Gympie VIEW Club

2020 Comes to a Close

After a difficult year for a lot of people across our country as well as the rest of the world, we are grateful for our VIEW friends and were very happy to be able to resume our lunch meetings and limited social outings. 

Our first meeting back in November was delightful with a special visitor from Smartpups called Daisy who brought her owner Robi and a friend with her.  Robi spoke about the work of Smartpups in providing special assistance dogs for disabled people especially their work with children affected by diabetes and epilepsy.  Very informative talk enjoyed by all.  When the talk was over, Daisy was signalled that work was over and it was play time where she circulated throughout the room to get pats and spread her loving nature to all members.  Daisy was delightful and delighted everyone present.  A wonderful lunch and a great start to resuming our VIEW meetings.

We also had our badge presentations for 10 and 20 year members.  Our 20 year members were Joann and Charmaine, our 10 year members where Dorothea, Margaret and Nannette which were presented by our President Barbara.

For December we ended the year with our Christmas party which is always well supported by members and we are able to find out who our secret friend is.  Lots of fun had by all and a great way to end the year and we are all looking forward to 2021.

Robi with Daisy from Smartpups, 

Badge Presentation

Photo above L-R: President Barbara, 20 year Joann, 10 years Dorothea, Margaret & Nannette, 20 year Charmaine.

             Beautiful Daisy                                                                    

Craft Day at Charmaine's

What a beautiful day to do some Christmas craft and enjoy some wonderful company on the verandah at Charmaine’s home on Friday the 13^th where seventeen ladies had a fun and crafty day. 

Some ladies made some place-mats by making an A3 collage and then laminating them, while others did some decoupage on glass jars and other items with napkins.  As you can see by the photos some beautiful gifts were made and the stories told are of a wonderful fun day spent with VIEW friends.

There were also some ladies who didn’t join the craft part of the day but enjoyed the fun and we encourage all members to our craft days as they are really just an excuse to get together to enjoy each other’s company with yummy food and to learn different crafts for those interested.

November 2020

Supporting 1,000 Heart's Foundation 

Recently a craft day was held at Jill's house at Southside; there were seven ladies present, and it was decided that our craft day would support Jean's project, the 1000 hearts foundation, by hand sewing and decorating small pocket hearts which will be given to people who need a little kindness in their lives, no matter what the problem. 

We had a lovely time making our hearts which are pictured as well enjoying a lovely lunch together.

 Photo above L-R: Pat, Jean, Charmaine, Margaret, Jill, and Michelle         (Photographer Christine not in photo) 

October 2020

Book Presentation to Local School 

Gympie VIEW recently made the annual book donation presentation to the Gympie East State School, which is always well received.

Photo opposite:    Glynis  and Barbara with school representatives