DECEMBER 2020 OUR CHRISTMAS MEETING

Today was our Christmas meeting and a lovely Morning tea was organised by the committee . 

Today instead of being OUT for Christmas lunch somewhere ....We had  a Christmas theme meeting  (MORNING TEA)and members were asked to come  dressed in Christmas mode.   

MANY Members  Think it was more fun than going out somewhere  anyway.

A prize was given to the person or persons who the committee judged to be the best dressed  in Christmas Theme . 

                          PHOTOS are BELOW

 Everyone participated and came in their best Christmas gear. 

We had some good laughs at some outfits  and really enjoyed the  Morning .  Some really excelled at this . 

We even had SANTA and his wife in attendance . 

 All of a sudden a lady in Christmas mode appeared in a wheelchair . It was our local member Leisle Tesch . She thought she was our guest speaker today but was relieved to find that a mistake had been made and she wasn't due to be our GUEST speaker until April  .

She stopped and had a cuppa with us and wished everyone a happy Christmas just the same. 

THANK YOU LEISLE . See you in April ,

Our morning tea was a special  Christmas themed  M/Tea and just lovely....  

Thank you  especially To the catering team ....

     Thank you everyone for your team work on this . 

             Covid  might have changed things , 

                 but it didn't stop the team  from working ....

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                                      NEWS FLASH

   Please note there has been a little hold up ( just a hiccup)  with our 40 year history booklet. 

Our new historian resigned and our   40 yr  book has  had 

to go back to  the drawing board   yet again.  

The booklet should be ready for you  to read in Jan. 2021...

Corolin F. and John V. are busy working on it as we speak.they are doing a great job and the booklet will be a great read no doubt...                                       Thank you TEAM, it's all about teamwork in our club  .

Fingers and toes   crossed there are no more problems ....  

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                                        On the sick list 

 Pat D. is still  having back issues, our Welfare  officer  Jan 

is trying hard to keep in touch and lend  support... 

Max and Pat Hiron, : Not travelling well.

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               Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas 

                  and a very happy and healthy 2021, 

                          Keep safe ,Take CARE                       

                                ENJOY THE PHOTOS 

                 OF OUR CHRISTMAS MORNING TEA 

Our Table decorations 

Our lovely Table flowers.... 

                         OUR TEAM  (The  hard working Committee)

                          Elaine was  in Christmas pudding mode .

                      Don in his small tie... he couldn't  find a big one .!

          Carol  (our Minutes Secretary) was all Christmassy '

              PRESIDENT CAROL in Christmas Bear  MODE

        New members  Kel and Sandra  got into the spirit as well. 

                         well done ladies ......

               Jan (our Welfare officer) was very festive too.

      A little view of the members in Christmas mode during Trivia  .

Mr Trivia , John

(Our VP) John V

LIONAL    got us all singing.

 Pres. Carol presented Olivia with a certificate of Thanks for her service ...

We were trying to decide on a winner of our best dressed  when  Mr and MRS Clause arrived', 

(case closed) they looked sensational .... 

We had found our WINNERS 

Santa in Aussie Christmas mode .  

We didn't know Santa had  KNEES

Mr Mrs CLAUSE (The Ross's  took out the prize for the best dressed and why not !!!! 

They had gone to a lot of trouble and looked GREAT. 

WELL DONE EVERYONE 

    HAPPY CHRISTMAS ALL ...........!!!! 

Hope to see you all again in 2021

NOVEMBER Meeting : OUR 1st UNMASKED Meeting ....

 We arrived for our  Nov. meeting fully masked up but when the Air Conditioner was not working we were advised that we did not need masks . 

We still had all other Covid rules in place but Masks were not needed .  We had no guest speaker today , because we normally have our Good Citizenship awards  and NO guest speaker,   however two of our members stepped up  to fill the spot and

 Ros T told us the  story of her working life.

  Alan G  Told us about his Life story . 

A HUGE THANK YOU to both of these members for filling in for a guest speaker....

 John S gave us our Normal Trivia questions .  

We also had  our beautiful Covid safe morning tea  via the meeting room especially served to us  by members using tongs .

