Excel Tutorials

Hi all, Some of you who have laptops have expressed an interest in learning how to use the spreadsheet program Microsoft Excel. We have found a website with some free tutorials which may be useful. The website covers many different topics, just click on what you are interested in learning about on the top of the screen and a number of links to videos on that topic will appear in the middle of the screen. Select the video you would like to view and a new page will come up giving you a demonstration. On the top left hand side of the screen there is a button you can press to ‘Try it yourself’. There are also links to free tutorials about the Microsoft Word (used for typing documents) and Powerpoint (used for creating slideshows for presenations) on this website. Click on the link below to be taken to the website: http://www.free-training-tutorial.com/format-cells.html

Footy Tipping Results Round 16

Hi everyone - I'm getting in with last week's footy tipping results just in time before round 17 begins...our winner last week was Heather from our Murray Bridge group. This is the 3rd time Heather has won a week of tipping in our competition!! Excellent work Heather...Heather claims she doesn't know anything about football but I'm not so sure ;) In other news Merv from Lameroo, who has been on top of the overall ladder since the season started, is now tied for first place with John from Renmark. The pressure is really on now...what will the ladder look like after this round?

Website for people aged 50+

Hi everyone, We thought you might be interested in having a look at the following website - just click on the underlined words below and you will be directed there: http://www.yourlifechoices.com.au/ 'Your life choices' is a website for Australians aged 50+ that provides information on a range of topics including health, travel, finance and technology. Have a look and see what you think.

Footy Tipping Competition Update

Hi all - I have missed a few weeks of footy tipping updates so I'm here to get everyone up to speed...our winner for round 13 was Alison from our Murray Bridge group, Alison was the only person to get 7 correct tips this week. The winner for round 14 was Ruth from our Lameroo group - Ruth is very sneakily creeping in on Merv's overall lead in the competition, look out Merv! In the last round of footy tipping, round 15, we had a tie for first place. Heather and Alison, both from our Murray Bridge group, got 6 tips correct and the same margin. This is the 2nd time Alison has won our footy tipping competition and the 3rd time Heather has won, well done!!

Footy Tipping Round 12 Results

Hi everyone, We are now about halfway through the football season - I don't think there is much hope for our South Australian teams making it to finals this year but in better news we have had some great tipping in the last round, five people in our competition got 8 correct tips!! Max from our Lameroo group had the overall best score for the round with 8 correct tips and a margin of only 2 - well done Max! Good luck to everyone this week :)

Footy Tipping Round 11 Results

The top tipper last week in the 'Linking Rural Older People' footy tipping competition was Ruth from our Berri group - congratulations Ruth and good work on getting 7 tips correct last week! Round 12 is now upon us...good luck everyone!

Footy Tipping Round 10 Results

For the second week in a row, Heather from our Murray Bridge group has won the footy tipping competition! Heather was the only person to get 7 correct tips, well done! Most people got 5 correct tips for the week, I think we were all thrown off by Port's win and the Crow's loss...good luck everyone in round 11.

Footy Tipping Round 9 Results

The top tipper this week was Heather from our Murray Bridge group - well done on your 7 correct tips this week Heather! Our overall leader continues to be Merv from Lameroo...but John from Renmark and Gwen from Waikerie are not far behind...good luck this week everyone!

Accessing Community Information on the Internet

We have noticed that a lot of you are saying on your weekly log sheets that you access community information on the internet during the week. We are curious to know the sort of community information you are looking up - is it things like the weather, bus timetables, news, event listings or something else? We thought it would be a good idea to start a conversation here on the blog site to discuss the sort of community information you are looking up on the Internet...this might give others some ideas about things they could look up too! Please post a comment and share!

Footy Tipping Round 5 - 8 Results

Hi everyone sorry I have been a bit slow to put in the footy tipping results for the past few weeks (and that's not just because I haven't been tipping so well!). Here are the results for rounds 5, 6, 7, and 8: Round 5: Our top tipper this week was Tom from Morgan with 6 correct tips Round 6: Raelene from Lameroo had 7 correct tips this week and took the top spot (again! She was also the best tipper in round 3...) Round 7: Kath from our Murray Bridge group was the top tipper this week with 6 correct tips - the credit goes to her son Victor who advised her who to tip! Round 8: Alison from Meningie is this winner this week with all 8 tips correct!! Great job on your perfect score Alison! Merv from Lameroo continues to be our overall leader with 47 total correct tips. Good luck to everyone with their tipping this week!