Meeting : 15 Guest Speaker : No guest speaker : Vocational Visit Riverina Ski Sports Fellowship : Rob Pearson Reception : Neil Pinto Furniture : Rick Priest
Bulletin Editor : John Ferguson
Sergeant:John Flynn
Saturday Farmers Markets:Next Market Saturday 10th October .
OIC : Travis Downey , Geoff Breust , Alan Eldridge , Peter Green , Darren Wallace , Ken Taylor , Jonty Shuter , Wal Paton , John Flynn , David Hodge
Member Profile : Nil
Club Rosters
Bulletin Editors
Oct . 13th , John Fergusen
Oct . 20th , John Fergusen
Sergeant's
13th Oct . John Flynn
20th Oct . Frank Fuller
27th Oct . John Gray
3rd Nov. Paul Milde
10th Nov. Bruce Spinks
Guest Speakers
No guest speaker 13/10 Vocational visit : Riverina Ski Sports
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)
Sat 10th October 2015 OIC Rick Priest,Geoff Breust,Travis Downie,Alan Eldridge,John Flynn,Jim Gibson,John Gray,Peter Green,Geoff Hamilton,Wayne Jenkins,Jonty Shuter,John Smith,Bruce Spinks
Sat 14th November 2015 OIC James Hamilton,, John Egan,,John Ferguson,,Michael Georgiou,John Hawkins,Mark Hillis,David Hodge,John Ireland,Ken Taylor,John Mason,Steve McCoy,Colin Mercer,Greg O'Hare
Sat 12th December 20015 OICAndrew Irvine,,Pat Ingram,Michael Knight,Nick Leywood,Rob Pearson,Jeremy Riethmuller,Mal Robertson,James Ross,Doug Sutton,Wayne Jenkins,Darren Wallace,Bob Willis
What a fantastic weekend for Wagga Wagga. Our Club should be extremely proud of the Gears and Beers festival.
While we recognise the great leadership and hard work provided by Phil McIntosh and Tim Barter it is important we also acknowledge the great work of everyone on the committee and all those who helped out over the weekend. As Phil said in his de-brief it was a great event made possible only by the hard work of our club. Also I'd like to thank Nathan McIntosh as his hard work and dedication to this event was greatly appreciated (and as we saw made Phil one extremely proud dad!). Congratulations and well done to everyone involved. This event will certainly keep Wollundry Rotary Club at the forefront of running events for our Community - as our new banners say "Supporting our Community with your help".
Please send your feedback to Phil McIntosh with suggestions for improvements to the Festival for next year.
Thankyou to everyone who provided funds for the Australian Rotary Health appeal (as part of Rotary Hat day). We saw some weird and wonderful hats! We raised $260 on the day which will be matched by our club for a total donation of $520 - our best effort yet according to Paul Milde.
Congratulations on a wonderful event on Sunday, at Gears and Beers. Your team did a great job and everyone I spoke with was enjoying the day. The crowd response was wonderful with large numbers turning up for a beautiful sunny day in the park.
I very much appreciate your efforts to bring large events to Wagga Wagga and the positive assistance this brings to the public image of Rotary. Thank you for the signs and allowing the Rotary Information booth organised by Eugene Moloney of South Wagga Rotary. I spent 2 ½ hours there on Sunday and believe this was another positive for the improvement of community awareness of your club and Rotary as the organisers of these major events.
Once again thank you, please pass this on to your members.
As Past District Governor, John Egan explained to the meeting Rotary Hat Day was raising money this year to research into Mental Health. Prizes for the best head attire and a wine raffle raised $520.
It is indeed the day that every cross dresser in the club looks forward to, and for every member to delve into his child's dress up box or his partner's wardrobe and find some outlandish piece of head gear. Fortunately it only happens once a year and much to the relief of the staff at the Commercial Club!
Rob Nicholson was the winner for the second consecutive year!
What a claim to fame Rob!!!!! He was supported by two other "well known animals" of the club!
Davy Crockett and Lawrence of Arabia (I think) with Kat.
A "Honey Of A Man", A Men's Shed Cossack, The "Treasurer"!
President Geoff opened the meeting with our traditional Rotary grace and toast and then welcomed our guests Kate Robertson, David Wishart, Tayla Crevatin (our outbound exchange student) and Kat, our delightful exchange student from Sweden
President Geoff spoke briefly about the highly successful Beer and Gears Festival and thanked all club members and their partners who participated in the organisation of the event.
He then requested that we all don our special head gear in support of Rotary Health Hat Day.
As can be seen in the photo, Geoff was a "song & dance man" at Sydney's Scotts College, backed up by a Jason Day lookalike from the Wagga Country Club and a notable ex- commissioner of the NSW Police, who is now in the service of Her Majesty's.
Member Profile
Paul Murray
Paul Murray gave a PowerPoint presentation of his personal history with photos of his childhood, high school football, working history and family.
