research and therapeutics and its mission is to reverse engineer the biology that controls lifespan. In 2015, American Liz Parrish experimented with gene therapy to find what she has called a cure for

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ageing. The gene therapy she injected into her body had only been tested on mice, two years later she believes certain areas of her body (*Telemeres) have been made more youthful.

“We have the opportunity through the booming field of genetics to pioneer the future,” Liz Parrish told an ageing festival in California conducted by RADD (Revolution against death and dying).

The RADD website explains their vision as such: “We’re at a unique

turning point in terms of the plausibility of radical life extension.

“It’s not a new idea.

Taoists were interested thousands of years ago.

19th Century Russian philosophers talked about physical immortality.

Books written in the 1950s and 60s predicted it would happen. But only now is the science starting to look solid.

“So this is a critical time for people to come together to learn what is

happening now and to understand how they can make a difference.”

In the late 1990s, American scientist Craig Venter, PhD, discovered and subsequently became the first human to have his complete DNA sequenced. For his latest project, he has raised $300 million to form a new company, Human Longevity, which aims to take the DNA information he helped unlock and find the means to use it to

increase longevity.

Behind this program is the Health Nucleus program – a $25,000 physical examination – the health data from this test is combined with the person’s DNA sequencing and together this data provides a comprehensive picture of the body capable of identifying present/future health problems.

Foretold is forewarned and with this knowledge, there is the possibility of outwitting sickness and death. It is hoped to be available in more than 300 centres around the world within the next five years.

Australians are also recognised for their contribution to longevity studies. This month Australian, Professor David Sinclair has been announced as a industry

category winner of the 2017 Advance Global Australian Awards.

David Sinclair, PhD, is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and founding director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biological Mechanisms of Aging at Harvard. He is also a conjoint professor at the University of New South Wales, and honorary professor at the University of Sydney.

He was the first non-US citizen to be awarded a prestigious Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship, allowing him to leave to work in the US where he discovered a cause of aging in yeast.

The work led the team to discover genes called the “Sirtuins” that enhance performance and the fitness of organisms and slow their pace of

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thoughts ageing aging.

Dr Sinclair’s research is focused primarily on understanding genes that fight disease and aging, with a focus on treating the major causes of death and disability.

These include diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease.

He has won awards for his work understanding why we age, for showing that the Sirtuins can be activated by agents such as resveratrol (from red wine) and for understanding how diet and exercise can be mimicked by a drug.

More recently his work has branched out to understand why stem cells stay young, how to engineer the human genome, bioinformatics, how to reverse ageing, and how to enhance human fitness.

Today, longevity studies are one of the world’s most prominent research areas. This article is just a tiny taste of what is happening in the world and perhaps, what is just around the corner.

Ageing science: Telemeres: At the ends of the chromosomes are stretches of DNA called telomeres, which protect our genetic data, make it possible for cells to divide, and hold some secrets to how we age and get cancer.

Epigenetics, essentially, affects how genes are read by cells, and subsequently how they produce proteins.

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we spend all our time making each other happy.

Our families also love each other. Life couldn’t get any better.

HERE’S one for the book.

Me and my husband have been married three years coming up October 4. The unique thing about our marriage is how we got together. I was married to my previous husband for 35 years and he passed away. George, my husband now volunteered where I worked and was a good friend to us both. George was 66 years old and had never married and very little dating experience.

We ask why he never married or got into a relationship and his comment was he always was too busy and was waiting for Mrs Wright to come along. Well long story short, when my husband passed away George became a good friend and told me he would be there for me as I needed a friend he was here for me. He never was anything but a wonderful friend. We started to go out a few times and we discovered how much we had in common. We continued to date then our friendship blossomed. We fell in love and we took our time. After a short courtship, we decided to marry. It was the best decision I ever made. He is the love of my life. God is #1 in our marriage and

George and Vickie Clements Fort Worth, Texas USA

The internet certainly transforms the world into a ‘Global Village’. We were delighted to receive this letter from George and Vicki and furthermore share their good news story with our online and print readers.

Cheers Gail

WHERE’S OUR SENSE OF HUMOUR

To Gail, I was quite taken aback by how you caved in at your friend’s ridiculous reprimand re “a senior moment”. Guess who’d be first off my Christmas list?

Where has our sense of humour gone, and our ability to laugh at ourselves. Everyone’s so worried about being PC they’ve lost the essence of what it is to be Australian.

We’re known, especially in Queensland, for our ability to take a joke, and make a joke, to laugh at ourselves. It’s what got the pioneers through the hardships they faced in developing this harsh country and that is where it came from.

Our (some might say)

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Momchilovsti: Located in Bulgaria the area is famous as ‘the village of longevity’ because of the high number of centenarians living here.

It has also given its name to a kind of drinking yoghurt that is all the rage for Chinese consumers and spawned an industry worth nearly a billion dollars a year.

PLEASE NOTE: AT THIS MOMENT, EXERCISE IS KNOWN AS BEST POSITIVE AGEING THERAPY.

weird sense of humour brought them through and now we’re being censored for being us.

Now we’re frightened to be ourselves. Think about it! Someone should tell the friend that our memories do fade as we age, as does most of our body parts, and we shouldn’t be afraid.

And, shock horror, we’re going to die sometime – another fact of life… but I intend to laugh at myself and my silly foibles all the way there.

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Community HOW TO SUBMIT NOTICES

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If you would like to submit a photo please ensure it is at least 180dpi or 500kb up to 1mg of faces in a nice and bright setting.

The deadline for the November issue is Novemebr 2. Email Nicky or Chris at community notes @seniors newspaper. com.au.

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

THE Hervey Bay and Maryborough Multiple Sclerosis Support Group meet on the first Friday of each month on the Deck at the Hervey Bay RSL at 10 am for a coffee and a chat. We are always welcoming of anyone with MS and newly diagnosed are most welcome to sit in

on a meeting to discuss their own situation and ask questions. Details call Bev on 4128 2692 or email bev_cornwell @hotmail.com.

