Sergeant-At-Arms Ian Cairns opened the meeting with his quote for the week, "Failure is not falling down but it is refusing to get up."

President Michael welcomed our many guests:

• Lois O'Meary - Warragul Inner Wheel
• Alex Robertson,  George McLeod and Brooke Jansens - Rotaract
• Monique Forbe
• Mathilda (past exchange student) been to school at home and plans to go to Uni then planning to move back to Australia permanently.
• Jules
• Glen, guest of Keith McLeod. Glen has had a sea change from Echuca and now lives in Warrnambool.
• Guest speaker Lorraine Smith - Journey of a lost manuscript.

Eisteddfod
Second phase of Eisteddfod roster - please ask if there are any family friends that can help out and advise Terry of availability.

Board Meeting
The board will meet following tonight's meeting.

Dinner Auction
Dinner Auction certificates to be handed out and invitations to dinner and next week.

Tree Planting
Tree planting activity at Logan’s beach on Aug 5th. Joining with Daybreak to plant some fairly mature bottle brushes. Followed by a BBQ.

Footy Gates
Footy gates next weekend.

Money Spinnger
The second money spinner has been placed at Bunnings.

For Sale Tonight
Anne has some 'melting moments' for sale. Foundation table fundraising every second week with anything not purchased donated to food share. Bring along anything you can donate for this.

Exchange Student Host Families
Lou is still in need of a host family for Janick from late July to late October. Please let Lou know if you are willing to take Janick.

Swindle
Mary Fitzgerald won the swindle again!! She took home the grand sum of $10.

Lorraine Smith was introduce by chairman Anne Adams.

Lorraine was born and raised in Warrnambool, attending Jamieson St Primary school then Warrnambool Texhnical school in Timor street. She studied applied science - chemistry at WIAE before qualifying as a maths and science teacher.

She taught in Melbourne for a couple of years before moving back to Warrnambool in 1980. After raising a family of four children with husband Neil, who has a digital printing business, Lorraine opened a second hand book shop in 2000.

She has been researching her family history for 30+ years and wrote a book on this in 2013. In 2015 co-wrote a book -'Warrnambool, a Photographic View' with Neil who is a keen photographer. Since 2014 Lorraine has had a particularly interesting research project on the go and she is now going to tell us all about it.

Journey of a lost manuscript.

An amazing story of how an unusual document which turned out to be a deed for land back in 1582, was found in an old second hand book and how this led Lorraine across the world and back again in search of understanding what it was and meant and how it came to be in her possession.

Read the book. Available for $35 from Lorraine.

Amazing research and history.

President Michale thanked our guest speaker and many other guests for the night and finished the meeting with the following comment:

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, they make them."