James Byron Armstrong will tell you that one thing can
change a person’s life. For him, that moment came in 1969 when he was elected
to the now defunct Terania Shire Council by just one vote.
Keen to accurately champion the needs of his new
constituents, Jim needed a way to connect with them. “I decided to do something
in every district, so I knew what the people wanted”, he says. Already playing
table tennis at Dunoon, he took up bowls at Rosebank, and started attending euchre
in the under croft at Clunes Anglican Church. It was at euchre that he met
Doris Warburton, and in time Jim was invited to go dancing with her group of friends
at the Casino RSM club. They married, both for the second time, in April 1974.