Coast View Club joining our club for this enjoyable day outing. New or interested ladies are always welcome to join our friendly group. Details call Kerry 0409 479 152 or email herveybay. viewclub95@gmail.com

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ARE On The Move. At the last General meeting of the club it was decided to move to the Boat Club to hold their monthly General meetings and this will take place in January 2018. There are two more meetings at the Masonic Hall in Watson St. – the next one is on Thursday, October 26 at 9.15am. We enjoyed a bumper crop of visitors at our last meeting and look forward to them all joining the club in time to enjoy the pleasure of our new venue in 2018. Enquiries call Judith 0458 008 087.

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LOVELY LAVENDER: Hervey Bay VIEW members Sue, Shelley, Kerry, Mary, Carita and Lyn posing at the Amandine Lavender Farm large stoned backing sign.

(Voice, Interest, and Education of Woman) meetings and luncheon are always the second Monday of each month at the Club House, Tooth Street, Pialba from 10.30am and usually includes a Guest Speaker.

Monthly socials are on the forth Monday at various venues from 9.30am. Our speaker at the September meeting was Jill Barclay, Vice Commodore of the Hervey Bay Volunteer Marine Rescue and she enlightened us on the

good work they do with assisting boaties when they get into difficulties or just run out of fuel. A bus trip to Amandine Lavender Farm in Bargara was the September social outing for 28 ladies with some members of the Fraser

THE Bundaberg PCYC will be holding two markets in on Sunday November 12 and 26 are the dates for these markets. Both will run from 8am with the canteen open from 7.30am. A sausage sizzle will be operating as well as large board games for the kids. All the usual stalls will be there as well as extra new ones. Details or to book a site call Irene on 0437 645 941 or email irene.petretic@pcyc.org. au

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THE Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service provides free T2Diabetes information sessions to people diagnosed with T2Diabetes or pre diabetes. Our final sessions for 2017 will be held in Gympie Thursday November 16. Bookings essential call 5319 4834.

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THE Bundaberg Woodworkers Guild Inc are proud to host the 28th Wood and Craft Expo on November 18 and 19 starting at 9am both days.

This event is held in the Main Pavilion at the Bundaberg Precinct. Entry is via Kendalls road.

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MS makes a very big splash THE Hervey Bay and Maryborough Multiple Sclerosis Support Group had a very successful MS Swimathon for 2017.

They had five teams of 40 swimmers who managed to raise $10,225 to be used locally in the next year.

Ivan Cornwell formed a team of nine this year called Fish Fingers and raised $2,200, a job well done.

The team also took out the award for the Best Themed Team with their creative and humorous costumes.

We must also recognise Dianne and Cath from our club who did their bit with swimming and fundraising, good on you girls, you did a great job.

The group are always welcoming of anyone with Multiple Sclerosis and newly diagnosed are most welcome to sit in on a meeting to discuss their own situation and ask questions.

The group meets on the first Friday of each month on the Deck at the Hervey Bay RSL located at 11 Torquay Road Pialba, Hervey Bay at 10 am for a coffee and a chat.

If you would like to come along just call Bev on 4128 2692 or email bev_cornwell@hotmail. com.

Who said people don’t read books anymore?

THAT myth was de bunked, when books were snapped up by thousands at the 14th Annual Quota Bookfest, which was held recently at the Maryborough City Hall.

Quota International of Maryborough,wish to express their gratitude to all the people involved in this rewarding event.

Including residents of the Fraser Coast who most generously donated many thousands of pre-loved books, the visitors and locals who purchased the books.

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GREAT FUNDRAISERS: The winning Best Themed Fish Fingers team in full costume Ivan Cornwell, Yolande Bromet and four International Workforce workers.

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$8m MoW funding boost to help hold off price rises Alison Houston

UP TO one million older Australians are under-nourished or at risk of malnutrition, making them more prone to illness.

It’s a scary figure, but it gets even more frightening when you learn that it costs $1000 to keep someone in hospital for a single night.

That’s what the government spends to subsidise Meals on Wheels for one person for an entire year in many parts of Australia.

On September 15, Federal Minister for Aged Care Ken Wyatt announced an additional $8 million in government support for services delivering meals to private homes through the Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP).

Mr Wyatt said supporting people to live as independently as possible in the comfort of their own homes was a top priority and

MORE THAN A MEAL: Roger Darlington’s visits from Meals on Wheels make all the difference.

acknowledged that volunteers delivered more than a healthy meal.

“The visit is also an opportunity to have a friendly chat and to check

on that person’s well-being,” Mr Wyatt said.

“We need to maintain and grow this type of service into the future.”

Australian Meals on Wheels Association president Nelson Matthews welcomed the funding boost, particularly for services which had

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return in downstream community benefits and health savings it gains through preventative care services like Meals on Wheels,” Mr Matthews said.

He pointed to the UK experience, where hospitalisation rates of malnourished older

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been chronically underfunded and forced to raise meal prices to “levels we think are unacceptable”.

In some cases that meant charging over $10 per meal for the first time in the organisation’s more than 60-year history, while other services went into the red attempting to keep prices lower, something which Mr Matthews said was simply “unsustainable”.

He said the additional funding would “help stall further price hikes for those who can least afford them”.

The government now intends to contribute a minimum of $4.70 towards the cost of each meal. Some Queensland services had been receiving under $3 per meal in subsidy.

“The government has recognised the massive

people increased by over 200% when funding for in-home support services such as delivered meals and social support was cut.

So why did it take so long for the Australian Government to identify the benefits of this service which runs on the good hearts of volunteers and, as Mr Matthews put it, “the smell of an oily rag”?

Why was it refused extra funding earlier in the year, despite the fact it’s estimated that for every $1 the government provides in subsidy, they get $5 back in downstream health savings?

When Seniors newspapers spoke to Mr Matthews after the funding announcement, he said funding had passed to the Federal Government from the States in recent years,

FUNDING WIN: Australian Meals on Wheels Association president Nelson Matthews said the service was all about keeping people at home for longer.

and there had been a lack of understanding as to how it operated, that customers paid for their meals and that, because MoW services had developed independently from grassroots community efforts, each service ran slightly differently with slightly different funding.

