Parent and Baby Unit Fundraising Dinner I CONFIRM that we will be holding our Fundraising Dinner for the new Parent and Baby Unit at Wodonga Hospital on Friday 25th October 2013 at La Maison from 6.45pm. The Committee have arranged a really sumptuous 4 course Dinner with matching wines supplied by our own Wendy Killeen. There will also be some music supplied by Murray Conservatorium, and two guest speakers , one of which is a local Consultant Pediatrician . This ‘fundraiser’ event will also be circulated to both Wodonga and Albury Base Hospitals, as well as all General Practices between Uranquinty and Mt. Beauty, including Violet Town. The price for the above evening is $75 per person and bookings are essential either to Vicki or myself and ASAP. So please support the Club in their major home project for this Rotary year
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Club Christmas Dinner The Club Christmas Luncheon celebrations will be held at SS & A Club on Wednesday 18th December 2013. So please mark this up within your diaries for a meeting of frivolity and fellowship. At this meeting we also welcome young offspring of both members and their families. You will be advised of notification of the numbers and pricing and when to advise etc at a slightly later date led by the Christmas Committee but you can now start canvassing who you will invite and who not from within your own families and guests.
Club Charity Dinner & Wine evening Another date to mark within your diaries is our Clubs ‘Home’ project of giving financial support to the development of the new Albury Wodonga Health, ‘Baby and Parent ‘unit. Before I forget, the date of the function is Friday 25th October 2013 at La Maison, Lincoln Causeway. Time to be confirmed but probably 6.30 for 7pm. Vicki Gray – the Clubs lead coordinator for this project – has been bursting forth with ideas and beside the excellent foods which Wassim will turn out we will also have the great assistance of our own Wendy Killeen who will be the supplier of the wines to match the respective food. Price etc will be advised very shortly but please keep the evening free for a wonderful night of food and fellowship, as well as assisting a very worthy local cause, which might be of benefit to your own offspring and their respective young families.
I convey thanks from the Strategic Committee with regard to your input at last Wednesday’s meeting at The Albion regarding the possible future direction of the Club. Also thanks to those who submitted suggestions because they were unable to be there. Whilst the Strategic Committee work is a total team effort personal thanks go to Gordon into the design and ‘facilitation’ of the actual meeting. Now another team member, Nicole, who did some great work as the ‘scribe’ for the meeting, is busily disseminating the information to present into some coherent format so the Committee can discuss all the suggestions, and formalise an approach to the full Board of the Directors at their November meeting and then onto yourselves at a Club Assembly meeting being arranged for middle / late November immediately following the Board presentation.
Another note of thanks goes to Dennis Hickey who arranged the Club members ‘social’ gathering at the Albury Golf Club last Friday evening. Approximately twenty- three of us went including a former Member, and some of our partners who came along whilst their loved ones were away on business. It was certainly an extremely ‘sociable’ evening, and at the end of the meeting, Roger Snell telephoned through to arrange an immediate Treasure Hunt for the remaining guests of ‘Find my Credit Card’. That was good fun looking under tables, chairs, gents toilet, giving staff the ‘third degree of questioning’ of where they hid it, whilst Paul Armstrong kept us all informed by running commentary of different locations to see if we were ‘hot or cold’. In the end we couldn’t find the card so no Treasure for us, and then Roger let us in on his secret that it was at his home all the time we were frantically searching for it. I’m just hoping the Sergeant of the Day is reading this for next week ‘fines’.
Club Meeting 14 August 2013
| Another interesting Speaker last week in Peter Gleniston talking about his ‘human aid’ activities in Africa and Middle East. Reminded me of a similar story given by Mark ‘Squidgy’ Squirrell at last years District Conference at Ballarat, when he spoke about the similar problems when working for the UN. Only other difference was that he met the late Asser Arafat and worked in the various African and Middle East war zones when negotiating food deliveries into Gaza and climbed Mt. Everest for a UN fundraiser project. He wrote a most interesting book called ‘ From Arafat to Everest’ and it is a really excellent read. Peter is a local boy who spent 12 years in the army. He then spent 6 years with the British Red Cross In the middle East/ Africa and now works for and Australian security company Unity Resources Group out of Dubai. He gave a powerful PowerPoint presentation showing pictures to demonstrate the type of work he was doing and to give his audience a view of the work that is undertaken. Yet another reason to go to District Conferences to hear such excellent keynote presentations. Along with other Sponsors, I received an update from Howard and Deborah this weekend advising about their visit to the Kitenden School in Tanzania, and the great strides made there with our Club and private sponsorship money. Let’s hope that District will be generous with our Grant application for both them and River of Stories. |
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Well we got through the two BBQs ok at both Harvey Norman and Bunnings Albury on Saturday, and thanks to all who worked away on the various shifts. On a day like Saturday I think the Bunnings teams were best off with the site being enclosed from the chill breezes. As some of you may remember, early in June/July this year I accepted the position of District 9790 Coordinator for ROMAC. At sometime during this week should you care to follow the ROMAC links on the website then you will notice the new ROMAC design and information system. Whilst on about websites don’t forget the Club also has its own website, and should you have any matter which can be printed, then please forward any details through to Terry Simmonds.
President’s Message
| It was nice to hear Sandra Moon from 2AY speak so enthusiastically about her life and work last week. Also good to see the attendance figures going upwards again, albeit it included ‘make ups’ etc, but these make ups are for various community based work so are all-important for end of year returns. A small ‘ steering committee’ of your Directors met late last week to start discussions on a longer term ‘Strategic ‘plan for the club. At the moment things are in a very embryonic stage, but you will be fully advised of when the proposal has been more fully discussed by the Board in readiness for you as members to participate in open discussion at a Club Assembly meeting. I am also proposing to hold another club members ‘scatter’ evening sometime in August. To our newer members, this is where we cancel our usual Wednesday lunchtime meeting here at SS&A, and members are free to choose whatever Rotary club they wish to attend as part of the evening and again see what other clubs are up to during their meetings, and report back to members of our club advising on how you felt we compared to them. To gain a wider perspective of both Rotary and its workings please try and go to a different club than your previous visit. I haven’t yet set a date but expect it to certainly be before this year is exhausted. |
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