Thank you for Red Nose Day/Cure Kids contributions. Thank you for Fire Brigade event helpers. Geoff Mathis has provided thank you letter regarding Tanzanian Kondiki Milk Truck appeal. Also keep thinking about ideas for fundraiser thank may provide our club with a high profile.
Members Announcements
Wade - Thank you again for all those who assisted with the Red Nose Day fundraiser. $2,660 was raised.
David Wheadon - Reminder A & P Show this Saturday 5 October. Need more volunteers, especially from 9am to 12 noon. Contact David if you can assist.
Guest Speaker - Ruby Deare
Ruby enjoyed her RANZE 2019 Exchange to Strathallan School Adelaide. Made a lot of new friends. Spider bite. A favourite part was Dream World on Brisbane trip. Visited Blue Mountains with other exchange students. Thank you Matamata Rotary for sponsorship. Mum Miranda reckons Ruby has more confidence.
Guest Speaker - Krishna Narayanasami
Krishna spoke to us about his involvement with the Satya Sai New Zealand group and Fiji Medical Camp 2018. Volunteering with this group is as a result of a chance encounter. Krishna has been volunteering every year now. It puts him in the field and is challenging. 2018 was especially interesting because visited smaller islands of Ovalau, Koro and Gau which are not well connected. Doctors, Dentists, other professionals and lay helpers are part of a multi disciplinary team. Usually 4:30 am starts. Dentists focus on extractions. Usually 3 Phases of this sort of trip; the exciting planning, but 2 days or so in thinking hard work and why did I do this, then sense of achievement and euphoria. Often patients have travelled from 2am the day before and have camped over night. Patients are very appreciative. The difficulties the patients face do not seem to take the joy out of them. Fiji is an amazing place with beautiful scenery and Krishna feels blessed to have been there. It is hard work and not for the faint hearted.
Club duty roster. Members are reminded to advise Attendance Officer, through the Club answer phone of any known absences from Club night meetings. Answer phone details are at the bottom of this bulletin. If your name is gazetted in the bulletin for duty, it is that members obligation to find a member replacement for that Club duty.
CLUB DUTY
8 OCTOBER
15 OCTOBER
CLUB HOST
ROSS BAY
GLENDA MILLIGAN
RECEPTION
MERV KING
BRIAN HUNTER
RECEPTION
JOB BRUINS
GRAEME GUILFORD
BAR STEWARD
NAYAN AHIR
PETER THISSEN
BAR STEWARD
FRED BARRETT
OWEN WESTLAKE
SPEAKER INTRO
KRISNA NARAYANASAMI
GARY MOORE
SPEAKER THANKS
MIRANDA THOMSON
ERIC MUCKLE
TOP TABLE
RICHARD METCALFE
NATALIE REEVE
TOP TABLE
DAVID WHEADON
ALICE CLOTHIER
PARTING THOUGHT
SHERYL ERTEL
LEONIE TISCH
KITCHEN
MURRAY WILLS
DAVID PARKER
KITCHEN
LEONIE TISCH
STEW WADEY
2019 - Programme
8 October - Westpac team members Hesta and Mikaila speaking about fraud awareness.
15 October - To be advised.
22 October - Sandra Hunter and Leonie Tisch speaking about the first 50 years of Pohlen Hospital book being prepared for 9 November celebrations.
