Grovedale Waurn Ponds Rotary Bulletin 4 Oct 2017 (Oct 06, 2017)

Rotary Leadership

Rotary International President - Ray Riseley
District 9780 Governor - Ray Herbert

Rotary Club of Grovedale Waurn Ponds.

President - Greg Cooke.
Meeting Number 1921

Wednesday, 11th Oct, 2017.

Rotarian Duties

Chair for Meetings.

Paul Desbrowe - Annear 11th October

Ron Arthur 18th October

John McGibbon 8th November tbc

Bob Arnup 15th November

Greg Cooke 22nd November

Joe Cordone 29th November

Guests and Upcoming Meetings

18th Oct - Auction Debrief
25th Oct - No Meeting (Geelong Cup)
1st Nov- Normal Meeting
8th Nov - Guest Speaker TBC
15th Nov - Normal Meeting with Guest Speaker TBC
22nd Nov - Board Meeting and Club AGM
29th Nov - Noah Park Mission to Seafearers Geelong
6th Dec - Organising Nursing Home Visits for Christmas
13th Dec - Christmas Party @Federal Mill North Geelong
20th Dec - Santa visits local retirement homes and Xmas Party for our volunteers.
15th Jan - Monday. BBQ Joint meeting with Torquay RC @ Jan Juc Surf Life Saving Club
17th Jan - No meeting.
24th Jan - BBQ Greg Cooke's house.

Auction Night - Wow!

All that work and it's all over. What great night. Everyone had a really fantastic time. Still counting, but looks like we have raised approximately $16,000 which will go long way to supporting our projects in the coming year. Big thanks to Rhonda and Paul for all of their hard work pulling this event together. Great job! To all who helped out, sourced donations and pitched in to help with what ever needed doing - a big thanks to all of you. Special thanks to all of the businesses who generously donated items to us - without this support we would not be able to achieve the things we do. So thank you so much. We will keep everyone up to date on our projects via our new Facebook page - Grovedale - Waurn Ponds Rotary Hand Up Project. I am so proud to be a part of this club. What a great achievment!

Greg Cooke (President)

District Grants Qualifying Seminars

Each year the District conducts seminars to qualify clubs to access the District Dedicated Funds.

Cheryle Marriner will be representing the club this year at the Ballarat meeting next Sunday.

Working Bee - Labour Required Urgent!!!

Earlier this year we donated 20 hours labour to Highton Rotary for Tom Wilson (exchange student in Japan) as his parents were hurt in car accident. The labour was sold at a fundraiser. So we now need 8 volunteers for 2-3 hours on Sunday 15th October 8.00am @ 12 Gurr Street, East Geelong. Numbers to Cookie by Wed 11th Oct at the latest.

Last Couple of Meetings.....

Last Wed we met at Town and Country Pizza at Waurn Ponds. Town and Country Pizza have donated to our auction and it was good to be able to support this business. Good night was had by all.

The week before we had our Grand Final night special with our friends from Belmont RC.