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1 May 2019

Hi all
Trish Foundation
Tonight, Wednesday, 01 May 2019, is our first true “Partners night”, so we will present to Niall King, on behalf of the Trish Foundation, the money raised from our Golf Day, on 21 February, 2019. The Trish Foundation funds research to MS Research Foundation (click)

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is illness that former Rotarian and tonight’s speaker, Niall, knows well. His late wife Carroll passed away near 2 years ago. Niall and Carroll were at Rotary regularly, Partners Nights same as this evening. Over a number of years we saw the impact of this disease on Carroll and the dedication of Niall, her husband.

It is important from a community prospective we hear Niall’s story. This disease is not uncommon, I know someone with MS, and likely lot of you do too. A greater community knowledge of MS, will benefit research and funding towards a cure.

Finally on the Trish Golf Day, we are back as we were, in 2012, a Rotary Club, a small community in its self, providing moral and financial support for a cure for MS, and a Club member, searching for the cure for his lovely wife. The success of the research in recent years have been great, the Trish web page has much to say, follow the link. Niall will tell us more.

Anzac Memorial Service

On Sunday morning 23 April, 2019, I attended the local Anzac Day Service, while the Club was part of the formal ceremony, our Council Members, Mayor Gulian Vaccari, as Mayor, and Councillor Nella Hall were there as Local Government representatives and our Honorary Member Jodie McKay, also there as the NSW Parliamentary Member for Strathfield. A hand full of local residents, representatives of the schools, military and local government dignitaries were there including the Turkish Consulate. It was a moving ceremony, and from the order of service comes the poem for the week, The Recessional, by Rudyard Kipling (click)

Flash-Back
On Anzac Day, I drove out to Richmond, and in Windsor Street, (the main street), there were election posters, with the smiling faces of the candidates. One such candidate was our former Rotary Exchange Student, to Mexico, in the 1980s, Susan Templeman MP. Bob, her father was a former President of this Club, and introduced me to membership of the Club. Susan would write letters of her visits and activities to the Club, and I, as then Bulletin Editor, would add extracts of these to the Club Bulletin. Susan’s poster smile is her mother’s in the 1980s.

Gratitude

The students say thanks

Charles

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