Group News - 2025-03 Mar
COORDINATORS REPORT FOR MARCH 2025
Groups Seeking New Members:
Acoustic Music Group, Art Practical, Ballet Appreciation,
Building and Cities, Current Events A, Hikers 2,
Opera Appreciation, Photography would like 3.
Suggested New Group:
Morning Brunch Bunch. This group will enjoy Brunch and outings in the Tauranga and surrounding areas. It’s also about providing a space for fun and connection and a variety of different venues to enjoy Brunch. If interested please contact David Oliver on 022 0121 735.
Changes of Convener or Convener Contact:
Ancient History – New Convener is Chris Hector 027 434 3493
History of New Zealand. New Convener is Mary Elders 027 143 9867.
Yoga 2: New Conveners – Catherine Geeves & Jan Morrison.
Weekend Walkers: Sandra Atherstone & Jan Bradley.
Shakespeare Group A: New Conveners Neil Murphy & Paul Chapman.
Other Group Information:
Acoustic Music Members are now paying $4 per session – up from $3
Book Lovers 3 – Convener. Margaret Wilson - new phone # 07 929 6339.
Ethnic Dining – In recess. Need new Convener.
Festival & Foreign Films: Now meeting on the 4th Tuesday of the month. Next meeting with a new Convener to be confirmed will be on the 22nd April at 11.30 am at Pacific Coast Village, Maranui St.
Writer’s Inc: Group in recess. New Convener required to replace Jean Akers who has retired from leading the group. Expect to restart in April/May.
iPad and iPhone: First meeting for year Monday 7th April, 2025.
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U3A General Meetings
Katikati:
The next Katikati U3A Monthly meeting will be held on Wednesday 12th March at the Community Hub (the Centre - Patuki Manawa) next to the Library, from 10:00am - 12:00 noon.
The meeting starts with general business for a few minutes. Our ‘short talk’ will kindly be given by member Stewart Cairns who gives an update on the Abbeyfield project.
Morning tea will be as close to 10:30 as possible, and will be followed at 11:00am by our guest speaker for this month: Dr Jessica Turner, Senior Lecturer and Assistant Dean Tauranga, Programme Lead, Software Engineering, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Waikato.
Tauranga:
Main Speaker:Andrew Gregg, general manager of The Elms Foundation.
Title: The Elms Te Papa: The Spirit of a Place
The Elms Te Papa is owned and operated by The Elms Foundation, a charitable trust established to preserve and protect one of New Zealand's oldest and most significant heritage sites.
The Elms Foundation is fortunate to enjoy loyal, passionate and far-reaching support from the community with a key strength of our organisation being the quality of people engaged in its work.
Come and hear from Andrew Gregg, general manager of The Elms Foundation, about the Trust's work and opportunities to become involved.
Short Speaker: Brian Jones, U3A Member
Topic 'NZ's Sub Antarctic Islands: A brief history.'
Brian has visited the islands twice and will include his father's WW2 experience as a coastwatcher in the Auckland Islands.
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