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Dam for a Working Bee to ensure the Memorial Gardens are all
30 Year Membership awards neat and tidy in preparation for September’s Memorial Ride.
presented Ipswich Branch are donating a bench for the Gardens in memory
of Konrad Walters, founding member of the Branch. Somerset
The Ulysses Club Inc Hobart branch had some special Memorial Garden Committee are matching the donation, so
invited guests for the monthly dinner on Friday 27th Ipswich were tasked with putting in two concrete pads to place
August. the benches on.
Held at the Tasmania Golf Club. the evening was On arriving at the Spit, we found that the clean up of the
very memorable for the recipients of the ’30 Years of gardens was in full swing, so we caught up with Ray Parker who
Membership’ awards and friends present. had already marked out the position of the pads and we got to
work. Once the holes were dug, Ray and a few helpers mixed
All the recipients were members when we had just one the concrete, whilst myself and a couple of Branch members
Tasmanian Branch of the Ulysses Club; our Hobart branch spread the mix out over the site, levelled it out and made sure
was sanctioned in January 1990 it was all neat. All in all, we were at the Dam for about 3 hours,
all went well except one incident where Sharon was ‘mooned’ by
Badges were presented by Betty Parssey, Hobart Glen while she was taking photo’s unfortunately Ross was way
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members:
Thanks to Brenda, Andrew, Scott, Sue, Ross, Sharon and Glen, a
Louise Gaborit #2007 November 1988 job well done. Many thanks also to Ray and the guys for mixing
Bruce Eyers #2883 July 1990 concrete and to all the people clearing the gardens, it really
Dennis Davis #3197 February 1991 looks good now.
John Rapley #3450 May 1991
Lance Jacques #3588 September 1991 We hope to have the benches in by the time of the Memorial
Ride but that may be a long shot due to delivery times.
Pictured from left to right are John Rapley, Louise
Gaborit, Bruce Eyers, Dennis Davis, Lance Jacques. Peter Jones #66352

Betty Parssey #10640 DM #48 3LFWXUHG IURP OHIW DUH 6FRWW 6RPHUYLOOH JXHVW 6XH -RQHV
Secretary Ulysses Club Inc Hobart Branch #66390, Sharon Pearson #70121, Brenda Riek #68109, Ross
Schmidt #42607, Andrew Riek #69127, Glen Oliver#69961.

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motion cancelling the rally for 2021.
in 2021
As we used outlets such as VIB and ‘Riding On’ to promote the
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Victoria Branch treasurer Bruce Jones had the onerous task of I am writing to ask that you use channels available to advise
breaking the news; Ulyssians the rally will not proceed.

We recently held a meeting of the Golden Dragon Rally There are some who have prepaid and I will need their details
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sending an email with a list of ‘requirements’ necessary for the cvub.org.au with their banking details so I can do so.
planned rally at Inglewood.
Cheers (and sadly),
In short, compliance with the Shire’s would have quadrupled Bruce Jones #50478
costs of the rally conservatively, leaving no way we could run it Central Victoria Branch Treasurer - 0413 670 125
without wiping out our bank account. Not to mention the time

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