While the exact details of how the $8 million will be divided have yet to be released, Mr Matthews was hopeful it would address the current inequities and take pressure off local services.

“Food is essential,” Mr

Matthews said, “but MoW is essential not just for providing a well-balanced and nutritious meal, but for the care we provide through social contact, monitoring of health and well-being, which is an enormous comfort for customers as well as the families of older people who might otherwise be quite isolated.”

He said in connecting communities and giving people a sense of purpose, MoW provided another service.

MoW delivers more than 10 million meals to more than 120,000 Australians each year.

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10 ACE REASONS TO LOVE TRAIN TRAVEL ANN RICKARD climbs on board a train and gives us her top 10 reasons to love train travel in foreign lands

3. High speed trains get you there super-fast.

Hurtling through the countryside at 300 kilometres an hour is exhilarating.

4. Arrive in the centre.

Most airports are out of town and require an expensive taxi ride or bus transfer to get you in the city centre.

With train travel, get off, and you are there right in the heart of London, Paris, Rome, Madrid…. oh, let’s go.

5. Comfort. The inter-city trains have comfortable

and spacious seats with head rests, plenty of leg room, power sockets for laptops and electronic devices.

6. Buy flexible passes in Australia before you go and snag a deal. In Europe, a Eurail Global Flexi Pass gives you access to countless trains in 28 countries.

In the US, an Amtrak USA Rail Pass lets you hop on and off as you please. Similar passes apply in Canada and Japan. Flexible? We think so.

7. The dining car. Slip into a booth, have a waiter bring you anything from poached eggs to fillet of beef, depending on the time of day. There is wine, too.

8. Budget restraints?

Pack a picnic to enjoy at your seat. BYO food is expected.

We’ve seen people on trains (mostly in France) enjoy a multi-course lunch complete with wine, finishing with cheese and fruit… all from their backpack.

9. Atmosphere. The stunning architecture of big train stations, the restaurants, cafes and shops. In Paris, at Gare de Lyon, the fabled Le Train Bleu restaurant with its gilt and chandeliers and Parisian grandeur is worth a station visit alone, even if you never get on a train.

10. Plan your train journey so you depart or arrive at your hotel check-in/check-out times.

No hanging around with luggage. Speaking of which, travel light…really, you must…getting heavy

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1. The big train stations, especially in Europe and the UK, are intoxicating.

The atmosphere is electric: the big clocks, the buzz of people going to places we have only dreamt of visiting, the romance, the magic…try finding that at an airport.

2. No check-in. How we hate long check-in queues at airports where it seems every person in front of us has a tonne of luggage and a mammoth problem to solve. With trains, you just turn up and get on.

The recommended time to be on the platform before departure is two minutes (unless it’s the Eurostar, which does require check-in).

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Fiery ostriches at battle beside the road to Damaraland.

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Sundowners in Ongava Game Reserve, near Etosha.

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NAMIBIA: A Himba woman trading local wares outside the entrance to Etosha National Park.

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The striking landscape unfolded as we soon left the paved highway and started out across the rolling dry savannah, past craggy hills and into the desert.

Just before sunset, when I was starting to wonder where our camp could be in the seemingly deserted landscape of rocks and then rough sand, appearing before us and nestled under a craggy outcrop was our first glamp.

The permanent tents of the Kulala Adventurer Camp looked out across the pristine desert of red and yellow.

A short distance away was a watering hole for the desert-adapted wildlife to visit.

No amount of photos or words could have prepared me for the beauty, comfort, but also enthralling rawness of this

location. It was on that first night, sitting around the camp table, accompanied by white linen, cool wine and interesting company, that I came to realise our guide was going to deliver the most amazing journey.

His depth of knowledge of everything from the stars, landscape, birds, geology, country history and culture was without exception and readily shared. The six of us were back in the classroom and ready to learn.

We started each day before sunrise, catching the first rays as we downed our ample breakfast and welcome cups of tea. For the road, Jeremia had packed cool drinks, plentiful lunch and even a secret supply of dried fruit for snacks. We also learnt not to waste any food, with leftovers collected and handed to people we met along the desert tracks.

The Namib Desert part of our trip took us to south to Sossusvlei and the red dunes where we climbed the fine edge of one of the steep dunes, only to then have to work our way down its edge to the dry pan below, where it hadn’t rained since 1965.

From there Jeremia, who quickly was nicknamed Hawkeye, took us back north and towards Walvis Bay on the Atlantic Ocean. We were already seeing oryx, springbok, black-backed jackal, wilderbeast, ostrich, zebra, chameleon lizard, meerkats and even

cheetahs.

This coastal centre was an interesting diversion from the desert, with its busy port and amazing thick sea fog, but we were all happy to get back on the road, heading north to Etosha National Park.

A short stop at Cross Bay, where a massive fur seal colony made for pungent viewing, was our last view of water for quite some time as we headed back inland to Damaraland Camp to view herds of desert-adapted elephants and discover minerals.

A visit to the Twyfelfontein UNESCO World Heritage site, where the rock drawings are between 2000 and 6000 years old, and then onto the Living Museum village were the last memorable moments of our time in the desert before headed further north.

As the savannah rolled out in front of us, Jeremia told us of Namibia’s battle to save its rhinos.

As we crossed into Ongava Game Park’s Andersson’s Camp, next to Etosha, he told us in the first two weeks of July, already four rhinos had been poached in Etosha.

During our final days of the adventure, we saw white and black rhinos, impala, ground squirrel, lots of guinea fowl and small birds, giraffe, warthogs, more fabulous zebras and elephants, and a lion.

My husband wants to go back there, soon, and so do I.

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Canberra it’s up, up and away

PHIL HAWKES finds the nation’s capital has more than enough hot air IF YOU’VE thought of Canberra as a place for “serious” tourism…

Federal Parliament, the Australian War Memorial, the National Gallery and so on, you’d be right.

