EUGOWRA VIEW CLUB
Members met at the CWA Rooms for their May meeting.
President Irene welcomed members and introduced the guest speaker Margaret Broadbent.
Margaret was born in Melbourne in 1947 her father was a city man and her mother a country girl off a sheep farm near Benalla.
She left home at 17 years of age and joined the Sisters of Mercy in Melbourne and has been in the Institute of Sisters for 60 years.
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Margaret spent time teaching both in Primary and High School and had two years teaching in the Desert School on Billiluna Cattle Station in WA.
From 1996 Margaret spent nine years in the Mercy Art and Creativity Community Art Centre, enjoyed teaching Iconography classes and working with her Russian friends in Sacred Murals Studio and the Centre for Science, Religion and Philosophy, both of which were located in St. Petersburg Russia.
'Viriditas Contemporary Art Studio, Margaret’s new art business, started in 2014 and closed during COVID.
For the last year, Margaret has been with the Uniting Church Disaster Relief as a Chaplain.
Communities Margaret has been involved with include multicultural, Indigenous, Russian (St Petersburg), South Sudan, homeless women, North Melbourne, residents of prisons both male and female, Australian Catholic University Melbourne, Permaculture Hub in Blayney, Mercy Sisters in Melbourne and central west NSW.
Margaret came to the central west with the Sisters of Mercy Integral Ecology Strategic Plan, and came to Eugowra with 'Slow the Flow Project in September 2023.
Helen Watchorn moved a vote of thanks to Margaret for her very interesting talk and presented her with a lovely bunch of flowers.
Following lunch, the meeting resumed with the following points of interest
• VIEW Convention in September- voting on resolutions
• Easter gifts sent to Learning for Life students
• Murals markets feedback - very successful and to hold again next year
• Birthday party plans - will be held on 19 July at the St Joseph's Hall with a sapphire theme as it is 65 years for VIEW. Afternoon tea, raffles etc,
• Birthdays for April/May are Kay, Carol, Nola, Helen, Ros and Esther.
• Thank you to Ros and Helen for organising the ANZAC wreath.
• Next meeting 16 June at CWA Rooms.
• Contact Esther by the Thursday before the meeting to indicate your attendance and where you wish to purchase lunch - the Fat Parcel or Bozena.
