| Well what an enthusiastic presentation by Roger Snell with moral support from Judy on their recent Rotary Friendship Exchange visit to Thailand. It was certainly interesting to hear Roger speak so enthusiastically about the cultures, food, and country in general. I don’t know what our prospective visitors will think of our club, if they ask for our ages, and the older you are the more you are regarded as a type of Elder Statesman. Obviously the club will be revered by them all if we go by some of our ages! Last Tuesday, at the Directors meeting, we discussed and decided upon our contributions to various Rotary International groups, local communities etc. I will announce them to you at our next Wednesday club meeting. Also when the Rotary Grants applications are called for within Justins’ term of office, we will be applying for grants for River of Stories and Internationally we will also be applying for a small grant for Kitende School. Thank you all for taking the food parcels to the nominated recipients for Easter. I delivered one to a gent in North Albury, who was so delighted that he had been included. He kept reassuring me it would all be eaten and used no matter what was inside the bag. When you find persons like him, and they are having hard times, and are so appreciative that someone has thought of them, it makes everything we do in Rotary so worth while. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Roger Beardwell for all the work he has done in previous years on behalf of the Club in regard to coordinating our two schools in the Ian Murphy Debate competition. Roger has decided to hand over the reins this year to hopefully someone who will turn out to be half as good as Roger was … the new coordinator is a chap called Pete Lee! So thank you once again Roger for all your dedication and support to our two Albury Hume teams. I understand that at the first round of the competition there will be a change from previous years in that the round will be held in early June. |
