Theme:
Literacy Month
Lookout
Reserve Maintenance Roster: Richard Clay 25/3/18 – 7/4/18
GUESTS: Chris
and Barbara Watson, Award recipients and their guests, as below,
Family of Pearl Macmillan – Irene, Norma and Andrea Dunkin, Drew McPhail.
VISITING
ROTARIAN: Nick Raicevic from Papua New Guinea Rotary
Club
PRESIDENTS
REPORT: Western District 9780 Fire Appeal, direct
donations to John Calnin. He is also looking for help with the ‘Pets for the
Disabled’ project, see John Calnin if you can help.
INDUCTION
OF CHRIS WATSON: Classification retired farmer, dairying. Mentor
Geoff Ford.
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| President John with Chris & Barbara Watson |
CHAIR:
Martin Geerings, Presentation of Vocational Awards:
SMALL
BUSINESS EXCELLENCE
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| Terry Nation with Ivy & Tony Zhanu The Groove Cafe |
WINNER: The
Groove Café, Ivy and Tony Zhanu, presented with a cheque for $100. Ivy thanked
Rotary as said how much they enjoyed running a business in Ocean Grove, where
all their customers were known to them and many had become friends.
Nominated
by:
Terry Nation, presented with a cheque for $100. He commended the Café for
employing and training local young people.
PRIDE
OF WORKMANSHIP
WINNER:
Christine Lomas, Customer Service Assistant, Coles, presented with cheque for
$100. Christine thanked Rotary and said how much she appreciated her work.
Nominated
by:
Anne Geerings, presented with a cheque for $100. Anne said that she known
Christene for 35 years. Christene went above her duties in her work. She
started in 1980 at ‘Tucker Bag’. Anne said she would donate her cheque to a
local charity.
Accompanying guests: Neale Lomas, and Alisha McLean.
VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR
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| Robin Munro with Neil & Muriel Derrick |
WINNER: Neil Derrick, Ocean Grove Uniting Church, value
of prize $200, plus cheque for nominated charity for $300. Neil asked that the
prizes be combined and be donated $250 to Riding for the Disabled and $250 to
Surfing for the Disabled. Neil thanked Rotary for the honour and said he felt
very humble. Volunteers keep the country running. He tried to follow the advice
his father gave him when he first left home at age 15 “When you leave a place
make sure it is a better place for your being there”. He thanked his wife
Muriel.
Accompanying
guests: Muriel Derrick.
APPRENTICE OF THE YEAR
WINNER: Corey Grundy, Ocean Grove All Makes Automotive,
presented with a cheque for $500, sponsored by The Ocean Grove Business
Association. The cheque was presented by Ty Symons, OGBA, who said how
important apprentices were to the future of business in the area. Corey thanked
the business for putting him on as an apprentice and giving him a career start.
He also thanked Rotary.
Martin
Geerings congratulated all the winners. He said they had received 3 nominees
for the Apprentice Award, 10 for the Small Business Award, 5 for the Pride of
Workmanship Award and 9 for the Volunteer Award, plus there had been several
late entries. He thanked Tony Haines for preparing certificates for the winners
and all the finalists. An article about the Awards would be put on our website
and would also appear in the Ocean Grove Voice.
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| Martin Geerings & President John with the winners & nominators |
REPORTS:
Alex
McGee – Footy Competition. There were now 20 participants. It
starts this week, so you need to have your entries in by Thursday (too late now
by the time you read this!). He will be away for two weeks, but Geoff Chandler
will be in charge in his absence.
Richard
Clay
– ANZAC dawn service breakfast is being organised. Please let him know if you
can do it again this year.
President
John Calnin thanked the Ocean Grove Business Association
for partnering us in this event. He thanked Martin Geerings for all his work in
organising the Event.
NEXT
WEEK: The guest speaker is Gary Newton, Committee member for
Polio Australia and Ambassador for Ride the Bellarine. He is a Polio survivor
and will talk about the experiences of survivors and his recent trip to India
witnessing the Polio Plus program at work.
Thank you, Ann
Hodgkinson
