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The Happy Whisperer RM Begg Newsletter. Issue No. 6, June 2014

RM Begg Kyneton Aged Care Inc

27-35 Epping Street, Kyneton, Victoria 3444 admin@raymbegg.org.au Ph. 03 5422 2417or 03 5422 2506

Opening Hours: Monday to Friday: 9am to 5pm

Residents Meeting, Tuesday 3rd June at 10.30am.

Lauriston/Langley Activity Area.

All Welcome. Please note: We are trialling holding

the meeting in Lauriston/Langley Activity area in

response to residents feedback about the noise in

Cobaw/Barfold.

Winter is here! The coldest temperature ever recorded in the world was -128 degrees Celsius, in Vostok Station in Antarctica in 1983.

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Special Events Activities

Mon 2nd: Uniting Fellowship Afternoon

Tea 2pm Barfold/Cobaw.

Fri 6th: Morning Music at Kyneton Town

Hall 10.30am.

Mon 9th: Queen’s Birthday Public

Holiday. No Activities.

Tues 10th: Metcalf Seniors Citizens Bus

Outing Lunch, Movie and afternoon tea is at

11am.

Thurs 12th: “The Twilighters” Entertain-

ment Barfold/Cobaw 2pm.

Fri 13th: Our Lady of Rosary School

Children visit at 2pm.

Fri 20th: Sugar and Spice Entertainment

(Vanessa Craven) at 10.30am.

Fri 30th: Happy Hour Afternoon Tea

with Amanda & Nicky at 2pm.

Tues 24th: Baptist Singers 2pm Barfold/

Cobaw.

Fri 27th: RSL Luncheon. Bus Leaving

11.30am.

Admissions for Pastoria and Sidonia

wings are now complete!

We hope our new residents are

settling in well.

Thank you all our wonderful staff for

their hard work during admissions.

It really has been a team effort!

We also welcome new staff members

Wendy Withers and Mani Singh

We hope you enjoy working with the

great team at RMB!

Sunday Church service

for June

1st: Emily Dunn with music by

Ruth Williams.

8th: Ruth Murphy &

Adrian Rothwell

with music by Betty Jenner.

15th: Deidre Cole with music by

Betty Jenner.

22nd: John Coventry with music by

John Coventry.

29th: Ben & Kate Spooner.

Podiatrist-visits Tuesday 10 & 24th of June.

Library visit- Wed 11th of June at 1pm.

Happy Hour We will now be holding

Happy Hour once a month instead of

every Thursday in Langley.

See the Activities Calendar

for dates.

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Birthday Wishes Go Out

To…

Residents

6th-Pat Hanley

13th-Gwenda Henderson

18th-Erni Heimel

19th-Stan Wheeldon

20th-Gunther Franzen

Staff

2nd-Nicky Easter

5th-Marcia McKimmie

10th-Julie Sterling

28th-Debbie Stevens

Activities staff would love any donations of

dress patterns, serviettes and tea towels for folding

activities with residents.

Email Program Amanda our Activities

Coordinator is starting an email program for residents with family members that live

interstate or overseas. This will enable regular email

communication. If you are interested please see Amanda or send your

contact details to activites@raymbegg.org.au

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Apparently the first European settlers in

Australia drank more alcohol per person

than any other community in the history of

mankind

In 1954 Bob Hawke made it into the

Guinness Record Book: he sculled 2.5 pints

of beer in 11 seconds. Bob Hawke went on

to become the Prime Minister of Australia

There are 1500 species of Australian spi-

ders. If you read about our spiders you

might not like this: the average person swal-

lows three spiders a year. We have over

6000 species of flies, about 4000 species of

ants, and there are about 350 species of ter-

mites in Australia. The combined mass of all

termites in the world is more than ten times

the mass of all people. Termites are also

called white ants, but they're not ants, in

fact not even closely related to ants

Australia has the world's largest popula-

tion of wild camels with one hump

Sharks are immune to all known diseases

There are more than 150 million sheep in

Australia, and only some 20 million people

No part of Australia is more than 1000

km from the ocean and a beach. (The point

in the world that's the furthest from any

ocean would be in China.)

Australia has the world's largest cattle

station (ranch). At 30,028 km2 it is almost

the same size as Belgium

Australians have 380,000 m2 per person

available. Yet well over 90% are cramming

into our coastal cities. (Don't ask me why, I

sure prefer it here in the Outback.)

We call Australian's from Queensland

"banana benders", and people from West-

ern Australia "sandgropers"

Tasmania has the cleanest air in the

world

The Great Barrier Reef has a mailbox.

