Community
3 May, 2025
Club‘s growth spurt
THE Port Douglas and District Probus Club has gone from strength to strength since its inaugural meeting in August, 2024.
Like all Probus groups across the country and globally, regular meetings with guest speakers and occasional outings are attended by retired and semi-retired people in the local area.
The most recent outing for the club was a successful and well attended visit, on Friday, March 21, to Mossman Bowls Club, now more commonly known as Club Mossman.
“The members were introduced to barefoot bowling, which was a new concept to most of them,” said club publicity officer Dusty Howman.
“By the end of the afternoon, many members were getting quite good at this game,” he said.
“It was heartening to see 18 players participating, plus another five onlookers from the bowls club encouraging the players from the side.
“As we are a new club, numbers, on the day represented three quarters of our current membership, which is quite amazing.”
The next club meeting will be held at the Tin Shed, 7 Ashford Avenue, Port Douglas, at 9.30am on April 28. Their guest speaker for April is local radio personality Gazza.
“Gazza was kind enough to be our first speaker last year and, as promised, is coming back to give us a longer talk on his exciting career in radio,” Mr Howman said.
For inquiries contact Susan Stafford at mcsusan2000@yahoo.com.
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