First of all
My apologies for not having a blog entry for last week or attending the meeting. A professional opportunity arose that was too good to refuse. I'm doing an e-makeup for the meeting and thanks to Peter Crewes for taking notes at the July 21 meeting for me.

Last week's meeting (July 21)
The guest speaker was John Cummerford who is the Director of Bathurst City Library. John spoke about his involvement, as a committee person, with the world renowned Sommerville Collection. He spoke about what it means to the town of Bathurst and what is hopefully pending for the future.

Mention was made of the Charles Darwin lecture dinner whereby the fossil museum is behind this idea. The Nov. 24 date is already listed down on our calendar of upcoming events. The club also officially welcomed back our GSE representative Danielle Ballinger who spoke on her recent experience in Italy with GSE9700. Her DVD presentation showed us visitations to Ducati, Fiat (marketing) factories, Mayoral offices, and riding for the disabled. The GSE Team also visited Rome and Florence. Danielle was more than a worthy representative of our club. She indicated she had an exceptional time and thanked us greatly. For more info on what they did, you can visit the blog they kept at http://gse9700to2070.blogspot.com/.

Next Week (July 28)
No meeting Tuesday instead there will be a combined meeting with Bathurst East on Wednesday (Snooker Night) in an effort to win the cup. One of Adam's goals in his presidency is to foster relations between our club and other clubs in Bathurst and in the district.

In the coming weeks
At the Aug 4th meeting, Karl M will be presenting his experiences from his recent travels through Europe.

Then, on Aug 11th, the DG will be making a visit. I'll mention this well ahead of time so that we can have a really good turn out for this meeting. Also note that partners are welcome to this meeting.