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12 June 2019
Hi all
Changeover is near 22 June. 2019
Changeover is quickly approaching, and I am reflective of the events
of the year, and the Club’s achievements. It was only year ago we
were meeting at the Massey Park Golf Club, at Concord, not
Strathfield. The Strathfield Golf Club, our home, was being rebuilt,
the catering had changed, there were new dynamics and doubt on our
return to this venue. As we all know, in October, 2018, we were back
at a wonderful venue with great dinners and speakers.
Meeting and dinning is only part of this successful year, the Club
has worked together, maintaining a strong community presence and
sharing the fellowship of a great bunch of guys and gals.
Rotary is an important to the local community and in our children’s
schools, as someone once said it’s great to be a Rotarian.
A reminder of this great year, Christmas In July, the P resentation
of the $10, 000 to Chalmers Road, from Rick’s Year , Police Officer
of the Year Awards, Pride of Workmanship Awards, welcoming back the
Trish Golf Day, Election day BBQ support for Chalmers Road, Youth
Achievement Awards, Salvation Army Red Shield , and only in the last
week the collection of the Bowl Scan kits from pharmacies.
Rotary is continuously working with great results.
Join us in our
once-a-year evening (click), for ourselves, to thank the Board
for the last year and welcome Ari and his Board for the next year,
2019/2020. It can only be greater, so be there.
(Click image for details/payment)
Bowel Scan
Club members together with their partners, Peter Smith (Captain),
Rod, Janelle, Sue Byrne, Raymond, and Gulian distributed and
collected kits to 20 local pharmacies, even beyond Strathfield, The
project was over months, April to June, 2019. The Clubs
participation was part of National Bowel Scan and the Kits collected
are forwarded onto for testing and reporting back is to the
participants doctor. Bowel Scan is a national health project, as
many of us have received birthday kits from the Australian
Government. In fact there is one on the top of my desk, waiting for
me... Found it!
In reporting the Club's participation, I learnt, Rotary Bowel Scan
program was first developed in 1982 in Lismore, northern New South
Wales by a local doctor and member of the Rotary Club of Lismore, Dr
Bill Brand who identified the need for a low cost, easy to use
diagnostic test for bowel cancer. To repeat, it’s great to be a
Rotarian.
Congratulations to Di North
The Club is pleased to congratulate Di North, the 9675 District
Governor Elect for 2019/2020.on awarded Medal for the Order Of
Australia (OMA). On reading
Di’s
citation (click), there is more to Di activities than Rotary.
Congratulations to Susan Templeman
Congratulations to Susan Templeman, on being elected to the Federal
Parliament, as the Member for Macquarie, covering lower Blue
Mountains, the Hawkesbury towns of Richmond and Windsor.
Susan is a former exchange student of this Club, to Mexico, and the
daughter of Past President Bob Templeman. It was Bob who asked me to
join Rotary, when he and his wife Jan were proprietors of the
Strathfield Newsagency. It was wonderful to see Bob and Jan at the
Trish Golf Day cheque presentation with Honorary Member Niall King.
Poem
The poem this week is
Calling Me
Home (click), by John O’Brien, the pen name for a Catholic
Priest, Patrick Hartigan. Written in the early twentieth century, he
was dreaming of returning to the bush.
Another John O’Brien poem is
The One
Ton Truck (click), I suggest you read this 1930’s poem on the
trip to church in a one ton truck . This poem is possibly lost in
time. I do remember dogs chasing cars!
Charles
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