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CURRENT EVENTS
[link to event calendar]

• Tuesday 13 June 2023: our Film Group outing had just a small group to see the excellent film "Bank of Dave" (British biographical comedy (2023), based on real events) at at Event Cinemas, Macquarie Park, followed by a pleasant lunch at the Chantilly Café.
  
• Friday 23 June 2023: seven Wobblies rode along the Parramatta River Cycleway to Parramatta Park where they coffee'd before doing a circuit of the Park thence return to Rhodes via the cycleway on the opposite side of the River, for lunch at the Mill Park Street café. ~28 km on a pleasant, sunny day. One Wobbly started from and returned to Carlingford: 47 km.
• Monday 3 July 2023, 14:30: 11 members and guests met as Old Codgers Music Circle at the Beattie's home in Carlingford for about 90 minutes of a selection of music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Francesco Xaverio Geminiani, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Clara Schumann [Wieck], Johann Georg Albrechtsberger and Léon Boëllmann, partaking in the usual repast and convivial chat afterwards. 
  
• Friday 7 July 2023, 10:00 - we convened again for a very enjoyable chat over a cup of tea or coffee, and maybe a light munch, at our monthly Coffee Morning at the Coffee Club, Carlingford Court. 
  
• Monday 17 July 2023: for this moth's Day Outing 13 members and 6 guests lunched at The Fiddler (Commercial Road, Rouse Hill), celebrating Christmas in July: good food, good companionship.
• Thursday 20 July 2023: 10 Ramblers enjoyed some really lovely weather for a 5 km stroll along the Brisbane Water foreshore from Hardys Bay along Pretty Beach towards Wagstaffe and back, then enjoying a nice lunch at Hardy Bay's Fat Goose Café. Many photographs were taken, including by drone.
• Friday 21 July 2023: Five of our Wobblies and one guest cycled from Freshwater Park at Strathfield along the Cooks River Cycleway to the Canterbury Velodrome at Earlwood, snacking at the Bay's Fat Goose Café Green House in nearby Gough Whitlam Park on the return journey. Blessed by good weather on wn easy 27 km ride.
• Monday 24 July 2023: By Opal Card : eight folk caught the 10:05 V-set train from Epping to Central Station to view the Grand Concourse and the new North-South Concourse before taking the 10:54 train to Sydenham for a view of the new Sydenham Metro platforms and a distant a view of Sydney Metro Train Facility South, thence the Route 358 bus to Randwick for lunch at the Royal Randwick Shopping Centre before travelling by Light Rail form Randwick back to Central Station and the train. Gorgeous weather and a great day out.
• Wednesday 26 July 2023: noon - our Dining Group of 15 members and guests met at the bistro [formerly Wings Bistro] at North Ryde RSL Sports Club [formerly Eastwood Rugby Club], 146-150 Vimera Road, Eastwood, NSW. Organiser Greg Stone.
• Tuesday 8 August 2023, 10:00: eight Film Group participants went to Event Cinemas Hornsby to see the newly-released movie "Oppenheimer" (2023, a "biographical drama film written and directed by Christopher Nolan. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film chronicles the life of American theoretical physicist and polymath J. Robert Oppenheimer." [Wikipedia]). Members may wish to also read the article in the Sydney Morning Herald of Saturday 29 July 2023 (pp26-27). 
  We will have lunch afterwards at the Hornsby RSL, 4 High Street, Hornsby ( optional).
  
• Monday 14 August 2023, 10:00 - General Meeting in the Epping Presbyterian Church Hall, Epping, NSW: Trevor McAlister, a former secondary school teacher with an interest in local history and walking: his topic will be “A Virtual Walk—Exploring Hidden Sydney”, drawing people’s attention to things about Sydney they may not have noticed before [Trevor will have his book Exploring Hidden Sydney on sale for $35 cash: all proceeds from the sale of the book go to The Rotary Foundation]. 
  
• Monday 14 August 2023, 14:30: our Old Codgers Music Circle will meet at Hugh Knight's home at Eastwood for about 90 minutes of Hugh's selection of fine music, followed by afternoon tea. 
  
• Wednesday 16 August 2023 - Our Theatre Group meet at 8.00 p.m. on a Wednesday to see Theatre on Chester's production of Australian playwright Debra Oswald's play The Peach Season (2005), a powerful, salutary tale showing what it’s like to be a young person desperate for independence, but also, crucially, what it’s like to be a parent during the painful process of letting children fly the nest. Tickets $25.00 p.p.
  Optional dinner beforehand (6 p.m.) at Ta One Thai, 288 Malton Rd., North Epping.
   Enquiries to Wal Gallagher – 0429 484 639
  
• Friday 18 August 2023, 10:00 - our regular monthly Coffee Morning at the Coffee Club, Carlingford Court, where we gather for a chat over a cup of tea or coffee, and maybe a light munch, with friends.
  
