Tonight’s guest speaker was Helen Ransom from Perfect Crime Music.  She gave an entertaining talk on the history of the Falls Festival and of some of the event management issues she has dealt with over its many years.  There may be some fundraising opportunities for our club in the future.

The club now has its very own projector.  Paul brought it to tonight’s meeting.  It now resides at Warwick’s place.

Today Kate held a pancake lunch at her place. It was well attended (11 people) and the $100 raised will go to Uniting Care. We were introduced to Kate’s new puppy, Mr Darcy, who was quite well behaved. We even had a balloon popping competition that was convincingly won by Grace.

As we had no guest speaker Brett & Carmen showed us their wedding photo’s.  They have been married for 5 years and have two children who they regularly bring along to our meetings.

Several of our club helped with the ticket collection at the Briggs Athletics Classic on Friday 12th February.   We started our roster from 4pm and we finished around 8pm.

It was not as busy as the All Schools and Youth Athletics Championships in December last year but it was very busy at times.

Kate, Paul, Warwick, Phil, Belinda, Brett, Carmen, and Anita went to the Rotary Annual Giving Day which was held at Lovely Banks (Melton Mowbray).  The weather was terrific and the we all had fun.  Our club gave $1,000 to Rotary Foundation and the total given and pledged came to just under $70,000.  Thanks to Kate from bringing the wine

Nick Brown from Tasmania Police (and Jill’s husband) was our guest speaker at last night’s meeting. He gave us a run down on the recent changes in the road rules and penalties. Most of these changes occurred from November 2009. He also showed us the drug swap test, which sum of our club thought was a pregnancy test.

We had Julia Fassina from Royal Life Saving Society as a guest speaker at our club last night. She provided a good overview of the organisation (almost 100 years old) and of the services they provide. An interesting item she brought along was the “First Aid in a Box”. This enables people to learn first aid in their own time, very useful.

Yesterday we had our first meeting at the New Sydney Hotel. We really appreciated the cool, air conditioned room as it got to an extremely hot 37 degrees outside. As it was committee meeting we worked out our plans for the next 6 months.

We had a terrific day down at Eaglehawk Neck today.  We had a relaxing BBQ on the deck facing the clear blue sky and ocean.  After lunch had settled some of us went down to the beach to play in the sand and water.  Many thanks to Anita for organising everything.

Ange & Lucy relaxing

Best friends Jill & Tracy