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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Guests this week were
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
February & March Birthdays
Graham Meads ~ 5 Feb
Kevin Walsh ~ 26 Feb
Noel King ~ 18 March
Mel Cook ~ 19 March
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February & March
Wedding Anniversaries
Jim & Carol ~ 01.02.64
Mel & Zandra ~ 11.02.89
Tracey & John ~ 09.03.02
Brian & Adrienne ~ 30.03.74
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Joined Rotary in February & March
LeAnne ~ 07.02.17
Grant ~ 10.02.07
Tracey ~ 17.02.15
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Graham tested us on Beijing Winter Olympics NZ skiers and Taranaki Rainfall numbers
Mel and Zandra got boosters on Saturday and although Mel has been fine Zandra is not well. They spent a week of the holidays at Castlepoint in the van – Andy the dog has had a great hair cut – Mel attended is first 2022 Community Board Meeting.
JIM S
When you clean out a vacuum cleaner you become a vacuum cleaner