A few of those photos are shown below:
Paul growing up in Iowa. Living on a farm where it was -40 degrees!!!
Paul recalled his first job in Sydney as a Demonstrator for Coca Cola in 1969.
Paul and Carolyn had a Kangaroo (Merv) as a pet for over 24 years.
Beers and Gears Festival
Chairman of the Gears and Beers Festival, Phil McIntosh gave a passionate and highly motivating summary of the success of this festival.
750 riders participated in the day's events from 7am to lunchtime. Approximately 4,000 people enjoyed the beer, cyder, food and music at the Victory Memorial Gardens from lunchtime to the close at 6pm. It was an outstanding success with accolades flowing from participants from right around Australia about Wollundry's ability to have marshals in the "middle of nowhere" to international acclaim on the RAPHA website where there were 120,000 posts on Instant gram. Phil explained that RAPHA's had a massive involvement in the cycle challenge and that RAPHA had contributed significantly to the response from local cycling groups.
Phil thanked all Wollundry members and their partners for their contributions. He made special mention of his son, Nathan for the website work, Tim Barter, Tim Macgillycuddy, David Foster, Coolaman and South Wagga Rotary Clubs and South Wagga Apex Club. A final profit figure for the festival will be given to members shortly when all accounts are settled. Any feedback please contact Phil through his email.
MEMBER'S DRAW
Bruce Spinks won the member's draw for wine.
Bruce and his wife Joo-Yee wiil be holding a Taste Riverina Festival function at their award winning Wollundry Grove Olive facility on Sunday 18th October.
Members can support this function by contacting Bruce.
NEIL PINTO
Neil gave us an update on his current health.
As reported in a previous bulletin Neil arrived at a meeting with his right leg heavily bandaged. This was a result of falling when boarding a boat and he tore the right quad from his knee. This is a very slow recovery process and will keep Neil off his bike for some time. This is of some relief to our well respected past secretary Paul, who often has his wheelie bins "terrorized" by a "phantom pedaler"
Of greater concern, Neil reported that he had an operation in Sydney to remove a malignant growth from his left kidney. Neil reported to the relief of all members that he has been given a positive report by his surgeon and that he is expected to make a full recovery.
TWOMEYS TWILIGHT GOLF at the WAGGA WAGGA COUNTRY CLUB
Golf Captain and Jason Day "lookalike", David Byfield is taking nominations for this annual competition.
Wollundry, Division 2 premiers last year, is looking forward to defend its title as the leading Rotary Golf Club by going one further this year and take out Division 1 of this prestigious competition.
All members are invited to play and contact David.
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP of CRICKETING ROTARIANS
As most of cricketing tragics and flannelled fools get over the embarrassment and ignominy of losing The Ashes, Wollundry is preparing to restore Australian Cricket to its rightful place in international competition again.
Next year, Wollundry is hosting the IFCR event in Wagga Wagga during October. This will bring together some of the greats of International Rotary clubs and some might even be able to play cricket!
Chairman of the Wollundry IFCR committee, David Benn is pictured with well known American cricket fan!!!!! Paul Murray at the launch of the IFCR Australia website.
Go the Wallabies!!!!!!
MORE IMAGES FROM OUR MEETING
Mal Robertson and his daughter, Kate.
Mark Hillis with outbound exchange student, Tayla
Jonty "sees the light"!!!!!
James Ross--no expense spared for this fascinator!
THE ROTARY CLUB of WAGGA WAGGA DARKNESS to LIGHT DINNER
Chartered in 1930 Club 18118 District 9700
Invites you to our
Fifth Indian Fundraising Dinner
At 6.00 pm on Saturday 24th October 2015
At
Mater Dei Catholic Primary School, Multipurpose Hall
63 Gregadoo Road, Wagga Wagga
Darkness to Light 2015, (10th Anniversary)
Darkness to Light Riverina, (5th Anniversary)
& East Timor Projects 2015 - 2017
Program
Authentic Indian Menu by
Ajoy Joshi PHF –Food Safari SBS
www.nilgiris.com.au
Enthralling Entertainment, Auction, Raffle, and much more
The Hosts and Guests for the THIRDround of the 2015 Wheel Meal Deal have been announced. The THIRD round began Sept 1st 2015, and should be completed by the end of the year.
Hosts Guests
Hawkins Blowes Wallace
Hillis Conkey Knight
Jenkins Crozier Hamilton
Hodge Egan Irvine
Pinto Leywood Suter
Taylor Burmeister Sutton
Willis Gerlach Murray
If you are a host for the second round and haven’t held your second round meal, then please try to fulfill your hosting as soon as possible. However, if travel or work or other scheduling problems arise, keep at it and find a time that works, no matter how long it takes. There is no expiry date on your Wheel Meal hosting.
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