TATURA AREA COMMUNITY
Bulletin Volume 33, No. 4 - April 2017
Published: 4th Tuesday of each month. NEXT ISSUE: May 23, 2017
Copy Deadline for next issue: Wednesday May 10, 2017
Folding Day Finally Folds
Folding day has been an important part in the monthly process of producing the Tatura Area Bulletin. The early Bulletins were folded twice after they were collated so they would fit into letter boxes, hence the name. As the Bulletin will now be collated and stapled at Rodney Printers, the need for volunteers to meet each month and collate the Bulletin is no longer necessary. There was some discussion by the Bulletin committee about implementing this new process as Folding Day was a great community day for many of the older, retired folk around town who were happy to get a bit of exercise while they caught up on the latest gossip. However, as the number of volunteers has been steadily declining, the decision to implement the new process became an easy one. Marg Corrigan, who has been in charge of Folding Day and the many volunteers for more years than she cares to remember, has written the following thank you letter. “I would like to thank all my volunteer men and women that gave up their time every fourth Monday each month to ensure another successful edition of the Bulletin by coming to help fold. They have worked tirelessly on this, behind the scenes for many years and have always
done an excellent job without complaint. When we started the Bulletin, the post office said they had to be folded in three with a rubber band around each so they fitted in mail boxes. To do this was hard work and I remember one lady had to leave as doing this made her hands and wrists very sore. I had been folding for several years when one day, the lady that did the counting, asked me to help her with it. The next month a I received a note asking me to pick up the bin from the post office, get some milk for afternoon tea and do the counting. She didn’t show up after that so I have been doing it ever since. The Bulletin goes to many places, including Tatura and the local district, Rodney Park Village in Mooroopna, Toolamba, Murchison, Ardmona, Byrneside, Merrigum as well as various caravan parks and I would also like to thank the people who deliver them. As volunteers are getting lesser and lesser, we are going with the times. The Bulletin will be put together by machine which should be better for all the people who love to read it. As it will be stapled, it will no longer fall apart. I will miss all my lovely volunteers and I wish them all the best for the future.” - Marg Corrigan
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