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All the fun at the Fair

Photo of the two Adams looking relaxed.The Shed manned a marquee at the Hyde Park Festival.  Our aim was to make ourselves known to encourage new membership.  As a bonus we received about $350 through sale of goods made by shed members.  Adam Price and Adam Schofield  look relaxed.  Roy Haagman presented Mark McGowan witPhoto of Roy meeting the Premier to be?h a pen made by Barry Adamson – for signing or cancelling big contracts!!

Communication workshop

Vincent Men’s Shed welcomed Owen Catto from the Regional Men’s Health Initiative.  There was some pretty alarming statistics presented regarding men’s health outcomes compared with women’s health outcomes which made us sit up and take notice.  However the main topic was “Communications” and Owen described, in a good humoured manner the differences between the way the male and female brains and communicating styles operate, illustrated by some amusing videos and slides.  It kept everyone interested and sometimes squirming in their seats as they recognized their own behaviors being described.  A great presentation and Owen joined us for a sausage sizzle afterwards.  

“Men like problem solving alone in their Cave!”Photo of the RMHI workshop attendees.

Donation from Envision Medical Imaging

Envision Medical Imaging have made a welcome donation of $1659 to our Shed which we are using to buy the SawStop Professional Cabinet Saw.

Envision Medical Imaging is an independent Radiology practice located directly opposite St John of God Hospital on Cambridge Street in Wembley.  Opened on the 15th September 2008, they allocate September as their special charity month and look to provide a donation to local organisations to assist them offer important programs to their members.  For each imaging service undertaken on each work day in September, Envision donates to a charity.

The Doctors and staff at Envision have a keen interest in Men’s health – providing prostate MRI scans for patients of local urologists and cardiac scans for 90% of Perth’s cardiologists.

 

 

Visit by Tim Hammond, Federal Member for Perth

Today we were visited in the Shed by Tim Hammond, Federal Member for Perth. Tim was invited to the Shed by the Committee to see how we deliver our Men’s Welfare initiatives and to seek support to identify opportunities which may benefit the Shed.

Photo of Lynton, Tim Hammond and Colin in the Shed

Official visitors

Photo of more talking. Photo of the Minister Christian Porter looking on. Photo of men at work.Visited by MP Christian Porter, Minister for The Department of Social Services, Warren Pearson, Regional Director & Peter Ryan, Assistant Director of Settlement & Multicultural Services. The Minister was there to announce grants for Men’s Shed in WA, his Department did give us a grant of $5000.00 earlier on this year to go towards the Dust Extractor. The Minister & his people were impressed with our shed, especially the cleanliness & positive energy.

Shed Trainer

We now have a dedicated trainer at the Shed: Bruce Carman.  Bruce’s role will be to mark of all members who attend the shed as competent at their level of use of tools, power tools & machinery.  We will be using a colour coded dot system that will indicate their level of competency to be placed on their name badges.