The Winchelsea Star 07-Nov-13 Vol36-Ed39 | Page 11

Wednesday, 6th November, 2013

The Winchelsea Star

Blokes Night Out,
Take a Mate.
Annie Coles

This event welcomed 100
blokes to the evening hosted by
Hesse Rural Health Service and
supported by partnerships with
Corangamite Financial Services
(CFS), (Community Bank),
Geelong Football Club, Working
with Winchelsea and Lions Club
of Winchelsea. Hesse Rural Health
was successful in the last round of
sponsorship by CFS. These funds
were used to assist with the Blokes
Night Out and subsidize the 2
course meal provided.
The chairman of the Community Bank,
John Tebbutt opened the night with a
moving account of his own personal
journey to better health. Brian Brushfield
then took to the floor for the night’s
proceedings as Master of Ceremonies.
Brian shared some of his life events and
passion of sport with the audience.
Alan and Gay Hopgood were welcomed
together with cast members Hamish
Hughes and Mathew King to present
Six Degrees of Diabetes. A play centred
around a pub scene where 3 mates meet
for a drink and talk about their health,
what is happening with them and how
they feel. Supported by each other one
then ends up at the GP for a check up
while the other mate does not want to
know about that stuff! This gets blokes
thinking and acting upon their own health
issues.

After dessert, Alan gave a wonderful
account of his own personal health issues
over the years touching on intimate details
that men could relate to. This made Alan’s
guest speaking segment incredibly funny,

warm and honest. Alan was applauded
and thanked for his frank account of his
pathway to better health.
Local GP Dr. Rob McDonald and
Leisurelink’s Health Fitness Manager ,
Mr. Simon Coverdale ,took centre stage
for an extremely successful Q & A . Bruce
Falk (B. F. P. Real Estate) stepped in to
host the auction of the donated Geelong
Cats signed football. This raised $300.00
towards the evening.
Closing of the evening was by Lions
Club of Winchelsea president, Mr. Murrey
Aisbett who complimented the organisers
of a successful evening . Many positive
comments have been received about the
success of this event and the evening
saw many men stay on for discussion
afterwards. Thank you to the Winchelsea
Football Club ladies, Libby Leak catering
and Michelle Stocks, Jo & Zac- for the
evening wait duties. I wish to thank all
the sponsors, helpers and colleagues who
supported this event.

Weeds
Information
Evening
Barwon River Care &
Wurdale Landcare Groups Present

12th November 7.30pm, at the Wurdale
Hall Surf Coast Shire Environment
Officers Kate & Leanne will present the
council’s new significant program for
eradication of Pest Plants & Animals
Priority Works 2013/14. This is an
opportunity to highlight your priorities
regarding weeds in the local area.
Weed samples will be on display. Light
refreshments provided ALL WELCOME
For more information contact Carol 5288
7082 or Rod on 5267 2576

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Block Buster
Sam needs to learn to deal with
disappointment better…

Some friends of ours went to Bali last
weekend. They live down the road on a
small property and asked if I would feed the
chickens during their absence. Sure, I said,
knowing I would exact revenge one day.
In a seemingly unrelated matter, we own
a 4WD. The ownership of this vehicle
followed a fun Queensland holiday we had
a few years ago when we hired one to go
adventuring north of Port Douglas. With no
4WD experience, the trusting rental agency
allowed us to sign a contract which left us in
charge of this 2 tonne beast and we crossed
rainforest rivers, skidded to sudden stops
for time-rich roos and took on steep ups and
downs on rocky and muddy tracks. During
this experience, we got the feeling the car had
greater abilities than the drivers.
So when the next car was due, a 4WD was
chosen. That was two years ago. We are
still far from expert behind the wheel but
determined to give it a go on our holiday
camping adventures. Accordingly, Audrey
bought me a 4WD training course for a
birthday present. The course was to be
held last weekend but at the last minute the
instructor sent me an email apologising but
he was unable to run the course at the allotted
time as he was in hospital. It did, however,
mean I was able to feed the bird.
So it was with disappointment in my blood
that I got in the car and headed to our friends
place. There are two way to get to our friends
place – the straight-down-the-road-route-thatshould-be-taken-by-disappointed-4WDers
and the 4WD route. You know which one
I took, but, in my defence, do you know
how it feels when you wanted to give
something a go? When you were primed
full of enthusiasm and bravery not usually
associated with you? Well, that was me.
Into the Landcruiser I hopped and along
the 4WD track I drove. Has anyone else
noticed the rain lately? Hmm. Anyhow,
there were a couple of boggy holes – no
troubles. There was mud – cool! There were
hundreds of potholes – no worries. And there
was one long puddle that I probably should
have thought a little harder about. Part way
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