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MARCH 2014

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www.subaru4wd.asn.au

subaru4wdclub@gmail.com

SUBARU CELEBRATES

20 MILLION

Fringing around

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SUBARU 4WD CLUB OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA INC

Www.subaru4wd.asn.au

Please direct all enquiries to :- subaru4wdclub@gmail.com or PO Box 310 Unley SA 5061

Meetings are normally held on the first Friday of each month unless otherwise stipulated At the Adelaide High School on the corner of West Terrace and Henley Beach road

Limited parking is available off west terrace in the front of the school Please Bring a plate of supper to share

The next meeting will be held on the 14th March due to the Adelaide cup long weekend

The following meetings will be

Friday 4th April; 2nd May; 13th June; A.G.M.- 4th July

COMMITTEE 2013/14

PRESIDENT PAUL SHINKS 82635384

VICE PRESIDENT KARL TEIGESSER SECRETARY DEBBIE CLEMMENTS MINUTES SECRETARY HELEN MANSON TREASURER JODIE EWINS EDITOR ELIZABETH SLOPER

Advertising Liason– Paul Shinks Technical Officer– Paul Kinnear Membership Officer– Bruce McLean Dtu Officer– vacant Enviroment officer– Werner Kutsche 4WDSA Rep– Karl Teigesser Insurance officer– Bruce Mitchel Trip Co-Ordinator– Grace Gent Properties officer– Helen manson Facebook Coordinator– Kyra Miller Public Officer– Trevor Harris Web coordinator– Richard Temple

Email articles to the editor ersloper@gmail.com

Edited by Elizabeth Sloper. Published by the Subaru 4wd club of South Australia. Inc. The views expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the editor or the publisher

Copyright remains the responsibility of the author

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Un-Edited Bullsheet

G’day to you all out there in Subaru land. Hope you are all well as we

smash headlong into Mad March.

It’s not often that I drive into and through the city; I normally get by with

skirting the ring roads to avoid the traffic. It was while stuck in traffic

between the walls of the barren cappuccino canyons, with their precipices

holding back all but a thin line of distant blue sky that I thought “I miss

being in the bush”. Looking out my window at the grey suits of office

workers, rushing past each other, not noticing if another soul was even

there, I released a lament to myself “oh take me away”.

Trapped in that paralysed line of traffic, my memory wondered, revisiting

red sand hills sparsely covered in spiny grasses whose seeds caught in my

socks, endless gibber plains with shimmering mirages, steep mountainous

tracks that climb away to seamless 360 degree views beyond multiple ho-

rizons that stop when you reach the end of the world……….I can’t wait to

go bush. A harsh BEEP crashed me rudely back to reality, we were on the

move again and the guy behind me in bus did not share the same place I

was…...lost in my own head.

Now home again, plans are in the making for some trips away. Yep, the

usual stuff for me, working bees to Inness and the Southern Flinders that

provide access to areas no one else gets to drive, and maybe, at last, a trip

into the Northern Flinders. It’s been a long time since we have been into

the Northern Flinders; it’s a trip I have wanted to do again for ages. The

Flinders is where many weekends were spent when growing up, driven

around by dad visiting family haunts, then when able driving myself even

further, to explore where not many have been before.

What are your plans now that the cooler weather is slowly creeping in?

Where do you plan to visit?

Back to earth the Fringe Parade was great fun, everyone enjoyed it, and

the kids even got to ride in the back of the Ute! The noise and sights were

something to behold, colour and movement fused together with Bolly-

wood sound tracks, hope we can do it again next year.

Anyway enough from me,

See you round the traps or at the next meeting.

Paul Shinks

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The Editors Bullsheet

Another fun filled month in subyland

My family have been settling into life back on the school round about as are

so many others.

We have also enjoyed the Fringe festival including the fabulous parade and a

comedy show in the east end.

The Clipsal was exciting, being at the track is invigorating I was fortunate

enough to visit with my eldest son and two of his friends as chaperones we

had an awesome day.

