What an actioned packed night we had on Monday.
It was great to see 41 people present!
We welcomed District Governor John Clue, Assistant Governor David Sykes, Visiting Rotarian Daryl Lee and partners, joining us for our official District Governor Visit to our Club.
I did notice the only tie to be seen was around the neck of our DG!
The afternoon commenced with a board meeting chaired by DG John and board members, where our club ‘Health Check’ was discussed. The Health Check is completed each year for the District Governor and discussed at the board meeting prior to their official club meeting. This document highlights the club and club activities for the coming Rotary Year.
At the conclusion of the board meeting, we joined our Members, Partners and Guests for a predinner drink, and catch up.
I’m sure people could have mingled and chattered a lot longer – but we had to take our seats ready for our club meeting.
Following the meeting, we moved into the ‘Cinema Room’ at the back of the community room for our District Governors presentation.
DG John’s delivery was very good and very informative - he had all present engaged and interested in his address. John asked people for comments and questions, as he discussed ideas and suggestions.
DG John and his wife Heather are very passionate about the environment. This year, Rotary has announced The Environment as the seventh Area of Focus of Rotary.
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Rhonda is our ‘Environment Champion’ this year. If you have any thoughts or suggestions, please catch up with her.
As mentioned on Monday at our club meeting, and detailed in last week’s bulletin, the Presidents of the 13 Rotary Clubs in the greater Geelong area, Groups 9&10, are planning on continuing to celebrate the ‘Big R’ – Celebrating 100 years of Rotary in Australia and New Zealand.
If anyone is interested in being involved on a committee with members of other Rotary Clubs coordinating any of these events, please let me know.
- The Rotary Club of Geelong is proposing a Melbourne Cup social event – a ‘High Tea’ to be held at the Geelong Racing Club.
- The Rotary Club of Belmont is looking at having a Billy Cart Race.
- Works have commenced on the toilet facilities at Christ Church. The Rotary Club of Bayside is coordinating this work and are seeking any interested people to assist with the working bees on the toilet facilities restoration.
- Assistant Governor Vici announced they are seeking interest from people aged 18-35 to join a Rotaract Club. If you know of any person who would like to attend an information evening, or would like further information, please email A.G Vici v.funnell@bigpond.com or let me know.
Please collect any used stamps and unwanted hearing aids, and either bring along to Rotary, drop off to Kelly in her office, or drop off to me and I will deliver them to Graeme Fisher later this month.
Please continue to drop off to Kelly in her Kithbrooke Park office, stationary items to go to Lucy Loco’s school project in PNG. Lucy is collecting items for the Stationary Drive, for Lese Oalai school in PNG.
Items being requested are Pens, Pencils, erasers, notepads, notebooks, exercise books, reading books, for early school age children.
Any unwanted Reading or Optical Glasses, we are collecting and will pass them onto the Lions Club of Torquay. Martin Duke is coordinating this project. You can bring these along to Rotary. Please see or contact Martin for any further information.
Don’t forget when registering for Rotary attendance, after clicking the register button – you scroll down and click the confirm button.
And the same for any additional people you are bringing along.
You will receive an email once you have registered, if an email does not come back to you, your registration hasn’t been made – and you will need to go back and do it again.
Lesley announced the information session on the 25th August at 7.30pm, on how to run the best Hybrid Rotary Meetings. This information session is being run for D9780 Clubs to learn more about best practice in running a Hybrid Meeting. Register to receive the Teams Link https://tinyurl.com/p7nb8wns
Rhonda is collecting plastic lids from milk bottles, long life milk (and the like) containers along with soft drink bottle lids. Plastic lids only – not metal ones. Please clean them, bring them along and give to Rhonda – or contact her for further information. This is an environmental program, to recycle them and keep them out of landfill.
The plastic ‘bread ties’ (on the bread bags) are also being collected. These can be given to either Ben Featherston or Rhonda Anchen.
When we meet at Kithbrooke Park, there is a call out for anyone who can be at Rotary by 5pm. The tables there are heavy and require help moving them into place. Please email or contact either Jan or myself, if you are able to assist. If we have a pool of people, Jan can have a roster – or people she can call on.
See you all online on Monday evening.
PS as we are back in Lockdown again stay tuned to all Club communications as it is quite likely that we may not be able to meet Face to Face on the 30th.
Cheers
President Michael
Oh – By the way ……
As the weather improves, we consider the odd outdoor meal, picnic – or the good ol’ ‘Barby’.
Here’s an idea you may want to consider ……
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