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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Graham Drake won this week
~ 10 April~
Mel There are 530 rivers and streams in Taranaki. We were given the task of naming those in the Inglewood district. How many did we name – 15.
Noel says Bugger all. He assisted Graham D to install ceiling panels in the front foyer. Noel and Rose have registered for the Fringe Garden Festival again this year. On in October. The Rhodo's have a bad case of the thripp so Noel having to do some serious spraying. Bowls on the last couple of Thursdays has had to be abandoned due to Covid.
Donald texted it through
“Old age is a reward for a life well lived, a privilege earned, an accomplishment worth celebrating and wisdom shared to benefit succeeding generations. Determine to add joy to the gift of long life. Indeed, if a man should live many years let him rejoice in them all”.
