AUGUST 2014: ‘WHAT’S DOING?’

VOL 8

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

SECRETARY MANAGER’S REPORT 2

MONTHLY CALENDAR OF EVENTS 3

SUB CLUB NEWS 4-8

THE OUTLOOK BRASSERIE—MYSTERY PIC COMP. 8

‘ORIGINAL SIN’ - INXS TRIBUTE BAND 9

AMATEUR BOXING/ LIVE ENTERTAINMENT 10

MONTHLY MAJOR PRIZE 11

AUGUST @ PENSHURST RSL...

SAT 16TH AUGUST

WED 20TH AUGUST

SUN 17TH AUGUST

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SECRETARY MANAGER’S REPORT

Hi Members,

At the July Board Meeting, the Board of Directors expressed their Appreciation and Thanks to all of the Staff in relation to the recent trading results of the Club. The positive trading of the Club is a re-flection and testament to the team of Staff that we have. The Club has made two successive Profits in May and June, bringing our Year-To-Date (ending June) trading to an overall profit too. With our members and guests ongoing support, hopefully we can continue the success for the remainder of the year!

I would like to welcome Mr. Luke Parris, who has been appointed in the role of Senior Duty Manager. Luke brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the Club and prior to this role he worked at the St George Leagues Club, JDA Hotels Group, and also Grandviews Bowling Club.

I’m excited to see we have lined up some great events over the month of August and I think you’ll find there is a little bit of something for everyone. Don’t forget to purchase your tickets to the ‘Original Sin’ INXS Tribute Band on Saturday the 16th August as spaces are getting quite full already. If sports is more your thing, we are hosting 15 amateur boxing bouts on Sunday the 17th August. This event is or-ganized and conducted by Paul Nasari and promises to be very well planned with some exciting fights. There will also be sporting memorabilia and other great prizes to be won throughout the day. For all the coffee connoisseurs, you might want to come down for our raffle night from 5:00pm on Wednes-day 20th as we have an Expressi Multi Beverage Capsule machine as the major monthly prize – no more instant coffee!

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of a round of golf with our Social Golf Club. It was a fan-tastic and enjoyable day so I would like to remind our members that if anyone is looking for a game on Wednesday mornings to contact Enzo on 9580 6996 as all are wel-come.

I hope the gradual improvements over the past few months have lifted our member’s and guest’s experience at Penshurst RSL, we are constantly looking at ways to better our services and this is al-ways at the forefront of our minds.

Kind Regards,

Chis Hendley

Congratulations to Eddy Assirati who had a hole-in-one on

Wednesday 18th June.

AUGUST CALENDAR 2014

Penshurst R.S.L. Phone: 02 9580 3749 Website: www.penshurstrsl.com.au Facebook: facebook.com/

58a Penshurst Street PENSHURST NSW 2222

MONDAYS

10am-11.30am

Gentle Exercise Class

1pm

Seniors Meet-ing

5.00-7.00pm

Happy Hour

6.45pm

Salsa Dance Classes

TUESDAYS

10.30am

Indoor Bowls

From 11.00am

Super Tuesday

with John Spies

5.00pm-7.00pm

Happy Hour

From 6.00pm

Members Cash Jackpot Draw

(5 draws)

LTPS/13/10332

From 7.00pm

Zumba

WEDNESDAYS

5.oopm Meat Raffle

Draw starts at 6.30pm

Meat, fruit, vegies & seafood vouchers to be

won!!!

5.00pm-7.00pm

THURSDAYS

11.00—1pm

2pm

5.00pm-7.00pm

Happy Hour

FRIDAYS

11.00—1pm

Bingo

Free live Entertainment from 7.30pm

Fri 1st—Peter Knich

Fri8th—The Donovans

Fri 15th—Loaded Six Strings

Fri 22nd—Ian Blakeney

Fri 29th—Ron Ashton

Penshurst RSL JRLFC

Meat Raffles from 6.30pm

Happy Hour

5.00pm—7.00pm

SATURDAYS

Race Day 1.00pm—3.00pm

KARAOKE!

Saturday 2nd and 16th

From 7.30pm

SUNDAYS

Champagne Breakfast

from 9.15am to 10.30am

($8 members

$11 non members)

5pm SUPER Meat Raffle

Draw starts 6.30pm

Meat, fruit, vegies & seafood vouchers to be

won

AUGUST SPECIAL

EVENTS:

SAT 16th ‘Original Sin’ INXS Tribute Show

SUN 17th Paul Nasari Amateur Boxing

WED 20th PRSL Monthly Major Prize

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SUB CLUB NEWS...