• Tuesday 22 August 2023: Ross Beattie and Rick Collins will lead a combined Rambles and Day Outing this month: a casual walk around central Maitland to view some of the town's amazing colonial architecture. A map (1997) will be provided which details some 35 properties (some now gone!) but there are many others such at the Maitland Court House and the Gaol: participants are also referred to other resources such as an article published in the Sydney Morning Herald (24nov2008).
  The walk, starting and ending at the Maitland Railway station, is nominally about 3 to 3.5 km, but can be shortened - or extended!
  Lunch is planned to be at Lavenders Cafe, 1/418 High Street, Maitland [menu]. "Centrally tucked away at the top of the The Levee, Lavenders Riverside Café is a quiet and peaceful riverside destination, providing alfresco dining, overlooking the Hunter River".
  
  Car-pooling is suggested to travel to and from Maitland, but the 11:30 start time at Maitland allows travel from Sydney by train.
  *** Driving? — consider car-sharing (journey ~1hr 45mins each way).
  *** Train? — catch the 08:40 from Epping (platform 3) train to Hamilton Station platform 2, arriving at 10:46, then cross quickly from to platform 1 for the 10:50 train to Maitland, arriving there at 11:26 (there is another train from Hamilton at 11:31, arriving Maitland at 12:00. Return by say the 15:39 train from Maitland, changing at Hamilton and arriving at Epping at 18:34.
  
  People may want to stay overnight: there is much more to see both in Maitland and also in East Maitland, Lorn, Morpeth and other nearby towns.
• Friday 25 August 2023, 10:00 - our Wobblies will meet at Mill Park Street, Rhodes for the Parramatta River Parks run, along the Parramatta River Cycleway, via Meadowbank to Rydalmere where we take the recently opened Carlingford Cycleway (possible coffee stop at Telopea), returning along the Parramatta River Cycleway and Silverwater Bridge on to the Armoury/Bunkers, into Olympic Park, past the Stadium to the Abattoir Café (for coffee) then on past the Emerald building into Bicentennial Park to join the Liberty Grove cycle way back to Mill Park Street. Total distance is approximately 26 km.
  Please contact Steve Drury if you wish to ride or need more information, phone mobile 0487-785-444.
  
• POSTPONED Monday 28 August 2023 - our By Opal Card Group was to meet to travel by train, bus, ferry and light rail to Maroubra Beach for lunch: we regret that this has had to be postponed
  [plans were to assemble on Epping Station’s Platform 5 by 09:20 for the 09:24 train to Chatswood Station, thence board the 09:39 a.m. train to St Leonards Station, proceed to the Pacific Highway to join the 10:00 rte 254 bus to McMahons Point Wharf for the 10:29 ferry to Circular Quay to board the Light Rail to Kingsford Juniors Terminus. From Stand B at the Terminus we will board the rte 396 bus Maroubra Beach Terminus for lunch at the Pavilion Beachfront. After lunch, there will be time for a workout on the nearby open air gym (if you so wish) and a look at the heritage former tram terminus waiting shed before we join 13:34 rte 350 bus to Bondi Junction Station for the train on to Central Station and then back to Epping, arriving there about 3.20 p.m.]
  Please contact Col Short on 9876-1018 before 08:30 on the day if it is raining. 
• Thursday 31 August 2023, 12 noon - our Dining Group will meet for lunch at West Pennant Hills Sports Club, 103 New Line Road, West Pennant Hills, NSW: join us for a great time together. Organiser: Ross Beattie. 
  
• Monday 11 September 2023, 10:00 - General Meeting in the Epping Presbyterian Church Hall, Epping, NSW: our Guest Speaker will be Paul and Sarah Weaver: they will speak of The Way of St James, sharing some of their experiences and photographs of the 120 km walk along the Camino de Compostela in Spain and detailing some of the history. 
  
• Monday 11 September 2023, 14:30: our Old Codgers Music Circle will meet at Brian and Deidre Haywood's home at Cheltenham for about 90 minutes of Hugh's selection of fine music, followed by afternoon tea. 
  
• Monday 18 September 2023: September's Day Outing is our Annual Picnic and will be at the Lake Parramatta Reserve at the end of Illawong Drive, North Parramatta.
  Lake Parramatta was created as a result of the damming of Hunts Creek in 1856 and is now a recreational area with picnic areas, a café, a swimming precinct, boat hire facilities, and a great walking track.
  We will gather there at approximately 10.45–11.00 a.m. for morning tea with lunch to be served at about 12.30 p.m. Lunch will consist of barbecued sausages and rolls with a wide choice of salads. The charge for lunch is $20 per person and please bring your own drinks.
  Access to the site is by car only and there are plenty of parking spaces. The main entrance to the park is via Lackey Street off Bourke Street in North Parramatta.
  Please register your interest in attending the picnic, and pay the $20 cost, at or before the September General Meeting.
• early October 2023 - our By Opal Card Group is contemplating a trip to Oberon to join in the opening of the Oberon to Hazelgrove section of the Oberon Tarana Heritage Railway
  This may become a multi-activity trip involving the Wobblies (cycling), Ramblers (easy walking) and Day Outings groups, with chances to visit to the refurbished Heritage-listed Art-Deco Malachi Gilmore Hall (built 1937) [which celebrates the centenary of the 24 km Tarana-Oberon Branch Line with the the Oberon Model Railway Exhibition (Saturday 30 September to Tuesday 3 October 2023, over the October long weekend) and The Great Railway Ball (Saturday 28 October 2023)], nearby Mayfield Garden, Jenolan Caves (at 340 million years ago, the oldest known and dated open cave system in the world), Kanangra Walls, and numerous other town-local and regional attractions.
  
