Adelaide Pioneer VIEW Club

The Adelaide Pioneer Support Team organised a Celebratory Morning High Tea, attended by 42 invited VIEW Members and Senior Office Bearers, Past and Present as a Finale for the Club.

Special Guests included Graham Jaeschke, former General Manger of The Smith Family S.A./N.T. and Maggie Rosslee, Community Partnerships Coordinator Remote, from The Smith Family Whyalla Office. Graham had attended Club functions for the last 17 years. The Club has developed a strong partnership with the Whyalla TSF Office, 385 Km from Adelaide, sending personal donations of items needed for their programs and families. Maggie thanked us for our donations and explained how they had been used.

VIEW National Manager, Maryanne Maher sent a message to us revealing that the Club had raised $98,116 for The Smith Family. An amazing testimony to all the fund-raising initiatives over the years!

Photos:  Top photo: N.C. Bernie presents 20 year badges to Members Jan, Jean, Barbara and Sonya  Bottom L-R:  Former General Manager TSF Graham, and PNVP Velda.  (Middle)  Bookmark memento also organised by N.C. Bernie, and (Right): Patricia and PNC’s Marlene and Lorraine who was also an Inaugural Member of this Club..

We are very proud to have our original VIEW Banner.  Leading up to our Inaugurals, VIEW Clubs used to make beautiful banners.  These were tirelessly worked upon by the new Members, from materials they could source. The design was appropriate to the Club, and so our banner as seen in the photo has significant landmarks in Adelaide, being the only VIEW Club at that time in this city.

We are honoured that the creator of this banner and Inaugural Member, Rosemary is able to feature in the display with the banner which she principally worked on, with some help. The former VIEW badge is shown, along with Colonel Light overseeing his City, The Cathedral, City Hall, and the Torrens River green space.

Two weeks before the screening of the Movie, Downton Abbey. The Grand Finale, our 3 VIEW Clubs including Adelaide City Evening and Unley VIEW Clubs, had sold out of the nearly 520 tickets available.

Our Planning Committee representing each Club was delighted. With so many patrons then expected, we had to have excellent organisation for the raffle ticket selling, the icecream pickup, ushering in the Theatre to fill every seat, and the raffle prize draw.  Each Club sourced donations of over $100 from Sponsors, and all our Members in the 3 Clubs worked hard at filling the 3 raffle baskets assigned to each Club. Approximately $2500 was raised through the raffle, to be divided equally between the 3 Clubs.

The big screen had a rolling presentation on the work of VIEW and The Smith Family, and also a screen listing our Sponsors before the Movie started. This was commented on very positively by our visitors.

VIEW Clubs working collaboratively, make a great Team, and the funds we raised through all our Members’ efforts, well exceeded our expectations.

Our thanks to the Staff of The Regal Theatre, and their owner Burnside City Council, for your support of our fundraiser.

Photo shows: South Australian Zone Councillor's Heather (L) and Barbara (R) with Past Zone Councillor Jan (C) and  the raffle prizes as a backdrop

A Just Reward! Both Rosemary and Pamela wrapped this basket, and Pamela (L) won it!

Supporting The Smith Family Staff and Students in Whyalla, S.A.  

Adelaide Pioneer VIEW Club is paired with The Smith Family Office in Whyalla, a rural city, four hours drive from Adelaide. Their small Team led by Team Leader Kate Dickeson, supports 795 Students on scholarships through TSF, as well as running transition programs in  Primary and Secondary Schools, and Learning Clubs too.  Our Club provides regular donations of items sought by the Team for families, and we enlist the support of our friends outside VIEW to transport the donations for us. Kate and her Team are so grateful for our help and provide images of our donations arriving in their Office.

Meet Tara, (pictured) our New Support Team Member at Whyalla, with the latest donations from our Club.

Our Club operates with a Support Team of 5 Members who administer the Club, whilst most Members help out in many supporting roles too.

