We have been behaving ourselves, apparently, as we have now some extra freedoms, this should help us all and be a nice roadmap to getting back to a new normal lifestyle. Let us hope this will keep progressing so we can enjoy a Christmas with our family and friends. I do hope you are all well and safe and have had a good week, whilst keeping yourselves isolated and I hope you are all doing your regular mental and physical exercises. Please look after yourselves and your loved ones.
At our weekly Club meeting last Friday, I presented the Member Survey results and the Club Plan for 2021-2022. I do thank everyone for their input in addressing the member survey questions and contribution to the meeting with valuable suggestions.
It would appear from the comments raised to the Plan, that we should concentrate on doing a small number of projects and do these very well. We should not take on too much which would over-stretch our members with the resultant burn-out/fatigue. We need to accept we are a small club which we are actively trying to grow (to 25 people) and to not be ‘everything to everyone’.
We have demonstrated previously that our Club does perform very well, and this has been acknowledged by our District Governor and his team and we should strive to repeat this excellent result.
Some comments raised in the Survey was to have a Welfare Officer to keep in regular contact with our past members and those we have lost that regular contact with. Also, the possibility of having some of the busy/involved Board positions to have a deputy/back-up person to help when the workload if needed!
David has been in contact with the regular schools from our states west as to their interest in proceeding with the IT visit as in the past? These schools have indicated they are keen to re-engage with the IT companies again as this is a very exciting and worthwhile experience for their students.
We all enjoyed a highly entertaining social trivia night on Saturday night last week. Thank you, Juliet, for all your hard work putting the novel questions and some of those funny photos together. The night was a good downtime and escape for us all.
Mandy and Juliet advise this week is the Happy Moon Festival, all enjoy.
Please be reminded that RYLA is going ahead in January 2022. If you know of anyone from 18-30 years of age who would like to attend, please let me know.
Please remind your family, friends and colleagues that orders for the Christmas puddings can now be placed until the end of October for delivery in late November.
The Presbyterian Community Aid at North Ryde has sent out a call for donation of food/goods to help locals who may be doing it a bit hard to make ends meet at this time. Any donations can be left in the box located inside IGA or dropped at the Community Aid center in Cutler Parade, North Ryde. Pam has emailed a list of goods to all members.
Rob has arranged for a guest speaker – Sue O’Neill – for our next Club meeting on 1st October 2021. Be reminded, there is no meeting this Friday (24th September). If any of the members have people, they know who has an interesting story to share, please let Rob know and we may be able to arrange for them to attend a Club assembly to enlighten us all.
I am very grateful for all the hard work and commitment by everyone in our Club during these difficult times, thank you.
