Well, it can only be many congratulations to our Tunarama Chairman Greg Honeychurch and his very hard working committee in particular, for all their valuable efforts and a wonderful outcome.
Also applause-a-plenty to all those members and wives who volunteered their time to participate in so many ways (too numerous to mention); making the 2010 Tunarama a big success, with great rewards for our Club, which will flow out in the community later in this Rotary year!
I must take this opportunity to thank you all, on behalf of DG Alun Hughes and his wife Vicky, for making them most welcome during the weekend, and for ensuring they could play a positive part in our activities including serving a couple of ‘afternoon shifts’ on the Tuna Stall.
They enjoyed themselves immensely.
We all had the opportunity, including the Board of Directors, to show them the intent of our Club and where we stand in our community and the positive role we do play in District 9500, now and into the future.
Some of the elements of what we do go largely unseen, so we need to create a more prominent profile for ourselves and our Club, by making sure we are more obvious in what we do in the community, via media and public relations generally.
We look forward to Greg’s report on our Tunarama project tonight.
This week we welcome our wives and partners, as we are very proud to welcome back our Rotary Youth Exchange student, Melina Benson, who has been our ambassador in Assens, Denmark for the last 12 months.
We look forward to her presentation about her exchange year. I know she‘s had ‘the year of her life’, and now much more mature in many ways for the experience, must quickly settle back into the Aussie way of life and throw herself into her Marine Science course at the University in Lismore NSW, in the next couple of weeks.
In between, she will attend a debriefing with the D9500 RYE Committee next Sunday in Adelaide, along with the other students for 2009.
Welcome back too, to Victoria Barker with her parents Michael and Lyn and sister, Ava.
Victoria was nominated by us, but sponsored by KI Rotary Club. She spent her exchange year in southern Germany near the Swiss border and is looking forward to giving us a presentation about her exchange year
Quite a few people will be away at the Crabbing weekend later this week. Good luck with the fishing and travel safely, enjoy yourselves and don’t get up to too much no-good!!
Remember, if you can’t be good, be careful and of course what goes away stays away except if Sergeant Forbes gets to hear about it!
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