August 21st Tuesday Meeting

Posted by Paul Murray

Projects Committee

David Byfield came to the podium and announced the following Projects Committee donations:

Riverina Pregnancy and Baby Loss $500
Riverina Summer School of Strings $500
Anglicare Winter Appeal $3,000 (required club approval) Moved by Michael Knight and Seconded David Benn and passed.

Two defibrillators have been purchased for the Uniting Church and will be based at South City and Wesley Church.

A Drought Project

Geoff Breust came to the podium and discussed how he went to Forbes and caught up with a few local Rotarians and the drought was discussed. The discussion came up with the idea of Farm Sitting … to give farmers a respite. The idea would be Rotarians physically farm sitting to look after the farm to let farmers have a break. Also, a rural counsellor would be involved to help identify families that would benefit from this service. Geoff said he came back with the idea of some funds and volunteers who would be interested. It would happen in November and December and Geoff would send an email to members to assess viability of such a scheme.

Rotary Information

Rick Priest said he had no Rotary information but he did update members on a petrol app he mentioned last week. He asked Paul Murray to give his opinion on the app and Paul said the reviews had been rather unsupportive giving it a 2 out of five and he had problems with it due to the fact that his regular CalTex station would not accept the app. As a result he couldn't accurately test it. It might be a while until local CalTex petrol stations accept the app.

On a personal note, Rick has inlaws visiting from Russian and is in need of a Russian interpreter and Michael Knight volunteered the information. Rick said that as Rotary Information Rotary members were a valuable source of community knowledge. Rick is looking for a replacement for OIC for the next market.

Cars and Motorcycles for Gears and Beers

Neil Pinto discussed Gears and Beer’s Roster. If you are volunteering for cars or motor cycles, please Contact Neil directly.

Irene's Hosting Roster

For the Roster for hosting Irene Chung, you do not have her for a week. He said you need to coordinate with the host family. Irene came to the podium to say “Hello.” “Nice to see you.” Irene said that Maths were her favourite subject in school and she went to the footy with Pucks.

Sergeant Session

Paul Milde stepped in and acted as sergeant for the session since none of the registered sergeants were in attendance. He conducted a heads and tails which Bob Willis won.

Drought Appeal

David Benn announced the Wollundry representatives (Stuart Heriot, Geoff Breust, Tim Hutchings, John Ireland, and David Post). David thought Geoff’s idea was a good way to help the farmers experiencing the drought.All clubs are autonomous and come up with their own ideas to help deal with the drought. If clubs do not have an idea, of course, there is RAWCS and the Channel 9 appeal.