eBulletin 19th October 2023 (Oct 16, 2023)

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

Greetigs all

What a week that was? First, the Crows Nest Fair last Sunday. A HUGE thank you to Lea Condell for her splendid organisational skills. What a crowd? What a beautiful day? Plenty of questions about Rotary and what we do. Met Virginia who might become a transfer Rotarian. Met an Italian Rotarian (Ross still remembers his Italian), met three girls from ROTARACT in the Philippines. A drop in from our AG Jenny and surprise visit from DG Christine. We had a great day and plenty of exposure for ROTARY.

LATE BREAKING NEWS: Two investitures on Monday 30^th October at the Crows Nest Hotel, Lunch not dinner! Louise and Catherine to become members. All available members please attend to support this leap forward in our membership drive.

Lots happening, so looking forward to seeing you all on Monday 30^th - lunch.

Cheers for now, off to press my suit for the occasion.

President Tom.

BBQ ROSTER

Our next BBQ is Saturday is 28th October, then November 11 & 25th.

For the latest Roster - Click Here

Meeting Responsibilities Roster

Our next meeting is Monday 30th of October - Lunch Meeting

Our key activity this meeting will be to induct two new members.

Note that the next 2 meetings have swapped between Dinner & Lunch.

Schedule for the year:

Date: 2023	Venue

Monday 30th October	Lunch -Crows Nest Hotel
Monday 6th November	Dinner -Crows Nest Hotel
Monday 13th November	Zoom - AGM
Monday 27th November	Lunch - Crows Nest Hotel
Monday 4th December	Lunch - Crows Nest Hotel
Monday 11th December	Zoom
Monday 18th December	Dinner - Northbridge Golf Club

Lunch meetings: 12.30pm for 12.50pm

Dinner meetings 6.30pm for 7pm

Zoom Meetings 12.30pm. Link: Click here at 12.30pm to join us!

Last Meeting - Monday 16th October

Toast: Tom toasted the Rotary Club of Tel Aviv

General discussion on a number of activities:

Crows Nest Fair was deem a great success with Tom thanking a number of members who contributed under the co-ordination of Leah.

Tom will be following up the 18 people who showed an interest in the club's activities.

Angelo is co-ordinating our numbers for our outing to Joy Sweeney's(Pymble Players) show "Gas Light" on 21st November. Please call Angelo if interested.

Andre has booked the entire theatre, and we are joining a number of other Rotary clubs.

We agreed to support the President of the Rotary club of Dilli(East Timor) with her project to sponsor 25 children to attend Kindergarten, plus a TV for their classroom.

We look forward to her speaking at our Zoom meeting on December 11th. Angelo is encouraging any interested members to join him in East Timor next September.

Tom & Mark are joining Ian next Friday to meet Bunnings to discuss the ongoing BBQ issues / roster.

Successful Board meeting last Thursday, and you are encouraged to read the minutes - link left-hand side at top of eBulletin.

Sue has spoken to a number of charities we support, and they have decided to applied directly to the Crows Nest Station developer for the grants available.

Mark brought back memories of member's travels with his quick summary of his European trip, including some interesting observations.

Member news:

- Polio train will arrive at St. Leonard's station at 2.30pm on October 24th - 220 stations to be visited.

- ROMAC in need of donations

Reminders:

- 15th October - Crows Nest Fair

- 24th October - End Polio Train Ride

- 29th October - Mary's house fund raising walk

- 13th November AGM

- 21st November - GasLight @ Pymble players theatre

- 18th December - Giving Night / Xmas party

- 15th/16th March 2024 - District Conference - Terrigal

- 25th - 29th May - Rotary International Conference - Singapore

Crows Nest Fair - 2023

Sunday October 15th, 2023.

Thanks to the efforts of a number of members, co-ordinated by Leah Condell, Crows Nest Rotary had a extremely successful Crows Nest Fair.

As well as reminding locals we are a key member of the community, we had 182 children taking part in our guessing competition, which lead to 12 "expressions of interest" in the club from their parents. Positioned between 2 food stalls with their queues crossing our stall, we were able to "engage" with the public non-stop.

D-Cafe

Posted on Oct 21, 2022

Nov 13, 2023

Tom Sweeney

Annual General Meeting

Nov 27, 2023

Haran Ramachandran

Rotary Foundation

Dec 11, 2023

Zoom - President Dili Rotary

Sponsorship of Kindergarten Kids

Dec 18, 2023

Ross Gugliotta

Giving Night

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