Dear Club Members and Friends,
We had a lovely social night at Cafe Jolly in Leichhardt last Friday evening. There were 10 guests from our club who attended and all agreed the food was delicious and very affordable It was a great opportunity to meet our exchange student from Finland, Helmiina Salila, who had arrived on the Sunday beforehand. Helmiina is very excited to be here for the year and will be staying with the Buick family for the first part of her exchange. Samantha Buick was our outbound exchange student last year.
Thank you to Annette Billington who hosted Helmiina for the first week after her arrival and also to Terrie McConnell who helped Annette and Helmiina with enrolment into Ryde Secondary College where she will attend school for the next 12 months.
Our guest speaker at this week's breakfast meeting is Stephen Galilee from the NSW Minerals Council. Friday 10 August will be a Club Assembly where we will look at the feedback from the surveys and plans for the year ahead.
The members of the Board met last Friday. Among other matters, we approved the budget for this year and set some dates for the year ahead.
Some dates for your calendar, please keep the following dates free:
Friday 24 August Working meeting for the Fun Run 7.15a.m. at Dunmore Lang College
Sunday 26 August The North Ryde Fun Run for Youth Mental Health at Macquarie University Sports Fields
Friday 12 October Thank you Breakfast for the Fun Run
Friday 2 November District Governor Susan Wakefield's visit to the Club breakfast meeting.
Friday 30 November Club Christmas Party, venue to be decided
Friday 7 December Club AGM 7.15a.m. at Dunmore Lang College
Saturday 15 December BBQ and Tree of Joy at Cox's Road
Sunday 16 December Carols on the Common
Friday 28 June Club Changeover Dinner
I have included the District dates to remember from DG Susan Wakefield below. I have also included a Thank You letter from Shelterbox. Our Club has donated $2000 to Shelterbox from funds raised in 2017-18. This will provide 2 shelterboxes that will be sent to areas of most need.
We have received an email from Jacque North, the clinical educator for physiotherapy and medical students at Macquarie University which Jacque is looking for volunteers who may like to participate in a program they are running in which their first year students visit a volunteer in the community who has any medical condition/s. If you are interested in participating in this program please see the article below for more information.
With a little over 3 weeks to go until the Fun Run, there is still many tasks to be done. Thank you to everyone who has offered to help on the day. The banners are up thanks to Victoria Crawford. The next task is to deliver the flyers and posters around the community. I will be sending around a spreadsheet for people to volunteer to do letterbox drops. If you cannot be at this week's club meeting and are keen to do an specific area, please let me know.
The next meeting of the Club Fun Run Committee is on Tuesday 7 August at 93 Park Road Hunters Hill commencing 7.30p.m..The final University Contacts Committee will meet on Friday 10 August at Robert Menzies College commencing 9.30a.m. Anyone interested in attending either meeting are very welcome.