Those places should be high on every Australian’s bucket list.

But only half right.

There’s another side to the city which is now attracting a new wave of visitors looking for fun, excitement, good food and wine, and lots of activities that will keep you busy with Facebook posts or Instagrams to the rellies back home.

For example, trying hot air ballooning on a frosty winter morning is one way to get the pulse racing. It may sound a bit nerve-racking, but ballooning is statistically safer than driving down the street and it’s a lot

more fun. In the hands of experienced operators such as Balloon Aloft, you get a wonderful bird’s eye view of the city and the picturesque countryside, a joyflight you won’t easily forget.

Ballooning is just for starters. Here are some other fun things to do in Canberra: ■ Stay at Jamala Wildlife Lodge at the heart of the National Zoo & Aquarium.

Here, you can choose a room or suite “close up and personal” with a lion, tiger, bear or cheetah…or next to a shark tank! Our favourite is the Giraffe Treehouse where you can feed the handsome Humbekhali from your balcony.

■ Take a Segway Tour around Lake Burley Griffin, it certainly beats walking and the guides give an amusing commentary.

FABULOUS EXPERIENCE: Feeding Humbekhali while staying in the Giraffe Treehouse at the Jamala Wildlife Lodge.

■ Try your hand at glass blowing at Canberra Glassworks, a unique workspace for glass artists where visitors can get arty and make a glass paperweight under the patient guidance of a professional artist.

■ Visit the new Capital Brewing Company in Fyshwick, an industrial area fast becoming a trendy urban precinct.

Enjoy not only superb craft beers, but tasty food from the famous Brodburger food truck.

■ Spend an hour or three at one of many wineries in the district… the closest to town is Mount Majura Vineyard and if you’re like us, you’ll want more than

vineyard, olive grove, market garden and smokehouse for a true chef-hatted gourmet dining experience.

■ Book well ahead for Floriade in September 2018, now in its 31st year and one of Australia’s best known flower and garden shows.

■ Check out Tigerair’s new Brisbane-Canberra flights… the low fares will save you enough money to enjoy more of the fun side of our national capital.

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PICTURESQUE: Cathedral Cave, Hahei, New Zealand.

Exploration of NZ secret Erle Levey

STUNNING vistas and the crisp, crystal-clear ocean are just one of the many beautiful features of a visit to New Zealand’s north island in August.

This pristine shoreline reminds me of the Greek Islands with its sandy beaches, dramatic limestone and sandstone cliffs, and caves.

A photo in a travel brochure inspired me to seek out Cathedral Cove and the quirk of nature that formed its intriguing cave. It's one of the top spots to see and do in NZ - along with the nearby Hot Water Beach. Yet no-one had told me about it, until now.

Cathedral Cove is walking distance from the small village of Hahei on the Coromandel

Peninsula.

The area, renowned for its natural beauty, green pastures, misty rainforests and pristine golden beaches, is regarded as one of NZ’s most popular and best-loved holiday destinations.

It was named after the British Royal Navy sailing ship HMS Coromandel which sailed into there in 1820 to collect kauri pine to use as its spars.

The peninsula is steep and hilly, the range rising to a height of about 900m forms a spine.

The large island of Great Barrier which lies beyond the northern tip is almost an extension of the range. This rugged nature means that much of the area is relatively isolated.

Small island groups lie

offshore while the peninsula shows considerable signs of past volcanic activity.

Hahei is to the north of Whitianga, the Maori word for Land of the Long White Cloud.

Captain Cook visited Mercury Bay when he first sighted NZ in October 1769 on his voyage of discovery. He named it to mark the place where the expedition observed the transit of the planet Mercury.

Getting to Cathedral Cove takes time ... time to enjoy the views, and time to drive carefully along the roads that twist and turn up ridge lines and down gullies, sometimes winding along the magnificent coastline and otherwise through rainforests and pine plantations or rich dairy

Coromandel Ranges, NZ.

Stingray Bay at Hahei, NZ.

and sheep country.

Once you exit State Highway 2 the villages become smaller.

Apart from some nice homes there is just the shop at Hahei.

For Cathedral Cove you need either to park in the village at a designated area and walk along the coastline, perhaps 2.5km, or catch a boat tour.

Otherwise, it’s a drive up Grange Road and if it is on a weekday, you might get a park at the start of the pathway leading down to the cove.

All along the road there are yellow lines to signify no parking.

Once at the carpark there are good boardwalks and viewing platforms

looking back to Hahei beach and of the islands.

It’s a magnificent outlook.

You can just imagine the Maori canoes coming ashore here or Cook sailing past.

Most of the pathway is sealed, but there are steps down to Stingray Bay and on the last part to Cathedral Cove.

Stingray Bay is worth the detour for the seclusion and the clearest blue of the water. .

Cathedral Cove is about 45 minutes walk each way from the carpark.

Cathedral indeed. There is even a likeness of an outline of Western Australia seeping onto the wall of the cathedral arch as a result of minerals.

There is an air of grandeur especially with the coves framed by elegant pohutukawa trees, and with the rocky outcrops.

As well as walking, there are kayak tours, sailing trips, a water taxi and glass-bottom boat tours.

As well as being a great place to dive and snorkel, you are also a 10-minute drive from Hot Water Beach which is best enjoyed two hours before and after low water. Take a shovel or hire one, dig into the sand and relax in the warm rising water.

It’s good to come across such places, without crowds or commercialisation.

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What’s on Complied by Christine Perkin

*Correction: The Free Sea Shepherd And Toni Childs Concert advertised in our September edition is not being held.

MELODIES IN THE MORNING

ISSI Dye celebrates the Swing era on Tuesday October 24. Doors open 10am show starts at 11am. Cost $5 Hervey Bay RSL Members or $7 non-members at the Hervey Bay RSL Club, 11 Torquay Road Pialba, Hervey Bay. Tickets available at reception.

Details call 4197 7444.

TORBANLEA PICNIC RACES

AT THE Torbanlea Picnic Races on October 28, there will be thoroughbred and quarterhorse races, VIP marques with catered food, drinks and live entertainment. Food and licensed bar all day.

