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NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2018
BLACKTOWN | SPORTS | HUBERTUS
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board of directors
Kay Kelly PRESIDENT
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Jack Miller SNR VICE PRESIDENT
Terry O’Loughlin VICE PRESIDENT
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Jim Buckley
Pat Collins
Gary Callaghan
George Vella
Ange Humphries
Bob Vincent
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CLUB PRESIDENT’S REPORT Hello Members, Our Group CEO, Dale Hunt has settled in nicely. I am sure the members will be pleased with steps he is taking to ensure our Clubs thrive and moves forward in a fast-moving club arena. Clubs cannot expect to rely solely on gaming revenue. The Board and Management are looking to diversify so we can provide and add further amenities for our members. The membership drive has been so popular that we have decided to keep it running indefinitely. If you are already a member take advantage of the sale of 1year for $6.00, 5years for $20.00 or 25years for $50.00 to extend your membership. If you know someone who wants to join please let them know. Our Annual Children’s Christmas Party will be held at Workers Hubertus Country Club. I am sure you will all enjoy this wonderful venue as it provides plenty of area. This year we have camel rides, waterslides plus added shows and attractions to our regular rides. Members children up to 15 years of age can attend. Register by 15th November to receive a gift bag, drinks, fairy floss, popcorn, sausage sizzle and snow cone. Courtesy bus services will run between our venues. We owe it to our members children to make this a “WOW DAY” so let’s all work together to make it happen. The Board and I look forward to our “Tin Shed/Foundation and VIP Christmas Party". These members have contributed over 50 years membership to our Club. They are the backbone of our Clubs success and we appreciate them very much. It is lovely to talk and reminisce with them. The Workers Sports Precinct will be handed over by the builders soon. Garry Allen and his team will now attend to the landscaping to be ready for the official opening early next year. It is the largest privately-owned sporting complex in Australia. Another gem for our Workers brand that we can be proud of and of which many children will receive the benefits as they strive to excel in sport. I would like to thank my Board, Management 2017 Tin Shed, Foundation & VIP Christmas Party and staff for the extra effort they have put in this year. Without a CEO for over seven (7) months, it was a lot of pressure to keep things running smoothly and ignore rumours. Everyone is now energised and excited as we look ahead to a promising future. I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I hope you can spend time with family and friends. If you find you are on your own please come to the Club, where you can find a friendly face. I invite you to attend the Directors Thank You Draw so we can personally wish you Merry Christmas. We will be holding a draw at Workers Blacktown and Workers Sports. Thank you all for the support everyone from members to Management show me and my colleagues. The Club needs us all to work together as a team. Condolences to members who have lost love ones and friends. Our thoughts are with you. Keep Smiling and Be Kind To Each Other
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Group Chief Executive Officer’s REPORT
Dear Members It has been a whirlwind couple of months around the Workers as we move towards the end of year and work on our Club becoming more focussed on our core values and delivering to our members. Sometimes you need to stop, take a breath and look around you…. and that is what we have been doing this last month. We have been listening to customers and staff, and started to put together a plan to grow our business into the future. This will continue into the months ahead and I urge you, to complete the member surveys and feedback forms available so we create the Club that you want and deliver the services that you need as a member in the future. With the completion of the Sporting Fields at the Workers Sports Club, it is now time to look at our Main Club and give our members a more enjoyable and exciting venue to visit. We expect to be showing members some concepts before the end of the year and plan our refurbishment to start in the new year including new food and entertainment offerings for all to enjoy. Following feedback from members, you will also see that changes to our food and promotions have begun to occur and I am happy to say that catering has certainly proven a success with more people enjoying their meals and a higher level of customer satisfaction being recorded.
