Weekly Club Bulletin - Vol 84 Issue 34 20th June 2022
Pres John Mansour
Rotary Affirmation:
May Rotary friends and Rotary ways help us to serve our community
here and abroad in many ways.
Pride of Workmanship
Wests Sports Club
114 Church Street Croydon
6.30 for 7.00
District Governor Jeremy Wright
Mayor John Faker
Rotary peace Scholar Aya Murakami
Pres John opened the meeting at 6.30 with the Rotary Affirmation.
Apologies : Sam Helou, Alfonso Sorrentino, Simon Fox, Anna Marie Sanni, Patricia Abraham, John Kane
Birthdays and anniversaries as per Spoke for June
Directors reports.
PP Keith Weeding . POW Have ten nominations maybe 12 in the next day, Wests Sports Club in Church Street cnr Queen St and Croydon Ave. Maybe 70-80 people Plus two inductees plus Mayor, District Governor and Peace Scholar
Rob Whitney and RYPEN. Not full yet, Youth Exchange may start again this year.
District Change over 26th June at Strathfield Golf Club. PP Fred and Sharon Walker are going. PDG Paul Sarks is going. Our change over is Monday July 4th
Fellows here is the latest from Juvie in Gingoog, they returned from the Helping Hand mission, and are now preparing for the next. We have some donations coming in, thank you, and will send every dollar over for these missions. Those pictures give an idea of the destruction.
I received another email from Juvie and MinPRA in Gingoog. Somehow, miraculously they avoided much damage to themselves. On the compound it appears two fruit trees came down and the other crop was damaged. On the mountain property the damage was even less. They hate asking for help but they would like to help the island of Dinagat where Vera took a team on a SewAID Mission a couple of years ago.
Rotary Youth Exchange - making a difference - Reflections from a Reunion 30 years later.
The Year is 1991, two busses full of Rotary Exchange Students enter a parking lot in Sydney after 3 weeks around Australia on the “Capricorn Ramble Tour”. Saying goodbye was heart-breaking, knowing that we would soon be back home and maybe never see each other again.
Jumping to September 2021, downtown Frankfurt on a Friday afternoon in brilliant weather. Stepping out of the car to greet 3 people I have not seen for 30 year in front of their hotel.
The Rotary Club of Burwood has created the 50th Anniversary Charitable Trust with the overall charitable purpose of "relieving poverty and the advancement of education or any other matter beneficial to the community". Funds are awarded to persons who satisfy the Trustees that they are financially disadvantaged and are undertaking some form of further study/sporting endeavour beneficial to themselves and to the community in general.
