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Latest Message (questions about Vegemite have been well and truly answered!): 2 days, 10 hrs ago
  • chappy: Happy Canada Day everyone cool 2 days, 10 hrs ago
  • macstir: Happy Canada day everybody! From Brendan and Sherry 2 days, 18 hrs ago
  • [GUEST]Club Prez: Hi All, Greg (Foxy) here. I just realised March was my last DownUnder drinks nite that I attended - work and personal reasons have seen me unable to attend. However, I will be there this month - JULY 8th - and hope to see as many of you there for a nice summer's nite round drinks. 4 days, 12 hrs ago
  • Di Hall: Boy I just realised it has been 5 years since we started this club Foxy and Hoges, time does fly!! 1 wk, 1 day ago
  • [GUEST]guest_6034: Any cities wanna meet at down under? 1 wk, 2 days ago
  • [GUEST]guest_6034: Hey cities 1 wk, 2 days ago
  • [GUEST]guest_8896: Hey Chappy, its Alton 3 wks, 6 days ago
  • [GUEST]guest_2901: is it on wednesday morning or night?? its not on there website 1 mth ago
  • [GUEST]guest_5350: the walkabout has it on i seen it there on a poster 1 mth ago
  • [GUEST]guest_5873: try the walkabout maybe 1 mth ago
  • [GUEST]guest_7668: Hey I was just wondering if anyone new of a bar in Edmonton that would be playing the state of origin??? 1 mth ago
  • [GUEST]guest_2566: Tommorrow saturday day we will be having a mens game of aussie rules football here in edmonton for fun we are starting a mens team here in edmonton at  Hawrelak Park at 12pm in the first car park as you come in the park on your left come watch or play for more info call tristan on (780) 721 4555 1 mth ago
  • [GUEST]guest_7778: That last message was from Alton Valler (Kiwi) 1 mth ago
  • [GUEST]guest_7778: Hey Guys, I'm looking for an April 2007 copy of the Auzzie Magazine "Famous" for Edmonton Corporate Challenge. If anyones got a copy get a hold of me through facebook. If you can help that would be awesome! 1 mth ago
  • [GUEST]guest_622: How are things going everybody? How was the april and may pub nights? 1 mth, 1 wk ago
  • [GUEST]guest_7628: whoops 1 mth, 2 wks ago
  • [GUEST]guest_7628: whoops 1 mth, 2 wks ago
  • [GUEST]Prez Foxy: Chappy...don't u mean 2nd WEDNESDAY of every month! That's probably why we haven't seen you in a while - LOL!! 1 mth, 3 wks ago
  • [GUEST]guest_8166: hey every one our womens aussie rules team had our first kick in calgary on the weekend and we did realy well we will be playing here in edmonton on the 23rd of this month come down for a look also is there any one interested in umpiring games and helping out 1 mth, 3 wks ago
  • chappy: hi guest3963  We meet up 2nd Tuesday of each month at the Wunderbar (TOMORROW).  Check the bottom of the page for address and time.  It's pretty casual, just turn up and see who is there 1 mth, 3 wks ago
  • [GUEST]guest_3963: Hey guys! I've not so long ago arrived in Ed from Oz (Qld).  I'm really pleased to have found your website & other aussies living here! I love Canadians and Canada in general but its always nice to connect with home :)so do you guys all meet up??  have bbq's, drink some beers, etc??!! How do i join?!! 1 mth, 3 wks ago
  • [GUEST]guest_248: You can never ask tooooo many questions about Vegemite! cos we are happy little vegemites!!! Smile 1 mth, 3 wks ago
  • [GUEST]guest_5187: i wanna go ther for some fun i had never been there tho kinda nervous 1 mth, 4 wks ago
  • Caniwi: Hey Sherry, thankfully it's just cheese whiz (yuck!) ... so here's another 'disparate' one for you:  it's about 5 degrees here and snowing AGAIN right now, and it's 30 degrees in Ottawa today ... WAAAHHHHHHHHH!! 2 mths, 1 wk ago
  • Sherry: Regarding the disparate pricing of foods from 'back home'.  How's this for ironic; a 500ml jar of Cheeze Whiz is $12.95AU in Cairns. You can get the same for about $3.50CA back home.  Oh, and the only place I could find it was in an Asian food store, imported from the Philipines. 2 mths, 2 wks ago
  • [GUEST]guest_1218: Vegetime and Tim Tams!!! these can be found at London Drugs and Save-on-Foods throughout Edmonton and area. Like Sherwood park... 2 mths, 3 wks ago
  • [GUEST]guest_7607: Can we get a Rugby League team started in Edmonton. 2 mths, 3 wks ago
  • Caniwi: Hey Brendan, glad to hear Sherry got a chuckle out of my haka antics  Smile 2 mths, 3 wks ago
  • BulldogGirl: Just to let you all know.. Vegemite was found at the new Save On Foods 23rd Ave near 17th St. It was the smallest size jar of Vegemite... and selling price around $6.50 CAD!! I think this sells for around $1.79 back home! Anyway... great to see it being filtered back onto Canadian Grocery Store shelves... 2 mths, 3 wks ago
  • [GUEST]guest_2454: I'm an aussie living west of edmonton and next time i'm in the city i'll definetly come check out the downunder club, i'm in edmonton lots and didn't even know it was there! 3 mths ago
  • macstir: Hi Stacey, we are back in Aus too, up in cairns. Brendan and Sherry 4 mths ago
  • [GUEST]guest_7743: i am on facebook if anyone wants to stay hi 4 mths ago
  • [GUEST]guest_7743: hi its Stacey,just tought i would drop by and say high. Everything is good here just moved into our new house,  and i start medical school in month and we are enjoying the warm weather. hope all is well with everyone. 4 mths ago
  • [GUEST]guest_9140: Hello everyone, my name is Devin and I am the director of the Clansmen Rugby Football Club?s youth program.  As back ground, the Clansmen Rugby Football Club was formed in 1967 in the heart of Edmonton with our club house being located at Airways Park near the municipal airport. To date the Clan was won an incredible 48 city championships and 21 provincial championships.  If anyone is looking for information on our youth (U8-U18) or senior program please Smile feel free to call me at 780-619-0685 4 mths, 1 wk ago
  • [GUEST]guest_6696: Hi Greg 4 mths, 1 wk ago
Sound:

