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President Peter's Message
Our DG,Bruce Cowan sent this email after last weeks visit.
Gidday Peter
Many thanks for hosting me at your Club last night - it was great to meet your members, learn about what your club is doing, and to have a lot of fun!
As promised, I am attaching the claim form for the $300 that the District is offering each club to promote yourselves in your local community. Have a wee think about what you could use it for, and when you and your Board have come up with a brilliant idea, send the form back.
Keep up the great work that you are all doing!!
Cheers
Bruce
I have circulated the claim form from Bruce to all committee chairs and the board will discuss their ideas at the Nov.7th meeting.
It was decided at the last board meeting to purchase a new club laptop. The old one was purchased during our 2012/2013 year second hand from Trade Me and was becoming a bit unreliable.
Gilly has chaired a meeting of the social committee to discuss the format for the Rotary 90th anniversary celebration on November 14th. Bruce Cowan will attend. Details to follow.
At next Tuesdays "World Polio Day" presentation, we look forward to welcoming fourteen members of the Timaru Suburban Lions club.
THIS WEEK'S MEETING
Tuesday 24th October
WORLD POLIO DAY
Social night with Timaru Suburban Lions
NEXT WEEK'S MEETING
Tuesday October 31st
CLUB NIGHT
Rotary Club of Timaru 90th Anniversary Celebrations
Tuesday November 14th
Partners and past members will be invited to our anniversary dinner. A chance to reminisce and catch up with old friends.
This will be a semi-formal evening and Keith will present a PowerPoint highlighting events and achievements of our club over the past 90 years.
Details of cost and menu will appear in our next bulletin.
We were delighted and privileged to have Rotary District 9980's District Governor Bruce Cowan join us for our meeting last Tuesday.
DG Bruce gave us an excellent address during which he bamboozled us with numbers. Well, he was an accounting teacher in a former life, after all!
1.239 million Rotarians worldwide
35,660 Rotary clubs, in 220 countries
112 years since Rotary was established.
We were reminded that we have 31+ clubs in District 9980 and Bruce showed us that Rotarians are doing the same sorts of things in the same ways all over the world; improving communities access to clean water, improving sanitation and hygiene, providing education; the list goes on.
There are numerous trails around Queenstown, Arrowtown, Lake Hayes and Gibbston, all suitable for novice cyclists. Almost all trails are off road and are designated trails especially for cyclists.
We already have a good number going, but there is room for anyone else who would like to go. Accommodation is limited, so if you are interested, please let me know and I'll send you some information.