 A lovely meeting was STILL  enjoyed by all.

   By the way, we still presented the Good Citizenship awards to the various students and delivered them to each school to be given out at their awards ceremony .

 We are assured that photo's etc will be forth coming from these awards  at a later date .... 

This is the first time in 38 years that our "SPECIAL " Good Citizenship  awards were not given out ,

 But thats COVID for you ,  it has changed everything ...

                                                     President Carol UNMASKED    

                  Ros told us her working life story, well done Ros 

Alan told us about his life story , well done Alan

                                                                 Johns Trivia 

October masked Meeting 8th October 2020

 We had another MASKED meeting today  and we had an OBN 

(over Bloomin ninety) recipient Bill Bowhay . 

Plus Carol Inducted 4 new members today   Sandra , Kel , Mary and Noel. 

 Some of these people have been waiting to join for several

 months but because our club was in lockdown from March 

they had to wait until today to be inducted into our club..   

 We hope these new members will enjoy the new frienships they will make , our outings, lunches out etc and that they will have a long and happy association with their Probus club....  

Our Club is the oldest Probus Club on the C/Coast and is 41 years old, hope you enjoy...

 For our new members,  to put your name down for  any lunches or future outings please  contact our Outing officer Alan  Gibbs                 0402450985  (confidential Phone number) 

 We had a guest speaker today,  Frank Brown , he was an expert in knotts    and was interesting....Thanks Frank .

                    Please enjoy some pics of our meeting (below)....

                              Guest Speaker ......  Frank Brown 

                         

                                             Our Welfare Officer Jan Blanche  is all masked up 

                                                             Our Treasurer Ros all masked up

                                         Our President Carol all masked up 

                    New member photos below .

                                   Please note  they DID wear masks

                               and just took them off for the photos 

                                                                              Noel

                                                                           Mary

                                                                            Kel

                                                                     Kel in mask

                                                                        Sandra

                    Bill Bowhay  accepting his OBN from President Carol

                        Bill says he will put it beside his OBE

                                                                        Congratulations   BILL  

 On the sick list    

                           Elaine F.     (not well)     

                           Dereck   C.     (Bronchitis)

                           Max and Pat  H .   ( Not well)

                           Pat   D .      (in Hospital with Fracture) 

                          Carol W.      ( recovering from knee op)

                We wish all these member a speedy recovery . 

For those who were not able to be at our October meeting

 we hope to see you at a future meeting SOON . 

                            We are missing you . 

Our next meeting is Nov.  12th  and  it would

 normally be our GOOD CITIZEN AWARDS morning . 

However due to Covid restrictions  this will NOT  take place as usual (for the 1st time in 38 years) we are very dissapointed as this is always a very special morning  ,   we will however  be trying to get the awards to the student through their respective schools instead.   

So a normal meeting is planned  for November instead...

 Please watch this space for news on this..

 Our Historian David Walker is working on our 40 yr history book and  with the help of  Frohmullers, Thorntons, Edgingtons and lots of 

 input from  members  the book might be ready for our Christmas meeting  with some luck ....   This book is looking great .

           Again watch this space for future news .......

      Until next we see you . Keep safe and well.  

                         (Please note that this Blog is for our members only 

                                so any news or photo's are confidential .)...

SEPTEMBER 10th Meeting . ANOTHER MASKED EVENT

 Another Covid safe meeting took place today. 

We had our Temp taken,  signed in , wore masks, Social distanced, morning tea was served differently  etc but we were able to have our September meeting regardless so that is the main thing .  

It was lovely to see so many  familiar Probus family faces again.   

We are all   being very careful and playing it safe but we made it to another meeting.  WELL DONE everyone .

 Chairs were placed 1.5 MTR  apart except for some couple chairs that were side by side .

It was Carols 1st full meeting and there was a lot to do, a Certificate of Appreciation for his services went to Lional G.   and  an OBE went to Peter M.  and then a Life membership honour was given to John E.  There were 3 inductions to be made but the 3 new members were not able to be there due to family issues etc. 

So next meeting we will see them again we hope.

 We have induction certificates and badges for them so we hope to  catch up with them soon .

