Mundaring Probus CLUB | Community group

Mundaring Probus CLUB

Phone: +61 8 9298 8593

Address: GLEN FORREST SPORTS CLUB - McGlew Rd 6071

Website:

Likes: 41

Add/Update information

Reviews

Tags

• Community group
• Community organisation

26.01.2022 Despite missing our esteemed President Frank (in hospital- we sent a card) members enjoyed a lovely end of year celebration at the Mundaring Hotel. Helen stepped up in Frank's absence. Tony Harding entertained us reading some of his own works. Richard Ladny (Chairperson for Probus District 945) joined us and drew the raffle. We start again on January 10/22. The speaker will be Defence lawyer Henry Sklarz Have a restful break - stay safe!

25.01.2022 Have you downloaded the app?

22.01.2022 Well done to President Frank and the Committee for successfully applying to the Mundaring Shire for a Grant to upgrade the club ICT equipment.Well done to President Frank and the Committee for successfully applying to the Mundaring Shire for a Grant to upgrade the club ICT equipment.

21.01.2022 On Friday evening several members enjoyed a relaxed, warm social gathering for the President's Sundowner at Frank & Mary-Helen's house. Very tasty selection of soups and desserts! Gold star for Brian who stationed himself at the sink!

21.01.2022 Interested in trains and local history? We have both! MEETING MONDAY September 14 at 9:45am Glen Forrest Sports Club. Speaker - Don Butler, Secretary of the Midland and Districts Historical Society will be speaking on the History of the Midland Workshops. Learn more about the largest industrial workshops in Western Australia. Visitors Welcome - please contact Secretary on 0412 427 533 if you would like to attend

20.01.2022 At our meeting last Monday we heard from Sleep and Alzheimer’s Researcher Associate Professor Stephanie Rainey-Smith from Murdoch University. Important points in her talk included the link between poor sleep and dementia and sleep and health risk. We were a little intrigued by the Sleep Misery Cycle.

20.01.2022 Our monthly casual get together is on next Saturday 31st at Perrella’s Café in Darlington. Just ask for the Probus Table if you’d like to join us. We meet about 10am.Our monthly casual get together is on next Saturday 31st at Perrella’s Café in Darlington. Just ask for the Probus Table if you’d like to join us. We meet about 10am.

19.01.2022 WE ARE BACK! Meeting Monday 13th @ 9:45am Glen Forrest Sports Club Speaker - Simon Woodley will talk about Australia's Marine Parks.

19.01.2022 UP where the sky is blue! Our November meeting speaker is Squadron Leader Sue Freeman. Sue was a career fighter pilot in the RAF for 24 years and the first woman seconded to the RAAF as a Hawk 127 instructor. Sue will talk about all manner of subjects perhaps highlighted by explaining the difficulties of wearing a flying suit without gender appropriate zippers! Meeting from 9.30 am.

19.01.2022 MEETING MONDAY AUGUST 10th at 9:45am Glen Forrest Sports Club. Hope to see you there. Visitors welcome! Speaker - Local Architect ALLAN DAVIES. Allan Davies qualified in Perth before working throughout Australia. On his return to Perth he joined one of Perth’s larger practices, rising to become a Principal of that practice. Initial work in shopping centres and hotels led to overseas projects on behalf of the practice, including the Australian embassy in Vietnam. He also spen...t five years in Iran designing a major racecourse and other buildings. On his return to Perth in 1979, he established his own practice in Darlington. For the following 24 years Allan’s practice handled a mixture of commercial work, numerous houses and residential unit developments, many of which achieved design awards. After achieving acclaim for his projects throughout his career, Allan retired in 2011.

17.01.2022 Members were treated to a great speaker on Nov 8. Retired Magistrate Antoine Bloemen spoke of his amazingly varied life. He was born in a German occupied Belgian village in 1941. Through his teenage years he worked in a college as a domestic and then as a merchant seaman. He migrated to America - serving as a paratrooper in the US Army; spending three years in Okinawa; met his wife and worked as a salesman in NYC. Migrating to Australia in 1972, he attended UWA graduating wi...th a law degree. Mr Bloemen ran his own legal firm and was appointed Magistrate for the Pilbara in 1995 and then the Kimberley in 1999 until 2008. He is most famously remembered for a "deal" he made with a young aboriginal offender, offering him a bike if he stayed on the right path for three months. That boy now works for Rio Tinto in the Pilbara. It was also a lovely reunion for a couple of Probus members, who knew Mrs Anne Bloemen who came with her husband. See more

16.01.2022 At our meeting on April 12 the speaker will be Angela Bowman from Australian Wildlife Conservancy. This group is the largest private owner and manager of land for conservation in Australia, protecting endangered wildlife across more than 6.5 million hectares in iconic regions such as the Kimberley, Cape York, Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre and the Top End. Recognising that ‘business as usual’ for conservation in Australia will mean additional extinctions, AWC is developing and implementing a new model for conservation. Sounds like very interesting morning in store!

