Edition 8 – February-April 2016

Artist Spotlight – The Animals and Kings of Country

Take a peek at the upcoming renovation

Latest promotions and much more...

Edition 8 – February-April 2016

ContentsPage 3 CEO Report

Connect with Your Club Today

Page 4-5 Celebrating Giving – Kids With Cancer

Page 6 Kings of Country

Page 7 Elevate Rewards – new promotions

Page 8-9 Live Info

Artists Spotlight – Animals

Page 10 Meet the Team

Kids are Kings at the Bowlo

Page 11 Carl Hofkamp profile

Page 12 New renovation works

Page 13 Upcoming promotions

Page 14 Bowls winners & commitment

Page 15 Events Feature

Page 16 Community partners

92/96 Dumaresq Street, Armidale NSW 2350 P: 02 6772 5666 • F: 02 6772 3811 W: armidalebowl.com.au

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Celebrating giving

in 2015

MONDAY1pm Social BowlsTUESDAY7pm Bingo 7:30pm Spin & Win

WEDNESDAY7pm Bingo 7:30pm Spin & Win 7:45pm Milly Hill Meat Raffle

THURSDAY1:30pm Bingo 7pm Free Raffle 7:30pm Spin & Win

FRIDAY7pm Monster Meat Raffle 7:30pm Spin & Win

WH

AT’S

ON SATURDAY

7pm Sporting Club Raffle

SUNDAY11:30am Members Jackpot Draw 12:00 Monster Meat Raffle 1:15pm Spin & Win

CEO Report

Welcome back to the first edition of the Shout magazine for 2016! This year is already shaping up to be a big year for the Bowlo and you can find all the information on what is happening when and where within the pages of the Shout over the coming editions.

This year we will celebrate the Clubs social contribution through its commitment to ‘giving’ back to the community through financial aid and support. Each edition of the Shout will showcase a community based project the Club has helped develop in partnership with the local community. The first of these is the Clubs Kids With Cancer Fund. This fund was proactively developed by Club members for the sole purpose of helping those local children afflicted by cancer, which over the last 15 years has delivered over $189 000 in financial aid to the local community. It is examples like this one that highlights the value the Club places on giving to the local community, as we believe this is the golden thread that reinforces our unique difference from other organisations.

I’m also very pleased to announce in this Shout the Club’s renovation program that it will undertake over the next 6 months. This will include a new external lift, a full bathroom refurbishment and a new heating and air conditioning system. This development expenditure will total over 1 million dollars and will be financed from cash reserves built from members support and will cause minimal disruption to trade.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the Clubs events team nominated AGAIN (!) in the Australian Bridal Industry Awards. This is a huge achievement as they feature as the only Bowling Club and one of the only regional based Clubs in the awards. This is another great example of the Clubs passionate and commitment to succeed.

My best wishes go to all members for the 2016 year and I encourage you all to take an active role in your Club and benefit from the many

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promotional offerings detailed throughout the pages of this Shout. I would like to thank all those Clubs members for your support in 2015 and I look forward to working with you to continue to develop the success of this award winning Club.

Patrick Crick CEO

Connect With Your Club Today

There are a variety of ways for you to find out all the information on your Club

today through the following channels.

(02) 6772 5666www.armidalebowl.com.au

Like Armidale City Bowling Club

Follow @ArmidaleBowlo

PO Box 251 Armidale NSW

[email protected]

Ask any of our friendly staff

Ask to be part of one our member focus groups

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The Clubs industry is a uniquely Australian industry. It was born by largely passionate volunteers committed to servicing community needs and to providing a network for social activities. It this community ownership and involvement that makes up every Clubs DNA and stands them apart from other hospitality venues. Sharing such a close and intertwined relationship with the local communities they serve, ensures that Clubs represent the richness and culture of the community they serve.

This close affinity with the local community places Clubs in a position to provide targeted support to communities in a more effective way then government, as gaps can be identified, targeted and serviced in a more flexible fashion and then followed up with face-to-face community support. This propensity to serve the community and “give back” forms an important value structure for the Armidale City Bowling Club.

This year the Club will highlight the tremendous contribution it makes to the

Armidale community through its financial and in kind support. This financial and social contribution is at times hard to quantify and might only ever really be known if the Club ceased to exist. To celebrate what really makes the Bowlo unique we will throw a spotlight on a few projects that typifies the Clubs importance to the local community. The first program we will feature in the Shout is a grass roots support fund, born by the Club – The Kids With Cancer Charity Fund.

The Clubs Kids With Cancer fund was initiated in 2003 by Richard Clutterbuck and Chief Executive Officer Phil Wheaton. Through the Clubs reputation as a community support structure Richie saw a gap in the local community for the support of local families who had a child that was effected by cancer. These families where suffering large medical and travel costs, coupled many times by single incomes, as one parent would be caring for the child. After repeatedly seeing the impact this was having on communities a decision was

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made to initiate a fund for the sole purpose of providing financial support to these families.