 We had a previous visitor Noel P.  visit us again today and this time Noel  put his membership application in so hopefully at our next meeting in Oct.  we will be welcoming  4 new members  into our Ranks . 

John E. was our guest speaker today and spoke about his  early life and  the IMPORTANCE of writing your story  down  for your future generations to read.  Hope you've all made a start on your stories. 

Very  often we hear someones story at their funeral and so much should have been  put on paper by the person for the family to keep . Next month we hear from Alan G , another interesting life story ... 

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                                       OUTINGS : 

2 groups of 10 of us went to the PREVIEW Restaurant at the Ourimbah Campus  for our September outing. 

The 3 course meal was beautiful and all served with lots of smiles etc from the hospitality students  . 

 The drinks were all reasonably priced and all those in attendance  enjoyed the  outing. THANKS Alan G  for organising this , it is always "special at the Preview....

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                   Some members who are On the sick list 

                          Derek C  = Cataract surgery

                          Carol W  =  knee surgery

                          Elaine F  =    in hospital

                                                    Carol at the helm all masked up 

                 Carol presented John E with his life membership which John accepted  gratefully.

                                                  Peter M.  recieved his OBE all masked up 

                                 Lional  G.  all masked up with his certificate of  APPRECIATION

Some  more photos below  of the masked members catching up  while social distancing with each other  after Morning tea.

 

                                            I Think Cathy's mask has slipped a bit....

                                                            A masked couple          

Pat chatting to Welfare Officer  Jan 

                                                             Barry deep in thought ..   

                                 Next meeting  8th October. 

                        Same time, same place 

                        Hope to see you there.

Our first Covid meeting 13th August 2020 ......A Masked event....

 Our 1st meeting back since March when the Community Centre went into lockdown. was a very covered up affair. 

 

We met under strict Covid rules.......      (ie) distancing, masks, sanitizer, etc.... and we  finally had our change over and as it was our August meeting it was also our  41st birthday . 

We had not had our change over meeting that was due in April so this meeting we were catching up on several months as well as celebrating our birthday.

  Our New president Carol Thornton  finally took the reins  and the collar from the previous president Caroline Frohmuller. 

  We held a minutes silence for 2  very loved members  Joyce Crawford and Trevor Fist who were both very valued members of our club  and are no longer with us.  

 Joyce's husband Derek Crawford  was present for the first time in many months and Trevor's sister Glenis was also present.   

 It was lovely to see them both and for them to share in our minutes silence for Joyce and Trevor . 

  We presented John Vaughan with his OBE , earned a few months earlier and  Marja  Ioannou accepted the OBE for  Tim Ioannou who was unable to be there,  he also earned his OBE several months ago . 

 We presented Barry Turton and Mick Ryan with  "THANK YOU" certificates . 

They have both served our club well and for many years,                     THANK YOU from all of us  . 

We were unable to present several other THANK YOU's as the members were not present .   

There were some lovely  visitors  today and they all  enjoyed the meeting , even though it was very different to normal, they  have taken home membership forms and  seem keen to join our club. 

    When it came to our beautiful birthday cake , purchased by Carolin Frohmuller  (Thank you Carolin) it was decided to ask Derek Crawford (who was also celebrating his birthday) to join with our President Carol in cutting the cake .

 No photos of the new committee etc due to MASKS being worn....

  Photos  below of our special "Masked"  birthday party meeting.  

                                           Who is that UNMASKED man  ????

           Derek Crawford and  President Carol cut the cake 

                        John Vaughan receives his OBE.

                     President Carol finally takes over....

 President Carol presented past President Carolin  with a thank you  certificate and a 

"Thank You"  gift  for her service during her Presidency , from the club.

                             The crowning moment... passing the collar over, from Carolin to Carol .

                                        John Vaughan with his OBE

                                                       Marja with Tim's OBE

 THANK YOU    Mick Ryan  

                                          THANK YOU Barry Turton

                                                              OUR 41st BIRTHDAY CAKE.

                                           We had a minutes silence for Joyce 

                                           A minutes silence for Trevor  

 We hope to have another meeting in September but  things could change by then ...   I am sure President  Carol will keep you all informed of what is happening .