Welcome to the Combined Probus Club of Belrose Inc
Club President – Mike Harnell
Happy May to everyone. A great month to join in, participate and enjoy.
Sorry I missed my first General Meeting as President. Had a great time going to Vietnam, Cambodia and Japan for a month. Cambodia is a lovely place with lovely people. Vietnam I had only known about through all the media and propaganda during the years of the war there.
Vietnam and Cambodia had some terrible violence and destruction in the 60s and 70s. But it is fifty years on now and two generations ago. Most of the population weren’t born then. They are young and keen to have visitors and investors to help build their country.
They are very friendly and will do anything to help you and look after you
and they speak good English!. It gives them joy to help you.
Japan is just impressive on so many fronts. Beautiful country, excellent high speed transport systems, lovely, well dressed, polite, helpful, courteous and respectful people. So clean – no rubbish anywhere to be seen, no graffiti etc, and lots of technology. We can learn so much from the Japanese.
Thanks to Peter Moxham, Jenny Jones, Margaret Ayre, Ros Thompson, Tony and Marg Lovett and others for picking up all our jobs while we were away.
We had a very interesting speaker organised by Cherry in April talking about iconic Australian inventions, and a great lunch at Limani’s on 23rd April. Thanks Megan and Tony. Warwick just keeps the entertainment flowing – thanks Warwick.
Coming up on 1st May we have a visit to the Australian Museum to get a museum tour by Les Bassett (thanks Les) and to see the Machu Picchu exhibition (thanks Margaret Ayre). 15 events on our calendar for May, so check the calendar in the newsletter for details. There’s something for everyone. More players welcome for Mahjong – we’ll teach you if you don’t know how. And don’t forget Cards and Board games after our next general meeting (ask Ros or Mike).
We also had some sad news, losing former club president and all-round champion Lyle Pearce. Everyone who knew Lyle speaks so highly of him. We extend our sincere condolences and best wishes to Jill and their family.
President Mike
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