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Centre Talk
14 September 2025
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Friday 19 September - General Meeting
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Sunday 21 September - Open Day
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Friday 26 September - Last Day Term 3
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Welcome...
This edition we have information from Bridget about Open Day, the sale prices for Term Four courses and what to do in power outages. Class News reflects variety: World War 1, and the Handy Persons, both starring John, one of the KCLC coordinators. In addition Book Club 1 features and lets us into their secret- it is a cover for Epicureans meetings.
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The Lost Property section is a must read for all of us that appreciate humour in writing.
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We are also introducing a new feature: "Getting to Know You". The first interview is with Joyce Sala Tena (Bennett), former medal-winning Olympic & Commonwealth runner.
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I have been musing on the cycle of life as winter turns to spring in the hills. The transitioning seasons are one manifestation of this cycle, births and deaths are another. These recurring patterns and transitions reflect that life is growth, renewal, and change. Humans experience and live through ups and downs, accepting these as the natural order of things, while hoping that age brings greater wisdom and understanding as part of our personal journeys. Sometimes, the wisdom of greater age can be in doubt 🙄.
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Open Day Information...
Members can sell their own wares; plants, jams, fruit, handicraft or cooking; in fact, anything that you have made yourself.
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Please get a form from the office beforehand and be issued with a number, which you will need to put on every item you put up for sale, along with the price you would like to sell it for.
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When an item sells, the description, sold amount and number are written in a book. Over the following week, our Treasurer will work though the sales and organise payment to you. You do not need to be present as there is a team of willing helpers to keep an eye on your items for sale.
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The Centre will take 10% which will help to cover costs.
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Any donations for our Raffle will be greatly appreciated.
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For many years we have run a White Elephant stall (last year we even had a couple of white elephants). If you would like to donate items for this stall, please bring them to the Centre this week. These items need to be in good condition and not broken.
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This is very popular and like the White Elephant stall, we have run it successfully for years. If you would like to donate books, please bring them in this week. We have a lovely team that will sort into genre; cooking, children’s, fiction and non-fiction.
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Please make sure books are in good condition.
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All unsold items in the White Elephant, Book Stall and Café are donated to the Forrestfield Op Shop where they are sold or given away to those in need.
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If you have any queries, please feel free to phone me on 0407 367 387.
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Open Day Work Group Leader
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Term Four Courses on Sale!
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From the 15th September we will only be accepting enrolments for a term four course commencement.
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Continuing courses that have vacancies will be offered at a sale price (see below). Members can enrol in these at reception from the 15th.
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Courses which don’t start until term four are still available for online enrolment until the end of this term. These can also be enrolled in via Reception.
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We encourage everyone to enrol before the end of term three for a smooth beginning to classes in the new term.
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Housekeeping...
Power Outages Planned and Unplanned
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In the event of an UNPLANNED outage (happens during class time) most classes should be able to continue as normal- but you will not be to make tea or coffee.
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Toilets will be available.
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Anything electrical in use should be unplugged, frypans/urns/kettles etc. but not fridges or TV). The auto doors not working, so they will revert to manual operation, and we may be asked to leave the premises anyway.
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FOR A PLANNED outage we can notify all classes prior that the centre will be closed if we receive enough notice.
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The doors will be chained.
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Please click on Joyce to read the article about Joyce Bennett, former Olympic and Commonwealth Games medal-winning athlete.
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Class News...
Handypersons Class
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21st Century handyman meets his 1.9 million year old cousin
The mascot of our Friday Handyperson class is an ancient human named Homo habilis, from Latin "handy man”.
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Homo habilis is believed to be one of the first ancient humans to make and use tools and lived in (today’s) eastern Africa around 1.9 million years ago.
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Our class member, Shelley, has a husband deeply interested in paleontology. Recently she brought in his copy of a H. habilis skull to meet Tutor John Paskulich!
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It has been, unkindly, suggested that not much has changed in nearly 2 million years! They were shorter with a smaller cranial capacity aka brain size (Editor).
