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Lioness Club

Golden Valley Keperra Lioness Club have been busy selling Easter Hamper raffle tickets at Great Western Centre and the Ferny Way Bakery.

Lucky winners are 1st ticket no. 368 - Mel, Samford. 2nd ticket no. 152 Enza, The Gap. 3rd ticket no. 611 Gerrard, Ferny Hills. We would like to thank the local community for supporting our Easter Raffle.

The Lioness Club are hosting Cancer Council Biggest Morning Tea at our Lions Den, Dinterra Ave, Ferny Hills on Wednesday 27th May, starting 10.00am entry $10.00. Come along & bring a friend & help raise funds to help beat cancer.     

For details of the Golden Valley Keperra Lioness Club please call the President, Grace on 0438170842.

Natives for your garden

Dedicated volunteers are now running the former Greening Australia Nursery at Paten Park, The Gap (57 Paten Rd  - follow the signs past the Scout Den!).  Called Paten Park Native Nursery, it is a not for profit entity.  In order to continue supplying the community with the wonderful variety of natives – trees big and small, shrubs, climbers, ferns… - that we grow from seed and sell in tube stock pots (from $2.50), we need Community support.

Donations of native seeds from your property or indeed time given as a volunteer would be greatly appreciated, as well as a visit from you to buy from our wide selection of native plants that we carry.

Our opening hours are Tues-Sat 9-4pm and Sun 9-1pm.  Phone 33006304 or email us at patenparknn@gmail.com. Or google our name.

Queensland Family History Society

Queensland Family History Society: Play ‘The Trout Game’

On Sunday 17 May 2015, the Queensland Family History Society (QFHS) will be holding a session of ‘The Trout Game.’ This game is a learning experience in family history techniques. The game enables participants to test their skills in family history by tracing the imaginary Trout family over several centuries, using eleven different types of records. . Participants can use their skills using basic research techniques to see if they can get back to the 1500s. One of the aims of the game is to make certain that researchers use all sources that may be available. Often, genealogists have favourite records and tend to overlook or by-pass others that may be useful. Please note, this activity does not use any electronic resources.

This is a full day activity beginning at 10.00 am and finishing at 4.00 pm, so participants have sufficient time to engage fully in the activity. ‘The Trout Game’ takes place at the Meeting Room of QFHS Library and Resource Centre, 58 Bellevue Avenue, Gaythorne. The Society will provide morning and afternoon tea but participants should bring their own lunch. The cost to participate in the game is $5.00.

Allow yourself the privilege of having a fun day in family history and play ‘The Trout Game’. Numbers are limited and bookings are required. You can find details about how to book on the QFHS website at http://www.qfhs.org.au/events/trout-game. You can also find information about QFHS on our website www.qfhs.org.au. For enquiries, contact the Secretary (email: secretary@qfhs.org.au).

