Launch of Melbourne Bearbrass Probus Club for active retirees

Feb

Wednesday, February 12, 2020 at 10:00 AM

Location

Dock Library, 3rd Floor
107 Victoria Harbour Promenade
Melbourne, VIC 3004
Australia
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Event contact

Tony Thomas

0407305757

Melbourne Bearbrass Probus for active retirees launches at Library at the Dock, 107 Victoria Harbour Promenade, Docklands at 10 am - 12 noon on Wednesday February 12.

Have the honor of becoming a Bearbrass* foundation member, or just check us out. We’ll also welcome potential office-bearers.

You’ll meet like-minded friends, hear stimulating monthly speakers, and with new friends you’ll enjoy …

# Theatre, movies, music, arts, coffee, food & wine

# Walking, biking, bowls, golf, Pilates & fitness

# Bridge, mah-jong, books, ancestry, photography

# Victorian, national and offshore trips, and

# Discounts and attractive overseas travel cover

Our regular monthly meetings will be from March at the Dock Library from 10am on second Tuesdays of each month. Fees will be only $30 to join and $60 yearly (subject to club ratification).

Probus runs entirely for friendships and lifestyles of sociable retirees and near-retirees with lively minds. It does no charity fund-raising.

Bearbrass Probus, sponsored by Rotary Central Melbourne, caters for the city’s huge growth in male and female retirees living in the CBD, Southbank and Docklands. But you can join from anywhere.

Contact Tony Thomas - [email protected] and 0407 305 757, or Robert Renshaw [email protected] and 03 9802 1901. facebook.com/tthomas061/ and website probussouthpacific.org/microsites/melbournebearbrass

* “Bearbrass” was an early suggested name for the settlement that became “Melbourne”.

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Italian sailors on ship at Port Melbourne 1938, Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs, State Library of Victoria
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