Rotary meeting Tuesday Jan 14^th.

 

President David Brown

 

Welcome to all for 2020.

 

Special welcome to all our exchange students tonight who are here as a part of their Mini Safari.

 

Visiting Rotarians – Lou Officer and Tim Goodall – RC of Warrnambool Central.

 

Guests – Leanne Dart (Trevor Williams) and Di Goodall (partner to Tim).

 

 

Next weeks’ meeting is at the Dennington Bowls Club for Barefoot Bowls. If you haven’t already given your name to Anne or put it on the table sheet, please let her know if you are attending for catering purposes.

 

Dinner Auction meeting at 5pm prior to our Jan 28^th meeting. Dinner auction will be on May 30^th, 2020. Michael Boyd will not be available to do his usual collecting this year so please let Glenn know if you can manage a few extra.

 

Car Raffle – We will have the car at Gateway on from 8:30am on Friday 24^th Jan to 3:30pm Sat 25^th. Terry will contact people regarding rostering for these times. Let him know if you can help out.

                                   

Steve Giddens (and Ian) for being at the Red Hot Summer Tour in Mt Gambier.

Terry – at the Warrni on Sunday afternoon.

Trevor/Joey – Got up to go surfing at 5am. Surf was not good!!

Judy/Robbie – Fantastic carol singing at Xmas meeting.

Birthdays – Induction. Lots of birthdays and 28yrs for Anne Adams and 6 years for Steve Giddens.

Fines for all those that got out of duties last week due to the mix up with the meeting and having to cancel.

Glenn- couldn’t come cycling due to a date with his wife for their anniversary.

Random numbers – Janet, Chris, Delia, Ricky, David, Anne D.

 

Swindle - $95 up for grabs. Rachel pulled the 2 = $2.

Monique is back, arriving midnight last night. She will be at a meeting in the next few weeks to give her presentation on her exchange in France.

 

Remember to add Joey to any outings or events that you are involved with if you have space.

Joey has had a busy holiday so far and has been surfing (a lot), snorkelling at Stingray Bay. He spent New Years with Duncan in Melbourne and going to the orchestra. Did lots of sightseeing. Spent 10 days in QLD with George and his fiancé at Fraser Island and Noosa. He went kayaking and saw turtles and lots of fish and woke to a kangaroo face on just 1m from his tent. Went to Australia zoo and saw the croc show. Also saw dolphins. Did a Segway tour of Brisbane at 30 kph and did a 300m zipline in the Hinterland. He spent Christmas eve with the Fiedler family (Yann is a Rotary exchange student from Warrnambool going to Germany this year) and then spent Christmas Day with Trevor and Leanne and family.

 

Joey has joined with all the other district exchange students for the Mini Safari. So far they have been to Portland and done water skiing and have visited Port Fairy and Griffiths Island.

 

Steve did a panel with all the visiting exchange students, asking them many questions about their experiences so far on their exchange. They have all had some great new adventures and are looking forward to their main Safari through the Centre of Australia.