You can ferry out there and send a post-

card, stamped with the only Great Barrier

Reef stamp

The Australian Alps, or Snowy Moun-

tains as they are also known, receive more

snow than Switzerland

Melbourne has the second largest Greek

population in the world, after Athens

Imagine the fully welded rails of the

Ghan train track weren't restrained proper-

ly: on a hot Outback desert day they would

expand at 200km/hour and at

the Darwin end they'd stick out 1.1 km into

the ocean

Star gazing: under ideal viewing condi-

tions, like in the Australian Outback, the na-

ked eye can detect about 5,780 stars

The Sydney Opera House roof weighs more

than 161,000 tons

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest organic

construction on earth

Termite mounds are the tallest non-

human constructions on earth

FAST FACTS

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SOLUTION ON PAGE 11

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SOLUTION ON PAGE 12

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Question: I’m built from anything you don’t like, You’re using me right now in fact, I am

one but represent many. When attacked I’m easily cracked, I’m created in seconds but live

forever. And though you may not understand, I’ll help you do well but be careful my friend,

hurt me and you won’t withstand. Answer on next page.

GIVING APPEAL Our Giving Appeal was launched in January 2012 for

donations towards costs of building our new facility.

Total $748,828 All donations that we receive are greatly appreciated and we thank

everyone for their contributions.

FUNDRAISING Thank you to those who have made donations

Our total so far is $48,554 Our fundraising efforts for our new facility are now growing.

If you would like to make a donation please complete the form below and return to our CEO Sarah Collier, RM Begg Kyneton Aged Care Inc

YES I want to make a gift of $_______to RM Begg Kyneton Aged Care

Please find my cheque/cash enclosed.

Name_____________________Address________________________

_________________________Postcode_______Ph_______________

Email__________________________

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Answer: Character (or characters).

Kids are often told, when dealing with unpleasant things, that it builds character. You’re

reading the characters this riddle is written with. In computer science a char is often repre-

sented by one byte and can store any character you want.

When politicians have their character besmirched it can swiftly change the voting public’s

mind about them. Characters in novels are created with a few lines but live on in our mem-

ories. And if your character or reputation is damaged, you may find it hard to deal with the

aftermath. And here’s a great quote from Warren Buffet on your character.

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that,

you’ll do things differently.” — Warren Buffet

Loose Change Fundraiser.

Did you know the average person

collects $35.00 in loose change each month in a cup

or jar? We are launching a loose change program, a

fun and

simple way for people to financially support RM

Begg by collecting their loose change and donating it

to our rebuilding program.

We hope to see lots of coins making a difference to

our fundraising efforts!

We’re excited that Bendigo Bank is our partner in

this program. They have

generously donated 150 piggy banks and we thank

them for their support!

The piggy banks are available for

collection at RM Begg reception. When they are full

you can return them to us or take them to a local

Bendigo Bank branch for depositing.

Thank you for your support!

SUGGESTIONS The suggestions slip can be used to give suggestions about anything at all!

We still have our Comments/Complaints form that you can use if you want to. We thought that the suggestion slip would be convenient attached to the

newsletter and you could jot down any ideas that you may have. Please fill out this form & drop it in to one of the suggestion boxes. There is one in the Coffee

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ON THIS DAY........ JUNE 1st: Author Colleen McCulloch

was born in 1937.

2nd: Cricketing twins Steve & Mark

Waugh were born in 1965.

9th: Charles Kingsford Smith

completed the first Trans–Pacific

flight in 1928. He flew from San

Francisco, USA, to Brisbane taking

83 hours and 38 minutes.

11th: The Great Barrier Reef, Qld,

was discovered by accident by

Captain James Cook in 1770 when

his ship ran aground on it.

12th: Australia’s first electric light

was turned on in Sydney in 1863.

13th: “Vegemite” first went on sale

on this day in 1923. It was invented

by Australian Fred Walker,

using brewer’s surplus yeast from

the Carlton & United Brewery.

14th: Gold was discovered in

Kalgoorlie, WA, in 1885 by Paddy

Hannan. These goldfields became

Australia’s richest.

17th: Australian author Henry

Lawson was born in 1867.

20th: Australian actor Errol Flynn

was born in 1909.

21st: John Landy became the first

Australian to break the ‘Four Minute

Mile’ in 1954.

28th: Ned Kelly & his gang had

their final showdown at Glenrowan,

Vic, in 1880. Kelly was wounded and

captured.

How many of these

do you remember ???

