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Golf Club Developments
What an exciting time for Strathfield Golf Club, and its members!
Neil Hardy, General Manager of Strathfield Golf Club gave us a
wonderful presentation on the course and clubhouse developments last
week. The journey to this point has been one of Hollywood script
proportions! Neil did (several times) mention the SIGNIFICANT
contribution our very own IPP Stephen Taylor made in positioning the
club to reap the ultimate $52.5 million price tag the Club sold that
relatively small parcel of land for these residential developments.
It truly saved the (then almost broke) club from oblivion. What a
great story. Now we have before us a new clubhouse in development
that we will occupy next April, that I think I will now refer to as
StrathVegas! And the new ‘Rotary Room’ will house up to 300 members
and guests, Gulian!
RESCA Night
On Friday night a number Strathfield Rotarians, partners and friends
attended the annual RESCA night, this time at Bankstown Sports
Club. Now that place is truly a BanksVegas! With some 400 people
in the room, including the Governor of NSW (now get this as a title)
– His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley AC, DSC. Wow,
what a mouthful, and this was repeated several times during the
night as various speakers took to the microphone.
Anyway, congratulations to Daniel Hatton from Bulli Fire and Rescue
for being awarded the most outstanding paid emergency service
worker, and congratulations to Timothy Lidden from Wagga Wagga
Volunteer Rescue Association for being awarded the most outstanding
volunteer emergency worker. Every one of the finalists were amazing
with what they are achieving. The proceeds from the evening are
going to send a Vocational Training Team to Vanuatu to help the
emergency services there deal with natural disasters. We wish team
leader Ian Johnson and his team every success. An Australian Rotary
Health PhD Scholarship is also being funded to research Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder in emergency service personnel.
Many thanks to Paolo for arranging the Strathfield Rotary contingent
– some 15 members and guests in total. Wait till you see some of
the photos from the night taken by Sylvia Alafaci of the Five Dock
club. Will be fun.
Board Meeting Next Week
Just a reminder to all club members (and Board Members!) we have
our August Board Meeting scheduled for next week – Tuesday, 15th
August 2017, at The Crossways Hotel in the ‘Rotary Room’ of that
fine establishment, from 6:30pm for 7:00pm. All are welcome! There
is plenty of fellowship both before and after the meeting. We’ll be
having dinner before / at the beginning of the meeting, and the
first 30-minutes (Agenda Item #1) will be a visit from Board and
Staff from the Catherine Sullivan Centre. We will together discuss
with us how we may be able to partner with them to raise funds to
develop their Sound, Sense and Song phonetic awareness program, for
development of literacy skills in the hearing impaired children they
work with.
Another reason you may want to attend is that on the agenda will
also be a topic to discuss further ‘meeting evolution’ and club
modernisation ideas to bring back to the membership for comment.
We’d be happy to hear your ideas.
Rick’s Run for Rotary
Only 11 days to go before the big run! Last week we distributed an
email template you may be able to use to send to your friends,
colleagues and family to garner support for ARH and their amazing
work, via a sponsorship of my run. Please spread the word and let’s
reach that target. Thanks to you all for your support to-date!
Tonight’ Speaker
Tonight we welcome back to the club, Michelle Davies, Principal of
Chalmers Road School. Michelle will be giving us an update on
what’s happening at the school, and as one of our named service
project recipients for this Rotary year, how we may be able to
support the school with its most needed facilities. We look forward
to a productive discussion with Michelle on this topic.
Rick
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