July 14

Last Week

First of all, a correction to my spelling of Andrew Camilleri’s last name in last week’s blog. Sorry Andrew. As well as to my spelling of Pardey (with an e).

On a technical note, I think I’ve fixed the code for printing the Bulletin from Firefox so you should have no problems now (thanks Alan for pointing this problem out). For the rest of you who have no idea what I’m talking about… never mind.

We had an excellent roll up for Adam’s first meeting as president, including Danielle’s first meeting back since arriving home from Italy. The meeting was started with the presentation of a few cheques from President Adam to:

1. Anthony Johnson - A cheque was presented that would be going towards the Tutorial Centre’s new interactive white board.
2. Steve Ellery - A cheque was presented to the PCYC, and Steve made special mention of the school breakfast program.
3. Eric Drinkwater – A cheque was presented to the Western Region Academy of Sport, and Eric made special mention of the weightlifting program and their upcoming competition.

During the Club Assembly, the first order of business was the meeting schedule (up to after the Christmas break) that Rob Barlow has put together (see below). We all know the importance of having guest speakers and ensuring that notification of who they are and what their topic is appears in the Bulletin at lest a week in advance. So please, plan your guests well ahead and don’t leave the rest of us wondering what’s going to be happening at that evening’s meeting. Even if you’re not going to be at the meeting, be sure that we’ll take excellent care of your guest. So, when you know what you’ll be doing for your meeting, let me know so I can put it in the bulletin.

Steve Ellery raised the idea of promoting the club in the community by sponsoring a Rotary Community Hero program, similar to the Jack Aubin Youth Award but for adults. In addition to raising awareness of the club, this award would also have the effect of brining to the club potential members each month. Concerns were raised that a local radio station already struggles to find nominations for a similar sort of award. As a club we agreed that it would be worth investigating.

Jack Aubin was vocal about the club’s participation in high-visibility community projects, such as the New Year ’s Eve fireworks. Notwithstanding Bob’s misspent youth stuffing crackers into letter boxes, Jack was not suggesting we have any involvement in the fireworks themselves, but that we could do a sausage sizzle or something. Danielle said she would get us more details on how to get involved.

Steve Ellery also began the discussion of Rotaract, which spurred on the discussion of our involvement into other youth programs (RYPEN, RYLA, NYSF, etc.). This also began the discussion about why not having possible Rotaract members as Rotarians. To the best of my knowledge, there was no decision made of if we would 1) pursue sponsoring a Rotaract Club or 2) invite potential Rotaract members to visit our club meetings. I’m sure discussion will be ongoing.

Finally, as a club, we all agreed that in principle we would support Arthur Cheers’ involvement with the “Ties Around the Mount” project in support of men living with prostate cancer.

This took us until 8:30 that evening so we decided to call the meeting to a close.

This Week
Attending this week as our guest speaker will be Fiona Thompson from the Bathurst’s Conservatorium of Music. She’ll be presenting to us about the Conservatorium’s role in the community and the sort of things our annual contribution to them goes toward.

In the coming weeks
Please check the schedule to make sure you know when you’ll be responsible for a guest speaker. Please plan ahead and let me know as soon as you have a plan so I can get it in the bulletin well in advance.


July 7th (Adam) Club Assembly – plan the year

July 14th (Eric) Conservatorium of music

July 21st (Greg) John Bx City Library- Charles Bean

Wed July 29th (Adam) RC BX East – inter club challenge – snooker

Aug 4th (Karl) Karl M Experiences of Europe

Aug 11th (Adam) DG – Club Visit Partners Welcome

Aug 18th (Alan) Peter Flude – The Victorian Bushfires

Sat Aug 22nd (Anthony) Garage Sale at the Tutorial Centre

Aug 25th (Anthony) Technology lesson – using Rotary website etc

Sep 1st (Frank)

Sep 8th (Adam/Chris) RC BX – interclub challenge-tenpin bowls

Sun Sep 13th EDGELL JOG

Sep 15th (Tim)

Sep 22nd (Bob) Nuclear Power

Sep 29th (Peter F) Training – food service certificate

Oct 6th (David N)

Oct 13th (David W)

Oct 20th (Adam) Club business forum - AGM

Oct 27th (Arthur)

Nov 3rd (Andrew)

Nov 10th (Adam) RC BX Daybreak interclub challenge –lawnbowls

Nov 17th (Peter C)

24th (Rob) Charles Darwin lecture dinner BMEC – fossils

Dec 1st (David L)

Dec 8th (Nev D)

Dec 15th (Chris B)

Dec 22nd (Adam) Christmas Party

Dec 29th No meeting

Jan 5th No meeting

Jan 12th (Rob) Informal cycling/walking BBQ River Park

Jan 19th (Steve E) Family BBQ, tennis, bowls, swim, badminton

Jan 26th (Committee) Aust day, duck race