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AGM MeetingThe Annual General Meeting of the TCA membership is scheduled for the evening September 26th in Manchester, New Hampshire, at the Highlander Inn. We are looking forward to seeing all of you there. Membership Renewal in OctoberWith your October Bullseye you will receive a renewal application for your 2005 dues. We send these early to save interfering with your Holidays. The fiscal year runs from January 1st to December 31st, no matter when you pay your dues, but you do become delinquent if they are not paid by the deadline date of January 31st. It is helpful for us, if you send your dues during the early time frame, so we can budget and plan for the coming year. We appreciate your continued support. Thank you. Aussie News, Part 1, By Dawn DayMax and I have been doing some traveling around our great country and thought you might like to visit some sites with us. Sight-seeing with family and friends, shopping and just spending quality time together seems to have suddenly made our lives very full. We spent three weeks with our son Iain and his wife Sheila in Moranbah, Queensland, and then traveled on through Emerald, Barcaldine and Longreach to Winton. This area is called “The Outback”. Each of these towns figured prominently in Australia’s history, my Dad Alf told us their stories when we were children. Let me tell you about Winton first. It has a population of 1150, and is 1433 kilometers from Brisbane, Queensland’s capital city. It is located at the headwaters of the Diamantina River and is a major sheep area. It is also a large trucking centre for the giant road trains bringing cattle from the channel country into the railhead. It often suffers floods, fire and drought. The people who live there know what it is to battle for a living. The town was originally called Pelican Waterhole or Wallace’s Camp, but the first Postmaster found both names to cumbersome to write on postage stamps, so he called the town after a suburb in Bournemouth, England, where he was born. |
Winton is the birth place of the now giant world wide airline Qantas. The bones of the Diprotodon have been found near here in the last few years. This gigantic Wombat-like creature would have been twice the weight of a large bull and was the largest marsupial to ever walk the earth. Every year the enterprising residents hold a festival of Bush Yarns & Poetry. The thing that really makes Winton the best known small town in Australia is the fact that our National song “Waltzing Matilda” was written on a station near here in 1895 by A.B. Banjo Paterson. The “Waltzing Matilda” Centre is the only centre in the world dedicated to a National song and draws visitors from all over the world. The centre-piece of the complex is a courtyard depicting the scene with the swagman, the wealthy squatter (settler) mounted on his thoroughbred horse, the three troopers and the jumbuk (sheep) half in and half out of the swagman’s tuckerbag (a bag holding all his possessions) and it’s all happening in the shade of a Coolibah tree. Swaggies or Swagmen were mostly men, battlers who faced the challenge of walking miles and miles from station to station on the chance of getting work and sustenance. They carried everything they owned on their backs in their tuckerbags, bluey or matilda as they were often called. They were self sufficient, fiercely independent and were active at the turn of the century and in depression years of the 1930’s. When Banjo wrote his song he could not have known what an impact it would have on individual Australians and Australia as a nation. continued next month Support our military
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Congratulations!
Fiona Corinne Turnbull, 8 pounds 2 ounces, born July 14th, 2004,
mother and daughter are doing very well. Like all new parents tho, they
are worn out with all the demands of this new wonderful addition to the
family. Fiona is the daughter of Kenneth and Leslie Turnbull of
Washington DC and grandchild of John G. and Silvia Turnbull of Elmhurst,
NY.
As
Scottish citizens and descendants we know all too well the price of
freedom. Turnbull Clan Association would like to honor the brave men
and women in the military who are Turnbulls or who have Turnbull ties.
Please send the names, ranks, and location of your family members who
are currently serving or who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the
current conflicts. We will publish this information in the next
Bullseye as a "Turnbull Tribute" both to recognize their bravery and so
that the extended Turnbull family may support their efforts, freedom,
and the cause of peace, in prayer.