The Happy Whisperer RM Begg Newsletter. Issue No. 6, June 2015

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1 The Happy Whisperer RM Begg Newsletter. Issue No. 6, June 2015 Unnamed Clothing Residents Meeting Tuesday 2 nd 10.45am Residents Activity Committee Meeting will follow. Residents are invited to attend the Kitchen Meeting Thursday 4 th 2.30pm This is an opportunity to provide feedback about the menu.. Clothing that is not named will be on display in the Board Room from Wednesday 27 th May for 1 month. Please check items and claim them so they can be named. It is impossible for our laundry staff to return to owners if they are not labelled RM Begg Kyneton Aged Care Inc Epping Street, Kyneton, Victoria 3444 admin@raymbegg.org.au Ph Opening Hours: Monday to Friday: 9am to 5pm

2 Special Events Fri 5th- High Tea for Queen s Birthday 2pm Barfold/Cobaw Activity Area Mon 8th-Queen s Birthday Public Holiday No Activities Tues 9th-Metcalf Seniors Lunch, Movie, Afternoon Tea, Bus Leaving 11.30am Thurs 11th-The Twighlighters Entertainment 2pm Barfold/Cobaw Thurs18th-Our Lady of Rosary Primary School Students 2pm Barfold/Cobaw Tues 23rd-Baptist Singers 2.30pm Barfold/ Cobaw Thurs 25th-Movie in the Boardroom Fri 26th-RSL Luncheon. Bus leaving 11.30am R M Begg Aged Care Podiatrist visits Tuesday 2 nd, 16th & 23rd June Library visit Wed 10 1pm. Library is in Sidonia / Pastoria Activity area. We are trialing a trolley for the library Residents 4th-Carmel Brown 6th-Pat Hanley 13th-Gwenda Henderson 18th-Ernie Heimel 19th-Stan Wheeldon 20th-Gunther Franzen Staff 2nd-Nicky Easter 5th-Marcia McKimmie 10th-Julie Sterling 28th-Debbie Stevens

3 Sunday Church Service 7th-John Dettman & Ray Keane with music by Colin Pope 14 th -Ken Simpson with music by Eliz Harvey 21st-Carmen Said & Heather Demack with music by John Boyd 28 th -Bob & Marion Evans with music by Marion Evans RM Begg Auxiliary Shop Trolley Auxiliary members will be bringing the mobile shop trolley to residents in their rooms between pm. Monday : Cobaw -Heather Mitchell Tuesday: Sidonia-Lorraine or Rhonda Wednesday: Barfold-Betty or Noel Thursday: Langley-Yvonne or Rheita Friday: Pastoria-Aileen or Meg Shop in Cobaw activities area is open 5 days a week Monday Friday from pm. Thinking of You... Our love and thoughts are with the Lambert & Payne family and friends with the recent passing of Jack & Jim. They will be sadly missed by all at RMB.

4 Welcome We welcome new resident Mr. David Wells We hope you are settling in well! We also welcome new staff member Jen Tickle & Margaret Young. We hope you both enjoy working with the great team at RMB! Music Trivia Night Thank you to everyone who helped out with our trivia night on Sat 23 rd May, either by attending, donating items, purchasing raffle tickets & silent auction items. We raised an incredible $7, 500!!!! This money will be used for more ceiling hoist tracking. Congratulations of Mrs. Marjorie Talbot, the winner of the raffle! RM Begg Cookbook. We are very excited that our long awaited cookbook has arrived from the printers! Cost is $ They are available from reception at RMB. Thank you to everyone involved with putting it together it has been well worth the wait!

5 ON THIS DAY... JUNE 1st Author Colleen McCulloch was born in nd Cricketing twins Steve & Mark Waugh were born in th Charles Kingsford Smith completed the first Trans Pacific flight in 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 Actor John Wood was born in th Vegemite first went on sale on this day in It was invented by Australian Fred Walker, using brewer s surplus yeast from the Carlton & United Brewery. 13th Iconic country music singer Slim Dusty was born in th 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 th Australian actor Errol Flynn was born in st John Landy became the first Australian to break the Four Minute Mile in th Ned Kelly & his gang had their final showdown at Glenrowan, Vic, in Kelly was wounded and captured. How many of these do you remember??? If you have any old car magazines lying around we would love to add them to our magazine trolley. Please contact Amanda in Activities.

6 How much do you know about the country you live in? Not enough according to renowned demographer and social commentator Mark McCrindle. Most everyday Australians couldn t tell you what our current population is, he tells news.com.au. They feel the effects of growth on their lifestyle and hip pocket but they don t know the actual number. If you think it is 21 million, you d be wrong. It s much closer to 24 million now and it s growing by 500,000 a year. That figure might surprise you and it s certainly not the only number worth a second glance. Western Australia grows by more people every 48 hours than Tasmania adds every year (500 people). There are almost 100,000 more women than men in Australia and there are more people in Sydney born in China than England. These are just some of the amazing truths about our rapidly changing country that stat men like Mr McCrindle are privy to. They tell us a lot about who we are as a nation, he says. Australia is not like Europe which has a pessimistic view of itself or America that has an optimistic view of itself, we just have no view of ourselves and we need to understand who we are as a country again. So who are we? Well, if you look at the numbers, we re the Anthony Milford of the Queensland origin team. Not quite the half back star but certainly an impact player being talked about for the future. The last five years have seen unprecedented change economically, generationally and technologically and most experts agree that Australia has weathered the storm well, says McCrindle. But we have all the best ingredients. Our climate, mid-sized population, education, proximity to Asia, historical connections with the likes of America and England, our entrepreneurial spirit and most of all our diversity yet unity in our communities mean the future looks good as long as we continue to plan for the growth, he adds. The best way to plan for the future is to take stock of where we are so here are the latest facts about our country as pulled together by McCrindle research and ABS. AUSTRALIA IN STATISTICS 1. If Australia were a city, at 23.5 million it would still only be the world s seventh largest (after Tokyo, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Jakarta, Seoul and Delhi). 2. Western Australia grows by more people every 48 hours than Tasmania adds every year (500 people). 3. Only 1 in 10 Australians uses public transport to get to work and more people walk to work than catch a bus. 4. The average street of 100 households has 10 babies (aged under 3), 27 cats and 45 dogs. 5. The average Australian stays with their employer just 3 years

