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Xmas Luncheon 2005 & Social Meeting

The Guest Speaker was Wynn Ballantine from the Christchurch City Council who is the co-ordinater of City Hosting - Wynn told us how she established the City Hosting and kept us highly entertained on the various incidents that occur when helping visitors to the City.

The Christmas Raffle (a cordless telephone) was won by Diane Henderson
The lucky ticket (a Xmas pudding) was won by Annette Golding
Most Distant Traveller Prize - Colin Marsden

November 2005 Regional Meeting

32 representatives of Senior Nets in Canterbury attend. They begin with morning tea followed by a Guest Speaker. After a generous lucheon a general meeting was held whereby members voice any beneficial subjects concerning Senior Nets. Grant Sidaway from Wellington was in attendance.

 October 2005 Social Meeting

The guest speaker was Jo Giles, CTV's Shopping Reporter. We were fortunate that Jo Giles, Shopping

Reporter for CTV, was willing to spare time in her busy life to come and talk to us. And what a varied and interesting life she has had. She was, as a young person, "mad on horses" and she admitted that her education suffered as a result. However, this situation was remedied quite a few years later when she improved her education at Hagley High School and did some papers at University.

After leaving high school she worked in stables for some time and then, together with Linda Jones, fought for the right of women to be allowed to become jockeys. As a result of this, she became one of the first female jockeys in New Zealand.

Jo filled several roles in the media before being asked to stand in for Sue Wells while she was in hospital. On viewing her first appearance, she described herself as looking like "a possum in car headlights." She took over the role permanently, and has made a real success of the programme. Another passion of Jo's is speedway racing and her enthusiasm didn't wane even after suffering a serious accident and being admitted to hospital.

Gavin Hewitt, the Animation Tutor from Digital Arts Lab. at Hagley Community College was the guest speaker. Gavin is seen on the right using the club iBook. His subject was "Ever wondered how the computer animation images you see in the movies today are created?" A attendance of approximately 50 members enjoyed his descriptive demonstration covering:
1. The process of animation
2. Student examples
3. What the "Maya" software can do.

The February meeting at the Cashmere Club. The speaker was David Round, an Academic Lawyer who is the Past President of the Federated Mountain Clubs. David Round delivered a thought-provoking address. He pondered the question "What if?" and pointed out the huge range of changes in human history that had been set off by the actions of a few. He spoke about the apathy of mankind to the inevitability of a new age of scarcity ahead. One day, the oil would run out. What then?

The whole of civilized life depends on this commodity unless someone comes up with an alternative form of fuel. We forget history and ignore the warnings because there's a basic assumption that there is plenty of everything to allow us to live the way we're accustomed to. We're approaching the end of geological history and inevitably, that of human life.

These gloomy predictions were interspersed by David's light-hearted rhetoric so we were left feeling much more cheerful than we should and ready to enjoy the rest of the meeting. Below David is chatting with Don Harkness...........

 

 From the beehive ?

The Government, in its infinite wisdom, has once again decided to change the rules (pity we can't do the same) in the way we do our enrolments for Aoraki Polytechnic. This was sprung on us suddenly, so consequently, now when you enrol for the very first time to do a workshop or course, you have to bring proof of ID along, either passport or birth certificate, for us to have photocopied witnessed by an authoritative person, and duly signed. Although this is a pain, it is something that is totally beyond our control. The Aoraki ID card as we know it will no longer exist but in its place there will be a generic letter that we all can have to get the discounts. Please note proof of ID is a once only task to prove who you are and 'hopefully' they (the government) won't change the rules again !!! You will still need to fill in the usual papers for the various courses and workshops, as this is how we get our funding from Aoraki.

