Category Archives: General Membership

News for the general club membership

Community Project, General Membership, Toy Making

Toy Handover

To most December 3 is just another Saturday but for the club it is a celebratory day as it culminates the completion of almost 700 toys by a group of club volunteers. During the year these volunteers donate each Wednesday to toy manufacture. John Parrent excels in the general organisation while Bert Bartlett ensures there is a jig to simplify the making of any toy.

The toys include rocking swans, prams, bikes, garages, helicopters, ambulances & police cars, fire engines, push carts, ironing boards & irons, wheelbarrows, tool boxes, carousels, trams, ride on trucks, doll cradles, quoits. In addition there will be a number of trick boxes plus naughts & crosses games.

The toy will be donated to representatives from Food for All, Salvation Army, Rye Lions & Westernport Charities who in turn will distribute them to children within the Mornington Peninsula. The function will also be attended by representatives from Bunnings, Bendigo Bank & Hillview Quarries, fantastic supporters of WOSP.

Everyone is welcome to attend the toy handover.

Club Activity, General Membership

Defibrillator Training

Defibrillator Training by David Gordon
Defibrillator Training by David Gordon

Training was conducted by David Gordon on 10th November at the club. David demonstrated the use of the defibrillator in conjunction with CPR. The members John Parrent, Joe Raulli, Eddie Hunter, Ron Higgins, Dennis Connor, Greg Millar, John Bayliss, Colin Dobson, Gaven Davis & Jeff Killeen attended and were involved in the discussion of various scenarios that could occur within the club. Thank you to Hillview Quarries who generously donated the defibrillator and the expense of the training.

General Membership

John Bayliss ~ Life Member

Life Member ~ John Bayliss

At the 2016 AGM , much to the surprise of John Bayliss, he was made a Life Member of the club. Each club member should not be surprised. In fact there main comment has been “about time”.

Joh Bayliss
John Bayliss

John has been president of the club since 2009. In those 7 years he has forged the club into the successful organisation it is today. John has managed his committee into being a committed, productive & efficient team. John has a vision of how the club should be and step by step he guided the team in that direction. Initially, the concern was to ensure the growth of the finances. Each year there has been a regular income to enable the purchase of new machinery and equipment, the extension of club storage areas and the funding to support the manufacture of toys. Next year it is probable the number of BBQ’s Bunnings will allow us will be reduced. Already he is thinking of other ways to bring in the money. It could be by selling cakes at Bunnings or perhaps even the club produce.

John is also a great humanitarian. He has an amazing number of contacts and friends in the community. Consequently he is approached to talk at various clubs and asked to have the club support any number of community projects. He is always alert and concerned to the welfare of members and where he sees people should slow down he continually monitors and encourages them to do so.

Besides the club his other passion is dancing. He tells anyone who in interested “on the peninsula there are places where you can dance every day of the week”.

Club Process, General Membership

2016/17 Committee

Over a number of years the club has been very fortunate to have a very stable, productive & efficient committee. Subsequently it was not surprising that at the 2016 AGM no election was required. Many thanks to the retiring Brian Jones whose services and involvement have been very much appreciated. Brian will continue his role as a session leader on Tuesdays plus the most important activity of purchasing the biscuits each week. Thanks Brian.

With the idea of increasing the ideas & energy into the committee it was agreed that the committee would increase in size by 2 after Brian’s resignation. The new committee members are Gaven Davis, Jeff Killeen & Joe Raulli.

Consequently your new committee is made up of:

President: John Bayliss                           Vice President: Dennis Conner

Secretary: Greg Millar                            Treasurer: Peter Rodgers-Wilson

Committee

Gaven Davis, Colin Dobson, Ernie Garro, Ron Higgins, Eddie Hunter, Jeff Killeen, Joe Raulli, Gordon Waddingham

General Membership

Newsletter Contributions

In 2016 the newsletter editor will be looking to members for their thoughts as to what should be in the newsletter. Already requested is where members find valuein purchasing their supplies. These tips will be sprinkled through the newsletter as they become available. So if you have jokes, poems, stories to tell or someone you would like to know more about then please let the editor know through the email section of the “Contact Us” screen of the website.

General Membership

Tuesday Mornings in 2016

After 6 years as the Tuesday morning session leader Len Williams has retired and will be sorely missed. To show you how great a job he performed he will be replaced by 3 men, Gordon Waddingham, Brian Jones & Dennis Conner, who will alternate depending on availability.