VICE-PRESIDENT’S REPORT – June-July 2019 · BARGARA MEN’S SHED Inc. 26 Ashfield Road, Kalkie...
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ABN 89 970 429 025 – Australian Men’s Shed Association Registration Number AMSA 101027 JUNE-JULY 2019 NEWSLETTER Phone 0499 542 420 – Email: [email protected] BARGARA MEN’S SHED Inc. 26 Ashfield Road, Kalkie Bourbong Medical Centre Shop 3, 290 Bourbong Street PHONE 4153 4133 Shop 2, IWC Building 184 Barolin Street PHONE 4199 7676 FREE Delivery to Bargara – Ask us about days and times FREE Professional pharmacist advice – in store, email, or use our app FREE Loyalty Rewards Dollars every time you shop – excluding PBS items FREE Loyalty Rewards Member discounts, competitions and rewards FREE blood pressure checks VICE-PRESIDENT’S REPORT – June-July 2019 G 'day shedders. The first thing on my mind is our President Pedro, whose cancer has turned out to be a bit more serious than first thought. We are already miss- ing the energy he puts into everything and are wishing him, along with a few other of our Members in a similar boat, all the best. Which sort of reminds me that none of us are getting younger. When we founded the Shed five years ago none of our Members were over 70. Today we have members almost up to 90. John's story about the new OHS rules is a bit of a reminder to us of the time differences between most of our working lives, and now. It would be appreciated if those of us still working the machin- ery could help with the paper work that is now required. This does not include the dedi- cated card play- ers (who have already proved that they can shuffle without getting paper cuts), but does include the wardrobe sanders who will have to be 'signed off' with their ability to use scrapers and sandpaper. On another note, our landlords have had to develop anti-fire plans and layouts and we have to reduce our timber stacks. So any members who can help with storage, or other uses should let us know. Our land- lord's Work- place Health and Safety Officer, Annie Mackay- L e w i s brought us up to date with a heap of changes CLS are making to the site to improve a num- ber of issues like fire proofing and parking. And we are being asked to help by keeping our area uncluttered and fire safe. Also, for those who haven't visited for a while, we have been asked to keep to the outside road all the way to our Shed to avoid any possibility of pedestrian accidents with their pupils in between the top buildings. We would like to thank the Coral Coast Men’s Shed gathering for an excellent 2-day seminar on Men's Health. Until next time See you at the Shed Allan Davison, Vice-Pres. Allan Davison, Vice-President Peter Ryan (Pedro)
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ABN 89 970 429 025 – Australian Men’s Shed Association Registration Number AMSA 101027
JUNE-JULY 2019 NEWSLETTERPhone 0499 542 420 – Email: [email protected]
BARGARA MEN’S SHED Inc. 26 Ashfield Road, Kalkie
Bourbong Medical CentreShop 3, 290 Bourbong Street
PHONE 4153 4133
Shop 2, IWC Building184 Barolin Street
PHONE 4199 7676
FREE Delivery to Bargara –Ask us about days and times
FREE Professional pharmacist advice –in store, email, or use our app
FREE Loyalty Rewards Dollars everytime you shop – excluding PBS items
FREE Loyalty Rewards Memberdiscounts, competitions and rewards
FREE blood pressure checks
VICE-PRESIDENT’S REPORT – June-July 2019
G'day shedders. Thefirst thing on my mind
is our President Pedro,whose cancer has turnedout to be a bit moreserious than first thought.
We are already miss-ing the energy he putsinto everything andare wishing him,along with a fewother of ourMembers in asimilar boat,all the best.
Which sortof reminds methat none of usare getting younger.When we founded theShed five years agonone of our Memberswere over 70.
Today we havemembers almost up to90.
John's story about thenew OHS rules is a bit ofa reminder to us of thetime differences betweenmost of our working lives,and now. It would beappreciated if those of us
still working the machin-ery could help with thepaper work that is nowrequired.
This does notinclude the dedi-cated card play-ers (who havealready provedthat they canshuffle withoutgetting paper
cuts), but does includethe wardrobe sanderswho will have to be'signed off' with theirability to use scrapersand sandpaper.
On another note, ourlandlords have had to
develop anti-fire plansand layouts and wehave to reduce ourtimber stacks. Soany memberswho can helpwith storage, orother usesshould let usknow.