Our Summer School which was made up of twenty workshops during the later part of January was an outstanding success. We are certain everyone involved learnt much and enjoyed the fellowship it created. The event was not kept simply to computers but more so to technology as we had workshops on cameras and cell phones. We are indebted to the following visiting volunteer tutors who gave of their time to the event.
David talbot from Aoraki Polytechnic Timaru
Matthew Nixon from Photo & Video International, Christchurch
Ron Service a consultant from MacWorx Ltd and
Sandro Ribeiro Telecom Store Manager, Palms, Christchurch
In total, more than 450 student hours were clocked up.

 

 Above is a photo taken outside the Christchurch Art Gallery showing part of the group who had enrolled in the digital camera workshop. In the center of the photo Matthew Nixon shows Bill Turner a feature of his camera. From left to right is Derry Lee, David Eddy, Ida Huston, Bill Turner, Colin Huston, Matthew Nixon, Colin Marsden & Joe Adams

 

Merry Christmas

Welcome to these new members:
Barry Clark, Kevin Beardsley, Jan Watkins and Roma Murphy 

M.A.C. Bulletin Board

Formally the old Mactropolis Christchurch is now under new independent management and is the community centre for SeniorMac. It also caters for other user groups. It needs special First-Class Client software, which is available from www.softarc.com or from Allan Rutherford phone (03)352-4950. This bulletin board, which has a Macintosh appearance, offers over 3000 applications, a dozen specialist messages boards and many other interesting sites. A special subscription offer including Associate SeniorNet Mac membership is available and closes on the 17th of December.

Santa Claus Can't Possibly be a Man

Once upon a time, a perfect man and a perfect woman met. After a perfect courtship, they had a perfect wedding. Their life was, of course "perfect."
One snowy, stormy Christmas Eve, this perfect couple was driving their perfect car (a SUV) along a winding road, when they noticed someone at the side of the road in distress. Being the perfect couple they stopped to help.
There stood Santa Claus with a huge bundle of toys. Not wanting to disappoint any children on the eve of Christmas, the perfect couple loaded Santa and his toys into their vehicle.
Soon they were driving along delivering the toys. Unfortunately, the driving conditions deteriorated and the perfect couple and Santa Claus had an accident. Only one of them survived the accident.
Who was the survivor?
The perfect woman survived. She's the only one who really existed in the first place. Everyone knows there is no Santa Claus and there is no such thing as a perfect man.

So, if there is no perfect man and no Santa Claus, the perfect woman must have been driving. This explains why there was an accident.

A Social get-together on Tuesday 30 November at 12.30pm will take place at the Avondale Golf Club premises. Our guest speaker will be Murray Wood who owns the retail group called Magnum Mac Ltd. Murray is our Patron

A Social get-together on Tuesday 26 October at 1.00 p.m in the Heathcote Room of the CASHMERE CLUB.

 An excellent turn out again on a very cold miserable day, listen intently to the address our guest speaker Roy Britten gave. Up to recently he had worked on the NASA Mars Probe programme at the Ames Research Centre at Silicon Valley, United States. The object of the programme was to find evidence of water or life on Mars. A major discovery was made when frozen water was found in the planet's two polar regions and also in some relatively warm areas He was one of a team of twelve who developed computer software to enable information relayed to and from Mars Explorer Rover to be shared with other scientists on the Mars Probe programme.

There were some lively and searching questions from the gathering. Roy suggested we look at the following interesting websites. They are

 There was a great turn-out at this gathering. Everybody had a chance to ask questions about computer problems, and to suggest solutions. One of our members, Dick Mapp talked to us about his days in the RNZAF in the Second World War. Quite a few of us remember this era well and we took a great interest in hearing first-hand of Dick's experiences first in New Zealand where he trained as a fighter-pilot and then in New Britain in the Pacific, 4º south of the Equator, where he flew Corsairs. Conditions were wet, humid and unpleasant, and he described very vividly how he and six mates, fed up with the knee-deep mud in their tent, acquired sheets of corrugated iron to cover the soggy ground. In the middle of the night they were awoken by a horrendous scratching noise. They discovered a small army of dinner-plate sized land crabs invading their territory. The war was to end in three months, so they saw no air-borne Japanese planes, but provided cover for the Australian Army, and bombed strategic Japanese sites.

