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Introducing Mark Balla, Guest Speaker at our April Four O’clock Forum.
This TED Talker has led an extraordinary life but on a trip to India Mark made an unexpected discovery that was to turn his understanding of our world upside down. He was so shaken by what he learned that he felt unable to simply walk away.
The Short Walk program is like a passport to discovery taking in the best of Melbourne and including sights many people haven’t seen before. Fourteen U3A members enjoyed a sunny day and good company on a 7km walk from Port Melbourne to Middle Park in February – the first of eleven eye-catching j
Come along on Tuesday 5 or Friday 8 April and meet your new Social Committee and enjoy a cuppa, a hot cross bun and an Easter egg to celebrate the end of our first full term at the Hub.
“I keep on getting spam on my phone and email. How do I stop it?”
This is a question we have discussed quite a bit recently in the Computer Question and Answer sessions. Most of these spam messages are scams and they are becoming more common, particularly on phones.
The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) is warning that the current conflict in the Ukraine also involves cyber attacks that may affect us too, so we should be even more alert.
The Hearing Australia bus will return on Monday 2 May to do free hearing checks following the success of the booked-out visit in March. Get in quick to make your booking for this second session at the U3A reception desk.
If you want to improve your health and fitness you might like to consider an Aqualink Fab Living Membership. It’s specifically designed for people over 60 years of age and gives you access to great facilities and a supportive team. During March, the standard joining fee has been waived plus you could win a luxury escape.
Monash University is seeking healthy volunteers between 40 and 70 years of age to participate in research using brain imaging to measure the cellular mechanisms that drive neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Lewy Body Dementia. Conducted at Monash Biomedical Imaging in Clayton, the tests take two and a half hours.
It was wonderful to see so many happy faces returning to classes earlier this month. The last couple of weeks have been very busy preparing for our 2022 U3A year with Reception Desk Volunteers and Class Leaders attending their annual Information Sessions. Along with the Committee of Management, these are the key people who keep the wheels turning at U3A Nunawading.
We hope you are happily settling in to your 2022 classes. In the first week of term we ran over 200 classes with more than 1750 members coming through the Hub.
Thank you for your patience as the Course Admin Team dealt with the various changes to classes and the other incidentals that were thrown at us as we returned.
A group of around 140 of our new and returning Class Leaders were recently briefed by Course Administrator Elsie Mutton OAM on what they needed to know in preparation for the beginning of Term 1. The session covered administration as well as health and safety issues and our current COVID-19 protocols.