What happened at this month's meeting - March 09
Another reasonable turn out - thanks to all that came along for a chat and a drink or two.  We pretty much had the bar to ourselves, so the Barman/DJ started to find and play Aussie / Kiwi music for us which then turned to an all out Aussie / Kiwi request-fest.  Most of us strained to remember ol' hits (and some not-so-hits) from the 70's and 80's and the DJ surprisingly managed to find most of them.  We also learnt that Karen and Steve are Kevin Bloody Wilson fans and their favourite Kev song... DILLIGAF!

A DownUnder Club G'day and welcome goes to David - a Novocastrian (of the NSW variety) who dropped by to see what we're all about.  David's been in Canada for about 20 years....poor bugger!

A special blowfly salute goes to Sharon (Shazza) who  hails from Aotearoa.  Sharon managed to churn out an impressive and slightly intimidating Haka.  I only wish I had pulled out the cell phone camera quick enough to grab a sample.
(NOTE: This picture is indeed not Sharon.)

We had a bit of a chat about ANZAC Day this year and the plan is currently that the Loyal Edmonton Regiment, is going to have a full dawn service at the Edmonton City Hall Cenotaph at 6AM on April 25th.  Following the service, there will be a breakfast at the LER Barracks for Military Personnel only.

For members of the Aussie / Kiwi community, one of our club members, Keehan, is offering to host an ANZAC Day BBQ, weather permitting.  Hopefully the snow will be off the grass and the ground dry.  The BBQ will be a BYO meat and grog and the club will provide the BBQ(s), condiments, cutlery, etc.  Keehan is located in the west end just off the Anthony Henday between Lessard and Callingwood Roads.  Dechene Park is just across the road, so feel free to bring a footy and cricket bat or two.  Dechene Park is a large open space, so kids often like to fly kites there too and that means lawn darts may be out of the question though.  We have it on good word, that we'll have a few Two-Up sessions during the day too.  More info on the BBQ will be coming shorly.  We'd also appreciate if you could give us an idea of numbers attending.  An online attendance sheet will be set up shortly....stay tuned!

Also, we had a visit from Linda Hoang.  Her name might be familiar to you as she's a running entrant in the "Island Reef Job" competition to win a six-month job as caretaker of the islands of the Great Barrier Reef.  Find out more at http://www.islandreefjob.com

Linda's been in the news a lot recently and is (at the time of this writing) at position 11 in the votes for the best job in the world.  We're standing behind Linda as an Edmontonian and encourage you to vote for her at http://islandreefjob.com/Linda

Linda has her own blog-site about her quest to be Caretaker of the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef at http://bestjob.linda-hoang.com  Here you can find all her media appearances and her day-to-day activities leading up to the big draw.

Go Linda!


Finally, a reminder that the U of A is showing the Aussie mocumentary "Kenny" as a fundraiser for the Victorian Bushfire Appeal on Friday the 13th and Thursday the 19th this month.  More details are here on the club website.
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Monthly Get Together


Our monthly get together is on the regular schedule of the 2nd Wednesday of the month.


DownUnder Club Members and Visitors are welcome at
The Wunder Bar,
8120 101 St,

From about 7:30pm onwards.


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GRAND FINAL NITE!

Well the pic says it all...

A well fought and tough-won game.  A close Grand Final is always a great Grand Final.

A crowd of about 70 odd enjoyed a nite of aussie seafood, VB (till it ran out) and a quality nite of footy.

Thanks to The Wunder Bar, Chef's Choice Seafood for the Barramundi and all who made the nite great.

(Check the Photo Gallery HERE for pics of the nite)

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Ski Snow Valley this Season

Did you know that our very own Club Prez Greg is a bona fide (Level II) Ski Instructor?

 Checkout Snow Valley Edmonton just off the Whitemud, between 122nd Street and Terwillegar Drive.

http://www.snowvalley.ab.ca/
 

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