He was thankful to arrive back in New Zealand unscathed.

Raffle winners were Hilda Mitchell, Bill Turner Junior and Mollie Woods

The Annual General Meeting was, presided over by Barbara Blowes, was held on 18th May in the Canterbury Room of the Christchurch Casino. There was a good turn-out and it was clear from the cheerful buzz of conversation and the appreciative comments about the free lunch, that everybody was having an enjoyable time.
Treasurer Ross Glubb, on behalf of everyone present, thanked the Committee for the keeping things running so well over the past year.
Murray Wood, Manager of Magnummac has very kindly consented to be our Patron.
Shirley Schroeder has agreed to take over as Secretary and Betty Mapp was welcomed as a new Committee member.
The new Committee is

Thanks to all those who turned up. You all helped to make it a sociable and relaxed occasion. By a very happy coincidence, Seniornet members Norman and Noeline Walker were celebrating their fifty-eighth wedding anniversary. We were delighted that they chose to come to our meeting on this very special day.

Committee News

The committee members have been busy acquiring equipment for the Learning Centre. We can now offer you facilities for doing your own laser and ink-jet printing, CD burning and floppy & zip disk copying. (See below for details). At this stage the equipment will be available only on Friday mornings, but we soon hope to make more times available. You'll be welcome to have tea or coffee while you wait, and catch up with SeniorMac. members, who will be happy to discuss any computer problems you've encountered.

Brian Tells All

Mono laser printing & copying costs 5 cents per page. Mono (Black and Grayscale) inkjet printing & copying costs 8 cents per page. Colour inkjet printing & copying costs (Add 2 cents per page if only using photo copy paper) (a) Colour Graphic (25% ink coverage) 22 cents per page (b) Colour Photo (Full page) $1.62 cents per page. NB. Members supply own paper at their own cost. ie. High resolution paper costs approx 35 cents per page. Photo quality paper costs approx 45 cents per page. Glossy Photo paper costs approx $1.35 per page. There are now facilities for copying floppy disks and zip disks and burning the data onto a CD. Burning a CD $5.00 (including cost of blank CD) Burning a CD (with blank CD supplied by member) $3.00

THE DINOSAUR AND THE COMPUTER

Somewhere in Europe, ages ago, I learned to write with a pencil; later I was taught the art of using a penholder/nib/ink. Then came the magic fountain pen followed by the ball-point pen...And now? A Macintosh obviously!
As a dinosaur, I was suffering from "Machino phobia" with the excuse that I was born before those machines, but along came my saviour 'Seniornet Mac' with a choice of courses covering a lot of aspects. I was saved. and after the usual teething problems, I discovered a world of pleasures after following the sound advice not to keep a hammer near darling Mac in case I used it in a fit of frustration! I must admit I "flirted" a little with the courses' scripts, jumping over some pages but I was thrilled to learn tips and shortcuts which each tutors added to the scripts - tips you don't find in any book! As for Christmas and birthday cards, they were fun to make and I have not bought any for ages. Due to my "Machino phobia," I had to be encouraged; now I know I am the master of my "box" (nearly always!) Even dinosaurs are temptable. I have now bought a scanner....!
NB: As well as meeting other Mac-addicts, I was privileged to see Dame Jesse, the lovable canine pokies addict, future Mac expert!

Therese Marsh

FEBRUARY 2004

Welcome to these new members:
Joy Jeffs, John Morgan, Mary Nelson, Jean Robertson, Wendy Sargent, Ruth MacIntosh, Michael Bostock,  Bruce and Verna Scott.  

RECENT HAPPENINGS

Christmas Lunch:
Our Christmas lunch on 26th November started off in a rather uncertain manner. Our Hosts the Cashmere Club were under the mistaken impression that we'd just come for coffee. They told us that there will be a little delay in starting lunch, and the remark by one of our members that they've probably dashed up to the supermarket for pies. That left us feeling a little uneasy. However, by some miracle we were served up a very presentable meal, quite up to our expectations.
There was a good turn out, and judging from the happy hum of conversation and cheerful laughter, it was clear everyone was enjoying the occasion.

