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You can enrol in up to nine classes in our January Summer School as part of your 2022 membership.
The 65 talks, walks, sports, workshops and excursions run from Tuesday 11 January to 21 January with almost all classes free of charge except for some materials costs for craft classes and tickets for the excursions.
Vice President Valerie Donlon received a 2021 Council of The Ageing (COTA) Award for her contribution as a volunteer to the community for over a decade. Valerie volunteered at Eastern Volunteers on their fundraising committee and as a driver, with AMES as an English tutor, at WIRE as a telephone support worker and for the past 10 years ago in a number of roles at U3A Nunawading including four as President.
June MacDonald, Committee of Management member and Class Leader of Africa – the emerging continent, reviews the recent presentation given by Dr Apollo on “Some of the challenges towards positive ageing of Africans – a Case Study of Emerging Communities in Australia.” After having to cancel the four previously planned Four O’clock Forums this was our first Forum for the year. You can see the expanded list of speakers scheduled for 2022 at the end of June’s article
Are you planning to buy your Christmas presents online this year?
While online shopping provides you the opportunity to stock up on gifts from the comfort of your own home, scammers see this as an opportunity to take advantage of unsuspecting victims. Even if you don’t shop online, you may find yourself the target of these scams.
A big ‘thank you’ to everyone who has kept the wheels turning at U3A Nunawading during the latest lockdowns! Many Class Leaders and other support people have given their time generously moving outside of their comfort zone to keep in touch with their class mostly by Zoom, but also via email. It’s a credit to everyone how well we have all learnt to master aspects of technology that were completely unknown to us just two years ago.
How exciting. We are so pleased to advise that a limited number of classes can return to face-to-face learning for the last three weeks of term 4.
If you have not been contacted about returning to class, then it means your class could not be held under the current restrictions. Unfortunately, we are unable to use many of our rooms, as class numbers would not fit within the 4-sq mt rule.
We are delighted to advise that now that we are out of lockdown our November Four O’clock Forum will go ahead at the Hub on 24 November (code 21AFOR5)
“Some Challenges Towards Positive Ageing of the Africans – a Case Study of Emerging Communities in Australia” – Dr Apollo Nsubuga-Kyobe, university lecturer & academic.
If you are still interested in one or more of our Christmas Workshops it’s not too late to enrol. Simply email CourseAdmin@U3ANunawading.org.au with your name, Member Number and phone contact, and say which workshop you would like to join.
Now that we need to show we are double-vaccinated, having your vaccination certificate on your smartphone allows you to show proof of vaccination easily.
In this article we’ll show you step-by-step how to do it.
Whitehorse Council has asked us to let members know that there is a short-term opportunity for a School Crossing Supervisor or a more ongoing role if individuals are interested.
The role of Supervisors is to assist in providing a safe effective means for school-aged children and other pedestrians to cross the road at established school crossings and traffic lights within the Whitehorse municipality.