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CLUB NEWS 20 Ashburton Courier, March 31, 2022 www.ashburtoncourier.co.nz Ashburton Woodworkers Chair Dave Strongwelcomed 18 members to the March meeting. He mentioned someof the jobs to be completed that included paving round the dust collector outside,the barbeque table almost finished and it appears we have afew open days, EasterSaturday and Sunday. Show and Tell: Dave Strong: an olive bowl with an unusual grain. John Millichamp: apopular,apricot bowl, asap wood platter. Kevin Challis: acollection of turned boxes from roundthe world. Geoff Brown: four large decorative walnutcutting boards. Bruce Ferriman: An unnamed 1.60m spiral sculpture containing, 125 pieces 200 screws. Bill Healey: totaracandle holders,jarrah tilting wall clock. Chris Thompson:beautiful kauri table,alaminatedwood rim steering wheelfor avintagecar. Bill Healey explained how he uses epoxy to enhance his bowls. Starting with agroove at the top of item which gets painted black enamel as abackground, glues several pieces of paua on the bottom of groovetoprevent them shifting mixes atwo pot mix then carefully the mix into this groove. Air bubblescan be aproblem which can be solvedinusing the wife’s hair drier. Left to dry for severaldays. The bowl is then sanded with afinal 1200gritwet/dry sandpaper, asanding sealer, finished using acutting compound triple EEE then afinishing compound‘Glow’. Thanks to Bill for your demonstration. U3A March meeting: Kath Woodley spoke on “How Family Researchers Think”.She asks “Whatsparks the interest?” Widespread knownconnections give research paths. Old formalfamily photographs show family groupings, with placement of people indicating relationships. Eras and occasions can be intelligently guessed by dress fashions,armed forcesuniform details, hairstyles, family likenesses; all telling storiesofpast lives. Location and weather may give the season. Working from the known to the unknown provides answers sources are many: Indirect records such as Papers Past, censusrecords, schools, church records.Even negative findings such as non-appearance in subsequent official records can be useful. Try Birth, Death and Marriage certificates (often wrong in details); online resources such as Ancestry.com, Papers Past and Soundex; family diaries, immigration and land records. Spellings can be questioned. Family re-unions can track and unite families, but can also have mistakenly regrettable provenance of the purported ancestor. Researchers may not reach aconclusion, but there is real joy in finding stories, and people of the past. We need to know where we come from, to know where we are going.Our next speakeronApril 26th is Jenny Howarth “The Artists of WW1”. Ashburton Electronic Organ & Keyboard Club On awet and cool night, asmall but appreciative audience had the pleasure of attending club night,organised by the keyboard group. Karen Balderstone played some beautiful piano pieces while people arrived, and went from tune to tune, with beautiful rolls up the keyboard -sograceful! Irene thenaccompanied Karen for afew tunes, giving some lovely harmony -wish Ihad my dancing shoes on! Michael started offthe night with When I Take My Sugar to Tea, using atap dance swing style, highlighting Michael’s ability to change settingstocreate some great music! Then Michael played It Don’t Mean aThing, which had us journey to 1930s New York, followed by Amigos Para Siempre, which translates to Friends for Life. Rose was next up playing My Elusive Dreams /Magic Moments, which was agreat upbeat choice taking us away from the cares of the day. The next bracket was Ninety-Nine Ways /Butterfly with acountry swing, resulting in several people swayingback and forth. Rose, you alwayssmile and sing as you play; it is lovely to see the joy music can bring. The keyboard group played Nola, which produced abig band sound with the keyboards really complimenting each other. Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly was arousing, toe tapping tune followed by Why Did It Have to Be Me, apopular ABBA song that was fabulous to hear. Acreation by Ashburton Woodworkers Irene had her agile fingers whizzingover her piano accordion;she makes it lookso easy! Her first tune was The Whistling Negro by J.B Kok, which was comprised of different parts and sounded beautiful. Irene’s second tune, afast waltz called Alpine Slope, certainly had the sound of Europe about it, while Balkan Hills made me think of Scotland. Janet played An Apple Blossom Wedding, creating alight, bouncy spring-like tune. This was followed up with Don’t Break the Heart that Loves You /Breaking in aBrand-New Broken Heart, which sounded fantastic and had everyone humming, which just shows you can’t judge asong by its heartbreak title! Iris played ALittle on The Lonely Side, a graceful foxtrot, using the keyboard effects to create afabulous tune. Iris says she was 16 when she and every other teenage girl, fell in love with Pat Boone, and went on to play his song Why Baby Why on her bass ukulele, accompanying the recorded tune on her keyboard –soclever. The bass gave a fabulous depth to the tune! The keyboard group went on to play an exoticrhumba in Dark Moon, with beautiful harmonizing, which led into an upbeat version of Tweedle Dee. Michael came back with a county style Brown Eyed Girl followed by Wish You Were Here, where Michael had his keyboard create the sound of an organ; very effective. His final tune was the big-band sound of Mack the Knife. The keyboard group finished off the night with aCool, Cool, Cool Evening, You’re 16 and another ABBA hit, Hasta Manana, all of which had the audience singing along. Thanks to everyone for agreat night’s entertainment. Ashburton Ladies Friendship Club President Gillianopened the meeting by welcoming the members who were present and avisitor. Lower numbers than usual due to covid being rife in the district. The national anthem was sung. Apologies were received . Flowers are to be taken to two members who are in care. One member spoke of her sons fundraising bike hike the lengthofNew Zealand. Sympathywas expressedfor a member who had lost her husband. Our mini speaker was Johnny Wright who spoke of her life -being raised in Timaru, her working life first in abank then completing her nursing training followed by travelling to Britain and through parts of Europe 1963 -65. On returning home she married and lived in our back countrywhich presented quite afew challenges. The AGM followed -The Presidents roll being held on arotating basis with 5members participating. Those and oneother member being on committee. Other roles unchanged. Following furtherbusiness discussion the meeting closed . Next meeting at the Sinclair Centre at 9.45am on 27th April. Visitors and new members welcome. Ashburton Bowling Club Ashburton Bowling Club is very proud to report that one of our members, Wendy Suttie, has accepted an invitation to act as an official in umpiringatthe forthcoming Commonwealth Games in Birmingham later this year. Wendy is aLevel 4Umpire who was recently Head Controller in Christchurch for the NZ Nationals 2022. That, we are sure, contributedtoher selection for the aforementioned position and we proudly wish her Good Luck for her time in the UK. Well done, Wendy! Ashburton MSA PetanqueClub Congratulations to Neville Bensdorp on becoming the National Singles Petanque Champion in Dunedin recently, with Richard Browne the runner up. Avery close game was played with only one point separating the men at the end. In the National Doubles 47 teams competed with ages ranging from 12 to 80 plus. Neville, Richard, Karen Bensdorp, Jan Guilford, Mavis Thompson, Marion Harrison and their respective partners got various placings. Well done Ashburton. The Thursday before that, locally we held the Top of the Hill Trophy which was won by Johnny Wright, Runner Up Marion Harrison and third place Mick Little. On Sunday we celebratedour 10th Anniversary with agood turnout of past and present members and invited guests from the MSA and Bowling Club. Several games were held at the domain where petanque was first played and then we regrouped at the club rooms and played afew more games before enjoying asumptuous afternoon tea. Rosemary McLaughlin and Lester Herron spoke about their involvementinintroducing petanque to town, getting the MSA interested in us joining in with the bowling section,and developingthe pistes. Asilver tray was presented to each of them in recognition of their early work. Karen Bensdorpwas the winner on countbackofthe inaugural Rosemary McLaughlin Anniversary Trophy, Neville second, Nicky Foden third and Trevor Nish fourth. This coming Sunday morning we play for the Club President’sTriples Trophy, with a lesson on tactics and rulesinthe afternoon. Remembertojoin us on Tuesday/Thursdayat 1pm at 115 Racecourse Road to learn our sport, you won’t regret it. Grab afew breakfast essentials
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