G’day Fellow Members,

Firstly if you haven’t replied to Jim’s email about meeting venues and plans for later in the year PLEASE DO SO NOW.

Well despite a lot of work by Robbie and the Markets Committee there will be NO Easter Markets for us this year. Despite efforts by ourselves and I must say the City of Greater Bendigo to make it happen, in the end there was no way around the Covid regulations regarding “freestanding and roaming” Tier 3 events, which is where our “annual” markets are categorized. They limit only 1,000 ticketed participants each “day”. Given we have probably tens of thousands normally wander through our Easter market, it was likely many stallholders would register, those that did would likely not have many buyers, we would only be able to charge a nominal registration fee, it might be a disaster and damage our reputation as running great markets and it would still be a lot of work for our members.

So there are still 20 events happening in Bendigo over Easter and if you are about you might like to support those.

You need to buy a ticket here. https://www.bendigoregion.com.au/explore-bendigo/eggs-plore-bendigo-at-easter

Otherwise enjoy your Easter without being committed to a couple of days of volunteering.

Stephen Iser gave us a great insight into a great Bendigo institution, “Hume and Iser” Mitre10, competing successful with the big green boxes. And he left books telling the story of the families battles for 140 years. If you did not get one see Jim.

 

Rotary Events to put in the Diary

Heres a link to the speakers. https://www.iwd.org.au/speakers

 

 

 

Have a great week     

Cheers Ted.

Two old ladies were smoking a cigarette while waiting for a bus. It started to rain, so one old lady reached into her purse, took out a condom, cut off the tip and slipped it over her cigarette and continued to smoke.

Her friend saw this and said, "Hey, that's a good idea! What is it that you put over your cigarette?"

The other old lady said, "It's a condom."

"A condom? Where do you get those?"

The lady with the dry cigarette told her friend, "You can purchase condoms at the pharmacy."

When the two old ladies arrived downtown, the old lady with all the questions went into the pharmacy and asked the pharmacist, "Do you sell condoms?"

The pharmacist said "Yes" but looked a little surprised that this old woman was interested in condoms, so he asked her, "What size do you want?"

The old lady thought for a minute and said "One that will fit a Camel."