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Mr Graves’ House 1926

The garage converted to a house by Noel Schiller and now occupied by the Goldfinch’s is just visible to the right

Jim and Lorraine Griffiths’ House 2011 Known as Collins’ Corner Owned by Bert Webb and family for many years and then by Kev Collins and family and now by Jim and Lorraine

PORT PARHAM SPORTS and SOCIAL CLUB INC NEWSLETTER APRIL 2011

BOX 184, DUBLIN, 5501 PH: (08) 8529 2211

FAX: (08) 8529 2455

Email: [email protected]


Please support our sponsors as they help in the costs of developing and running the club.

See their details advertised throughout the newsletter

PORT PARHAM SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB INC.

COMMITTEE 2010 2011

President Terry FORST (Resigned 21 March 2011) Vice President vacant Club Manager: David GRAY (Resigned 21 February 2011) Secretary Barbara REID Assistant Sec Pat NEWELL Treasurer Alvin JENKIN Assistant Treas Susan GRAY Public Officer Johanna PLANTE Committee Allen PARKYN, Sylvia JENKIN, Robert PRIEST,

Leslee FORST, Ray LEE


COMING EVENTS:

EASTER AT PORT PARHAM SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB Easter Thursday 21st April: Open 5pm-11pm, meals from 6pm -8pm

Good Friday 22nd April: CLOSED

Easter Saturday 23rd April: Open 5pm till late,

Dinner Dance from 6pm featuring DJ “DAMON”

Normal Meals

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL!

Help in the kitchen and dining room would be appreciated, contact Barb on 85292232

Easter Sunday 24th April:

11am: Easter Bunny comes to town, Children’s activities at the club,

12 Noon: lunch Steak or Sausage and Onion sandwiches,

5.30pm: Fish and Chips

Bar open from Noon

Easter Monday 25th April: ANZAC Day:

ANZAC DAY

MONDAY 25 th APRIL

Dawn Service 6.10am

Breakfast at the Club

FOOTY TIPPING Last Day to Register: April 16th

First Function: Saturday April 16th 7pm

Second Function: Saturday July 16th 2pm

Third Function: Grand Final Day Oct 1st 1pm

See Page XXX for more info

JUNE LONG WEEKEND Saturday June 11th, Normal meals, Music provided, come and socialise and enjoy yourself

Advance Notice: Annual Dinner and AGM Annual Members Dinner Saturday 20th August 2011, Annual General Meeting: Sunday 21st August 11am


Welcome to our new Gold Sponsor:

VIRGINIA Shop 7

Virginia Shopping Centre

Ph 08 8380 8491

CLUB NEWS COMMITTEE RESIGNATIONS Our Club Manager, David Gray, resigned on 21st February, and the Club President, Terry Forst resigned on 21st March. Both resignations were for personal reasons, not associated with club activities, but as you would expect, the additional workload of these positions would contribute to other issues.

No replacements have been nominated at this stage owing to a lack of a quorum at the committee meeting of 21st March, and another committee meeting has been called for Monday 4th April.

If you feel that you could contribute in either of these positions or serve in any other role on the committee in managing club activities, please let Barbara, Alvin, or Rob know by 4th April.

Australia Day

A very successful fundraising activity was held on Australia Day and other activities surrounding this day. A total of $5817.77 was raised for flood relief, of which $2,000 was sent to the Clare and Gilbert Valley Council for relief of those impacted by the Stockport flood, and $3817.77 was sent to the Queensland Premier’s Flood Relief Fund

Member News

A few of our members and associates are doing it tough at the moment:

Reg and Pat Mayfield have moved into aged care. Their association with our Anzac day and Rememberance Day activities will be sorely missed

Milton Gil is in hospital as is his mate and former owner of a property in East Terrace, Brien Parker.

Life Member Jim Sherriff has had a couple of operations on his eyes.

Berny and Lin Harrison suffered a significant fire in their home at Morphett Vale and will be living elsewhere until repairs can be effected.

On the positive side, the Webb extended family recently celebrated numerous birthdays by getting together at the club.

Members Draw

Congratulations to David Hornby, and Peter “Spider” Wright who have won the Members draw in the last two months.


HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Sylvia Jenkin celebrated her 60th Birthday in March, and the “Pinery Mob” joined us also in March to celebrate Margaret Johnson’s 80th Birthday. The extended Webb family celebrated several birthdays when 38 of them met at the club in early March (Nancy’s nieces and nephews)

The committee has decided to offer drink vouchers to those having birthdays who are present at the club when their birthday is announced.

