There is no meeting this week. Our next meeting will be a breakfast meeting on Thursday 28 November at 7.15 am at the Stamford Plaza Hotel.
Unfortunately, our scheduled speaker for next week, John Bellman, has had to postpone his talk about SACA and cricket until next year due to work commitments associated with the upcoming Domain Second Test between Australia and Pakistan, which starts on Friday 29 November. We look forward to his talk next year when we can hear all about what goes on behind the scenes at Adelaide Oval. Instead of a guest speaker at next week’s meeting we will focus on Rotary projects and planning for 2020 ahead of our AGM on 12 December.
We are looking forward to the visit to the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit at the Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre on November 27th, 2.30pm-3.30pm, to have a look at the PABLO equipment our Club helped to provide for the Unit. Dr Miranda Jelbart has indicated that there will be an afternoon tea and the venue is the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit Dining Room. The address is:
Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre
207-235 Hampstead Rd
Lightsview SA 5085
Would you please let me know by Thursday 21 November, by email (kmball@jelkamain.com), phone or text (0402853929), if you will be attending so that we can advise numbers to Dr Jelbart to facilitate catering.
A reminder that there will be no evening meeting in December. Instead, we will be joining with the Adelaide Rotaract Club on Friday 6 December for a game of darts for our annual ‘teapot’ challenge event at the Arab Steed Hotel.
Upcoming meetings
Here are the dates for our meetings till the end of the year:
For the benefit of members, we will aim to give the Duty Roster a few weeks ahead - see below.
Responsibility
21 November 2019
28 November 2019 (7.15am) Stamford Plaza Hotel
6 December 2019 (6.30pm)
Chairperson
Coffee
John Campbell
Tea Pot Challenge
Attendance
Conversation
Katey Halliday
Arab Steed Hotel
Attendance
9.30am
Yvette Reade
Furniture/Hosting
Richard Jarrett
Bottles/ cans
Di Lane
Dean Sullivan
Fred Field
Rotaract roster
25/11 TBA
2/12 TBA
Bread Run
24/11 Dean Sullivan, Andy van der Merwe, Christine de Goede
1/12 TBA
8/12 TBA
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); register member payments/ apologies/ guests. Hosting: 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. 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. Rotaract: Meets alternate Mondays at 6pm (for a 630pm start) at the General HavelockHotel in Hutt Street. Bread Run: 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
United in the spirit of Service we value truth, fairness and friendship; and we welcome the opportunity that Rotary gives us to contribute our talents and resources in support of others.
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.
Several years ago, Andy was sentenced to prison. During his stay, he got along well with the guards and all his fellow inmates. The warden saw that deep down, Andy was a good person and made arrangements for Andy to learn a trade while doing his time.
After three years, Andy was recognized as one of the best carpenters in the local area. Often, he would be given a weekend pass to do odd jobs for the citizens of the community and he always reported back to prison before Sunday night was over.
The warden was thinking of remodelling his kitchen and in fact had done much of the work himself. But he lacked the skills to build a set of kitchen cupboards and a large counter top, which he had promised his wife. So he called Andy into his office and asked him to complete the job for him.
But, alas, Andy refused. He told the warden, "Gosh, I'd really like to help you but counter fitting is what got me into prison in the first place."
