JOAN'S JOURNAL...CONT'D.

It’s not too late to catch up with the Vocational team. If you would like to meet them and find out about their visit, please join us at their Graduation dinner on Saturday night at the Northern Beaches Bowls Club. See the attached invitations for details.

VTT Graduation Dinner

Saturday 11th February

This week I’m looking forward to hearing about the Umoja Orphanage in Kenya, from out Guest Speaker Cathy Booth. The Northern Beaches Rotary Club will be joining us, so they get to hear Cathy’s presentation.

We have been notified of a date claimer re: DGE Prath Pathapan and his wife Inthun will be visiting Mackay 14th -20th February and will be trying to visit as many clubs as they can. Pioneer Valley has suggested they could come and join us. Hopefully we’ll have confirmation before this week’s meeting.

The Rotary Foundation committee will be conducting a Roadshow presentation about the Foundation on 29 March at the Shamrock Hotel. Mackay West have kindly volunteered to host the meeting. We are suggesting that clubs cancel their normal meeting and attend this joint meeting. The presentation and meal should last about 1.5 hours. A flyer with details is being prepared and will be sent to all clubs next week. This email is a bit of advance notice for club program planning purposes.

John Mackay Funeral – Friday 17 February at 10am at St Andrew’s Uniting Church. We pass on our Club’s condolences to his family, friends and Rotary family.

Meeting Closed: 8:35pm

Guest Speaker: danny - four n twenty pies

The business started in 1947. It initially started production with 1000 pies for the footy. In its heyday it pumped out 50000 pies an hour and sausage roll to the moon and back. With 25000 pies being produced for grand finals.

They employed 6000 staff in a variety of positions including: -

·Bakers

·Shop assistants

·Drivers

·Sale reps

·Admin and payroll staff

·20 fitters who built all the machines;

The Factory included:-

·Boning room

·mincing room

·Dough room

·Cooling room.

Danny’s family between them worked a total of 95 years for the company. Danny, his dad. his uncle and aunt all worked for the company. After he left the company Danny went into business with his father, they had one van and built it up into 7 vans after 18years. When Danny started in ’77 the shelf life of a pie was 7days. It had extended out to 11 days when he finished in '94.

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