“make it even better and more exciting for the children attending” With building works happening around the Sports Club and about to start at the Main Club, it was the right time to move our Kids Christmas party to Hubertus Country Club and at the same time to make it even better and more exciting for the children attending. This will be challenging in the first year but we are working hard to make it our best yet and set a great standard for this wonderful tradition to continue for years to come. For members children it is a free event and this year we have on offer, carnival rides, acts, entertainment and much more so I certainly encourage you to take advantage of your membership and have a great family day out. As Christmas and the end of the year now approaches, I would also like to say thank you for your support of the Club and the part you play in making the Workers, the special place that it is today Kind regards
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2018 Club & Community Awards - Winners Youth Leadership Award.
B UILD ING L IVES THAT M ATTE R FEATURE STORY
At the 2018 Clubs & Community Awards, we were honoured to be recognised for our outstanding contributions in “Youth Leadership”. Blacktown Workers Club Group have been busy this year building lives that MATTER, matter not only to the individual living them but to the families that they are part of and to the community in which they live. Let’s break down a well-known saying “when there is a will, there is a way”. If you are determined enough, you can find a way to achieve what you want, even if it is very difficult. The children in our local schools are our future. Most of them are determined, they do have a “will” to learn, to strive, to move forward. Unfortunately, some children don’t have the right tools, surroundings, up-bringing and some have special needs, physical challenges or speech difficulties. There is a “way” for these children. Introducing The Clontarf Foundation and The Learning Links Foundation. This year we stepped up our efforts past anything ever done before to create an amazing opportunity for our community members to grow, enjoy life and valuably contribute to the community in which they live. •We took local Aboriginal & Torres Straight Islander youth and built a sporting event which lowered unemployment, understand their own value and build an exciting future for themselves; •We took local kids and built a pathway to improve their lives from under 6 rugby league through to NRL first Grade; •We helped local children reduce bullying and live a more fulfilled life by providing free speech pathology services to children in need; •We spent more than $30 Million on world class sporting fields to reduce obesity and health problems in local children; •We created new employment opportunities for local youth to improve employment rates and offer higher opportunities for success; Blacktown Workers Club Group has and will continue to change lives. We would like to extend our thank you to both foundations and to everyone involved, helping us to attain the 2018 Youth Category Winners at the Clubs & Community Awards Night. Winning this award is just a bonus, the real award is working with the Clontarf Foundation and the Learning Links Foundation, helping the youth, their families, our future live the best possible lives they can. Building Lives that matter. #giveyourbest
We are pleased to announce that at the recent Club Industry Awards, Blacktown Workers Won the award for being the Industry leader in supporting youth. As stated by ClubsNSW "Blacktown Workers have really stepped up their efforts in the last year, more than anything they've ever done before". #giveyourbest
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SANTA IS ON HIS WAY TO HUB ERTU S ! FEATURE STORY
FREE CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS PARTY YES you heard it here first! Santa is visiting the Workers Hubertus Country Club for one day only. Mark the date in your calendars, Sunday 2 December 2018! From what started as a picnic for members and their families in a park more than 50 years ago the Workers Children’s Christmas Party has grown to what it is today. It has moved from place to place, from the footy fields out the back of Patrician Brothers Blacktown to Blacktown Showground to the more recent Blacktown Workers Sports Club. “My father used to come home holding up the tickets for the Workers Children’s Christmas Party and there was great excitement as we awaited the big day. My family has continued the
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tradition with me taking my children and now my children taking their children” - Kerry Toms. We continue to keep the Christmas spirit alive with families from all over Western Sydney coming together to celebrate the year and to celebrate the Workers Family as a whole. We are turning a new stone and making it bigger and better this year, holding the ever-growing Children’s Christmas Party at Workers Hubertus Country Club. And yes, we did say bigger and we did say better! Roll up, roll up, ladies and gentlemen! girls & boys! Children of ALLLL Ages…. Step right up! And enjoy the show. We are bringing our very own circus to the Workers Children’s Christmas Party complete with all the carnival rides, freshly prepared fairy floss, hot buttered popcorn and chilled snow cones. Experience the thrill of the ‘ships in the desert’ with your very own camel ride. Take a splash on the waterslide or the wheel of a dodgem car for a rattling good time. Be mesmerised by magicians, captivated by stilt walkers, get dizzy with hula hoop performers, be twisted by balloon artists, transformed by face painters all while being entertained with the magic and music of Christmas. The real excitement begins with arrival of the man in red. Just how will Santa arrive all the way from the North Pole? By plane, by bus, by boat… We will just have to wait to see. For those kids on Santa’s good list we have a special present waiting for you. Come one, come all, join all the fun and excitement as we celebrate Christmas with our families through the magic of our kids. We look forward to seeing you there. Remember to register your children before 15 November 2018 so they don’t miss out!
