18/5/22 (May 17, 2022)

“For good food, good fellowship, and the privilege to serve through Rotary we give thanks.”

Welcome to our Club!

Helping Our Community

Wednesdays at 12:45 PM

Crown Hotel

1 Prince Street
Grafton, NSW 2460
Australia

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Rotary Book Sale
Criterion Theatre
Jun 03, 2022 8:30 AM – Jun 04, 2022 1:00 PM

Rotary Changeover Dinner
GDSC
Jun 25, 2022 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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Member Birthdays

Camellia Flanagan

May 2

Des Harvey

May 4

Skye Sear

May 4

Jennifer Hyland

May 22

Leila Thompson

June 13

Spouse Birthdays

Judith Cardow

May 24

Leila Thompson

June 13

POSITION VACANT

Member to organiser the Guest Speakers for 2022/2023 Rotary Year.

Bulletin Editor for the 2022/2023 Rotary year.

apply to President elect Lee.

UPCOMING EVENT

BOOK SALE

Friday 3rd Saturday 4th June

Criterion Theatre Oliver Street,

CHANGE OVER DINNER

Blast from the Past.

Brian, Bob and Judy at the Hospital morning tea in May 2018

My Charity of Choice

1 Prince Street Grafton phone 02 66424000

President Rumble

Hello dear GMR members & friends of GMR,

Well what another week again with the inclement weather with many areas experiencing flooding once again especially in the South East QLD corner. Even though the weather is always of concern to us all, we simply cannot change what the weather is doing, so we just need to make the most of what we have.

The Crown Hotel kitchen was closed on this week for renovations so the members attending our Wednesday meeting was treated to freshly prepared sandwiches organised by Judy G. A huge thank you to Judy for organising these for us to enjoy, a well-received change to our normal hot meal. Mark T gave us a very good rundown of some numbers from our Wine night where an amount of $4,250 was raised by the attendees on the night. This will now go to the District 9640 flood appeal for the funds to come back into the Clarence region. Mark B also handed out some beautiful flyers for our changeover dinner along with the Jacaranda “Top Hats & Tiaras” cocktail party being held at the Clocktower on Saturday 28^th May, so if you are interested grab your tickets to both events for you to enjoy. Our changeover on Saturday 25^th June doesn’t actually have tickets, simply pay your $65 directly to our General Account, or via our Eftpos Square at a meeting. For the Jacaranda event the link is: www.jacarandafestival.com/fundraisers link – Tickets are $50 P/P.

Our General Account details are:

BSB: 637000 (Greater Bank)
Account Number: 716468410
Reference: Your Name

On Thursday night we held our May Board meeting. The board worked on numerous items on behalf of the club to continue to being the progressive & modern club that we are. Over the next coming weeks we will have our Club Assembly to summarise the outcomes and the minutes will be available on Clubrunner soon. One of the items outcomes was to donate $100 to the Lung Foundation in memory of our good friend & Rotarian Russell Jones. The donation was in lieu of flowers.

Coming up soon will be changeover dinners for all clubs in the Clarence, so once the dates are known we will communicate them & if interested members can attend to support our clubs in the Clarence cluster.

Until Wednesday, Take care, stay safe & well.

Centenary President,

Robert.

Last Meeting

Adrian Van Ash receiving his PHF with Ruby pin from PDG Peter

Will you make The Rotary Foundation "your Charity of Choice"

There are many ways you can donate to The Rotary Foundation if you need help

please contact your club's Foundation chair who will be able to assist.

Missing from our meeting last week was Des but we now know why.

Des was at Government House with Jennifer and his elder son Scott

to receive his OAM from NSW Governor Margaret Beazley .

Clem Renouf End Polio Now Club

The Clem Renouf END POLIO NOW Club program was launched last year to mark our Centenary Year and the death of our great leader Sir Clem Renouf-- "father of Polio Plus.

To be a Clem Renouf END POLIO NOW Club each member of the club is being asked to donate $10 to the Foundations End Polio Now Fund.

the club has 15 members who have paid their $10.00 like to join see Peter to be apart of this End Polio Club

ROTARY'S BOOK SALE

The first Rotary's book sale to be held in 2022

Many request have come from the public for the club to run the book sale over the last two months,

so the committee after due consideration have set the following as the next sale.

Friday 3rd June 9am to 5pm

SATURDAY 4th 8.30.am to 1.00pm

at the CRITERION THEATRE Oliver street Grafton

This will be the first sale since 2021 and will only be 2 days,

Set up will be Thursday afternoon from 4 pm at Blanchard's storage shed and a 5 pm start at the Criterion Theatre

Sale will kick off on at 8.30 am close at 6 pm Friday with Saturday 8 am to 1 pm

Followed by pack up.

We will only require 3 members per shift of 4 hours a roaster will be at the next couple of meeting

if you can help please see Peter

2022 Jacaranda Matron of Honour

Grafton Midday Rotary are proud to support Gerelle Blanchard

2022 Jacaranda Matron of Honour

Invitation to District 9640 Change-over

HUMOUR FOR THE WEEK

Some short humour this week!!!
A woman spent 35 years working for a bank. She was recently made
redundant and hasn't coped very well. She now spends her days
outside the branch using the ATM over and over again.

Doctors say she's just suffering from withdrawal symptoms
A soldier who was renting a house from me has done a runner owing
me six months rent. He told me he was a General but I’ve since
discovered he’s a Left Tenant.