Guest Speaker, Andrew Cottrill has lived and worked on the border in a variety of roles for more than 15 years. As the inaugural Telstra Country Wide Area General Manager for more than 10 years, Managing Director at National IT and telecommunications company Anittel, and more recently as the Economic Development Team Leader at Albury City. Andrew has broad experience in telecommunications and technology, and looks to leverage such technologies in attracting investment and jobs growth to Albury and the border region. Andrew spoke on the recent findings of the Albury Wodonga Business Survey, and provided an overview on NBN rollout plans for Albury.
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Club Meeting 11 November 2015
Guest Speaker Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Hunter OAM RFD (Retd) lives in Albury and spoke about Albury at War 1914-1919. He served with the CMF in Australia and PNG from 1956 to 1987. As a mature aged student he gained a BA majoring in history, and a BLitt (Hons) in strategic studies. He is the immediate past president of the Albury & District Historical Society, a trustee of the Victorian Mounted Rifles Regimental Collection (Light Horse Museum) and a member of the Military Historical Society of Australia. His book ”Albury at War 1914-1919’ was released in April this year.
November is rotary foundation month
The Rotary Foundation Month – November is the time to celebrate the wonderful work of The Rotary Foundation. Using the links in the pages under The Rotary Foundation heading on the left side bar, why not explore the activities of the Foundation and consider how you and your club can help.
Graffiti Removal Day 16 October 2015
Focus for Rotary was the old Lavington library. Dan, Vicki, Darrin with Gabi & Carla, Tabitha with Xavier & Seamus, Gordon Miller, myself and a couple of other volunteers were there to help. The library area was cleaned up very quickly with some stubborn rubbish hard to remove. Dan, Vicki, Darrin then moved to paint a fence opposite “The Good Guys” in Albury. Gordon, Tabitha and the other volunteers removed some graffiti from the Masonic Lodge in Lavington. Meanwhile 10 youths from the Albury Youth Council tackled graffiti in Dean Street. Pity those who do the vandalism aren’t good youths like these are. I had hoped and we had more work to do. I would like next year to be better and will push for more help from the Council and will also re-invite all the other Albury/Lavington Rotary clubs to help. A least the local media was more co-operative this year …………….. Terry Simmonds
President’s Message
What a weekend for our Club members! I imagine everyone put their feet up on Sunday night !
Barry ran the thirteenth River of Stories like clockwork. Once again a wonderful collection of winners, poetry and stories. Hopefully we can get them on the web site.
The Applause BBQ was so busy they sold both their sausages as well as those meant for the Sunday’s Paws BBQ! Julie ‘onions’ Frauenfelder announced she has now finished her 55kg bag of onions in 2 weeks. Over at Paddys, or ‘Beer de Luxe’, Oktoberfest was a little less frantic,however Dan managed to sell a lot of pretzels attractively attired as he was in his leidehausen.
I am looking forward to hearing more repeats of the weekends activities at the meeting this week. We have a Board meeting on Tuesday and the film for End Polio Now on Wednesday evening.
I am especially looking forward to inducting Gordon Miller this week and I hope you can all be at our meeting for that. Cheers Gordon.