Burwood Rotary meeting tonight, Monday 23rd May, 2022 .

Hi Fellows and friends

Our next Rotary meeting is tomorrow night at The Coro Club 6 for 6.30,

Anna-Marie Sanni ,one of our newest members will be presenting. Anna -Marie will talk to us about her background ,family .work ,life. These presentations are always interesting  and gives us all an insight as to what drives and motivates Anna.

Pride of Workmanship

PP Keith has been very busy organising this event. We have Our Mayor John Faker attending along with our DG Jeremy Wright and a wonderful Guest speaker, Rotary Peace Scholar Aya. Please let Keith know your nominations as soon as possible

Changeover

This will be on 4th July at a  location to be announced. This is a Partners Night.

Strathfield Rotary Gala Ball Sunday 29th May. Please let me know if you would like to attend ,so far I have heard from Hugo Robinson

I look forward to seeing you tomorrow night

ANNA-MARIE SANNI will be presenting at our meeting on Monday. Come along and hear the Anna-Marie story, what drives and motivates her, her Family /work  and why she joined Burwood Rotary, and what she wishes to achieve in her Rotary journey.

From our Meeting on the 9^th May 2022

Meeting opened by Pres John at 6.30pm with Rotary Affirmation 

Anna Marie is not well and left work early, and so Alfonso is going to update us. 

Welcome Simon, from BCWS new CEO and pp John Kane 

Apologies.  Fred, Marie Lee  Anna-Marie, Patricia, Hugo 

Pp Keith POW Function being organised and potential venue is West’s Sports Club, Croydon. Looks quite viable,   Need nominees so please give some thought by May 30, There are three forms for nominees and the cost is $40.00 per head. Date is June 20. Burwood Mayor And the District governor to attend. Fifteen nominees would be a good number. Guest speaker will be the Rotary Peace scholar, educated in Singapore and Canada She is Japanese and says she is happy to speak to us.

PDG Paul Sarks,   Ukrainian church and how we can help.

Sana spoke to Ukrainian lady Sonja, who is travelling to Canberra to meet the ambassador, The church has 200 houses to house the people from Ukraine who have left and who really need more help. She is happy to come here and present. Those who have made  it here appear to be well catered for.

Sam Helou . Anzac Breakfast was very successful. Food donations were $800 and food cost %495.00. We raised $5884.00 dollars, adding the extra from food, Sam is going to add money to make it $6000.00   Faye is willing to come and speak about what she does with the money. We should  give him a certificate of appreciation to give to Carmelo who donated all the milk and coffee. We had fruit, biscuits, cakes,  and all donated, as well as raffle prizes and drinks for the coin toss, 

Rob Whitney Youth programes. RYPEN sponsorship, next one in August, Smith Family did not send anyone,  MUNA closed last week and no one from BGHS this year.

RYDA. Driving coming up, was successful in the past Conducted at Olympic Park. We should look for nominees from schools, 

Alfonso.  Came in 1978. Opened a cake shop which is stil operating.  Opened to make European style cakes. Soon became an icon in the area and they went very well. Won awards for cakes and decorations. Once made the tallest cake to make 26 tiers, but he made 27. Went to Wembley stadium so they went up two tiers to 29 which held the record for 7 years. And subsequently won many more awards, but now the demographic in burwood has changed and the street is now very different. They made unusual cakes even making cakes for the visiting football team Juventus. Been at 228 Burwood Road since 1978 trading as Mancuso's.

Simon from BCWS. Was painting the office space on the weekend. Helped by pp John Mansour, Alf Dimarco. Fred Walker and Peter Moore. Thanks very much. Others came back Sunday and gave a second coat. It all looks very fresh now. Many infrastructure project to do and will be looking for a new place in the Burwood Centre, Doing a business plan and looking for a new name. Thanks to those for coming to help wit the painting.

From PP Keith Weeding 

Good day Burwood Rotarians,