Finley Garden Lovers Club member Jenny Davidson with Naomi Longneath, who is the Hume Border Region Zone representative of Garden Clubs of Australia.
At the September meeting of the Finley Garden Lovers Club, members welcomed Hume Border Region Zone representative of Garden Clubs of Australia, Naomi Longneath.
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The local club has been a member of the Garden Clubs of Australia for more than 60 years.
Naomi, who makes her home in Old Tallangatta, spoke of the various benefits of membership with GCA, including insurance and member clubs receiving issues of the ‘Our Garden’ magazine.
October is promising to be a busy time for gardeners in the region.
Finley Garden Club members will be visiting one of the Northwest Horticulture Club member’s well established rural garden for the 2pm monthly meeting on Monday, October 6.
Tonietta (Toni) Mackin is a member of both Kaarimba Garden Club and Tatura.
Her popular country garden at 304 McPhersons Rd, Mundoona, 7km from Wunghnu, is home to a wide range of popular flowing perennials.
Carpooling will be organised for this trip and further information can be obtained by calling Garden Club assistant secretary Jenny Davidson on 0447 574 588.
Toni has established herself in her region with her excellent culinary skills and will have her preserves and biscuits for sale. Members are asked to take along a chair, a plate and a mug.
Trading tables will be available as usual, and the three special categories for October will be: 1. Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia) in water; 2. Flower/foliage arrangement, in a vase, no oasis or pins; 3. Mixed pot of both cactus and succulents.
Members are reminded to take along contributions for the swap and freebie tables. October rostered table judges are Di Krasowski and Maria Merrington.
There are several open gardens during October, including the BOUSA Garden Walk in Berrigan on October 11.
Tickets are available at the Berrigan Community Garden at a cost of $20 which includes morning tea.
Yackandandah Open Garden will be held on Sunday, October 19; Gargarra Garden Party (Girgarre) will take place on Sunday, October 26, and Birchwood Open Garden (near Benalla) will take place November 1 and 2. Funds raised will be contributed to charities.
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The Finley Art Network opening of Rose Stenner’s exhibition, which took place on September 11, proved to be very successful and members were delighted with the response from the public.
Rose’s artwork will be featured at the gallery throughout September and early October.
Winner of the great hamper raffled on the day was Jenny Philpot.
An interesting project was put in process recently by president Gail Jolly.
Gail chose a picture of a cat which was ruled up into grids, with some members given a square each to paint.
Once these were completed, the grids were put together and framed by the group’s ‘fixer of anything’, Robert McCullough, a hard worker for the network.
The experience gained with the project was thoroughly enjoyed by the members, and they were thrilled with the result.
The gallery is open Saturday 10am to 3pm and Tuesday 1pm to 5pm. Visitors and new members are most welcome.
The project carried out by members of Finley Art Network.
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Just a reminder of the program set down for this Saturday and Sunday, October 4 and 5, for the Finley Public School celebration of 130 years of education.
The gates will open at 10am on Saturday with school displays and open classrooms. From 11am the school choir will perform and there will be entertainment including a performance by Jade Camden.
Lunch will be available from Rub n Smoke and the Odesi coffee van.
Then, at 2pm, the official opening and cutting of the cake will take place.
The gates will close at 4pm.
Sunday morning will see the gates open again at 8.30am and breakfast available. The farewell and closing of the gates will happen at 11am.
Plans are also being made to have a time capsule be buried and reopened on the school’s 150th birthday.
Envelopes of four different sizes and prices can be purchased; however, printed matter only can be inserted.
For more details, turn to the four page feature in this edition - pages 10-13.
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Organisers of the Finley Rotaract Reunion to be held at the Finley RS Club this Saturday evening are pleased with the response to an invitation open to all members between 1971 and 1992.
They are expecting to see a number of familiar faces and are looking forward to some serious reminiscing.
Further information can be obtained by contacting Greg McNamara on 0408 831 911, Peter Braybon on 0428 826 337, or Maria McCaw on 0429 839 438.
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Just a reminder that the Finley Bowling Club will be closed this Friday to Sunday due to a club commitment. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
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