| A very timely presentation last week by Greg Pearl of Albury Wodonga Health about the new design concept and facilities that will be in the new cancer complex at the Base Hospital. It certainly looks as though it is going to be a great building with all state of the art equipment. On Friday of last week, Nicole was a judge at the Wilson Transformers Schools’ Solar Car Challenge design competition at Wilsons Transformers Race complex at Wodonga. It was an excellent competition where the schools’ own design solar driven car had to complete as many laps as possible in one hour. The overall winner was Wodonga TAFE, with our Club sponsoring the most Innovative Car design classification which was won by Belvoir Special School in Wodonga. Some of the speeds these vehicles reached was really surprising when the sun was fully out. The Club had a busy weekend doing BBQs at Harvey Norman, and one on Sunday for the inaugural Walk for Type 1 Diabetes at Hovell Tree Park. I’m hopeful we have a reasonable return for the Fight Diabetes Foundation. It was certainly hectic for about half an hour at changeover time, with crowds placing orders for ten, eight or six at a time. I’m sure all our thoughts at this time are with Anne McNaught who had to deal late last week with the shock news of the financial situation at Banksia Securities. Whilst it is in no way Anne’s fault, the very fact that she is such a well known local identity and through her local networking skills would have attracted such a lot of local custom must be affecting her . So Anne if you are reading this, our thoughts are very much with you. You know you have all our thoughts , love and good wishes of the club members. For club members information Anne requested a few weeks ago, and was granted Leave of Absence by the Directors until year end for health, family and business reasons. I understand that her daughters are currently giving her great support at this time, and I will contact her again during the week to make sure she is bearing up etc. I received a lovely phone call last Thursday from RC of Yarrawonga/Mulwala advising that they are going to donate $500 to the John McDonald Medical Scholarship following a presentation to them about six weeks ago. |
