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Centre Talk
9 November 2025
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Friday 21 November - Centre Liaison Group Meeting
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Monday 24 November - 2026 Programme Available
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Friday 5 December - Last Day Term 4
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Monday 16 February 2026 - First Day Term 1
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Welcome...
In this edition we meet Deb Stone, another member of your KCLC executive, dates for next years courses and enrolments, and information about gift certificates. There is a call for new tutors/courses in 2026, and I can highly recommend the experience; you get back far more than you give. Once again the 'Sharing a Hills Christmas' community initiative asks for your help in this venture while Su laments the items still unclaimed from Lost Property.
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This edition I would like to suggest a class for 2026 about Gardening for Gardeners; beginners to experienced. This could be a group that meets to exchange knowledge, cuttings, seeds, ideas for the soil, climate and ecological niches found in the hills. I love collecting & trying to germinate seeds and cuttings but am still learning how best to do this for success. Moreover, it would be great to know the best times to plant fruit 🍓vegetables 🥦 and flowers 💐.
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General Meeting...
The draft minutes from the General Meeting held on Friday 19th September can now be downloaded by clicking here.
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Meet your Executive...
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My husband and I made the tree change from the City to Gooseberry Hill over 11 years ago and love living in the Perth Hills. We love the feeling of community it offers and also love being a part of the Kalamunda Community Learning Centre where I have now been a member for 5 years.
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I am a Certified Practicing Accounting (CPA) with over 35 years experience in accounting, taxation and financial management. In this time, I have worked for two of our largest banks in their Financial Services areas and WA's largest Superannuation Fund where I headed up both Tax and Accounting areas. I also worked at Deloitte as Superannuation and Accounting consultant. In addition, to my volunteer role at KCLC, I also audit a few small not for profit organisations.
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I am a keen cyclist and hiker and love to get outdoors as much as I can. As well as my role as Treasurer I was also the leader for the Kalamunda Hikers last semester and hope to do it again next year.
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Being born in Fremantle I am also a passionate Dockers fan.
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From the Registrar...
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Enrolments Closed
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All course enrolments are now closed for Semester Two so the enrolment team can focus on preparing for Semester One 2026. Even though enrolments are closed there is an exciting new feature which will remain open, check out the details below!
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Semester One courses will be available for viewing from the 24th November and enrolments will open Tuesday 3rd February, 2026.
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Now for Something New: Gift Certificates
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Have you ever been stuck for an answer when asked what you would like for Christmas? If so, then we have the perfect solution: 'KCLC Gift Certificates'. In a choice of $20, $40 or $80, they are also perfect to gift to a friend for Christmas, Birthday or just to say, 'Thank you'. Now available to purchase from Reception or online.
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When purchased online members and guests can choose to have the code emailed to themselves or directly to the person they wish to send the gift to.
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Tutors wanted for 2026...
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Sharing a Hills Christmas...
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The local community initiative ‘Sharing a Hills Christmas’ is embarking on its 31st year and they would like to invite KCLC members to be involved once again. Each year over 250 food parcels, 200 parcels for nursing home residents and over 1000 gifts are donated, sorted, wrapped and delivered to families and individuals in the Kalamunda region who are struggling. Your assistance over the years has been a true blessing.
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They welcome donations of gifts and food items which can be placed in the box at the reception desk during the last week of the semester, 1st to 5th December.
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You might also like to assist during their packing week (15 – 19 December) as the community comes together to make a difference. A leaflet, outlining tasks and times, will be available at the KCLC desk or can be downloaded by clicking here.
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Class News...
✍ 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. There are still several editions of CT left for Term 4. 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, a description of what happens in class or you can tell us about your wonderful Tutor! Make it succinct, around 150 words and please include photos, which should be sent as separate images with the word document. These class news items will be included in an edition of Centre Talk when space permits.
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Display Cabinet...
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Due to the editor 'forgetting' 🙄 to take photos 📷 of the current cabinet display this will be in next edition.
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Mary pressed her ear against the storage room door at 2:37 PM—thirteen minutes before the depot closed for Christmas. Inside, the abandoned items were having their final support group meeting.
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'I just don’t understand,’ sobbed the single earring. 'We were inseparable.
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'At least you had someone,' snapped the lens cap, its opener snapping back and forth. 'I was abandoned without a backward glance.’
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The tape-measure coiled defensively in the corner, its end swaying with anxiety. 'She bought a new one. Just… moved on. Like our years together meant nothing.'
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Mary checked her watch. Eleven minutes. This was it—the pointy end—and still no one had claimed them. She’d imagined lost property would be temporary, a brief purgatory before joyful reunions. Instead, she’d become nurse to orphaned objects, listening to their increasingly desperate cries.
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'I think,' whispered a reading glasses case with profound sadness, 'I think he can see fine without me. I think he was just being polite.'
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A water bottle began its afternoon crying session, while the single tiny key rocked silently, having lost the will to even complain.
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'This is where we come to die,' announced the rumpled jacket, its hood limp with resignation. 'Lost forever—to end up in the place all lost or discarded things go.'
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Mary locked the door at 3:00 PM sharp. Behind her, the whimpering faded into silence.
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Ladies and gents. We will soon disperse for Christmas. If the lost property is not claimed by the last week of term, it will be collected and taken to the place all lost property goes to die. If you have not recovered your lost, item by then, I’m afraid it will be lost forever. If you have lost something, think you have lost something or even know someone who may have lost something, please come along to the office and check the box.
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