President’s Report 19th March 2019I thank Paul Milde for chairing the past two club meetings during my absence.
The following aspects emanated for the Board meeting held last night:
- Members are strongly encouraged to report make up’s for attendance purposes.
- Members are encouraged to check your attendance record in Club Runner. If you do not have access the club runner, please contact Paul Murray for assistance.
- Members are obliged to fulfil their turn on Fellowship, Reception and Furniture duties. If you are unable to attend on the day you are rostered, please arrange a swap.
- Youth exchange student roster for members - Each member has been allotted a week period in which the member is required to entertain Irene at least once during the allotted week. Members who are not rostered may wish to entertain Irene if you are travelling or doing some activity. When you make arrangements with Irene for outings, please inform the host family of the arrangement.
- The board approved of a payment of $1,000 funded from approved Youth budget to Clare Lawlor member of CSU Rotoract to assist her in meeting costs to attend RI Convention in Hamburg Germany in June 2019. Clare is funding two thirds of the cost of attending RI convention herself. All board members were fully supportive of the financial support as Clare has a high potential too excel in various personal attributes especially in leadership, communications and organisational abilities.
March is Rotary month for Water and Sanitation.
Did you know that the total volume of water on Earth is estimated at 1.386 billion cubic kilometres. That 97.5% of the known water is salt water – leaving only 2.5% as fresh water and that only 0.3% of that fresh water is in liquid form on the earth's surface. That two thirds of the world’s population live in areas that experience water scarcity for at least one month a year. There is a desperate need throughout the world (especially in developing countries) for clean, potable water. With Howard Mendel professional background and his membership of Rotary, he conceived a solution to this problem. He developed, a prototype pump & filter system that can treat contaminated water making it potable. The system can be either hand operated or solar powered and is easily maintained by persons with limited, or no technical abilities in this area. These characteristics are vital to operations in developing countries.
Food & Wine festival is happening this coming weekend. All members are required to assist in setting up, actual festival tasks and pulling down. The festival is a major community activity for the benefit of the community and a major fund raiser for the club.
The club extends its condolences and sympathy to Darren & Kathy Wallace on the passing of Darren’s dad. Our thoughts and prayers are with Darren and Kathy and family members at this time.
May peace be with you as you serve the community.