Albany Orchid Society December 2022 Newsletter
P.O. Box 1982
Albany W.A. 6331
December 2022 Newsletter
| President | Mrs Barbara Hawes | 0419422916 |
| Vice President | Mr Ron Panting | (08)98411695 |
| Secretary | Mrs. Shirley Hawkins | 0407971758 |
| Treasurer | Mr. Glen Diggins | 0411054750 |
| Newsletter | Mrs Carol White | 0488533377 |
Patron: Mr Murray Montgomery AM
Next Meeting:- Sunday 23rd January 2023
1.30 pm - Benching Plants to be placed
2:00pm - Meeting Starts
Venue: Albany Bridge Club, Mill St Albany
Competition Plants for March Brassidium Tigerlilly ‘Tinonee’ and Paphiopedilum Spicerianum ‘Sandy’ Lovely Moon ‘Sandy’
Competition Plans
The Competition plants to be presented for assessment this month are :-
Paph Spicerianum Sandy x Lovely Moon Sandy and Dend. Hot Grumpy ‘First’ x dolicophylla x Super Raffles.
Events this Month
Morning Tea
Friday the 13th January at ‘The View’ at the Entertainment Centre at 10 am.
Agriculture Show
Our annual Sarcochilus display which was incorporated into the Agriculture show again this year was a huge success, with many compliments on our display, one of them being from the Agricultural Society President. Well done to all who contributed plants to display and to those who ‘manned’ the sales table.
Committee Meeting
The next committee meeting will be held on Friday 20th January 2023 at 1.30 at Vancouver Café.
Christmas Dinner
The Christmas Dinner this year was held at the Bridge Club Rooms with quite a few members attending, we all enjoyed the wonderful food supplied by our members, not to mention the decadent desserts, Thank you, Julie thanked Carol and Barbara for organising it. This was followed by the Annual Awards Presentation which were presented by Julie as Murray unfortunately had a prior engagement and couldn’t attend. I don’t have a full list of all those who received awards, but Congratulations to those who received them.
Web Site
Glen is still trying to contact Simon who designed our website to make some changes, but isn’t having much luck, he has a new lead on how to contact him, so will continue tyring.
Term Deposit
Julie suggested that we invest the money from the former term deposit for a month to generate some income, it has been in our normal account waiting for interest rates to improve before reinvesting it, Glen will investigate the possibilities.
Benching Results
The publishing of the benching results in the newsletter was discussed as the Judging Panel want a more detailed report, so from next year the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place getters in every category will be published.
Raffle
The winners of the raffle this month were Edna Murdoch and Jenny Ridgway, because of the lunch there wasn’t a door prize this month, so a 3rd raffle draw was held, the winner was Libby, Congratulations
Happy Birthday to all those celebrating a “Special Day” this month.
Best wishes to anyone feeling under the weather, we hope you start feeling better soon.
Wishing Everyone a Wonderful Christmas and a Very Happy , Safe and Prosperous New Year.
See you in 2023.
