Dear Club Members and Friends,
We enjoyed club member
Shankar Sankaran's presentation of his travels at our breakfast meeting last Friday. He certainly made the trip on the
Indian Pacific sound very relaxing and fun and the trip to
Alaska for his son's wedding was also exciting. Shankar presented us with a new banner from
Eagle River Rotary Club Alaska to add to our collection. I have included some photos of the presentation in
photo albums.
It was also great to have
Assistant Governor, Julie Thorpe visit our club on Friday in preparation for
District Governor, Susan Wakefield's visit on
Friday 2 November. Julie's club, the Rotary Club of Ryde are organising the
Light Up East Ryde event this year. This will be held on
Sunday 25 November from 3-8p.m. at
Sager Place East Ryde. For more information about the event see
the flyer below.
This week, on Tuesday morning, six of our members joined the Rotary Club of Macquarie Park for their breakfast meeting at Riding for the Disabled (RDA) to hear about the incredible work they do for the community. Their premises are located at 118 Culloden Road Marsfield and is an impressive, welcoming facility. Warren Smith and other volunteers provided us with a delicious breakfast and a comprehensive overview of the wonderful work they do for young people with disabilities and their families.
We can support them by volunteering our time with gardening, maintenance, caring for the horses etc or by making a donation. For more information go to the website
rdaryde.org.au or call
02 9868 2223. I have also included some photos of RDA in the
photo album section of this bulletin.
Our thanks to
Trina Phillips, President of Macquarie Park Rotary Club for inviting us to attend. We have also been invited to attend the
Melbourne Cup luncheon that Macquarie Park are organising on
Tuesday 6 November. The invitation is
included below.
This Friday will be a
Club Assembly where we will be discussing our plans for the year and also reviewing the
Fun Run. Don't forget to wear your hat for
Hat Day in support of
Lift the Lid on Mental Health.
We have organised Friday 23 November as the date for the Thank You breakfast for our Fun Run sponsors. Terry Davies from Australian Rotary Health will give a presentation about ARH at the meeting.
As there are five Fridays in November, we will not have a meeting on the Friday 9 November, which was originally planned to be the Thank You breakfast, but unfortunately the room was not available at Dunmore Lang College.
In this bulletin, our International Chairperson, Liane Corbett has provided us with some photos of ROMAC patient Maurine Kikisia and her mum, Ekila from the Solomon Islands and an update of her progress throughout the year. Liane is a wonderful support to the families and patients who come to Sydney through ROMAC and she regularly keeps us informed on the incredible work undertaken by the medical teams.
Over the past few weeks club members Pat Perrin and Barbara Lee have been very unwell. Pat has reassured me that she is recovering slowly and attending physiotherapy regularly is helping. Unfortunately Barbara has been admitted to hospital again this week and we send her every best wishes for a speedy and full recovery. We hope they both will be able to return to club meetings very soon.
Kind regards
Pam Wood
President 2018-19