The 28th November saw the opening of the new Admin Centre for the Northam SB. Named after Long serving Life Member Geoff Scarterfield.
Also on the same night the Sub Branch Auxiliary had the opportunity to thank Sponsors and volunteers for 2025.
Below are several photos of people the Auxiliary thanked. Also the Auxiliary gave a cheque to the Northam Lions Club donation thanking them for their help on ANZAC Day.
Others thanked were Brenton Haynes from Oxter for their donation, and Robynn Haynes from the Northam Florist for looking after the sales for the event Christmas in July.
To all that volunteered their time over the year in different ways. A big thank you to you all. I do apologise if I have missed anyone.
Looking forward to an even bigger year next year. With the Sub Branch celebrating their 110th birthday. Watch out for more details in the new year.
Just to give you the heads up put the 9th May on your calendar.
The silly season has started early. The Auxiliary coffee and cake group decided to celebrate the end of the year before everyone gets too busy. Sharing a great meal and some silly lucky dip props.
Dawn, Donna, Brenda, Denette, Yvonne Alison and Shirley taking the photo.
The group meets up on a Tuesday afternoon from 1.00 to 3.00. They break during school holidays. As they are closing down soon they look forward starting up again the first Tuesday when school goes back in 2026.
After a smooth trip to Busselton the first thing we saw was a black dog on the back of his mate’s bike.
Helmet and goggles the way to go! Then after settling in on Thursday, Friday was pampering day. We had the best relaxing massages and now was time to catchup with the rest of the group from the WRAAC Association girls, who we had asked to join us on our Mental Health Weekend Retreat away.
Friday night we all regrouped at the local Busselton RSL Club for dinner where we met the Vice President Jack and Secretary Chris Churchere ( ex-local ), and had a delicious Lasagna for dinner.
The meal, plus the raffles, were a great hit and with most of the raffles going to our table we had a great time! Thanks guys it was much appreciated but if looks could kill, we would be in trouble!!!
The big win at the raffle meant we didn’t have to buy much for our joint dinner on Saturday night.
We participated in different activities on Saturday such as Op Shopping, Movies and sightseeing, and of course some more pampering!
Well, what do I say about Saturday nights festivities. The WRAAC Girls didn’t tell us it was a glam dress up night, so we did the best we could in our PJ’S!!!!
We enjoyed a great meal provided by Donna, Deb and Wendy plus Brenda cooked the meat on the barbecue!!
We then settled into one of the cabins and played Charades, which was really funny as you can imagine. Being such a big day lights were out at 10:00 pm.
Sunday was the annual bus trip to Margaret River, plus other destinations, with a delicious meal and sightseeing , plus shopping to support the locals.
Dinner on Sunday night was leftovers, more talking and laughing and then bed.
Monday was spent saying our goodbyes and final farewells, then packing and heading home. Our trip back to Northam was a little hair raising at times with the pouring rain.
Even though we had a few ladies missing from last year with illness we are really looking forward for their return for next year’s festivities and relaxing time.
In saying that we would really like to give a big THANK YOU TO THE BLACK DOG ORGANISATION for the grant we received from them.
THANK YOU to the girls from the WRAAC Association and the girls from Northam RSL SB Auxiliary!!
Northam RSL Sub Branch 