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Hello everyone and a very wet welcome to the weekend.
This week’s meeting was extremely well attended for our very special visit by District Governor Andy, District Governor Assist Anne & her granddaughter Mable. We had a number of guests attend this meeting where DG Andy proudly inducted our newest member of GM Rotary, Jeremy Jablonski. In fact he was the newest member of District 9640 at that time on Wednesday! This is a very special memory for Jeremy, his girlfriend Leah, Mum Bronwyn & brother in law to be Jarrod as not only becoming a Rotary member where it is one of the largest organisations in the world, but to be inducted by a District Governor is an honor and in particular by our 20/21 governor Andy. A lasting memory & congratulations Jeremy.
Given our time constraints we didn’t do a lot of business at all at the meeting as it was nice to have some fellowship after the induction before lunch, then listen to some wonderful stories from DG Andy. It was pleasing for Lee Taylor to receive a special pin from Andy in recognition of her efforts of bringing along two members to our club in this Rotary year to date. Great work Lee.
Andy talked a lot about Rotary and re-enforces why we enjoy being a Rotarian, and do good in the world. Rotary connects people. A huge thank you to Andy & Anne for attending our meeting and making it a special day for GMR.
Just to reflect a little, the Friday before we had our annual Xmas get together at the GDSC for barefoot bowls. Some great companionship was enjoyed along with some fun times of bowling a number of bowls down the greens on the night. A great night with good finger food a few drinks were enjoyed over the evening. Some of us continued on inside the GDSC until closing time of 11.30pm!
This week will be our last meeting before a recess over the Xmas / new year break. At Wednesday’s meeting we will discuss when we will recommence our regular meetings in 2021.
Thursday night we will travel to Brushgrove hotel and be part of around 77 Rotary members & friends of Rotary from our Clarence cluster enjoy a meal, a few drinks and be entertained by Paul Comerford. The Bus will leave from Roches with 34 travelling on the bus around 6pm and Grafton Rotary will join us on the bus also.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend and the start of the week and look forward to seeing you all for our last meeting for 2020 on Wednesday.
President Robert