We had a very magical time at the District Conference held at the Pullman Sydney in Penrith from Friday 22 March to Saturday 22 March. Wonderful guest speakers and an entertaining night on Friday at the dinner. Everyone got in the mood by dressing up with the theme The Magic of Rotary.
The conference also had a competition for schools called ‘Pitch for Purpose Student Innovation Challenge’ where schools were asked to come up with impactful community ideas which highlight enlightening ideas for a sustainable future. Our club was asked to sponsor one of the four teams from Marsden High School which made it through to the final. The impressive judges for the final were also guest speakers at the conference. Dr Alan Finkel AC (Former Australian Chief Scientist), Professor Veena Sahajwalla AO (you may remember Veena from the Inventors program on the ABC) and Jennifer Scott AM, incoming Rotary Internation Director for Zone 8. Two of the teams from Marsden High School were awarded First and Second prize, in the high school category, by the judges.
The District Assembly will be held this Saturday 5 April at Lindfield Learning Village. Some of our 2025-26 Board Members will be attending to learn more about our roles and the Avenues of Service. These training days are always interesting and informative. We still have a vacancy for the President elect role for 2025-26. If you are interested and would like more information about the role, please contact me or 2024-25 President-elect, Mandy Van.
Well, what a week we have coming up with one of our major fund-raising events, the North Ryde eFun Run for Youth Mental Health, commencing this Sunday, 6 April and finishing on the following Sunday, 13 April. We are holding the event again this year in partnership with the Rotary Clubs of Macquarie Park and Ryde. With great support from Macquarie University.
What do I need to do to participate?
Click on the link that you will find further on in
this bulletin and click on the
links to Sign Up to register.
Once you have registered contact all your family and friends and ask them to either register themselves or to sponsor you.
Please click on the link to see where we are up to and what is happening.
What are we raising money for?
The money raised is going to research and programs to support youth mental health through Australian Rotary Health and Macquarie University Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Research Centre's Cool Kids program.
What’s on during the week to help me?
- Sunday 6 April, to kick the event off, Bob Selinger OAM has organised an historical walk around The Rocks, commencing at 10am. Please see the details further on in this bulletin.
- Saturday 12 April, Macquarie University are dedicating their 5km Park Run to raise funds for the Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Research Centre. You can volunteer or participate or do both! See details further on in this bulletin.
- Thursday 10 April, those who are keen can join a group to walk along the Parramatta River starting at Kissing Point Park from 4.00pm. We will cover a distance that suits most ( last time it was approx 2kms) and return to have afternoon tea at Kissing Point Park. If you would like to come along please contact me on mobile : garry.maloney@hotmail.com or mobile 0426230458 or just turn up!
- On Sunday 13 April, to finish the week off we will be doing a shortened version of the ‘7 Bridges’ Walk’ (approx. 15km), meeting at 7:45am for an 8:00am start at Cunninghams Reach Park, Linley Point.
Our Club Assembly this month will be held on Friday 11 April at Dunmore Lang College 7.15am for 7.30a.m. start. This Assembly will be our Youth Assembly where we will hear from our RYLA and RYPEN candidates about their experiences in the program. Our Youth Directors, Bernie and Mandy have also organised some other young people who have participated in Youth programs to come along and talk to us as well. It will be an interesting morning and an opportunity to hear about the many youth porgrams out club supports. If you would like to attend and have not already done so, please contact Club Director, Peter Mason on email masopete1956@gmail.com or mobile 0450730645 by this coming Friday 4 April.
Our next club meeting will be Friday 4 April via Zoom commencing 7.15 for 7.30a.m. start. Members and friends are welcome see the Zoom link below.
There will be no Club meeting on Friday 18 April which is Good Friday or on ANZAC Day Friday 25 April. The Board will be meeting on Friday 18 April by Zoom at 7.30am.
Don’t forget our next Bunnings BBQ will be on Saturday 26 April is raising money for ROMAC.
Looking forward to seeing you out and about during the week racking up those kilometres for the eFun Run.