My youngest son Aiden turned 11 years old where has the time gone, like his

brother Ethan he will soon tower over me, not little boys any more.

I have changed the front inside page I hope everyone finds it appealing and

informative.

We have some great trips planed for the coming year with plenty of room for

more to be added so pick a date and write up a trip sheet.

Another lot of school holidays will soon be looming including the arrival of

the easter bunny

Any donations for our April meeting Easter raffle would be greatly

appreciated.

Liz

S4WDCLUB.ED

ersloper@gmail.com

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Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

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3 4 5 Paul Kinear6 7 8 Claire 9

Adelaide

Cup 10

11 12 13 General

meeting 14 15 16

17 18 19 20 Committee

meeting 21 22 23

24 25 26 27 28 29 30

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BUNNINGS Saturday March 15th

We need YOU Volunteers needed

FUND RAISER FOR CLUB SEE NEXT PAGE

Ngarkat Working Bee Friday 28th – Sunday 30th March 2014

Trip Leader Bruce Mitchell

Contact – 0413039095

Meet at Pine Hut Soak Campground

This will be an interclub working bee in Ngarkat Conservation Park. Camping is self suffi-

cient. Contact Bruce Mitchell for further information.

Working bee

Working bee at Helens to work on the properties shed

Saturday 12th April

Peake Friday 13th – Monday 16th June 2014 (June Long Weekend)

Trip Leader – Paul Ewins

Contact – 0457569868

Degree of Difficulty – Easy/Medium/Hard – Take at your own pace.

UHF Channel 10

All bikes, quads and buggies MUST have flags and radios

This is the Club’s Annual Peake Trip. Peake is a property located approximately

50km from Tailem Bend consisting of sand dunes and rocks. Camping is completely

self sufficient. A UHF radio is really a must. If you do not have one, you can borrow

one from the club. Beginners and visitors are most welcome. It is a good introduc-

tion to sand driving and can be a good learning curve!

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Limestone Coast Trip

Sept/Oct 2014 – Dates to be confirmed - dates and final details to be posted in the July edi-

tion of the Bullsheet.

Trip Leaders – Paul Ewins and Grace Gent

Contact – 0457569868 or 0433792474

Duration – 5 days

Cost - Camping fees are likely to be $10 - $15 per car per night. To be confirmed.

Degree of Difficulty - Degree of difficulty is going to vary – Day 3 will be likely to be the

most challenging.

Please note there will be a limit of 10 cars on this trip.

The plan at this stage will be to meet 10am at Tailem Bend Servo. From there we will travel

down to either Little Dip Conservation Park (Robe) or Canunda National Park (Millicent) to

bush camp with both sites being camper trailer and caravan friendly.

This trip will be very laid back; while there will be something on everyday there will be no

obligation to be involved.

Day 1 Travel to camp

Day 2 will see us explore the lower parts of Canunda National Park (Millicent to Beachport)

Day 3 will see us explore Beachport National Park and Little Dip National Park, starting at

Beachport and finishing at Robe. This will be the biggest driving day of the 3 days – most

likely to run from 9.00am to 5.30pm

Day 4 will see us explore the top part of Canunda National Park starting at Millicent and fin-

ishing at Mt Gambier. We can also take the opportunity to explore Mount Gambier for any-

one that is interested.

Day 5 Travel home.

All cars MUST have the following:

Snatch Strap and rated shackles

Shovel Sand Flag

UHF radio either in car or hand held

Tyre Gauge

Air Compressor Please call Paul Ewins or Grace Gent if you have any questions.

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Hope this finds you all safe and well, Here's hoping you have all had a great Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year. Firstly, to all of the helpers we had on Wednesday for our Bunnings BBQ

fundraiser a HUGE Thank You!!!!

Although we did not have the crowds we might have expected or hoped for the day still proved to be profitable. We raised around $500.00 for the day. Due to the day not being as successful as both Bunnings and the Club had hoped we have been allocated another day to make up for it.

