Lunch with Bud

On Sunday 22June – a no football weekend – we had lunch with Bud Tingwell in the Exhibition Room of the Marriott Hotel.  Eighty-six people attended, enjoying the pleasant ambience of the hotel, good friends and neighbours, a lovely meal and the wonderful company of an Icon of Australian theatre, film and TV, Bud Tingwell.

Bud was very generous with his time in meeting and speaking with guests.  His talk touched on memories of some fine times in his “accidental career”.  Those present were very grateful to this gracious gentleman for the opportunity to share a Sunday afternoon with him.

Hostesses Suzanne Gulley, Noel Skurrie and Marie Birch did a wonderful job on the organization of the day.  Thanks to the Marriott Hotel for donating the door prize of dinner for two.

COMING EVENTS:

Put these dates in your diary now!!

Annual General Meeting (AGM)

7 August Thursday 6 30 p m

This year we are trying something different for our AGM.  We have booked Regency Room 2 on Thursday 7 August from 6 30 –

8 00 pm, and will be serving a glass of champagne and a selection of finger sandwiches prior to the meeting.  All members and interested parties are invited to attend.  A notice will be sent out prior to the meeting. RSVPs will be required for catering purposes.

Drinks with Partners.

21 August Thursday p m

Meet for drinks in the lounge area opposite the Marriott Bar on Thursday 21 August at 6 30 p m.  Come along and meet your fellow residents.   Drinks privately purchased at the Bar.

September Function:

Tania McCarthy, Heike Gartenfeld and Suzanne Gulley will host the September function.  More information closer to the date.

VCAT Hearing re appeal for proposed building for Cnr Little Lonsdale Street and Exploration Lane: UPDATE

The date of the Hearing will most probably be changed to October. A notice will be put up on the Notice Board downstairs a week before the Hearing, reminding residents of the date should they wish to attend.  Some of us intend to be there!!!

We have put out a joint statement with EastEnders supporting their request to raise funds to pay for legal representation on behalf of local residents at the VCAT Hearing.  The Hearing will be held at 55 King Street, Melbourne.  Many thanks to those residents of Regency Towers who donated generously, raising over $5,000 in this building.  Karin Dixon President of EastEnders adds her thanks.

We have heard from Melbourne City Council that they are sending some “big guns” (including Traffic and Environmental Specialists) to the Hearing as, having disallowed the building in the first place, they do not want the Appeal approved.

REGENCY TOWERS WOMEN’S GROUP welcomes new members:

            Kaye Hartwig

            Beverley Northey      

Colin Honey – Our first male member!!

Phyllis Foster

Membership of Regency Towers Women’s Group (joining fee $5) gives access to Towers of Support. 

All new members welcome.  Enquiries to Heike Gartenfeld.

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PROFILE:

Colin Honey 

For 18 months I have lived at Regency Towers – though in January each year I go to England and spend Lent term in Cambridge where I am a senior research associate in Applied Ethics at St Edmund’s College.

Most of my life has been lived in colleges:  Queen’s College at Melbourne University was the first, then Wesley House Cambridge, and New College Edinburgh, and twenty-odd years as head of a College in the University of Western Australia.

I value community life – and I greatly appreciate the sense of community here at Regency Towers.  I also think we learn better in community.  It is for that reason that I am a volunteer at Footscray City Primary School (Hyde Street) in a community development project.

As a child I played in the Hyde Street brass band and we would march around the oval as Teddy Whitten led the mighty bulldogs down the race.

I would like to be able to assist the school principal to create significant life experiences for this generation of state school kids.

Otherwise my life is fairly dull really.  I read and write a lot, and go to church and to classical concerts, I am a glider pilot on weekends, I have one daughter teaching at Fitzroy Crossing and the other in Cambridge, and I eat too much and exercise too little.

NOTICE BOARD

Regency Towers Women’s Group have the use of the new Notice Board in the mailroom.  Check here regularly for updates on functions, etc.