By JUDY SMITH

Members of the Eugowra VIEW Club held their March meeting at the CWA Rooms.

Guest speaker at the meeting was local resident Geoff Connors who spoke of his experiences during the Vietnam conflict.

Geoff was a National Serviceman called up in the first draft. He did 12 months training in Victoria, New Guinea, Queensland and back to Holsworthy.

He was with the 5th RAR Battalion and Section Commander of 3 Platoon A Company when he served in Vietnam during 1966/67.

The VIEW ladies were very interested to listen to the stories Geoff had to tell. He spoke of his Unit being in Long Tan just prior to D Comopany following who were involved in the Long Tan battle.

Geoff was happy to report that he did not lose any members of his unit, only to replace those who were injured.

He and one fellow Unit member, from South Australia, are the only ones left today.

VIEW member, Helen Watchorn, made a presentation to Geoff and thanked him on behalf of members for a very interesting talk.

Topics discussed during the meeting:

(1) Murals weekend - which will be the 11th 12th and 13th April. VIEW Club will be organising the market stalls to be held in Pioneer/Apex Park on 12th. The markets will run from 8am to 1pm. View will be holding their own stall and welcome donations of good quality clothing, accessories, books etc. People wishing to hold a stall can contact Di Agustin on 0400 607 690 to book.

(2) Fashion Parade- will be held in July with fashions from Scope Clothing.

(3) RSVP for meetings- all members are asked to RSVP to Esther on 0427b 349 978 on the Friday prior to meeting with Yes or No. Numbers are needed for lunch from The Fat Parcel or from Bozena.

(4) Birthday cards to Judy and Carol.

(5) Raffle winner was Judy.

(6) Guest speaker for the next meeting will be Helen Broadbent on May 19th.