Meeting 3245 was opened by President Elect Kyle who welcomed members and Guests; Ian Chase Pres RCGL, Sally Richardson, Meredith Smith
Apologies were received from John Lyons, Julie Ann Tekell, Kim Potger, Mark Forgie, Mark Smeaton, Nathan Pengelley, Ron Lloyd, Steve Barilla, Wayne Murphy, Leanne Clinch
Notes from members and directors:
Almoner PP Mike Williams
Tony Fotheringham has been in Wheatfields nursing home in Freeling for respite however he went home and had a fall resulting in a broken hip.
Meredith is going away for a couple of weeks so Beth is organising a roster for people wishing to visit Bruce to break up his days. Please liase with Beth.
Airshow report: It was a big day and need to give extra thanks to the youth from Air cadets, they did whatever ws asked of them and they stayed right to the end helping to pack up. Due to a smaller than predicted number of visitors and an increase in vendors we have excess food for sale to Rotarians, Bags of grated cheese, steak sandwich meat, Hot dog rolls, tomatoes, We donated some to Salvation army but they could not take anymore, Extra thanks to everyone who worked behind the scenes as well in planning and preparation. A little bit of friendly banter from the boys who put a picture on facebook then saying the girls couldn’t prove they did anything because there was no photo proof.
Pres Anthony
seconded what Mike said about thanking everyone but the biggest thanks to Mike and Deb who coordinated the event for us.
Anzac Day- will need a small team to assist Air Cadets on the 24th April at the vigil. We will put up marquees and cook a supper for them. An email will be sent out asking for volunteers.
While work has been done in the Shed there has been lots of ‘relics’ uncovered. We need to have a working Bee to “make the Rotary Shed Great again” to clean it out and get rid of a lot of things-we will sell as much as we can but there is lots of rubbish.
Mould Doctor has offered to match Rotary to replace the old white plastic tables with new black folding ones.
Anthony is also bringing back fines- bring your gold coins and expect to be fined for things you may or may not have done!
Steve is going well and now has his licence back!
PP Ian Sanders
Was speaking to CFS last week after the meeting and they would like a tandem trailer to hold a fire tank. It needs Jackey wheel and brakes. If anyone has one they would like to donate let Ian know. Ian also organised a Pressure washer to be donated by Rotary.
Mike then invited everyone to enjoy fellowship over dinner.
After Dinner Mike introduced Barry for his sergeant session.
Wheel winners were Kyle, Barry (who gave it a respin) won by Ian Chase. Then Ian won a second time and won a bag of tomatoes.
After PP Barry’s entertaining Sergeant session and a lovely happy birthday singing to Deb, Mike introduced Ian Chase in his capacity of Chair of Group 7 to address the meeting about a project which needs to be taken up.
The Rotary club of Mt Barker has for several years run a project on playground repurposing. However, they are no longer able to do this and have asked for the group to take it over. Ian answered questions from the group and stressed that if Rotary no longer offers this the councils will just scrap the old playgrounds when they remove them instead of us offering them to overseas communities. Rotary Australia Repurposing Equipment (RARE, formerly DIK) will store the equipment needed so any club can borrow. Councils supply the temporary fencing and remove the large poles and concrete at the end.
Ian is not after a commitment from a specific club at the moment but a contact person from each interested club to form a committee and be the contact person for the clubs. At the moment it is at a standstill. There is a meeting at the end of the month and without a commitment this worthwhile project will be lost. If you would like to commit to this, please see Anthony or Kyle.
Kyle thanked Ian for joining us and reminded members that we have a combined meeting with Gawler Light coming up on the 20th of may instead of our usual meeting on the 19th.
Kyle then invited Pres Anthony to close the meeting.
Anthony once again thanked Mike and Deb for their work organising the Relay for Life and the Air Show weekends. He reminded everyone to bring coins next week and closed the meeting with the Four way test.
He then closed the meeting with the four way test.
