General News
7 September, 2023
Meeting in the Middle
The Meet in the Middle group is back again this week, and numbers continue to grow as more ladies make the trip to discover new friends and renew old acquaintances. Meet in the Middle originally formed when a group of women from Victoria and South...
The Meet in the Middle group is back again this week, and numbers continue to grow as more ladies make the trip to discover new friends and renew old acquaintances.
Meet in the Middle originally formed when a group of women from Victoria and South Australia met “in the middle” each year for a week-long holiday in Dimboola.
The group has now expanded to almost 100 ladies from all over Australia.
Their visit coincided with Dimboola Country Women’s Association’s Cent Auction this week, so forty of the ladies attended, bidding on a number of bric-a-bracs and donated goods.
The Cent Auction, raffle and Devonshire Tea proved to be a good fundraiser for the CWA group.
While the scones, jam and cream were washed down with cups of tea and coffee, there was chatter aplenty and a good dose of fun and laughter.
Hindmarsh councillor Debra Nelson welcomed the ladies to town and thanked them for returning to Dimboola, then CWA president Mandy Myers announced the winners of the raffle.
“It is nice to support the community groups of the town.,” said Meet in the Middle coordinator, Andrea.
Another return visitor, Barbary from People’s Republic in Brunswick, said she had a great time in Dimboola last year.
“That’s why I’m back,” she said.
“I’ve been blown away by the welcome here, and I’m also really glad to see there are women’s names on the honour boards (in the Dimboola RSL Hall) as well as men - women served too!”
A range of activities were coordinated for the ladies to choose from, including the Tower Park Market on the last day of their visit.
Barbary went on to say that, as a survivor of polio, she was not able to attend many of the walks that the others in the group were doing, but said she was staying entertained in her cabin at Riverside Holiday Park, observing the local birdlife and their pecking order.
“The caravan park is excellent,” she said