More than 180 people have answered the call to celebrate the Beechwood football club's 100-year reunion this weekend.
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It will mark an impressive century of competition in the Hastings League.
The fun starts on Friday night at the Beechwood Hotel with a meet and greet from 6.30pm. Everyone will get a package of a shirt, stubby holder, reunion booklet and wristbands to get them into all the functions.
The packages will be available at an 11am brunch at the football club on Saturday morning.That will be followed by a ladies game at 12.30am and then the men's game, against the Comboyne Tigers, beginning at 2pm.
After that, it's back to the Beechwood Hotel for a short while, and then there's a dinner in the Wauchope RSL Club from 6.30pm.
There's been a great response. 180 people have already bought tickets for the reunion.
- Peter White
"There's been a great response," said Peter White who is one of the organisers. Buses will be running from Wauchope on Saturday.
RE-UNION BUS TIMETABLE
Pick-ups: Saturday 8th June:
- 10.10am - Port Macquarie Bus depot in Gordon Street (near Finnian's)
- 10.25am - Wauchope Scout Hall in Tallowood Ave
- 10.35am - Bago Tavern in High Street
- 10.45am - Wauchope RSL in Young Street
The bus will be doing two drops back into Wauchope RSL, the first immediately after the game at 3.45pm from the football ground and the second at 5.45pm from the Beechwood Hotel.
At 10pm a bus will run to Beechwood and at 11pm the last bus will be to Port Macquarie town centre.
"Reunion President Kevin Pampling has done a sterling job, as has Joanne Witchard who has been a tower of strength and all the committee members have worked hard," he added.
Letitia Fitzpatrick
Worked as a journalist and assistant producer for BBC news and current affairs in the UK, Ulster Television, Q Radio and the Irish News in Northern Ireland. Moved to Australia and joined Fairfax Media in 2016. Won a Rotary Paul Harris Fellowship award in 2018 for reporting the Pappinbarra bushfires and the subsequent Rotary appeal which raised $30,000.
Worked as a journalist and assistant producer for BBC news and current affairs in the UK, Ulster Television, Q Radio and the Irish News in Northern Ireland. Moved to Australia and joined Fairfax Media in 2016. Won a Rotary Paul Harris Fellowship award in 2018 for reporting the Pappinbarra bushfires and the subsequent Rotary appeal which raised $30,000.
