What a great dinner meeting and Bowls night we had last week with our partners and our friends at the Port Lincoln Bowling Club! I’m sure everyone enjoyed ourselves, whether novice or otherwise, and just to put icing on the cake, the aggregate scores ended in Rotary’s favour!
Many thanks go to Murray Lubcke for carefully putting it all together for us. There was a lot of work for him to do in the background, to say nothing of him and Tony Brown for organising the actual teams and games for the night, and ensuring that the catering with the PLBC ladies was up to the usual standard, even including the coffee and biscuits afterwards! We can now look forward to participating in next years’ “Jack May Memorial Challenge” and another lovely meal prepared by the ‘Catering Corps’ of the PLBC.
It was an opportune time to make a couple of presentations; one to Michael Geeves (PLBC) with a new set of accredited wheels, donated by our Club, so he is now able to play bowls in his wheelchair, anywhere, Australia-wide; and another to Bill Stenson (pre-membership) in appreciation of his time and resources donated to D9500 Rotary Youth Exchange, in taking the students (and their minders) out to his oyster lease at Coffin Bay, letting them eat loads of oysters and then visit his processing plant; while they were staying at Nyroca Scout Camp in March for the annual surfing weekend.
Congratulations and a warm welcome to our newest member Bill Stenson, and his wife Jackie on joining the Rotary Club of Port Lincoln and our wider Rotary family.
For this week’s dinner meeting we have a young ex-Cummins woman, Kelly Taylor as our guest speaker, talking to us about her role whilst working on North Sea Oil platforms off Aberdeen, Scotland, over the last few years. With a story like that I have no doubt that she will surely hold our interest!!
NB: Remember we have committee meetings afterwards.
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 make sure you put a note in your diary for the Combined Service Clubs Dinner at Ravendale on Tuesday 27 April at $30 pp; we are committed to do some fundraising for the ‘Shelterbox Project’.
We will be organising a public display of the sample ‘shelterbox’ tent etc opposite the Post Office on
Friday and Saturday; 23, 24 April, with a BBQ, some tin-rattling and a small raffle drawn daily for the public.
Planning of the display with Rotary volunteers to erect, man and dismantle the display each day will be made via the roster sheet, and attendance at the Dinner for Rotarians, partners and guests, if you would like to invite them, will be via the attendance sheet being circulated 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 offer a few items for auction as well!
Next week: We look forward to our guest speaker Robin Matthews, a Maralinga Overseer with interesting tales to tell of the effects on the environment and the neighbouring Aboriginal people and their lands, following the atomic tests there in the 1950s and the subsequent ‘clean-up’ by the UK Government more recently in the late 80s, early 90s. |
