Christmas is just weeks away…time to celebrate with friends and family, wrap presents, and enjoy the season!
Our Club started selling Christmas Trees last weekend and sold all of the 30 trees ordered by 1.00pm Sunday. A good result from our members – Rob, Di, Don, Liz, Erfan and Yvette – well as Cuppa Conversation volunteers/friends of AdLight - Sacha, Sebastian and Candace. Thanks especially to Erfan for staying back an extra 90 minutes with me to sell the last tree on Sunday and pack up the tent and clean up the pine needles. Rob’s ingenuity in ordering 20 Christmas tree stands was inspired, and we sold 11 over the weekend, so he has ordered more for the next few weeks. A very successful start to our Christmas Tree fundraising for our Club projects. Thanks to Di for organising the roster – a very intricate dance in finding the right people for the right shift – for both tree selling and BBQs!
Don’t forget to book your place and bring your partners along (click on link HERE) to our 9 December Christmas event at the South Terrace Croquet Club. The right to retain or win back the Rotary/Rotaract silver teapot is at stake in our Croquet Challenge. Come and enjoy the company of friends at our BBQ with sausages, hamburgers, kebabs, vegetarian patties (for vegans) and salads etc while celebrating the festive season. We need to know numbers for catering by Monday 4 December; for late acceptances please ring John W on 0488 000 050.
Our thought are with Alex Yepes who damaged his knee recently and is awaiting medical advice re surgery or not. We wish you a speedy recovery, Alex.
See you at Coffee Conversations at the White Picket Café this coming Thursday.
Complementing our recent Clare Riesling, we’re pleased to offer an excellent McLaren Vale Grenache that’s also half price at just $150.00 per case ($12.50/bottle).
Grenache is a McLaren Vale specialty, medium bodied and more complex than pinot noir - essentially an easy drinking summer substitute for shiraz, without its earthiness. This one from Hither & Yon is bright, juicy and lively with food - ideal in the warmer months ahead. You may detect wild strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, black cherry, stewed plums, some spicy cinnamon and black pepper. With time to breathe it comes across confidently on the first night and endures for the second.
Tasting notes attached and wine critic, Tony Love’s opinion follows:
Tony Love, In Daily February 2023:
"From the Leask brothers’ youngest Grenache vines at 13 years old, crafted into a youthful, fragrant, bistro style with 20% whole bunch influence in the winemaking that offers a subtle sappiness in the palate. While you are being seduced by its floral aromas and freshly squeezed plum and apple juiciness, you should pause for a mo, as it has plenty to offer in its textural game, lip-smacking and with an appealing spicy/peppery tannin profile in the palate and finish. Bistro, yes, and very food conscious as well – its own crew suggests pairing it with the vegetable and cheese pasty from the Willunga Bakery."
Give your fiends and family an excellent deal, while helping to fund our local and overseas Rotary service work. among other things, we’re building water supplies in Timor Lesté, rescuing Afghans fleeing the Taliban and making recent Oz migrants quickly feel welcome.
The wine is ready for collection, so please contact me or Rob by email or phone below to order it - each case of 12 is $150.
For the benefit of members, we will aim to give the Duty Roster a few weeks ahead - see below.
Responsibility
7 December - 9.30am
14 December - 7am - Sth.Tce Croquet Club
21 December - 9.30am
Chairperson
Coffee Conversation
Yvette reade
Coffee Conversation
Attendance
Di Lane
White Picket Café
White Picket Café
Furniture/Hosting
Bottles/ cans
Dean Sullivan
Fred Field
Rob McLennan
Bread run
Liz Tilley (10/12)
Liz Tilley (17/12)
TBA
Rotaract meeting
John Wotherspoon (11/12)
Nil
Nil
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 2nd and 4th Mondays at 6pm (for a 630pm start) at the Astor Hotel, 437 Pulteney 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.
“This firm requires no physical-fitness program. Everyone gets enough exercise jumping to conclusions, flying of the handle, running down the boss, flogging dead horses, knifing friend in the back, dodging responsibility, and pushing their luck.”
