Our Newsletter: The Southern Yarn

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Staying in touch with things down under is one of the functions of the Down Under Club of Winnipeg.

In addition to contributions from many club members, editor Charlie Powell gleans the web and other sources for tidbits of information that might slip through the cracks of the usual sources, then prints them in our newsletter, The Southern Yarn.

Below are issues of our newsletter in PDF format. They only differ from the printed version in that they are in colour. To view them, you require Acrobat Reader software that runs on almost any computer system and can be downloaded free from Adobe.

Members of the DUCW receive their copies by email or regular mail on fabulous yellow paper! Learn more about becoming a member.

Current and past issues of The Southern Yarn…

2024

2023

2022

October-December 2022 | August/September 2022 | June/July 2022 | April/May 2022 | February/March 2022

2021

2020

2019

December 2019 – January 2020 | October – November 2019 | August – September 2019
June – July 2019 | April – May 2019 | February – March 2019

2018

2017

The entire year of 2017 Yarns (12 issues, 18 Mb PDF).

2016

2015

2014

2013

Back issues

Periodically, back issues of The Southern Yarn are combined into a single big PDF file, so check them out above before they get archived.

The 2012 issues of The Southern yarn have been combined into a single big (10.5 Mb) PDF file. You can download the 2012 Yarn collection here (be patient) and then scroll through 89 pages. Paper copies of back issues are available from the club, and we have a few of the previous years on disk as well.

Submit a story

We welcome contributions of all kinds to our bi-monthly issue of The Southern Yarn, as long as they are related to club activities or interests pertaining to ‘Down Under’ themes. We are also looking for columnists, so if you have an idea you would like to contribute, email us at info@downunderclub.mb.ca and we will get back to you.

We will edit your piece for length and content.
We can’t guarantee we will be able to fit it into the newsletter, but we’ll do our best.
It’s all the news that fits into print, or all the news that is fit to print.

There are several ways for you to send us a story:

- - write it up as an email message and send to info@downunderclub.mb.ca
  - drop off with any DUCW executive member
  - mail it through the postal system to: Stn Main PO Box 1655, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, R3C 2Z6

The type of content we enjoy receiving from members and contributors includes:

travels
jokes
recipes
photos
kids items
trivia
history
member updates
news items
music, book and film reviews

Contact

EDITOR – Charlie Powell heads a team of volunteers in writing and researching the bulk of the content for our bimonthly newsletter, The Southern Yarn. Charlie is ably assisted by subeditors Judy Powell and Jenny Gates.

Tel: 1-204-275-7083 • email: editor@downunderclub.mb.ca

DESIGNER – Brian Hydesmith designs and manages the website and our newsletter. He is a graphic designer at Hydesmith Communications and is located in Winnipeg.

Tel: 1-204-487-0067

Thanks

We would like to acknowledge the members of our club along with the many websites that have provided us with excellent material for our site. We also thank Jenny Gates for her many years of work as Editor for the newsletter. Please review our links page for reference to the extensive list of sites to which we refer.

We welcome your feedback in keeping this site current, accurate, interesting and useful.