Coolamon Rotary Bulletin for Week of November 17th 2024
Meeting of Monday 11th November 2024
President Adrian Lindner welcomed 18 members to our A.G.M. and club assembly tonight.
2024 AGM Chair PE Mary Potts.
The full minutes of the AGM will be available in due course.
Briefly:
- Mary read out the minutes of the 2023 AGM which was accepted by the members as a true record.
- Mary also read out the Treasurer’s report for 2022-2023.
- The IPP John Bond’s report was tabled from his annual report at the change over dinner.
- Nominations were called for all positions that were vacated and the following directors were voted in.
- President Elect Nominee 2026-2027 Lesley Weston
- Treasurer Vicki Langtry
- Secretary Paul Weston
- Foundation Gary Truscott
- Service Projects Anne Rzeszkowski
- Membership Brian Pattison Bear
- Youth Services Alexis Furner
- Club Administration Barry Langtry
- Public Image Garth Perkin
Other non board positions will be declared in due course.
Congratulations to all of those who volunteered to serve the CRC for 2025-2026.
Club Assembly Chair Adrian Lindner.
Adrian then chaired the club assembly and the following major topics were presented:
1. COOLAMON COMMUNITY CHRONICLE. (CCC)
Paul Weston and Grahame Miles presented the board’s decision to have the CCC printed by Active Print. We will terminate the lease agreement with Smiths who provide the printer. From february 2025 we will no longer be using Smith’s printer and it will be returned. Grahame presented the costs involved and our pay out will be around $1,000. The CCC will remain sustainable by going back to Active Print.
2. CHARITY GIVING OVER 10 YEARS
John Glassford spoke on the actual break up of our charity giving over the past 10 years since 2014. The Board passed the following motion in 2014.
That we allocate 50% of our charity expenditures to local programs, 25% to national programs, and 25% to international programs.
John did a reconciliation on the past 10 years of our charity giving and we committed 75% to local charity giving, 16% to National charity and 9% to International charity.
John emphasised that the $300,000 raised for our Road MAPS to Africa projects were raised by JJG and PDG Fred Loneragan with a very small amount, not greater than $6,000, coming from Coolamon. The funds in the main came from other Rotary clubs and private individuals sponsoring our teams on Kilimanjaro 2007, the Mountains of the Moon 2011 and the Mount Kenya 2015 climbs.
3. CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP.
President Adrian advised the assembly of members that the Board has approved our club recruiting corporate members. Adrian gave examples of the Wagga Wagga Sunrise club who have Bush & Campbell Accountants in Wagga as a corporate member. The procedures of having a corporate member has been circulated to all members.
Some ideas of who in our area could be approached to join as a corporate member were Commins & Hendricks, Coolamon Shire Council, Coolamon Steel, Hutcheon and Pearce and the Coolamon Central School.
4. OTHER BUSINESS
- Adrian advised the meeting assembled that David Post from Wollundry RC has up to 10 gift cards of $500 each to be given to any farmers in our area doing it tough this Christmas.
- Grahame presented an idea for a Christmas project to support the Salvation Army’s toy appeal. Details have been sent to all members and each member is encouraged to buy a toy, wrap it and Grahame and Sharon will deliver them to the Salvation Army in Temora. Grahame has asked all members to buy the toys from the Ganmain Newsagency toy shop:
- Garth advised us all that PDG George Weston has asked Garth to be the Area 3 Community Leader under the new regionalisation pilot programme for Zone 8.
- Paul Weston reported on the previous Board meeting included in his report
- We need an email address for our club.
- The Board agreed to increase the annual giving prizes for our local schools.
- RYLA is on the 4th January 2025 in Murrumbateman open to 18-28 yo at $1,700 per RYLARIAN.
- The Christmas Party is set for Monday 9th December at the property of Wendy and Adrian Lindner. The CRC will pay for the meals. A detailed map on how to get to Wendy and Adrian’s farm will be sent out.
The winners of the Melbourne Cup Sweep were:
1st place Mary Potts, 2nd place Garth, 3rd place Bruce Hamilton and last place JJG.
We will leave this photo here for your information:
DIARY
*Monday 25th November – Guest speaker Inspector Jill Gibson from the Wagga Wagga Police Local Area Command: Inspector Jill’s talk will be on domestic violence. Coolamon Sport Rec Club, 6.30 for 7.00 pm.
*Monday 2nd December – Guest speaker Robert Shore District Governor Elect, District 9705, WW2 PoW Stories. Coolamon Sport Rec Club, 6.30 for 7.00 pm.
*Monday 9th December – Annual Christmas Party. Hosts will be Wendy and Adrian Lindner on their property. Details to follow. NB NO BoD Meeting in December.
Monday 16th December LAST Meeting for 2024. Coolamon Sport Rec Club, 6.30 for 7.00 pm.
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 NEWS.
OUR FOUNDATION
- Peace and Conflict Prevention/Resolution – see also the D9705 Peace Communities Program
- Disease Prevention and Treatment – see our District End Polio and End Trachoma pages
- Water and Sanitation
- Maternal and Child Health
- Basic Education and Literacy
- Economic and Community Development
- Supporting the Environment-more details here: webpage
CRC MATCHING GRANT FROM THE ROTARY FOUNDATION.
In 2005 Coolamon and Hout Bay became Centennial twin clubs and we started the main project of raising funds to build and refurbish an AIDS and TB Clinic, which has since become a model for South African Health.
Coolamon House as it is known, in honour of our club, was opened in 2013 and among two other beneficiaries, Nonceba and Phumlani, we have contributed over $US 100,000 to Hout Bay. This included a TRF Matching Grant for US$22,000.
We worked on the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa. The relationship with Hout Bay RC has been beneficial to both clubs and we have made many good friends in Hout Bay.
The informal settlement, known as Imizamo Yethu, that cropped up in this very expensive suburb of Cape Town grew and grew with the influx of migrants mainly from The Transkei in Northern South Africa. The demands on the original residents was overwhelming and both Rotary Hout Bay and Lions Hout Bay, in conjunction with the Cape Town Health Department worked on building the medical centre to look after a population of 16,000 people officially. However the actual number of residents could be as high as 50,000.
The association now 20 years old with Hout Bay RC has resulted in the building/refurbishment of the totally inadequate building that they had to serve this ever growing migrants.
Over a period of 8 years and two mountain climbs in 2007 (Kilimanjaro) and 2011 (The Mountains of the Moon), and then following the Mount Kenya 2015 climb. We have been able to provide Hout Bay RC with over US$100,000. This includes the Foundation matching grant of US$22.000.
This project, Coolamon House, is saving lives each and every day.
The funds we raised came from sponsors of each and every climb. These were individuals or clubs who sponsored our climbers by donation various levels per foot that we reached.
I am in the process of rebuilding our website for our CRC Road MAPS to Africa projects. However you can learn more about our work in Africa from this website:
THE ORK.
NOVEMBER IS ROTARY FOUNDATION 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