The initial idea was to hold a charity bowls day and commit the funds to the Westmead Children’s hospital resulting in the first financial contribution of the fund of $2,000. From this point on a committee of members was established to help raise money and guiding principles for the money raised where cemented. These where simply, all money raised must stay in the local community and all money raised is to be spent within the year it was raised. With a committee now driving the charity day a raffle and auction was added with all items supplied by local community business, making this a truly local project, developed and funded by volunteers.

Over next 15 years the Kids With Cancer bowls day would become a centrepiece of the Clubs calendar with some bowls days involving over 150 bowlers. The success of these days was always the money raised with $189000 Raised over the last 13 years. This money has

been spent on a variety of local families who have either applied for funding directly to the Club or who the Club has approached through a network of health workers in the local community who help ensure the money is invested effectively.

This fund signifies what makes Clubs such important community organisations. It was developed by locals, with the help of local business for the betterment of the local community. This unity and the strength associated with it has helped numerous families ease some of the financial stress placed on them either directly through financial aid or through the purchases of equipment. The Club would like to thanks all those who have sacrificed their time to help develop Kids With Cancer Day as well as all those local businesses that have donated significantly to help raise these valuable funds.

Patrick Crick CEO


2 BIG BANDS – 1 HUGE SHOW

✶ ✶ ✶ NON STOP HITS✶ ✶ ✶

CREEDENCE VS EAGLESProud Mary

Susie QBad Moon Rising

Lookin’ out My Back DoorUp Around the Bend

Green RiverBorn on the Bayou

Have You Ever Seen the RainTravelin’ Band

Hotel CaliforniaDesperado

Best of My LoveOne of These Nights

New Kid in TownLife in the Fast LaneHeartache Tonight

The Long RunWitchy Woman

Friday 19 FebruaryDoors open at 7.30pm

Auditorium

$27.50

THE

CREEDENCECLEARWATERREVIVAL SHOW

THE

EAGLESSHOW

Entertainment Calendar FRI 5 FEBRUARY

Free Play Juke Box

SAT 13 FEBRUARYMick and Ricks

Karaoke

SAT 6 FEBRUARYPeter

Stanley

FRI 12 FEBRUARYFree Play Juke Box


SAT 20 FEBRUARYSally-Anne

Whitten


SAT 27 FEBRUARYMick and Ricks

Karaoke FRI 4 MARCHSidetracked

SAT 12 MARCHPeter Raymond

SAT 5 MARCHMick and Ricks

Karaoke

FRI 11 MARCHPeter Raymond

FRI 18 MARCHReload

SAT 26 MARCHFree Play Juke Box

SAT 19 MARCHMick and Ricks

Karaoke

FRI 25 MARCHFree Play Juke Box

FRI 1 APRILFree Play Juke Box

SAT 9 APRILShelly Minson

SAT 2 APRILMick and Ricks

Karaoke

FRI 8 APRILPeter Raymond

FRI 15 APRILReloaded


Karaoke

FRI 22 APRILFabio Tolli

SAT 23 APRILPeter Raymond

FRI 29 APRILSidetracked


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2 BIG BANDS – 1 HUGE SHOW

Hotel CaliforniaDesperado

Best of My LoveOne of These Nights

New Kid in TownLife in the Fast LaneHeartached Tonight

The Long RunWitchy Woman


Featuring founding members John Steel (1964), Mickey Gallagher (1965-) along with Friends Danny Handley and Scott Whitely (ex. Spencer Davis, Ric Lee’s Ten Years After).

In 1964 a wave of new, energetic rock and roll swept over the youth of the world. On the crest of this wave was The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and of course, The Animals. From the banks of the River Tyne came the North East’s offering; a brand of rhythm ‘n’ blues that the whole world seemed to grasp greedily.

Back in 1957 John Steel, along with fellow Animals co-founder Eric Burdon, began plying their trade in and around their native Tyneside with not the slightest inkling that they would, in a very few years, find themselves part of a group that would be forever bracketed with the very best of British music - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Yardbirds - and respected all over the world. The Animals were also the second British band after The Beatles to top the American charts with their multimillion selling anthem ‘House of The Rising Sun’.

Bruce Springsteen recently revealed on stage in the USA that it was The Animals, not The Beatles or The Stones who were his favourite British Invasion band. “Their singles were the first full-blown, class-consciousness I’d ever heard”. After playing a short burst of ‘We Gotta Get Out Of This Place’ Springsteen then confessed: “That’s every song I’ve ever written; ‘Born To Run’, ‘Born In The USA’, all of them”. After 50 years, the legend still grows...