Barbara Blowes and Mollie Woods were interviewed on CTV recently to publicise SeniorNet. We hope this encourages more people to enroll in our courses and workshops.

SeniorNet Regional Meeting.
Treat yourself to a day out of town and come to the SeniorNet Regional Meeting at Aoraki Polytech Timaru. Date: Friday 13 February, 2004 Time: 10 a.m. Everybody very welcome.

Free Lunch
Come to our AGM Meeting on 18th May in the Canterbury Room of the Christchurch Casino. We will pay for your $2 Basket Lunch as we did last year. That time everybody agreed that it was a thoroughly enjoyable occasion. So come along and support your President and Committee, meet old friends, and get to know new ones. This is an early notice so that you can mark your calendars well in advance

Our little dog Jesse just loves to play one of the old pokies that we have here at home. When you say to her, "Do you want to play pokie?" She looks up at you and runs flat out over to the pokie, barking madly. She jumps up and down and we lift her onto the stool. You can see from this photo what she does! She plays the buttons, with an accompaniment of short sharp barks.
We had a team from Japan here recently to film her for a pet programme which will screen in Japan later. They thought she was a hoot! She's learning about computers too, sitting at my feet as I'm working on my Mac."
We just love her to bits.

Now that the lazy summers nearly over, it's time to think seriously about adding to your computer skills. Many people, when first buying a computer "just want to learn how to send e-mails and surf the net" or "use it as a word processor." But believe me, those of you with a spark of curiosity won't be satisfied with these basic skills for long.

Most of you will still be leading busy lives, still with family living with you, or else you'll be using your grandparent skills for child minding. But this state of affairs doesn't last, and one day you'll be left with time on your hands, or quite likely, be in the situation of having to live alone. Now is the time to learn to love your computer. By attending our courses or workshops you'll discover what a Pandora's box of marvels your computer holds. As your skills progress you'll find you'll never be bored at home again. Quite apart from the learning side of workshops and courses, they provide a chance to meet other people like yourself, who are "paddling at the edges of computer knowledge" and also those who have been in the game for some years, and are anxious to pass on their skills and enthusiasm. But remember, none of them knows everything, and the time will come when you're able to point out something you have found out that they don't know about. That can be a real ego-booster.

Ed.

 

November 2003

Welcome to these new members:
Neville Barrie, Murray Denholm, Lorelie Kennedy, John Kent, Pattie Madsen, Eric Saxby and Mick Tarling.

A Word From Barbara

Hi Everyone! Well, can you believe that another year has almost gone? I can't. I'm quite sure that the days are shorter, or maybe the clocks have all ganged together to go faster to fool us all. I've enjoyed being at the helm of the Senior Net Committee for the last few months and would like to thank my committee for all the hard work they do behind the scenes, making it possible for us to purchase more new equipment and for keeping everything in order so that things run smoothly. Next year we are going to have some great courses for you all to take part in so make sure you read your newsletters to see what they are.
I would like to wish all of you a very happy Christmas and New Year. Lots of treasured memories to enjoy.

Barbara.

We were sad to learn of the death of one of our Tutors, Paul Savage, on the 3rd November. He was a helpful and keen tutor, and will be very much missed. Our very sincere sympathy to his wife Cathie and family.

Those of you who missed Grant Sidaway's talk on the 28th October missed a treat. He's a gifted and entertaining speaker and displayed a wondrous collection of new toys from the world of communication. One which had us all marveling was a slim lap top pc with a removable keyboard, which you can leave at home to save space and instead, write by a specially designed pen onto a small tablet. Then with a click of the mouse it'll turn your hieroglyphics into typed text. He also displayed a pocket pc, which will perform all the functions of a desktop model.
He's convinced that in a few years the main accent will be on such portable devices, rather than on the desktop computer.
There was a lot of interest and discussion afterwards.

