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SUB-CLUB NEWS 6-11

MONTHLY OVER 18S’ ROCK NIGHTS—LIVE BANDS 6-7

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Hi Members,

With a successful 2014 behind us, the primary focus this year is to make sure we are rewarding our members for being loyal customers of the Club. We are currently working on a program which is designed to ensure our

valued members are recognised AND

rewarded for their ongoing support.

Watch this space in

the near future for more information.

Starting on the 5th January, we are going to be holding our very popular Members’ Badge Draw every Monday and Tuesday from 6pm.The Jackpot will start at $1,000 cash & increase by $250 every night it doesn’t go off, which means we have doubled our weekly increase amount! Also if there is no jackpot winner, someone will win $100 cash from

the 2nd Chance draw barrel!

Australia Day is just around the corner and

we are treating everyone with some live music, featuring musician John Williams from 2pm to 6pm. Other live entertainment for this month includes our Over 18’s Rock Bands Night on Friday the 30th January, doors open 7pm, $10 entry fee. Take a look at page 11 for more details about the bands playing on the night.

If you haven’t renewed your membership for 2015, please don’t forget to do so by the 31st January. In return for renewing on time, you will win one of 8 different prizes, valued up to $50! See the back of this newsletter for the list of prizes you could win.

What we will be offering our members in 2015:

All NEW Rewards Program – Soon we’ll be revealing the loyalty program that offers real value to our members – vouchers, gifts, entertainment & discounts on a range of products & services. It’s simple, the more you spend at Penshurst RSL, the more you will be rewarded!!

Live Entertainment -The quality of our live entertainment has improved out of sight and we will be hosting many popular bands and shows in 2015. Become a member for discount entry to all these great events.

Live Sporting Events -There is no better venue to view your live major sporting events! Our new

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HD projector screen and sound system provides an atmosphere that’s the next best thing to actually being there.

Awesome Meat Raffles - Our new butcher provides only the best quality meat trays that will guarantee satisfaction. Raffles

run every Wednesday and Sunday and draws commence at 6:30pm.

Delicious Food – The Outlook Brasserie is also under new management. Come and try our new menu. We have kept some of our old favourites and spiced it

up with some new options which are sure to impress.

We hope to see you soon at Penshurst RSL!

Regards,

Chris Hendley

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DECEMBER 2014 CALENDAR

Mondays

Tuesdays

Wednesdays

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Fridays

Saturdays

Sundays

Special Events in January

FRI 2ND VENUS 2

FRI 9TH SHANE PETERS

FRI 16TH JAMES GALE DUO

FRI 23RD AUSSIE 80’S UNPLUGGED

FRI 30TH TAKE A HIT

FREE LIVE ENTERTAINMENT IN JANUARY SAT 3RD,17TH & 31ST

KARAOKE FROM 8PM

MON 26TH

AUSTALIA DAY LIVE MUSIC—FEATURING JOHN

WILLIAMS FROM 2PM-6PM

FRI 30TH ROCK NIGHT FROM 7PM

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SUB CLUB NEWS

Our Christmas Lights tour on 17 December was excellent, but our lovely city didn’t put on as good a show as it is capable of. The Town Hall, St Mary’s Cathedral, the Mar-tin Place Christmas Tree plus a smattering of other buildings looked great, but that was it really. On the other hand, thousands of suburban residents all over Sydney spent much time, effort and money decorating their homes. In the latter part of our tour, we vis-ited one of these areas, strolling through Second Street, Ashbury, before enjoying a late supper and arriving back at Penshurst after 11 pm.

Much of the 2015 Travel Club pro-gram is now organised and the first

day tours of the year: Sydney Har-bour Fun Boat cruise on 29 January and the Mystery Trip on 26 Febru-ary, are virtually full. The first of our two longer trips: Victoria and King Island in March is also full. The second is currently available and bookings are now being ac-cepted for a 19-day two-island trip to New Zealand with Evergreen Tours from 7 - 25 November. Some details are yet to be confirmed, but the basic itinerary is on our web-site:http://pentravelclub.weebly.com.

Do let us know if you are inter-ested in any of our forthcoming trips, as there is always a waiting list in place and cancellations do occur. You would need to be a

member of Penshurst RSL Club and pay an extra $6 (per financial year) to join the Travel Club. Our meet-ings are held from 6.45 pm on the first Wednesday of every month in the Club’s Auditorium. Our next is 7 January and you are very wel-come to come along to see what we are all about. Opening that night will be the “Cockatoo Run”, a day’s train ride to Robertson using a vintage diesel locomotive, de-parting from Hurstville on Sunday 12 April.

We would like to wish the Club’s management and staff and all members a very happy, healthy and safe New Year!

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PROBUS CLUBS AT PENSHURST RSL

The Probus aim is to provide,

through social interaction and ac-

tivities, an opportunity for retired

or semi-retired men and women to

expand their interests and to enjoy

the fellowship of new friends. The

motto of Probus is fellowship,

friendship and fun.

There are three Probus clubs that meet each month at Penshurst RSL. They all do similar things in-cluding guest speakers on a range of interesting topics, regular day outings to various destinations by coach or other means, barbeques,

walks, theatre parties, and longer trips away once or twice a year.

