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We
started the day at
Paul's garage for a cruise to Bullocky Rest on Lake Samsonvale for a
breakfast run and to have our Annual General Meeting.
| A couple of our members with local
knowledge knew a better route than I had planned so they led the cruise
via a new route which avoided most of the traffic lights and allowed us
to travel as a convoy and no one got lost or left behind.
Thanks to those members for their help. |
 | When
we arrived at the dam we
set up camp on the spit. One lesson we larned was to send
someone
early to start setting up and grab the best shade spot. |
WeWe
had a good turnout of about
2 dozen for the AGM and quite a selection of cars. We all
managed
to park near where the shelters and cooking facilities and general
amenities were. |  |
 | We filled up many of the
parking spaces that had the best view of the lake. |
A few parked on the
other side of the
access road, but still close enough to the action. Next year
we
will fill those empty parking spaces. |  |
 | We found that we didn't need
to
put up the shelters we brought because the weather was cloudy &
not
too hot. There was also plenty of shade from the gum trees.
Didn't see a koala this time though. |
We
had no shortage of people to help and we had a couple of members take
some of the load off our chef Ray. Ray (rightmost) does a
great
job cooking for us when we go out & in this photo he gets to
take a
break & work on his managerial and supervisor skills.
For
some of our last few runs our events officer Ray had a
different
king of break. The kind you have your arm in a cast for. Glad
to
see you out of the cast.
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| After
breakfast we got down
to club business which was an opening
address by Jack the president thanking people for their attendance and
support of the club for the past year as well as thanking the committee
and their spouses for their signifigant help over the previous year.
The
president introduced the treasurer Tony who delivered his "State of the
Club" report indicating how little money the club had when he
took over as treasurer and how the club is in a much better financial
position now. We had barely enough to cover food and the club
outings when he took control of the bank account. Now because
of
the fundraising done through our shows and raffles we should have more
than enough to cover the 6 lakeside meetings for this year and all the
other events we have planned.
The president then
thanked the treasurer and handed over the floor to the Secretary Mick
for the election of the club commitee.
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The
Secretary then
thanked the outgoing 2013 committe for their efforts and proceeded with
the reading of nominations for the 2014 committee.
The
existing
committee were nominated for their existing positions. A new
nomination of Paul Saunders was added for the position of Vice
President.
A vote of all the members was then held
and the
committee was unanimously re-elected. There was one
vote jokingly against Paul being appointed [ His wife :) ]
so I am calling it [almost]
unanimous for Paul.
The
Secretary then handed the meeting back to our President who once again
thanked members and the committee and wives for their support and hard
work.
The Secretary Mick was re-affirmed in the role
and so the managment committee remains the same. Paul is still Dating officer and Ray is still events officer.
The
floor was then opened up for general business.
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Personally I look forward to
what our new president for Vice is going to come up with :) |
General Business
The
president asked if the members would like to use Bullocky Rest for
future cruises and the members agreed that we should go there again in
a few months.
The president then called for discussion about future
runs &
events. Lisa had handed out a sheet earlier for members to
put
their suggestions on and we discussed some of these suggestions.
We managed to get through some of them and we will be
discussing
more at our future events. We are always looking for new and interesting things for us to do as a club or even just a cruise for a few.
A number of suggestions
for cruises were proposed and previous events were discussed. One
improvement is that in future breakfast runs we will have someone stake
out the BBQ ahead of time, set up & start cooking breakfast. We
discussed the previous poker run and people indicated their preference
for morning events.
Faye & Tony have
generously allowed us to have our Christmas party at their weekend
home. Thanks again.
We also had favourable response
to the idea of some night runs and a toy run for charity.
One
major decision to come out of the meeting was that a number of members
offered to help out manning a club stall at the masters morayfield
shows on The First saturday night of each month. Jannine,
Lisa,
Mick & Paul have already made some major progress in that area.
Our thanks to all four for the good work. Mick
will keep
members informed as to progress on this.
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We then gathered for a group
photo before people broke up & went to do their sunday shopping.
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Resurrected Relics - Old Skool Car
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