This Bulletin covers the meeting of 10th September.
Rod was both Chair and President for the day.
Apologies were received from both David and George who were spending a couple of days in Bris Vegas. Howard also apologised but we don’t know what he was up to.
Jake Coates and Indira Salkic were Club guests as our speakers for the day.
Laurie gave a heads up for the Director’s meeting to be held at 7am on Tuesday.
Kevin told us that Tania Nagrani who visited us with Vanessa Redgetz has been accepted into the National Youth Science Forum and will be sponsored by us. In his role with youth at the Southport Sub Branch of the RSL, Kevin is looking at matching Rotary leadership development programmes with children and grandchildren of veterans as well as combining resources of both RSL and our club to sponsor them. More later.
As a matter of general interest Ian advised us that Dr Charlie Teo is under pressure again from the AMA and recommended that the club sends him a letter of support and members agreed.
Letitia outlined details of the proposed trip to Toowoomba on the 18th to see the Carnival of Flowers. Note: This has subsequently been postponed because she was told by her husband that there is a double header of Rugby Championship matches that day at Suncorp Stadium where South Africa is looking to avenge the ambush at CBUS!! More on the new date at Friday’s meeting.
Col has been in touch with Alan Gerard’s family and they will hold a Celebration of Alan’s life at SYC on next Tuesday at 11am which will be followed by refreshments at midday. Members are welcome to attend.
Jenny told us that wedding numbers at the Chapel have been volatile given the current environment although there was a fairly large wedding last weekend. She is currently discussing another large one and size is the problem. She is recommending that they orientate the wedding to the Broadwater using the chapel as a background and for photographs – let’s see. Howard and Jenny have been liaising with the students at Griffiths who are doing a marketing plan for the Chapel as a project and she will update members when finalised. She believes it will involve spending some more money particularly with online promotion.
