Canberra Chapter Christmas Lunch and Awards

15 January 2019 / Guilia Schiemer

What a great event this turned out to be; 61 members attended and enjoyed the beautiful food that Yowani provided for us, and all seemed to have a good time.

Awards were presented for New Member of the Year, which went to Rod (“Webman”) Nicholas, and Motor Sport Member of the Year was awarded to Jon Millard, so congratulations Rod and Jon. And a lovely surprise for us, we scored the Members of the Year award (James and Guilia Schiemer), which we are absolutely stoked about!

And, in the Christmas spirit with lots of colour being the theme for the lunch, Jim Woods took out the “most over-the-top attired man” award in his Fred Flintstone outfit…….no one else stood a chance! Very brave, Jim! The very colourful Robyn Bottcher received the “most-spectacularly-outfitted-lady” award!

Our Run Leaders from 2018 were deservingly recognised, as was Tony MacDonald who does a great job with Curmudgeons each week.

Close to 20 lucky door prizes were handed out, and the raffle prize of Scotch, Gin and Chocolates was won by Elfie Gahan. While having a great day, laughing lots and generally enjoying the company of friends we managed to raise $288 for our Club charity, CareFlight.

Well done, and a big thank you to everyone for making it such a successful day. Time to start planning our 2019 Christmas function!

Many thanks to all for a great year - James and Guilia Schiemer