New chairman for Ettalong Club

Don Young has been voted in as chairman of the board for the Ettalong Memorial Club.

The club held its annual meeting on Sunday, January 20.

Mr Young said he had repeatedly aired his views on what he thought could be done to improve the club, and was asked by the board to "put his money where his mouth is".

Mr Young said he did, and the board members voted him in as chairman.

"My personal aims are to get the club working as a club, and to retain the old values we had four members which has been frittered away over the last few years," Mr Young said.

"I aim to make this club the number one club on the Peninsula, if not the Central Coast, and to get it back to how it was."

Mr Young said there were some "very good plans" for the club, which at this stage depended a lot on refinancing.

Mr Young said he had been a member of the club for about 20 years, and was an ex-servicemen, serving in both Korea and Malaya.

Mr Young said he was also currently the national welfare officer for the Extremely Disabled Returned Servicemen Group.

Mr Young said he belonged to the Ettalong Hardys Bay RSL Sub Branch, was a member of the Malaya Borneo Veterans Association, a member of the Vietnams Veterans Association, the Ettalong Memorial Fishing Club, and was chairman on two citizen boards of private hospitals.

He said he was also a board member of the Men's Health Board of the DVA and on the board of the National Ex-Servicemen Round Table Conference on Aged Care (NERTAC) which advised the Government on the needs and care of ex-servicemen.

Lyle Stone, 25 Jan 2008