SATURDAY 15th

MARCH - Bunnings Mile End 7.30am to 5.00pm. Once again we will need to know who will be available to help out on the day and the roster will be a little larger as Saturdays are the busiest and the hours are longer. We will be looking for a start-up crew to help get everything set up and sorted and we will need them from around 7.30AM, much earlier than our last one. We will then need shifts of around two hours to continue all through the day. Hopefully you will be able to support our efforts in some way and if you cannot man the BBQ perhaps you could make some ice for the cooler box or even do some baking to sell as well. Please reply with any help you may be able to provide. Thanks Your committee.

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Little Dip Conservation Park September/October 2014 TBA Trip Leaders – Grace Gent and Paul Ewins Contact – 0433 792 474 or 0457 569 868 Degree of Difficulty – Variable Meet – Beachport – TBA Sand and beach driving. We may stay at Beachport in the Caravan Park and do day trips to the park or just bush camp in Little Dip. Stay tuned for more information as we plan this trip.

Karl’s t-shirt and jumper orders

Samples will be on display to look at before ordering

Grace also still has sheets for first aid kids and fire extinguishers for any

members who may want to order those items.

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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

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Karin

Ver-

schoor

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Ethan

McLean

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General

Meeting

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Ella

Ewins

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Leo

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schoor

8 9 10 11 12

Working

BEE

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Grant

Mitchel

15 16 17

Amelia

Shinks

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Aiden

Obst

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Werner

Kutsche

Helen

Manson

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Sharon

Obst

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Fringe Parade

We arrived on time, made it relatively easily through the road blocks to our designated spot

in the parade line up. Grace, Paul and Theresa, Debbie and Bruce and Gloria, were all

there. Bruce and Gloria have one of the floats at the front of the parade and the rest of us

were scattered throughout the middle of the parade. Karl and Berlinda and Jordan arrived

shortly after.

There were a lot of characters involved with the parade all in costumes. The Elizabeth,

Theresa and Claire could not help but get a photo with Elvis, and Matthew with a Darlec (Is

that how you spell it Matthew), anyway what I am talking about is the robot alien from Dr

Who.

Peter was another character who wore a full length grey leotard, red speedos and a tall Mo-

hawk. Then there was a guy on spring stilts who we believe had had a few sherbets before

he arrived and was bouncing all over the place and giving everyone a bit of cheek and good

cheer. A downs syndrome guy who was telling everyone, especially Grace, that he was a

ladies man. So many interesting characters to make the night a lot of fun.

It was a long wait for the parade to begin so Theresa, Amelia, Claire and Matthew, Eliza-

beth, Aiden, Ethan and myself went for a walk into the city looking at all the floats along

the way. Half way to North Tce we ran into Charlie and Helen who were involved in the

parade with a different group, an environmental group if memory serves me correctly. Then

further on we came across Paul and Leanne and most of their family.

Isn’t funny, I don’t seem to notice my boys getting bigger because I see them every day,

although every now and again it does strike me, but when I saw Rachel and Hanna and Wil-

low, I couldn’t believe how they’d grown up.

We had something to eat in a food court off Rundle Mall then returned to the others back

by our cars. Again we were still waiting for the parade to start.

The time came for the parade to start when the word came back that it was to be delayed 20

minutes. It was a long wait from the time we got there to when the parade actually started

but once it did we were all very excited.

The parade was lined up in two lines and most of us were in the second line so we got to

see the first part of the parade pass by.

It was a lot of fun.

