The Probus Club of The Gap

Well, the year got off to a flying start for the Probus Club of The Gap, with an informal drop-in-drop-out lunch at the Bronco’s on Australia Day. Catching up on the news after the holiday break, plotting and planning for the coming year, swapping photos and stories – the hours of lunch passed very quickly and pleasantly.

Slightly more structured was the February 2nd meeting, all about members’ varied interests. And how varied they are! A survey elicited 39 separate hobbies and interests of our members – and at an average of 3 ½ topics each it’s clear they are an active lot. Which is the whole point of Probus of course: “An Active Retirement”.

The club is encouraging and facilitating interest website: http://www.westernecho.com.au groups, to help people who are interested in, say, genealogy, can find each other, get together, share techniques, data sources, software recommendations etc. There’ll be no committee interference in the running of these member groups: the club will just help to set them up where wanted.

Interests fell into seven main groups, with others too hard to classify. The big ones were travelling, reading, gardening, hand skills (especially needlecraft), many forms of physical recreation, Art/Culture and

Pastimes such as various card games. But if you’re interested in cars or horses or birdwatching or the environment or … many more … you wouldn’t be lone in our club.

The program for the year is taking shape, with a mouth-watering selection of speakers, trips, coffee mornings, evening dinners, the occasional cocktail expedition, picnics – enough to keep the mind active.

If you are interested in joining Probus, or just giving it a try, we would welcome your enquiry. Just call Rhoda on 0409 484 219. We are getting lots of applications for membership but places are still available – no waiting list – and we’d love to put you on the mailing list and include you in the clubbishness!