Minutes.

Attendance: Nooka tabulated that 27 members, no visiting Rotarians and no guests were in attendance.  Then the doors parted and Father Scott walked in.  Nooka threatened with violence anyone who told a joke about Melbourne supporters.  You certainly don’t want to get into a fight with a Melbourne supporter; if you are not careful, he will take off his sports jacket and throw an après-ski hors d’œuvre at you.

Meal: This week’s food review is presented by Pip Ritchie.

‘Lord bless this food, then bless it some more.  Lord, I know it needs it because I have eaten here before.’

Blessed chunks in gravy, mixed veg and cheesy bread.

 

Penno introduced our rested and relaxed President, who promptly ascertained that we had no guests or visiting Rotarians present.  Ronnie noted that;

·       Garry had become a grandfather for the first time.  Congratulations Garry.

·       Members can buy a Myeloma hat.

·       District 9780 has approved our R100 Lake Pertobe grant application.

·       The change-over is approaching. 

·       There will be a Group Five meeting in Port Fairy next week.

·       The board will probably meet next week, but who knows.

Penno intervened with a grandfather joke before asking for reports. 

·       Garry spoke to members about the proposed fundraising ideas, including a crayfish raffle, a golf day, a club raffle, a wine and food festival, horse shoe throwing at the race track and a penguin race in the Merri.

·       Garry reminded members we are still looking for applicants to this year’s RYLA.  Speak to Garry if you have someone in mind.

·       Garry advised that Glendon is leading the footy tipping by two, followed by Shane in second place.  The Pope has come back to the field after tipping just one winner recently.

·       Garry has spoken to Francis about the proposed mentoring/L2P program and is now looking for 7-8 volunteers for this program.

Keen to give the impression that there is someone in the club other than Garry doing any work, our President then asked Penno to give us a report on the donation of books and toys to the Philippines.  Penno informed us that after transport delays and delays due to the pandemic lockdown the items have now arrived and are very much appreciated by the students.  Congratulations to Penno on this great program.

We enjoyed fines from the floor before Penno invited our President to close the meeting.  It turns out Gerard was not rested and relaxed at all, but actually feeling under the weather from his Corona virus vaccine.  It’s still better than getting coronavirus. 

Ronnie thanked members for attending, especially Father Scott, who appeared as though he had crossed the Red Sea in order to attend the meeting.  Members then wandered out into a perfect, sunny Autumn day and left just as soon as our Charter President did.

 

Boré’s view.

As already noted, Father Scott made quite an entrance to our meeting last week.  Firstly, the timing was perfect, just as Nooka finished his attendance report.  Secondly, the hair!  We are not sure what has inspired Scott’s current hairdo.  I thought it looked a bit Daniel Day Lewis/The Last of the Mohicans.  Boré is not so sure, and is looking further afield for the source of Scott’s inspiration.  Boré has sought Clive’s professional opinion and believes he has some likely candidates.  Regardless of who Scott is trying to emulate, I think there is one word that describes most members’ response to Scott’s current hairstyle; jealousy. 

Boré sends us this report from the cutting edge of men’s hairstyling. 

We thank Boré for his cartoon this week.

Pip goes hunting.

Ten years ago.

Ten years ago, we published this attendance report. 

Attendance:

Nooka sat on the door, carefully filled in the paperwork, and then reported he didn’t have a clue how many members attended our meeting.  Your correspondent also forgot to count.  There were quite a few present though.  Guests included past members Jeff Adams and Arnie Reeves, PDG Andrew Suggett, Mick Boswell and Oskar Stig.  Oskar was fresh from completing a 1hour 35 minute half marathon and looked none the worse for wear.  As if Nooka’s accounting wasn’t bad enough, Clive was away so we have no idea who may have apologised or who didn’t.  We are reasonably sure neither Clive nor our President turned up.  Nooka reported he was sure Mark McFadden was absent, and then Mark reported he was sitting across the room.  No doubt we are once again in the running for the District Efficiency in Administration Award.  Bob McMillan finally broke through to win the barrel draw and took home this week’s prize of a beautiful 1.25 litre bottle of Coles brand mineral water.

Rotary Horse Racing Update.

The nervous emotions built all last week in anticipation of Warrnambool Central export Vassa Blue’s run in the Warwick Screen Printing and Embroidery handicap on Thursday.  Unfortunately, something went awry.  Perhaps someone put some oats in Vassa’s feed trough and he did a hammy on the way to breakfast.  Maybe he pulled his groin on the way to the race.  We don’t know what happened, but the mighty gelding was scratched.  The one thing we do know for sure is that nobody wants to see Vassa run in circumstances where he may be uncompetitive.  Get well soon Vassa.

More exciting Vassa updates as they come to hand.

Vassa Blue may have pulled a groin on the way to the races.