Our land-lord's Work-place Healthand SafetyOfficer, AnnieM a c k a y -L e w i sbrought us
up to date with aheap of changes
CLS are making to thesite to improve a num-ber of issues like fire
proofing and parking.And we are being asked
to help by keeping ourarea uncluttered and firesafe.
Also, for those whohaven't visited for a while,we have been asked tokeep to the outside roadall the way to our Shed toavoid any possibility ofpedestrian accidents withtheir pupils in betweenthe top buildings.
We would like to thankthe Coral Coast Men’sShed gathering for anexcellent 2-day seminaron Men's Health.
Until next timeSee you at the Shed
Allan Davison, Vice-Pres.
Allan Davison,Vice-President
PeterRyan(Pedro)
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Fellow shedders, like itor not, we have to makesome adjustments in theway we do things. Our1950, 60 and 70's workpractices are now ratherfrowned upon, mostly forgood reason.
This was brought homestrongly to those attendingour last monthly meetingby Ms Annie Mackay-Lewis, the CLS WorkplaceHealth and Safety Officer.
OH&S rulesAnnie covered a lot of
ground listing all the newOH&S rules and regula-tions that have beenbrought into play in thepast 10 years, and thepenalties for not sticking tothem.
From simple things likean injury caused by usinga grinder without thesteadying handle in place,in fact in using any tool in away that doesn't follow themanufacturers instruc-tions.
From those up to all thebasic well-regulated thingslike placement of fire ex-tinguishers, installationand monitoring, andrecording of fire alarmsand maintenance.
Another important pointAnnie made, was not towear gloves when usingrotating machinery as if athread or edge of the glovegot snagged the handwould be dragged into theworks.
In the case of an injury,other things we have toprove (have supportingpaperwork for) is that theinjured party had beentrained and 'signed off' onthe use of the relevant toolor machine, and that therewas a second person pre-sent at the time. And thatthe relevant machine hada 'tagged' power cord.
Virtually every monthwe have to tick or cross offover 100 boxes like:
Evidence of identifyingand controlling hazards
Ensuring access andexits to work sites clear
All hoses off ground
Evidence of regularevacuations practised
As you can see, a lot ofthe items, particularly therecording of a memberbeing 'signed off' on apiece of equipment doesn'thave to take long, but ithas to be done.
As you can imagine,this is throwing a heavypaper load on our commit-tee. We are fortunate how-ever, in that the CLS hasdone a lot of the formpaperwork and is preparedto copy us in.
So Shedders, all andsundry, please help bybeing 'proactive' in assist-ing with preparing thepaperwork with a minimumof groaning to cover ourbacksides .
Submitted by BMS Member,John Irving
CLEAN-UP PROGRAM
Daryl Heppner has the load in front of him! It is all part ofour Bargara Men’s Shed clean-up program making ourShed a safer place for Members to work.
NBN SCAMS“People aged over 65
are particularly vulner-able, making the mostreports and losing morethan $330,000 this year.
Scammers are in-creasingly using trustedbrands like ‘NBN’ to trickunsuspecting consumersinto parting with theirmoney or personal infor-mation.Common types of NBN
scams include:Someone pretending to
be from NBN Co or aninternet provider calls avictim and claims there isa problem with their phoneor internet connection,which requires remoteaccess to fix. The scam-mer can then install mal-ware or steal valuablepersonal information, in-cluding banking details.
“If you think a scammerhas gained access to yourpersonal information, suchas bank account details,contact your financialinstitution immediately.
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Why is a person whoplays the piano called apianist, but a person whodrives a race car is notcalled a racist?
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The modern Men’sShed is an updated versionof the shed in the backyardthat has long been a part ofAustralian culture. Men’sSheds are found in manycities and towns aroundAustralia and continue tospring up internationally.
So what is so specialabout the ‘Men’s Shed’?
Most men have learnedfrom our culture that theydon’t talk about feelingsand emotions many do nottake an interest in theirown health and well-being.Unlike women, most menare reluctant to talk abouttheir emotions and thatmeans that they usuallydon’t ask for help.
Probably because ofthis, many men are lesshealthy than women, drinkmore, take more risks andsuffer more from isolation,loneliness and depression.Relationship breakdown,retrenchment or earlyretirement from a job, loss
of children followingdivorce, physical or mentalillness are just some of theproblems that men mayfind difficult to deal with ontheir own.
Good health is based onmany factors includingfeeling good about your-self, being productive, con-tributing to your com-munity, connecting withfriends and maintaining anactive body and mind.
