Good after afternoon to all
This past week has very quite on events/ projects and general items of business from a Rotary perspective with a number of items.
Donation of Children’s Toys
With the donation of a number of toys to our Club via Tess Coady, as reported in the news article contained in last weeks Club Bulletin “ Toys in Need of a New Home” I can report that the distribution of these toys has been successful. A big thanks goes to Ian & Meredith H’s daughter Jaime, who volunteers for community based organisation of “ Mums Supporting Families in Need, who offer support for Mothers and Children who have suffered trauma from domestic violence. I’m sure the toys will bring a little comfort and pleasure to these children who need help to bring a smile and give a little joy into their lives. Well done and a big thanks to Jaime.
Well Wishes
Over the past week I have received a few items from some of our past and current members have passed onto me for a” special note of well wishes”, firstly young Dennis C will get’s his final does of “ Nuclear Bombardment” and when I spoke to him this morning he is very positive for a “clean ticket” and has a number of well wishes and interesting comments made in relation to his hair loss, seems to be looking a bit Kojack/ Yul Brynner these days. To Geoff and Sandra C its all in the eyes, with a bit of a scrape and clean of the optics, take care and looks like the fashion accompaniment of Sunglasses might be on the agenda for a few weeks, and to Leigh P who is currently resting up in Belurea Private after what he describes as his “ongoing maintenance” for spending a few too many days out in the sun all those years ago, and finally one of our past Club Presidents in Jack Carter is under the weather with a few health issues. So all our Current and past Rotary colleagues, on behalf of the President, The Board and all our Members and their partners we wish you all the best and a speedy recovery.
General Club Business
Since my induction as your President many weeks ago its certainly been a first few months of what you might describe a “a very challenging task “. With only one face to face meeting thus far, to a large degree makes our normal Club Business matters having to be conducted in a ZOOM and/or e-mail format, not the best way to go. But it is what it is and we have to make the best of it and endeavour to ‘ carry on “. With such normal, customary and important matters as our Club Assembly, Financial Presentations and Individual Chair presentations have all had to be placed to some degree on the backburner.
I did have grand visions to present all these and more Club Matters via our ZOOM meetings but as the meetings formats over the past two months have taken us into another round of endeavouring to communicate via a “screen of faces“ I can see its not the ideal method. My recent communication with four of our planned Guest Speakers, have all strongly indicated that after spending all day "at their desk“on ZOOM as part of their daily business operations they are not in favour of this media outlet for a Community Presentation.
I would still like to try to have a few Guest Speaker’s if possible and to have the presentations condensed so as to ensure that all participants “ don’t get too distracted “. I’m keen to see how the Lucas Mill in Gippsland went?
In regards to Club Assembly I believe this aspect of our Club business practices should be face to face to allow for full and open interaction, discussion and deliberation. If you think that we need to conduct Club Assembly via ZOOM then please let me know which way you would prefer to go ?
The one thing we need to do is to continue to engage with one another and until we are out of this stay at home environment I think we need to continue with our ZOOM meetings and try to encourage those who have not tuned in to join in at least one meeting. The one thing that I have found very pleasing is the support and positive comments and thoughts I have received from many of our Members, this is very much appreciated and until we can get back together face to to face, have great day and keep smiling, stay safe, happy and healthy
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