Welcome to the Combined Probus Club of Belrose Inc
Club President – Mike Hartnell
Greetings everyone! Happy August, another active month for us.
Special thanks to our wonderful Margaret Ayre who has run yet another great outing, the Winter Yulefest. When Margaret announced earlier this year that she would be stepping down from the Tours and Outings role, I jokingly told you all that we would be looking for a woman or three men to take over the role.
Guess what! I was right! We’ll be taking the three men option. I’ll be looking after the Zig Zag Railway and Mudgee tour in October, and then Ted Morton will be taking over the Tours area, and of course we have Geoff Jones who has just run the second successful Magical Mystery Tour and has many more day outings in store.
Between the three of us, and with Margaret’s valued support, you will all have a lot to look forward to. It is really gratifying to see people who are standing up and contributing to our club in so many different areas to ensure that we have so much variety (the spice of life) in our club offerings. Past President Ros is always there to enthusiastically help to get new activities going. Thanks Ros, and everyone else who is helping. The people who put the most into the club get the most out of the club.
On August 7, we have another fine dining opportunity when we go to Doyle’s at Watsons Bay on public transport. Thanks Megan. We are starting to get quite a bit of use from our $2.50 a day Seniors Opal cards now.
Warwick and Lorna continue to make excellent shows available to us. We do get some terrific productions at Glen St. We are very lucky to have such a good theatre in easy reach, and going is a great way to socialise with other club members.
Cherry brings a wide variety of interesting speakers to our meetings. Wasn’t the visit to the Titanic interesting. In August Melinda Murray should be very entertaining too. Thanks Cherry.
On top of everything else, Jenny Jones produces our widely acclaimed newsletter, which draws so much praise from our members, and other clubs. Thanks Jenny.
On August 12, we will be asking new Members to a brunch together. This will make it easy for our newer members to make friends with committee members. We’ll be asking the newer members about their experiences in the club and what we can do to make it better for new members. Your ideas will be welcomed and appreciated.
Thought for the month: If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.
Look forward to seeing you soon.
Mike
Past Presidents
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