Becoming a member ofa Men’s Shed provides asafe and busy environmentwhere men can find manyof these things in anatmosphere of old-fash-ioned mateship. And,importantly, there is nopressure. Men can justcome and have a yarn anda cuppa if that is all they’relooking for.
Members of Men’sSheds come from all walksof life – the bond thatunites them is that they aremen with time on theirhands and would likesomething meaningful todo with that time.
A good Men’s Shed hasa Management Committeethat has developed a safeand happy environmentwhere men are welcome towork on community pro-jects, specific Men’s Shedprojects or a project of theirchoice in their own timeand where the only ‘must’is to observe safe workingpractices . . . all in a spiritof mateship.
The Men’s Shed move-ment has now become oneof the most powerful toolsin addressing health and
wellbeing and helping mento once again become val-ued and productive mem-bers of our community.
TEE-PEE FOR KINDERGARTEN
Mike Brady (left) and George McLaren working on one offive Tee-Pees to be made for LEAD Childcare centres atBargara and Bundaberg.
WHAT IS A MEN’S SHED?
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OPTOMETRIST'SOFFICE SIGN
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Active Living for a Healthy HeartHealth Issues:
Mr. Frank Millett, a volunteerspeaker from the Heart Foundation,was our June guest speaker at theBargara Men’s Shed.
Frank’s talk was very muchappreciated by our Members andhighlighted the need to be proactivein this area of health.
Some of the risk factors of cardio-vascular disease were outlinedaccordingly as:
BEYOND OUR CONTROL: FAMILY HISTORY AGE (Risk increases with age) GENDER (Slight variation be-
tween men and women) ETHNICITY (Indigenous people
are at higher risk.)
WITHIN OUR CONTROL: SMOKING (increases the risk
considerably, including passivesmoking)
CHOLESTEROL LEVELS (cur-rent thinking – keep below 4.0)
BLOOD PRESSURE (120/80 isgood but no higher than 140/90
LEVEL OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY(150-300 minutes moderate exer-cise/week)
EATING HABITS DIABETES DEPRESSION/ISOLATION SLEEP
BEING ACTIVEIt is advisable to consult a doctor
to uncover what risk factors youmight have, especially after the ageof 45. The doctor might recommendmedications and/or further testing.
The main focus of the talk was onthe need to maintain a suitable levelof physical activity (any movement
that uses the larger muscles), nomatter our age. It is recommendedthat adults should aim for 150-300minutes of moderate activity perweek.
One such activity that mostpeople can do is to walk and theguideline is an average of 10,000steps a day. Sport, gardening,mowing the lawn, bike riding,dancing and water aerobics areexamples of other suitable activitiesfor older people.
It is also recommended that some
resistance activity be done twice aweek, such as carrying weights (eg,dumb bells, shopping bags) or usingresistance bands.
For some people use of gymequipment is an option – with a cost!
For weight loss the caloriesburned through exercise needs to begreater than calories gained throughwhat we eat.
In concluding, Frank shared someof his own experiences and what hedoes to maintain good heart andoverall health at the age of 78.
On behalf of our Members, Bargara Men’s Shed guest speaker co-ordinatorRoss Williams (right) thanks Mr. Frank Millett, a volunteer speaker from the HeartFoundation, for his informative “Active Living for a Healthy Heart’’ talk.
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If there is one thing thisShed is teaching me, youcan't run out of interestingblokes to talk to. After morn-ing 'smoko' a couple ofweeks ago I took myself outto the tree with my fags andran into this new member.Born in 1930, his name wasJames Charles Murnane.
His arthritis and a fewother bits have cut his per-ambulation to needing awalking frame. Butalthough he is 88.9years old it hasn'tstopped him being aterror on the road. Hiscurrent car is presentlyundinted.
But does he knowthis area. He was bornin Gympie and movedto Bundy at the age of 6.His old man was into min-ing, dairy farming andcane. He, his two sisters andbrothers got dragged out toMount Perry, near WoombaRailway Station while his oldman worked in theMolyebdenite mine there.
When the mine closed thefamily got moved out toMoore Park, where therewere already two houses. Hewas still living there whenthe war finished (just beforehe could enlist) and helpinghis Dad growing veggies.