PENSHURST RSL

PANTHERS JUNIOR AFL CLUB We are now ¾ of the way through season 2014 and we have a number of teams in finals contention, and our non-competition teams are all showing enormous enjoyment and skill improvement.

A lot is happening in the world of junior footy and there have been a few significant achievements.

School Footy

A number of Penshurst players were selected for the various school state teams during June and from all accounts performed extremely well. One of our players, Liam Maze was selected in the Under 16 NSW/ACT squad currently playing in the under 16s AFL National Championships in Queensland. This is a huge achievement. Congratulations to Liam and all our other school representatives.

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The Probus aim is to provide through social interaction and activities, an opportunity for re-tired or semi-retired men and women to expand their interests and to enjoy the fellowship of new friends. The motto of Probus is fellowship, friendship and fun.

The Probus Club of Penshurst meets at the Penshurst RSL on the first Wednesday of each month at 10.15am.

Our regular club activities include day coach trips to a variety of interesting destinations, cruises, barbeques, walks/outings etc.

August activities include a BBQ lunch, “Tribute to Las Vegas Legends” show at the Suther-land Entertainment Centre and a trip on the light rail to the fish markets for lunch.

We are currently seeking new members and would welcome enquiries from both men and women who would be interested in joining our club. Contact details are as follows:

David Rae: Ph. 9533.2506: Mobile 0404842506: email: dnrae@optusnet.com.au

OR

Join us at the Penshurst RSL Auditorium first Wednesday of the month at 10.15am; you will be made most welcome.

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SUB CLUB NEWS...

Penshurst RSL Panthers Players well represented in the AFL GSJ Representative Carnival

In early July the annual AFL GSJ carnival for u13s-U17s was held at Cherrybrook and there were 30 Penshurst RSL Panthers players selected in to represent Sydney South across thefour age groups. Our boys represented the Sydney South region admirably and all our teams were competitive every day.

Auskick

This is where it all starts and this season we have a large number of Auskick players. On Saturday 12 July a number of the players also got to have a game at Olds Park in the curtain raiser before the AFL Sydney Premier Division game between St George and Western Suburbs.

We are fortunate to have recruited a fantastic Auskick Co-ordinator in Matthew Williams, who has embraced the role whole-heartedly and is doing a tremendous job in ensur-ing all the Auskickers get a fair go and enjoy the game. Matt has also been named the 2014 Auskick Co-ordinator of the year! Con-gratulations and sincere thanks to Matt for all that he and his wonderful team of Auskick parents do for the club.

2014 Grand Finals will be hosted by us at Olds Park

After a successful develop-ment day carnival held at Olds Park over the June long weekend, the Regional Committee have announced that Penshurst and Olds Park will host the Sydney Harbour White (u11-u17) Grand Finals on Sunday August 31. This is a just reward to our merry band of helpers, who give so much to Penshurst and to junior footy.

For all the detail and latest club new visit our website www.penshurstpanthers.com.au .

Angie Zissis

President

Penshurst RLS Panthers Junior AFL Club Inc

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The Sydney South 2014 Under 15s AFL Reps Team which included 9 Penshurst RSL Panthers!

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SUB CLUB NEWS...

Next Sub Branch Main meeting 10th August at 10.30am in the White Room Next Function: Bowral Tulip Festi-val Trip Thursday 25th Sept. Book-ings 3rd and 5th Sept. 11am to 1pm. Sub Branch Office.

RIGHT: Father Christmas and Helper meet “Elvis” at the Sub Branch Christmas in July Function.

PENSHURST RSL TRAVEL CLUB CHRISTMAS IN JULY19 & 20 JULY 2014

Including our Pegasus Coach driver, Garry, there were 43 of us on this trip which departed at 8 am. Morning tea was at Ourimbah and we arrived at Dungog – our lunch destination – not long before 12. This gave us a few minutes to run around the shops before enjoying a light meal supplied by the kindly CWA ladies. We then collected Marie, our coach guide, who proudly showed us around her town.

