The May 2014 issue of The Southern Yarn is available for you to download in PDF form. Among our usual features is a report on the the ANZAC ceremony and club evening, which included a special member’s 90th birthday celebration.
An ANZAC Day reflection for everyone. This beautiful and moving rendition of The Band Played Waltzing Matilda by The Pogues is accompanied by photos of bravery and sacrifice, loss and remembrance. Thanks to Charlie Powell for the link.
This coming Saturday, April 26, 2014, members and guests of the DUCW will commemorate ANZAC Day at the Scandinavian Cultural Centre at 764 Erin starting at 6:00 pm. We hope that as many of you as possible will be there for our ceremony and potluck dinner (details in the April Yarn). Please take some time beforehand to visit the many websites and newspapers in Australia and New Zealand where some detailed and moving tributes to the ANZACs are available – NZ history online, ANZAC Tour, 100 Years of ANZAC, and 100 years of untold stories from ANZAC to Afghanistan.
The April 2014 issue of The Southern Yarn is ready for you to download now. Go to our Yarn page or download it directly here: Yarn2014_04-April-web
The WInnipeg Free Press runs a surprising number of articles mentioning Australia. Here’s another one, by Jennifer Ditchburn of The Canadian Press, which ran on March 15, 2014. A link to the whole article is at the end of our selection.
OTTAWA – From those ubiquitous UGG boots to kayaks and cherries, a little green logo featuring a kangaroo has told Australian consumers what’s been made or grown by their country for nearly 30 years.
Now the Canadian government is looking to the Australian Made campaign as a model for a domestic branding exercise here. This year’s federal budget promised a private-sector steering committee would be struck to make recommendations about a formal Made in Canada system.