RECENT REVIEWSThough the Band has changed, the songs remain eternal thanks to the protesting dissatisfaction linking them together... alongside covers of Ray Charles and John Lee Hooker classics, they ensure that the nostalgic element comes with an enjoyably abrasive edge...

(Andy Gill - The Independent).

John Steel, Mickey Gallagher, along with Danny Handley and Scott Whitely, the Band that shook the world back in 1964, have re-invented themselves... Quality and distinct sound that was, and still is, “The Animals”...

(Barry Kirk - Romford Recorder).

The Animals earned their name thanks to their wild stage act. That was 50 years ago and they have calmed down since, but their music has lost none of its vigour...

(Wales Online).

It’s a musical marriage made in heaven with the Geordie Band’s gritty R&B classics the ideal counterpart to their covers of timeless legends Ray Charles and John Lee Hooker...

(Sublime - Birmingham Mail).

THE aNIMALS & FRIENDS

SUNDAY 28TH Februarydoor’s open AT 7:30PM

tickets $38 PER PERSON

Only performing at the

6772 5666 | [email protected]

”“John Steel, Mickey Gallagher along

with Danny Handley and Scott Whitley. The band that shook the world back in 1964 have re-invented themselves...quality and distinct sound that was, and still is, The Animals...

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Meet ourTEAM

1. What’s the most enjoyable part of your job?

Meeting friendly people

2. Describe yourself in 3 words.

Honest and hard working

3. What has been your worst job ever?

Digging sewer pipes

4. What 3 people would you invite to dinner

and why? Peter Brock, Mick Doohan, Craig Lowndes

5. What did you want to be when you were a kid?

Builder or professional race car driver

6. What is your favourite meal to cook?

Steak with creamy garlic prawns

7. If you could travel anywhere in the world,

where would it be?

Around Australia or Canada

8. When you’re not at work where could we

find you? Out riding my motorbike

Lunch and Dinner purchase any kids meal and receive a free soft drink, ice cream and activity book.

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Kids are King

at the Bowlo

Thursday night Kids eat for free with each main meal purchased.

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Carl Hofkamp ProfileCarl was born and schooled in Armidale and after attending university at UNE he chose to follow his passion for cooking and started his chef’s apprenticeship at the Club in 2008. He went onto complete his trade certificate at the Bowling Club in 2011. Carl was then appointed the Clubs Sous Chef where he worked under numerous experienced Head Chefs helping develop and cultivate the Clubs banqueting and bistro operation to now serving over 7000 people per month. The Club is now happy to announce that due to Carl’s hard work and dedication he has been awarded the role of Head Chef to lead the Clubs catering operation. To celebrate his new appointment Carl has provided one of his favorite recipes.

Chicken Roulade FEATURING NOW ON THE CLUBS BANQUET MENUINGREDIENTS: 4 shallots250g of bacon700g chicken breast1 tablespoon of lemon pepper450g parmesan1tablespoon of minced garlic1tablespoon of olive oil1/3 cup dry white wine2 tablespoons of butter1 ½ tablespoons of flour1 ¼ cup of chicken stock¼ cup of thickened cream

Chicken Roulade METHOD:1. Sauté bacon in a pan2. Remove bacon and on a low heat add shallots and cook until softened3. Preheat oven to 150c4. Place chicken breast between two sheets of glad wrap and using a meat mallet pound out

chicken until thin5. Remove glad wrap from chicken and sprinkle with lemon pepper6. Place bacon on chicken breast lengthwise7. Sprinkle on shallots and parmesan8. Roll up chicken breast like a cigar using glad wrap. Once formed remove glad wrap and hold

together with toothpicks9. Using a tablespoon of olive oil in a pan on medium heat seal the chicken breast10. Transfer to oven and cook for 20 minutes11. In the pan you sealed the chicken in pour white wine and until it is reduced to a tablespoon12. Reduce heat and add minced garlic, butter and flour and stir the mixture13. Add chicken stock to the pan and cream and stir through14. Allow to simmer for two minutes15. Pour sauce through a sieve 16. Remove toothpicks from the roulade and slice thinly17. Place sauce on a plate and then top with roulade and seasonal steamed vegetables.



Members only promotion. LTPS Pending.


New developmental update

The Club is proud to announce the next stage of its renovation program to meets its goal of providing the community with state of the art facilities.

Starting the 25th of January the following facilities will be upgrade:

> New bathrooms throughout

> New external lift to the TOPS function room

> Accessible bathroom facilities in the TOPS function room

> State of the art heating and air conditioning systemAll work will be conducted to ensure there will be minimal disruptions to trade throughout.