And in the celebrity kitchen we have made… ANZAC biscuits by the gazillions, which were then shared with all the residents, Old-fashioned molasses drops, Pumpkin and spice cookies, Apple and cinnamon muffins And best of all were Ron Clowes’ jam drops! Ron followed his wife’s recipe to the letter and the ‘drops’ turned out to be a resounding success. Ron is a wonderful asset to our cooking ses-sion. He reads recipes right through unlike your truly!!! The last few weeks we have also wel-comed many new residents – Daph-ne, Joyce, Dawn G., and Gwenda to our cooking session. We hope you continue coming! -Leni Below: Ron finishing the jam drops.

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KITCHEN

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Ron, Lyn are making the molasses drops and Neil continues to supervise and be the taste tester.

Neil’s mantra is ‘I’ll just have to have another one to make sure…!”

IN THE

KITCHEN

Left: Dawn

enjoying a cuppa.

Above Right: Lyn

and Audrey enjoy

a cuppa and fresh

jam drops. Yum

oh!!! Right: Rose

giving it her all!

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SOLUTION TO PAGE 5

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, on January 28, 1887, a 15 inch wide, 8 inch thick snowflake ever observed, fell in Fort Keogh, Montana.

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SOLUTION TO PAGE 6

The 2011 Census counted roughly 21,766,711 people in Australia (give or take a few). That's up from 21,262,641 in 2006.

June 2014

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY2 3 4 5 6

9.20 Church service 9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C)

11am BOBs (B&C) 10.30 Residents Meeting 10.30 Sing along 11.00 Newspaper reading 10.15 Walking

2.00 Lauriston Program 2.00 Lauriston Program 1.00 Cooking with Leni 2pm Lauriston Program 2.00 Lauriston Program

Games Music with Jo 2.00 Lauriston Program Sensory session/games Games/music Individual programs Individual programs Reminiscence Gardening/watering

9 10 11 13OUEEN'S BIRTHDAY 9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C)

10.15 Relaxation massage 11.00 Walking 11.00 Newspaper reading 10.15 Walking

PUBLIC HOLIDAY 2.00 Lauriston Program 1.00 Cooking with Leni 2pm Lauriston Program 2.00 Lauriston Program

NO ACTIVITIES Music with Jo 2.00 Lauriston Program Sensory session/games Games/music

Individual programs Reminiscence/1:1s Individual programs Gardening/watering3.30 Anglican Church service 3pm Happy Hour(B&C)

16 17 18 19 209.20 Church service 9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C)

10.45 Music with Jo 10.15 Relaxation massage 10.30 Sing a long 11.00 Newspaper reading 10.30 Sugar & Spice

2.00 Lauriston Program 2.00 Lauriston Program 1.00 Cooking with Leni 2pm Lauriston Program Entertainers (S&P)

Games Music with Jo 2.00 Lauriston Program Sensory session/games 2.00 Lauriston Program

Individual programs Individual programs Reminiscence/1:1s Individual programs Games/music3.00 Happy Hour

23 24 25 26 279.20 Church service 9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C)

10.30 Sing a long (B&C) 10.15 Relaxation massage 11.00 Walking 11.00 Newspaper reading 10.15 Walking

2.00 Lauriston Program 2.00 Lauriston Program 1.00 Cooking with Leni 2pm Lauriston Program 2.00 Lauriston Program

Games 2.30 Baptist Singers 2.00 Lauriston Program Sensory session/games Games/music

Individual programs Individual programs Reminiscence/1:1s Individual programs Gardening/wateringMusic with Jo 3.30 Anglican Church service

309.20 Church service

10.45 Music with Jo

2.00 Lauriston Program

Games

Individual programs

*1:1 Activities Daily B & C-BARFOLD & COBAW L & L-LAURISTON & LANGLEY

Lauriston

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Activities L&L = LAURISTON & LANGLEY B&C = BARFOLD & COBAW S&P = SIDONIA & PASTORIA June 2014

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY2 3 4 5 6

9.20 Church Service 9.30 Exercises (S&P) 9.30 Exercises (S&P) 9.30 Exercises (S&P) 9.30 Exercises (S&P)

9.30 Exercises (S&P) 9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C)

11.00- BOBs (B&C) 10.30 Residents Meeting & 10.30 Sing along (B&C) 10.30-Busy Fingers (B&C) 11.00 Let's Talk (S&P)

11.00 Ten Pin Bowling (S&P) Activity Meeting (L&L) 10.30 Knitting group (S&P) 10.30 Morning Music at

1.15- Exercises (B&C) 11.00 Reminiscence (S&P) 1.00 Cooking with Leni (L&L) 11.00 Billiards (S&P lounge) Kyneton Town Hall

2.00 Uniting Fellowship 2.00 Bowls (B&C) The Music of the Night'

Afternoon Tea (B&C) 2.00 BOCCE (B&C) 2.00 Music with Jo (S&P) 1.00 Uniting Church 10.30 Scrabble (B&C)

