President James opened the meeting on the dot of 12.30 pm with Rotary Grace and a toast to the Queen and the People of Australia. He then welcomed visitors Michael and Leonie Kiley from the Rotary Club of Kirriemuir, Scotland who were guests of David Benn; Shane Carrol guest of Mark Hillis and he welcomed back Michael Georgiou and Tim Barter.
James then invited David Benn to introduce his guests to the club.
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| Michael and Leonie Kiley from Kirriemuir Rotary Club with L to R John Gray, David Benn, Greg Conkey, Peter Crozier and John Flynn who are all members of he International Federation of Cricketing Rotarians. |
Michael Kiley thanked the club for the opportunity to speak. He told us that Kirriemuir is on the east coast of Scotland between Aberdeen and Dundee. It is, he said, the birthplace of Peter Pan and Bon Scott. Their club has thirty eight members including seven women. Leonie is one of the newer members. Kirriemuir Rotary Club is involved with an international project in Nepal helping with setting up a school and teachers. They are visiting Australia for a month ending with the Rotary Cricket festival in Melbourne.
Leonie said they love Australia but for their next visit to Wagga they won't choose this time of year.
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| Leonie and Michael presented President James with this rather interesting banner from their Rotary Club. |
Food and Wine Festival
David Pyke spoke to the Club to inform them that, following an emergency meeting last Tuesday, he had agreed to take on the Chairmanship of the Festival and will be relying on members to produce the Festival again this year. A new position of Operations Manager was filled by Peter MacKinnon. Both positions will have assistants and they will come form the Committee and will be announced in the next couple of weeks. David was very pleased with the rollup of twenty three members to the meeting which he said showed the enthusiasm of the Club to make the Festival a success again this year.
David made special mention of Laurie Blowes who deserves a very big thank you from the Club for the outstanding work
he has done for the festival in t
he past. Laurie has provided David with all the information he has to help get this year's festival off the ground.
he past. Laurie has provided David with all the information he has to help get this year's festival off the ground.David Byfield will again be organising the rosters for the Festival and these will be available next week. With only nine weeks to go it is a case of all hands on deck and Members Partners would be most welcome if they could assist with the running of the festival. David will be preparing spread sheets for various tasks and will call upon those who have volunteered, both from within the committee and the Club generally.
Peace Ceremony
Rick Priest, Chair of the Peace Ceremony Committee, informed members that the Peace Ceremony this year has been moved to 7 p.m. on Sunday 24th February at the Victory Memorial Gardens. Our Club is responsible for this year's set up and Rick will be looking for volunteers to assist. There will be a meeting at the Commercial Club next Tuesday at 5 p.m. to discuss arrangements. Members are asked to come up with nominations for a peace award from our club. Testimonials should be limited to no more than two pages, preferably one.
Sergeant
Today's sergeant John Flynn chose Gerry Gerlach to carry the fine box. There were groans from the members when Flynny revealed that he had found his Jewish joke book that Annette had carefully hidden. Thankfully he did not produce it but told a joke that again brought forth groans: A Bear walks into a bar and orders a whisky and ------------ coke. Bartender "why the pause? Bear "I was born with them"
Fines were imposed on Gerry Gerlach, Neil Pinto and David Foster.
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| Virat Kholi aka Neil Pinto cross fined Peter Crozier who had given him a hard time when Australia won its only test against India. Neil presented Peter with no 40 grit sandpaper. It appears the said paper is about to disappear down Peter's trousers! |
Paul Milde organised a 'Know your Member" quiz. It was won in a tie breaker by a table of four consisting of Pat Ingram, Doug Conkey, Gerry Gerlach and ?
Makeups
Tim Hutchings, Stuart Heriot
Apologies
John Hawkins, Jeremy Reithmuller, Craig Bromley, Ken Cook, Peter Crozier, Stuart Heriot, David Hodge, Tim Hutchings, Nick Leywood, Peter MacKinnon, John Mason, Paul Murray, Graeme Obst, Robert Pearson, David Post, Steve McCoy, John Ireland.
Visitors
Mike Kiley, Leonie Kiley, Shane Carrol
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The Navigate Nine Rotary Food and Wine Team L - R David Byfield, Bob Connolly (former Member of Wollundry), Peter Crozier, Gerry Gerlach, David Benn, Doug Sutton and Pat Ingram, David Pyke (absent). A lady member of the golf club wanted to know if we were raising funds for the McGrath Foundation! |
The Lucky member's draw was won by Peter Crozier on the fourth draw.