The following are celebrating birthdays in the next 2 months:

APRIL

Alvin Jenkin, Aileen Oliver, Richard Crettenden, Margaret Underwood, Lorraine Volbrecht, Ray Lee, Tony Jones, Rebecca Coles

MAY

Coralie Pratt, Ken Dalton, Peter Heylen, Stuart McNicol

Club Visitors It has been great to welcome a lot of visitors recently through the campground. These people come from all over Australia and some from other countries, and they spread the word. Many are surprised at the attractive interior of our “tin shed”. It creates a challenge to us to come up with making the exterior more inviting. In the meantime we propose to put photos of the interior at the campground and on the outside notice board. A sample of these photos appear on the back page of this issue. What do you think?

We are expecting a visit from the Maitland Auto Preservation Society and the Chrysler Restorers Club on July 3rd. Did you know that John Gilbert is a member of the Chrysler Restorers Club?

Web Page Our new web page is on its way. It is a project for Farina Fikri who is a student in Sustainable Online Community Engagement , School of Communication, International Studies and Languages, University of SA. In return for providing a training platform, we get the website and hosting free of charge. In getting the website established we will give the Port Parham and Webb Beach, the Club, and the campground exposure on the world wide web. If you have any ideas for incorporating in the web page, please let Alvin know.


The Newsletter Alvin is the newsletter editor and would appreciate any input you can give, any articles you would like, news from within the community or from club members, your favourite recipes,etc. Please phone me on 8529 2504 or email me at [email protected] or post your contribution to PO Box 184 Dublin SA 5501. It is preferred that you email me direct, as the club email is dial up and large files (including photos) are often difficult to get through. The position of Newsletter Editor is available to anyone who may like to take it on, training provided!

CLOSING DATE NEXT EDITION: May 18 2011

WANTED

VOLUNTEERS TO GO ON THE KITCHEN ROSTER

Duties include assisting the cooks as required, washing up, clearing and cleaning tables or operating the till. If you can assist once a week or once a month, or once a quarter, it all helps, and reduces the load on the few. Even 10 minutes every now and then would be good: Training provided.

Contact Barbara 8529 2232

CLUB OPENING TIMES

BAR:

Wed, Fri, Sat: 5pm-11pm Sun: 5pm-8pm

KITCHEN Wed, Sun: 6pm-7.30pm Fri, Sat: 6pm-8pm

Please note change in kitchen closing times on Wednesday and Sunday, and be considerate to kitchen volunteers by placing your orders early

MALLALA AND DISTRICTS WINTER BOWLS COMPETITION

This is held Wednesdays from 6th April

Names in before 12 noon on the day,Play starts at 12.30 pm Contact Shirley Sanders on 85272232 NOW if you would like to participate

Alternative contacts: Mallala Bowls Club 85272168 or Alan 85272192

MARINE PARKS MEETING The next meeting of the Upper Gulf St Vincent Marine Parks Local Advisory Group will be held at the Port Parham Sports and Social Club on Thursday 5th of May between 3 pm and 7 pm. Members of the public are welcome to attend.


TWO WELLS MEAT STORE

Providers of all meat products used by the Port Parham Sports and Social Club

See Blue and his staff for quality meat products

Old Port Wakefield Road, Two Wells

Ph 8520 2211 Free delivery of orders to Port Parham

2011 PORT PARHAM FOOTY TIPS

$50 PER PERSON

3 FUNCTIONS DURING SEASON

1st FUNCTION RND 4 THE SHOWDOWN APRIL 16TH, 7PM , PIES, PASTY’S, SOUP & NIBBLES 2nd FUNCTION RND 17 CARLTON V COLLING WOOD, JULY 16TH 2PM SEAFOOD & CHICKEN 3rd FUNCTION GRAND FINAL DAY OCTOBER 1st 1 PM BBQ LUNCH & NIBBLES

FREE BEER, WINE & SOFT DRINK PLUS ½ PRICE SPIRITS DURING GAMES FOR TIPSTERS

2 MYSTERY ROUNDS 8 & 16

IF NO TIPS LODGED BY COMMENCEMENT OF 1ST GAME EACH ROUND AWAY TEAMS WILL BE SELECTED FOR THOSE TIPSTERS

1st-6th PLACE FOR SEASON PRIZE MONEY 1st-3rd HIGHEST POINTS AFTER 12 ROUNDS PRIZES 1st-3rd HIGHEST POINTS FROM RD 13 TO RD 24

DON’T MISS OUT!