2.00 Mind games (B&C) 1.30 Scrabble (S&P) 1:1 music sessions 2.00-Bingo (B&C)

3.30 Anglican Church

Service (B&C) 2.00 Painting with Val (L&L)

9 10 11 12 13QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY 9.30 Exercises (S&P) 9.30 Exercises (S&P) 9.30 Exercises (S&P) 9.30 Exercises (S&P)

9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C)

11.00 Hookey (S&P) 10.30 Art for Fun (L&L) 10.30-Busy Fingers(B&C) 11.00 Men's Group (S&P)

PUBLIC HOLIDAY 10.45 Bowls (S&P) 10.30 Knitting group (S&P) 11.00 Bingo (B&C)

11.00 Billiards (S&P lounge) 10.30 Scrabble (B&C)

NO ACTIVITIES 11.00 Metcalfe Seniors 1.00 Library

Outing - Lunch, movie and 1.00 Cooking with Leni (L&L) 2pm Our Lady of the

afternoon tea 2.00 Bowls (B&C) 2pm The Twilighters Rosary students (B&C)

1.30 Scrabble (S&P) 2.00 Music with Jo (S&P) (B&C Activity Area)

1:1 music sessions

16 17 18 19 209.20Church Service(B&C) 9.30 Exercises (S&P) 9.30 Exercises (S&P) 9.30 Exercises (S&P) 9.30 Exercises (S&P)

9.30 Exercises (S&P) 9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C)

10.45 Music with Jo (B&C) 11.00 Hookey (S&P) 10.30 Sing along (B&C) 10.30-Busy Fingers(B&C) 10.30 Sugar & Spice

11.00 BOBs(B&C) 10.30 Knitting group (S&P) Entertainment (S&P)

1.15- Exercises(B&C) 1.00 Cooking with Leni (L&L) 11.00 Billiards (S&P lounge) (Vanessa Craven)

2.00 Mind games (B&C) 2.00 Bowls (B&C)

2.00 Music with Jo (S&P) 10.30 Scrabble (B&C)

2.00 BOCCE (B&C) 1:1 music sessions 2.00- Bingo(B&C) 2.00 Painting with Val (L&L)

1.30 Scrabble (S&P) 3.30 Anglican Church 2.00 Happy Hour/

Service (B&C) Afternoon Tea withAmanda & Nicky(B&C)

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Activities L&L = LAURISTON & LANGLEY B&C = BARFOLD & COBAW S&P = SIDONIA & PASTORIA June 2014MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

23 24 25 26 279.20Church Service(B&C) 9.30 Exercises (S&P) 9.30 Exercises (S&P) 9.30 Exercises (S&P) 9.30 Exercises (S&P)

9.30 Exercises (S&P) 9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C) 9.30 Exercises (B&C)

10.30 Sing a long (B&C) 11.00 BOCCE (B&C) 10.30 Art for Fun(L&L) 10.30-Busy Fingers(B&C) 11.00 Art with Nicky (S&P)

11.00 Let's Talk (S&P) 10.30 Knitting group (S&P) 11.30 RSL Luncheon

1.15- Exercises(B&C) 1.00 Cooking with Leni(L&L) 11.00 Billiards (S&P lounge) at Kyneton

2.00 Mind games (B&C) 2.00 Music with Jo (S&P)

1:1 music sessions 2pm Painting with Val(L&L)

1.30 Scrabble (S&P) 2.00 Bowls (B&C) 2.00- Bingo (B&C)

2.30 Baptist Singers (B&C)

309.20Church Service(B&C)

9.30 Exercises (S&P)

10.30 Music with Jo (B&C)

1.15- Exercises(B&C)

2.00 Mind games (B&C)

*1:1 Activities Daily B&C = BARFOLD & COBAW S&P = SIDONIA & PASTORIA L & L-LAURISTON & LANGLEY

CHURCH SERVICE EVERY SUNDAY AT 6PM IN BARFOLD / COBAW ACTIVITY AREA

Saturday/Sunday - Movietime at 1pm in Barfold/Cobaw Lounge

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RM Begg Services

Laundry

Meals

Cleaning

Personal Care

Pastoral Care

Hairdressing

Happy Whisperer Newsletter

Visiting Allied Health Professionals

Counselling, Activities (in house and External)

Visiting Psychologist

Diabetes Educator

Social Worker

Speech Pathologist

Clinical Care

Continence Management

Wound Management

Palliative Care

Podiatry

Physiotherapist

Dietician

Specialists

Accredited Pharmacist

Consulting GP's

Aged Persons Mental Health Team

Dental Van

Support provided by

Palliative Care Team

District Nursing Service