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Group Meeting
Friday Nov. 12th 8.00pm
The year has flown and here we are with our Annual General Meeting coming up! During the meeting we will reflect on where we've been in 2004, as well as planning for 2005. Please consider which role/s in the Group you would like to take on in 2005. We will be appointing these roles on the night, but will require you to come along prepared to put up your hand for a role you will play. Following are the roles we will need to allocate on the night:
President, Vice President, Treasurer, Publicity Office, Minutes Secretary, Fair Trade Tea/Coffee Coordinator
Refreshments
At our November meeting, Sophie Miller will be joining us from ETWA (East Timor Women Australia), a volunteer group based in Melbourne. ETWA is committed to supporting women's socio-economic development in an independent East Timor. Sophie will be telling us about the Veteran Women's Co-operative in Dili, which provides veteran women, widows and their families with looms, yarn, sewing machines and market access for their products. Current Co-operative efforts focus around helping the group develop quality control, business, administration and marketing skills. Sophie will bring along some samples of the women's work for sale. The colourful hand-woven bookmarks that the women make are beautiful and will make great Christmas gifts, as they are light and can fit in an envelope.
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Bookfair 2004
Our Bookfair in November was a huge success. The $7000 we raised will support the Sudan emergency work and the Mining Ombudsman work. Well done to Beth who very capably organised everything (and everyone) without a hitch. The following is from Beth:
My most grateful thanks to all those who helped make our Bookfair such a HUGE success for 2004, from those (who we can't really thank) who gave the books, to the collectors, sorters, movers, buyers and clean-er-uppers.
But special thanks goes to that Magnificent Pair of Husbands - yet again! - Brian Gill and Ron Lewin for fetching and carrying both tables and books. We really can only have book fairs when these two are available. I'm not sure if Rod Millard walked, cycled or trained it to work on the week preceding the Bookfair, but his old Kombi "Lew" with Don Brown's sign on it, parked most auspiciously on Main Road for that week, was, I'm sure, our greatest "coup" in advertising. Thanks to Don too for all the other great signage. And besides the Magnificent Husbands, were the Magnificent wives - Jan and Heather, for unstinting and consistent support in the set up and on the day itself. So - congratulations to us all. Anyone want the job for 2006?? I'm happy to be honorary consultant. Beth P.
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