As you all
know, we are now well into the final stages of actioning the
Community Service Awards. We’ve decided on seven award
categories, being homelessness, youth services, the environment,
mental health, community leadership, emergency services and
vocational support. Any help you can bring to the Community
Service Awards team in encouraging a group active in one of these
areas, or a philanthropic foundation or corporate interested in
sponsoring one of these categories, please bring this to the
attention of Steven McInnes.
Next week we
are visiting the Rotary Club of Docklands en masse in lieu of our
normal meeting. Our Club Service Director, Gordon Hastie, and
Narina have organised a fun evening with them and I’m looking
forward to visiting the newest club in our District and sharing an
evening of fellowship.
Bulletin
Editor, Gabe Hau, has introduced our footy tipping competition,
which should bring out the competitive spirit in most of us. If
you haven’t signed up, please do so and encourage our Friends of
Rotary and your work colleagues to also join in. The more we
raise, the better our competition and the greater additional
dollars for our projects.
Have you come
across anyone new in your work travels who may be interested in
becoming a Member? With just over three months to go in this
Rotary year, we should not take our eyes off our Membership
drive.
Have a great
week in Rotary.
President Philip
(Thanks to President Nominee
Clinton for
these cool scribe notes)
Meeting 521 Scribe Notes
This meeting
was a Friends of Rotary night.
For this meeting, President Philip invited club members to speak
about various activities they were looking after. This provided a
great way for guests to find out more about the various activities
the club is involved in.
Troy explained what the Friends of Rotary is. Basically it
allows anyone who is not a member to attend any dinner meetings and
fellowship events without being a full member. This is also a
great way for people who want to be a part of the club but is not
able to commit the time in being a member.
Clinton gave a quick run down of the community events coming up and
asked if any members would be interested in assisting with
organising the Kids Foundation Ball.
Tracey spoke about the upcoming street soccer and asked all members
to advise Tracey even if they can't make it.
Rhys spoke about STEPS and how this organisation works with the
homeless on the steps of Flinders St station. The organisation
will be having its 25th birthday in October and will be celebrating
with a ball at that time. The club is also assisting them to
publish a book to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
Steven M, the Community Service Awards project director, explained
what this award was about and showcased the brand new brochure that
will be distributed to the community.
Steven A, the Foundation director, talked about his experience at
the recent Perth conference. Steven also gave us a brief of
Rolan Dillin who will be guest speaker at the club in two weeks
time.
Stuart M provided an update to the work he and other members are
doing by creating and relaunching a new looking club website.
Gordon gave a very comprehensive list of the packed activities
coming up for the next few months.
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Next Tuesday's
meeting is at RC Docklands
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30th March -
Roland Dillin will be guest speaker
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6th April our
Police mentoree will be guest speaker
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20th April
will be the business breakfast with Rohit Talwar, the futurist
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4th May Rotary
Concert
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29th May Kids
Foundation Ball