• Sunday 8 October 2023 14:00 (2.00 p.m.) - our Theatre Group will go to a matinee performance of Iolanthe (or, The Peer and the Peri), a comic opera by W. S. Gilbert (libretto) and Arthur Sullivan (music). NOTE THAT for ‘technical reasons’ the performance on 8th October has been switched from the Shore School to The Governors Centre, Sydney Boys High School, 556 Cleveland Street, Moore Park: there will be free parking on site, alternatively the Light Rail stop at Moore Park, 2 stops from Central Station (6 minutes), is across Cleveland Street from the theatre. $44.00 p.p.
  Option to have dinner afterwards: a suitable venue is being looked for, or we may go over to the Kirribilli Club.
   Enquiries to Wal Gallagher – 0429 484 639 or at wwg@bigpond.com.
  
• Monday 16 October 2023: our October Day Outing lunch at Club Palm Beach (formerly the Palm Beach RSL), 1087 Barrenjoey Rd, Palm Beach, NSW. This outing will be a veritable “Cooks tour” entailing travel on two trains, two busses and two ferries: further details will be in the September Newsletter.
• Sunday 5th - Friday 10th November 2023: 20 places have been reserved for a 6-day / 5-night shared-coach Parkes tour [Coach Holidays and Tours]: Parkes, Forbes, Canowindra, Eugowra, Cowra, Grenfell and Dubbo: $1295 p.p.t.s. $300 s.s. Contact Wal for further information.
• Wednesday 15 November 2023 - Our Theatre Group meet at 8.00 p.m. on a Wednesday to see Theatre on Chester's production of American playwright Sandy Rustin's play Clue (2022), an hilarious farce-meets-murder mystery, an adaptation of the cult-hit film. Tickets $25.00 p.p.
  Optional dinner beforehand (6 p.m.) at Ta One Thai, 288 Malton Rd., North Epping.
   Enquiries to Wal Gallagher – 0429 484 639
  
• >>>SATURDAY<<< 18 November 2023: our November Day Outing will be a ride on the newly refurbished Zig Zag Railway near Lithgow: we will meet for lunch (venue to be decided: The Red Poppy Brasserie at the Katoomba RSL looks like a possible venue) and travel by car to Clarence Station, arriving by 14:00 (2.00 p.m.) to board the 2.30 p.m. Zig Zag train and travel to Bottom Points Station via Top Points Station and return to Clarence Station.
  The fare for seniors is $27.50. Please register your interest in this outing at the July meeting.
  If not paying cash, please make a direct deposit to Probus Account BSB 633 000 A/C 182681668 stating YOUR NAME and reason for payment and also advise the Outings Co-ordinator, Russell Gough, by email to: Russell.Gough51@gmail.com

ABOUT US

Epping and District Probus Club is a men's social club for retirees or semi-retirees offering a new dimension, new adventures and a variety of activities. Our members come from diverse backgrounds, and our Club provides them with opportunities to meet others in similar circumstances.

A General Meeting is held at 10:00 on the 2nd Monday of each month February to November [1st Monday if there is a Public Holiday that day, such as in June] in the Epping Presbyterian Church Hall in Rawson St near Bridge Street, Epping, NSW, and features a stimulating Guest Speaker. In December we have a Christmas Lunch in lieu of the General Meeting. Other activities include regular social outings and excursions, domestic and international travel, music appreciation, cycling, movies, theatre, lunch and dinner groups, day trips using train/bus/ferry, et cetera.

Note: General Meetings and other activities were suspended from April 2020 due to government health guidelines related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some activities (outdoor, or via ZOOM video technology) recommenced mid-2020. Guest Speaker activity recommenced using ZOOM in August 2020, and General Meetings via ZOOM in October 2020. 

Partners are always welcome at Club meetings during the year, and can participate in all the events and interest groups organised by the Club.

We invite you to attend a General Meeting or participate in an activity to see who we are and how we can add value to your life in retirement. Plan ahead using our Events Calendar.

For more information please contact Col Jones (President) on (02) 9871 2933 or John Peters (Secretary) on (02) 9869 1957.

Probus is a community service (social) activity of Rotary International. Our governing body is Probus South Pacific Limited.

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