Last Thursday, as our guest speaker was unable to attend due to Orientation Week at Uni, we had a “Round Robin” of interesting snippets from the 16 attendees. It was a wonderfully relaxed and humorous evening, and made all the better with two visitors – Pat and Jody – who will soon be inducted into the Club.
On Saturday evening, John W, Rob, Erfan and his extended family (minus some of the younger children) and I attended the Grand Opening of the Afghanistan Pamir Council Australia ceremony held at the Colossus Panrhodian Society building on Henley Beach Road (just down from the award-winning Parwana Restaurant!). Erfan (who is a member) posted an open invitation in the Cuppa Conversation “WhatsApp” page and invited other special guests to the evening. Two “Cuppa” attendees – Carolina and Sabrina also joined the festivities. Erfan’s brother Wahab sang the Quran prayers, the children all went up on stage to waive Afghan and Australian flags during the two anthems, the two women MCs explained the landscape and culture of Afghanistan (in two languages for all to understand) and what the Council plans to do in the future. The camaraderie of the evening started before we even entered, with greetings at the door, solicitous provision of drinks and nibbles, wonderful conversations and then the excellent meal that had us going back for more. A ribbon was formally cut by about 10 or 12 invited guests – we all cut just a snippet of the ribbon – as well as a total cut to celebrate the grand opening of the Council.
I look forward to seeing you at the White Picket Café at 9.30am this Thursday.
Best wishes and have a wonderful week. Yvette, President.
For the benefit of members, we will aim to give the Duty Roster a few weeks ahead - see below.
Responsibility
29 February 2024 - 9.30am
7 March 2024 - 9.30am
14 March 2024 - 7am - Sth. Tce. Croquet Club
Chairperson
Coffee Conversation
Coffee Conversation
Paul Jupp
Attendance
Di Lane
White Picket Café
White Picket Café
Furniture/Hosting
Bottles/ cans
Di Lane
Dean Sullivan
Fred Field
Bread run
Richard Jarrett (3/3)
Paul Ensor (10/3)
Paul Ensor (17/3)
Rotaract meeting
TBA
TBA
TBA
Chairman: Meet/greet speaker for the meeting; introduce and thank speaker. Preparation:- find details about the speaker prior to the meeting. Attendance: Set up reception table (attendance sheet; members list – re -payments; guest welcome sheet; money); register member payments/ apologies/ guests. Hosting: Welcome all at the door; ensure speaker and guests are introduced to appropriatepersons. Furniture: Flags; banner display; Rotary theme banner; gong and hammer; lectern position before and returned after the meeting. Computerset up – Connect to projector. Switch on. Hold function key & press F5 twice. Bottles/cans: Collect bags of bottles/cans at meeting and take to recycle centre for refund, pass refund to Bruce McDonald and empty bags to the next duty member, at the next meeting. Rotaract: Meets 2nd and 4th Mondays at 6pm (for a 630pm start) at the Astor Hotel, 437 Pulteney St. Adelaide. Bread Run: Sundays, meet outside Romeo's, North Adelaide at 4:55pm
Members rostered for Thursday morning duty are asked to be in attendance by 6.45am
United in the spirit of Service we value truth, fairness and friendship; and we welcome the opportunity that Rotary gives us to contribute our talents and resources in support of others.
Rotary Club of Adelaide Light Mission Statement
To have fun and engage interest from new members and friends as we use our strengths for a better world here and abroad - a welcoming, flexible group having fun doing hands-on activities for positive impact.
A grade one teacher handed out a colouring-in page to her class. On it was a picture of a duck holding an umbrella.
The teacher told her class to colour the duck in yellow and the umbrella green, however, Bobby, the class rebel, coloured the duck in a bright fire truck red.
After seeing this, the teacher asked him: "Bobby, how many times have you see a red duck?"
Young Bobby replied with "The same number of times I've seen a duck holding an umbrella."
