HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR MEMBERS & READERS!
Facebook pic from Coolamon Shire Community News.
COOLAMON ROTARY CLUB’S NYE COMMUNITY SERVICE
Tuesday January 1st 2025.
Coolamon Rotary Club was in Coolamon for the NYE Street Party put on by our Shire Council. There were two distinct areas that we worked in one being the catering van and the other the raffle.
Our volunteers included; In the van: Bear, Gary, Bruce, Gary, Alex and John G with Dick and Garth as the runners. Tickets for food Mary, Bernie Milne, Maree Jennings and Annie.
Selling raffle tickets included: Mark and Sharon Reardon, Alex, Adrian, Don, John Bond, Leslie and Paul Weston and Myffy.
A great turn up of our members and some partners to help ease the workload.
The cooperation with the Lions Club of Coolamon was excellent and all went very well with Bear organising the caravan teams. All round it was a very busy night.
Here are some photos that I had time to take:
Hi Rotary members. Happy new year! Thank you to those who helped enormously last night for the NYE catering and raffle. A great effort by all. It was a top night and big crowd.
The winners in the raffle were.
1 Cubby house – Mary Block, Leeton (she bought her ticket at the Open Gardens, Mary comes over every year).
2 Trolley-cart and $100 Rural Supplies – Leo Corbett, Ganmain.
3 $100 Foodworks – Miller Robinson, Coolamon (related to Cheeky)
I look forward to our ongoing work and service in 2025. Our next meeting is Mon 20 Jan with Garth speaking on Shelterbox.
Regards, Adrian
Image from Paul Weston via his Facebook page:
“I had to share this photo I took late on New Year’s Day (actually it was early on the 2nd of Jan). Normally we don’t get to see an aurora in the summer and at our latitude, but there was some intense solar activity while I was outside and I grabbed a few shots with my iPhone.
To be honest the colours were mostly invisible to the naked eye (I saw only white ‘curtains’), but the iPhone apparently is more sensitive to other wavelengths (this image is exactly how it came from my phone). Anyway, I’m taking it as a good omen and wish you all the best for 2025! Paul”.
DIARY
Monday 20th January Board Meeting 5.00pm at Coolamon Sport Rec Club.
*Monday 20th January FIRST Meeting for 2025. PP Garth Perkin on ShelterBox. Coolamon Sport Rec Club, 6.30 for 7.00 pm.
Monday 26th January. NO MEETING. Australia Day.
*Guests welcome bring your partners and friends.
All of the above images were obtained from Facebook.
ROTARY VOCATIONAL SERVICE
Vocational Service is the essence of Rotary and the foundation from which Rotary began –the application of one’s vocational skills to serve others.
It is rooted in the second Object of Rotary which calls on Rotarians to encourage and foster:
- High ethical standards in business and the professions.
- The recognition of the worthiness of all occupations.
- The dignifying of each Rotarians’ occupation as an opportunity to serve society.
We also see Rotary providing a unique opportunity for those on the way up in their careers to enhance their leadership and management skills, such as project management and mentoring, to name but two. Combined with the networking opportunities that Rotary provides this positions Rotary as a good career move for younger ambitious members of our communities.
Having said that, Vocational Service is probably the most misunderstood avenue of service in Rotary. It is not as clearly defined as the other avenues of service, often overlapping them, particularly Youth and Community. Partly because of this, many clubs do not currently have a Vocational Service chair.
Coolamon Rotary did present vocational service awards in the past.
As well we awarded Small Business Awards such as this one below:
Here is a detailed document on Vocational Service:
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JANUARY IS ROTARY VOCATIONAL SERVICE 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: Lexi Furner
- 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