24 Feb Jonty Shuter, Ken Taylor, Doug Sutton.
03 Mar Bob Willis, Darren Wallace, David Benn.
10 Mar Geoff Breust, Craig Bromley, Graham Burmeister.
Bulletin Editors
Feb 3, 10, 17 Paul Murray
Feb 24 Mar 3, 10 Doug Sutton
Mar 17, 24, 31 Hugh Campbell
April 7, 14, 21 Ken Taylor
April 28, May 5, 12 John Egan
May 19, 26, June 2 Michael Knight
June 9, 16, 23 Doug Sutton
June 30, July 7, July 14 Paul Murray
Sergeant's
24 Feb James Ross
03 Mar Peter Clucas
10 Mar Michael Georgiou
Guest Speakers
To Suggest a guest speaker
Contact Alan Eldridge
Market Rosters
Saturday Markets setup for everyone at 6.30am
Sunday Markets OIC arrives at 6:30am. Team members 7.00am
(Please arrange a swap if you are not able to carry out your duties)
SUN 25th JAN 2015 ( Shift 7.00am till 11.00am) OIC Col Mercer, Craig Bromley, John Daley, Rob Fuller, Bruce Spinks, Doug Sutton, Travis Downie.
SUN 25th JAN 2015 (Shift 11.00am till 3.00pm) OIC Col Mercer, Greg O'Hare, Ken Taylor, Darren Wallace, Bob Willis, Peter Green, Rick Priest.
SAT 14th FEB. 2015 OIC Geoff Hamilton. Colin Duff, Geoff Breust, Peter Crozier, Michael Eldridge, Gerry Gerlach, Wayne Jenkins, Phillip McIntosh, Robert Pearson, David Pyke, Kevin Moffatt.
SUN 15th Feb. 2015 OIC Wal Paton, Richard Braid, Graham Burmeister, David Byfield, Paul Murray, John Smith.
SAT 14th MARCH 2015 OIC Michael Eldridge, Ken Taylor, David Benn, Ken Cook, John Flynn, David Foster, Frank Fuller, Paul Milde, Pat Parnell, Neil Pinto, Pat Ingram.
SUN 15th MARCH 2015 OIC James Hamilton, Greg Conkey, Michael Georgiou, Mark Hillis, Rob Nicholson, James Ross.
President John introduced our guest speakers Ryan Forsythe (left) and Raphael McGowan (right) from the Clontarf Foundation. Ryan was born and educated in Wagga and John has known him for a long time. Ryan is the director of the Clontarf Foundation at Mt Austin High School. Raphael went St Michael and Trinity and is now the Community Development Officer of the Clontarf Foundation in Sydney.
The Clontarf Foundation exists to improve the education, discipline, self-esteem, life skills and employment prospects of young Aboriginal men and by doing so, equip them to participate more meaningfully in society.
The organization, which is a non-profit organization, started in 2000 and they exist all over Australia and they are present in schools where there is a high Aboriginal population with poor retention and attendance. The objective is to get these boys to attend school, graduate and get a job.
They have 63 academies across Australia. They use sports as a way to engage with Aboriginal boys. It is important for Clontarf to become a community organization and establish themselves. The foundation bases their principles around six pillars … education, employment, football sport, leadership, partners and well-being. He gave an example of one young man who had 93 disciplinary entries in his record for the semester prior to joining Clontarf and only 8 in the semester after joining. Clontarf has two training sessions per week, and it starts at 7am in the morning! They started with 15 young men and now they they get 40+.
They are supported by large organizations: Rio Tinto, Westfarmers, Cricket Australia. Raphael talked about having 700 boys in 11 towns in New South Wales. Currently there is a drive on to build up local employment options for the boys.
President John noted to all the members that the Clontarf boys will be assisting us in helping to set up on Friday for the Food and Wine Festival.
Alan Eldridge gave a vote of Thanks. He felt that it was the right group to target and he commended them for their hard work and asked the members to join him in appreciation for their presentation.
