Octagon January, 2016

a “great nosh up” as one person said. Of course
no Christmas party is complete without those Bon
Bons and their corny jokes. One of which said
“why can’t sports cars play football ... ‘cause they
only have one boot!”. Just think ... somebody
probably gets paid to think these jokes up. At least
the 3cm orange plastic spanner was better value!
At the same time 34 of the Hervey Bay Mob went
to the Sticky Fig Café in Hervey Bay for a happy
buffet lunch. Our thanks go to Peter Worland and
to Jocelyn Gardener who provided many of the
prizes for the Lucky Door draws and for the raffles
which helped defray the venue hire. Here I must
mention that the major prize of the day (donated
by Repco) was won by Joy Batchelor ... and we
are all still waiting to see her use the rather flash
oil change kit, complete with its undercar trolley for
her to lie on! Both events were highly successful
and capped off another busy year for the Wide
Bay Chapter.
2016
Next year we have a few changes to our Chapter.
After a couple of years in the saddle, David Carter
is stepping down as Coordinator. Our thanks go to
him and to Sonja for leading us and for all the time
and energy they have both devoted to making the
Chapter successful.
Our new Coordinator is David Hall whom many of
you would know from his successes at Club and
National Concours meetings. His partner, Lyn
Hayward, will be taking on the responsibility of
organising our CAMS Permits for our runs.
At the same time, Allan Dansie will be stepping
down as organiser of the Bundy Crew, a position
he has filled since ... well ... always! From all
in our Chapter, a huge “Thank You” to Allan
for looking after the Bundy Crew so capably
for so many years. The new organiser for the
Bundaberg group will be Eric Beckman, long an
integral part of the planning team.
To all those who attended our many runs ... the
Chapter would not be as great as it is without your
participation. And finally, my thanks to all who
have helped in supplying photos and words for
these Octagon and Web updates of our activities.
They have all helped prove the wisdom of that
old adage “ A wise person does not keep sledge
hammer and slow computer in same room”.
Safe driving all ...
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