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“For good food, good fellowship, and the privilege to serve through Rotary we give thanks.”  
Club Information
Welcome to our Club!
Helping Our Community
Wednesdays at 12:45 PM
Roches Family Hotel
85 Victoria St
(Captains Table Room)
Grafton, NSW 2460
Australia
Meeting commences at 1.00pm
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 Please order your lunch on arrival with Hotel staff. 
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Peter Robinson
Upcoming Events
Trivia - Fellowship at Roches
Sep 01, 2021
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
 
Dougherty Villa Luncheon - volunteers required
Dougherty Villa
Sep 02, 2021 12:00 PM
 
Trivia - Fellowship at Roches
Sep 08, 2021
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
 
Board Meeting
Roches - Captains Room
Sep 09, 2021
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
 
Trivia - Fellowship at Roches
Sep 15, 2021
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
 
Trivia - Fellowship at Roches
Sep 22, 2021
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
 
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Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Herman Claassens
August 9
 
Greg Butcher
August 18
 
Wayne Koppel
August 21
 
Robert Booth
August 23
 
Don Cardow
September 12
 
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      PRESIDENT'S  RUMBLE                      
 
      
Hi everyone,
 
I hope you are all coping well throughout these trying times once again. Thank goodness though we live in a regional area!
 
For the 1st time in twelve months we held our 1st Zoom meeting for 2021. Yes it was August 20th 2020 when we had our last Zoom meeting, so whilst we were all a little rusty with Zoom we enjoyed the company of twelve members. We also had social visits during the meeting by Gerelle & Terry. Quite unusual to our regular face to face meetings there was lots of Alcoholic beverages by our sides to enjoy. The members shared lots of good positive moments that they have been involved in during these times.
 
Herman gave us an update on some of our current projects during the meeting, and whilst we actually can’t do a lot of projects at present, we can continue to think of worthy projects for suggestions once we are able to, so if you have an idea let Herman know & he will send you a form to complete.
 
District Governor Jeff advised us that a new Rotary club had been chartered, “Rotary Club of Koala Lovers”, so we welcome our newest club in our district.
 
Sargent at Arms Mark did another great job in the “Happy Dollars / Fine session” with the 1st fine being on Camellia with his “Hymn & Hymn” joke!
 
It was decided to continue with the Thursday night Zoom meetings at present commencing at 7pm as the consensus from the members in attendance was that Thursday suited the majority better at this stage. Be sure to attend this week’s meeting as there will be a little bit of more fun with some trivia hosted by our PE Lee, so diarise to join.
 
Below is the link to this Thursday night’s meeting:
Join Zoom Meeting
 
Meeting ID: 824 5600 5591
Passcode: 737540
 
 
Missing from the photo below is “Blinky Bill” who was in attendance on Thursday night but left the meeting earlier than when the photo was taken.
 
 
 
Until Thursday, stay safe & well during week.
 
Centenary President, Robert
CLUB NEWS
PAUL HARRIS FELLOW
Jenny Vickery was presented with a PHF at our meeting of 11th August.
Jenny was given a PHF by the club for her work and efforts through her organisation WARM TOUCH. 
VP Lee Taylor pining Jenny PHF badge on.
 
 
REPTILE HANDLER REQUIRED FOR BOOKSALE
The book sale committee are seeking a reptile handler to help sort our books on a Tuesday ;
committee member David Thompson was sorting a few boxes of books while in lockdown at home last week and come across
an uninvited item in one of the boxes. 
 
 
 
Not sure if we could make a dollar at our sale so David released it back into the wild.
HUMOUR FOR THE WEEK
‘Muldoon lived alone in the Irish countryside with only a pet dog for company.. One day the dog died, and Muldoon went to the parish priest and asked, 'Father, my dog is dead... Could ya' be sayin' a mass for the poor creature?'

Father Patrick replied, 'I'm afraid not; we cannot have services for an animal in the church.... But there are some Baptists down the lane, and there's no tellin' what they believe. Maybe they'll do something for the creature.'

Muldoon said, 'I'll go right away Father. Do ya' tink £5,000 is enough to donate to them for the service?'

Father Patrick exclaimed, 'Sweet Mary, Mother of Jesus! Why didn't yiz tell me the dog was Catholic?