Grant Sidaway, Ross Glubb and Allan Rutherford engaging in esoteric chit chat.

For those of you on OSX who are mathematically challenged, Click on Calculator in Applications. You can do your calculations either by using the mouse or from the numerical keyboard, but here's the bonus:
Go to Speech in the menu bar, and click on Speech Button. You'll be amazed to hear your calculations repeated by voice. A great way of checking that you've hit the right numbers. Keep the calculator in the dock if you're doing lots of sums.

October 2003

Welcome to these new members:
R Bennetts, A Downing, E Stevenson and one Distant Learner, M Symmans.
We now have a total of 29 Distant learners, 25 of these having e-mail addresses.

Equipment: All computers including the Secretaries computer now have access to our new HP laser printer. This is a relatively fast printer which may be made available to members at cost if they wish to copy personal items.
We have a new Canon colour ink jet printer Model i850. This is a high quality printer which enables users to print within 3 mm of top and sides of the paper and 4 mm at the bottom.
We have a new eMac computer (G4 latest model) which has replaced Mac 2 The former Mac 2 (G3) is now a practice computer.
The project fund which enabled us to purchase the above new equipment still has sufficient reserve funds to enable us to afford a high-quality digital camera for training of and use by members.

Coming Events
Keep 28th October free and come along to the Cashmere Club at 10 a.m. Grant Sidaway, Founder of Senior Net in N.Z is coming to give us one of his stimulating talks. This time his subject is Technology. It won't be boring. He'll be telling us of his innovative ideas for the future of Senior Net. With the rapid advances in technology, there will be more and more for Seniors to learn, not only in the world of computers but also in other systems of communication. Morning tea will be served, and we hope for a good turnout.

Yes, it's getting to that Jingle Bells time of the year again. Before the hectic shopping gets under way, come and relax with us at a Christmas social at the Cashmere Club on Wednesday 26th November at 11.30am. A set lunch menu will be served for $16 a head. Here it is:

This will be an informal and relaxing occasion which you're bound to enjoy. We look forward to seeing you all there.

http://www.regency.co.nz offers customers the opportunity to browse and purchase online. Duty and tax free goods can be bought in advance of travel for departure or arrival of Auckland and Christchurch International Airport. The online store offers all the great prices, promotions and specials found at the airport with the added bonus of receiving a Senior Net 10% discount.
The online shop features around 3,000 products from all the main categories such as alcohol, fragrance, tobacco and electronics. It also features handy items like Travel Tips, Frequently Asked Questions, Specials page and monthly competitions. You also can use your Fly Buys card at Regency to earn points. The site is easy to follow with a 'How To' guide featured on the home page.

"Dad this iMac is the computer for you! You just take it out of the box and you're in business." This was my son's advice as I was trying to decide on a new computer. Deb was taking a two year contract at Christchurch Hospital and the old PC we had in Canada wasn't performing too well.
We arrived in Christchurch on July 27, 2002 and the newly purchased iMac G4 followed two weeks later. After phoning the Apple help line to be reassured that the North American computer could sort out the difference between 110 volts and 220 volts I plugged the cord into the wall, contacted an Internet Service Provider and hooked up the digital camera which we had bought the day before we left Canada.
How do you get the photos into e-mails? The on screen "Help" wasn't any, so back on the phone, Bart Hanson came to the flat and four hours later I was e-mailing and printing photos. It was obvious this wasn't going to be as simple as my son, now 14,000 km away, had implied.
It was fortunate for me that SeniorNet Mac was listed in the Yellow Pages. I had never heard of SeniorNet before. What a great idea, seniors helping seniors. So here I am a year later tutoring others thanks to Tom, Barbara, Austin, Allan, Brian, Ken, Norm and all the others.
Also the Apple Users Group of Canterbury have been very helpful. I've attended several workshops and monthly meetings and the monthly magazine is very useful.
Now I'm e-mailing, sending photos, searching the net, listening to Toronto radio when they are having an electricity blackout, making cards, designing "blocks" for Deb's New Zealand quilt and lots of other things.

