27th March 2019 Vol 28 No 11
The Official Newsletter of
THE RIVERSIDE PROBUS CLUB
(PO Box 55 Riverside 7250)
Meetings are held at the WINDSOR COMMUNITY PRECINCT RIVERSIDE on the Fourth Wednesday of each month
Time: 10.00 am - 12.00 noon (unless otherwise arranged)
Management Committee 2018/19
President: John Stanley 0418137641
Vice President: Vacant
Immediate Past President: Don Calver 63271450
Secretary: Donn Corcoran 63274341
Treasurer: Brian McLaughlin 63273398
Bulletin Editor: John Dare 63301402
Ass Bulletin Editor: Glenn Robinson 63302976
Guest Speakers: Bill Carney 63272899
Outside interests: John Stanley 0418137641
Attendance Doug Fenton 63301186
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Today’s Meeting: Wednesday 27th March 2019
Program:
Club speaker: No club speaker.
Guest Speaker : No guest speaker for the March meeting
Topic:
Next Meeting: Wednesday 24thth April 2019
Guest Speaker Annabelle Shegog
Topic: Community Policing
BIRTHDAYS:March: Don Calver, Donn Corcoran, John Dare..
MORNING TEA STEWARDS.
March: Reg Rigby-John Dare
April: Glenn Robinson-Graeme Barwick
If you can participate in serving the morning tea please indicate when you are able to so we can continue the roster for the next few months.
FINANCIAL REPORT: As at 20/3/2019 - $680.45
Petty Cash: $34.20
The annual fees are now due for the 2019/20 year.
The fees will remain at sixty dollars.
AGM
The annual General meeting is being held this month, at the March meeting. Participation on the committee is encouraged. Members were invited to nominate for committee positions at the February meeting.
Guest speaker (February): Belinda King of ABC Radio and Encore Theatre.
Belinda started in work in a theatre restaurant, lead to work in commercial radio in Geelong 25 years ago. She has had a variety of roles in radio and theatre in Geelong, the Gold Coast, Gippsland, Albury-Wodonga, Perth and Hobart. In Hobart she also worked as a producer in the Terrapin Puppet Theatre. After many moves she decided to move to Launceston and founded Encore Theatre with Jamie Hillard in 2008. Its first production was The Sound of Music and it has gone on to produce many more productions. Belinda worked for QVMAG and did casual work for the ABC and applied for 15 positions before becoming a permanent presenter. While newspapers have been affected by internet media, radio has survived, mainly because of in-car listeners. This could change with the advent of driverless cars. The ABC has also changed dramatically with its increasing focus on social media. Belinda also spoke about ‘fake news’ on social media and the role of the me-too# movement in which accusations are often publicised in the media before being tested in court.
The ABC has a stringent self-auditing process during election campaigns, in order to provide the incumbent government and the opposition equal time and the right of reply.
Belinda spoke about the situation of asylum seekers, including the substantial number who come by air, and the lack of access to Nauru for journalists and opposition politicians.
She then addressed the costs of running a theatre company, including the royalties and theatre hire, which together account for about 46 per cent of total production costs. Encore Theatre has had about 120,000 patrons over 10 years and now has about 17,000 a year, or about 20 per cent of the Princess Theatre’s annual patronage. Part of its success is through putting on shows which professional companies do not bring to Launceston because of the limited audience size. It is about to put on ‘Strictly Ballroom’ and Belinda provided two passes.
The two double passes were raffled and drawn by an independent person.
The winners were: Reg Rigby and Hilton Johnston.
HUMOUR
Doughnuts
Paddy and Mick are walking down the road and Paddy’s got a bag of doughnuts in his hand.
Paddy says to Mick, ”If you can guess how many
doughnuts are in my bag, you can have them both.”
Wife
Finnegan’s wife had been killed in an accident and the police were questioning him. ”Did she say anything before she died?” asked the sergeant.
“She spoke without interruption for about 40 years,” said Finnegan