Pittwater Life July 2024 Issue

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Gala Dinner for
Mona Vale PS
Mona Vale Public School P&C
Association invites Mona
Vale Public School members
past and present to celebrate
its wonderful school community
by attending its 2024
Education Week Gala Dinner.
Enjoy a three-course dinner,
champagne on arrival, live
music and a silent auction. All
proceeds go to the P&C who
work in collaboration with
the school to build memories
for students. Come raise a
glass to this year’s theme
‘Proud to Belong’ and toast to
30 years of the OC class. The
gala will be held at the Rock
Lilly Auditorium – Pittwater
RSL on Friday 16 August from
7pm-11pm. Tickets ($110 per
person) can be purchased
at trybooking.com/CSRSG
until 5pm Thursday 1 August.
July Probus Club news in your suburb...
The next meeting of the Avalon
Beach Ladies Probus will be held
on Tuesday July 2 at Club Palm Beach,
commencing 10am. Members will
hear from local author Cindy Davis,
whose third novel ‘The Favourite of
the Harem’ is set in the Topkapi Palace
harem of 16th century Istanbul.
Her talk – Strong Women, Eunuchs
and the Sultans – will look at life in
the harem, which was operated for
five centuries by women and eunuchs
and became a pollical power base of
the Turkish Ottoman Empire. Visitors
welcome.
The next meeting of the Newport
Probus Club will be on Thursday
4 July, commencing 10am at the
Newport Bowling Club. The speaker
will be Graham Sims who will tell the
story of Bea Miles, a Sydney identity
known as “the bag lady”. Visitors
welcome; more info Phil Butcher (0413
046 370).
The next meeting of the Combined
Probus Club of Mona Vale will be on
Tuesday, July 16 in the auditorium at
Pittwater RSL Club (from 10am). Guest
speaker in July is Dark Sky Defender
Marnie Ogg who will talk about ‘Night
Conservation’. With a 30-year history
in tourism and several years with
her own eco-based tourism business,
Marnie returned from an astrotourism
event in Europe and realised
how truly special the Australian
dark night sky is. Recently, her work
consulting on dark sky place creation
in Milparinka, Wentworth, Palm Beach
and the Blue Mountains has seen dark
sky place-making suitable for designation
with the International Dark-
Sky Association. Visitors welcome –
enquiries call Barry (0435 010 367).
Narrabeen Lakes Probus Club next
meets on Wednesday, July 24 at Narrabeen
Baptist Church. Neville Turbit’s
presentation will cover the early lives
of explorers Bass and Flinders. Doors
open at 9.45am for 10am meeting.
Visitors welcome; more info call/text
(0424 464 047).
King honours locals
in Birthday Honours
Congratulations to locals
who received a nod from
King Charles in June’s King’s
Birthday Honours: Maureen
Rutlidge of Elanora Heights
received a Medal of the Order
of Australia (OAM) for service
to the community of the
Northern Beaches, including
Special Needs education,
scripture teaching, and for
community sport with Narrabeen
Amateur Swimming
Club; Michael Smith of Collaroy
Plateau received a Member
of the Order of Australia
(AM) for significant service to
geological and earth sciences
with the Geological Society of
Australia, the Australian Geoscience
Council, and the Australian
Institute of Geosciences;
and Dr Laurence Upfold of
Narrabeen received a Medal of
the Order of Australia (OAM)
for service to people who are
deaf or hard of hearing as an
audiologist, and with the National
Acoustic Laboratories.
Congrats!
Kevin’s golfathon
for kids with cancer
Bayview Golf Club Life Member
Kevin Smith will take to
the fairways on Monday July
15 to play 36 holes to raise
funds for the Kids with Cancer
Foundation. The 77-yearold
has already raised more
than $1000 and is hoping to
raise more to help support
families that have a child
suffering from cancer. In 2021
Kevin played 50 holes to raise
funds. You can donate via
bayviewgolfclub.com.au
Palm Beach and Peninsula Probus
Club’s next meeting is on Wednesday
17 July commencing 9.30am at Club
Palm Beach. Their speaker will be
Diana Noyce with the topic ‘A Fateful
Feast – The Final Repast on RMS
Titanic’. Diana holds a Master of Gastronomy
degree and her talk will give
attendees an insight into the Edwardian
world with its class distinctions,
its etiquette and fashion obsessions
and its love of fine food. Visitors welcome;
enquiries call (0421 435 792).
The next meeting of Pittwater
Men’s Probus is on Tuesday July 9
at Mona Vale Surf Club, commencing
10am. July speaker is Constable
Laura McKinnon, the Crime Prevention
Officer from Northern Beaches
Police Area Command based in Dee
Why. She will give a presentation on
Cyber Safety and Scams, outlining the
many types of scams that operate and
how people can avoid them. Visitors
welcome; more info Terry Larke (0412
220 820).
36 JULY 2024
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