Arana VIEW Club

2024 was an enjoyable year for our Members  with eight new Members.  A Bunnings Sausage Sizzle was our fund raiser, a Brisbane River Cruise always an enjoyable outing.  The  Lord Mayors Senior Christmas Party topped off 2024.

Members celebrated with a Bush Christmas and variety show starring the committee , a sing-a-long with Rosy and our very talented Valerie, who did a skit on how to make a Christmas cake. which was hilarious. Bonnie did an excellent job with running the show with her jokes and comparing.

Merry Christmas to all our Members and Committee, and may 2025 be an excellent year.

Some Members kicking up their heels.

In November, Members had an enjoyable time at the Arana Leagues Club celebrating the Melbourne Cup.  Our fund raiser was the cent auction which members participated in generously, while our guest speakers subject was on Japanese Floral Art, I think we all learnt lot.

Members had a fabulous time at our outings, and fundraising lunch at The Five Buroughs Everton Park, QPAC Backstage Discovery Tour, Brisbane River Cruise and our fundraiser BBQ at the Arana Leagues 50th Celebrations making a pure profit.   Also, the Cent Auction is coming up at our November meeting.

Accompanying photo shows our Members fundraising at the BBQ.

Members  had a lovely month with an outing to Portabello’s which was very enjoyable and our fund raiser fashion parade by Portofino Fashions shown by our gorgeous models who can be seen in the accompanying photo, being Members from our Club.  

Our Members are a friendly group of like minded women who enjoy delicious meals at our monthly luncheons with details shown at the top of this page.  Meetings consist of a broad selection of interesting guest speakers while funds are raised through our Trading table, book stall and Bunnings BBQ and our much sort after Raffle prizes.

New members are very welcome, and if you wish to find out more or attend one of our luncheons please contact Carol 3355 5349 by Thursday 12.00noon in the week before the meeting. 

At our meeting we celebrated the Paris Olympics where everyone got into the swing of things.  Photo shows two of our Members looking lovely in the Paris .fashions.

In August our guest speaker was Russell Proctor talking about his walking adventure on Mt. Kilimanjaro.

During July, Members enjoyed a lovely outing to the Mt Cootha Botanical Gardens.

As can be seen in the accompanying photo, the Cherry Blossom was in full bloom in the Japanese Garden

Our guest speaker for June was Mark Furner, the State Labour member for Ferny Grove and Minister for Agriculture, Industry, and Development and Fisheries giving us a very informative talk also celebrating the State of Origin with us.

Photo shows: Mark Furner State Labour Member, with State of Origin fans ,

Our Zone Conference, held in May was a great success.

Photo L-R: National Councillor Lyal, General Manager The Smith Family Allan Le May, and Zone Councillor Judy.

Hooray For Hollywood  was our theme and what a turn out for our 27th birthday and also celebrating a 100 years of Hollywood, so it was come as your favourite film star.

Our hostess’s Trish and Julie welcomed visitors across the red carpet where they entered a colourful arch to have their photo taken, then off to the raffles and their table which was decorated in fine Hollywood style. Our entertainment was the committee doing a Hollywood dance which was very entertaining and a Divine Diva singer.  Our hostess also welcomed special visitors National Councillor Lyall, Zone Councillor Judy and visitors from-other clubs.

Our next guest speaker will be Pam Rodrigues Fun with Scarves, while our next fund raiser will be Make,Bake & Grow  in May and a Bunnings BBQ will be held on Sunday 6th June.

The dinner was not only a Birthday celebration it gave the opportunity to recognise our 10 and 20 year ladies for their  continuous service to VIEW .

As can be seen in the photo our birthday cake was cut by our past presidents.   

Our guest speaker for February was the wonderful Mary Li. Principal ballet dancer and wife of Li Cunzin also with her daughter Sophi such an inspiration to us all. We had 106 in attendance for this guest speaker.

Our March guest speaker was Bob Walker from the Office of Fair Trading talking on the cost of living which we can all relate to.
Our Bake,Make and Grow this month was a great success  which is always a great fund raiser and the woman running this deserve great praise.
Our outing for March was at the Soul Pantry Cafe/Plant and Gifts which we all thoroughly enjoyed having a lovely morning tea/lunch and shopping.

February outing was at Brisbane Museum of City Hall – Highlights Tour followed by lunch at the Shingle Inn.

Photo taken at the Brisbane Museum of City Hall