Mornington VIEW Club
About
Mornington VIEW Club was formed in 1994.
Currently our Club sponsors seven Smith Family Learning For Life student and actively raises funds for donations to The Smith Family programs.
We are a very friendly and most welcoming group who enjoy meeting monthly in the very pleasant surroundings of the Mornington Golf Club. We have a strong and rapidly increasing membership.
Our social activities include regular guest speakers, coffee mornings and a variety of outings that are both interesting and entertaining. Our members actively support fundraising endeavours to promote the work of The Smith Family. We currently sponsor seven Learning for Life students and contribute to both the Winter Appeal and Toy and Book Appeal with money raised.
We are always open to new members, so please get in touch today.
When
- Meeting Day on 4th Friday each month
- Held at Mornington Golf Club
- At 11.30 am
Contact
- Judy on 0410 486 204
- Publicity: Jenny on 0426 240 573
- Email: mornington.viewclub@gmail.com
Where
MORNINGTON
Tallis Drive, MORNINGTON, VIC 3931
Time to Relax
Father Christmas with admirers Judy, Barbara, Jane, Jill, Rosemary, Raelene, Pam and Barbara on Santa’s knee
New member Garlin
2022 Christmas Celebrations
It was lovely to hold our Christmas lunch on 7th December at Mornington Golf Club. We had many new members amongst us and all members brought along a Kris Kringle gift to the value of $10.00 for Father Christmas to distribute.
Thanks must go again to Bob for being such a wonderful Father Christmas. Mornington Golf Club provided us with a traditional Christmas lunch and the room looked lovely. A good time was had by all, everybody was in good spirits and we look forward to 2023.
Father Christmas is Bob, the husband of our assistant treasurer Beverley
2022 Christmas Wrapping at Bunnings
Members participated in the Christmas Night Market held at our local Bunnings store on 8th December. Our participation was gift wrapping. We worked in the foyer of the store standing in front of the beautiful Christmas tree.
There were a lot of stall holders made up of local community groups with many families attending. There was the usual Bunnings sausage sizzle, after all, it wouldn’t be Bunnings without a sausage sizzle. The market was a lot of fun and was something different to be involved in.
Photo above L-R: Lyn, Dorothy, Diane, and Sue
Christmas Celebrations
Marilyn one of the lucky raffle prize winners
President Diane chairing the meeting
2022 Closes
Our Club held our last meeting for 2022, and had many raffle prizes for members to win and a Christmas themed trading table.
Our speaker on the day was Jo Mackay who is The Smith Family Learning for Life Program Coordinator for our region.
Jo Mackay the Smith Family Coordinator for our region
The many raffle prizes for members to win
Prize winners for fashions on the field.
Left - Barbara Swift, best hat
Right - Heather Nottingham, best outfit
2022 November
A lunch was held at Steeples Restaurant in Mornington on 3rd November for Oaks Day (Ladies Day) during the Spring Racing Carnival.
Everybody dressed up and we wore our best hats had a lovely meal and enjoyed each others company.
Several sweeps were held and watching the races on television was a lot of fun.
A fashions on the field parade was held and the winners were presented with prizes.
Left to right - Margaret Fenton, Judy Johns, Raelene Warner enjoying dressing up for a lovely day.
2022 August
Mornington VIEW Club accepted an invitation from Southern Peninsula VIEW Club and along with Hastings VIEW Club attended a lunch at the Dromana Hotel on 25th August.
Over fifty ladies attended and enjoyed lunch and a lot of chatting.
It was lovey to catch up with other VIEW Club members and it is planned to make this an annual event.
The attached photograph is the three club Presidents, Mandy Kiklis, Southern Peninsula, Diane Latessa, Mornington and Barbara Farley, Hastings.
Birthday Celebrations
Back row: Sue, Sandra, Margaret, & Audrey Front: Jenny, Sandra, & Lorraine.
L-R: Raelene, Jenny, and Judy
2022 June
Our 28th birthday celebration was a lot of fun as we joined in the Make a Spectacle of Yourself competition in order to celebrate the Centenary of The Smith Family.
We were entertained by singer Mandy van Zanen who invited us to sing along with her. Mandy is a wonderful singer and it was a lot of fun to join in the singing. There was also a Secret Spectacle Snooper who selected the three spectacles that will be entered in The Smith Family’s competition.
A raffle was held with three hampers full of lovely nibbles and wine as the prizes. A good time was had by all who attended and now we look forward to July as we are holding a Box Auction which is a lot of fun.
L-R: Gillian, Bev and Marilyn.
Group photo for the Make a Spectacle of Yourself
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