Rotary Report Tuesday Feb 5^th, 2019

 

Welcome – Sergeant Ian welcomed everyone (and apologised for a late start to the meeting).

 

President Michael welcomed everyone and our only guest tonight was our Exchange student Janick.

 

This week we have our Service Committee meetings, so please make sure you are sitting with others on your committee. These meetings are important opportunities for you to have input into decisions in your group on behalf of the Club and to understand what is coming up and how you can get involved.

 

Last week’s meeting was clearly the John Beks show, thank you John for organising a great night for us and preparing such an interesting story about your life and the immigration of your family to Australia.

 

As I mentioned before Christmas, the Warrnambool City Council has agreed to provide the materials for a post and rail fence at Ted King Park. I am pleased to say that Dallas Armistead has agreed to be our foreman for the job and we will involve club members, friends, Clontarf Academy students, ski and rowing club members and local residents in constructing the fence probably during March and April. Information on each table.

 

Still a need for help with the Homeless project (Daybreak) for two more weeks. Talk to Trevor if you can help between 3pm and 6pm Sundays.

 

Rotaract re-establishment meeting was held at the Seanchi – we had three new potential members attending and will have another meeting on 28^th February. We are aiming for 15 – 20 members.

 

A reminder for all who present a report to our meeting, please give your notes to our meeting reporter. This will ensure the detail you want to convey is accurately reported in the Bulletin.

 

Our Club has received and invitation from Lu Butler, Manager of Warrnambool and District Hospice to attend a meeting designed to plan for Warrnambool to become a more integrated compassionate community to increase the well-being of people at the end of life. Meeting was held at City Memorial on Feb 6^th 11am – 1pm.

 

 

Terry – Car Raffle – We sold 2891 out of our 3000 tickets. This was a total of $5810.40 (which included $28.40 donations). We paid 25% to Ballarat Rotary Club so we cleared $4654. This was a fantastic effort and many thanks to all those who helped out with the sales of the tickets.

 

Trevor – Relay-4-Life – Is this weekend. We are not running a BBQ this year however the Club will make a donation. We will have a social gathering Friday night from 6 – 9pm. The opening ceremony is at 6.30pm. BYO Alcohol and food. We will have a marquee and please wear your Rotary attire – Shirt, hat, jacket etc. Many thanks to all those who have volunteered for the set up and pack up of marquees or volunteered to man the gate and direct traffic.

 

Glen – Dinner Auction – Thank you to the many people that attended the 5pm meeting. At next week’s meeting we will provide a list of donors for Club members to check. If there are any new businesses or donors, we need to know about please bring along the details. We plan to have the list finalised by Feb 22^nd. Members will receive their packs on March 26^th.

 

Delia – Blue Lotus Garden outing – Struggling to find a suitable weekend. Can all those wishing to attend please fill in the sheet going around to indicate the weekends you are available. Delia will collate and give feedback at next week’s meeting.

 

Fines – A big thank you to our fines master this week – Ian Cairns. Ian announced, to make it clear to all members, that you may get fined for more than one thing, but you only need to make one financial contribution to the fines for that week.

 

Robbie’s Swindle – Janick won $9

 

Next week – Guest is Colleen Bolte (Amnesty International) speaking about International Conflict Resolution.

 

Michael’s thought for the week – One of the hardest lessons in life is figuring out which bridges to cross and which to burn.