Wangaratta Uniting Church Opportunity Shop & September Changeover Day Photos

The Wangaratta Uniting Church operates a very active Op Shop at 39 Vincent Road.  

High quality children's, ladies' and men's clothing and accessories are available, as well as books, toys and a wide variety of household goods and manchester.

Goods such as these are warmly accepted for sale, but damaged or dirty goods and items such as furniture, electrical and computer goods cannot be accepted.

We are open weekdays 10am - 4pm and Saturdays 9am - 12 noon.  Closed Sundays and all public holidays.

Well worth a visit!

Op Shop Changeover Day

On Saturday 21st September 2013, 26 volunteers spent a busy morning cleaning, organising and changing over from Winter to Summer stock in the Op Shop.  Here are some photos from the day.

 

PALS Father's Day Meeting

Our September Meeting of PALS was all about celebrating fathers.  We were privileged to have Carl Clayden with us as our guest speaker.  Carl shared several humorous stories and some very entertaining Australian bush poetry.  We have known him for some time in his role as a Minister and it was wonderful to have him share with us and to get to know him better.

The fathers from within our group were invited to cut our special 'Hey Dads' Father's Day cake.  (see photos below) Fortunately for us they were happy to share some of it with the ladies at the meeting!

We also enjoyed singing the PALS Song and several well-known old hymns accompanied by Mandy Reich.  Our singing is improving!

The PALS are looking forward to being part of the annual Aged Care Service which will take place on October 20th.  We are also planning our yearly bus trip which will take the place of our November Meeting.  Details about both of these events will be available shortly.

It is wonderful to welcome several new members to our PALS group and they are fitting in beautifully.

- Rosemary Steele
(Lay Aged Care Minister)

UCAF Report - “A Flower-less Flower Show” and upcoming events

The August meeting of the UCAF was “A Flower-less Flower Show”.   (see photos from the day below)

24 members attended this fun afternoon where all members participated. There was a mixed assortment of flower-less items on show including flower brooches, a wedding head piece, plates, mugs, scarves, dresses, rugs, quilts and many more.  All agreed it was a fun afternoon, topped off with afternoon tea.

Our next UCAF meeting will be on Tuesday September 24, a mystery bus trip stopping for lunch along the way.  More details on this event later.

The October meeting is planned as a Christmas Craft afternoon at a venue to be advised at a later date.

The final meeting for the year, our Christmas Break Up, will be held in November. There will be more information on this shortly.

- Betty Whitten