This week’s meeting has been an ‘annual event’ for some time, with just a couple of ‘misses’ in the last few years. Our club has supported the summer night competition at the Port Lincoln Bowling Club for quite a few of years now, and this season “The Rotary Rascals” won the ‘B’ Division. Permanent players were Jackie and David Johnston, Rosemary Lubcke and Danny Eglinton, with fill-in players being Kuno Seeman, Bill Watkins, Adrian Glover and even Murray Lubcke on the odd occasion.
Well done to everyone involved. It was great fun.
I have discussed the probability with the PLBC that we continue to hold this meeting with their members, as an annual event on both the Rotary and Bowling Club calendars, and I would very much like to call it the “Jack May Memorial Challenge”. Bernice May was quite excited about the proposition.
It will be an enduring way of reminding us of such an adored member of Rotary and the wider community; who passed away nearly 2½ years ago on the 17 November 2007. How time flies!!
There will not be any trophy involved, as that would not have been his wish, but just an occasion to reflect on a well respected man about town and the Eyre Peninsula.
This week I have the pleasure of inducting our second new member for this Rotary year.
We will welcome Bill Stenson and his wife Jackie into our Rotary Club and family;
All this, and a couple more presentations to boot!
Sue Dahl’s session last week about “Living with Asthma” was very well presented and there were many good questions about asthma and the work of the Asthma Foundation. I’m sure we all gained a clearer vision of what we can all do in reducing the impact of asthma and other respiratory conditions on our day-to-day lives and those of others.
On Thursday afternoon Gus Preston and I had an opportunity to have a coffee with Brea Price and Jonathan Argent, to wish these candidates all the best for the RYLA Camp in Adelaide in April. They are both very astute young people and enthusiastic about the opportunity they have with RYLA. They look forward to giving us a report on the Camp and their personal achievements, at our meeting on 4 May.
Our annual break-up meeting will be at Nyroca from Friday 25 to Sunday 27 June for our usual camping weekend, and end of year lunch on the Sunday. This will be in lieu of our Tuesday meeting on the 29 June which has been consequently cancelled.
Please put a note in your diary about the Combined Services Dinner Meeting at Ravendale on Tuesday 27 April at $30 pp; we are committed to do some fundraising for ‘Shelterbox Australia’.
We will be organising a public display of the sample ‘shelterbox’ tent etc opposite the Post Office on 22-24 April with a BBQ, some tin-rattling and a small raffle drawn daily for the public.
Planning of the display with Rotarian volunteers to erect, man and dismantle the display each day will be made later via a roster sheet, and attendance at the Dinner for Rotarians, partners and guests, if you would like to invite them, will be via an attendance sheet doing the rounds at the next few meetings.
We will have several raffles running at the dinner, and judging by the sponsorship gained for prizes to date, we may have the opportunity to have a few items to auction as well!
Next week: Committee meetings, and in addition we look forward to our guest speaker Kelly Taylor, a former Cummins lass married to Anton, who will tell us about her role as bio-assayist working on oil rigs in the North Sea off Scotland. |
