For your diaries
- 30th September - Coffee catch up 1000 at Riverview Deli, Liverpool St.
- 11th October - Dinner catch up 1800 Goolwa Hotel
- 17th October - National Carers Week. Rotary Sausage sizzle at Goolwa Community Centre. Catering Team & volunteers.
- 21st October - Combined Services Clubs dinner at Morphett Vale Details TBA
- November 3 or 17 - proposed Garage Sale Barrage Road.
- 1st November - Dinner catch up 1800 at Thai Days
- 10th November - Strathalbyn Rotary Club DUCK RACE.
- 7th-8th December - proposed Club Xmas Party Family Picnic Scout Hall.
- 7th Jan no meeting. Coffee morning suggested.
- 21st January first meeting of 2025
- 05-11th April 2025 - Australian Federation of Rotary Golfers golf tournament. Details to follow.
- 11th-13th April 2025 - District Conference at Morphettville Racecourse. Details to follow.
- 26th-27th April 2025 - Wooden Boat Festival
- 16-18 May 25 - Multi District Conference
Meeting 1621- 17th September 2024
Sergeant Ingrid commenced meeting and called on Sergeant's Helper Tony to give the Invocation and Toast to Australia. Vice-President Noeline then called the meeting to order and welcomed all members and guests.
Apologies: Jan Lawrence, Lyn Crouch, Meredith Harton, Kevin Hales, Linda Steffens, Di Keach.
Visitors: David Steinert (friend of RC Goolwa Member Chris Smith).
Rosalie Koler GSLC thankyou for looking after us tonight.
Guest Speaker: John Brent, RC Gosford West on Wheelchair Foundation
Birthdays: Shannon Welk 50th, Brian Tapping
Vice-Pres Noeline welcomed all. We mixed it up this week and ate first. After dinner we headed to conference room downstairs for John Brent's presentation on Wheelchair Foundation Australia, which is run out of RC Gosford West. The Foundation provides containers of wheelchairs to people in the Pacific region. To date, over 3,500 wheelchairs valued at over $1.8 M have changed the lives of more than 10,000 people.
John showed a video and gave a very informative presentation on the history and work of the Wheelchair Foundation Australia. RC Goolwa Member Yvonne Hurrell and her late husband Brian have supported the Foundation for many years.
(l) RC Gosford West member John giving his presentation. (r) RC Goolwa member Yvonne, John, and RC Goolwa Vice-President Noeline.
Vice- President's Report
Following the presentation by John, V-P Noeline informed members of results of recent fundraising activities such as the raffle and netball BBQ.
Our new Food Trailer was purchased by our Club in April 2024. A grant of $5,000 was awarded to our Club by the Community Bank – Fleurieu, Bendigo Bank to equip the trailer for purpose. The old BBQ trailer has been converted to serve the purpose of an Equipment Trailer and will be used for transporting supplies to events (see below).
Tamara will be representing RC Goolwa at the Fit-for-Purpose Workshop in Sydney. Members are asked to complete the survey for this and get to Noeline by Thursday. She will collate and send off our Club results.
a) Tamara McRobbie
i)-Tamara put forward the idea of informal catch up get-togethers (coffee or dinner). These would be Fellowship and brainstorming sessions. They would be fortnightly (the non-meeting week) and attendance would be voluntary. Tamara will put dates and venues on a calendar in Facebook.
ii)-Tamara would like to profile members and their Rotary journey on Facebook (why you joined, what you have learned, what you hope to achieve).
b) Janet Tapping
Janet, Bronnie, Kevin and Jan attended RYDA (Rotary Youth Driver Awareness) presentations last Friday. RYDA is a 2 day course held over two weeks, to support students of the age to achieve their learner’s motor vehicle licences”. The event was well attended by students from local schools. The feedback from students was very positive. Janet advised that this is well worth attending.
Fines, Happy and Sad $$$ and Raffle Draw
The raffle was drawn by Guest Speaker John Brent and Bronnie's number came up but she drew the white ball. The prize will jackpot.
Vice-President Noeline thanked everyone for attending and John for his informative presentation.
Meeting closed 8.30pm
Other Business
Rotary says NO to Domestic Violence
RC Goolwa member Meredith Harton (l) and friend Joy (r), participated in the "Rotary Says NO to Domestic Violence" District 9510 walk in Adelaide on September 14th. The Walk for Respect attracted approximately 1,000 participants. Thankyou to Meredith and Joy for attending the rally on behalf of our Club.
Some of the walkers on the Sep 14th Walk for Respect.
BBQ Trailer
The old BBQ trailer has been completely refitted for transporting equipment and supplies to our events. Thanks to RC Goolwa member David McDonald and friend Gary Biermann for all their hard work in gutting and refurbishing the trailer. Thankyou and well done David and Gary.
David (l) and Gary (r) hard at work on the old trailer.
Fellowship and a Ram
(Episode 1)
Four of our RC Goolwa members have made a road trip to Tasmania to "pick up a ram" and attend some RC meetings along the way. President Jan, Treasurer Lyn, Director Environment Meredith and member Di enjoyed a great break. See episode 2 in next Bulletin.
The trip begins, the Team at Union Hotel in Nhill. l-r Lyn, Di and Meredith.
Pre-dinner drinks with RC Launceston South. l-r Meredith, President-Elect RC Launceston South Dale Luck, Di and Lyn.
HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY TO RC GOOLWA MEMBER SHANNON
