As I’m sitting down to write this I find myself a little weary having just completed my last job for the weekend as the photographer for the Border Relay-for-Life. An amazing event again this year saw 2,500 participants make over $400,000 to fight cancer with a lot of that money staying in the local area for such things as transport vehicles. It made me think of not only the great things we do as a club, but also as individuals the things we do for other community groups. Generally speaking I think Rotarians are very giving people in their nature. My stats for Relay-for-Life are 35,000 steps, a little over 26kms and over 500 photos posted on Facebook of the event. A big well done to Deidre and her team for Twilight and Music in the Gardens last week – over $2,000 was made over the two events – a very worthwhile effort. I also want to mention the effort by Gordon & Leanne with their open garden last weekend. Whilst not a Club project it is a fine example of the giving nature mentioned above. Gordon says they had over 400 people there on the day and raised $4,000 for the charity they are supporting. I know Gordon & Leanne were extremely grateful to all the Club members that assisted them. Another example of giving nature is Stephen’s show this weekend, which Stephen is using as a way to make some money for Foundation. Hopefully lots of Rotarians will support this show from lots of clubs. See it now before it goes international and ticket prices sky rocket ! I want to also briefly mention out Danish visitors … what a great group they are. The meeting on Wednesday was so much fun and laughter.