Whatever your religious preference, an Australian Christmas/New Year is a great time to relax, restore and enjoy time with friends and family. I hope you find it remedial too.
It was a wonderful Christmas breakfast meeting on Thursday. Rob Brooke - an AdLight Rotarian of yore, helped Yvette with a special visit from Santa. The jolly bloke in red produced a gift for all from his capacious sack, with some pithy lines to match. We sang some Christmas songs and Stuart worked his usual Quiz time magic, generating a fun time for all. See photos below.
In the new year, there will be two Coffee Conversation options on January 5 and 12 at White Picket Café in Dulwich. Our first breakfast meeting is on Thursday January 19, followed by the first Board Meeting for 2023.
Don’t forget our Club’s wine sales and when the need arises, you can Order some here.
In case you’re wondering about Rotary’s Polio Eradicate project… By November 30, ‘22, wild polio cases were 30 (2 in Afghanistan, 20 - Pakistan, and 8 - Mozambique). (6 in 2021; 140 in 2020). Unfortunately, weak doses of oral polio vaccines can permit weakened virus to be excreted, so polio can easily spread in unsanitary situations. Apart from vaccine refusal, this vaccine-derived poliovirus is a main cause of re-emerging polio. New vaccines avoid this by inoculating with inactive polio virus.
But “don’t worry, be happy”!
Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and Prosperous 2023,
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.
For the benefit of members, we will aim to give the Duty Roster a few weeks ahead - see below.
Responsibility
5 January - 9.30am
12 January - 9.30am
19 January - 7.15am
The Terrace Hotel
Chairperson
Coffee Conversation
Coffee Conversation
Fred Field
Attendance
Paul Ensor
White Picket Café
White Picket Café
Furniture/Hosting
Barry Grear
Bottles/ cans
Fred Field
Rob McLennan
Di Lane
Bread run
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
Rob McLennan, Bruce McDonald, Paul Ensor, Don Tindale, Barry Grear, Paige Honor, Katey Halliday, Maria Garces, Alex Yepes, Kirsti Kankkunen, Alison Carter, Liz Tilley, Stef Hou,
Present
13
Attendance
Club Guests
Apologies
13
Rob Brooke
Leave of Absence
2
Club visits etc
Absent
4
Other activities
Leave of Absence
Cans & Bottles this week
John Campbell, Julie Campbell
Cans & Bottles YTD
$437.30
For apologies, please phone Rob McLennan 0430 930 067 or Club Secretary Di Lane 0418 806 140.
Club Bank Account details: BSB 085-458, Account Number 20-505-9719
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.
