A spring in their step

The Mosman Park Community Men’s Shed has put the spring back into the step of the Friends of Kings Park.

Noises from your ShedMosman Park Community Men’s Shed Newsletter OCTOBER 2015

Friends’ Vice President, Pippa Moodie, contacted the Shed to thank members for building 25 benches which will be used for their regular Native Plants Sale.

“The folding steel benches are a great innovation and have reduced the manual handling workload of our volunteers considerably,” Pippa said.

The benches were a community project built in the Shed’s metal room by a team led by George Klug.

A group from the Friends of Kings Park had visited the Mosman Park Shed before work commenced to discuss their needs.

“Like the Men’s Shed, many of our members are a little older in years, and transporting heavy benches was not our favourite activity,” said Pippa.

Now Friends of Kings Park members have a spring in their step, as the new benches are light and easy to transport from the Friend’s nursery to the Plant Sale site.

The Friends of Kings Park organises four plant sales a year. The money raised is used to support research and special projects at Kings Park and Botanic Garden.

The most recent sale was a great success raising more than $80,000.

“I would be most grateful if you would convey our gratitude to your team,” said Pippa Moodie.

Shed Chairman Brian Millmore says the project not only helped another community group, but raised funds for the Shed.

“Special praise should to go the handwork and leadership of George Klug and a group of Shed members who worked for over four weeks to finish the benches on time and on budget,” he said.

George’s team included Shaun Dubery, Tony Brown, Jim Thom, Robin McKay, Geoff Turle, Richard Allen, Tony Willerton-Lowe and Neil Faneco.

∆ Pippa Moodie with one of the 25 benches

Chairman’s ReportThe Shed extensions are progressing with Council approving the transfer of the lease subject to us providing further information and surveying local residents within sight of the extensions.

A big thank you to George Klug and his crew for the work they did for Friends of Kings Park in fabricating benches for their annual native plant sale. George puts in a lot of effort and many hours of work for the Shed. This type of activity is a valuable source of income for the Shed.

The next Craft Market is rapidly approaching and will be held 1 November. We are hoping that more members will be able to assist on the day and with delivering brochures to letter boxes in their area in the days prior. The letterbox delivery areas have been broken down into areas comprising approximately 200 dwellings. In the meantime we need more members to assist with production of toys for sale on the day.

A number of us attended the WAMSA conference and AGM at the Cannington Exhibition Centre. There were many interesting speakers and exhibitions. We were able to meet other members from Sheds all across WA and compare ideas and experiences. Congratulations to Mike Wiggin and Brett Pollock who were re-elected as board members of WAMSA.

Thank you to those members who have paid their annual fees. Members who haven’t paid their annual fees are reminded that their annual fees are now overdue. Fees have been maintained at $100 for this year. Those members who haven’t paid are reminded that they are no longer insured.

Sincerely,

Brian Millmore,

Chairman

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SHED TALK - WED 21st OCT 4pm

This month’s special talk will be on: “Wheat in decline - The future agriculture in Western Australia”

With Paul Carmody

Paul Carmody is an agricultural consultant who has over 30 years’ experience in the grain industry extension, trade and market development.

Farmers face more uncertainty than ever with changing climates, deregulation, foreign investment, free trade agreements and new technologies.

Paul will share his vision of what the future holds for the wheatbelt in Western Australia where wheat is not the end game anymore.

Join us for an enlightening talk from Professor Green on 21 October at 4pm.

Children as young as six are suffering from potentially life-threatening heart problems due to obesity and type 2 diabetes.

That’s the findings of Winthrop Professor Daniel J Green and his team of researchers at the University of Western Australia’s School of Sport Science, Exercise and Health.

Speaking at the Mosman Park Men’s Shed, Prof. Green said these obese children had already developed high cholesterol levels and abnormal artery functions.

“To see it in children so young is shocking” said Prof. Green.

He blames the sedentary life style of children and the lack of any exercise for his findings.

“Children are driven to school, rather than riding their bikes,” said Prof. Green who rides his bike along with his daughter to her Mosman Park school each day.

Prof. Green said that children needed to develop lifelong healthy eating and exercising, but it wasn’t too late for older Australians.

Atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, is the leading cause of heart attacks, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease.

Describing the problem to the Men’s Shed audience, “it’s like plumbing, when your pipes gets bunged up you have a problem.”

“We need to build activity back into our lives,” he said.

The Professor said that the Men’s Shed was perfect place for local men to do just that.

“The Shed works on so many levels. Doing woodwork or metal work in a standing position is much healthier than sitting around watching TV,” said Prof. Green.

“Exercise is good but doing the work in groups is so much better for you, keeping your brain as well as your body healthy,” said Dr Green, adding that the Russell Brown Adventure Park in Minim Cove was an example of what our society needed.

“What you have built is a legacy for good health for our young children for generations,” he said.

Professor Daniel J Green, from UWA, leads a team researching exercise for human health – to see if they can improve memory and brain function.

Professor Green said many people became concerned about their memory as they aged.

“Recent studies have suggested that exercise can prevent cognitive decline and may even increase the number and function of nerve cells in the brain,” he said. “But we still haven’t been able to identify the best type of exercise to achieve this result in humans.”

Exercise regularly then your risk drops by 30% of getting a stroke or heart attack.

Healthy Shed

As you will be aware our next Market will be held on Sunday 1st November, 2015, from 9:30 to 2:30pm at the “Shed”.

At this Market we will also be running our first “Antiques Roadshow” style event, called Antiques Re-discovered, so please pass this news onto all your friends and acquaintances so that there is plenty of time for them to look out items of interest (art/jewellery/pottery/whatever) to be valued on the day.

