Tamworth Peel Evening VIEW Club

Christmas Celebrations

2022 December

Our Christmas dinner meeting was a very enjoyable evening with lots of yummy food, great entertainment from the local Ukulele group, George, Joyce and the pharmacy assistant skit, we also had a visit from Santa with everyone receiving a gift.

Llyn presented awards with a fine attached, Karyn read a story on behalf of Mary of Glen Innes VIEW. A BIG thank you to Sally and Carol for organising Oaktree venue which was excellent for the evening, and our visiting members from other clubs for joining us to celebrate.

Walk With VIEW

2022 Spring Morning

A beautiful day greeted us today for our Walk with VIEW morning. We met at Bell cafe, with Ada being our early bird ready way before everyone. Eight Members went for a walk collecting another lady out walking her dog along the way, before returning for coffee, morning tea and a wonderful catch up.

We had fifteen ladies for the morning all laughing and chatting over morning tea, so a big thank you to Bell cafe for the lovely food, and service. Can’t wait for our next get together.

Fantastic Friendship

2022 August

Recently, Club Secretary Ros,  opened her home for a Casserole Lunch that saw members and partners come together for a social gathering.  Everyone brought a dish (main or sweets) to share;  the food and company together was fantastic.

A wonderful time had by all lots of great feedback given.  Many Thanks to Ros for organising and her band of helpers.

Magnificent Coach Tour

2022 June

Ladies , friends, and partners from several local VIEW clubs joined our Members on a coach trip out to Windy station, for a yummy morning tea followed by informative history from Clare of the Windy station woolshed.

The Woolshed was constructed and finished in 1901 by AA company. An amazing feat when you consider how large the Woolshed is with 44 stands and some of the construction material came all the way from Canada. The first shearing commenced 7th October 1901 and 60,000 sheep had been shorn in this shed by end of 1901.

We travelled on to Gunnedah for lunch at the Railway Hotel, a very popular venue with great food. After lunch we were joined by a lady from Gunnedah Information Centre for a guided tour around Gunnedah before heading back to Tamworth.  While travelling on coach we were all challenged with a quiz, to be completed during the day; keeping the grey matter turning.
Many thanks to Barry Black who volunteered to be our coach driver for the day you did a fantastic job and very much appreciated by everyone.

A huge thank you to Lyn and Ellie our program officers for organising such a wonderful day out with lots of great conversations being heard as people connected or reconnected, and with beautiful weather to boot.  The raffle held along the way was won by Elizabeth.

Birthday Celebrations

2022 April

Members celebrated our 32nd birthday in April, with the theme for the evening Pink and Pearls.  The beautiful cake was made by Bev and decorated by Raeleen. Thanks ladies very much appreciated.

We enjoyed great entertainment by our menopausal ladies Sue, Ellie, and Raeleen. Well done ladies.  Thanks to Lynette and Ellie for fining us, organising raffles, lucky doors and telling us a funny story.

President Mareen did a wonderful job comparing the evening.  A BiG Thank you to our guests from Gunnedah, Tamworth Day and Evening VIEW clubs who came and celebrated with us.
On a sad note we farewelled our caterers wishing them well as last night with us.

30 + 1 Birthday Celebration

The Tamworth Peel Evening VIEW Club celebrated their 30th plus 1 birthday on 28th April with a dinner at the North Tamworth Bowling Club attended by 45 members and visitors.  One of the inaugural members, Doreen Blair was in attendance and kindly cut the birthday cake with the help of our newest member Jillian.

The club was formed from an overlap of members from Tamworth Evening VIEW Club in 1989.  Service medals were presented to members for 40, 30 and 10 years of service to VIEW.  A membership badge was also presented to our newest member.

April 2021

Cutting the cake by Jillian and Doreen

Making A Difference Award  

Helen has been a member of the Tamworth Peel Evening VIEW Club since its inception 28years ago, but she has been a member of VIEW clubs for over 40 years holding many executive positions during this time. Helen is one of those people who opitimise VIEW; she is always encouraging, supporting, & guiding those around her with valuable information about VIEW, The Smith Family and learning for life students that we support. Helen is very creative and is always willing to pass on her skills to others. For the Convention held here in Tamworth in 2007 Helen handmade 1200 paper roses for the Gala night and again in 2017 Helen was instrumental in making the table decorations for the Gala evening, and the floral decorations for the stage during the convention.

Helen has traveled far and wide over the years with VIEW and has been to many Conventions in several states; all the time promoting the interests of VIEW and making a lot of friends where ever she has been. Helen makes anyone she meets feel at ease and always knows how to create fines out of a simple conversation, leaving no one safe on dinner evenings but producing many laughs along the way.

Helen is a very worthy winner of the Making a Difference Award and this year at the National Conference it will be her turn to be recognised for the wonderful contribution she has given to VIEW.

Helen Dowton