PRESIDENT’S REPORT:
Another well attended meeting, but a bit light on the RSVP’s, so fellows please check your bulletin for the dinner RSVP, especially for the upcoming ladies night next week, Monday 1 June 2026.
Henry Melssen did the toast to the King, Rotary International and welcomed our guests Charles Impey, Mark Coulton and Rob Lockwood.
Phil Lyne spoke for much longer than his noted eight minutes on the 70th birthday and Club changeover evening. Phil mentioned he needs RSVP numbers by the Monday 1 June 2026 for the caterers.
Chris Lang also spoke in regard to the Motor Show which is going to be on 15 -16 May 2026 and there was also talk about doing a trophy for the best presented/ crowd favourite for the Car Club cars parked out the front of TREC. Also we are looking for a feature car so please let Chris know if you have any ideas on those two items.
General Business
· Resulting from the latest joint Presidents meeting –
1. Di Hall did have a heart attack a couple of weeks ago, she was in hospital for 2 day for observation and apparently Di is on the mend. Both Di and Ken noted they are intending to attend our 70 birthday/ Changeover dinner.
2. It was also discussed that getting quotes/ looking into getting some State government funding to replace the cracked and trip hazard concrete slabs around the Gipps Street Memorial, which we will into.
3. Also discussed the District has money to work on the volunteer and community organisation road signs coming into town, obviously West Tamworth has been given the sign out at the Airport/ Lawn cemetery. There was discussion about moving that sign closer to the road for visibility reasons, which I will talk to Council about.
4. We also have costs from Geoff Galloway to do the reprinting on all of the signs, so West Tamworth Rotary has the correct venue and meeting times, but we will have to see what takes place in the following months, whether that will need to be done on all signs or only the one we are responsible for.
5. Paul Sullivan is going back to PNG September/ October this year, if anyone is interested in going, please talk to Noel Bennett.
· In regard to the MHERV van visit to Tamworth, West’s are already doing a barbeque at Bunnings to fund that and there may be other actions required in regard to the billeting of staff and the like. I will talk to Brian Singh about that next weeks meeting.
· Reminder the Board meeting on Wednesday 3 June having been brought forward because of the Changeover dinner.
Councillor Charles Impey from Tamworth Regional Council was our guest speaker tonight. Charles spoke on a large range of current topics with Council and answered quite a thorough question and answer period. Charles also indicated he would get back to us on some of the items that he didn’t have information off the top of his head.
Charles was introduced by James Hindmarsh and thanked by Geoff Galloway.
Our Seargent tonight was Allan Guan and he came up with some interesting fines and had quite a good list of English names that almost matched our Club members names going back into history.
Head and tails was won by Ron Carr and Kevin Craggs, Kevin donated his honey to Charles Impey.
Our next meeting is a ladies night 6:30pm for 7:00pm with Bryan Singh talking about Friends of Nioka and presumably his new role as Rotary Community Leader, which basically means he runs the joint Presidents locally, trying to keep us all working in the same direction.
Cheers Scott
