General Meeting & Social Ride to Mirboo North
Saturday 16th February 2008
The first VMMA General Meeting for 2008 was held at the the Blackburn Masonic Centre on Saturday 16th February 2008, thank you to Cameron Mac Mahon (VMMA active member) and the Blackburn Masonic Centre Board Of Management for their support of the VMMA and allowing usage of the Centre for this General Meeting.
Every picture tells a story!!! VMMA members at General Meeting.
We now are embarking on our second year of holding General Meetings and AGM throughout Victoria that has proven to be well received by the membership enabling a greater participation in decision making by the membership.
The General Meeting commenced at 11.00 a.m. with the following members attending Pedro Eberbach, George Allen, Chris & Sharyn Wells, Richard Ward, Cameron MacMahon, Dean Lugton, Terri King, Richard Griffiths, John & Lois Wilson, Colin Fletcher, Dave & Viv Cash, Brian Sanders, Paul Willett, John Jarvis, Larry King, Bob & Jean Nichols, John Nichols, Graham Hocking, David Hall, David Wells and Phil Tinker.
Lunch at the Jacaranda Cafe in Blackburn
During the meeting a motion was put to make a donation to Tom who is 9 years old and has Muscular Dystrophy, Tom is the Grandson of long time organist of Maryborough Lodge, Tom will be our special guest at our Official Visit to Maryborough Lodge on Saturday 12th April. The motion was passed to donate $500 towards Tom’s fund to purchase a voice activated computer.
The General Meeting received reports from various officers bears, these reports clearly demonstrated another active year is about to be undertaken by the VMMA.
At the conclusion of the meeting we adjourn for a light lunch at the usual cafe on Blackburn Road, other members of the VMMA who were unable to attend the meeting joined with us for lunch.
Yes they ate all their tea!!!
Around 2.00 p.m. we departed from Blackburn cafe heading to Tooradin Pelican Café the meeting venue for our "Full Moon Social Ride", it was interesting to see members join and depart the various days activities as it suited their own agenda for the day, we had members attend the General Meeting only, then other members joining us for lunch and rode down to Tooradin, then some departed for home after Tooradin whilst others joined us at Tooradin for the ride to Mirboo North where other members joined us at the brewery for tea.
Motorcycles at the Grand Ridge Brewery Restaurant at Mirboo North.
We were entertained at the Tooradin Pelican Café by a group of Banjo players, one of whom is in the craft and made himself known to us, departing Tooradin around 4.15 p.m. Dean led the ride to Mirboo North Brewery via a very scenic route via Koo-wee-rup, Bayles, Modella, Longwarry, Neerim South, Noojee, Icy Creek, Willow Grove, Trafalgar, Thorpdale and finally arriving around 6.15 p.m. at Mirboo North Brewery.
VMMA members Noel, Rick and Doc greeted us on our arrival at the Brewery and joined with us for tea, you could not complain of not being served a big tea, see images of some of the meals and yes they ate the lot!!! (Highly recommended)
After ride from Tooradin at the Grand Ridge Brewery Restaurant at Mirboo North.L to R: Sharyn, Viv, Rick, Noel, Dean, Chaplin, Doc and Dave.
After a very satisfying tea with good friends it was time to depart home ward bound, due to the latest of the evening and wildlife that frequents the roads we rode slowly in a group back to Trafalgar and then traveled via the Princess Highway back to Melbourne with members peeling off along the route.
Meeting venue at the Tooradin Pelican Café on the South Gippsland Hwy for Social Ride after General Meeting.
This was a very rewarding day that included both formalities in the morning and socialising in the afternoon and evening.
Thank you to Dean for planning the ride trip (Tom Tom did not find any dirt roads this time) and booking the Mirboo North brewery for tea.
Reported by CW
