Newsletter

President's Report The best news all month is that we are once again out of lockdown! None of us can possibly know what the future holds, but let’s make the most of the current situation. We’ve had yet [...]

President's Report I’m at a loss for words to summarise the events of the last 6 weeks. It is unfortunate that we have had no choice but to become accustomed to the hardships and losses associated with the [...]

President's Report It is with great sadness that I recently received the news that Shirley van Graas, the wife of George van Graas, had died. For those of you who may not know, George served on the TNYV [...]

President's Report Another month, another lockdown! Whilst we were all relieved that the duration of the lockdown was only 5 days, I do appreciate that it did cause major disruption. An unfortunate victim was our scheduled Networking Event [...]

President's Report I know it’s a month late – but Happy New Year to all our members and families. What a great return to our Networking Events we had at our first event of the year at the [...]

President's Report Christmas is nearly with us again and it’s time for the final President’s Report for 2020.  As stated on previous occasions throughout the past year, this had been a very unusual year, in all sorts of [...]

President's Report I’m sure you were all as delighted (or relieved!) as I was when I heard the announcement about the lifting of some of the COVID-19 restrictions early last week. Hopefully, we will all have something more [...]

President's Report Well, here we are – another month goes by (or was it two?) and we are still under lockdown! Perhaps by the time you read this Daniel Andrews will have delivered some better news for us [...]

President's Report In my last report for the newsletter, I was in a somewhat celebratory mood, welcoming the easing of the COVID-19 restrictions – those celebrations proved to be not only somewhat premature but rather short-lived! This has [...]

President's Report In the last month we have witnessed the loosening of restrictions within the community and some of those imposed on our respective businesses. For some this will be a great relief and hopefully the first step [...]

President's Report It wasn’t that long ago that the Networking & Events Sub-Committee were busy organising venues for pub nights and breakfasts, not to mention the work being done by the Conference Sub-Committee in vetting suitable venues for [...]

President's Report Paul O’Neill (Treasurer) and I attended a meeting in February at Healesville High School, with the Principal (Allan Rennick) and the VCAL Coordinator (Aidan Hogg). For the last couple of years TNYV has been providing an [...]