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Adelaide Bulletin
OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF BETTER HEARING AUSTRALIA ADELAIDE INC
COMMITTEE:
PRESIDENT
c/SACOSS Marjorie Black House,
47 King William Road, UNLEY 5061
SEPTEMBER 2014
Derik Ward
Ph:/fax 08 8431 1397
Email:
[email protected]
VICE PRESDENT/
TUTOR
Shona Fennell
Ph: 08 8268 4189
Email:
[email protected]
TREASURER
Graham Day
MESSAGE FROM YOUR PRESIDENT
Hello BHA Adelaide members.
This has been a very busy few months since our last issue of the
Adelaide Bulletin and many exciting events are planned as we approach the end of 2014.
Our mid-year luncheon for members and partners at the Elephant and Castle Hotel
proved a great success and I thank Stan Gray for organizing the occasion. We contributed
to the conviviality by providing bottles of Better Hearing wine and also paying for desserts
and coffee. Our monthly Coffee Mornings with occasional speakers and a visit to the
Botanic Gardens have also been well attended and we plan to continue the program.
Most recently was our Clear Speech Awards held during Hearing Awareness Week
(HAW). Judges Shona Fennell, Barbara Munn and I declared a “tie” for the Top Clear
Speaker Newsreader and plaques were presented to both Jane Doyle (Channel 7) and
Jessica Harmsen (ABC).
Marjorie Wellby
Special
Print
Media
Awards
were
also
presented
to:
Callie
Ph: 08 8339 8144
Watson
(Sunday
Mail)
for
Email: marjorie.wellby1
her article Breaking the
@gmail.com
Sound Barrier and to John
Stokes
(Messenger
Stan Gray
Community News for his
Ph: 08 8277 2228
article “Listening with
Email:
hearing loss”. (John was
[email protected]
unable to attend because
Lyn Gill
he was getting married!)
Ph: 0414627232
The presentations were
Email:
held in the meeting room
[email protected].
Jane Doyle
Callie Watson Jessica Harmsen
at SACOSS with the
Barbara Munn
winners entertaining us with brief acceptance speeches. I thank our members who
contributed to a really outstanding morning tea that was enjoyed by members and guests.
Ph: 8276 4786
Email:barbaramunn@ It was a very enjoyable morning.
adam.com.au
TUTOR
Outreach Representative
Don Wood
Ph: 410399273
Email:
[email protected]
That evening a number of BHA Adelaide members attended a captioned screening of the
movie The Hundred Foot Journey at Hoyts Norwood, that was arranged by the HAW
Committee in SA. It was a great success and enjoyed by a large audience of some 350
Hearing Impaired and Deaf people.
Derik Ward
National AGM in Adelaide October 4
On Saturday October 4, BHA Adelaide will host the National Annual General Meeting of
Better Hearing Australia with the National Board and delegates/observers from branches
around Australia attending. It is not a conference, but important issues about Better
Hearing Australia will be raised and discussed. The AGM will be held in Marjorie Black
House meeting room at SACOSS.
Adelaide members are welcome to attend as Observers during the meeting and also urged
to join the Board and delegates for drinks and nibbles and a catered dinner ($30 per
person) commencing at 6pm.
PROGRAM
10 – 11am coffee and tea served at Marjorie Black House
11am Welcome by National President Julie Edmonds Followed by Branch issues/reports
12.30pm Lunch hosted by BHA Adelaide
1.30 – 3.30pm National AGM
3.30pm: Presentation of Awards & 2015 Conference presentation
4pm Close meeting/Coffee and Tea served
*opportunity for networkng or short break prior to dinner at 6pm
ADELAIDE AGM Saturday October 18, 2014
Our Annual General Meeting and election of officers will take place at the
home of our President Derik and Gill Ward, 23 Grandview Grove, Toorak
Gardens, commencing at 11am.
A free luncheon will be served and members who attend must renew their
subscriptions for 2014/15 to be able to vote.
The Agenda, Nomination forms and Renewal Membership forms will be
emailed or posted to members within the next week with this bulletin.
For catering purposes, please contact Derik or Shona if you intend to be
present. Contact details are on page one of this bulletin. Thank you.
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BOTANIC GARDENS WALK
DERIK LEAD THE WALK AND BOB WILLSHIRE TOOK THE PHOTOS
Communication Workshop with
Yr 6 Medical students.
This is our third year of presentation and we have been
invited to attend again next year. Ten H. I. volunteers
visit the Adelaide Uni and we have six one hour sessions
with the students to explain the difficulties hearing
impaired people encounter when having appointments
with doctors and specialists. We try to give them some
strategies for effective communication. We find the
program very worthwhile and the students are delightful.
Thank you to all who volunteer.
Diary Dates:
September 24th—Coffee Morning—to be advised
October 4th—National AGM hosted by BHAA.
October 18th—Adelaide BHA AGM
Note: AGM details and BHAA renewal membership
forms for 2014/2015 will be emailed /posted
with the bulletin.
Clear Speech Awards Presentation 2014
Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all who
attended and made the morning such a pleasant event.
Thank you to member and photographer Chris Gill!
And thank you to our members who provided the food and
camellias.