Children’s entertainment and activities. Transport with Wide Bay Transit. Call them to ask about the Torbanlea Races Day Tour.

Located at Torbanlea Pialba Road, Lot 32, Torbanlea. Contact email burrumrra@gmail.com

ELVIS AND ORBISON

THE One Magic Night tour at the Tin Can Bay Country Club on Friday October 20 Tickets $25 on sale at reception. Details call

5486 4231 located on Kidd Straight, Tin Can Bay.

Maryborough Sts, Bundaberg South on Saturday, October 28 from 8am until 12pm. Details call 4151 3128.

MARY VALLEY SCARECROW FESTIVAL

THERE’S an influx of straw creatures around the hills of the Mary Valley, South-East Queensland, all vying for a cash prize in the annual Mary Valley Scarecrow Festival.

Scarecrows come out of hiding and will guard farm gates and village shops until the judges reveal the best of them on November 10 at the inaugural “harvest dinner” at Kandanga Farm Store.

Some will even hang around for the Mary River Festival in Kandanga on November 11. There’s a map to lead you down country roads and discover new places.

But It’s not all about the navigation: You can win $50 by taking a photo of yourself with as many scarecrows as possible in the Mary Valley between October 7 and November 11. Post the selfies on the Mary Valley Scarecrow Festival Facebook page and hashtag #mvscarecrows. It’s a great excuse to pack a picnic and tour through Mary Valley Country. The scarecrow map were uploaaded to Google on October 13, so that you can plan your self-drive tour. Details call 0409 382 868 or email info@scarecrows.org.au.

LADY MUSGRAVE EXPERIENCE

SIMPLY STUNNING: The beautiful Lady Musgrave Island waters are pristine and accessible from Bundaberg and 1770.

THE LIGHTHOUSE FESTIVAL

THIS is a celebration of the lifestyle and culture of the region. The festival is based in Burnett Heads with the town’s lighthouses forming a historical centre-piece for the fun and entertainment which starts at noon and continues through until 8pm when one of the region’s most spectacular fireworks displays brings the festival to a close.

The activities include live music; art and photography exhibition; lifestyle displays; a range of cuisine; Kids Zone; the historic lighthouse and; displays and demonstrations by businesses and community groups; rides and stalls. The evening ends on a high note with an amazing fireworks

display. Located at the Jack Norgate Oval, Zunker St, Burnett Heads on October 28, 12 noon to 8pm. Entry $2 children under 5 free. Details call 0498 354 055 or email info@thelighthouse festival .com.au or go to www.thelight house festival.com.au

SUPER SATURDAY SPRING FAIR

GREAT sausage sizzle, plants, baking, bottle stall, silent art auction (artwork by st luke’s students), coffee shop, dorcas bric-a-brac, craft, produce, ham wheel, free face painting & entertainment. buy a ticket in our raffle – chance to win $1000 cash. Free admission – all welcome. Located at the Christ Church Anglican Church, Cnr Woongarra &

LADY Musgrave Island is a day cruise away from Bundaberg Port Marina onboard Lady Musgrave Experience, or from the Town of 1770, Lady Musgrave Island is unique as it is the only coral island on the Great Barrier Reef with a navigable lagoon.

This 44-acre coral cay sits in a lagoon of approximately 3,000 acres with 14 world class dive sites: Manta Ray and Entrance Bombies, Napoleon’s Wall and The Drop-off to name a few.

Snorkel the shallows or dive coral gardens on the northern side and the extensive drop-off on the southern side.

Details or to book call 0427 009 922 or email info@ladymusgrave experience.com.au or go to https://ladymusgrave experience.com.au/ Prices Adult $215.50 includes lunch.

COOLOOLA BERRIES PAELLA IN THE PADDOCK

LIVE music and great food every Sunday from 1pm to 4pm. You can pick your own strawberries from June to November or Pick

your own blueberries – December. Located at 856 Tagigan Road, Wolvi.

Farm Gate Open 7 days from 8am to 5pm.

Contact details: Farmgate on 5486 7512 or 0400 331 216, email hello@cooloolaberries. com.au or go to http://cooloola berries.com.au

I WROTE A SONG : KARIN PAGE

PRESENTED by the Australian Institiute of Country Music – Rocks’Kool a $10 one hour songwriting workshop on Saturday October 21 from 2pm to 3pm. Located at Australian Institute of Country Music, 26 Channon Street, Gympie.

Bookings and details call 0407 160 105 or email jess74rockskool@gmail. com.

Singer-songwriter Karin Page took out Female Artist Of The Year and Songwriter Of The Year at the 2017 WA Country Music Awards; she was nominated for a WAM Song Of The Year Award in the Blues And Roots category.

The authenticity and intelligence of her lyrics combined with her charming blend of rootsy Americana had been making waves around Australia – emanating from her hometown of Perth – earning Karin a slew of awards.

Making decisions now to save the stress later COUNCIL on the Ageing (COTA) Queensland is helping older Queenslanders understand Enduring Powers of Attorney.

Thinking about a time when you might not be able to make decisions for yourself and you need someone to take care of things for you can be stressful.

Many of us simply avoid it, because we don’t want to consider the possibility or don’t know who to choose to take care of our affairs.

COTA Queensland is working to help older people in Queensland understand and think through these decisions.

COTA Queensland is a statewide not-for-profit organisation advancing

the rights, needs and futures of people as we age. Peer educators, who are themselves older Queenslanders, are delivering free information sessions about Enduring Powers of Attorney.

A Power of Attorney is a formal document that gives decision making powers on your financial, health and personal wishes to someone you trust, when you no longer have the capacity to make rational and informed decisions.

Peter Carne, the Public Trustee said the Public Trustee was proud to support the COTA program to educate people about the importance of Enduring Powers of Attorney, and

what needs to be considered to support people to make the right choices for their future.

“Sadly, too often our Office witnesses the results when people have not appointed an attorney or they have made the wrong choice of who to appoint”.

