At Last Thursday’s AGM, the following Board changes were agreed:
President Elect for 23/4 - Yvette (from 29 June ’23 Changeover)
Director Community Service 23/4 - Paige (from 29 June ’23 Changeover)
Director, International - Paul Jupp (already in place)
Director, Club Admin - Richard (from 1 Jan ’23)
Director, Youth/Vocational - Alison (from 1 Jan ’23)
Director, Rotary Foundation - Fred (already in place)
Di, Bruce and Rob continue in respective Secretary, Treasurer and Fundraising roles.
Yvette, Katey, Kirsti, Alison and AdLight ’Friend’, Vanessa enjoyed a ‘Cuppa Conversation’ with four new Aussies last Saturday at Ginger’s Vintage Café. See photo below. Alison takes over as Director, Youth and Vocational in January and seeks four to help focus on the way forward for our Club’s Youth effort. Please contact her about this ASAP to do constructive things helping young people.
Erfan received a standing ovation at Adelaide Rotary Club’s lunch last week, explaining his experience in reluctantly leaving his home country - photos below. Katey’s enthusiastic team has been diligently helping his family with English and many other settling-in supports. Erfan’s Dad will soon have corrective leg surgery related to Taliban beatings from the late 90s and they are cautiously optimistic about visa progress for part of their family still remaining in Afghanistan.
Our Club’s latest wine deal is selling well (62% is sold), so please help us sell the rest. The Chalk Hill McLaren Value Shiraz is great value at $150 a case ($12.50 a bottle vs $22 each @ Irish Dan’s). Order some here!
Make sure you book for our annual ‘Auld Teapot’ Sporting Challenge vs Adelaide City Rotaract from 5:30pm Friday December 9. It’s a lovely setting at South Tce Croquet Club on Beaumont Road, Adelaide. These events are always great fun, so Book your tickets here.
Also, help Adelaide City Rotaract celebrate its 10th Birthday on Wednesday 14 December at 88 Gilbert Street Hotel. Tickets are $25 each (buy them here), including dinner platters then buy drinks from the bar.
This Thursday 1st, there’s Coffee Conversation at Dulwich’s White Picket café. Then we start selling Christmas trees this weekend 🎄.
Best wishes, John
Erfan sharing his Afghan experience with RC Adelaide
Erfan’s delivery gets better every time
'Gingering up' at Cuppa Conversation
President John with the ShelterBox Bronze award for our donation to them
We are sponsoring a student, Sophia Lewis, for NYSF in January 2023. Sophia is just completing Year 11 at Botanic High and is jointly sponsored by our club and the Rotary Club of Unley.
NYSF stands for the National Youth Science Forum and its traditional format for the last 30 years or so has been a two-week residential program, initially in Canberra but more recently extended to include Brisbane and Perth, where attendees attend lectures, laboratories, and all sorts of site visits related to science and technology. There are also sessions where they learn about making presentations, preparing CVs, undertaking interviews etc.
With the advent of Covid, all this changed. The program is now run separately in each capital city over two weeks in January. Around 600-700 students attend, with about 40 of those in Adelaide. Students sign up for online "zoom" sessions where they can listen to talks and have discussions, but this is supplemented by local activities - visits, social events, etc.One of the great rewards of the program is the connections students make with other like-minded students interested in STEM subjects.
On Sunday, I attended a briefing/introduction for all the students who are attending NYSF next year, together with their families and mentors, at Charles Campbell College. It was an opportunity for the students to start getting to know each other, and each student had to introduce themselves, saying where they were from, who was sponsoring them and what they were thinking about doing post-school. The program was run by NYSF "staffers" - former NYSF attendees who come back in subsequent years to help run the program. Next year, after the program, we will get Sophia to come along to a meeting to tell us about her experience.
After the amazing success of our Rotary Clubs Riesling offered earlier this year, we have secured a local red wine for you to consider, enabling you to stock up for Christmas.
McLaren Vale is renowned for its excellent shiraz and this Chalk Hill Shiraz represents wonderful value, normally $22 per bottle, our club's fundraising offer is just $150.00 for a dozen. ($12.50 a bottle)
This delicious, easily drinkable wine is clean and smooth without unpleasant tannin aftertaste, so it's rapidly becoming a favoured wine.
A copy of the label is attached.
Our Rotary service work, both local and international relies on fundraising revenue, so here's are way to help others while giving your friends and family a very good deal.
Please contact John Wotherspoon - 0488 000 050, Bruce McDonald -0403 224 738 or myself - 0430 930 067 to secure your dozen (or more).
The wine is in stock in Adelaide and ready for collection.
In December 2012, the Adelaide City Rotaract Club was chartered. Now ten years later it's time to party!
On the 14th of December, we have a fantastic celebration at the Gilbert Street Hotel planned and we would love to see as many current and former members, as well as our wonderful friends of the club, come as possible!
Tickets are only $25 and can be purchased using the link below.
Event details:
Location: The Gilbert Street Hotel, 88 Gilbert St, Adelaide Date: Wednesday 14th December, 7pm Ticket Cost: $25 RSVP: Click HERE Food: Dinner platters provided. Dietary requirements will be considered. Drinks: Cash bar Dress Code: Cocktail Dress
For the benefit of members, we will aim to give the Duty Roster a few weeks ahead - see below.
Responsibility
1 December - 9.30am
8 December - 7.15am
The Terrace Hotel
15 December - 9.30am
Chairperson
Coffee Conversation
Dean Sullivan
Coffee Conversation
Attendance
Barry Grear
White Picket Cafe
White Picket Cafe
Furniture/Hosting
Brian Harvey
Bottles/ cans
Fred Field
Rob McLennan
Di Lane
Bread run
John Wotherspoon (4/12)
Liz Tilley (11/12)
Liz Tilley (18/12)
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; 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 to Bruce McDonald and empty bags to the next duty member, at the next meeting. Rotaract: Meets alternate Mondays at 6pm (for a 630pm start) at the Cumberland Arms Hotel, 205 Waymouth St. Adelaide. 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 have fun and engage interest from new members and friends as we use our strengths for a better world here and abroad - a welcoming, flexible group having fun doing hands-on activities for positive impact.
