Weekly Club Bulletin - Vol 84 Issue 23, 24th January 2022
Pres John Mansour
Rotary Affirmation:
May Rotary friends and Rotary ways help us to serve our community
here and abroad in many ways.
No Meeting tonight
Next meeting 31st January 2022
Meeting at Coro88
88 Burwood Road Burwood
6.00 for 6.30
At out last meeting
Opened 630 with Rotary Affirmation
Present: Pres John, Paul Sarks, Fred Walker, Sam Helou, David Kwong, Irene Giradino. Tim O'Connor. Peter Moore
Feeding the homeless First date probably 4th Feb to be confirmed. Fred reported Can’t get the pavilion in Burwood Park on the proposed dates but compromise would be ok as there is shelter and electricity
Set up BBQ, Julie form Burwood council, question of the cost of the location, council needs to donate, wit the cost of the location, will see if there is any option, other option is uniting church, but no minister and nothing firm. The city location started one day a week and now five days a week , getting food donated and serve whatever they can get. Plan to start small and go from there. Fred in sick leave so could defer until he is back> We will need at least five people to run the location. Sam and Alf with the trailer, money to finance initially. May get grant eventually from district. Start with fifty meals. Will have a donation box
Long discussion re the details of the first breakfast morning.
Discussion re Presidents Boards and suitcase containing Rotary items stored at the RSL Club. District has storage at Noreast. John Mansour has storage. General consensus was no one is interested in returning to the RSL. Need to arrange to pick up and take to John Mansour
Will invite prospective new members when we have a partner meeting.
Raffle won by Sam Meeting closed at 8.00pm. Minutes by Peter Moore
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.
It is with some sadness that we have had to postpone the upcoming RYLA program - that was scheduled for 3rd to the 9th January. And this includes the celebratory final-day Bar-B-Que that you may have been invited to attend.
The promised easing of COVID restrictions and the reopening of schools is welcomed by District’s youth program committees. During 2021 many programs, such as RYPEN, RYLA and YEP had to be to be abandoned and others, such as MUNA, were poorly attended. School closures prevented our club maintaining contact with the local students and the teachers who support our youth programs. However, the future looks much brighter.
The Rotary Club of Burwood is looking into creating a Satellite Club in the Burwood local area, so as to meet the needs of those community minded individuals who can't attend face-to-face meetings on a regular basis, due to work or other commitments, however they won't to give back to the community.
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.
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