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N OV E M B E R E N T E R TA I N M E N T BOOK ONLINE TODAY AT WORKERSCLUB.COM.AU
SATURDAY 10 NOVEMBER | 8PM TICKETS $15M | $22V
THE DIVINE MISS M TRIBUTE SHOW
RUMOURS - FLEETWOOD MAC SATURDAY 03 NOVEMBER | 8PM TICKETS $12M | $18V
ON SALE NOW! LATINO RHYTHM SATURDAY 24 NOVEMBER | 8PM TICKETS $10M | $15V
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While taking you on a journey through Bette’s career with songs ranging from her biggest hits: Wind Beneath My Wings, The Rose, From A Distance and Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, the Divine Miss M tribute show brings you songs from some of her biggest concert tours – including comedy hits such as Long John Blues, Fat As I Am and the hilarious, Pretty Legs-Great Big Knockers.
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MELBOURNE CUP DAY 11am Bingo 12pm MELBOURNE CUP SHOW LADIES OF THE 80'S 12pm Venus 2 12pm Dennis Demello Duo 12.30pm Power Of Two 5pm Cash Bonanza 6 11am Bingo 5pm Cash Bonanza
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11am CHAMPAGNE WEDNESDAY 6pm Poker 7pm BIRTHDAY DRAW 7.30pm Trivia
11am Bingo 6pm Poker 7.30pm Trivia
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FRIDAY
SATURDAY
11am Kids Club 11.30am Cash Housie 1pm Steppin Out Duo 1.30pm Raffle 2pm Poker 5pm Poker 5.30pm Raffle
SUNDAY
WORKERS BLACKTOWN WORKERS SPORTS WORKERS HUBERTUS THURSDAY
12.30pm Raffle 7pm Quizzame 8pm RUMOURS FLEETWOOD MAC SHOW 8.30pm Matchbox Band 9pm The Frocks
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6am Markets 11.30am Cash Housie 1pm Cap2vate 1.30pm Ham Raffle 2pm Poker 3pm Mega Toy Raffle 5pm Poker 5.30pm Ham Raffle 25
11am Kids Club 11.30am Cash Housie 1pm The Musical Express 1.30pm Raffle 2pm Poker 5pm Poker 5.30pm Raffle 18
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11.30am Cash Housie 1pm Franky Valentyn Duo 1.30pm Raffle 2pm Poker 5pm Poker
11am Bingo 5pm Raffle 6.30pm Raffle 8pm Who Remembers The 80's 9pm NEW Hit Mix Retro Party
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12.30pm Raffle 7pm Harry Potter Trivia 8pm LATINO RHYTHM 8pm The Bandits 8.30pm Chris Drummond Duo
12.30pm Raffle 7pm Quizzame 8pm Oxygen 8.30pm Backlash Duo
12.30pm Raffle 7pm Quizzame 8pm THE DEVINE MISS M TRIBUTE TO BETTE MIDLER 8pm The Headliners 8.30pm Chris Drummond Duo
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11am Cash Housie 11am Bingo 1.30pm Raffle 7pm Quizzame 7pm 12 WEEKS OF CHRISTMAS DRAW- WORKERS HUBERTUS
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11am Bingo 5pm Raffle 6.30pm Raffle 8pm Take Two 9pm NEW Hit Mix Retro Party
11am Cash Housie 11am Bingo 1.30pm Raffle 7pm Quizzame 7pm 12 WEEKS OF CHRISTMAS DRAW- WORKERS HUBERTUS
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11am Bingo 5pm Ham Raffle 6.30pm Toy Raffle 8pm Acoustic Autograph 9pm NEW Hit Mix Retro Party
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11am Bingo 5pm Ham Raffle 6.30pm Raffle 8pm Keepin' It Real 9pm NEW Hit Mix Retro Party
11am Cash Housie 11am Bingo 1.30pm Raffle 7pm Quizzame 7pm 12 WEEKS OF CHRISTMAS DRAW- WORKERS HUBERTUS
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11am Cash Housie 11am Bingo 1.30pm Raffle 7pm Quizzame 7pm 12 WEEKS OF CHRISTMAS DRAW- WORKERS HUBERTUS 7.30pm CASH, CAR HOLIDAY DRAW - WORKERS BLACKTOWN
