The meeting last week was moved to Rydges South Park Hotel on the corner of West Terrace and South Terrace, to enable members to avoid the traffic issues caused by the Clipsal 500 road closures.
About 17 members attended and enjoyed a good breakfast and good fellowship. The meeting generally followed normal meeting protocols but as there was no guest speaker, it allowed for more fellowship than our usual meetings.
This next week’s meeting will be back at the Royal Coach Motor Inn on Dequetteville Terrace and the usual time of 07:15.
President’s thought for the week; “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas A. Edison
Our Club has been doing the ‘Bread Run’ every Sunday for nearly 20 years. It was begun by the late Bob Angove.
Each Sunday, we collect the surplus bread from Baker’s Delight in North Adelaide and deliver it to various places – David Rowe delivers most of the sweet things to Ronald McDonald House in North Adelaide, while others take the bulk of the bread to the Moore Street Centre in the city.
We generally have 3 Rotarians, the occasional partner, and one of the Adelaide City Rotaractors in attendance each Sunday.
A few weeks ago, we added another string to our bow – we now deliver a couple of bags of bread to Catherine House each week.
We thank Baker’s Delight for making the leftover bread available and we are pleased to be able to deliver it to these worthy causes.
The Rotary International Convention will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on 10-14 June 2017. It will be a celebration of The Rotary Foundation's 100th Anniversary.
Register before 15 December for extra savings.
2. District Conference - 2017
Registrations for the District Conference can be made on the Conference Website:-
The District AGM will be held at the District Conference in Geelong next March.
3. Long Table Lunch
The International Committee of the Gawler Rotary Club are organising a "Long Table Lunch" to be held on Saturday 11 March 2017.
All monies raised will be going to our Rotary partners, Interplast Australia & New Zealand, to assist with the cost for procuring some much needed medical equipment and/or training of local nursing staff in the Asia Pacific region, depending on how much money we raise.
Tickets are limited and are available for $80.00 which includes a glass of wine on arrival, 3 course long lunch and entry into our lucky ticket draw.
4. The Voice of Rotary
Broadcast on 1197AM 5RPH Adelaide each Tuesday 7.30-8.00 pm. From each Wednesday the broadcast program can be heard on-line at www.rphadelaide.org.au/Webcast.html
For the benefit of members, we will aim to give the Duty Roster a few weeks ahead - see below.
Responsibility
9 March 2017
16 March 2017
23 March 2017
Chairperson
Di Casey
Carolyn Wigg
David Riggall
Attendance
Di Lane
Katrina ball
Fred Field
Attendance
Barry Grear
Richard Jarrett
John Wotherspoon
Hosting
David Rowe
John Karran
Julie Campbell
Furniture
Terry Rodoni
Andrew Black
Di Lane
Furniture
Phil Harding
Angus Tuck
Yvette Reade
Invocation
Carolyn Wigg
David Riggall
Di Lane
Bottles/cans
Andrew Black
Dean Sullivan
Fred Field
Rotaract roster
TBA
TBA
TBA
Bread roster
TBA
TBA
TBA
Member's Corner
Chairman: Meet/greet speaker for the meeting; introduce and thank speaker. Preparation:- find details about the speaker prior to the meeting. Attendance: Set up reception table (attendance sheet; members list – re -payments; guest welcome sheet; money; wine raffle sheet); register member payments/ apologies/ guests. Hosting: Set up name badges display; welcome all at the door; ensure speaker and guests are introduced to appropriatepersons. Furniture: Flags; banner display; raffle balls; collection boxes; Rotary theme banner; gong and hammer; lectern position before and returned after the meeting. Computerset up – Connect to projector. Switch on. Hold function key & press F5 twice. Invocation: Recite Rotary or other invocation relating to Rotary and fellowship. Bottles/cans: Collect bags of bottles/cans at meeting and take to recycle centre for refund, pass refund and empty bags to David Rowe at next meeting. Members’ Corner: write for the Newsletter on a topic of your choice, particularly during the 3 weeks you appear here on the roster, but also anytime you have something to say. Rotaract, Bread roster: Roster is for the Sunday/Monday after the meeting date. Rotaract: Meets alternate Mondays at 6pm (for a 630pm start) at the General HavelockHotel in Hutt Street. Bread: Sundays, meet outside Romeo's, North Adelaide at 4:55pm
Members rostered for Thursday morning duty are asked to be in attendance by 6.45am
For good food, for good fellowship and the opportunity to serve through Rotary, we give thanks
Rotary Club of Adelaide Light Mission Statement
To be recognised as the Service Club of Choice in the Eastern Precinct of Adelaide because we are a Friendly Breakfast Club that appeals to a broad range of busy people who want to make a difference to local and international communities.
A teenage boy had just passed his driving test and inquired of his father as to when they could discuss his use of the car.
His father said he’d make a deal with his son, “You bring your grades up from a C to a B average, study your Bible a little, and get your hair cut. Then we’ll talk about the car.”
The boy thought about that for a moment, decided he’d settle for the offer, and they agreed on it.
After about six weeks his father said, “Son, you’ve brought your grades up and I’ve observed that you have been studying your Bible, but I’m disappointed you haven’t had your hair cut.”
The boy said, “You know, Dad, I’ve been thinking about that and I’ve noticed in my studies of the Bible that Samson had long hair, John the Baptist had long hair. Moses had long hair, and there’s even strong evidence that Jesus had long hair…”
You’re going to love the Dad’s reply…
“Did you also notice they all walked everywhere they went?”
