We hosted the Board meeting on Monday night which went off quite well. We had a presentation from the Rotary Club of Berwick Visioning Committee as well as discussing many of the other items on our Agenda. It all wrapped up about 9:30pm with a couple of members staying on for fellowship until after 11pm. But that’s another story.Our speaker at this week’s 'Christmas in July' meeting was Regional Commissioner for Scouts, Jenni Warden, who reported on the success of the mental health first aid training program initiated by Viv and our Club for the Scout Groups that she deals with.
Jenni was very enthusiastic and likeable. She owned the room with her inspirational talk about what the Scouts do and how the mental health first aid training helped them. Jenni explained how the training could potentially save lives by giving the Scout Leaders the confidence to ask their charges the difficult questions and the skills to deal with the answers.
Our meeting on Wednesday night started off with a bit of a hiccup with a few members listed as being on duty not realising that they were. It is important for everyone to check the left-hand side column of the Bulletin each week to see who is on duty. If you are listed but can’t make it to the meeting to perform your duty, then you need to arrange a replacement.
When you are on duty, you need to get to the venue around 6pm to begin the setting up process. All other members are expected to arrive from 6:30pm, so it is important to have everything in place before then.
Members who pay on the night need to ensure that their payment amount and type is recorded on the attendance sheet. This will assist the people on attendance duty to reconcile the payments before handing over to the Treasurer. Credit card payment slips need to have your name written on them as this is the easiest way of identifying the payment came from you.
It is a pertinent time to remind members that attendance@rotaryberwick.org is not just used to create the attendance sheet, it is used by other members of the Admin team to assist with their roles. So, if you call in your apology, you will need to send an email as well or ask Fred to send an email on your behalf to attendance@rotaryberwick.org .
It is timely to remind members that if they see someone struggling with Fellowship duties on their own, it would be appreciated if they could just pitch in and help. After all, that’s what Rotarians do, isn’t it?
That’s it from me for this week.
Over and out.
