Parkinson Group
The Bega Valley Parkinson Support Group had a wonderful outing for their Xmas party held in the Dolphin room at Club Sapphire. 28 members of the group really enjoyed themselves by the amount of smiles around the room. Two new members were introduced by the President and they were welcomed by the other members. The next meeting will be held on February 6.
Lions Club
The Lions Club of Pambula-Merimbula ran a sausage sizzle outside Woolworths, Merimbula on Saturday, December 13 to raise money for Lions Projects. But Lions is much more than just a sausage sizzle, also on sale were 1.5kg Lions Christmas Cakes, which are still for sale in many local businesses.
Tickets in the giant Christmas raffle were offered and the prize of a garden trolley kindly donated by Mitre 10 is packed full with Christmas goodies, food and toys. The raffle will be drawn at Carols by Candlelight at Magic Mountain on Friday.
Rotary Radio
This Friday morning on Sapphire FM 97.5 we have a packed program that includes:
At 845 Gav and Col walking you through the community issues; Vicki Hambling and Lynne Kidman join Colin at 9am to discuss issues around refugee education; at 10am Janet Brandon, well known local community leader, joins the show to discuss her career including being an Australian consul in the Pacific; and then at 11am Ron Finneran discusses the regional sports arts support program and plays some of his favourite classical (and other) music!
CWA
Congratulations to all the winners at the Pambula-Merimbula branch of the Country Women’s Associations’ November Land Cookery Competition. Ursula Viebcke had three first places and a second, Elizabeth Prosser one first place and two seconds, Alison Jenkins one first place and one second, Laraine Clarke one first and one second, Barbara Leech had one first place and Wendy Cugley one second place.
The CWA also held their final meeting of the year followed by a delicious Christmas luncheon on Friday, December 6. We would like to wish a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy New Year to one and all, and we look forward to seeing everyone next February 2017.
Evening VIEW
Recent Guest Speaker for the Merimbula Evening VIEW Club was Anna Senior. Anna is an Australian costume designer who has been nominated for an Academy Award and has won two awards from the Australian Film Institute. She was nominated at the 53rd Academy Awards in the category of Best Costumes for her work on the film “My Brilliant Career”. Anna lives in the shire, but still assists interstate and abroad as she loves what she does.
