Merry Xmas and best wishes everyone, for our last meeting of 2002.

Last weeks Xmas party at Angelo’s will certainly go down in my memory as a night of fun, friendship and the true Xmas spirit of giving.

Thanks to the organisational brilliance and salesmanship of George Helou and John Leftwich, and the generosity of many of our members we were able to supplement the clubs $3,000 donation to our "helping the bush appeal" with an additional $3,145 (plus another $200 or $300 received by Brian Johnson later) donated by members either through private donation, the great raffle on the night, or by John’s fantastic auction. This excellent donation was supplemented by donations of wine, toys, fresh fruit and vegetables and health care products. Brian and Janet Johnson delivered the donation and goods directly to Ron Downes, the Moree Rotarian and Salvation Army Commander in Moree on Friday, and I believe they received an excellent reception from the town people. Brian will give a more detailed report tonite.

I gave a brief telephone radio interview on Thursday afternoon to the local Moree station with the main Rotarians present, and there was stunned silence when I indicated our donation had increased from $2,000 to over $6,500.

Well done everybody and THANK YOU !!!!!

Back to the Xmas party, a big "well done" to President Elect Keith for his organisation. The food was excellent, the location terrific (if a bit noisy), and I’m pretty sure everyone got enough to drink, and we even had a visit from Santa too.

Tonite, deliberately, is a low key evening with NO guest speaker and few formalities, so that we can enjoy each others company, and get home early.

Obviously we WILL NOT be meeting for the next two weeks, and therefore our first meeting back will be a partners restaurant night out at Axi’s restaurant at Hunters Hill(owned by Eric Khu’s son in law) on Wednesday January 8th 2003.

A 2 course meal (main and dessert + coffee) will be $27.00 and the restaurant is BYO. (A $3 corkage charge applies)

The cost is a modest increase over our normal meal cost and I can assure those who can make it, that it is a great restaurant in a lovely spot. And easy to get to as well….

PLEASE complete the commitment sheet handed out by Keith Stockall tonite or contact Eric Khu in the normal way.

The following weeks meeting (Wed 15th Jan) will be our last night at the bowling club. This will be a BBQ evening and our traditional "bowls night". While it will be a sad occasion in many ways, particularly for our longer serving members, I hope it will be a fun evening of good memories with good friends. Please make an effort to attend this evening if you can.

Then the next week (Wed 22nd) will be our first meeting at Strathfield Golf Club. The dinner cost will increase to $22 per head; however we will be served our meal, rather than the present buffet style. Keith and I have been promised by Chef Rudi that the meals will be of equal quality to those served recently at the GSE partner’s night.

Normal attendance rules and apologies will apply, so PLEASE if you can’t make it DO APOLOGISE to Eric Khu.

Finally I ask everyone to keep clear of my car please. I am getting absolutely paranoid after the THIRD incident in five weeks last Friday. My door handle was broken off and mirror damaged while the car was PARKED at the local bottle shop. And this was only three days after picking the car up from a poor repair from the first accident last month, causing me to drop my power steering fluid all over the road. Keith Byrn to the rescue again.

And yes GT, no bike news again this week, I didn’t even ride on Sunday.

SEASONS GREETINGS

Steve.

BIRTHDAYS.

Dec. 23. Jean Thurgar. Dec. 25. Alan Taylor.

Dec. 30. Catherine Hallworth. Dec. 31. Niall King

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ANNIVERSARIES.

Dec. 21. Brian & Jennifer Hennell.

Dec. 24. Guru & Pam Singh.

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