Week of 18th October President Albert welcomed 21 members and one special guest to our weekly meeting (plus Grahame joining in via Zoom). This week’s meeting featured a meeting with our new district governor, Leo Farrelly (via Zoom) and our new area governor, Elaine Almond (in person). DG Leo outlined RI President Shekar Mehta’s […]
Week of 11th October Card received for the flowers from Maureen and Henk Hulsman. Mary Potts congratulated on her marathon run of over 43 ks for Cancer. Albert reported on the tree planting and thanked the volunteers that assisted. Albert reported that the social committee has now raised $521.00. Bank statements given to […]
Week of 4th October There was no meeting this week because of the public holiday. Our next meeting will be Monday, 11 October. Oddly, even though COVID restrictions are being lifted as of Monday, the new restrictions limit the club (and similar venues) to 20 persons in the restaurant, a reduction from the previous […]
Week of 27th September President Albert welcomed 21 members and 4 guests to our weekly meeting Guests included Erica from France, Jack Hooper, and Dan and Sheree Smith (guest speakers). Apologies from Chez and Alex Thompson who are in self isolation due to possible Covid contact. Albert reported that he had sold one load […]
Past President Marg Perkin Coolamon Rotary Club 2011-2012. Yesterday Coolamon Rotary lost one of our own. Marg Perkin was loved and respected by all who knew Marg since she joined our club on the 3rd of August 2004. Marg involved herself in all of our projects and never shied from volunteering to help our community. […]
Week of 20th September President Albert welcomed 23 members to our weekly meeting; apologies from Bernadette, Alex and Chez. A great roll up of members! Highlights from the meeting include: Induction of Mary Potts to our club will take place next Monday (27th September). Hospital survey: only 72 in the Shire have filled in […]
Week of 13th September President Albert welcomed 21 members to our first meeting back from a brief (three-week) lockdown. All were happy to be able to meet in person again–hopefully we’ll be able to continue meeting like this! Apologies from Ian Jennings, Dick Jennings and Bernadette Milne. Dick recently suffered a bit of a […]
Week of 6th September We had a great rollup on Zoom on Monday night, with 15 members in attendance and getting involved. Well done Bernadette on getting your system working well. Some points from last night: Albert will have 200 tomato plants ready in 2 weeks time at $2/plant. Proceeds will go to […]
Week of 30th August Back to Zoom–not popular with most members, but better than not meeting at all. President Albert welcomed nine members to our weekly meeting, which was a good opportunity to catch up and find out how everyone is dealing with lockdown. Most of our planned Rotary activities are now on hold–the […]
Week of 23rd August Another week of lockdown and no face-to-face meetings. If the lockdown lifts this weekend as originally intended, we will meet next Monday (30th August) at the Marrar Pub for a social night, but all signs are that the lockdown will continue for a while longer. If we remain in lockdown, […]
