Week of November 16th With many members engaged in the harvest, attendance was light and we used the meeting time mainly for fellowship, which we don’t get to do often enough! A few items of business were conducted, mainly involving the Monster Raffle (and the fact that we won’t be able to have the […]

    Week of November 9th This week was the Annual General Meeting of the Rotary Club of Coolamon, and the major item of business was the election of directors for 2021-22.  The board for our next Rotary year is as follows:   RC of Coolamon Board 2021-2022 President: Albert Suidgeest (Elected 2019 AGM) Vice-President […]

    Week of November 2nd This week’s meeting featured two items of note: 1) induction of our newest member and 2) a presentation by guest speaker Prof Rod Hill.  The new member to be inducted was Craig Lambert, who lists catering as his classification but is only part of what Craig does for a […]

    Week of October 26th This week’s meeting was primarily for fellowship.  Dinner was self-catered; John G and Garth did a top job barbecuing steaks and snags, and Henk organised the sides–thanks to all!.  No one left hungry (and if they did, it was their own fault).  We carried out a bit of business […]

    Week of October 19th This week’s meeting featured a guest speaker, Greg Wootton of Temora Rotary.  Greg described how the Rotary Club of Temora kept their club (and fund-raising) activities going through the COVID-19 pandemic using technology.  Because their meeting venue did not permit “clubs” to meet, they were forced to meet virtually, […]

    Week of October 12th It’s been a few weeks since our last bulletin, in part because we had a with no meeting because of the October long weekend public holiday.  For our meeting of the week of September 28th, we had a guest speaker in the form of John Schmidt, a consulting electrical […]

    Week of September 21st This week’s meeting was an opportunity for planning and fellowship.  Twenty members and two guests were in attendance, a great roll-up for a regular meeting.  Discussion centred on the upcoming NSW Junior Cycling Championships that the club has agreed to cater in Wantabadgery and the Monster Raffle which will […]

    Week of September 14th The club continues to meet in person at the Coolamon Sport and Rec Club, although with greater spacing between attendees than some would like!  Nonetheless, it’s great to be able to meet face to face.  Following routine weekly business at the meeting, Paul gave an update on COVID-19 after […]

  Week of August 31st This week’s meeting featured another guest speaker, Kieran Knox, a Coolamon native who has spent the last several years in the mining industry in Africa.  Kieran described the nature of mining and daily life in Africa. The mining is done using a combination of open pits (extending to a depth […]