"We are proud members of Rotary International where we can serve our community and those needing help across the world. We enjoy meeting together for meals and mutual service in the convivial company of other Rotarians and guests."
Apologies:
Guests:
Toast to Australia:
International toast:
Heads & Tails
18:30
invocation
18:40
reports
19:00
dinner
19:30
fellowship
19:50
close
SECRETARY REPORT - Barbara
incoming correspondence
TREASURER REPORT- Steve
Done
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Coming up
The cost for the Change Over Dinner at the La Vita restaurant will be:
$45 per person for RCWL members and their partner - $90 per couple (this is a $10 per person subsidy)
$55 per person for non-members, and/or visitors from other clubs, and/or past members
Please either direct deposit into our Admin bank account as soon as possible (as below), and I will bring the Tyro EFTPOS machine on Tuesday night if that suits.
The Admin account number is:
Rotary Club of West Lakes – Admin
BSB: 105142
Acct: 532006340 Please add your name in the description
Committee Directors to provide their 2025/26 budgets
- will send out actuals to end May next week.
Will need stories from Members for the upcoming ChangeOver dinner Sergeant fines
Ongoing
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CLUB IMAGE AND COMMUNICATION - Tracey
Updated website and Facebook with information and photos of our TAFE visit last week
EXTRA Bunnings BBQ on Saturday 21 June, please confirm in events Folder.
It will be busy, so minimum of 5 per shift please (for backup/support).
To do
We were visited at Bunnings by the Food Safety Officer from the City of Charles Sturt.
Please review your Food Handling certification I'm Alert or Do Food Safely
INTERNATIONAL REPORT - Ken, away
District Grants
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International
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Playground relocation project
refer to article below
Please also note request in Events Folder for assistance to pack the Container.
VOCATION & ENVIRONMENT- Jean, away
Done
Thank you to all the Rotarians who attend our visit to Tonsley Tafe last week. The evening was included a tour around the trade training area’s including cabinet making. Along with some discussion about “The Gerry Ancone” award and general information about our club.
With a big Thanks to Ros and Denis for their work they have done in getting this relationship going with Tonsley Tafe.
Coming up
New date for the last three bags to roll for the Blanket Revolution 29 July @530pm before the start of our Rotary meeting.
Change of date for Memories Lunch to Sunday July 27th. Will also send an email with more details .
To do
Looking into ways to move on unwanted possessions with the idea of keeping them out of landfill when looking to downsize.
Any suggestions for the Environment Committee are always welcome
YOUTH REPORT - Andrew
Done
Visited Fringedigenous @ Westport Primary on Friday 6, it was very wet, but the show went on! The students were enjoying their activities and parents/friends as well.
It looks like we will have 2 candidates for RYPEN
Coming up
Waiting on feedback from Seaton High re: RYPEN
To do
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YOUTH EXCHANGE STUDENT REPORT - Samuele
Has arrived back home in Milano!
GUEST SPEAKERS - Barbara
Any ideas for guest speakers, let Barbara know.
president's report
Please book for Changeover dinner
any stories for Changeover dinner are welcome.
Please review the District Classifieds for events and opportunities in our District.
OTHER BUSINESS:
Club visits or notices from visiting Rotarians
Ros & Andrew visited RC Maitland on Sunday for their "long lunch". This year they raised funds for "Dementia Support on the Yorke Peninsula".
refer to story
Work has been continuing on gathering items to fill the container with the Playground (from Pt Lincoln) and other items to send to the:
Rotary Club of Plaridel Polaris, Bulacan, Philippines
This includes paperwork to ensure that:
- there will be no taxes applied on entry to the Philippines
- the local Club has their act together
- RAWCS requirements are met
There is some work required to pack the container so that there is no spare space...please refer to schedule below and make yourself available to assist.
The Rotary Club of Maitland held their long lunch, to support local identity Lisa Hendry in her quest as a Dementia Doula for the Yorke Peninsula.
For those who don't know, a Doula is a support person providing education, compassion and friendship.
Lisa determined that there was a gap in what was being provided in the YP. Typically 2/3 of dementia sufferers are still living in the community.
So she set up a trial in 2023 (Memory Lane Cafe support group) to educate health staff and families, with grants providing initial assistance.
The Cafe travels around the district with a resource library, and reference resources (refer to flyer below).
Rotary teamed with Apex Maitland to hold the sit down lunch in the Arthurton Football Clubrooms, Maitland. About 180-200 attended, mainly from the Yorke Peninsula. There were table prizes, live and silent auctions, with RC Maitland members sourcing prizes from local businesses and families.
At the end of the day, the Rotary and Apex Clubs donated $15,000 to the Memory Lane Cafe project to assist it to continue its work in the YP!
did you know
Dementia is 2nd largest cause of death in Australia (and is more prevalent in women)
Samuele Tua and Abby O’Brien shared their Rotary Youth Exchange reflections. Samuele is heading home to Italy this week after nearly 11 months in Australia.
He spoke warmly of his time here - friendly locals, curious conversations, "sleeping kangaroos," learning to surf, and swimming with whale sharks in Coral Bay.
Abby learnt a lot of Italian while she was in Italy and can highly recommend the Exchange program.
Our club gifted Samuele a black Akubra as a farewell gesture.
It’s been a joy getting to know both Samuele and Abby - true ambassadors for the Rotary Youth Exchange program.
It was shocking weather, however a pretty good crowd of family and friends turned up to cheer on the kids. Fortunately there was enough cover for the students to complete their plays. The food vans were, however, in the open, so probably suffered. There were breaks in the rain, so it was still possible to get something to eat. The hot pizza stall did great business.
Jean's shed, Peter's house, various computers etc.
PE Robin has agreed to be the conduit to save our files & memories into the Cloud. As part of our MicroSoft subscription we have a 1 terabyte (TB) cloud storage plan. 1 TB is a lot of data
[1,024 gigabytes (GB) or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes, whatever they are].
The Board are the guinea pigs, and have received a link to gain access to the New RCWL Storage Filing System.
They will commence “Moving” any files on personal computers to the RCWL system.
It is important that the main filing storage is on the Cloud as personal PC can fail. It is also important that Club Documents and Photos are not ‘lost’
Attached is a current screen shot of the filing system so far.
It is possible to add appropriate directories as needed. For example, if you have files that are to be determined later, they can be saved (Under your name) in the Directory “To Be Sorted”. Other Photos and Documents can be stored in the appropriate directory.
Robin envisages that documents currently in ClubRunner can be transferred to the new system. This is a medium-term goal.
All members are encouraged to gather any Files or Photos on to a USB and bring in to each meeting so that they can be uploaded to the storage system.
This will be a great benefit for our Club moving forward and will also assist the 50 year committee research.
If you are unsure how to put your files on a USB please see Robin, (or perhaps a grandchild).
After the electronic files are collected we will then discuss gathering Old physical Documents and photos and how to convert them to electronic storage.
Please remember, (to facilitate return of your USB), bring your files in on Tuesday night with your name attached to the USB
Robin is available to assist anyone who may have data/files that need to be transferred.
The QR code will take you to our website! You will see latest stories and photos from member activities.
Can't access ClubRunner? Andrew sent you an email with brief instructions of how to log-in. See him if you're having problems, he can reset your password.
