It was a pleasure to host Desley McKnight and Rosemary Featherstone to dinner this week, and present them each with a bouquet of flowers, to thank them for their great contributions to our Book Fair.
Rosemary always donates brand new books from Torquay Books and Desley arranges the Scout hall for us free of charge. We also presented the Scouts with a new Dyson Vacuum cleaner and a cheque for $650 to buy things that the scouts need. We also use the Scouting tents each year for our Motor Show so it was nice to give something back to them.
The speaker was our own Gerard McNamara who told us about his very interesting trip to the Antarctic.
STAR OF THE MONTH for May is John Oswald. John does great Rotary work as the Interplast District Chair and he has put in a lot of effort into researching a possible Global Grant for our Club. John has also brought Ben Featherstone into our club which sets a great example for all! Greg did a special presentation of the award to John on Wednesday.
As you are aware, our Changeover Lunch is on 3rd June, before President Elect Trevor Pickles swans off to Spain. I will continue acting as President until mid-July, when Trevor returns and I leave for Europe. 20 members have not yet responded on Whoozin. Please do so immediately and pay your $35 per head into the bank account (Reference CHANGEOVER and your SURNAME), so that the venue has some idea of numbers. This changeover lunch will be in lieu of a meeting on Monday 4th June
Kelly Binyon has been accepted as the Rotary Representative at BNI so she will attend their meetings every Thursday morning, but might look for a substitute on occasions. This will give Rotary a very good liaison opportunity with local businesses. Thanks Kelly!
If anyone would like to make a personal donation to The Rotary Foundation, please let me know as I now have the forms. Also, if anyone wants more details of events at other Clubs, as mentioned in the last bulletin and at the meeting, please contact me.
Mock Interviews for Surf Coast Secondary College will be held on Thursday 24th May. Please contact Richard Mierzejewski if you can help and remember to take your Working with Children Card along.
Monday 21st May
Thanks to Jan Emmett for postponing her Rotarian Behind the Badge presentation this week so that we can have Kardinia International Year 12 student .Louis Hehir spread the message for his Organ Donation "Opt Out" Campaign
Plus we will also have 2 guests, Phil Campbell from the Torquay Fire Brigade and Bob Tyler from the RSL to receive funds from our Club.
At 8pm we have a joint Board Meeting of outgoing and incoming board members.
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