Christmas 2021 at the Kincumber Hotel

 Our Christmas luncheon this year was held at the Kincumber Hotel.

37 of our Members enjoyed a beautiful lunch and of course Great Company.

John and Joan Vaughan celebrated their 50th
Wedding Anniversary.

  Congratulations
   John and Joan

The Lucky Door price was won by
1st Jan Blanch
        2nd Patrick Ross
          3rd Kel Stewart.  (Funny All Committee members!)🙄🥰

Wishing you All 

       A Merry Christmas                   and             
       a Happy New Year

 Let 2022 be better than the last 2

November 2021

"Picnic in the Park"

After 4 months of Lockdown we were finally able to meet up again at Gosford's Lions Park for our Picnic in the Park.

Not without a hitch or two, last week we had to cancel due to the rain and this Thursday the weather was great, 27 turned up, great company but today the 3 electric BBQ's didn't work! ggggrrrr..

   

Some quick thinking by Jan Blanch who walked over to the Gosford Pools next door, she discussed our problem and soon after our clubs volunteer cooks Don and Keith were able to use the pools 2 bbq's at a small cost and cook our lovely sausages and onions.

Of course lots had to be discussed between members after so many months apart.

 Unfortunately but not unexpected the Council could not solve the bbq's electrical problem, after several phone calls and even return calls we were told that the "only electrician was up on a cherrypicker fixing some lights".

The desserted BBQ's

Surprise surprise they only had my name and number but I ended up receiving an email later stating they would 'endeavour to respond to my inquiry within 5 working days'. Sorry just want the bbq's fixed today, NOW!   That's Life...Say no more....

"SMILE"

After all these months we all had a great time catching up once again.

Due to the Community Hall not opening until January 2022 we wont have a December meeting.

We will have our Christmas lunch instead on the 9th of December.

June 2021

Our Guestspeaker for June was Gary Raymond APM, OAM, retired Chief Inspector NSW Police.

For those that don't know including myself an APM is a Australian Police Medal and an OAM is a Medal of the Order of Australia. 

 

Gary Raymond APM, OAM

Gary and Kel



I am sure all of us found Gary a very experienced speaker with some very interesting stories.

Gary talked about being the first rescue squad to attend the Granville rail bridge disaster, having to crawl through the squashed train looking for any survivors. (18-1-1977)
He spoke of the guy with tattoos, he recognized as a cop that these were tattoos that only criminals had who had been in the 'can' or jail. 

This guy helped Gary at Granville, cop and criminal working side by side in times of need. 

How he found a young lady who worked for the police department who had given up her seat for an elderly lady (who got killed) and this young lady had been standing instead in the back of the carriage and got squashed down by the collapsed train wall. 

She was alive when he found her but stopped breathing in front of him soon after. He was able to move her head back, opening her airway and she came back.
He held her hand and she asked  "Will I ever find a husband and have a baby?" 

Gary being a very religious person simple answer was "Only God knows".  

This lady was flown by military helicopter to hospital and had a 17hr operation.

A number of years later Gary was asked to be on the  "This is Your Life" show, this lady was came up, they embraced for a very long time and next she showed him her husband and their child. 

What a great story.

Gary also talked of the Anita Cobby killers, how one had admitted to his aunt when visiting him in jail that they had all agreed to kill Anita. 

This aunt then agreed to have a microphone and taperecorder (yes in the old days) put on her the next day and how he admitted again but now recorded how they all were involved in the rape and killing of her.

Gary not only had very interesting stories but also had a very humble way of speaking and kept us on our toes right through his 40 minute talk.

Some interesting facts about Gary:

As you can see Gary Raymond has also written 3 books: Top Cop, Top Cop 2 and Top Cop 3.

Grace''s Place:

  "Gaz, Something good will have to come out of something so bad"                                                                                                                        Gary Lynch

    "It will mate"

                    Gary Raymond

Gary Raymond is also involved in the establishment of Grace's Place, the primary purpose is to provide a unique place of healing for children traumatised by homicide. 

Grace's Place will also include residential and councelling facilities and will also be the new head office of the Homicide Victims Support Group (Aust) Inc.

Grace's Place is named after Anita Cobby's late mother Grace Lynch and will be located in Doonside.

Any further information can be found on the web under gracesplace.org.au

Thank you Gary Raymond for your such a very interesting talk.

And Thanks Kel for inviting Gary to come and speak to us.

             

           
                                            All That "Social Distancing".......

                                

       

 

                                                Mick Ryan won $100

                                                                 Our President Carol Thornton won $30

   

                                               Our Ambassador Don Frohmuller won $20

                                                                                                          And $50 for our club

Next time you too could be a winner!

Lilianfells "high tea" bustrip 24th June

Our bustrip for high tea at Lilianfels Resort in Katoomba was cancelled due to the sudden  Covid-19 spread and new restrictions. 
Just some pictures below how nice Lilianfels looked some weeks ago during a very cold spell.

That's all for June.

May 2021

 

In our May meeting Michelle Murrell from Cleanaway came to educate us all on what we can and can not put in out yellow bin.

 I am sure we are all experts now on what to do with our Rubbish.

Michelle receiving her Certificate of appreciation from Judi.

Michelle showing us what to do with plastic coathangers

Hope we all learnt something from her talk.


Milk cartons with foil on the inside must not go in the yellow bin.

Foil trays can go on the yellow bin as long as you squash the foil into a tennisball size shape.

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                                                                         YELLOW bin

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And if you are not sure the Red bin would be safest or you can check under:

www1coast.com.au/education  and find an a-z-waste-disposal-recycling-guid  or  video hub

Sorry about the quality of the pictures below but tried very hard to get it better but...

Well, if all this didn't sound like a lot of Rubbish.......

It did but if recycled properly then todays Rubbish may come out as someone's Treasure tomorrow.

 



Wednesday morning at The Grange in Wyoming:

Another good turnout this Wednesday all though our group looked small in comparison to a 90 year lady's Birthday party called Dorothy.

Looks like all world's problems have been solved again and we are all waiting for our cofees, teas and maybe something sweet.

Teacher: "Kids, what does the chicken give you?"
Student: "Meat!"
Teacher: "Very good! Now what does the pig give you?"
Student: "Bacon!"
Teacher: "Great! And what does the fat cow give you?"
Student: "Homework!"

Thursday Luncheon at the Elanora in East Gosford

Some 16 members had a great lunch at the Elanora Hotel in East Gosford on Thursday the 27th May.

They drank, they ate and they talked.

A big ''CHEERS'' to everyone from Beryl C.

Next Meeting:

And don't forget those $2 coins, someone is going to win it.

Q: Is Google male or female?
A: Female, because it doesn't let you finish a sentence before making a suggestion.

Thats it for MAY 2021!