How can you help?We always need help with the letterbox drop; Shed preparation on the Saturday plus on the day: manning stalls, selling raffle tickets cooking and food distribution and then the general clear up.

Please speak to Mike Ansell (mike.ansell@bigpond.com) or one of the supervisors to put your name/phone number down in the Shed Office.

Thanks.

Amy Warne from the Hilton Harvest Community Garden collects bags of Shed sawdust to put to good use.

The volunteers at the Community Garden in the Hilton Primary School Grounds (Rennie Crescent, South, Hilton) have made this wonderful path with our used sawdust.

Up the garden path . . .

CRAFT MARKET

Park CrewThe Russell Brown Adventure Park has been a huge success with the community. Children and their families have really embraced the fantastic facility.

To maintain the momentum, members of the Mosman Park Community Men’s Shed give their time and energy to keep the park as appealing as it was on the first day it opened.

A COUPLE that got away . . .

It’s the same every year when the weather turns a little colder. Shed member Neil Faneco simply disappears.One moment he everywhere working and joking in the Shed, the next he is gone. And gone for months. Where does he go? And why does he always return with the sun, looking so happy and relaxed. ‘Noises from your Shed’ asked Neil to explain himself…As with the past 12 years, my wife Loretta and I head north to Barn Hill to escape the winter to do things we enjoy.

We usually leave Perth towards the end of April, prospect for gold for two weeks on the way up, stay in Barn Hill for most of May, June, July and August, then prospect again for a couple of weeks, returning to Perth again around mid Sept.

The attractions of Barn Hill Beachside Station Stay are of course the weather, the bowling green, a circle of friends from all states of Australia, who like us return every year and above all, some of the best fishing in the country.

Barn Hill is a Caravan Park with 200 van capacity, with beach front on a cattle station.

The park is always booked out during June and July.

Tai Chi classes are held every day. Ladies groups have daily sewing, art lessons, craftwork etc. A Sunday market is held weekly on the property and bowling championships are held which run for a week with many non-bowlers taking part in novice events.

Every Sunday night the park provides a three-course meal under the stars on the lawn with the aboriginal band from Bidydanga entertaining.

I occupy my time as co bowling green caretaker, sharpening fishermen’s knives, ladies scissors, developing a community salad garden, making and drinking home brew, walking and of course fishing.

As a fisheries limit restricts the amount of fish fillets in ones possession, we supply a lot of fish to non-fishermen rather than lose a god given skill.

Barn Hill Beachside Station Stayw: www.barnhill.com.aut: (08) 9192 4975e: bookings@barnhill.com.au

∆ Barn Hill Beachside Station Stay

Happy wife When Luiz Ferreira joined the Shed he was given two pieces of advice:

1. Make something for your wife first.

2. Bring Tim Tams for Smoko.

It is good to see Luiz taking advice from the experienced members of the Shed as he set to work making a special jewellery box for his wife Thai.

But where are the Tim Tams?

Where?

132 km south of Broome

9 km south of Eco Beach

480 km north of Port Hedland

ESTABLISHPROPERTY

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Mahjong racks

You’re Snapped!

∆ Ken Dempsey a study of concentration

∆ Darryl Hartwig making a set of shelves for his brother-in-law Leigh

∆ Sure you have enough clamps?

for October

On Sunday 8 November the Mosman Park Rotary Club is holding the 20th Annual BIG WALK to raise funds for Princess Margaret Hospital.

The Rotary Club would appreciate 12–14 volunteers to assist with setting up the venue at Burswood Park on Saturday 7 November from 12 noon – 4.00pm and dismantling on Sunday 8 November from 1.00pm – 3.00pm.

If you are able to assist on either day would please contact John Law via email or phone.

For information on the BIG WALK visit our website: www.bigwalk.com.au

Regards, John Law p: 9203 8887

e: johnlaw@iinet.net.au

The Problem with End Grain.

Here’s a great tip from Mike Wiggin in the wood room.

End grain is one of those things that can really bite you if you don’t prep your projects properly.

Many times, you finish sanding and everything looks and feels great, but then you apply the finish and all of a sudden your project looks like it was made from two different woods!

The end grain soaked up so much finish/stain that it now appears to be a much darker colour. Since the end grain is on a different face, where shadows can sometimes play tricks on the eye, you can usually get away with this colour discrepancy and few people will ever notice. But there are some areas where this end grain issue is much more obvious and you absolutely must take precautions.

First and foremost, it’s all about sanding.

End grain will always soak up more finish than face grain, and the result will be a darker colour.

But if you sand it one grain finer than the face, the result is a lighter colour that more closely matches the face grain.

SHED SAFETY

Please note that projects built in the Shed must

comply with Australian laws and standards.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the ‘cooks’ we have in the Shed (apart from the cooking group who do their own wondrous things) for the great effort they put in. Every general meeting finishes with a beer and a meal being available to members and that means that a couple of other members have put in the time and effort to present it. A thank you often gets overlooked ‘on the run’ but let me assure the crew who make this effort that your time is greatly appreciated.

A thank you must also go to the scone cooks who make the odd morning tea a bit special. This includes the wives who support us at busy bees. I’m not sure our busy bees would be as successful without the attraction of the wonderful morning teas.

A reminder that our November market is rapidly approaching so if you think you can help out in any way please contact Mike Ansell or myself. Volunteers are always needed and the two markets we run each year are major Shed fundraisers so please step up and support your Shed.

Regards to all, Dave Bowman, The Shed Boss

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Contact Details Shed Boss: Dave Bowman

Mobile: 0437 357 648 Email: admin@mpms.org.au

PO Box 4373 Mosman Park 6012. Tel: 9383 3354

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