Steve’s Snippets
23th April 2003
A special thanks this week to Tony Lanzafame for his organisation of last weeks inaugural Strathfield Council and Strathfield Rotary youth achievement awards.
It would seem from listening to the citations for the winners in each category that we have some very talented young people in our community.
Thanks also to Councillor Cathy Jones for organising Council’s part of the awards and for her speech and presentation.
As many of you realise last week was very busy with two meetings, the second just described and the first on Monday evening, our combined meeting of Strathfield, Burwood and Concord which was arranged so that we could all appreciate a presentation by social researcher and commentator Hugh McKay.
Unfortunately Hugh became quite ill last Sunday and was unable to attend the meeting. Fortunately after considerable discussion between me and President Sana of Burwood we were able to get PP John Mansour to speak. Well I have to say that we did not miss Hugh at all, as John’s talk on his families migration to Australia, starting the family business, its change and growth, right through to their involvement with the Lowy family in early and recent times was absolutely fascinating. Thanks sincerely for your help John !!!!!
Thanks must of course also go to George Helou for his donation of a huge fruit basket for the raffle (no Mansour quilt last week), which greatly assisted in the raising of over $600, which by agreement was donated to the Rotary Foundation.
This week is again a busy week with our meeting tonite and our Anzac Day breakfast at Cape Cabarita on Friday. Next week will be a partner’s night on WEDNESDAY AT THE GOLF CLUB (as normal) due to the cancellation of the tri club services awards.
As advised to you last week by Vocational Director Keith our club now proposes its own awards for the Police service on Wednesday June 18th. This will be a night not to miss I’m sure….
During the week I was able to catch up with Ross Brown and confirm a date for a Sunday drive and lunch at his property in the Yarramalong Valley. (For those able to attend last years event it was judged to be one of our best events for the year) The revised date will be SUNDAY MAY 25th. A commitment sheet will be coming around shortly.
Tonite will be a special night for me as I have the privilege of inducting two (2) new members; Tim Tolidis, introduced by Tony Lanzafame, and Peter McLaughlin, introduced by Ray Wilson. Their induction tonight will result in a net GAIN in membership for the club this year, which is very pleasing.
A sincere welcome to the friendliest and most active club in the district fellows…..
Finally I want to thank everyone in advance for the help I know they will give for our fundraising cycle challenge on Sunday week. This is unfortunately a very labour intensive event, but only for a few hours on Sunday morning (and an hour or so for some on Sat. afternoon.
The committee chaired by Keith Stockall, and ably supported by Rod Mc Dougall, Kevin Beltrame, Bill Carney, Kevin Freund, Rick Collins and Euan Watson is working hard to ensure the setup and organisation is correct and acceptable to the authorities so that next and future years events will benefit.
This work will also ensure an easier to organise and setup fun run later this year.
That’s enough from me, I’ve had a great restful Easter break, but this report is going out late and I’ve got a cycle meeting to organise. Hope you all enjoyed the Easter break and relax for the upcoming Anzac Day long weekend.
Steve