It was a mixed bag of a meeting today with a bit of everything. Rick priest informed us Laurie Blowse was very frail after major orthopaedic surgery, and his wife not a lot better. THe board agreed to arrange some Xmas largess to $300 for him and agreed by the meeting. We then had an impromptu talk by Rick about Australia's borders and their origins; not expected but interesting. Greg Conkey gave a brief talk about rotary and its history of donations; over eighty million dollars since it's inception, Our club is a major maker of money for charities and we can be proud of that, especially with the amount of work involved by club members over many years. The meeting also ratified donations of $3,000 to Anglicare, St Vincent de Paul , and $1,000 to the Riverina Strings. There was no guest speaker this week and that allowed more fellowship. Many members present wore a fascinating variety of hats today. Phil told us the story of his hat; bought in in a shop in Spain and lost his tour group, but eventually reunited at their hotel at the end of the day. It was a very expensive hat in the end!! Thanks to all who made the effort.
The markets are this coming weekend. I just hope there will be no more impounding of signs. We were assured all the signs would be OK; lets hope so!
Have a good week all.