AGM 2012

Annual General Meeting
Monday 20th August 2012 at 7pm
All Welcome

AGM 2011

Yaninee Public Hall AGM

Thursday

27th October 2011

7pm

All welcome.

A day of gardening

It’s almost been a year since the small garden was installed at the front of the Hall and it was definitely due for a weeding session. So with hoes in hand and whilst waiting for the kettle to boil, the hacking began.

It was decided that we shouldnt just stop with weeding and within a few seconds residents were down the street digging up some gazanias which had started to grow in the gutter. “Better get them before the grader does.” one was heard to say.

With a little help from the children and their trailer the gazanias were quickly planted and watered in. Hopefully a colourful addition to the front of the Hall for years to come.

Searching for Photos

Have you ever attended a community event at the Yaninee Hall?

Any weddings, flower shows, balls, cabarets and other such parties?

Would you happen to have photographs from them? And could you help us?!

We are searching for any photos of the Yaninee Hall for a collection to display its’ colourful history. Sadly, there are very few documents and pictures currently available to exhibit, so if you have any photos that show the Yaninee Hall (inside and/or out) we would love to have a copy of them.

We can scan any relevant photos and also return them to you.  For postal deliveries, please drop them off in an envelope marked “Yaninee Hall” along with your contact details to the Wudinna, Minnipa or Yaninee Post Offices. If you are able to scan them yourself, please email them to photos@yaninee.com.

It would be most appreciated if photos could also be accompanied with a brief description, the name and date of the event, and the names of people in the photo.

Yaninee Hall now Tweets

If you are a fan of twitter you’ll be please to know you can now hear the Hall tweeting it’s news, events and even the local weather.

You’ll find us at http://twitter.com/YanineeHall

Cropping the Common

This year it’s the Hall’s turn to crop the Common.

For those who don’t know, the Common is a small paddock in the centre of town that was originally a public paddock for everyone to graze their milking cows  or other stock. Lately over the last few years  it’s been home to some beautiful old mares.

But this year the old mares were moved out and the machinery moved in. To help pay for the Hall’s expensive insurance (among other things) the Common was dug up and planted by the Hall Association’s President (Thankyou K.S.)

Currently the first leaves are starting to poke their way out of the ground giving hope that the Common crop hasn’t suffered the losses other crops have from the mouse plague experienced in the area over the last few months.

There’s a few months to go, but so far so good.

Brownie Bake-off

The usual crowd rolled up on Thursday with brownies in hand. Some were extremely ecstatic with their effort while others were so disappointed that they didn’t want to put them on the counter.

After several chews and the onset of a sugar rush, debate began on which was the best. For a while a general consensus could not be found until some unaware caravaners stopped out the front of the Hall.

When Frank and Faye Parker drove into Yaninee to see Frank’s grandmother’s name on the Hall’s foundation stone they never thought they’d be roped into judging the Brownie Bake-off, but even they couldn’t agree on a single winner so it came down to two. For your everyday “lets eat a brownie moment” the winner was a chocolate walnut brownie, but for those ” let’s have a decadent chocolate  fudgy moment” the winner was a super luscious Choc -Peppermint brownie.

Chocolate Walnut Brownie

185g dark chocolate

125g butter

3/4 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 cup Plain flour

1 cup chopped walnuts

Melt chocolate and butter together over a low heat, stir in the sugar and eggs one at a time.

Beat well with a wooden spoon and then stir in sifted flour and walnuts.

Pour into greased 20cm square cake tine and bake in moderate oven for about 25 mins. Cool in the pan.

Sprinkle with icing sugar and cut into squares when cool.

**Note** Nuts can be omitted

Choc -Peppermint Brownie

250g block peppermint choc broken into squares

Filling

150g butter chopped

250g dark chocolate

1 1/2 cups brown sugar

3 eggs lightly beaten

1 cup plain flour

Icing

1/4 cup icing sugar

2 tsp hot water

peppermint essence and colouring

Grease a small slice tray and preheat oven to 190C

Melt butter and chocolate, mix till smooth. Using a wooden spoon stir in sugar and eggs, add flour, mix well

Pour into a pan, scatter choc peppermint squares over top and push into mix.

Cook for 35 mins or until a skewer comes out moist but not wet. Cool in pan.

Make icing and drizzle over top. Allow to set, remove from pan.

The Best Brownie Bake-off

The search for Yaninee’s Best Brownie Recipe happens this Thursday, 24th June.

All Thursday attendee’s are asked to bring a batch of their best brownie’s for tasting and judging.

Only criteria being that the brownies must be chocolate (white, dark or milk are all acceptable) and they must be “home made from scratch” not pre made not store bought or from a packet. Hence all entries will need to be accompanied with a copy of the recipe.

The best brownie recipes will be posted for all to enjoy.

Alas Alack No more oven

Not that it worked properly but the Hall’s oven has finally given up for good.

We should have expected it, all that was working was one dodgy stove top hot plate but, that hot plate was enough to boil the kettle and heat the percolator for our weekly dosage of caffeine. This weekly caffeine hit is so important to the group that a simple household electric kettle was quickly purchased to cover the cravings, and for those who liked their coffee percolated they will need to suffer the taste of instant coffee or become tea drinkers instead.

On another note it has been suggested that since new rainwater tanks will now be funded by a government grant that all the money raised from the bulbs and other activities could be put towards a new oven instead, no doubt all be will discussed on Thursday.

And lastly, the bucket bulbs are back and gracing the front of the Hall with their beauty. Many thought that the bulbs had died over summer due to lack of care, water, attention, thought, food, sun and shade but we were all proved wrong. There is plenty of space out the front for some more of these planter pots so let us know if you have any old metal mops bucket worthy of donation to the Hall.

New rainwater tanks: A pipedream, no it’s a reality

When the Thursday group started meeting weekly, the initial idea was to make sure the Hall got used and that it received the TLC it needed. It was soon realised that the Hall’s raintanks were in desperate need of repair and that the Hall’s roof space was severly under utilised. The group decided that its first fund raising focus would be for new tanks at the hall, or at the least, to replace the only one it had.  To raise the large amount required for a decent rainwater catchement system seemed overwhelming for our small group to do on its own, so it was decided that grant funding opportunities would be  looked at.

Last week in the mail the Hall received a letter from Paul Caica, the SA Minister for Environment and Conservation, stating that it was successful in its grant application. The Hall had submitted a proposal in May to the Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity for funds to fix and replace guttering as well as the installation of new and larger raintanks.

Now the fun begins, we’ve got the money, time to do the work.

All members of the community wanting to discuss this project or  submit their ideas are invited to contact the Hall’s committee  either via email hall@yaninee.com or by attending a regular Thursday morning gathering.