Guest Speaker: Pride of Workmanship Awards. New Member Induction.
Fellowship: Evan Robertson
Reception: Malcolm Robertson
Furniture: James Ross
Bulletin Editor: John Egan
Sergeant: Michael Georgiou.
Saturday Farmers Markets:
Sunday Markets: 29/06/2014. OIC: Hugh Campbell Team: David Benn, John Egan, Frank Fuller, John Hawkins, Jeremy Riethmuller.
Club Rosters
Fellowship - Reception
Furniture
01 July Evan Robertson, Malcolm Robertson, James Ross.
08 July John Smith, Ken Taylor, Darren Wallace.
15 July Bob Willis, Graham Barrow, David Benn.
Bulletin Editors
July 1, 8, 15 John Egan
July 22, 29, Aug 5 Ken Taylor
Aug 12, 19, 26 Hugh Campbell
Sept 2, 9, 16 Michael Knight
Sept 23, 30 Oct 7 Doug Sutton Oct 14, 21, 28 Paul Murray
Sergeant's
08 July Michael Georgiou
15 July James Ross
22 July Mark Sayer
Market Rosters
Saturday Markets setup for everyone at 6.30am NOTE: As of July 1st 2014
Sunday Markets OIC arrives at 7:00am. Team members 7.30am
(Please arrange a swap if you are not able to carry out your duties)
SUN 29th June 2014 OIC Hugh Campbell, David Benn, John Egan, Frank Fuller, John Hawkins, Jeremy Riethmuller,
SUN 6th July 2014 OIC John Flynn, Laurie Blowes, Alan Eldridge, Michael Georgiou, Geoff Hamilton, Colin Mercer.
SAT 12th July 2014 OIC Gerry Gerlach, Paul Gianniotis, Tim Barter, Jim Gibson, Pat Ingram, Phillip McIntosh, Greg O'Hare, Wal Paton, Evan Robertson, Darren Wallace,
Bob Willis.
SUN 13th July 2014 OIC Tim Macgillycuddy, James Hamilton, Nick Leywood, Paul Milde, Kerry Pascoe, Kevin Roben.
Sun 20th July 2014 NO MARKETS
SUN 27th July 2014 OIC Craig Bromley, Rob Fuller, Mark Hillis, Peter MacKinnon, Malcolm Robertson, Mark Sayer
SUN 3rd Aug 2014 OIC Geoff Breust, David Byfield, John Ireland, Kevin Moffatt, Paul Murray, John Smith.
SAT 9th Aug 2014 OIC Evan Robertson, Colin Duff, Graham Barrow, Michael Eldridge, Wayne Jenkins, Michael Knight, Steven McCoy, Chris Metcalfe, Robert Pearson
President John brought his first meeting to order with a full house, several guests and a few minutes late. He delayed the start to allow for the arrival of Commandant Stephen Jobson.
He started the meeting complimenting the meal we had at the Change-over and the new chef! John then proceeded to inform the members that Jean Simpson, wife of PDG Ian Simpson has passed away after a long bout with cancer.
John reported that the new Committee Structure will be sent out and if your name is not on it, please contact John for an assignment.
President John then presented PP Phil with a DVD that actually had all the bulletins for his year in it. At the Changeover, Phil was presented with a blank DVD.
John noted that June is Rotary Fellowship Month. David Benn had informed him that the International Cricketing Fellowship will be in Wagga in October of 2016. John noted a few of the many fellowships within Rotary, such as amateur radio, golfing, doll lovers, chess and aviators, such as our own Luftwagga.
President John's first meeting was well run, well timed and to top it off, he won the bottle of wine.
Colonel Stephen Jobson was introduced by Graham Burmeister.
The Colonel started his talk about a personal connection with Rotary since his father was a long time Rotarian, with a PHF, and having travelled on a FAIM trip. He feels that he and his wife Tanya and four children have been warmly welcomed to Wagga Wagga. He admitted to being inexperienced in talking about himself.
He is a bit different from the usual Commandant of Kapooka. He is the 33rd Commandant and the first with an aviation background. He is a Blackhawk helicopter pilot. He had had a number of different roles in his career, starting with experience in the Northern Territory leading a group of Aboriginal soldiers. He also spent a year as an Aide to Governor General William Dean, whom he has great respect for. The majority of his career has been centred on piloting Black Hawk helicopters in Australia and the United States.
Previous to his posting in Wagga Wagga, like most Western Sydney kids, he imagined “Wagga to be some freaky sports development zone.” He saw Wagga as a “vast land of sports ovals”.
In America he served with the 82nd Airborne Division which has a distinguished history. He recalled his first morning at 05:30 exercising with 14,000 identically dressed soldiers in drab grey and black and one Australian wearing bright gold and green. He got much jeering and laughing and paratroopers whistling at him and asking him if he “was in the Band?” The next morning, he wore the drab grey and black.
He was in the United States at the time of the 911 bombings and he spoke extensively about the impact the attack had on America. He also spent time in Afghanistan, but noted "that was another story". He was stationed in Pakistan during the earthquake relief effort.
In summary, he said that he has many stories that he could relate, but he is looking forward to his years in Wagga and to have much contact with service organisations such as Rotary.
Team: Doug Conkey, John Ferguson, , Rob Fuller, David Hodge, David Pike.
Comments:
Foggy start to the day, cold and damp. Several new stall holders did not know that they needed to register with the OIC and set up wherever they liked. Well attended by stall holders and public and it looked good with the new large jumping castle.
Laurie fined Ken Taylor who very quickly glossed over the fact he was late for the OIC Sunday Markets job. He also made Ken collect the money.
He fined Rob Fuller for a mobile phone violation. He planned to fine consistent late comer John Ireland, but because President John started the meeting late, John Ireland was on time so to be fair, he fined both Johns.
He fined Col Mercer for his award and receiving a phone call on his mobile. He fined Geoff Breust for his letter to the editor. He fined all the Waratah Rugby Followers of which there was one … David Pike.
Laurie concluded his fine session with some nice memories of his mate Dick Smith.
PP Phil came to the rostrum and asked Col Mercer to come to the podium. Phil presented Col with “Clubman of the Year” for his service to the Sunday Markets Committee. Phil said that Col approached the running of the Sunday Markets the same way he ran the Coop in town … customer service focused. Col commented that he was very humbled by this award but also included the Committee members in the award.
Barrow, Graham
Braid, Richard
Conkey, Greg
Cook, Kenneth
Crozier, Peter
Eldridge, Michael
Eldridge, Alan
Foster, David
Gianniotis, Paul
Hawkins, John
Hodge, David
Irvine, Andrew
Knight, Michael
McCoy, Stephen
Metcalfe, Chris
Pearson, Robert
Sutton, Doug
Jim Gibson
Doug Conkey
Frank Fuller
Tim Barter
President John brought his first meeting to order with a full house, several guests and a few minutes late. He delayed the start to allow for the arrival of Commandant Stephen Jobson. 
He is a bit different from the usual Commandant of Kapooka. He is the 33rd Commandant and the first with an aviation background. He is a Blackhawk helicopter pilot. He had had a number of different roles in his career, starting with experience in the Northern Territory leading a group of Aboriginal soldiers. He also spent a year as an Aide to Governor General William Dean, whom he has great respect for. The majority of his career has been centred on piloting Black Hawk helicopters in Australia and the United States.
Laurie fined Ken Taylor who very quickly glossed over the fact he was late for the OIC Sunday Markets job. He also made Ken collect the money.
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