Past President John was still in fine form and very proud of his elevation to President of the Wagga Wagga Club. 

He congratulated David Benn on his excellent Poet's Day event, which even gained praise from David Gilby, our Wagga Wagga  Poet Laureate (David's new book is for sale if you would like a copy)

There was a warm welcome for the four Apexians who attended our meeting; Neil Molineaux, Matt Longmore, Tim Sheather and our guest speaker Andrew Roberts.

PP John also extended congratulations to Doug Sutton who was our representative on the Peace Day Committee.

Our beautiful Kat did not get the opportunity to read for us on Poets Day, so PP John invited her to recite for us in Swedish and in English a poem about the dark of winter at Christmas. It was really well received.

Burmo is back! It was wonderful to see a trim version of our very popular member back with us after a record 6 bypasses.

 

 

 

 

The Polio Plus Movie. John Egan

The annual movie premier night is being held on Thursday March 3rd 

7pm, The Forum Cinema. $20 per head.

It is "The Lady in The Van" starring Maggie Smith, and from the shorts its should be a great show.

Please phone me  by Thursday if you are coming, as we have to finalise numbers to ensure we get the theatres.

I'll collect your money next Tuesday at Club. You will be supporting Polio Plus.

 The Trailer is here.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlN1b0ok4D0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Be sure you have read the manual, and if you don't yet have your number, please get it to Jim Gibson as soon as possible

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Northcott began life as the Crippled Children's Society with the Rotary Club of Sydney,and does great work here in Wagga offering respite and accomodation for young people.

Our Guest speaker to day was Andrew Roberts , son of our former and very valued member, the late Brian Roberts.

In recent years we have been able to form strong bonds with the South Wagga Apex Club, and Andrew gave us an interesting outline of the club and its history.

The club was formed in 1961, and in that 55 yrs or so has awarded 20 life members, and contributed a staggering 44,000 hours of community service. It has also contributed more than $2.5 million dollars to to worthy causes.

Currently it has 17 members, and meets fortnightly. Apexians are aged under 45 and consequently have strong family committments. "Being a Father is much more important than Apex"

Apex can admit women, and there are 106 clubs nation wide.

Currently South Wagga Apex is involved with the Gumi Festival, which was a very great success. It was closely scrutinised by the Maritime Services this year, and the Club was congratulated by them for the manner in which they implemented the rather stringent safety rules. A big feather in their cap! This will make it much easier to conduct the race next year. Wollundry members acted as on shore scrutineers for them this year.

They also run the Food Appeal, and the Lake to Lake event.

In recent times they have swung behind us at the Beers and Gears, and The Food and Wine Festival, and assist in the same manner the Wagga Book Fair.

The highlight is the cooperation that we have established between the two organisations, Rotary and Apex.

Andrew was thanked by acting President John.

The combined Rotary Clubs of Wagga Wagga were well represented at the Peace Day Ceremony.

There were a few changes made this year which included allowing organisations to be considered.

All of the Wagga Wagga high schools took part, with some really heartening stories of what they, the students, have set up in their school communities.

These young people really do recognise that there are others who are doing it tough for all sorts of reasons and in all sorts of ways, and they are doing great things to help, both within and without their school communities.

Our choice  was Don Jones who lives at The Rock and has done a great deal of work through the St Vincent de Paul. A worthy candidate. But this year the Helen and Peter Walsh award went to Teys who operate the killing works at Bomen. They were chosen for their heavy involvement with the welfare of their workers, and in the wider community