Gympie VIEW Club

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Meet Our 2022 Committee

L-R:  Lyn (Asst Secretary), Jill (Secretary), Barbara (Program Officer), Yo (Vice President), Christine (Treasurer), Lee (Publicity Officer), Suzanne (Program Officer), Jan (President), Absent - Margaret (Asst Treasurer)

2022 Upcoming Events

• Friday, 18 November 2022 Lunch meeting at Gympie Bowls Club, Southside. Arrive at 10.30am for an 11.00am start.  Tea, Coffee and Biscuits will be available on arrival.  Trading Table will be items that can be given as Christmas gifts.  No theme this month.

• Wednesday, 30 November 2022 – Clothes Swap, held at Barbara's, 17 Māori Lane, Gympie, Bring a plate for morning tea at 10.00am, and again empty your money box so you can buy fashions which others have finished with, and of course if you have fashions you've finished with, bring them along for someone else to buy! Fashion goods include clothes, shoes, scarves etc.  Prices will be approx Dresses $5, Trousers $5, Tops $3, Shoes $5, Scarves $2. 

• Friday, 16 December 2022 – Last lunch meeting for 2022, Gympie Bowls Club, Southside.  Arrive at 10.30am for an 11.00am start.  Tea, coffee and biscuits will be available on arrival.  Theme is Christmas as this is or annual Christmas Lunch.  Great raffle prizes and fun to be had by all. Find out who your secret friend is and pick one for 2023.  

   

Celebrating Spring 2022

The Spring racing carnival is well and truly on, we celebrated with a Melbourne Cup lunch at the Victory Hotel with twenty members and guests.  The raffle of a bottle of Chardonnay Pinot Noir was donated by the Victory Hotel and won by Christine. 

The Melbourne Cup sweep was won by Heather, Jenny and Sharon.  Congratulations to our winners and thank you to the ladies for attending and achieving $230 for our Learning for Life students.

Winners are grinners: Heather, Jenny and Sharon with Donna from Victory Hotel and Barbara our Program Officer

2022 October

This month has been a bit wet again, and we had lunch out at the Mt Pleasant Hotel.  Our October meeting was attended by twenty ladies who enjoyed lunch, and we had one of our members Suzanne, who attended the National Convention in Adelaide spoke about her experience, which was very interesting.  The raffle was won by Lee and the lucky door prize was won by Jeannie.

October Birthday girls: Tricia and Iris

2022 September

We started Spring with a Book Sale and morning tea at Mary's, home.  It was a lovely morning where seven ladies enjoyed a chat, and a variety of sausage rolls as more than one person brought them along.

Our lunch was attended by seventeen members with guest speaker Robyn Bowman (pictured below), who spoke about archaeological digs she has been involved in; especially one that was a local historical building being a bank and residence.  Robyn gave a fascinating presentation showing these findings, and how they could uncover the lives that were led by the then, residents.  This was very interesting, and well received by the members.  Thank you Robyn.

We were to have a clothes swap at Yo's, but due to weather and road conditions it was decided to cancel.  This will be rescheduled at another date.

March 2022

Due to the recent flooding in Gympie our social outing at Yo's home was cancelled.  As our meeting venue, Gunabul's was unavailable, we were fortunate to secure a substitute venue. 

The alternate venue was at Gympie Bowls Club where twenty three members enjoyed a nice lunch, and our guest speaker was Natalie Upshall who spoke about her experience as a Foster Carer, and her role as a coach of Special Olympics.  Natalie highlighted the importance of the program for disabled children and the benefits they derive from it, as well as the dedication and passion for sport, including the children of the volunteer coaches. 

It was surprising to our members, the number of sports that are available to the children. Thank you Natalie, for your time.

2022 February

No social outings due to Covid concerns. 

On 18 February we had our first meeting of the year and also our elections. 

A new committee was elected and was inducted by our new Zone Councillor, Lainie Sanders, we also had a guest speaker from Hearing Australia, Suzanne was very informative and very kindly donated a gift voucher to be raffled a future Meeting.

We are all looking forward to commencing social outings as we have missed our get-togethers.

2021 October

Another busy month started with a lovely morning tea enjoying the beautiful gardens at Yo's home in North Deep Creek.  Lovely time on the verandah overlooking the garden enjoying good food and company. 

Our lunch meeting this month at Gunabul Homestead was a lovely lunch of salmon with rice and asparagus and beans followed by pavlova and berries, very much enjoyed by all, we also discussed our Christmas lunch menu as it is coming fast.  No guest speaker this month Christine arranged a trivia quiz with an Australian theme, this was won by Susan who scored 17 out of 20, great job Susan.

Our final outing was to Cooloola Berries to join with our sister club from Hervey Bay, we enjoyed a lovely lunch and met new ladies having a lovely time.  This time we were in the air-conditioned room which is a lovely spot and Kim Lewis gave us a chat about the farm and its crops as it was too hot for a farm tour.