Club members, family and friends attended an excellent Dinner and Dance at The Penventon Park Hotel on Saturday 29 October to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the foundation of the Club in 1961. Everyone dressed to impress and certainly scrubbed up very well compared to how we normally see one another – cold and bedraggled! Some even did the whole black tie thing with white shirts, bow ties and Dinner Suits and that included some of the Junior members – very smart they looked too!
Everyone received a commemorative pen as a memento of the occasion – there are still some available if anyone wants one, or to give to someone for Christmas, at a cost of £2 each – please see Siobhan Merrett.
The evening kicked off with some tasty appetisers whilst everyone found their places and waited for the 3 course meal to be served. There was a small hiccup by the Chef for the main course as he’d got his numbers mixed up and instead of preparing 17 Butternut Squash dishes and 43 Chicken dishes he got the numbers the wrong way around – we had reports from the Waiting staff that the air was literally blue in the kitchen! Eventually we all got our ordered food and enjoyed a very tasty meal.
Our guest speakers during coffee were John Bennett, Mayor of Hayle and John (Jock) Paton representing Surf Life Saving followed by our Chairman, Graham Williams. Graham presented Gil Tredinnick with a certificate celebrating his 50 years membership of the Club and a photo book chronicling the Club’s activities from 1961 to 2011. A club copy of this book can be seen at the Clubhouse and you can order your own copy at a cost of £23 from Carol Penberthy (01209 711322 or e-mail [email protected]).
The entertainment was provided by The Sandy Acre Seven, who as expected got the majority of us dancing and were their usual excellent selves. No doubt Graham will be putting his own witty version of events in the next issue of our Club newsletter in the Spring so you can look forward to that!
A big thank you to Siobhan Merrett who organised the event, sorted out the seating plan and made all the place cards, she was presented with some flowers by Graham on the night. See photos in slideshow on home page