Bruce & Gloria

Paul and Marcia

Grace

Paul & Theresa and Family

Bruce & Elizabeth & Family

Karl & Berlinda and Family

Robyn and Jacqui

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Subaru Celebrates 20 Million

Tue, 28/01/2014

Fuji Heavy Industries (FHI), the maker of Subaru vehicles, has made its 20 millionth car in Japan, since production started in 1958. FHI marked the occasion with a ceremony at its Gunma Yajima Plant, in Japan. Subaru began domestic production 56 years ago at its then Gunma Isesaki Plant, with the Subaru 360 minicar. As production increased, FHI set up operations at Gunma Main Plant and Gunma Yajima Plant, both located in Ota city, Gunma prefecture. It also established Gunma Oizumi Plant to manufacture engines, transmissions and other automotive parts. In the early days, production models included mini-vehicles, the Subaru 1000, Leone and Justy and later moved on to Legacy (Liberty in Australia), Outback, Impreza, Forester and more recently XV and BRZ, among others. FHI President, Yasuyuki Yoshinaga, said: “This remarkable achievement of 20 million-unit domestic production would not have been possible without our esteemed customers and the years of diligent work by our employees, past and present. “I am humbled and sincerely grateful. From here, we enter a new phase of our adventure, a new chal-lenge. We will aim for further improvement in every aspect of our operation, in safety, quality and pro-ductivity.”

History of Subaru production in Japan

1958: Production of Subaru 360 begins at Gunma Isesaki Plant 1960: Gunma Plants established; Gunma Main Plant begins production

1966: Production begins of Japan’s first mass-produced front wheel drive car, Subaru 1000 1968: Subaru vehicle exports begin – Subaru 360 to United States

1969: Gunma Yajima Plant begins production

1970: Cumulative production of one million vehicles

1975: Cumulative production of two million vehicles

1983: Gunma Oizumi Plant begins production

1983: Cumulative production of five million vehicles

1992: Cumulative production of 10 million vehicles

2003: Cumulative production of 15 million vehicles

2012: Mini-vehicle production ends. (Total mini-vehicle production: 7,967,801 vehicles). 2014: Cumulative production of 20 million vehicles

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Colour of Jade Chapter 3

Distraught and disengaged

Michael and Jade followed Tia toward the back room. They could here laughter coming from

within and then the sound of something solid hitting the floor. They entered the room and saw

seven other children, who were in the midst of something humorous. The other children

stopped and looked at the group entering the room, one boy was on the floor and a chair was

on its side.

“This is Michael and Jade” Tia introduced, and then pointing at the other children he an-

nounced their names. “This is Sue, Daniel, Stephen, Joshua, Alana, Peter and Ben” Tia intro-

duced.

Michael and Jade looked around the room at all the other children. They all looked to be mid-

dle primary school age other than Alana and Peter who looked the same age as Jade.

Alana was the first to say something, “welcome to the club”

“Thanks” was all Michael could summon

Jade was horrified, she didn’t want to come in the first place, and now she would be stuck in a

small room with all these younger kids, ‘it wasn’t fair’ she thought to herself.

Michael decided to make the best of it “Hi, nice to meet you all, what movie are you going to

watch”

Daniel who was nine smiled and replied “Pirates of the Caribbean, the Black Pearl”.

“That’s a great movie, do you mind if I watch it with you” Michael enquired.

“Sure” said Daniel, “you can sit alongside of me.

“Thanks” replied Michael “its Daniel right”

A big smile lit up Daniels face when he realized Michael had remembered his name. “Yeah,

that’s right” Daniel replied smugly looking around the room.

A small flat screen TV sat on top of a low cupboard at the back of the room and chairs were

placed in a semi-circle around it. The main table had been pushed back into the front corner

away from the door to make room to sit around the TV. A couple of bowls of chips, a 2 litre

bottle of lemon soft drink and enough plastic cups for everyone sat on the main table.

“Well you seem to all be organized” offered Tia, “so I’m going back to the meeting, nice to

meet you both” and Tia turned a left the room.

Alana walked over toward Jade, Jade saw her coming and turned and followed Tia out of the

room and back toward the meeting.

Ozzy had just finished announcing the raffle prizes for the night and asked the secretary to

read the minutes from the previous meeting when Tia and Jade walked in. Tia found a seat

amongst the members and sat down. Jade looked around and saw her Mum and Dad, though

there were no vacant seats around them so Jade found a seat at back, place her ear buds in her

ears and proceeded to listen to her music on her ipod.

