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Inner Wheel Minhi on the lookout for new members

Incoming president of the Inner Wheel Club of Orange Minhi, Melissah Quinn is encouraging more women to come and experience the club for themselves.

When Melissah joined nine years ago, she was a full-time mother looking for something to do, just for herself, and that’s when she discovered the then only recently founded Inner Wheel Club of Orange Minhi. 

She’s now been a member for nine years, just one year short of the ten years the club has been running — an anniversary they will celebrate this month.

Closely associated with the Inner Wheel Club of Orange, the Inner Wheel Club of Orange Minhi is more aimed at younger women. 

“Minhi is the Wiradjuri word for little sister,” Melissah explained. “We’re like their little sisters.”

The two local clubs share the same objectives, helping people locally, nationally and internationally through fundraising for a number of different charities.

But more than just charitable activities, the Inner Wheel Club of Orange Minhi offers members friendship and a way to build community, Melissah said.

“Fundraising is important to the Inner Wheel, but our objective of Inner Wheel is not really to raise money, it’s actually friendship,” Melissah said.

Members of the club engage in regular social activities such as musical bingo, trivia nights, trips to the cinema, dinners out and bowling, just to name a few. 

But in order to maintain the club, they really need new members, Melissah said.

“We'd like more people to come and join in on the fun — you don’t have to come to every meeting, you just have to try to give what you can.”

The Inner Wheel Club of Orange Minhi meet on the first Tuesday of every month (although their June meeting has been pushed back to Tuesday, June 13). 

Members meet for dinner at the Robin Hood Hotel at 6pm, with the meeting starting at 7pm. 

“Come along to our June meeting, and see what we’re all about!” Melissah said.

For more information or to join the Inner Wheel Club of Orange Minhi contact Melissah Quinn on 0408 169 335