Ange’s Thoughts
A reminder that our monthly market is on this Sunday. Please note the hour later ‘winter’ start time. It’s a move appreciated by our early team AND most, if not all, stallholders.
We are currently finalising arrangements for next week’s Changeover, including the Changeover bulletin. All systems are ‘go’ as we near the end of this Rotary year.
The monthly CAERH (Carers’ Accommodation for the Eurobodalla Regional Hospital) meeting took place last Thursday. President Elect Lynn Hastings represented our Club. CAERH Secretary Steve Young said points covered included documentation regarding the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profit Commission (ACNC) application. The 4WD Electric car raffle with the Coastal Auto Group is progressing. The committee will be applying for tax deductibility for donors.
This Thursday (22nd June) we’re in for a great night. First, it’s an opportunity to personally congratulate Lachie Penglase on being selected by District for the 2024 Rotary Youth Exchange. Then it will be hearing from our guest speakers Shirley Cornish and John Gillett from Moruya Rotary Club about their experiences at the Rotary International Convention in Melbourne recently. Just imagine! Twelve Moruya Rotarians went, all accommodated in an apartment building arranged by a Rotary mate. They headed out together each day and tried a different restaurant at night. Apparently they had a ball!
Adam De Totth will also be joining us for the last time as our Area 6 Governor.
THIS THURSDAY 22ND JUNE
We welcome Moruya Rotarians President Shirley Cornish and PP John Gillett who will give a PowerPoint presentation on ‘Twelve Moruya go to the RI Convention in Melbourne’, or something like that… A great effort by Moruya.
The Week that Was
News from Moruya Club
Moruya Rotarians have put together toiletry kits for Rotary Australia’s ‘End Trachoma Project’ over the last 18 months. Trachoma is the leading cause of infectious blindness in the world, caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis, yet it is preventable. It is in 40 countries, mostly poorer counties, with Australia the only developed country affected in any major way by the disease.
Sandi Fulcher of RC Chadstone/ East Malvern, the overall co-ordinator of the project, said they are working with the World Health Organization to end trachoma in Australia. There’s a high incidence in Australian Indigenous communities; the project’s major focus is on the goldfields of Western Australia, Alice Springs, and central and remote communities of the Northern Territory.
End Trachoma is a simple project – to provide these communities with assistance in sanitary measures, and with facial and environmental cleanliness. Rotary provides hand wash stations, toiletry kits, towels, dust suppressors and water transport trailers, among several other measures, to encourage improved facial cleanliness.
Moruya Rotary has now delivered five boxes of 17 family toiletry kits, six extra kids’ kits and a few spare toiletries to Pack and Send in Camberwell, Victoria where they will go with the latest boxes from the Rotary clubs of Frankston North and Rochester to Alice Springs. Moruya Rotarians made and labelled the drawstring bags before filling them with appropriate toiletries.
A note on Changeovers
Clubs in the Bega Valley seem to stagger their Changeovers so members from other clubs can attend and support their neighbours. In the Eurobodalla, while Moruya’s Changeover is on Tuesday next week, the Bay’s and ours are on the same night. Moruya is expecting about 65 at their Changeover next Tuesday, including seven from Batemans Bay Club and our VP Julie Hartley. Perhaps something to consider for next year…
NEXT THURSDAY 29th
Our most prestigious event of the year is next Thursday 29th June – our Changeover. Please make sure you have informed Gero if you are/ are not coming by this Friday, preferably by noon. Your booking will be confirmed by direct deposit into our Administration account at the same time – details on the invitation. Cost is $50 p.p. Hope we see you there.