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President Philip's Weekly Message
I hope everyone
has had a really great Easter break and enjoyed this time with
family and friends.
I’m delighted
to advise that Gaby and Chris Abelskamp had a daughter, Sarah
Ellen, on April 1. Both mother and daughter are doing well and
I’m sure everyone joins with me in congratulating Gaby and Chris
on this wonderful news.
As you are
aware, we have a business breakfast coming up on 20th April and
I’m calling on all Members to support this event. The speaker is
internationally renowned futurist, Rohit Talwar. As an award
winning inspirational speaker, Rohit is also one of the top ten
global future thinkers. Hearing someone of this calibre promises
to be an exceptional opportunity and one we should all promote to
our networks, whether that includes work colleagues, professional
associates and friends. We have had this information out for some
time now and it is critical that we maximise our bookings by the
end of this week. Please help by actioning this early and confirm
your bookings to
meetings@rotary.to
We will circulate another booking form tomorrow.
On a final
note, as I’m away on holidays, Past President Tracey Browne will
be chairing the meeting tomorrow and our guest speaker is our
fabulous police mentee, Lisa Hardeman. I’m sure it will be a
great meeting.
Have a great
week in Rotary.
President Philip
Last Week's Meeting
(Thanks to Mandy for
these brilliant scribe notes)
Meeting 523 Scribe Notes
The meeting
was held in the Drawing room at Crown with a good attendance.
Everyone was
starting to get into holiday mode with Phillip looking forward to a
holiday back in Tasmania with Trish and Gabe and Aurora sporting
matching bright orange T-shirts celebrating their day off work
together and looking very relaxed!
President
Philip confessed to his president's neck piece having been stolen
from his car with a very nice bottle of wine and was very relieved
when he received a phone call from an op-shop saying that they had
the neck piece and was he looking for them. Unfortunately for
Philip, someone else enjoyed a few glasses of nice red wine that
night.
The Guest speaker for the night was Roland Dillon, the District 9800
Ambassadorial Scholar sponsored by our club. He is
getting extremely excited as he is about to set off with his partner
to New York to study his Masters of Public Administration over the
next 12 months. He and some other people passionate about
energy efficiency have started up a group called JUST CHANGE which
is a non for profit organisation and they have set up a programme
trying to improve energy efficiency and equity and working with
landlords and tenants from the lower end of the rental market to
educate and encourage landlords to install energy saving devices
sponsored by business partners.
For Further
information if you are interested you can go to
www.justchangeaustralia.org.
Reminders for
up and coming events :
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Business
breakfast on April 20th at Crown with an excellent speaker talking
about where businesses will be in the next 50 years. Please
register on the website soon if you are looking at attending.
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Service award
night on May 20. Anyone who can help on the night or before
hand please see Clinton or Troy.
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The Kids
Foundation Ball needs help selling tickets and President Philip and
President-Elect Bettina reminded everyone of the club's commitment
to this project and to assist and get behind it. Items are
also required for a silent Auction if anyone has anything to offer.
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Last but not
least the president changeover dinner on July 2.
Stuart then
gave a presentation on updating our website to make it more in line
with what is happening in the online world these days with Twitter,
Facebook and LinkedIn. The new look website will be more of a
community based website with multiple messages from local businesses
and community groups. It will be more a strategy of
association rather than promoting Rotary. Any input and
assistance or suggestions is most welcome.
At next week's
meeting will have Lisa Hardeman, our police mentee as guest speaker.
Lisa is the officer in charge of the St Kilda district who is always
very interesting to listen to. To close the meeting we
exchanged banners with Ivory Roberts from her old Club of Wagga
Wagga.
Have a great
week everyone and a Happy and Safe Easter and hope to see you all
next week.
Rotary Foundation
Thought
This week’s Rotary Foundation Thought
is about the impact of a Group Study Exchange (GSE).
For Stephen Rajamani, an insurance broker in Tamilnadu Provice,
India the GSE experience was life-changing. Rajamani initially
traveled to Brazil to learn about the culture and lifestyle and to
learn about insurance practices there. His team visited many
businesses, educational institutions and government offices. What
Rajamani realized is that human beings are alike every where
throughout the world, from the mayors and dignitaries who extended a
warm welcome to the host families who showered the team members with
affection. Upon returning home, Rajamani became a member of the
Rotary Club of Manapparai and showed his gratitude to The Rotary
Foundation by becoming a Paul Harris Fellow in his first year.
Every Rotarian, Every Year – Be a part of it. Make your annual
gift today.
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