from Ken Dutch

Sprite Club Annual Dinner 2013

I wonder if the Sprite Club founders thought we would still be celebrating the club’s birthday forty one years later? To be honest I doubt whether the question was even thought of. They were probably too busy driving, racing, thrashing and fixing Sprites!

This year The Forty First Annual Dinner was held at the Royal Coach Lodge on Dequetteville Tce, Kent Town. We had the generous sized dining room all to ourselves and set up with eight round tables. The tables were decorated with a red, white and blue theme. Four helium balloons spouted from the centre of the table with mystery numbers on them,1,5,4 & 5. The Lodge supplied us with a chef for the night who organized the meal and served the buffet.

At about 6.30 people started to arrive, after half an hour or so our fifty five expected members had arrived and the buzz of conversation filled the room. During the breaks in serving the soup and entree President Kevin drew the ‘lucky spot’ prize, the lucky spot was in fact stuck under your chair so there was a frantic upending of chairs and groans of disappointment. The only thing I found was a rock hard piece of chewy with teeth marks in it.

When we had all settled down after the chair inspecting Gary Brock gave out his ‘Quiz’ question sheets. One per table for a combined table effort to answer the questions. Gary had an interesting range of questions, one of which was “what do you call the little thing on the end of a shoelace”? I wonder how many people who didn’t know can remember the answer. One of the founding members, Richard Stokes, gave a brief welcome and a thank you to the organizing committee, it was then time to find out who had won the quiz. Kevin stood up, he paused, Eddie McGuire style and announced that the winner was…. ‘The founding members table’. Cheers on the table erupted and all on that table received a prize. Raffle tickets had been given out for the remaining prizes, these were drawn and a number of people went home with chocolates or a bottle of wine.

By now it was dessert time and a delicious array of Pavlovas, éclairs, cakes and fruit salad were waiting for us. The Royal Coach put on a lovely meal and the function room was very nice. After coffee, tea, cheese and biscuits and some chatting it was time to head for home.

Thanks must go to Kevin & Rose, Barb & Chris for organizing the dinner and to Gary for setting the quiz. Thanks must also go to Michael McLaren for his donation to the canadian pharmacy viagra club. Unfortunately Michael and Pat were unable to attend.

Ken and Mary Dutch                                                                                              20/09/13