September Theme: New Generation
Rotary Supporters: The activities that we have coming up are listed below.
We would appreciate any help that we can get from our Rotary Supporter Group.
Lookout Reserve Roster: 25.9.16 – 8.10.16 Marion & Bill Walton, 9.10.16 – 22.10.16 Gill Morgan, 23.10.16 – 5.11.16 Alex Magee
Visitors – Gabrielle Peters from Ocean Grove Scouts and partners Anne Geerings, Jan Chandler & Ann Magee.
Presidents Report:
Judy thanked John Calnin for the very successful car rally & Graham Chamberlain for organizing the food.
The website has photo's of the car rally for those who could not come & missed all the fun.
The photo exhibition has been cancelled, because it has been hard to get a committee together & the availability of suitable display screens – the folder will be kept & may be used again at some time in the future.
Judy called for a meeting after the meeting of all present in the running of the markets.
Judy presented Gabrielle Peters with a cheque $586.30 for the gold coin donations at the September Market.
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| President Judy Greer & Gabrielle Peters |
Gabrielle told us the scout troup has had a 50% increase taking their members to 55 & 20 youth members at scouts, as traditional fund raising gets more difficult our cheque is most welcome.
Rotary Club of Geelong East has three interesting Guest speakers over the next three months & has issued an invitation to our club to attend.
27th September – Graham Gordon with the topic: Membership Success. Sharing his ideas on how he went about rebuilding his club.
Attendance deadline: 12 noon, Friday 23rd September.
25th October – Mark Evans (AFL Football Manager) with the topic: Umpiring the AFL. Discussing the way in which the AFL approaches umpiring and the rational for decisions.
Attendance deadline: 12 noon Friday 21st October.
29th November – Malcolm Baird with the topic: Rotary Action Group Against Child Slavery. Malcolm speaks about the horrors & impact of child slavery on behalf of RAGACS.
Attendance deadline 12 noon Friday 25th November.
Vocational: Martin reported that we have 26 member booked for the Oakdene visit – he needs to have 30 to make the visit viable.
Social: John gave us an update on the club Variety night on the meeting night 4th October.
He will use both rooms – has 11 acts booked at this stage & has a good attendance response from most people. It should be a great fun night & a chance for some laughter & fellowship.
Cost is $22 per person & friends & family are most welcome
Please email John with bookings.
Community: John Wynn reported – Progress is continuing for the Bike Shelter.
The water feature depends on the builder who is away for a further two weeks.
He has had a donation of clothing from St Peters Church & is planning a DIK collection for mid October.
Membership survey: Vic reported 23 members had completed the survey the results will be available in a few weeks.
Footy Tipping: Bill Walton tipped both winning team in the Semi Finals.
Market: Graham is still looking for volunteers for the market – Sandie is away & a roster sheet will be prepared when she returns, Geoff Chandler wants help with the parking.
Meeting: 20.09.2016
Katie Geerings gave us a picture of her very busy job with the AFL.
Katie started her career as a P.E & Maths teacher. – Moved to cricket development in Queensland. Kate is now responsible for all the regions football & netball leagues – 49 clubs, 399 football teams, 1777 coaches 430 umpires 10500 footballers, 52 Auskick centres, and 8500 volunteers which is a huge work load.
She assists with club development, recruiting of junior members & the funding of Auskick.
Kate in also keenly involved with the development of Female football
In 2015 there were 4 girls teams – now in 2016 there are 17 teams.
Thank you all, Coral
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The Four Way Test: 2016-2017 Theme: Rotary Serving Humanity
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL and better FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
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Laughter is the best medicine:
- Two aerials meet on a roof - fall in love - get married. The ceremony was rubbish - but the reception was brilliant.
- Another one was: Doc, I can't stop singing the 'Green Green Grass of Home'. He said: 'That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome'. 'Is it common? 'I asked. 'It's not unusual' he replied.
- I'm on a whiskey diet. I've lost three days already.
- A man walks into a bar with a roll of tarmac under his arm and says: ''Pint please, and one for the road.''
- I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'Have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.
