Page 3 - NLH Newsletter December

Presidents Looking back on 2021 I have picked my
highlights for the year as following:
Report • January – Australia Day Cricket Match

• May – Ulysses Club AGM at Orange, first

AGM for 2 years. This included the awarding
2021 is nearly over and what a year it has been! of a Dearnley Medal to Colleen Abberfield
We all thought that we may have been over the
worst of the Covid epidemic but it seemed to • July – Branch Christmas in July at Nambucca
keep coming back to haunt us. Let’s all hope Heads

that 2022 will see the back of covid broken and I would like to extend my best wishes to all for
due to the efforts of people getting vaccinated the Christmas season and enjoy your time with
and adhering to good health advise we are now your families over this festive time, eat, drink
on track for a better year. and be merry.I hope Santa is good to you and

It has been really good to see members back out brings you all that you have wished for.
enjoying the activities of the Branch with Keep healthy and safe.
lockdowns and restrictions being lifted and it Mike Abberfield #8158
should not be very long before we are back to
conditions prior to Covid.The only disappointing
thing has been the weather, with a few rides
being cancelled due to La Nino that has hit the

east coast of Australia.
The Committee has been busy putting together
a full calendar of event for December and into

January. Plenty of rides, coffee mornings and
social activities. We start the ball rolling with
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our Christmas dinner on Saturday 11
December at the Wallsend Diggers Sports Club, Happy birthday to-
please note that this dinner is in place of the
normal social meeting. Break out your

Christmas wardrobe and come dressed for the Joy Doherty
occasion. Wayne Donald
We will also once again have our Australia Day John Lind

“Cricket Match” at Stockton where the Branch Ken Taylor
will once again provide a sausage sizzle for Vince Toonen
lunch, more details to follow as venues etc. are
worked out. We will also have our Brisans BBQ Mike Abberfield
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on 18 December, come along and enjoy a chit
chat and maybe buy a last-minute Christmas Happy Wedding Anniversary to the

present for yourself or your bike. following members and their partners-
It is also great to report that our Bunnings BBQ
Raffle has resulted in $585.00 being raised for

UCARF, thank you all for your support with this Kath and Peter Sipple
raffle and the funds will be transferred through
to UCARF before Christmas.

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