Don Smith

August 2003
Welcome to these new members:
Dorothy Zarifeh and G Johnstone.

Equipment: System 10 is now operating on five computers. Existing RAM was distributed around existing computers. This should ensure they run more efficiently.

Newsletter: This will be distributed every two months.

Course Notes: Tom Mitchell has prepared lesson notes on OSX. He has made an excellent job of these and was given a vote of thanks at the last Committee meeting.

A Word from Barbara:

Hi Everyone My name is Barbara Blowes. I'm your new Chairperson owing to the sudden death of Russell Henwood.
I'm relatively new to computers. Two and a half years ago I knew absolutely nothing about them and was very scared of mine in case I did something stupid and 'killed' it. However, after seeing all the clever things our daughter did on her Mac (she's a design student) I decided that I just had to have one even though my husband said that I would never have time to justify having one, just the incentive I needed! Now I know a lot about my Mac, having upgraded to the neat white flat screen number. I feel very pleased with myself as the Mac is so easy to use. It is one of my favourite possessions after my daughter, wee dog and little red sports car and my husband of course (had to add that in case he reads this) I know I have a wonderful committee behind me who do a lot of work behind the scenes for which I am very grateful.
If any of you out there have any suggestions on what you would like to learn or do so that you can get more pleasure out of your computer please let us know. Feel free to ring me any time. Hopefully you will all get the buzz that I do when I solve something myself. My husband just laughs when I yell out yes!! I've done it. Self satisfaction is a wonderful thing!

A Word from our Editor, Shirley Schmidli:
Advice to Newbies
There are those who use a computer simply as a means to an end; for sending e-mails, surfing the internet for information, or else they treat it like a sophisticated typewriter. When each task is accomplished, it's turned off or put to sleep. But there are others whose lives revolve round their computers. Much as new parents rhapsodise over their first baby, this new acquisition becomes the focus of their lives. They become hooked.
Here are a few words of advice to this last group:
Put your computer to sleep or close it down at around 6 pm each evening if you possibly can. Above all resist the temptation to "have a fiddle" late at night. This is usually the time when an "error" sign with cryptic text is sure to appear on the screen. You'll be awake all night! Restrain yourself when in the company of computer illiterate people. The words "megabytes" and "downloads" and other esoteric terms are sure to bring forth a glazed look of uncomprehending boredom. You'll soon lose friends. Drag yourself away for meals and coffee breaks. On no account have any liquid near your computer. A keyboard almost submerged in a sea of coffee is not a pretty sight and it could cost you a lot to put it back in working order. You may think when browsing the internet that you have the whole world at your finger tips, but tear yourself away from time to time. Go for a drive in the country and see how the snow has cloaked the mountains since last time you looked at them. Breathe the fresh air. There's a lovely world out there away from cyberspace!

June 2003

We have seen a steady growth in our membership. We currently have 162 members, 31 of whom are distance learning members from as far north as Whangarei.

Equipment:
Many of our original computers have been upgraded and we now have four iMacs available for courses. We are now able to offer System OSX and shortly hope to hold a workshop on this.

New Art Gallery:
It's been an exciting month for Christchurch with the opening of the new Art Gallery. One of our members, Hillary Langer, as Chairman of the Community Gifts Fund-raising Committee, played a vital role in helping to turn years of planning of this impressive complex into a reality.

The Pool Room:
Just along the road at the Cranmer Centre on the 27th May another important building was opened. The refurbished 'Poolroom', which is the new premises of SeniorNet Mac Learning Centre. The name 'Poolroom' originates from the fact that this was once the changing rooms for Christchurch Girls High School swimming pool. We hope that from now on it will be associated with a "pool of knowledge" rather than the aquatic type. There was a small but happy gathering of guests with admiring comments on the decor and display of multi coloured iMacs.

