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PRESIDENT REPORT
Hello all,
 
Who knows the Rotary theme for February?
 
Its Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention month which is very appropriate with the way the world is heading – we may have demonstrations and weird views in our great country but it is still the best place in the world to live!
 
The District Conference is only a few weeks away being 15th to 17th March and will be held in Mount Gambier. Some of our new Rotarians might like to attend – if you do come and gave a chat with me.
 
This coming Wednesday 7th February we are going to hold a Club Forum with the sole focus being producing potential Corporate Members. The idea of Corporate Membership is for a company to become a member of our club and nominate one of their employees to attend our weekly lunch meetings.
 
Let us get the ball rolling with at least one member by the end of my Rotary Year as President.
 
Lastly, whilst Matt Northeast has put his hand up to lead our club for the 2024/2025 Rotary Year we are still looking for a possible replacement for him, I think its rather ironic that our immediate past President James, his predecessor Tony Davies, myself for this year and Matt for next year are all still working full time, whilst it is a privilege to lead the club it does come with a price and perhaps a recently retired member could take the reins?
 
Just a thought…
 
See you at the meeting, President Rob
 
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Minutes.

Attendance: So many quotes from Nooka this week; 

  • ‘I have no idea today.’
  • ‘Box head has come in with 19.’
  • ‘Blokes are arriving without booking in.’
  • ‘For f*#% sake, book in.’
  • ‘Numbers needed by 1.00pm.’
  • ‘A bit confusing.’
  • ’23 or 24 give or take.’

Our president counted 29.

Meal: the ever-popular fish and chips.

Sarg Dillo introduced President Rob and the lights went green.  In reports;

·       Rob reminded members that we have a club forum on corporate membership.  Please come armed with your ideas.

·       Tony D. gave an update on the pharmaceutical blister pack project.

·       Paul reminded members that membership fees are now due.

·       Les is organising for us to join the Beach Patrol on a beach clean up project.  Stay tuned.

·       Brendan advised that we will support the hospital auxillary with a barbecue on Sunday the 3rd of March.

·       Matt thanked those who came to the hole in one and particularly thanked Jon and Brendan for running the barbecue.  $80 was raised in addition to the fees paid to Warrnambool East.  Rowan is in the process of mounting the perpetual golf trophy.

·       Rob read out a letter of thanks from a student at the Koroit Primary School for providing an end of year prize that they had received.  Members felt moved and proud until someone pointed out that we didn’t supply any awards to Koroit.  It turns out the letter was addressed to the Rotary Club of Warrnambool.

The meeting concluded with fines from the floor.  Gracey was fined about seven times, which seems about right.  The checkered flag dropped and everyone left a winner.

 

Pharmaceutical Blister Pack Recycling.
The four Rotary clubs of Warrnambool have begun a medical blister-pack recycling trial program across Warrnambool.  The trial project has received support and funding from Warrnambool City Council through their Community Development Fund, meaning that pharmacies and businesses participating in the project will not incur any cost during the trial period.
 
Currently, most medical blister-packs in our region go into landfill.  This project aims to divert this waste from landfill by collecting the blister-packs and forwarding them to Pharmacycle, a company in NSW which sorts and recycles the material.
 
The collection process is very easy.  Community members can recycle their pharmaceutical blister packs by dropping them into collection boxes in the following locations;
  • Anchor Point Retirement Village, 55 Aberline Road.
  • Archie Graham Community Centre, 118 Timor Street.
  • Direct Chemist Outlet Target, Shop T11, 154 Koroit Street.
  • Infinity Pharmacy Warrnambool, 143-149 Lava Street.
  • Soulsby and Struth Pharmacy, 103 Liebig Street.
Naughty Santa.
 
Your correspondent noticed this store in Bridge Mall in Ballarat on the weekend.

Rotary Horse Racing Report.

Overflow Miss had a run at Caulfield on the weekend.  It was a step up in class and she drew wide barrier.  The punters and celebrity tipsters didn't want to have a bar of her and she started at very long odds.

Joe Bowditch put the pom pom back on and tried to repeat the heroics of Overflow's last run.  Joe couldn't repeat the effort and Overflow finished eighth in a field of ten.  To be fair though, for a horse given no chance prior to the race, she finished right amongst the rest of the field.  Encouragingly, Overflow Miss ran the fastest final 200m of the race.

Wilde Racing have advised us that Overflow Miss will now be put on the Spirit of Tasmania to head down to the Apple Isle to compete in the Strutt Stakes.  Apparently, the Strutt Stakes is a $125,000 listed race that has attracted few nominations because it is in Tasmania.  Sounds perfect.  Hopefully Overflow Miss doesn’t spend all night drinking in the passenger lounge and does manage to get back to her cabin to get some sleep prior to the big race.
 
More exciting updates and they come to hand.

Ten Years Ago.

Ten years ago, the boys were putting in the big ones training for the whale boat world championship.    

Our Club Fundraiser 2023 - every hand on deck!
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