I’d like to thank Jack A from bringing along the Youth Award winner for August, Emily Brady.
Also, I’d like to say welcome back to Graeme as a visiting Rotarian. I’m sure Graeme will be back this week since he took home the H&T honours along with the bottle of wine that went with it. Graeme also took on a three-minuter spot to tell us about his club
Also a visiting Rotarian, we met Steve from Tamworth (NOT Wagga, Adam!). Steve also took a few minutes to tell us about RC of West Tamworth.
September dates to note...
David N’s birthday is on the 10th (hope it was a good one David)
Anthony’s wife Bronwyn has a birthday on the 25th
The 42nd wedding anniversary of Bob and Jenny is on the 30th
Last week’s meeting (September 8, 2009)…
Anthony J has indicated that he’ll be looking for help to liaise with RC Bathurst Daybreak about the assistance they will need in organising the 2010 District Conference. To whoever meets with RC Daybreak about the roles our club will take on, be sure to confer with the senior members of our club before agreeing to anything. We have already agreed to “do the golf”.
Bob P reports that he is planning to begin planning for our annual golf tournament, a different event than the golf for the District Conference. Bob will be calling for committee members very soon. The golf tournament is a major fund raiser for our club so this is an all-hands-on-deck event.
President Adam let us know that we are locked into the bowling lanes on October 6. We have a total of six lanes booked, four for the tournament and two family lanes. The family bowling will kick off at 6 p.m. while Rotarians will have a usual start time of 6:15 for 6:30 p.m. at the bowling lanes. We’ll bowl first and then eat after. I’ll happily put my hand up to be on the food service squad. Bowling teams will be made up of four Rotarians per team with two teams facing off per lane.
Considering that the bowling night that was supposed to happen this evening was postponed and we had no alternate plan for this evening, the meeting was a short one and we adjourned at 7:30 p.m. To close the meeting we had what was perhaps the more horrible "singing" of the national anthem in our club’s history :-)! Without a proper musical note being hit we eventually limped across the finish line, but we all hope that Pres Adam has made a note to never (EVER) ask Peter F to lead us off again!
This week (September 15, 2009)…
This week, Tim S has arranged for Peter Carter to come speak to us. Peter is a herpetologist, which is to say that he specialises in snakes and lizards. Tim, thanks for sending me the email over the week to inform me of our guest speaker plan… or was it your wife Sue who actually sent the email? I suspect that it was in fact Sue, which naturally will cost you a fine at this week’s meeting.
In the coming weeks…
Just to keep everybody up to date, I’ll send out the following reminder to please think well ahead and let me know what’s happening well in advance with whom their guest speaker will be. The idea behind this blog is raise awareness among members about what’s planned for each meeting. I think that in the last few months attendance has been really good in no small part to well planned and well run meetings (well done Pres Adam!), so let’s all stay on top our meeting schedule.
On September 22nd, we have Bob P addressing the club about nuclear power. We all know that Bob certainly knows about supplying power so, as the power demands of the world increase, we should all take a big interest in what Bob has to say.
As far as I know, on September 29th we still have Peter F planning the food service certificate. I know there were some logistical issues with the number of computers available. Pete, if some of us have our own laptops that we could bring, would that help? Also Pete, can you please let me know where and when we all will be meeting?
I see on the schedule that the meeting on October 6th is David N and October 13th is David W. Can you both please let me know by phone or email ASAP what your plans are please?
Then, on October 20th, President Adam has planned our AGM. Obviously, attending the club’s AGM is an important date on the calendar where we can discuss all matters of club business. This is a night that all Rotarians should make a special effort to attend.
Since I'm the writer of this blog I can say whatever I want. Since the Eels will play the Dragons in about 15 minutes...
Go the Eels!
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