Minutes.
Meeting Minutes 24 April 2019
I was nervously scanning the venue for guests when Sgt Brendan embarked upon a genie joke. But it was a goodun… an Essendon supporter to whom the genie promises that each of his three wishes will be presented doubly to all Essendon fans. His first to wishes are for $1 million, and then for a Ferrari. Joy and celebration results throughout Bomber Land. Unfortunately for Bombers fans this guy had always wanted to donate a kidney, and this wish too was granted. Good riddance I say, even though I went to the State School at the State School end of Windy Hill.
As a combination of factors including the Easter Break we had only 19 members in attendance. Any visitors?.... Members guests?...er,.. Members? But even with this white yarding one is reminded of the value of O'Brien time and are very tasty corned beef meal. Well done to the chef. Members were reminded that there is no meeting next Wednesday, with an invitation instead to attend a meeting hosted by daybreak at 6:45 AM on Thursday May Race Day. Dentist extraordinaire and bulletin editor Tony Davies urged us to attend this meeting, noting that he has been to many of them now and thoroughly enjoyed them. See what we can do? The
A reminder too of the Social Sunday at Portland on 5 May. Doug and a couple of other volunteers were available to lay a wreath on behalf of our club at tomorrow's 11 AM ANZAC ceremony.
Tony Davies also issued a REMINDER of our club camping trip to HALL’S GAP on 25 and 26 October! It will be good fun, and although there are plenty of vacancies at the moment, past experience tells us that if people leave it until July or August to book, there may well be no room available. When booking make sure you announce that you are part of our group, so that we will be clumped together, and you will receive the benefit of a group discount.
Les McGrath has done a great job with our Meeting Program but is away for a while, so we are looking for a volunteer to assume that role in his absence. Please see President Lewis if you wouldn't mind taking it on.
Footy tipping report-no surprises. Having taken over the job this year Gary Askew finds himself leading. I suppose there is one surprise in the sense that he isn't leading on his own. President Lewis is right there with him, presumably not having picked Melbourne at all this year.
Fines-an entertaining session was led by Bomber Raymond combined with some fines from the floor. The failure of the new Fines Master system was starkly illustrated when one considers that Bomber had last week exercised his right to anoint this week's fine master,… namely Rowan O'Brien…but Rowan didn't turn up. It was therefore unanimously determined that Rowan shall again be anointed fines master until he finally turns up!
Finally, it was noted that the temperatures in Janick’s home town of Logstor, and Lea’s of Buzet-sur-Baise are now hitting 19 degrees,…passing Warrnambool as we are on the way to Winter. A spontaneous SMS to our two on-Safari inbound exchange students resulted in an instant response accompanied by the two photos published in this bulletin. They are having a fantastic time.
Robbo.