All clubs are seeking new members and would welcome enquiries from men and women who would be interested in joining one of our clubs, or just come along to any one of our meetings and see which club you would like to join; you will be made most welcome. Contact details are as follows:

The Probus Club of Penshurst for men and women meets first Wednesday of the month at 10.15am in the Auditorium. David Rae: Ph. 9533 2506; Mobile. 0404

842506; email dnrae@optusnet.com.au. Hurstville Region Probus Club for men and women meets first Tues-day of each month except Novem-ber when it is the second Tuesday, at 10 am in the White Room. Alan Donald: Ph. 9546 4785; Mobile 0407 464590; email hurstvil-lerpc@gmail.com. Hurstville Ladies Probus Club for women meets second Wednesday of each month except January at 10am in the Auditorium. Lyn Jones: Ph. 9579 5358

Probus Coming Events in February 2015:

The Probus Club of Penshurst: 4th February, 2015 - Meeting In Auditorium - Guest Speaker Geoff Williams “History of Country

Music – First Fifty Years” 18th February, 2015 - Barbecue - venue to be advised.

Hurstville Region Probus: 3rd February, 2015 - Meeting in Auditorium - Guest Speaker – Representative from

Assistance Dogs - helping people with disabilities. 17th February, 2015 - Outing on the Fun Boat on Sydney Harbour.

Hurstville Ladies Probus: 11th February, 2015—Meeting in Auditorium.

SUB CLUB NEWS

This year was the 60th anniversary of the club and we celebrated the occasion on and off the field throughout the year. We also be-came a part of the broader AFL GSJ Sydney Harbour region and our games moved to Sundays. We have expanded and prospered in this expanded competition with teams playing from Heathcote to Glebe, and anywhere in between. This expansion resulted in some entertaining and challenging games of AFL and development of friendships and relationships at all levels.

Registrations were strong and we had our best playing numbers on record with over 210 children signed up from under 5s through to talented under 17s. Pleasingly we had a record number of young Auskick boys and girls who really enjoyed really enjoyed the train-ing, mateship and game days with their new friends.

On the field we had a successful season. In August we had 3 teams play in the Grand Finals with the 14s and 15s playing at home at Olds Park whilst the 11s had to be transferred to Macquarie Univer-sity due the wet weather. The un-der 11s played hard but went down fighting against Miranda whilst the Panthers Under 14s and

Under 15s were victorious against some tough opposition. Teams in most other age groups also fared well playing deep into the finals series against some tough compe-tition.

Other 2014 highlights included:

The continuing, selfless con-tribution from many of our families is what makes our club a success.

Penshurst Auskick Co-ordinator Matt Williams was named the 2014 regional coordina-tor of the year in recognition of all Matt and his wonderful team of Auskick parents do for the club.

In early July the annual AFL GSJ carnival for u13s-U17s was held at Cherrybrook and there were 30 Penshurst RSL Panthers players selected in to represent Sydney South across the four age groups. Our boys represented the Sydney South region admirably and all our teams were competi-tive every day.

Around 20 players participat-ing in the Sydney Swans Academy across all ages.

A number of Penshurst play-ers were selected for the various school state teams and performed extremely well.

On the 8th & 9th June we hosted the junior development days for the U9s to U12s. It was a spectacular sight at Olds Park see-ing young players come from all over Sydney to our home ground.

On Saturday 12 July a num-ber of Auskickers played in a game at Olds Park in the curtain raiser before the AFL Sydney Premier Di-vision game between St George and Western Suburbs. Auskickers were also well represented at Syd-ney Swans half time games throughout the season.

The Regional Committee awarded the 2014 Sydney Harbour White (u11-u17) Grand Finals to Penshurst at olds Park. This was a just reward for our organisational effort by the dedicated band of helpers, who give so much to Pen-shurst and to junior footy.

Though it is coming into sum-mer the St.George Dragons AFL Under19s have commenced pre-season training a number of Pan-thers players are moving up into those ranks.

Replaced a number of our ageing playing guernseys complete with a new design and also provide each player a hoodie for training and game day under the Penshurst RSL Panthers emblem and com-

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memorating 60 years.

The season ends with us in a solid financial position again.

Our support base of loyal, committed, hardworking Panthers has continued to grow.

The support of the RSL has contin-ued to enable us to provide first class equipment and facilities to our players and maintain afford-able and stable registration fees over several years. We thank the RSL members, Board, management and staff for their support and look forward to a continuation our long association.

We are now into planning for next season and registrations have opened. Details and links to regis-tration are on our webpage www.penshurstpanthers.com.au or contact our Registrar Liz Moore or anyone of the committee for details.

Angie Zissis President Penshurst RSL Panthers JAFC

Key contacts:

Website: www.penshurstpanthers.com.au

President: Angie Zissis azis-sis@exemail.com.au

Vice President: Dale Widders dalelea@tpg.com.au

Treasurer: Allan McGregor allan.mcgregor@avant.org.au

Secretary: Michael Johnson barney.johnson@optusnet.com.au

2014 Registrar: Liz Moore Liz_moore@optusnet.com.au

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Penshurst under 14s in action against the Newtown Swans

SUB CLUB NEWS 10

Are you looking to improve your

communication skills? Lead teams

and conduct meetings? Over-come

your fear of public speaking? Or

looking to meet new people?

Whether you’re a professional, stu-

dent, stay-at-home parent or re-

tiree, Toastmasters will help you be

more successful in whatever path of

life you’ve chosen.

We meet right here in your club, the 1st and 3rd Monday of the month at 7 - 9pm. You are more than wel-

come to drop in and have a look - see, just like we all did! We saw a fun, supportive environment in which to learn valuable skills with amazing value which is why we have stayed.

TOASTMASTERS

PENSHURST RSL

SUB BRANCH Hi Members, The next meeting of the sub branch is on 8th February 2015 at 10.30am in the White Room.

Graham

The Returned and Services League of Australia

PENSHURST RSL SUB-BRANCH 58a Penshurst Street

PENSHURST NSW 2222 Ph: Secretary: 9580 8719

Fax: 9570 6179

BELOW IMAGE: Bill Gersbach, popular member

of the sub-branch, being presented with his 50 year

membership certificate by sub -branch president John Hoban.

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