President John began the meeting by welcoming visitors and guests and called member’s attention to a Rotary Down Under article featuring a story and photographs of dream cricket. He reminded members our club was a leader in establishing dream cricket in our region.
He then reminded members of the February 26th Polio Plus Movie Night. He noted the price of the movie as $20 per head and a social function at the Thirsty Crow after the movie.
He also noted the District Conference which will be held March 20st -22rd, and the early bird discounts ended on February 20th.
He announced that Lorraine Hill is our nominee for the Peace Ceremony. Dave Pyke will be attending the meeting as our representative.
The BMW Launch for the Food and Wine Festival will be held on Wednesday, the 11th and he invited members to attend.
President John mentioned that there is some of Dick Smith’s “Rooster’s Ghost” wine left and you can contact Laurie Blowes to pick up a few bottles.
John announced that the Junee Rotary is having a concert function at the Round house on Saturday, the 14th February. The band the Night Shift will be performing plus the group Champagne Flutes..Cost is $25 per adult $10 per child, bring your own chair.
The door prize was won by guest number 2....Raphael McGowan.
Paul Milde, in his role as Secretary,announced member commitments and Rosters.
Rosters for Meeting 24 Feb:
Fellowship: Jonty Shuter
Reception: Ken Taylor
Furniture: Doug Sutton
Bulletin Editor:Paul Murray
Sergeant: James Ross
Guest Speaker: Laura Kane. Kokoda Track Presentation.
Farmers Markets: OIC:Team:
Sunday Markets:OIC: Team:
Special Dates: Food & Wine Meeting - 25/02/2015,Board Meeting - 19/03/2015.Some members still have not paid their annual subs. Quarterly sub payments are now due for Jan - Mar 2015. Could you please arrange payment with our Club Treasurer Jim Gibson.
Don't forget to pencil in your diary Polio Plus Film Night 26th February 2015. More information to come. District Conference Cowra 20/03/15 to 22/03/2015. Food & Wine Festival 28/03/2015.
Members don't forget to check the Club Bulletin for your Market & Club rosters.
Graeme Callander , the D9700 PolioPlus Coordinator spoke to our members and talked about the upcoming Movie Night - 26th Feb 2015 featuring The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. The original film screened two years ago was outstanding and this one looks even better. Click here to view the trailer
Our club co-ordinator is Mark Hillis. Please call Mark before the 20th of February and let him know how many tickets you will need.
This is a friendly reminder to the members in the 2015 Wheel Meal Deal that the first round is now happening and it's a good time to plan your event. Your first round should be completed by May 1st 2015.
For those new members who are unfamiliar with the Wheel Meal Deal, it is simply a meal with fellow members and their partners. There are three rounds in a year. For one round you will host two other Wollundry couples. For the other two rounds, you are the guests. The Wheel Meal Deal is a great way to get to know members better and for our partners to become more involved in the Rotary family.
Michael Georgiou approached the podium unaware that he was the sergeant and he regaled us with another one of his adult jokes, collecting from everyone for the privilege.
RYDA (Rotary Youth Driver Awareness) March 9 to 13th
The program is a combined effort of all of the Wagga Rotary Clubs to train young people in driver safety and awareness through workshop training classes. Up to 500 students are trained this year. The dates will be March 9 to 13th and Doug has asked members to mark those dates in their diaries as he will be calling for volunteers.
Attendance
Visiting Rotarians
Club Guests
Ryan Forsyth, Raphael McGowan, Franzi Traber
Make Ups
Paul Murray, District Training Meeting 8/2/15, James Hamilton Aust Day Mkt 25/1
Apologies
Richard Braid, David Benn, Michael Eldridge, Frank Fuller, Michael Knight, Stephen McCoy, Kerry Pascoe, Michael Merrylees, Bruce Spinks, Greg Goldspink, John Ireland, John Gray, Ken Cook
The program is a combined effort of all of the Wagga Rotary Clubs to train young people in driver safety and awareness through workshop training classes. Up to 500 students are trained this year. The dates will be March 9 to 13th and Doug has asked members to mark those dates in their diaries as he will be calling for volunteers. 