16.01.2022 Our monthly casual get together is on next Saturday 26th at Perrella’s Café in Darlington. Just ask for the Probus Table if you’d like to join us. We meet about 10am.Our monthly casual get together is on next Saturday 26th at Perrella’s Café in Darlington. Just ask for the Probus Table if you’d like to join us. We meet about 10am.

16.01.2022 We celebrated 37 years today with a birthday lunch at 7th Avenue Restaurant. Due to the Covid19 hiatus, the presidential changeover was delayed. Today Ian Allison handed the Presidential collar to our new President Frank Smith. Frank has been the club Bulletin Editor for several years and due to his contacts is always able to come up with speaker!

15.01.2022 With the group restrictions lifted from June 6 we look forward to resuming in the near future! We’ll let you know! Stay turned!With the group restrictions lifted from June 6 we look forward to resuming in the near future! We’ll let you know! Stay turned!

14.01.2022 Is this YOU?? Good organiser? Free one Monday morning a month? Like to help your elders? The Mundaring Probus Club needs a morning tea person (non gender specific)... We meet in Glen Forrest Please contact the club secretary on 0412427533

14.01.2022 Don't forget Last Saturday coffee at Perella's in Darlington. Enjoy.

12.01.2022 Your local Probus club meets at the Glen Forrest Sports Club 2nd Monday every month except December. Contact 0417179761 for more information. Our first meeting in 2021 will be Jan 11th. New members are always welcome.

11.01.2022 Come and join us at Perrellas in Darlington 10am this Saturday 31st for our regular end of month coffee morning. It may be Halloween but look at the happy crowd below - nothing spooky about our members. Just ask for the Probus table and meet some friendly faces.

05.01.2022 Who needs a good news story for the weekend? This one has a baby 12 koalas were evacuated from Kanangra-Boyd National Park during the fires. The team over a...t Taronga Zoo Sydney looked after these furry friends over the Summer and found that one of them was carrying a baby joey! We’re happy to say that Science for Wildlife Ltd released 13 koalas home this month

05.01.2022 Several members took a trip to the Swan Valley to visit The Chocolate Factory to enjoy a meal. Of course there was chocolate tasting and shopping!

05.01.2022 It's our backyard!

04.01.2022 Rememberance Day

03.01.2022 What a great day we had on Monday Nov 16! A bus load of members and friends went to Mandurah to take canal cruise. The weather was almost perfect although the early breeze was a tad cool. Several dolphins came to play as well. After lunch the trip home was quiet.

02.01.2022 Members were treated to a very informative session relating to the history of the Midland Railway workshops from 1904, when the facility was re-located from Fremantle, to closure in 1994. The workshops were responsible for building and maintaining railway rolling stock in the state for over 90 years. There is a move to establish a museum in the Workshops precinct to retain the history of the industry and those who worked there. Interested? You can view at this Facebook page Build the Midland Rail Heritage Museum. https://www.facebook.com/MidlandHeritageRail

01.01.2022 Remember it is Get together Saturday at Perrella’s in Darlington this weekend!Remember it is Get together Saturday at Perrella’s in Darlington this weekend!

29.12.2021 Members visited the Fo Guang Buddhist Temple in Maylands, on Wednesday 20th October. Dan, a lay Buddhist, gave us an introduction to Buddhism including the 4 dharmas, showed us the library containing sacred texts which are known collectively as the Tripitaka, meditation and classrooms. We were also able to listen to the chanting taking place in the peaceful temple.

15.12.2021 The speaker at our next meeting is Antoine Bloemen, former magistrate in the Pilbara and the Kimberley. You may recall he offered to buy a delinquent boy a bicycle if he stayed out of trouble. He did and got a new bicycle for Christmas that year. Antoine writes: My talk is about an immigrant from being born in an German occupied Belgian village in 1941 through teenage years working in a college as a domestic and then in as a merchant seaman, migrating to America, serving as a paratrooper in the US Army, spending three years in Okinawa where I met my wife, working as a salesman in NYC, migrating to Australia in 1972, attending UWA graduating with a law degree, running my own legal firm and then being appointed Magistrate for the Pilbara in 1995 and then the Kimberley in 1999 until 2008.

08.12.2021 "MURDER ON THE TITANIC!" was our Probus Day activity. Thank you Lyn and Ian for organising. These two passengers were both elegant and suspicious We ALL had a lot of fun working out the clues to discover WHO DID IT!

22.11.2021 Last month, regulars at our end of month coffee morning, presented Club stalwart Kay Dando, a bouquet to celebrate her birthday and acknowledge her support, at various Committee roles, including Treasurer. May you have a wonderful year Kay!

19.11.2021 Remember - Coffee at Hive this Saturday!Remember - Coffee at Hive this Saturday!

11.11.2021 Most of our gatherings include food! Friday was no exception! Soup, nibbles, wine, desserts - a warm fire and warmer friendship.

27.10.2021 Join us for this useful talk.

17.10.2021 Our speaker for the July 12th meeting will be Judith Odgaard from Sustainable Population Australia. SPA seeks to protect the environment and our quality of life by limiting population growth in Australia and globally, while rejecting racism and involuntary population control.

07.10.2021 Members enjoyed lunch at the Best Drop Tavern in Kalamunda to celebrate the club’s 37th Birthday.