Welcome back President Kelly and Paul, it sounds like you both had a Great Trip.
On Monday 3 November, 10 Rotarians, 7 Partners, 1 Guest and Leo went to the Hugsiam Thai Restaurant for our Melbourne Cup Evening.
Those attending enjoyed a lovely Thai meal and some great special time chatting.
We had 2 tables set, for 10 people on each.
Having the tables close together made it difficult to move around and catch up with others, but some of us managed.
It was unexpected, but once we arrived we were told we had to be out by 730pm, as the table had another booking. This was the earliest finish to a Rotary Meeting in a long time!!
Thank you to our "Bookies", Trevor Pickles and Bruce Smith for coordinating and running the 2 sweeps - a $5 an a $2. I understand that Trevor was in training?, and kept under the experienced eyes of Bruce... From what I witnessed, Trevor picked up things very quickly!
We really appreciated your effort Gents running the club sweeps for the Melbourne Cup.
With a restaurant policy of no 'Splitting of bills" everything ordered from the 19 of us (food and drinks) was paid 'all together'.
Thank you Gerard for reimbursing this payment of the bill.
Thank you treasurer Gerard for your quick action in scanning the itemised account and emailing it out to everyone.
Hopefully with Gerard's quick action, we can all remember what we had, and make the payment to the club account Gerard sent out.
Thank you all for your responses and payments!
Leo is back with the Binyon's.
A huge thank you to the Fenwick's for hosting Leo while President Kelly and Paul enjoyed an amazing trip abroad.
Gerard Hogan is coordinating the Cadel Evans Bike Ride Marshalling. This event is scheduled for late January 2026.
Please contact Gerard to discuss your availability.
Gerard has the road plan, you can look at the intersections and roadside places requiring marshalling... and pop your name down.
From next week, President Kelly will once again take the reins and lead the club.
Thank you
See you next Monday!
