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WELCOME
Ian Cairns welcomed all and invited Paul Forbes to bring the invocation and royal toast.
 
President John Hunt welcomed members and guests. Club guests included: Leon Cleal, inductee this evening; Ryan Keogh our 2015/16 exchange student and guest speaker this evening; Sharni Rogers-Brigden, our RYPEN student, and her dad, Matt; Joan Austin.
 
FRIENDS OF ROTARY
President John was very pleased to invite Joan Austin to the lectern to present her with a certificate as a Friend of Rotary. Joan's efforts in support of Rotary, particularly this past weekend with the FASHION PARADE, have been very greatly appreciated.
NOTICES
RYLA PRESENTATION DINNER
Ian, on behalf of Rachael, advised that the Presentation Dinner for RYLA will be held on 12th April at 6.30pm. Cost is $20 per head. Please let Rachael know as soon as possible if you plan to attend.
 
FATHER OF THE YEAR
A committee meeting is to be held at 8.30am tomorrow (Wednesday) morning for all members’ involved
 
FASHION PARADE
Anne Adams happily reported to all the fabulous success of the Fashion Parade. It was a lovely afternoon at Timor Street Bowls Club with fashions by DAISY BOUTIQUE and make-up by NUTRIMETICS. 140 guests enjoyed a social afternoon with champagne on arrival, great fashions, raffles and lucky door prizes. After expenses a total of $2526.60 was raised for Tasty Plate. A huge effort by all involved. A big thank you to Joan Austin for her idea and wonderful effort.
 
CONFERENCE
Steve announced that the weekend in Geelong was fantastic. Warrnambool clubs came away with some prizes from the weekend with Daybreak club winning BEST  DRESSED, and Jules' partner, Dion Symons winning the raffle major prize. Jules Threlfall-Ryan was presented with the raffle prize, on behalf of Dion, of a weekend in Hobart, including flights - A WONDERFUL PRIZE!
 
Conference next year is 6-8th April 2018 at Mt Gambier Civic Centre.
 
EXCHANGE STUDENTS
Lou Keogh reported to us that we have received 2 profiles for incoming exchange students in July this year from Austria & Germany and has put the shout out for any members interested to host or be a counselor for these students. It is planned that the students be, once again, shared with all the clubs. There is a female student who is a vegetarian, and a male student.
 
Lou also announced our RYPEN Student, Sharni Rogers-Brigden, who graduated with STANDING TALL, will be attending the weekend, along with Sophie, Tony & Joan Austin's granddaughter. We wish both girls a fabulous and enlightening weekend and look forward to hearing from them!
 
FREE VEHICLE CHECK
THIS THURSDAY FROM 6-8 PM at Bunnings. This has been widely advertised including with a great advertisement on TV. 
 
FINES
Ian brought a new twist to the fines session with a brief game of heads and tails. A toss of the coin found all those with hands on tails being the lucky winners and fined for their good fortune!!!!
GUEST SPEAKER - RYAN KEOGH
Lou Keogh, as chair, introduced her youngest son and 3rd child to experience Rotary Youth Exchange, Ryan Keogh. Lou mentioned what a privilege it has been to have 3 children experience a Rotary Exchange, an amazing opportunity with the chance to create new life long friendships, memories that truly last a lifetime and wonderful connections world wide.
 
Ryan has been home 4 months and feels he has grown a great deal through his exchange year. He said that he sent an email home to his mum and dad saying how grateful he was to have a loving family and how appreciative he was for that!
 
When he first arrived in Finland it was -30oC - freezing! He went to language school for a week which was terrific and very helpful. Even though he was in Finland his main language was Swedish!
 
He enjoyed his host families that took him skiing, a trip to Ruku which is near Russian border where he saw his 1st Reindeer and he particularly enjoyed living with Magnus and experiencing life through his eyes. He was "gold" and took Ryan to his mate's island where they could only travel there by boat and went canoeing in freezing water.
 
Five months in Ryan felt school became easier, more friendships, going to gym, as language barrier easier and it was "really cool!"
 
Ryan's EUROTRIP - wonderful places with 100 other exchange students and all together for 3 weeks - Amazing fun, great memories and loads of fun along the way. Places visited included Paris and Ryan's memory of 1st seeing the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre Dame, Venice, Monte Carlo, Germany with amazing museums, churches etc!
 
Lapland was a special place where Ryan actualy met Santa and had sleigh ride with beautiful huskies, and also skied.
 
Ryan loved when his parents came to visit in Helsinki. His dad, Shane, loved that he could enjoy a beer on the trains! All host families welcomed Lou and Shane with open arms.
 
His Rotary club in Finland was a similar size to ours but mostly males with only 3 female members. Ryan's female counselor played a huge role in his time away.
 
Ryan feels his exchange year has been an enormous growth, giving him confidence, more respect, appreciation and how awesome his life is in Australia at home with his family. He gave the big shout out with  enormous thanks to Terry O'Neill, his pre-exchange counselor and to the Rotary Club of Warrnambool (all clubs locally) for their amazing support and giving him THE YEAR OF HIS LIFE!!!!!!
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CONDOLENCES
The club extends condolences to Tony Austin and family on the passing of Tony's mother, Mary Rose (Queenie) who passed away on Wednesday, 22nd March.
 
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
 
Happy Birthday to Duncan Stalker who will celebrate his 80th birthday this Friday, 31st March.
Congratulations Duncan!
RESTORATION OF JOHN MURRAY GRAVESITE
Following on from Brian Trenery's announcement last week that the work to restore the gravesite of Former Premier John Murray, the Warrnambool Standard has honoured this good work with an article in the paper this week.
 
The article in full can be found at:
 
Complete: Rotary Club of Warrnambool's Anne Adams, Terry O'Neill and Brian Trenery with the restored memorial. Picture: Amy Paton

Complete: Rotary Club of Warrnambool's Anne Adams, Terry O'Neill and Brian Trenery with the restored memorial. Picture: Amy Paton (Warrnambool Standard)

 

PHOTOS FROM TONIGHT'S MEETING

Newly inducted member Leon Cleal responds after his induction by President John Hunt.

Past President Steve Giddens with Leon and Monique, and their son Zac.

Proud mum, Lou, introduces returning exchange student, Ryan Keogh.

Sharni Rogers-Brigden, our RYPEN student  with her dad, Matt.

ROTARY CHANGEOVER INVITATIONS
Rotary Club of Geelong Central
An invitation has been extended from President Alex Gunning and President-elect Tony Still to attend their change-over night on Monday 10th April, 6pm for 6:30pm, at "Denny's Kitchen" 26 Moorabool Street, Geelong. Cost is $50.
Special guest for the evening is Sri Lankan Consular General - Consul Nilusha.
Bookings to be made at https://www.trybooking.com/OVCL.  RSVP: Monday 3rd April 2017 to Jane Cox -  0418 345331 or email: jncox4@bigpond.com
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