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World War 1
This term in Tom Austin's class we are looking at the First World War. Today we were pleased to welcome John Paskulich who introduced us to some of his collection of military helmets.
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Jon is one of the co-ordinators at KCLC and has spent time in the military.
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The helmet we found most interesting was the Picklehaube which is a spiked Prussian helmet. It can be made of leather or metal and was used in the 19th and 20th centuries. It was discontinued in 1916 as it did not measure up to the conditions off trench warfare.
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Thank you John for a very interesting presentation.
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..or the Epicurean Club as my husband calls it, meets every three weeks over a delicious lunch as we’ve done for many years, ostensibly to discuss the latest book we’ve been given. Most of us read dutifully and usually, if not always, happily. We celebrate the rare times when we all agree, particularly when we’ve all enjoyed the book, but occasionally some of us abandon it if it’s “too boring, “too long”, “too horrible” etc.
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None- the-less, Jenny, our dedicated and knowledgeable leader keeps us on track to discuss the book’s merits or defects, which sets off a variety of opinions often poles apart, (well you can’t please everybody all the time, as the saying goes), as well as a lot of side-track chatter about pretty much anything. There is so much warmth and camaraderie amongst this lovely group, for me it is a joy and a privilege to be a member.
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Class News Semester Two
✍ Please feel free to let us know anything interesting that you are up to in your Semester Two classes, even though we don't have any official class news reporters. Submissions can be emailed to centre_talk@kclc.org.au or written notes handed in to KCLC office.
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This can be a class activity, or description, of what happens in the class (or tell us about your wonderful Tutor!). Make it succinct, around 150 words, give or take, and photos. These will be shared in Centre Talk when space permits.
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Lost Property...
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The Lost Property Office was the only place in the Centre where a pink sequinned stiletto could sit next to a left-handed screwdriver and no one batted an eyelid.
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'Claimants today?' asked Mary, the long-suffering office manager, as she clicked the end of her pen with the resignation of a woman who’d catalogued 47 umbrellas in three weeks.
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The door creaked open. In shuffled Mrs Dalloway, demanding a casserole dish. ‘Clear glass, scalloped edge, last seen at the Centre Lunch.’ Mary produced one from the cupboard, and Mrs Dalloway hugged it like a long-lost friend, murmuring, ‘Harold will finally get his shepherd’s pie.’
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Next came a red-faced walker in shorts. ‘Lost my phone—black, cracked screen, motivational sticker on the back that says, “Walk Faster.” As Mary handed it over, the phone vibrated angrily with 36 missed calls from ‘Mum’.
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Someone from Writing Creatively sidled in. ‘Mary, I think I lost my homework.’
Mary raised an eyebrow. ‘Nice try. This isn’t Narnia.’ The writer left, crestfallen.
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The star of the day, however, was Jim from Sing-Along, who arrived clutching a walking stick. ‘Misplaced my false teeth,’ he confessed. Mary, unflappable as always, produced a small velvet-lined box from the top shelf labelled Miscellaneous Smiles. The man popped them in, grinned broadly, and announced, ‘Marvellous! Tea tastes dreadful without them.’
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By closing time, the shelves looked a little lighter: two umbrellas had reunited with their drenched owners, a teddy bear had been reclaimed by a tearful toddler, and someone had finally admitted to losing the giant inflatable flamingo left after the last Open Day.
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Mary switched off the lights, satisfied that for all the lost hats, gloves, casserole dishes, and dignity that passed through the doors, most found their way home again.
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In Lost Property—waiting to find its way home—at the moment:
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Two pairs of spectacles (take note White Room users, as one pair was found there)
A Tiffany&Co spectacle case
A zip-up sweatshirt, with a hood
Two water bottles- one complete with water
An insulated drink mug
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If you are unusually cold, thirsty or can’t see to find anything, please pop along to the office and ask to see the Lost Property. Maybe we can help.
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