“Enduring Powers of Attorney are important future planning documents that every Queenslander over 18 needs, and they need to be carefully considered, that’s why this COTA program is so vital,” Mr Carne said.

The sessions are designed to assist older people to make informed decisions about their Enduring Powers of Attorney. The sessions

help participants to think through who they could choose to manage their affairs, and how to talk to those closest to them about their decisions.

The program has been designed in collaboration with a group of peer educators to ensure the information is relevant to older people and delivered in a way that is easy to understand. The sessions are interactive, and run for an hour.

Attendees are also provided with specifically designed take-home materials to help them work through these decisions at home.

“People can be frightened by Enduring Powers of Attorney because they think they are giving away control of

their decisions”, said Mark Tucker-Evans, Chief Executive COTA Queensland.

“The peer educators who have been trained to deliver the sessions particularly talked about the importance of this program for helping people to take control.

This is about empowering people to understand what an Enduring Power of Attorney is and how to choose the right people to act for them, if the time should come.”

In and around Bundaberg, the sessions are being delivered by local peer educator, Graham Jackson. “Of all the subjects I have spoken about in my role as a

COTA peer educator, this is the one that gives us older people the information we need to make the right choices about how and whom we choose to act for us in a way in which we determine the direction of our future”.

If you belong to an existing seniors group, club or organisation, contact COTA Queensland on bookings@ cotaqld.org.au to arrange for a FREE Planning Ahead: Let’s Talk Enduring Powers of Attorney session before 31 May 2018.

Planning Ahead: Let’s Talk Enduring Powers of Attorney is funded by the Queensland Government and is supported by the Public Trustee.

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CWA speaks up for the care of our grandparents Tracey Johnstone

THE voice of the Country Women’s Association of NSW is joining the growing chorus of people calling for grandparents as carers of their grandchildren to be recognised as family rather than as foster carers.

Decision makers in government will be targeted as the CWA seeks change around grandparent versus foster carer status and the surrounding rules.

NSW chief executive officer Danica Leys said the CWA had good access to state politicians when they need and want to advocate for change.

“It’s just a matter of how the government chooses to prioritise this issue going forward,” Ms Leys said.

“We will be talking to other like-minded organisations as well, and seeing if we can, as a collective, get a bit of a push-on with this issue.”

State president Annette Turner will lead the powerful voice of 400 branches statewide, most of whom will take up the role of advocating for change through their local contacts.

Ms Leys said this year’s state conference adopted the grandparent policy as part of the process of looking at the issues

around the changing face of families in the bush.

“The grandparents’ position was bought to our conference in May from a Riverina area branch,” she said.

“They had been noticing this issue across their area. At the conference the motion passed unanimously.

“It was surprising to me that so many people got up and spoke quite passionately about it, and also spoke from a very personal point of view.

“It’s quite surprising how many people are affected by this issue.”

Ms Leys said she learned from that debate there are a lot of grandparents caring for

GRANDPARENTS: Delegates at the CWA NSW’s annual conference where they decided to enter the debate on recognising grandparents as the family of the grandchildren they are looking after, not foster carers.

PHOTO: COUNTRY WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION

their grandchildren on either a full-time or close to full-time basis, acting as the child’s primary carer and often as their

parent. “This is happening more and more across the state,” she said.

“One of the biggest reasons our members are

telling us is there are issues particularly around substance abuse in lots of regional communities.”

We’re not foster carers, we’re family are not mum, dad and two kids.

"The kids have been through the same trauma that most kids in foster care go through, but they are with their family.

"Yet we have to jump through all the hoops that foster carers have to jump through; intrusive, humiliating assessment processes that could be done a lot better."

Colleen said currently grandparents come under the government’s foster care model which she said treats them "a bit like

second-class foster carers".

"We want changes around language and legislation in particular so that we can get on with our lives with our grandchildren without the interference and unnecessary processes that the department of family and community services place upon us."

The NSW Government said grandparents can apply under Guardianship Orders for the guardianship of their grandchildren, which the

government said opens doors to funding and support.

"Placing children with their immediate or extended family is always a priority for Family and Community Services," the NSW Government spokesperson said.

"It is hoped that many more grandparents will consider guardianship so that their grandchildren are no longer considered to be in out of home care and grandparents have the autonomy they desire."

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They have had a grandchild living with them full-time for 19 years.

"They all have the same mother, just different dads. It’s drug and alcohol abuse with her.

"We can’t retire," the grandmother added.

"We either do this job and get the right support, or some of us go under," Colleen added.

"It’s a very difficult job," she said as she mused over how common her story is among grandparents.

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But Colleen argues this approach still doesn’t account for the individual grandparent relationship.

"They can’t think a different way even though we are in greater number than foster carers,” the grandmother said.

"They need to divide that department and have a section that looks after grandparents and grandchildren, and the foster carers can do their own thing."

Colleen cares for three grandchildren. She is 66 and her husband is 71.

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WAGGA Wagga grandmother Colleen Beale is talking tough about grandparents being recognised instead of being buried within the foster care system.

"It’s the process, policy and procedures that grandparents are subjected to when they are raising a family member that we object to," Colleen said.

"We want our grandchildren to have a sense of belonging to their family.

"Families these days

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Reviews Dawn French’s fabulous diary

DAWN French has written a new, non-fiction book.

The reader and Dawn will spend a year together rambling through the days, the months and the seasons of the year to make sense of it.

And have some fun along the way...

“Feel free to write your appointments in it, lists, thoughts and reminders of, say, who to kill, and when, and in what order,” French writes.

“But I’ve also written about age and life as I see it, through the seasons and the months, and I’ve added some places for you to join me in some fun and

FABULOUSLY FUNNY: Dawn French.

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some thinking.

“By the end of the year, I am hoping you will have a fatter, scruffier book that is written by me but totally personalised by you.

“Come on in. The paper is lovely... AND... importantly, Me. You: A

Bucket list ideas big and small WHATEVER your dreams, this book will help you tick them off your lifelong to-do list. We all have a list of things we dream of doing one day, but work, family, school, money, and responsibilities can all get in the way.