PUT YOUR NAME DOWN OR CONTACT PRIESTY 0414326477 OR SEE DONNA BEHIND THE BAR AND GET YOUR $50 IN EARLY

ALL TIPSTERS TO BE FULLY PAID UP BY ROUND 4 (April 16th)

FOOTY TIPS MONSTER RAFFLE 2011 40 PRIZES AS OF 27TH FEB

NUMBER OF PRIZES UPDATED EACH WEEK DURING SEASON

$5 PER CARD, NO LIMIT ON CARDS

EVERY CARD STAYS IN THE DRAW

PRIZES DRAWN ON GRAND FINAL DAY

PART PROCEEDS TO FOOTY TIPS

PART PROCEEDS TO KIDS WITH CANCER

CARDS AVAILABLE BEHIND THE BAR OR SEE ROB PRIEST


Saving our Campground The editor was hoping to have an update report on the status of the campground study, but there had been no response before publishing deadline Strawberry Fete By all accounts the Strawberry Fete run jointly by the Dublin History Group and the Club was a success. Unfortunately we have no report or photos on this event. Club income for the weekend was not remarkable and it may be that the the takings from the Strawberry Fete made up for poor nights on Friday and Saturday

The Community Bus sponsored by the

MALLALA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BOARD COMMITTEE Return Fare $5 - Children free

2011

FRIDAY 15th APRIL 20th MAY 17th JUNE 15th JULY 19th AUGUST 16th SEPTEMBER 21st OCTOBER 18th NOVEMBER 16th DECEMBER

Departure times;

Mallala Post Office 9.OOam Port Parham Social Club 9.l5am , Dublin Hotel 9.2Oam

Return bus departs Elizabeth Shopping Centre 3.OOpm

FOR ALL BOOKINGS PHONE Jasmin on 0407 950926 or 8520 2233


We had a fantastic night Sat 27th November to everyone who came along and gave us girls their support, we say “ Thankyou “ It was a very successful demonstration of what the girls have learned all year, it was great to see so many people there, clapping & cheering us along I had a few comments on how nice our costumes were, that’s always nice to hear, as we spent a lot of hours making them very much a team effort, thanks again Lyn for the extra time to draft and make the patterns, and do some sewing ( very talented is our Lyn ) thanks to Raelene who has become my right arm – taking care of accounts and is very good at organizing things for our group ,and to Valerie and Raylene for putting in extra time with sewing. There were a few other helping hands with sewing – Sue, Ellen, & Doris thanks very much for your help for you saved us some hours. There is no show without Music & Lights a big thank you to my Husband Terry who set up and operated all the equipment, and did a really good job. To our friends LIN & Bern cheers for the happy snaps and the Video memories. I look forward to starting a new year in Feb. Free classes held at Port Parham Club, for Ladies or any brave men! I wish to thank the Port Parham Sports & Social Club for there support & sponsorship this year it has help as our group immensely See you there Leslee Forst / Magic Moments Teacher Enquiries 85292529

(The editor apologises to Leslee and the Magic Moments team for not including this in the February Newsletter due to an oversight)

The Senior Citizens of Dublin and Districts have a Bingo Session at the Club every Tuesday from 10am

to 12 noon. All Welcome

GENERAL & BULK TRANSPORT

PREMIX CONCRETE GYPSUM SPREADING

RURAL MERCHANDISE

Whitwarta Road, BALAKLAVA Ph 8862 1866, Fax 8862 1631

Eddie McArdle: email: [email protected]


Port Parham, South Australia By rayjanet 9 April 2009 (found on the internet by Coralie Pratt)

Although we drove through Adelaide as they were preparing for the V8 race, we weren’t particularly discombobulated by that. After voting and all those boring things (washing, etc) the time spent in Port Parham was wonderful. I was able to go fishing, including two boat trips out into Spencer Gulf, visit the Port Parham Sports and Recreation Club, have a fascinating trip to Virginia and spend some time idling away.

