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THIS WEEK MEETING 3380
Tuesday, 25th March 2025
EYRE EYE CENTRE VOCATIONAL VISIT
Chairman: Keith Sichler
GUEST SPEAKER
Alek Sims
Eyre Eye Centre
Vote of Thanks - Brian Moodie
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Last Week's Meeting Meeting 3379
11th March 2025
Board Meeting Report & Club History
Chairman: Kerre Willsher
Thought of the Week The best way to predict the future, is to create it. Abraham Lincoln
Guests: Nil
Apologies: Jane Owens, Mic Russo, Kerre Willsher & Larisa White. Raffle raised $45 and was won by Leanne.
Members Highlights.
Perry has handed in his keys at work and is now RETIRED. Keith had a nice lottery win. Brian Herd was the driver for bus load of people who toured went on a 'Sporting Club Pub Crawl'. The journey was not without incident though as the bus was somewhat unreliable at times. At the same time, Leanne was celebrating their grandchild's 21st Birthday. Lesley's highlight was that her Queensland family cane through the recent floods came through unscathed. Kerre went to 'Writer's week' in Adelaide and on her return to Whyalla did a 'Glass-bottom Boat Tour'.
Board Meeting Report.
A wonderful result from the SCASA awards, I will put something up on the Webpage and I have already put it on the Facebook page.
I would like to do something about Drought relief – when I say that, I mean a project – more to come later, I still need to talk to people
Service Projects. Brian in his role as Projects director will say more on the projects
The playground at the Beach is on hold for the moment
Need a Roster for Uni Vibe
Rotary Park – need to talk to council about its future – with the news about the upgrade of the beach
Club Admin.
After a lengthy discussion the Board decided to try having the Project’s and Admin meeting separately, away from the hotel. To that end – Next week will be the committee meetings because of the following week being at Eyre Eye Centre. The admin committee will meet next week at my house and the Project committee will meet at Brian & Leanne’s house. The committees look like this.
Service Projects
Club Admin
Brian Herd – Chair
Jane Owens – Chair
Leanne Herd
Keith Sichler
Perry Eden
Larisa White
Mic Russo
Michele Sellars
Lesley Hartup
Kendra Simpson
Jari Peltonen
Greg Dunn
Kerre Willsher
Of course, Brian Moodie can attend either one if he would like to
Membership is a bit of a problem mainly around making our meeting member friendly or doing something else to help them be involved.
Still on membership can I ask you to follow up with those people who you thought may like to come to a meeting an potentially become members. We need more members
Future speakers – we are looking good for the next couple of months. As you would have seen in the bulletin. There are lots more to come.
Club History
Keithtook us back in time to Meeting 2866 on 27th September 2011, a Club Assembly.
The President was Soto Stuppos. Michele Hart was the Secretary. We had 18 members plus 1 honorary – Jim Pollock, the Mayor. The highlight was Jack Odgers's birthday. Jack was inducted 11 years earlier and has been in 100% attendance ever since.
Amongst other things, Soto, David Dunn and Brian Moodie had completed repainting the Pavilion and are now looking for a ‘scrubber’ to finish the floor.
The results of the Club Survey were released with the following outcomes.
Members enjoyed being Rotarians and in particular the fellowship and projects.
We would be more visible if we did more than just fundraise. We need more visible projects. We rarely do a project that we can hang our hat on that is visible to the public. (At the end of this process we added the Harmony Globe to the Foreshore.)
The final word went to Glen Eden whose mantra was a simple sentence of 10 words, each of two letters.
If you are unable to attend a Club Meeting or function your apology can be made to Secretary Brian Herd 0410 313 271 before 12 noon on the day of the meeting