Jades mother looked around and tried to get her attention. The gentleman sitting a couple of

seats away realized her mother was trying to get her attention and tapped Jade on the shoul-

der. Jade pulled away and gave the guy a disapproving look then noticed he was motioning

toward her mother. Jade looked at her mother then turned away ignoring her and continued to

listen to her music.

Alana went over to Michael and asked if Jade was shy.

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Nope, she’s just a bitch. Don’t worry about her, she doesn’t like anyone” Michael an-

swered.

The group in the back room watched the movie then sat around chatting and mucking

about, and even though Michael was the eldest in the room, he had a great time. Michael

and Peter seemed to get along well and Peter explained that he and Alana were twins.

After the meeting was finished, Michael came out from the back room to find his Mum and

Dad chatting about a trip to Rawnsley Park, then saw Jade sitting at the back of the room

with her ear buds still in.

Once people were starting to leave, Ozzy said goodbye and hope they would come again.

“I’m sorry about Jade” Sarah apologized, “she’s not a real people person at the best of

times but combine that with her age”

“That’s fine, don’t worry about it” supported Ozzy. “If she was happy listening to her mu-

sic instead of me boring the crap out of her that’s fine, and sometimes it takes people a little

time to fit in.”

“Thanks Ozzy” responded David, “and we did enjoy the meeting and we will be back”.

“That’s great, look forward to seeing you soon” Ozzy replied “now if you will excuse me I

have to talk to Julie before she leaves”

Ozzy walked away and Sarah walked over to Jade and pulled out an ear bud out of her ear

and coldly told her they were leaving.

Once they got into the car Sarah turned on Jade with fury. “You stuck up snotty nosed little

bitch, how dare you embarrass me in front of all those people”

Before Sarah could go any further Jade fired back at her mother, “ I told you I didn’t want

to go, but you made me, you said it would be fun but it wasn’t it was boring and embarrass-

ing”

“What did you have to be embarrassed about, you didn’t even try to make friends, you’ve

got your head shoved so far up of your own self-importance” Sarah countered

“I had a great time, they all seem like nice kids to me” Michael remarked

“Yeah, but you’re an idiot and you like everyone” Jade screamed at her brother.

“Alright, that’s enough” yelled her Father, “everyone just shut up, I don’t want to hear an-

other word about it. We are going to another meeting, and you are both coming again”.

Jade started to protest.

“No, we are all going and if you want to sit down the back and listen to your ipod, so be it,

but I won’t hear another word about it, so sit there and be quiet.”

Jade turned toward the window, curled her legs up and buried her head down and started

crying.

“Oh god give me strength” her mother said quietly

The journey home was silent for the rest of the way, and once they got home, they all got

out of the car and Jade went straight to her room and closed the door.

“I don’t know what I am going to do with that girl” Sarah said to David.

“Just give her time and space, that’s all we can do” he replied.

“Good night Mum, night Dad” Michael said as he walked toward the back door.

“Goodnight darling” replied Sarah.

“Goodnight Mate” answered David

To be continued

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Did I read that sign right?

"TOILET OUT OF ORDER. PLEASE USE FLOOR BELOW"

In a Laundromat:

AUTOMATIC WASHING MACHINES: PLEASE REMOVE ALL YOUR CLOTHES WHEN THE LIGHT GOES OUT

In a London department store:

BARGAIN BASEMENT UPSTAIRS

In an office:

WOULD THE PERSON WHO TOOK THE STEP LADDER YES-TERDAY PLEASE BRING IT BACK OR FURTHER STEPS WILL BE TAKEN

In an office:

AFTER TEA BREAK STAFF SHOULD EMPTY THE TEAPOT AND STAND UPSIDE DOWN ON THE DRAINING BOARD

Outside a second-hand shop:

WE EXCHANGE ANYTHING - BICYCLES, WASHING MA-CHINES, ETC. WHY NOT BRING YOUR WIFE ALONG AND GET A WONDERFUL BARGAIN?