The Annual General Meeting:
This was held at the Casino on the 27th May. There was a turnout of 38 members who enjoyed lunch and a chat before Russell Henwood took over in his role as Chairman. Two new Committee members were elected: Ian Hoskin and Shirley Schroeder. The committee and helpers were given a round of applause for keeping activities running smoothly over the past year. It was a straightforward and well conducted Annual Meeting and together with the very reasonably priced lunch and good company, was a happy social occasion. Thanks to all who turned up to make it so.

SIS Insurance:
Contact them for details and quotes re SIS Insurance. Just by requesting a quote, SIS will donate $10 to our Club.

Aoraki Polytechnic:
We have now established a relationship with Aoraki Polytechnic. This will not only be of financial benefit to us, but Aoraki will also provide training assistance and advice. At the start of each course you will be asked to fill in a simple enrolment form. These forms will be collected and submitted to Aoraki along with an invoice to obtain the appropriate funding. Once enrolled you will receive an Aoraki Student ID card which can be used for discounts, especially on software.

Campus IT Computing:
Because of our association with Aoraki Polytechnic we have been offered favourable terms with their range of well-known brands. They are both Mac and PC dealers. You can call them on 0800-422-6787 or their web site.

Medical Insurance:
Roy and Barbara Thomas, Senior Net members in the Auckland area have an agency from Tower Medical Insurance to market Towers Classic Group policies. These are 30% to 40% lower than individual policies and stack up well against other health insurer providers. Roy and Barbara are paid a commission by Tower and they will pay 20% of this to Senior Net Branches that have provided customers. For more information: Roy & Barbara Thomas, Health Insurance Sales & Service Ltd. Phone: 0508.425.5463: e-mail:

Regency Duty Free:
10% Discount on all products except photographic & electrical. Visit their web site

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Date Time Venue

Tuesday, 27 May 2003 1.00pm lunch Followed by Annual General Meeting Christchurch Casino The Grand Cafe (Canterbury Lounge) 30 Victoria Street Christchurch

February 2003
Welcome to new Members
Bill Edwards, John Honore, Tony and Ida Huston, Ben Mentink, Peter Morath, Barry Southam, Claude Stone, Noeline Walker and John McKinnon.

1st Social Event of 2003

This will be held in the Trust bank room at Shirley Community Centre, corner of Slater St. and Shirley Rd. Wednesday 5th March 2pm.
We have arranged for Lindsey Johnston from the Antarctic Centre to talk to us about the world class display that we are lucky enough to have here in Christchurch. As usual afternoon tea and a chat will be on the menu and as many of you know this is a wonderful opportunity to discuss your computer problems with other members of SeniorNet Mac and catch up with the latest news about our new rooms.

In December, the Arts Centre announced changes which would take place regarding our Cranmer Square facilities. St Andrews College has been given half of the building which meant some organisations would have to find new premises. SeniorNet Mac has been very fortunate in that we have negotiated a new premises in a concrete block building at the rear of the existing school building. It is larger than our current rooms, we have an office and our own toilet facilities. The entrance to our building is via the current Montreal Street entrance and car park. The shift from our current premises to our new premises will probably be towards the end of February if not early March.

The board has approve TV advertising on CTV. The first of three series appeared yesterday 4th February and will appear again on 13th March and 14th April at 8-30am and again at 4pm and 9-30pm on the "Good Living" session.

SeniorNet Mac CDs are available $15.00.

 

Available now and packed with hundreds of files: free software, graphics, shareware, games, Internet software, clip art and course tutorial material for only $15
Order your copy on the Order List at the Cranmer Learning Centre when you take your next course or by phoning the Secretary (03) 358-4837. Cost: $15.00 Payment on delivery.

Would all SeniorNet Mac members who have an Email address please send an email message to Austin Hadler and just say "hi"
This will assist Austin to set up an Emailing list to keep you in touch with our social programme.

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