The meeting to be held at the Merimbula RSL Club on Saturday 8th April starts at 2pm, members and guests are very welcome.

Join Gav and Col at 8.30am this Friday on Sapphire 97.5FM for the usual banter and discussion about what's on in town before Steve Goodchild joins Colin at 9am for a discussion about life in the schoolyard, hard rugby games and golf. Greg Whitby arrives at 10 to chat about his local exploits and the difficulties of being Pavarotti. At 11am Chris Sparks joins Colin to discuss his life as a small business man in the valley.

The next evening meeting of the Far South Coast Birdwatchers will be held at 7.30pm on Thursday, April 12, in the Uniting Church Hall, Merimbula. Guest speaker for the evening will be James O’Connor, Head of Research, Birdlife Australia. His presentation will involve the “ins and outs” of the new “Birdata” portal and App: this should be extremely helpful to all birdwatchers for recording sightings, and will also increase knowledge to the wider community. He will also answer questions that we have, concerning current research and discoveries.

Alan Scrymgeour, our regular presenter’s story title is “Fed Up, the story of a Kestrel”. Some group members, who are accomplished photographers, will be showing a number of their outstanding bird photos, and to end the evening there will be a light supper and time for a chat.

Visitors are most welcome, as well as potential new members; all are invited to attend our meetings and regular bird walks. Details of our events appear on the FSCB website, www.fscb.org.au, or on Facebook.

Last month’s guest speaker Sarah Lam was well received by the members of Merimbula Day VIEW Club when she spoke of her experience working on The Mercy Ship while it was based at Madagascar. The club has another interesting speaker for the next meeting on Friday, April 7.

This speaker is Helen Kuriger from Meals on Wheels. The meeting time is 11.30am for lunch at noon and bookings or cancellations can be made by ringing Iris Ballard by Wednesday, April 5, on 0448840752.

The next “Brunch at the Airport” will be on Thursday, April 20 at 11.30am. Please let Denise know on 64953037 if you would like to attend.

Any ladies who are looking for friendship, fun and hearing interesting guest speakers while supporting the work of The Smith Family assisting disadvantaged Australian children make the most of their education, will be made most welcome by president Danielle Watkins and the members of the club.

On Friday, May 19 the annual Zone Conference for members of the five clubs in Zone NG03 will be held at Club Sapphire and all club members are encouraged to attend this function which is a great opportunity to meet members of each club and to learn more about the work of VIEW and The Smith Family.

The starting time is 10am for 10.30am with the cost of $20 including morning tea and lunch.

On Tuesday, March 21 a workshop conducted by Damian McDonald, Curator from Powerhouse Museum took place in Merimbula thanks to a grant from Mumbulla Foundation.

The event was organised by the Curator of the Old School Museum, Elizabeth Bretherton. Curators from Cooma, Mallacoota, Cobargo, Bega, Bermagui, Bombala, Eden, Berridale and our own Merimbula-Imlay Historical Society attended the one day workshop.

The workshop started with an inspection of the Old School Museum and then moved on to the Merimbula RSL as the Museum could not seat the number of people attending.

Damian was a practical and informative curator who gave us invaluable information on caring for, curating and displaying our collection.