7 and 4 months only a third of the way towards long service leave. If this plays out in the lifetime of a school leaver today it means they will have 17 separate employers in their lifetime. 6. What s called a boonie in Western Australian, is called a westie in NSW and in Queensland it s a bogan. 7. Sydney makes for a fascinating study in populations by gender, with Pyrmont having 3.6 per cent more males than females whereas the next suburb over the Anzac bridge, Balmain, has 8.7 per cent more females than males. 8. Victoria is the state with the highest ratio of females to males (98 males to every 100 females), with 58,399 more women than men. 9. The number of Australians identifying their religion as Christianity is eight times larger than all other religions combined. 10. One in 10 households has a net worth exceeding $1.6 million, and one per cent of households have wealth above $5 million. 11. In Australia there are almost 100,000 more women than men, with six out of our eight states and territories experiencing a man drought. 12. While approximately one in five (22%) Australians are Baby Boo ers, they own over 50% of the nation s private wealth. 13. Three decades ago the median age of an Australian was 30.5, today it is 37.3 and in 2044 it is projected to be Life expectancy at birth three decades ago was 76, today it is 82 and in 2044, it is projected to be more than The average Australian spends 10 hours and 19 minutes each day on screen time and due to multiscreening this is achieved in just under eight hours of linear time. 16. By the time generation Z (five- 19-year-olds) begin to retire (beginning in 2063) the average median capital city house price will exceed $2 million and the average retiree will need $600,000 more than today for a comfortable retirement. 17. If you lived on an average sized street in Australia comprised of 100 households, on that street there would be a marriage every 9 months, a death every 7 months and a birth every 14 weeks. 18. The year the queen came to the throne (1952), just 40 Australians turned 100. Last year, more than 2600 Australians turned Currently there are almost 105 baby boys born for every 100 baby girls born in Australia 20. On average, women in Aus-

8 tralia outlive men by four years. 21. The most widely said Australianisms are no worries (74 per cent of Australians have used this phrase), arvo (73 per cent), and G day (71 per cent). 22. Less than half of Australians use rhyming slang such as Joe Blake (snake) 44 per cent, Captain Cook (look) 28 per cent, and Frog and Toad (road) 25 per cent. 23. Swimming costumes in Queensland are known as togs, in NSW cossies, but in Victoria, bathers. And while Victorians use the word cantaloupe, in the rest of the country the fruit is known as rockmelon. 24. Australia is currently growing by 1 million every 2 years that s an additional Adelaide every 2.5 years. 25. Melbourne s iconic trams carry four times as many people to work as Sydney s iconic ferries. 26. The average Australian car drives 14,000km a year which means Australians, in their more than 13 million vehicles drive a combined 182 billion kilometres annually that s to Pluto and back 20 times a year. 27. Melbourne has more bicycle commuters than any other city in Australia (25,594). In fact 41 per cent of all women who ride to work in Australia live in Melbourne. 28. Three decades ago almost two in three Australians were married while today less than half are, and the never married proportion of Australians has increased from a quarter to a third. 29. Three decades ago the average full time worker took home just under $19,000 a year in a time when the average house price was less than $150,000. Today annual earnings exceed $73,000 with the average house price in most capital cities exceeding $520, A quarter of Australians (24%) has a university degree but for generation Y it is more than one in three people. 31. There are more people in Sydney today than lived in all of Australia a century ago. 32. A quarter of Australians (27 per cent) were born overseas and almost half of Australian households (46 per cent) had at least one parent born overseas. 33. More than half of the population state that they are about average in happiness, 29 per cent say they are happier than average, and 17 per cent are less happy than the average. There you go!!

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10 GIVING APPEAL Our Giving Appeal was launched in January 2012 for donations towards costs of building our new facility. Total $760,152 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 $70,454 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

11 Get from the word FISH to SEAL by changing one letter at a time and forming another English word in each step. 1. FISH SEAL Answer. 1. FISH 2. FIST 3. FEST 4. FEAT 5. SEAT 6. SEAL Fill in the missing words to make a phrase with both the left and right hand sides. For instance, if you were given GRAPE FLY, the missing word could be FRUIT, making GRAPEFRUIT and FRUIT FLY. 1. TOP AGENT 2. PROXY OF NO CONFIDENCE 3. SECOND-HAND DETECTOR 4. THE SACK OF AP- PLE 5. ST. LOUIS SIN Once you have the words, what event does it represent? Answer. 1. SECRET 2. VOTE 3. SMOKE 4. ROME 5. CARDINAL The event is a Papal conclave, when a new Pope is chosen.

12 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 Shop near Reception & one in each wing TV/ lounge room Program Amanda our Activities Coordinator has started an program for residents with family members that live interstate or overseas. This will enable regular communication. If you are interested please see Amanda or send your contact details to

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