Judith Carleton is pictured here being presented with an Orchids Queensland Service Award at the Annual General Meeting in 2011 by Mel Wheeler. The award was for her "Outstanding work in maintaining the Bribie Clubhouse". Since "The Orchid House" was completed in August 2010, Judith has been very invovled in the day to day maintenance [...]
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Foundation Member, Pam Board was honoured to present Convenor Val Anderson with the Sheila Wilson Memorial Trophy at the Annual General Meeting in June 2011. This award is decided by the members who vote each month at the Cultural Meeting for the person, who they feel. has given "Outstanding Service to the Bribie Island Orchid Society". [...]
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Member Beverley Hopgood being congratulated by Wyatt Roy MP at the recent Longman Awards. This event was held at the Banksia Room, Caboolture RSL Club on 10th June 2011. Several of the members were in attendance and thrilled to see Beverley recognised for "outstanding contributions to the Longman community".
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"The Vocabulary of Orchids" – An Amateur Perspective is a book written by Allen B Martin in which he explains, in lay-man language, all of the technical terms concerning orchids plus he has translated (again in lay language) most of those baffling long-winded botanical & scientific name of worldwide orchids. This work contains around 25,000 fully cross referenced [...]
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Each year, a limited number of certificates signed by the Queensland Premier, Anna Bligh and Local MP for Pumicestone Carryn Sullivan are awarded to volunteers 'in recognition of outstanding service to the community'. Carryn was delighted to present these award certificates to Lynn and Malcolm Hauck for their outstanding service to the Bribie Island Orchid [...]
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The Sheila Wilson Memorial Trophy was presented to Secretary Lynn Hauck at the 2010 Annual General Meeting in June. This is the inaugural presentation of this trophy which has been donated by Foundation member, Pam Board to a Society member who was voted over the twelve month period by all members at the Cultural Meetings [...]
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