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Meeting Chair Notes 24 July 2019

These notes were prepared by meeting chair for last week 17 July, Rotarian Janelle Watson

LAST WEEKS MEETING
It was a happy atmosphere at Rotary last week. We even managed quite well without the Sergeant!

The “Coin Toss”/ “Heads & Tails” was reinstated by popular demand. Thank you to PP Keith Byrn for running this session. Congratulations Roy Ellis for winning the bottle of wine.

The Raffle raised $210 – well done everybody.

MATCHING GRANTS PROGRAM
On behalf of Usha Garg, the Community Services Director (click), I mentioned that there is a in the very early stages of development. It will be based in Australia and focused on mother and child health. The location of the project is a small Indigenous community on the edge of the Tanami Desert, north-west of Alice Springs. The project (click) is in conjunction with PP Allan Teale and specifically his daughter Molly Teale who is a teacher at the school at Yuendumu. A Child and Family Centre exists and is heavily used and the idea is to provide additional facilities for both the Centre and the primary school. Discussions and support have already been received from President Arie and at District level as well. More on this from Usha and Allan in due course.

POLICE OFFICER AWARDS
The Police Officer Awards event is to be held Wednesday 18th September.

Paul Anton gave an overview of progress thus far with several donations and sponsorships already confirmed. Well done.

All of us are encouraged to register for the event soon and not leave it until the last moment!

BULLETIN
Thank you to Bradley Ayres for his ongoing work organising the weekly Bulletin. A time consuming task very professionally done.

WEBSITE

Likewise, an extremely time consuming role is undertaken by PP Raymond McCluskie and that is management of the Club’s Webpage. This website contains lots of useful Club and District information.

Of particular interest is the “Brief history of the Strathfield Rotary Club” that has been written by PP Roger Vince. A members’ section has also recently been added to the Club webpage. When you scroll down the page, this is the first entry. Thanks to Paul Anton for suggesting this and to Raymond for organising same.

GUEST SPEAKER
The guest speaker, Adam Scougall, provided an insight into the world of interior design with many before and after photos. Several Rotarians spoke to Adam after the meeting and gathered his business card so perhaps there may be some colour and design changes to various homes shortly…

Farrukh Mirza has done a great job organising the guest speakers but some assistance would be useful, so if we know of anyone who would be appropriate and available to be a speaker please let Farrukh know.

ARIE'S BACK
This week Arie Pappas will be back from his holiday to chair his first meeting as President.

THANK YOU
Thank you once again for the opportunity to lead the meeting and for everyone’s support.

Janelle