Sergeant Neil Baldwin opened the meeting with information on happenings on this day over the years.
He then went on to congratulate “birthday boy of this day” Bob Jordan.
Bob featured again with the announcement of his recent 56th wedding anniversary to Denise.
Neil also made sure that everyone was also aware of the 57th anniversary of Jim & Pam over the past weekend.
President Andrew welcomed everyone present in the usual manner and advised us of some upcoming plans to help in the gardens at Lady Small Haven.
Earlier Jim had passed on another $50 plus coin collection from the good customers of the Gumnut Café at Mudgeeraba to treasurer Neil J. Amounts collected from this one source are now well in excess of $200 in recent years – another great idea from Pres. Andrew.
We soon moved into dinner time where we were served a delicious 3 course meal by our popular new chef Couma - well assisted by his lovely lady.
After that Sergeant Neil B. conducted a brief session with some simplified collection of spare cash followed on with the winner of the raffle being Nasser and heads and tails winner - Barbara Burnheim.
Pres. Andrew then advised us of the members of his management team for our next year of Rotary – plenty of experience included, paving the way for another good period for The Rotary Club of Broadbeach.
Sarah’s Activities Segment
President Andrew briefed us on the rules to apply for the construction of the highest tower possible using the supplied materials of spaghetti sticks, sticky tape and marshmallows.
The eventual winner was adjudged as the group of Kevin, Pauline, Nasser & Jim. Kevin embarked on the role of chief designer, engineer & construction manager with great enthusiasm that quickly spread to his assistants on that team.
The meeting eventually wound up approximately on time and it was clear that this was a great night, much enjoyed by all in attendance.