News

November 2008

This will be the last Newsletter of 2008. SeniorNet closes down over December and January.

Our landlord at 106 West Tamaki Road is intending to do some renovations to the exterior of the building. Originally the builders were expected to start work in September 2008 but at the beginning of October I had a meeting with the landlord and the architect and it is now expected that work will begin in January. We will see if that takes place.

The intention is to remove the concrete blocks and windows along the front of the building and replace them with panels and windows from floor to ceiling. The windows are to be coated inside so that although we can see out the people outside will not be able to see in. Also, the windows in the tutoring rooms will be replaced. The canopy over the Hairdressers’ will be extended to the western end of the building (over our left-hand room). This will all cause some disruption to our operations with builders’ noise and dust. It is hoped that arrangements will be able to be made to restrict the worst of the interference to outside our teaching hours.

It may be that the building work will be completed during January but I, for one, doubt it so we will probably need to move our computers around from room to room to avoid damage from the builders’ activities. It is possible that participants in courses may start out, for instance in the Left Hand Room, move to the Right Room and even end up in the Seminar Room. Patience will be the by-word.

Several months ago we announced that members enrolling for a course would need to pay for it before actually being enrolled. This condition has been waived for an indeterminate period.

The raffle for the Epson colour printer will be drawn at our November Meeting at the Community Centre so we look forward to seeing all ticket holders there.

The committee and I wish all members a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year and a Joyous time with their families and friends.

Eddie

One of our Tutors, Liz Watson, has a supply of Tutorial DVDs and CDs, which she gets from a friend in Australia. He has created them for his own pupils in Queensland and he will let us have these at the same price he sells them for there, which is $20.00. Any member interested in purchasing these should email Liz at skipliz@xtra.co.nz or, if you don’t have email, phone her on 575-9421. Please include your name, address, email address and phone number so she can contact you if necessary.

The Tutorials are “Looking into Vista”, “Looking into XP”, “Looking into Picasa” and “Looking into Photo Story 3”.

These DVDs can only be played on your computer DVD player. They cannot be played on any other DVD player.

Neither Liz nor SeniorNet Eastern Bays makes any profit from the sale of these.

There are special offers available to all SeniorNet Federation Learning Centres (Seniornets) and their members listed on www.seniornet.co.nz. Click here to see the full list. We are asked to make sure all of our members are aware of these discounts as it represents significant savings to them.