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Robin Botic Article for April 2015
Procrastination part 3.
In his podcasts “I procrastinate” Tim Pychyl Phd. talks about the research work that looks at cognitive restructuring and strengthening volition (changing your thinking and getting motivated).
Through thinking about how you are thinking you are more able to challenge those irrational thoughts that course irrational delay. I mentioned some of them in the last article. Those along the lines of “I don’t feel like doing it now” and “I will feel more like doing it tomorrow”. Then there are the big myths of “I will have more time” sometime in the future or “I work better under pressure”. I am going to follow through what’s happening in our thought and feeling state when we engage in this process. First we think about the job and depending on the thoughts about it start to feel miffed, bored, put off, or anxious about the fact that we have to do it. The next lot of thoughts are justifiers as per the ones mentioned above. What these delaying justifying thoughts do is give us an excuse not to do it now. Then there is a subsequent release of tension associated with the temporarily escape of having to do the tasks. Unfortunately this temporary release in tension actually works to our disadvantage as paradoxically the delay/release affect acts as a reward and reinforces procrastinating behaviours.  
We can repeat this cyclical pattern until time pressure forces us to stop delaying and do the task. A classic statement in defence of this self-perpetuating behaviour is “see I work better under pressure!” There has been plenty of research studies done particularly with graduate students that prove the error of this thinking. The same is true of the belief that you will have more time in the future, again this has been shown to be a fallacy. If we start to plan our time in that future – we usually find our time will be just as full then as it is now. More future time is an illusion so is the idea that we will feel better about doing the job tomorrow that we don’t feel like doing today. But what we are actually doing is increasing time pressure and eventually increasing our anxiety levels. Once you start knocking some holes in these irrational thought processes, they can lose their power to offer that reward of a temporary relaxation of tension. We know we are kidding ourselves and we now have some choices. Old patterns or re-cognition. Re-cognition could flow along these lines and it involves future pacing and thought simulation.
“When I think about what I have to do, I feel crappy but I can continue to feel crappy and resist or I can accept that this has to be done and I can focus on how I will feel when the task is completed. I know how that feels from completing similar past tasks and I know I feel better as soon as I actually start doing something. When I stick with it, it starts to flow more easily. I feel so great when I’ve completed it. Relaxed, free, pleased with myself and more able to enjoy what I want to do.”
In other words put your energy and thoughts into the feeling of the successful outcome to galvanise your will and to move yourself past thoughts of procrastination.  
The same basic strategies apply when we can’t get motivated because we think a task too boring or not that important. In this process of task disengagement we minimise, deny, devalue or dismiss the tasks importance to justify our procrastination. If you honestly think the task is not important to you maybe you can revalue it by redefining it’s importance in terms of its value to someone or something you value outside of the task.  The re-cognition challenge here is to giving meaning and value and therefore motivation to complete the task.  

Local student selected to go to Gallipoli

Member for Everton Park, Mr Tim Mander (MP), recently congratulating Year 12 Prince of Peace Lutheran College student, Lachlan McLean, for his success in winning the 2015 Premier’s Anzac Prize. 

Lachlan is one of 70 Australian students selected to travel to Gallipoli and the Western Front as part of the 2015 Premier’s Anzac Prize.

Lachlan decided to enter the competition after being inspired at the Emu Gully Leadership Camp in Year 11, 2014.

The Emu Gully Leadership Camp included a range of activities based on important battles in our history, such as the Bridge of the River Kwai and the Rats of Torbruk. Being part of these activities sparked Lachlan’s ongoing interest in military history. 

Lachlan, from Ferny Hills, has been a student at Prince of Peace Lutheran College since Year 1.

Mitchie Garden club

The next meeting of the Mitchelton and Districts Garden Club is on 7^th May at the Enoggera Memorial Hall. The guest speaker is Debbie Aitcheson, from the Chilli Patch at Minden and Debbie’s topic is Herbs.

About fifteen years ago Debbie and her husband, Paul, established the Chilli Patch - a two acre farm - which provides a living for their family. They grow potted culinary herbs, salad greens and chillies. As well, they package over a hundred varieties of spices, such as ground ginger.

In many cultures around the world, herbs form an integral part of life. From them come food, health needs and remedies, heating, dyes and fibres, etc. Their strong flavours reduce the need for the use of big amounts of salt and sugar in our diet, and most of the world's population relies on herbs to keep healthy.

The last time Debbie Aitcheson was guest speaker at this club, she brought along her chopping board, a variety of culinary herbs, spices, and some natural yoghurt. From these she prepared delicious dips for the audience to sample on homemade crisp breads she had baked. She also gave everyone a packet of dried herbs and seeds to use when cooking, and she had a good variety of potted herbs to sell. It was a very informative and enjoyable morning. At the May meeting will Debbie have more surprises for our group?

The “Easter Bonnet” competition on the show schedule for April, has been transferred to the May meeting, and it is hoped new members will participate. Horticultural material should be used to decorate the hats, and a minimum of other material to depict Easter is permitted. 

At the March meeting there was disappointment when the president announced Kath Stumer wasn’t well and couldn’t come to give a talk on Zygo Cactus. However, Kath has given the club a “raincheck” and will be guest speaker at the June meeting.

Meetings commence with morning tea at 9.45 a.m. and new members and visitors are most welcome. The hall is situated at the corner of Wardell and Trundle Streets, Enoggera. It is close to public transport and wheelchair friendly. (For drivers, Trundle Street is a “no through” street and is accessible via Pratt Street – Refidex Map 139 A10.)

For more information, please phone Pat, the president, on

3356 1256.