I had an idyllic 10 days in Port Parham with the HF Radio Club, many thanks to Louie who organised the get-together. We stayed in the ‘caravan park’, a lovely free spot on the waterfront, complete with fresh town water, flushing toilets, and a couple of electric barbecues. Space was a bit tight with about 40 of us plus some rigs on their way to Whyalla for the CMCA rally and a few others just trying to find somewhere quiet to stay for a few days (fat chance!). Partly because Janet had to go to Townsville for a week for some medical tests, I had a quiet week OF BLISS.

Perhaps a few words about the HF Radio Club are appropriate… a bunch of people with the common interest of using high frequency radio to communicate over the vast distances of this great land. We have hundreds of members, increasing every day, spread right across the country. We also have a number of bases across Australia, conduct (by volunteers) schedules twice a day on both the East and West Coasts and can access emergency services like the Royal Flying Doctor Service. We also get together periodically and Janet and I will shortly be on our way to Casino in NSW for the HF Radio Club Expo.

Fishing in this part of the world is quite different. For a start, they use rakes to catch crabs and because the Gulf is very shallow, the tide recedes one to two kilometres at low tide and it is not unusual to launch hundreds of metres from the shore. The locals use specially built jinkers to tow their boat trailer out to the water and, after launching, leave it there until they return from fishing to recover it. Apparently, you do need to keep an eye on the tide charts, as the jinker is usually only able to drive in about one metre of water before it becomes drowned

We caught some fish, whiting were just starting to bite and snapper and snook were also about, squid (now officially called southern calamari), Razor Fish, a large bivalve with a scallop like muscle (delicious straight from the shell – and you then use the shell for burley) and lots of crabs – blue swimmers and sandies.

Len was one of the people we went fishing with, a real nature’s gentleman. When I mentioned that I needed to service my truck, he recommended his niece’s husband’s workshop in Virginia who did an excellent job of the servicing and provided a wonderful service to boot. While they were doing the service, Len caught up with me and took me on a tour of the area. Well, I didn’t think a small town like that could hold so much fascination – we visited a hydroponic lettuce ‘farm’ producing thousands of lettuce per week, a major olive processing plant (and the olives are delicious), and a small local winery (unfortunately no one was home when we visited, so no report on the quality of the wine). To top it off,


Len was a sheetmetal craftsman in his working days and offered to make some brackets for me to mount my new solar panels on – bits of ‘scrap’ aluminium magically turned into angle brackets in his comprehensive workshop. They will probably be finished and fitted next week in Casino.

No mention of Port Parham would be complete without reference to the Port Parham Sports and Recreation Club, a small club run entirely by volunteers which is open 4 nights a week. They provide food from $5 a meal on Wednesday and Sunday (lasagna and chips, fish and chips, etc) to a comprehensive menu on Friday and Saturday nights with all meals still under $15 (Editors note, prices have increased since 2009!). They have draught beer available, wine (some local) by the bottle or glass, raffles and bingo, and the friendliest, most helpful bunch of folk I have met in years; you would be mad not to visit next time you are in the area (about 80 km north of Adelaide).

THE RECIPE PAGE

Winter is on its way, so soup sounds good

LEEK AND POTATO CREAM SOUP 30g butter 500g leeks (sliced) 500g potatoes peeled and sliced 1 large onion peeled and chopped 2 ½ cups of water

Salt and freshly ground pepper 1 teaspoon grated nutmeg 1 bay leaf 1 ¼ cups milk

To finish

½ teaspoon paprika Strips of leek finely chopped

Heat the butter in a large saucepan.

Add the leek, potato and onion and cook gently, covered for about 5 minutes. Shake the pan occasionally to prevent the vegetables from sticking. Add the water, seasoning, grated nutmeg and bay leaf and bring to the boil

Simmer, covered, for 30 mins. Remove the bay leaf. Liquidise in a blender or pass through a sieve.

Return the soup to the saucepan, add milk and reheat.

Taste and adjust the seasoning.

If liked, sprinkle with a little paprika or strips of leek before serving

TOMATO RELISH 8.5 KG ripe tomatoes 3 kg onions 4 level tablespoons mustard powder mixed with water to a thin paste 4 level tablespoons curry powder 3 kg sugar 1 bottle Ezi sauce 115g flour

Put in a dish tomatoes, onions and salt. After 12 hours empty all into a pan. When boiling add mustard and curry powder paste. Now add sugar and Ezi Sauce and boil for about 2 ½ hours. Ten minutes before end of boiling add flour made into a thin paste with water.


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