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Newsletter 2
NEWSLETTER 44TH NATIONAL CHEVROLET FESTIVAL YARRAWONGA.
23/6/21
Hi all,
If like me you read the Newspaper or follow the News on TV you know
that there is a massive surge in Australian Holidays and with border closures
all Regional Areas are also similarly affected.
If you wagged school during geography Yarrawonga is in a Regional Area.!!!
We (The Festival Committee) have been advertising and highlighting the fact
for months to book your accommodation ….….lock it in so you can move on !!!!
Our Festival is not the only game in Town and since Yarrawonga is a great holiday
destination people just go there to get away from Central Melbourne and other suburban areas.
Against this the venues we have approached have all held back accommodation for Festival Entrants so that you have somewhere to stay.
Unfortunately that is no more so you are now on your own and if you are
chasing accommodation get on the phone pretty quickly.
It is worth repeating that if Covid 19 does rear its ugly head and causes us grief
all festival entry monies paid will be fully refunded or transferred to the next year
as was the case in 2020.
In other words, there is no excuse brothers and sisters.
Moving on we also want to be fair to the entertainment venues the Committee has booked on your behalf.
In other words, we require your Festival Entry so that numbers can be finalised.
Your Festival Committee is diligently pulling all the strings together on this to ensure we have a great Festival so stop looking at whitewall tyres and that dull chrome you have to polish, put away your cleaning gear and become more proactive because our Club needs your firm commitment for a super Festival.
Now I know we initially indicated a cut off date for all the above was 31/8/21.
When this was done, we believed all will be back to normal by now ….it is not apart from the Covid issue there are massive supply and labour problems so
to be fair to all the Festival Support Venues we ask for your assistance in the above and don’t forget the border is just a stone throw away from Yarrawonga.
Ian for the Festival Committee
Urgent Accomodation Info
ACCOMODATION TELEGRAM CHEVROLET NATIONAL FESTIVAL
NOW READ THIS
I REPEAT NOW READ THIS…………We ( The Festival Committee ) have been asking pleading and in various BOWTIE articles suggesting you book your accommodation then submit the Festival Entry Form with payment to Craig electronically or Ian by mail.
Some members are not attending which is fair enough and a personal decision
Some members have in fact booked accommodation but simply have not got around to sending in the Festival Entry Form………which actually makes the Committees life harder.
However again fair enough and well done!!
This TELEGRAM is for the Third Group……Those that are intending to go but have done nothing and we think there are a lot of you in this group.
Ron, Patrick and myself (Ian) were in Yarrawonga to fine tune the Festival Program and also check out what Accommodation was still available for Members.
Please don’t think we are the only show in town because Yarrawonga/Mulwala is a tourist Mecca and we are competing with Golf, Water-skiing, fishing and other motor type sports.
The Downside for BOWTIES is obviously Accommodation for example…
RSL Mulwala……………………………………………………………………….2 Standard Rooms left
Then a big jump in price to 10 Deluxe Rooms
Yarrawonga Holiday Park…………………………………………………..6 Budget Cabins Left
Mulwala Ski Club………………………………. virtually no Vacancy
Central Hotel………………………………………………………….………….4 Family Rooms
Belmore Motor Inn…………………………………………………………….8 Double Rooms
We could go on but consider this …. if these establishments were empty there would
be hundreds of rooms available for us to use and those still available will not last long
This situation is serious AND WILL GET WORSE so if you are joining us at Yarrawonga for a great National Festival book your accommodation or you will be sleeping in your car.
Check the Website, get the contacts and act
Ian for the Festival Committee.