Meeting of August 11th, 2009

First of all...
Alan Brown has asked me to congratulate our club on having over 90% attendance for July! That's an outstanding effort that I'm sure he'll have great pleasure in reporting to DG Irene this week. Well done everybody!

Also, as with last week’s blog, I’ll remind everyone that $250 annual (or $125 half-annual) subs are due to Bob ASAP.

Birthdays...
Rob B’s wife Jo was on August 4th
David W’s wife Kathy is on August 10th
Karl M’s was on August 4th
David W’s is on August 8th
Bob P’s in on August 10th

Last Week (August 4)...
A few points of business were raised:

1. The Edgell Jog will be going ahead on Sunday 13th September 2009 with a kick off time of 10:30am. If we can get as many Rotarians there by about 9:45amto set up for recoding finish times.

2. Anthony J reminded everybody that on Saturday 22nd September, the Tutorial Centre will be having a Garage Sale. Anybody wanting to help out on the day or that have anything in their garage that they'd like to donate should talk to Anthony ASAP.

3. RC of Daybreak will be hosting the District 9700 Conference on March 19-21 2010. It is a massive undertaking and we as a club have agreed to support it. David Weeks will be attending the first meeting of the Bathurst clubs to see what support they will need. I'm sure we'll be hearing from David soon on how we can all help out and show strong inter-club solidarity that Pres Adam is trying to build.

For those few who missed last weeks' meeting, you missed a cracker! Karl and his wife Eva put on a great tag-team show about their travels through Europe. Karl being the eldest male member of his family went over for a family reunion.

They booked their travels through APT Tours. Talk to Karl's son-in-law for more details.

Karl and Eva talked briefly about the planes, trains, boats and cars they took on their travels through Kuala Lumpur, Germany, Holland, etc. but mostly focused on the engineering marvel of the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal that was constructed in 1992. The canal joins the Rhine-Main and the Danube to create a single waterway from the North Sea to the Black Sea, allowing boats to get over the mountain range! The boat they were on took them the entire length from one sea to the other. Karl was amazed at the idea of a boat crossing a mountain range.

Their trip started on the North Sea in Holland and finished on the Black Sea in Romania. They talked extensively about the wines along the and particularly the architecture in Budapest. Karl even went so far as to say that modern builders simply couldn't build some the structures they saw.

By the end, Karl said that his only complaint was that there was (almost) too much culture.

Next Meeting (August 11)...
I’ll remind everyone that DG Irene is visiting our club this week and I know we’re all looking for excellent attendance. So please everyone make a special effort to make this meeting and arrive at 6:15pm. Please invite partners along too.

Adam and Anthony: remember that you’ll need to meet the DG at the club at 5pm. The rest of the Board will meet at the RSL at 5:30pm. To the best of my knowledge, DG Irene has not asked us to come with anything prepared.

In the coming month…
The August 18th meeting will be attended by Peter Flude who will be talking about the Victorian Bushfires. I’m sure this will be a very heart-felt presentation by all because of link to Peter and our substantial financial contribution to the RC of Beaumaris for bushfire relief.

On August 25th, club secretary Anthony will be presenting a technology lesson on the resources at the various Rotary websites, particularly using http://www.rotaryeclubone.org/ to do make up meetings.

On September 1st, I think Frank S is our speaker organiser but I’m not aware of his plans. Can somebody please remind Frank of his upcoming meeting on September 1st?

Then, on September 8th, Adam and Chris are organising the second instalment of the Bathurst interclub challenge. I think the event is tenpin bowling, but I’m sure that Adam and Chris will have more detail as the date approaches. It would be great if our club’s attendance and participation were has high (if not higher) than the snooker night where we had 11 members and took a 1-0 lead towards that championship. If anybody can lend Adam a hand for this event, I’m sure he (and his wife Liz) would relly appreciate it.