If there were no boundaries on what you could experience, what would you do? The Bucket List is a collection of 1000

adventures to be had across every continent, from seeing the northern lights from an igloo in Finland to ninja training in Japan.

The Bucket List is the perfect gift for the passionate traveller: an around-the-world listing of beaches, museums, islands, restaurants, mountains, and more.

Published by Murdoch

Books, Kath Stathers’s The Bucket List is available this month from book stores. RRP $39.99.

Girl’s war-time choices Diary comes with a practical elastic strap to keep all of your papers safe, with a pocket in the back for storing those special mementoes.”

Published by Penguin Books, Me. You: A Diary is released this month and in bookshops and online. RRP $39.99.

THE Girl from Munich is set in worn-torn Germany of 1943 and tells the tale of a young girl’s choices that change her life forever. Growing up in Hitler’s Germany, Charlotte von Klein has big dreams for the future.

But in 1943, the tide of the war is turning against Germany, and Lotte’s life of privilege and comfort begins to collapse around

her. As Hitler’s Reich abandons Germany and the country falls to the Allied forces, Lotte is forced to flee from the unfolding chaos to the country with the darkly attractive Erich Drescher, her Luftwaffe superior. Amid the danger, pain and heartbreak of a country turning on itself, Lotte must forge a new life for herself.

The Girl from Munich is published by Simon and Schuster and available in bookshops for RRP $29.99 and as an ebook for RRP $9.99.

Warm-hearted School Life SCHOOL Life is an entertaining movie that gives an insight into the lives of two teachers who are reaching retirement after 46 years of inspirational teaching in an Irish boarding school.

The observational documentary film follows a year in the lives of John and Amanda Leyden, who work at the majestic Headfort, the only primary-age boarding school in Ireland, and who have shaped the minds of thousands.

But now the unthinkable looms – what would

retirement mean, they muse.

Spanning the ancient and the ultra-modern has been their life and passion and so they’ve challenged the march of time by absorbing the endless supply of young ideas from their wards – but who will keep them young if they leave?

For John, rock music is just another subject alongside maths, English, scripture and Latin, all of which are taught in a collaborative and often hilarious fashion.

For Amanda, the key to

connecting with children is the book and she uses all means fair to snare the young minds.

The children sit transfixed as she takes them on magical journeys with fantastical characters from tales of all kinds.

“If we don’t come here, what will we will do all day?” John asks dryly.

“We’ll sit around doing less and less and become more and more decrepit.”

The highly entertaining and heart-warming School Life film will be in Australian cinemas from November 2.

TEACHER TALE: Amanda Leyden in the documentary School Life.

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From turmoil in the midst of Winter, friendships are created

READ IT: In the Midst of Winter is the The captivating new novel by Isabel Allende.

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NEW York Times bestseller and master storyteller Isabel Allende’s In the Midst of Winter is a beautifully crafted, multi-generational novel of struggle, endurance and friendship against the odds. Amid the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, an unexpected friendship blossoms between three people thrown together by circumstance.

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Amid the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, an unexpected friendship blossoms between three people thrown together by circumstance.

lonely university professor in his sixties, hits the car driven by Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented migrant from Guatemala.

But what at first seems an inconvenience takes an unforeseen and darker

turn when Evelyn comes to him and his neighbour Lucia Maraz, desperately seeking help.

Sweeping from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala to turbulent 1970s Chile and Brazil,

and woven with Isabel Allende's trademark humanity, passion and storytelling verve, In the Midst of Winter is a mesmerising and unforgettable tale.

Allende is the author of international bestsellers The House of the Spirits and The Japanese Lover.

Published by Simon and Schuster, In the Midst of Winter is available in November in bookshops and ebook. RRP $39.99.

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Get crafty with your grandkids BE THRIFTY AND THRIVE NICKY NORMAN small bowl. ★Vaseline. ★Scissors. ★Homemade glue/wallpaper paste. ★Strip of card, approx.

2cm x 25 cm. ★Stapler. ★Masking tape.

To make bowl: 1. Lie newspaper out on the table and create a work area.

2. Blow up the balloon and fasten with a knot and spread plenty of Vaseline all over it.

4. Sit the balloon in the cup with the knot facing into the cup.

5. Brush over some glue/paste with the paintbrush on the top half of the balloon.

6. Cover the top half of

PREPARATION: Paper mache can be a fun activity to enjoy with your grandchildren.

Just keep ahead of the mess.

the balloon (that is covered in paste) with strips of newspaper.

7. Make sure the newspaper is wet entirely with glue - add more if required.

8. Paste the strips horizontally and vertically as this will strengthen the bowl.

9. Cover the ends that

Cooking with the kids I LOVE cooking with kids, they’re so interested in learning how to make the yummy food they enjoy.

Start with something simple like pancakes, fritters or honey joys, then progress to lemonade scones, pizza and rice paper rolls. The rolls may not look perfect when they’re finished but the kids think they are very clever with this healthy option. You can also, depending on the age of the kids, teach them how to prepare the ingredients. You will be very surprised how much kids are capable of at a young age. For stress-free cooking with kids, let

HOME COOKING CHRISTINE PERKIN them help choose the menu beforehand, give them a few options that are suitable and it is best to ensure you have the ingredients for what you are cooking and be organised. Don’t complicate the menu or the kids will lose interest very quickly. Have all the ingredients ready to go measured and portioned and make sure you have a stool or chair available for

3 INGREDIENTS: Delicious Lemonade scones.

them if they are a little height challenged.

Let’s get cooking!

LEMONADE SCONES Moist and fluffy scones, made with only 3 ingredients! Serve warm with jam and cream Makes 10

haven’t been glued down properly with glue.

10. Add at least six layers of newspaper and glue to the top half of the balloon.

11. Leave it to dry. After it is dry, remove the newspaper mould from the balloon.

13. Trim off the rough edges, using scissors.

To make a base for the bowl: 1. Turn the bowl upside down.

