Coolamon Rotary Bulletin for W/e September 30th. 2024
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P.S. The WESTONS were WINNERS in WEST WYALONG last WEEKEND!
Meeting of Monday 30th September 2024
This Monday we had our 5th Monday evening as a social with little of Rotary business being discussed. We had our evening at a private party at the new winery in Coolamon: Methuselah Estate Coolamon.
President Adrian Lindner welcomed 23 members and around 12 partners and guests. Thanks to Dick Jennings for organising the social evening at this exceptional winery. It was also wonderful to welcome Sarah Collins back from Victoria. Sarah is visiting her father John Bond during the school holidays.
We had a great two course dinner catered by Simone and it was very much appreciated by all who attended. Albert thanked Simone for the dinner. Dick Jennings then introduced our host Rod (Freddie) Furner. Rod gave us a brief history of his connections to Coolamon and his goals for the future. Rod did say that they will not be open for 12 months until the council seals the entry road in Pykes Lane.
This is a beautiful building with excellent craftsmanship using mainly local tradespeople. The stone work on the columns and walls is outstanding.
President Adrian then thanked Rod Furner for his hospitality and Dick Jennings for organising the event.
Welcome back Sarah so good to see you again.
We then had some business to discuss in the main the upcoming Gears and Beers weekend on Sunday the long weekend in October. Daryl Breust outlined the roster of our members and advised all volunteers to be at Lions Park from 7.30am on Sunday morning before they go to their posts. N.B. SUNDAY October 6th daylight saving begins with our clocks going forward by one hour!!!!! So volunteers need to get up an hour earlier.
Daryl thanked the volunteers who made the ANZAC biscuits for the participants of Gears & Beers these included Jann Breust, Annie and Myffy. Daryl reminded us all that after the Gears & Beers event on Sunday that we are all welcome to the Beers part of the festival in Wagga.
Grahame Miles spoke on the upcoming evening at the Ganmain Hall on Friday 4th October.
Albert Suidgeest had a guessing competition question for us to answer with our replies hand written on a piece of paper. The questions were how to spell Annie’s name and the date of her birthday. The only clue was that there were two Zs. Lexi won 1st prize and Mary won the second prize.
All in all another very pleasant evening with good food and good friends.
DIARY
N.B. You are always welcome to bring guests to most of our meetings, just advise Ian Jennings if you want to bring a guest along when you respond to the weekly dinner roll call!
You can download the full programme here and note that it will change and that will be reflected in the weekly bulletin and in The Diary on our website or the link below in pdf:
Sunday October 6th – Gears & Beers. Wollundry RC. Website
Monday 7th October – NO MEETING (October long weekend).
*Monday 14th October – Guest Speaker Meeting. Tony Donoghue Coolamon Shire Council GM. On Strategy and vision of the Shire. Coolamon Sport Rec Club, 6.30 for 7.00 pm.
Sunday October 20th – Coolamon Garden Viewing
*Monday 21st. October – Guest Speaker Meeting. Dan Fox, Australian Innovation Farmer of the Year. On Regenerative agriculture and its link to food/health. Coolamon Sport Rec Club, 6.30 for 7.00 pm.
Saturday October 26th – Coolamon Garden Viewing Day TWO.
*Friday 25th/Sunday 27th October – D9705 Conference. Mittagong RSL. Bookings open now:
D9705 Conference
Monday 28th October – Social Night with get to Know Your Member.
JUST FOR LAUGHS
All of the above images were obtained from Facebook.
ROTARY NEWS
ROTARY HISTORY
Rotary started with the vision of one man — Paul Harris. The Chicago attorney formed the Rotary Club of Chicago on 23 February 1905, so professionals with diverse backgrounds could exchange ideas and form meaningful, lifelong friendships.
Over time, Rotary’s reach and vision gradually extended to humanitarian service. Members have a long track record of addressing challenges in their communities and around the world.
Whatever Rotary may mean to us, to the world it will be known by the results it achieves.
Paul Harris
Rotary founder
The first Rotary Club was formed when attorney Paul P. Harris called together a meeting of three business acquaintances in downtown Chicago, United States, at Harris’s friend Gustave Loehr’s office in the Unity Building on Dearborn Street on February 23, 1905. In addition to Harris and Loehr (a mining engineer and freemason), Silvester Schiele (a coal merchant), and Hiram E. Shorey (a tailor) were the other two who attended this first meeting. The members chose the name Rotary because initially they rotated subsequent weekly club meetings to each other’s offices, although within a year, the Chicago club became so large it became necessary to adopt the now-common practice of a regular meeting place.
The first four Rotarians. From left: Gustavus Loehr, Silvester Schiele, Hiram E. Shorey, Paul P. Harris.
The First Four Rotarians.
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My favourite banner exchange in Chicago at the centenary of RI Convention.
SEPTEMBER IS ROTARY BASIC EDUCATION & LITERACY MONTH
ROTARY CLUB OF COOLAMON Inc. 2024-25
Chartered March 3rd, 1971; Sponsoring Club Narrandera Rotary Club
- President: Adrian Lindner
- President-Elect 2025-2026: Mary Potts
- Secretary: Paul Weston
- Treasurer: Mary Potts
- Rotary Foundation Director: Gary Truscott
- Membership Director: Brian Pattison
- Service Projects Director: Anne Rzeszkowski
- Youth Services Director: Scott Mudd
- Club Admin Director: Ian Jennings
- Public Image Director: Grahame Miles
- Sergeant @ Arms: Albert Suidgeest
- Club Environment Representative: Adrian Lindner
- Immediate Past President and Vice-President: John Bond
- Bulletin Editors: Paul Weston and John Glassford
- Webmaster: John Glassford