Team Members are PNVP Velda, Jan C, Rosemary S, PNC Jan Mc and PNC Eila.

Our Club had 29 Visitors joining us for our Birthday, and as a small Club, we were delighted! Visitors were encouraged to tell their friends about the Club, using a Promo distributed to everyone.

Animals was our theme, and so they attended, in the form of two Rescue Dogs, Ike and Rosco, and their Trainers, Amelia and Tara from Greyhounds as Pets (GAP). We learned that rescue greyhounds make great pets for older folk and as can be seen by the accompanying photo PNC Eila was kept very busy, looking after the cheeky Rosco!

Bernie presented Member Pamela L with her 20 year pin, and wished the Club well for their Birthday. Zone Councillor Barb read the birthday mail.

Past Zone Councillor Jan Mc gave a presentation honouring Past National Councillor Lorraine Baker’s first years as a VIEW Member of Broken Hill, and then Adelaide Pioneer VIEW as an Inaugural Member, and later S.A.’s first Zone Councillor.

Lorraine who can be seen in the photo, celebrates 30 years as a Member of VIEW this year. Lorraine wore the same outfit she had worn to our Inaugural 26 years ago!

Cupcakes decorated with greyhounds and cats were enjoyed for dessert, followed by dog quizzes, and even massages by Gwenda for some lucky ladies like Dany and Barbara.  Many raffle prizes were won by our Visitors too. 

Club Members enjoyed our Speaker at one of five S.A. IWD Events this year. RFDS Pilot and Trainer Heather Ford is certainly doing her best to Accelerate Action for more women pilots in Australia.

Photo shows Judy, Jan C, Helene, Laurel and Barbara who enjoyed the day.

We were delighted to present a VIEW badge to Cressida O’Hanlon MP, Member for Dunstan, in the S.A. Parliament. 

Photo of PNVP Velda presenting Cressida's new badge and new Member pack.

Members were delighted to be offered Morning Tea and a Tour of Parliament House by our new VIEW Member, Cressida. We admired the treasures on display, and enjoyed taking our seats in the House of Assembly.

MP Cressida did a selfie of us all with the bust of Hon Thomas Playford.

We are proud to be Adelaide’s first VIEW Club, and hence our name, Adelaide Pioneer VIEW Club.  The late Jacqui Marks from Queensland instigated the formation of Adelaide Pioneer VIEW Club and was its Inaugural President in 1999, and we were to be the forerunners of 19 current VIEW Clubs (plus Adelaide East VIEW Club in development), being established  in S.A.

In the first ten years of our Club’s formation, 11 other VIEW Clubs were formed in S.A. by 2009.  Members of our Club often moved to assist the establishment of these new Clubs, like Tea Tree Gully and Marion VIEW Club.

2000, Adelaide West VIEW and TeeTree Gully VIEW Clubs were inaugurated  The late Maxine Turnbull, a N.C. in Victoria was responsible for this early development, with Lorraine Baker assisting her, here in Adelaide.
2002 Inauguration of Marion VIEW Club and Lorraine became our first Z.C. for S.A.
2003 Inauguration of Victor Harbor and Gawler VIEW Clubs, with assistance from Margaret, a N.C. from Victoria.
2004 Inauguration of Adelaide City Evening VIEW Club.
2005 First S.A. Development Team was established with PNVP Heather coordinating. Inauguration of Adelaide Hills VIEW Club.
2006 Inauguration of Southern Vales VIEW Club.
2007 Inauguration of Blackwood Hills VIEW Club.
2008 Inauguration of our second evening Club, Holdfast Evening VIEW Club, with Helen  as the Development Team Coordinator.  
2009 Sunraysia VIEW Club was inaugurated under S.A. VIEW leadership.
What an amazing development in S.A. in ten years!
Adelaide Pioneer VIEW Club led the charge, and remains our significantly important S.A. VIEW Club.

What an amazing development in S.A. in ten years.  Adelaide Pioneer led the charge, and remains our significantly important S.A. VIEW Club.