I was born in Woodville and schooled in Taranaki at Tarata, Egmont Village and Inglewood High Schools. I went to Australia in 1979 for my big OE and met Bill and we married in 1989. I spent 14 years working for an International Manufacturing company in Sydney, in the Customer Service and order department. I was the Customer Service Manager for 7 years. After this Bill and I ran our own retail business on the Central Coast of NSW for 19 years. I had by this time spent 36 years living in Australia and we decided it was time to retire and in 2015 returned to New Zealand leaving behind our grown up children. We have 5 children between us, 12 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. All of them live in the Australian states of New South Wales and South Australia. I have been a Rotarian since August 2006.
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MESSAGE FROM YOUR EDITOR:
I hope you are enjoying reading the weekly bulletin. If you have any ideas on how we can improve on it please let me know and I would be very happy to implement if possible.
Some weeks we have little to no photos to include in the bulletin and when this happens I was thinking it would be nice if you would like to have a section for personal photos. Photos of perhaps personal projects, family celebrations, holidays and trips etc. This way we can all learn more about each other. If you have photos you would like to include please email to me at traceyrees17@gmail.com
March & April Birthdays
Noel King ~ 18 March
Mel Cook ~ 19 March
Gloria O'Dowd ~ 3 April
Donald McIntyre ~ 10 April
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March & April
Wedding Anniversaries
Tracey & John ~ 09.03.02
Brian & Adrienne ~ 30.03.74
Noel & Rose ~ 17.04.71
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Joined Rotary in March & April
Mel Cook ~ 02.04.96
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Not Drawn This Week
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Not Sold
~ 10 April~
Brian and Adrienne are taking a little road trip. 2 days or more maybe. Heading down to Whanganui, Tamauranui and Te Kuiti and we had to name some of the places he would be going through.
Graham M: Putting feet on floor everyday so far. Jennie had MRI in NP to check on status of cancer growth. Still waiting on results. Palmerston North Private next weekend. I was watching a show on Ukraine/Russia war and it reminded me of the time as a kid at end of WWII and we lived at the top of Belt Road Hill and the fire siren went off – then other sirens, ships, fire alarms, trains and cars. I raced in to see my mother really confused and it was the sirens celebrating Japans surrender.
Graham D
Try to leave everything a little better than you found it
