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Presidents
Report
Welcome to the new year, I hope you all had a
very merry Christmas and celebrated the
arrival of the 2023 year. Colleen and I had a
nice Christmas locally with family and ushered
in the new year with friends with fireworks at
Wangi Wangi. This is the first year for quite
some time that I sat up and watched the
Sydney fireworks at midnight. I would like to
wish everyone a prosperous 2023 and hope
that all your wishes and resolutions come true.
Wow, what a busy time of the year with a
couple of notable birthday celebration for our
members, Ken Taylor and Lyn Lesslie reached
their eightieth birthdays and I was able to
present them with their Ulysses eighty Year
badges at our Christmas dinner earlier in
December.
Speaking of the Christmas Dinner, what a
great night it was! We had 44 members and
friends, including several new members and
some who we had not seen for some time,
partake in a fantastic meal, great fellowship
and joviality was had by all.
Our events have kicked off for the new year
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with our first midweek ride on Wednesday 4
January. We will be holding a social meeting
at the Wallsend Diggers Sports Club on
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Saturday 14 starting at 6 PM. Unfortunately,
Colleen and I will be apologies for the social
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meeting as the 14 is Colleen’s 70 birthday
and we will be celebrating with our family.
We will also hold our Brisan’s BBQ on
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Saturday 21 January, if you can assist on the
day let our secretary John know. These days
are great social events and enable us to
promote the Ulysses Club with the general
motorcycling community and with Brisan’s
staff.
Perhaps the big event for the year will be our
Australia Day BBQ and Cricket Day at
Stockton on 26 January. The Branch will
once again provide a BBQ sausage lunch,
members to bring salads and nibblies. The
venue is once again in the park near Stockton
swimming pool. For the die-hards who want to
stay we will have dinner at one of the Club or
Hotel venues in Stockton.
We all now need to look forward to some
official sides to the Branch administration,
with Committee elections scheduled within the
next three months. Several of the current
committee have indicated that they will re-
stand for election, but there will be several
others who will be retiring. After 4 years as
President, I will be one of those wishing to
have a rest and our Treasurer Mark Thomas
has also indicated that he will not be standing
(after 6 years of committee service). Please
have a think about nominating for the
committee, there is a bit of time and work
required, but the rewards are far more
rewarding.
A quick mention that the Tamworth Ulysses
Branch will be holding a 30 Year Celebration
weekend on 3 , 4 and 5 March 2023. This
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was delayed due to the impacts of Covid but is
now able to come to fruition. I know we have
several members who have indicated that they
are attending, so if you are interested let them
know. Details are available on the Ulysses web
site and via NATCOM announcement.
Keep healthy and safe. Mike Abberfield #8158
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