Twin Waters VIEW Club

Our 18th birthday theme this year was Going to the Races. 

To provide a stunning backdrop, our Club’s decorating team, known as the VIXENS, transformed the veranda with colourful blooms, hats, fascinators and racing horses in full flight. With our member group of 75 fashionistas, all dressed in beautiful outfits and sipping cold bubbles, it felt a little like being at the exclusive ‘birdcage’ at Flemington.

As we munched on a delicious selection of shared savouries, Zone Councillor, Vonda, spoke about the formation of VIEW and our club and was followed by the announcement by Doreen and Jane that our Bunnings BBQ last Saturday made a whopping record profit of over $3,000. Accolades were given to the team who made it happen with special thanks to those fabulous co-ordinators, who worked long hours with them to pull it all together.

Accompanying photo shows the many Members and guests enjoying the day.

Ten year membership badges were presented to 5 of our Members present as well as a new Member badge to our latest fashionista.

Our Fashions on the Field had two prize-winning categories and the stage was filled with so many worthy competitors, who paraded and danced around to Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. Our esteemed judges selected five finalists for their best Hat/Fascinator category and Best Overall Outfit, and presented prizes to the very worthy recipients.

After a scrumptious lunch, our birthday cake which can be seen in the accompanying photo was cut by the November birthday Members and the winners of Fashions on the Field. 

Then began the Cup event!  The  official TWVC Cup race was held with a stable of eight noble steeds who were sponsored by our local businesses – the Loose Goose, Joanne Reilly Real Estate, Cock & Hen, Twin Waters Pharmacy and Lydia Kirn Real Estate.

The VIXENS had prepared a race track on each table and the jockeys from each table moved each horse to one of six markers on a roll of a dice. Table 1 were the winners with their filly ‘Pink Lady’ from the stable of Joanne Reilly Real Estate. 

This year, our July lunch meeting fell on World Population Day. It’s an annual event observed on July 11th each year and was established by the United Nations as a result of the massive interest in Five Billion Day in 1987.  It focuses on the importance of population issues including family planning, gender equality, environmental impacts and human rights concerns.

We had a bit of fun with allocated seating at tables representing each of the seven continents of the world. The tables had been decorated by our very creative VIXEN team members from their personal collections of travel memorabilia and the whole veranda was adorned with hundreds of bunting flags from around the world.

Doreen prepared a trivia quiz related to the theme, and we all failed miserably

Guest speaker was Fiona Simpson MP, Member for Maroochydore, who addressed the theme, World Population, and spoke about the population increase on the Sunshine Coast from early days to present. 

Fiona can be seen in the accompanying photo accepting a Thankyou card from our Club.

Our guest speaker Jacinta Lewis, from Queensland Rail Travel, gave a fabulous presentation showcasing a range of great holiday travel options including Coastal, Outback, Gulf Savannah and North and South West Queensland. We were spoilt for choice.

Photo of Jacinta   

Members and guests enjoyed a Mexican Hat dance competition, exhausting for those volunteers who took part, and a Jumping Jellybean game, followed by an attempted smashing of the traditional pinata, which proved far too resistant, despite a fair pummelling.  Raffles and competitions were held throughout and a conga line danced and swayed to Mambo No 5  Maracas have never sounded so good.

All in all, it was a spectacular way to honour the past 17 years, and welcome the next.