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From the President’s desk
15
August 2018
Last Week
Do not let it be said Rotary is dull, with emails, mobile phone
calls, meetings and presentations. Rotary is bubbling along, gone
are the weekly Wednesday punctuation breaks.
Chalmers Road
School
Firstly, it was a pleasure to be at Chalmers Road School, for the
presentation of the big and little cheques for $10,000 by
‘Superman’. The Club was represented by Usha, Andrew, Roy, Anuradha,
Rod, Honorary Member Jodie, and myself. Rick was there, AKA,
Superman. The presentation was the moneys raised from Rick’s
marathon run on Hamilton Island earlier in the year. The children
were overjoyed, and the staff welcomed us with a morning tea. The
School, from the clothing pool, presented to Superman a new top,
with a big S and the school badge on the left corner. This School is
close to all our hearts. On the way out Usha and Roy spotted the
school bus, with the signage “presented by the Rotary Club of
Strathfield”, as the old paint jingle went “keep on keeping on”. An
initiative of Rod's year in 2006-07 he did not need to be asked
twice to take a photo! Check out our web page (and the end of this
bulletin, Ed) for the photographs.
New Strathfield
Golf Club
After the Chalmers Road presentation, Rod, Usha and I breezed over
to the new Strathfield Golf Club (SGC). My visual observation was it
is still under construction and fit-out, still being finished off.
When completed, it will be a magnificent building and venue. The
Club are hopeful this will be in September. We are supportive,
hoping to be back there soon. In short, it is big, modern, reminding
me of a large city hotel with multi room conference venue
facilities. It is no longer a large dining room on the other side of
the bar. It is too early to conceive when our return will be; the
Club caterers have asked us to wait a while. In the meantime we have
a good team of scratch negotiators ready to tee off, with Paolo in
the buggy caddying for them. These boys know the game, and can chip
in off the green.
Drought-affected families
At our Club meeting on Wednesday, we applied our Sergeant fines and
Raffle, plus a bit more to hit $1,000. The funds will be donated to
provide relief for drought-affected families. To understand how
little rain we have had, take a short drive out to Menangle near
Camden or Silverdale near Wallacia (both localities are in the
Nepean River and Warragamba Dam catchments). The paddocks are brown,
frost burnt native grasses are holding the soil together. I was At
Silverdale last Sunday, when the August winds came up, and the brown
dust also came up. Whilst herein Strathfield, the closest Bureau of
Meteorology (BOM) station is at Olympic Park, near the Archery
Field, (Station 066195). The rainfall for the month of July, was
3.6mm, and so far for August 3.0mm. The annual mean is 911mm. As an
observation, Strathfield Golf Club was the site of another BOM
Station before it closed in 2016. An old member tells me it was on
the Practice Fairway, now new housing, funding the new club venue.
Working with
children check
Final reminder, if you are pondering completing the working with
children check, please move it up the list, as Ed said, “if not why
not”. The Club percentage has to be greater than 45% it is
currently.
Charles
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