Key - Diamond Show Promotion / Draw
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11am & 7.30pm Bingo 7pm DIRECTORS THANK YOU DRAW - WORKERS BLACKTOWN
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NEW YEARS EVE 11am & 7.30pm Bingo 8pm NEW YEARS EVE DINNER AND SHOW ROCK YA SOXS OFF 9pm Chris Drummond Duo 9pm Oxygen 31
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TUESDAY
7pm BIRTHDAY DRAW
11am Bingo 6pm Poker 7.30pm Trivia
11am Bingo 6pm Poker 7pm BIRTHDAY DRAW 7.30pm Trivia
11.30am SENIORS CHRISTMAS PARTY 6pm Poker 7.30pm Trivia
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THURSDAY
11am Bingo 5pm Raffle 6.30pm Raffle 8pm Rob O'Brian 9pm Hit Mix Retro Party
11am Bingo 5pm Ham Raffle 6.30pm Raffle 8pm Acoustic Autograph 9pm Hit Mix Retro Party
11am Bingo 5pm Ham Raffle 6.30pm Raffle 8pm James Lees Duo 9pm Hit Mix Retro Party
11am Bingo 5pm Ham Raffle 6.30pm Raffle 8pm Too Many Guitars 9pm Hit Mix Retro Party
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2pm Poker 5pm Poker 5.30pm Ham Raffle
1.30pm Ham Raffle
11.30am Cash Housie 11am Kids Club 1pm Steppin' Out Duo
1pm Kafekool 1.30pm Ham Raffle 2pm Poker 5pm Poker 5.30pm Ham Raffle
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12.30pm Raffle 7pm Quizzame 8pm Hyjinx 8.30pm Matchbox band
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12.30pm Raffle 7pm Quizzame 8pm The Bandits 8.30pm Hitmakers 4
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12.30pm Raffle 7pm Quizzame 8pm Rock City Saints 8.30pm Chris Drummond Duo
12.30pm Raffle 7pm Quizzame 8pm CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR 8pm Confetti Disco Band 8.30pm Dwayne Elix & The Engineers 1
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WORKERS BLACKTOWN WORKERS SPORTS FOR PUBLIC HOLIDAY / CHRISTMAS TRADING HOURS PLEASE SEE CLUBS WEBSITE WORKERS HUBERTUS
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Belgian Waffles
Recipe provided by Estrella from Impressions Cafe Workers Blacktown
Ingredients
8 Belgian waffles 4 scoops of vanilla ice-cream 200 ml of custard sauce or thickened cream 100 gms of Nutella Maraschino cherries Strawberries for garnish Method Step 1 Melt the custard sauce / cream on a double boiler. Step 2 Mix in Nutella and stir until smooth, add more chocolate if needed. Step 3 Toast the wae for it to caramelize. Step 4 Arrange in the center of your plate, top it with ice cream and cherry. Step 5 Drizzle with sauce and garnish with strawberries.
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Roast Tasting Plate
Honey glazed ham & turkey with roast vegetables & gravy $18m | $20v
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Christmas Pudding
Warm Christmas pudding with brandy custard $8m | $9.50v
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WELFARE officer’s REPORT Hello Members, I hope that you are all well. To our members who are in hospital, we wish you a speedy recovery. If you or a family member, or know of a member who is in a hospital and would like me to visit them, please let me know. I would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. On behalf of the Club President, Board of Directors, Management and Staff, I wish to extend our sincere sympathy to the families of the following members who have passed away since our last journal.