Notice in health food shop win-dow:

CLOSED DUE TO ILLNESS

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NOTICE OF AGM

Notice is given for the 2013/2014

Annual General Meeting to be held 4th

of July at Adelaide high School.

Nominations are called to elect

officers to the Committee and Trophy

nominations.

Please consider who you would like as

your Nomination choices for

committee members.

Winners of last years trophies are

requested to return them to the

committee at the May meeting.

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MINUTES OF GENERAL MEETING

HELD AT ADELAIDE HIGH SCHOOL

7th February 2014 MEETING COMMENCED 7.40pm Welcome & Happy New Year

Visitors

Apologies: President went through Raffle prizes MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING

Accepted Bruce McLean seconded Karl Teigesser All in

favour SECRETARIES REPORT

Club magazines, Australia post account, postal rate changed to postage, Abbots account. Printed out KIT Association information sent to the club; let secre-tary know if you want to receive them as an email. TREASURERS REPORT

EDITORS REPORT

Hope you enjoy the magazine, send more stuff. Keep it coming. MEMBERSHIP

Hope the visitors will come on trips and find out about us. Membership lists, laminated or just paper, your choice. If you want your details deleted see the Membership officer. COMING TRIPS

PROPERTIES nothing to report 4WD ASSOCIATION meeting next week AGM information in KIT Regulations for sand flag in Simpson Desert will be fining and asking people to leave.

WEB CO-ORDINATOR. Nothing to report. FACEBOOK nothing to report.

INSURANCE Club insurance, trips, volunteers, vehicle, property, caravan. Club will get a kick back. TCIS has merged with OAMPS GENERAL BUSINESS

$50 fuel cards to sell, as they are expiring, money will be put into a fuel fund. March meeting changed to 14th March Eblens will be invited to April Peak Order for club shirts, will be available for next meeting. Shed tidy up 12th April

TRIP REPORTS

Raffle prizes drawn

Meeting closed 8.40 pm

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IMPORTANT NOTICE

IF YOU ARE TAKING PART IN ANY CLUB EVENTS, YOU MUST PUT YOUR

NAME ON THE TRIP SHEET TO ENSURE THAT YOU ARE COVERED BY THE

CLUB’S PUBLIC LIABILITY INSURANCE. YOU CAN DO THIS AT A

MEETING OR BY RINGING THE CLUB TRIP CO-ORDINATOR

AFTER THE LAST CLUB MEETING BEFORE A TRIP, PLEASE INFORM THE

TRIP LEADER OF ANY ADDITIONS OR CANCELLATIONS PRIOR TO THE

COMMENCEMENT OF THE TRIP

THIS IS FOR YOUR OWN PROTECTION AND OURS!

Did you know that it is in the club constitution that your car must be maintained in

good roadworthy condition with a minimum of 3rd party property insurance? Do

you have a fire extinguisher with you on club trips? It’s a club rule that you carry

one. What about a first aid kit, the club has quite a good one to borrow at any time.

All we ask is that you replace anything that gets used or removed from the kit.

MEMBERSHIP FEES FOR 2013-2014

METRO $60.00

COUNTRY $50.00

HALF YEAR $30.00

JOINING FEE $15.00

Memberships were in default if not paid by 30th September and Bullsheets are

discontinued until renewal is received. Membership cards will be issued at meetings

upon presentation of a receipt.

If you require your card to be posted out to you please let us know. Thank you.

Closing date for Bullsheet material

The closing date for all entries and advertisements into the Bullsheet is the 20th of

each month, to ensure that the magazine is collated and dispatched on time for your

viewing prior to the next meeting.

Your co-operation in this matter is greatly appreciated. Thank you

The location of the next Committee meeting is at Karl and Berlindas, Gepps Cross

Friday March 21st 2014 Please be ready to start the meeting at 7:30 pm sharp.

Please bring a plate of supper to share.

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