Attendance: Nooka gave us a count of 26 members and a fashion update on those members deemed to have worn the same thing to Rotary too many times in a row. Nooka noted that your humble correspondent has worn the same shirt to Rotary for years. It is like that old episode of Seinfeld when Jerry dates a woman that always wears the same dress. He is desperate to find out if she wears the same dress every day or has ten copies of the exact same dress. To cut a long story short, he never finds out which it is. So it is with the shirt or shirts I wear to Rotary. Some things in life are just a mystery.
Our guests were Chris and Maria.
Meal: The meal we dare not speak of lest the chef remembers he told us it can’t be done. Impossibly delicious.
David Jellie started us off with another excellent lawyer joke before introducing our President, Bono. Brendan informed us a debt of gratitude was owed to members who helped out on the Saturday and Sunday at the Jericho Cup. Our next big can sorting outing will be the Woodford Cup on December 31st.
In other reports;
- Surf has pencilled in our Trivia Night for the 20th of February at the Anglican Church in Henna Street. Should be about $5 each.
- Surf reminded members to suggest guest speakers to him for our upcoming program.
- Greg posed the question to members regarding whether we wanted to have another inbound exchange student in July 2026. If we do proceed we will need host families.
- Maria encouraged members to consider hosting, noting that older people without children at home make excellent hosts.
- Boré informed us that we intended to buy one shelter box but may have accidentally purchased two, which seems like one of those good mistakes.
- Matt is looking for about eight people to assist him on Friday the 19th of December to distribute goods from Sinclair Wilson.
- Tony D passed on Nooka’s advice to members to be on the look out over Christmas for opportunities to collect cans and bottles and social occasions. Members can take any recyclable containers to Tomra or drop them off at Serendipity Drive.
- Bill was welcomed back after some time away following the tragic passing of Elizabeth. It was great to see Bill again. Bill recounted a story of attending a church event in the presence of both Bishop Bird and Bishop Lowrey. Bill had offered the upcoming vacancy of the Catholic Bishop of Ballarat to Scott, but he politely declined. No doubt the catch 22 of Bishop Lowrey needing a divorce to become a Catholic Bishop but then being disqualified because of the divorce was a stumbling block.
- Robbo noted that Maria has been a terrific exchange student.
- Trevor enquired about opportunities for the club to support homeless people. Something for the board to consider maybe?
- Glenn advised of a board meeting next Wednesday.
Maria gave us an update on some sailing she did with Robbo and her efforts to get her bronze life saving award.
Boré conducted and excellent trivia quiz fines session based on our knowledge of Africa and its animals, which I must say, was pretty good. To Boré’s question about how you tell the difference between and leopard and a cheetah, Trev noted that ‘you don’t play cards with a cheetah’. To the question about how elephants communicate, almost everyone got ‘by placing a trunk call’. Meanwhile Boré informed us that an ostrich has two toes on each of two feet, which in metric is about 60cm I believe. Anyhow, a big thank you to Boré for his excellent presentation and fines session.
South African fire fighting infrastructure is world class.
The barrel was drawn and Dillo went home with the rich prize purse on offer.