Harold Becker - Welfare Officer Late Franc Obid Late Joan Crowe Late Paul Sinclair Late Colin Hindmarsh Late Lesley Brindell Late Lola Bruton Late Roslyn Greenhalgh Late Maureen Lowe Late Juliana Dartnell-Harbin Late Rafael Butron
Late Thomas Jones Late Robert Bennett Late Jacqueline Easson Late Steven Rigelsford Late Marlene Hughes Late Ann Hadley Late Hillar Suviste Late George Mockridge Late Shapie Bintalib Late Stuart Mackendry
Late Geoffrey Mercer Late Michael Brooks Late Nellie Burgess Late Victor Maunder Late Beryl Mews Late George Seve Late Roselyn Smith Late Joseph Mikulas
Treasurer’s report Hello Members I am pleased to update you on our financial performance so far this year and let you know that even with increased donations to the community and sporting groups, we are aiming towards an improved profit on last years figures through careful financial management. To date this year (Jan to Aug 2018), We have already donated more than $1.2 Million to local community groups and people in need, and our solid approach to financial management allows us to maximise our contributions in this way. For further financial information please refer to the Clubs’ noticeboard”
jim buckley - club treasurer
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CLUB INFORMATION SPORTING BODIES CONTACTS
CLUB DRESS RULES To maintain the high standard enjoyed in our Club we request the Dress Rules be abided by. THE FOLLOWING DRESS IS NOT PERMITTED AT ANY TIME
NO OFFENSIVE CLOTHING
NO SINGLETS
NO UNTIDY OR DIRTY CLOTHING
NO HATS
NO FOOTY OR SHORT SHORTS
NO TORN OR DIRTY SHOES
NO BARE-FEET
NO UNTIDY CLOTHING
THE FOLLOWING DRESS IS PERMITTED ON THE GROUND FLOOR ONLY
SCUFFS
THONGS
(only before 9pm), also allowed in the showroom for Bingo only. Football Jerseys Are Permitted On The Ground Floor And Buffet Only. All Evening Shows In The Showroom Dress Rules Apply - No Shorts Appearance Must Be Clean, Neat & Tidy At All Times. For More Information See Our Website Or Ask Our Friendly Staff
Non-Smoking Policy In accordance with regulations gazetted by the NSW Government, the Board of the Workers Club Group has determined that smoking will only be permitted in certain areas of the Club. The Responsible Service of Alcohol Responsible Service of Alcohol is vital for legal, health and community reasons. Blacktown Workers Club Group Ltd. has adopted strategies for the Responsible Service of Alcohol. The Responsible Conduct of Gaming Blacktown Workers Club Group in the best interest of its members, guests and community, promotes The Responsible Conduct of Gaming. Blacktown Workers Club Group is committed to responsible gaming. We urge all customers to bet carefully, set yourself a limit and never borrow money to gamble. If you stick to these basic rules, gambling will remain an enjoyable activity. See website for more information. Courtesy Bus Commences from 5pm. See doorman for bookings and Club Rules and Regulations that apply on the bus. Visit www.workersclub.com.au for further information.
If gambling is creating a problem in your life help is available. Contact the 24 hour free confidential counselling service on 1800 BETSAFE (1800 238 7233). Player activity statements are available on request.
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Workers Hubertus Country Club Presents
2018 SUNDAY 10AM
2ND DEC 3PM
FREE TICKETS FOR
MEMBERS
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FACE PAINTING, ANIMAL BALLOONS, PETTING ZOO PLUS… RIDES, ENTERTAINMENT, GIFT BAG AND ALL YOUR FAVOURITE FOODS!! MEMBERS MUST REGISTER THEIR CHILDREN TO ATTEND BY FRIDAY 15TH NOVEMBER 2018