Life member, Narelle Morey gave a very interesting account of the highlights of each decade over the last 90 years. So much has been achieved in that time, both world-wide and also in our Branch.
Our State President, Tanya also launched our new 90th Birthday Recipe Book, which was a sensational success, selling all we had had printed, so more coming next week. We tried to include many of our former member's recipes making it a record of many of our member's names over the years as well. (My thanks to Marie for helping me with the typing and Wendy H for proof-reading it).
Another interesting thing we discovered when doing the recipe book was how much our eating habits have changed in the forty years since we last printed a recipe book. One example was desserts were eaten at every main meal, whereas now it's mainly special occasions!
Tanya was presented with the first Recipe Book for launching it and a bag of condiments as a thank you for coming, made by Kay Dean, so a big thank you to Kay.
Our NSW CWA State President, Mrs Tanya Jolly was our guest speaker and was thoroughly taken with our Hall. She spoke on the relevancy of CWA today, and how it is still working continually, looking after women and children in the country and improving conditions for everyone.
A very surprised Bev Frohling received her Long Service Badge! She has worked hard for CWA over her many years of being a member and put in many "hard yards" when we were having major fund-raising street stalls.
Peter Creek was another very surprised person when he received a Certificate of Appreciation for his help behind the scenes — right back to our concert days in getting the Hall ready, then helping at Bunnings BBQ's when we needed manpower.
Von Heald and her family did a great job in washing all the crockery and cutlery prior to our event, so thanks also to them. Kay Dean had the job of making and decorating our beautiful cake, and Eunice McRae, being our oldest member, was asked to cut the cake.
Fiona Beckett had very kindly done up a display of aprons belonging to her family over the generations, which we displayed in the Supper room.
Our new cupboards, bought to store memorabilia of Pleasant Hills in the Hall, were installed just in time for the celebrations, and our thanks to the people involved in that.
We will have outlets where the recipe books can be purchased from in the district — Pleasant Hills shop & Ken Dales' Electrical, with also an outlet in Walla & Gundagai.
Our next meeting will be held in Henty at the back of Ken Dale's Electrical on Wednesday, 13th May, starting at 10am.
Lyn Jacobsen.