Somehow or another hisDad was able to buy a blockat Bullyard and started adairy farm. So at 6'ish Jimwas helping with all thosebits, firing up the waterheater at 4am, bringing inthe cows, cleaning the teats,then getting the manure out
at the end of each day’s ses-sion. When short of work ormoney, from about age 10,he was sent out in season to
cut cane, and was goodenough at that to get fieldwork at the end of the cuttingseason.
He was then legally oldenough to work outside andgot a job with the MainRoads Department. For atleast his first year he wasworking on a shovel. “Thenthey invented graders andwere looking for drivers”, Jimsaid. He passed the trainingand was operating the mon-sters for the next 5 years.
It was somewhere in thistime ('I think I was 25 about’),he ran across Elizabeth, ‘a
local girl who had come outto work for Dad’. Theycourted and married. Bettyand he had five living kids, 2girls and three boys. Jimmoved the family to Gin Ginwhile he still had work. Thatstopped.
“What's one of your high-lights in life”, I asked. Jim:“It was at this time, withfive kids and a wife in thehouse that I realised Iwas totally and utterlystony broke. No food inthe house. Nothing tosell. “I went to the GinGin local store and toldthe bloke that I had no
money”.“He told me, ‘go round
the shelves and take whatyou want and pay me backwhen you can!’ (which hedid). “Makes you so glad tobe an Aussie”, says Jim.
Jim built up his bank fromcutting sleepers, light polesand fencing work. With otherhelp around town he gotmoney from the Ag. Bank to
buy and start a farm . . . fromscratch! Then about 32, hecleared and worked theground and grew the crop,with Betty and the kids help-ing of course.
It was a 'medium' crop,but the Ag Bank grabbed thecheque (leaving him nothingfor the following crop) and hesold what was left.
“I got a job for $50 a weekworking on a nearby canefarm, (which wasn't totallybad money), but the hourswere 'whatever had to bedone' from the time you gotup till 'whenever'.
Now, having reached a'certain age' (work it outyourselves – even if youneed to get your great-grandchild to work the calcu-lator for you), Jim went odd-jobbing (still does a bit),though he misses weldingand fixing things that hisarthritis keeps him out of.
He doesn't make a bigdeal of his pacemaker, buthe does of his Daughter-in-law Rozane who insists oninflicting his presence uponus as often as she can.
AN INTERESTING LIFEBy John Irving
JAMES MURNANE
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Charles Blanshard, aBargara Men’s ShedMember, proudly shows offthis masterpiece he sopatiently built. Charles tellsus the Nissan ute and boatis a copy of his son-in-lawGrant's ute and boat, whichCharles made for his sonBoston when he was two.
Charles used a bandsaw forthe majority of the work,cutting the ute into themain shape, then cutting itinto four pieces lengthwise.He used different timbersrather than painting itbecause Charles loves to seethe actual timber.
Well done Charles!
OUR TALENTEDSHEDDERSHOWS OFF HISMASTERPIECE
Relationships are a lotlike algebra. Have youever looked at your X andwondered Y?
Just read that 4,153,237people got married lastyear! Not to cause anytrouble, but shouldn'tthat be an even number?
Today a man knocked onmy door and asked for asmall donation towardsthe local swimming pool.I gave him a glass ofwater.
I find it ironic that thecolours red, white, andblue stand for freedomuntil they are flashingbehind you.
Did you know thatdolphins are sosmart that with-in a few weeksof captivity,they cantrain peopleto stand onthe veryedge of the pooland throw themfish?
If you think nobody careswhether you're alive, trymissing a couple of pay-ments.
Money talks . . . but allmine ever says is good-bye.
The secret of a good ser-mon is to have a goodbeginning and a goodending; and to have thetwo as close together aspossible.
Following the tragicdeath of the HumanCannonball at the KentShow, a spokesman said:“We’ll struggle to getanother man of the samecalibre!’’
I don’t like to think beforeI speak . . . I like to be justas surprised as everyoneelse about what I say.
EATING IN THEFIFTIES
and SIXTIESPasta was not eaten inAustralia.
Curry was a surname.
A takeaway was a mathe-matical problem.
A pizza was something todo with a lean-
ing tower.
All potatochips wereplain; the onlychoice we hadwas whether toput the salt onor not. Rice was only
eaten as a milkpudding.
Calamari was calledsquid and we used it asfish bait.
A Big Mac was what wewore when it was raining.
Oil was for lubricating,fat was for cooking.
Fish didn't have fingersin those days.
Healthy food consisted ofanything edible.