It took another hour to reach Gloucester Country Lodge Motel our accommodation for the night, with our group filling the entire place! Later there was a short drive to the picturesque Trudgalong Farm where owner, Lindy and her son Matthew greeted us. Here we would have Christmas dinner, but first was a tour of the farm starting with the gorgeous Labrador puppies bred there, two large ponds of silver perch grown for 12-18 months and then supplied to the Sydney and Newcastle fish markets, plus a herd of goats. There was more to see, but it was growing dark and so we were ushered into their beautifully decorated dining area. A great night was had by all, with traditional Christmas fare plus entertainment.

Sunday was an early start and there was a quick peek at Gloucester township where not much was

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happening at that time! A pretty run back through Dungog and on to Paterson where we would spend most of the day at the property containing the co-lonial-Georgian Tocal Homestead and C B Alexan-der Agricultural College. Our wonderful guide for the day, Mim, directed us to morning tea first, be-fore we viewed rooms inside the homestead erected in the early 1840s and the quaint outbuild-ings built and used ten years before that. The last of the private owners, Charles Boyd Alexander, died in 1947 leaving a complex will which provided for the establishment of the CB Alexander Agricul-tural College (now run by NSW Agriculture and the CB Alexander Foundation) located a short distance away on the 2,200 hectare property. Here we were to admire the wonderful facilities for the 100 or so students, including the Tocal chapel with its amazing 40 m high spire. Afterwards, there was a wonderful roast beef lunch before it was time to head over to the college’s dairy for the 2 pm milking run by one of the students and his “boss”. It had been a great weekend and we were back at Penshurst by 6 pm.

Penshurst RSL Travel Club offers interesting day and extended tours throughout the year and, if you would like to join for just $6 per year, please contact us on 9533 5809 or e-mail: pentravel-club@bigpond.com for further information.

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SWIM CLUB Penshurst RSL Youth Swim Club, the family orientated swim club offers a community based, volunteer run, water safety programme to its’ members. Swim Club is sponsored by the Penshurst RSL Club Ltd and membership is open to the children of all current members of the Penshurst RSL. Our lessons are aimed at enabling children from the age of four (4) to become confident in and around water; with the added benefit of learning how to swim. We swim most Saturdays from August until the end of March & parental involvement in the day to day running of the Club is extremely im-portant and, in part, what makes us so unique as a swim school. We offer quality & value for money water safety lessons in three ability based classes: learn-to-swim, stroke development & squad. Season membership is $10 per child and our 40-minute lessons are $8. Discounted season passes are also available. Places for the 22-28 week season are filling fast so secure a place for your child today by providing your contact details along with the age, gender & water proficiency of each child plus your Penshurst RSL membership number to Ph: 9596-4243 or email: contact@myswimclub.com.au. Your first “appraisal” lesson is free. SQUAD

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PENSHURST RSL YOUTH SWIM CLUB

Tocal Homestead

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THE OUTLOOK BRASSERIE NEWS...

The new season is here! Our 4-months off have just flown by. August sees the return of the Pen-shurst RSL Youth Swim Club Squad and we shall also be offering a refresher course throughout the month of August to our dedicated team of volun-teer teachers readying them to recommence teaching come September. We are always looking for volunteer teachers so please let us know if you would like to help teach our local children to swim. REPRESENTATIVE SEASON Any child that can swim at least 25m freestyle may join our 60-swimmer representative team to con-test carnivals. The dates for our three Zone carnivals are October 18th, November 8th & November 22nd. The championship carnival is to be held on December 13th & this year’s State Carnival will be held in Dubbo on March 14. LEARN-TO-SWIM We bring our Learn-to-Swim & Stroke Development (Intermediate) members back on September 6th at 8.20am. We are looking forward to seeing all our wonderful kiddies then.

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SUB CLUB NEWS...

ABOVE: Mystery Pic Competition Accurately describe the content of the above photo and receive a ½ price meal at The Outlook Brasserie. NOTE: Limited to 10 correct descriptions only. Valid until 30th August 2014 RIGHT: Merry Christmas Pudding—Sean’s homemade Christmas pudding for Christmas in July.

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LIVE ENTERTAINMENT IN AUGUEST

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LIVE ENTERTAINMENT:

SATURDAY NIGHTS

Join us here at Penshurst

RLS for some Karaoke fun!

2nd & 16th August

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MONTHLY MAJOR PRIZE:

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