ARMIDALE CITY BOWLING CLUB BATHROOM CONCEPT

overall look & feel to bathrooms with counter top basins and individual halo lit mirrors with decorative frames to add a little personality

warm timber look laminate vanity unit with crisp stone top and concealedstorage and litter bins underneath

full height timber look laminate partitions to toilet cubicles

counter top basin and wall hung wc with concealed cistern sensor activated wc flush and basin mixers for hygeine purposes

dark timber look floor tiles accented by warm timber joinery, natural stone bench tops, hand glazed white wall tiles and bronze & black framed mirrors to create a timeless, natural look and feel to bathrooms

optional joinery unit within cubicles (dependant on space available)to house sanitary/rubbish bins, toilet roll holders & tissue dispenser

alternative option to providebag shelf above toilet roll

holders

DRAW TIMES

Friday – 7:30pm

Sunday – 1:15pm

Tuesday – 7.30pm Wednesday – 7:30pm

Thursday – 7:30pm

From the 1st of January until the 8th of April simply swipe your members card through

the entrance terminal or when making a purchase during the

promotional period for a chance to win $5,000

Members only promotion. LTPS Pending.

Simply swipe your members card at the entrance terminal or when making a purchase between 1st of January and

the 1st of April for a chance to win an exciting Jamala Wildlife

Lodge experience.

Includes a night in the Jungle Bungalow at

Jamala Wildlife Lodge for up to two adults

and two children, a three course dinner

with drinks, breakfast and two tours of

the zoo for up to two adults and two children.

Drawn on the 1st of April 2016. Members only promotion. LTPS Pending.



Armidale City Bowling Club’s

MEMBERS PLEDGELast financial year the Club donated $215,252 on behalf of members directly to sporting and welfare groups within the Armidale community.

This commitment equates to $41 per member and represents our goal of ensuring we recycle member support within the local community.

Major TriplesWinners Brody Dexter, Terry McMillian & Aaron McMillianRunners up Peter Doyle, Graham Porter & Phil Wheaton

Minor TriplesWinner Ross Strahle, Max Henderson & Ron SullivanRunners up Claude McFayden, Victor NG & Brad White

Major Singles Winner Steve FullerRunner up Justin Bullen

Minor SinglesWinner Tim RandellRunner up Richard Kembrey

Major PairsWinners Steve Fuller & Thomas InmanRunners up Mike Jackson & Phil Wheaton

Minor PairsWinners Tim Randell & Kel RandellRunners up Ross Hammond & Paul Wadleigh

Bowls Competition Winners

Arnold Palmer famously said “that winning isn’t everything but wanting it is”. As one of the greatest golfers of all time winning was second nature to him, however, what he is really saying here is the end result is second to the effort, motivation and passion placed on the task at hand. The irony in his statement is that when passion and motivation collide at high levels success is the evitable result.

This statement is true of the hard working events team at the Club. Through pride, motivation and passion they have built, developed and grown a very successful and well regarded event management service. To understand the tremendous growth of the Clubs events trade let’s look at the figures where the success of any business can be analyzed. Since 2010 the Clubs event revenue has increased by 83.90% and now totals just under a million dollars annually encompassing over 20 event bookings a week and in excess of 20 weddings annually.

The fantastic work of the events team was recognized recently when they were nominated in the Australian Bridal Industry Awards. The Club was

nominated in the categories of Best Reception Venue and Best Function Coordinator. This is a tremendous recognition of the Clubs events team and the work they have done to provide brides with the wedding of their dreams. This positions the Club against the biggest and best wedding venues in Australia and the achievement is magnified as the Club was the only Bowling Club nominated and also the only regional Club. This feat is something both the events team and members should be tremendously proud of. To back this up the Club was also nominated in the “Designer of Dreams” awards as it has now been nominated in the Australian Bridal Industry Awards for four years running.

This recognition can give you confidence that you are dealing with the most experienced and well regarded events team in the region. If you are planning an event, large or small, do not hesitate to contact them for a no obligation quote.

Making occasions memories

Patrick Crick

events


The Armidale City Bowling Club is proud to be partnering with the following businesses to bring you, our members, our new Community Partnership program.Some of the businesses who are partnering with us include;• DJ’s Fruit Market, Market Fresh• Jackson Meats• IGA• Armidale Lawn Mower and Chainsaw• Hanna’s• Sportspower• Independent Sports• Wards Windscreen Obrien• Hello world travel• Cliff Wright Motors• Big Light Blub• Armidale Pet Shop• Turners of Armidale• NE Trophies• Mount View Pharmacy• Moxon’s Bakery• Carr’s Newsagency• Bakers Delight• First National Real Estate• Armidale Taxi’s

For more information on what we will be offering in this partnership, come and speak with one of our team.The Armidale City Bowling Club, helping to bring the Local Armidale Business Community together.

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