2. Make a loop/circle with the strip of card, and staple in place (as a base) and attach the loop with masking tape.

3. Paste on some glue and cover it with newspaper pieces/strips extending up on side of bowl.

4. Once the bowl and base are completely dry it is ready to paint and decorate.

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Ingredients 3 cups self-raising flour 1 cup thickened cream 1 cup cold lemonade Method Preheat oven to 200C Combine the flour, cream and lemonade in a bowl and mix until just combined. Do not over mix. Turn out onto a floured surface, and gently pat down to 2.5cm thickness. Use a 6cm round cutter to cut scones. Flour the cutter so the dough doesn't stick. Brush the tops lightly with milk. Place on a lined or greased tray, slightly touching each, and bake for 12-15 minutes until golden on top. Place on rack to cool.

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LIKE most French words, papier (paper) mache sounds so much better than its English translation, which means, chewed paper. This can be a fun, low cost activity to enjoy with your grandchildren and impress them with your handy craft skills.

Together you can create a bowl of any size for trinkets in their room, as a gift or as a fruit bowl for the family. The bonus is you should have most of what you need at home.

What you need: ★Recycled paper, like lolly wrappers, coloured paper, envelopes, newspaper, magazines and wrapping paper. The newspaper will be ripped into small pieces/ strips (4-5cms wide and at least 15cms in length). ★Paint and paintbrushes. ★A balloon. ★A wide cup/

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Practical Advice

seniorsnews.com.au Monday, October 16, 2017

How to keep your pets at home longer Tracey Johnstone

RSPCA South Australia has released a toolkit which community groups, councils and aged care services can use for free to help seniors keep their pets at home for longer.

RSPCA South Australia’s animal welfare advocate Rebekah Eyers said in the past, caring for a companion animal had been overlooked under healthcare plans.

The Companion Animal Toolkit has the potential to address this issue.

“For a lot of older people, their wellbeing is wrapped in their pet,” Ms Eyers said.

“That human, animal bond is a very powerful thing.

“They need to be able to stay at home with their pet for as long as they can.”

The toolkit helps with ideas, guidelines and operating procedures for programs which support people living at home who can’t continue to fully care for their pet.

It gives advice on recruiting, vetting and training volunteers who then go in a person’s home to help a disabled or elderly person do all the things a pet needs, such as walking, grooming, toileting, taking the pet to the vet, giving them treatments.

The added advantage of the toolkit is volunteers can also help identify pet owner health problems.

“Often the bond between the pet and the owner is so incredibly strong they will sacrifice their own needs so

they can meet the needs of their pet,” Ms Eyers.

“If the volunteer notices some issues in the home with the elderly person, they can try to find another community service that may fill one of those gaps.”

Ms Eyers notes this is why it’s important that the program owner collaborates with service agencies and animal welfare bodies to achieve a better outcome for the pet and its owner.

“Anyone who picks it up, can tailor the program and on the Charles Sturt Council’s website are even more materials,” Ms Eyers added.

The comprehensive toolkit is free to download from the RSPCA South Australia website. Go to www.rspcasa.org.au.

PETS AND AGEING: The bond between a human and a pet is a very powerful thing.

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Police offer safety tips for using public transport FOLLOW these practical tips for staying aware and safe when you are travelling on public transport.

BUSES

■ Sit wherever you feel the most comfortable and safe. If the bus is empty, or nearly empty, consider sitting near the driver.

■ If the driver is threatening your safety, take details of the bus and the driver and report the matter to police and/or the bus company.

■ In the case of emergency, phones are available on many station platforms.

TRAINS

■ Sit wherever you feel the most comfortable and safe. If the train is empty, or nearly empty, consider sitting near the train guard or driver.

■ In an emergency, seek help by alerting the guard or pushing the emergency contact button for assistance.

■ Emergency phones are available at all stations and in some car parks.

■ Safety zones (blue-and-white striped safety line on the platform) are waiting areas available at some stations that guarantee a number of security

TAKING CARE: Follow these tips to stay safe when using public transport.

features such as camera surveillance, enhanced lighting and access to an emergency phone.

GENERAL ADVICE ■ Avoid unnecessary waiting and plan your

travel by consulting a timetable.

■ Advise a responsible person of your expected arrival and route.

■ Wait wherever you feel the most comfortable and safe, such as in a well-lit area near other people.

If you feel your safety is threatened by a fellow passenger.

■ Respond assertively, for example ‘Leave me alone, or I will report you’.

■ Move.

■ Seek help from other passengers by asking

specific people for assistance .

■ Rather than making a general call for help.

■ Activate an emergency button or use an emergency phone, if available.

■ Report the incident to

the bus driver, train guard, police or to the transport company.

When leaving public transport, be alert to who gets off with you. Have a plan to get to your car or home when you get off public transport.

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(7) 22 What colour is an aircraft’s “black” box? (6) 23 Who rules a country if a monarch is absent or ill? (6) Down 1 Which famous Spanish-born painter collected and kept all his toenail clippings? (5,7) 2 What is the technical name for the shoulder blade? (7) 3 What spike is driven into a rock crevice to aid a mountain climber? (5) 4 What is the topmost planking of the side of a boat? (7)

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How many words of four letters or more can you make? Each letter must be used only once and all words must contain the centre letter. There is at least one nine-letter word.

No words starting with a capital are allowed, no plurals ending in s unless the word is also a verb.

TODAY: Good 14 Very Good 18 Excellent 22

Solution opposite

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ALPHAGRAMS: INEPT, JILTED, KEEPING, LAMENTED, MUTILATES.

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Across 6/7 Archie Bunker, 10 Leprosy, 11 Wheat, 12 Pelé, 13 Koala, 16 Pan-Am, 17 Cody, 20 Sahib, 21 Impasto, 22 Orange, 23 Regent.

Down 1 Pablo Picasso, 2 Scapula, 3 Piton, 4 Gunwale, 5 Skeet, 8 Rita Hayworth, 9 Pyromania, 14 Babbage, 15 Ross Sea, 18 Sheaf, 19 Ypres.

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