ROTARY INTERNATIONAL THEME FOR 2026-2027
Monday November 9th 2026
President Leslie welcomed 15 of our members and to the meeting last night. We have several members away at the moment. After dinner we had some general business which included:
- Leslie reported on the board meeting and some items that are of interest
- The board will donate the usual $125 for each of our schools in the Shire in time for school presentations.
- The recent scholarship has been awarded to Chris Bell.
- The Salvation Army Toy run will be supported again by the CRC with Grahame Miles and John Glassford to get the presents form Ganmain and Coolamon. $800 from the Ganmain newsagency and $200 from Coolamon.
- There is a Rotary Youth Humanity Forum to take place in Canberra from the 18th to the 22nd January 2027 at $1050 per student. Year 11 and Year 12 students qualify.
- Monday 7th December will be our Christmas party at the Up -to-Date Store Leslie will confirm the date.
- Monday 25th January there is a joint CRC and Coolamon Lions social BBQ at the Sports Club.
- The NYE Raffle prizes are being organised by Leslie and include a garden cart, fuel vouchers, Coolamon Hotel dinner and several other prizes.
- Grahame announced the Melbourne Cup sweep winners which have already been published.
The meeting concluded with the raffle draw and 1st prize was won by Lexi. There were 6 other dinner prizes following the evening meal.
We closed at 8.30pm.
OUT AND ABOUT JAPAN
Our intrepid travellers are in Japan and Maree Jennings posted this series of photos on Maree’s Facebook page today. Thanks Maree. The members who are in this trip include, Dick, Albert, Vicki, Barry and a couple of their friends from Coolamon, plus Dianne Suidgeest and Maree Jennings.
DIARY
N.B. You are always welcome to bring guests to most of our meetings, just advise Ian Jennings, 0428 492 157, 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: CRC Diary On-Line
Monday 16th November Dinner meeting: 6.30 for 7.00pm start at the Coolamon Sports Club.
Monday 23rd November TO BE DECIDED
Friday 27th November CRC Street Raffle at Foodworks. 2.30-7.00pm
Monday 30th November CRC AGM and Election of Office Bearers for 2027-2028. 6.30 for 7.00pm start at the Coolamon Sports Club.
*Monday 7th December CRC Annual Christmas Party at the Up-to-Date Store. TBC Details to follow. Catering by Michelle Seymour.
*Monday 7th December Gears & Beers Post Mortem by the Wollundry RC 6.30 for 7.00pm at the Coolamon Sports Club.
Saturday 12th December CRC Street Raffle at Foodworks. 8.00am to 2.00pm.
Monday 14th December Board Meeting 5.30 at the Coolamon Sports Club.
Monday 14th December Final Dinner Meeting for 2026: 6.30 for 7.00pm start at the Coolamon Sports Club.
Thursday 31st December NYE in Coolamon BBQ with Lions Coolamon plus the NYE Raffle.
*Monday 25th January 2027 First Dinner Meeting of 2027: will be a BBQ Social Meeting with the Coolamon LIONS Club 6.30 for 7.00pm start at the Coolamon Sports Club.
*Guests welcome to bring their partners and friends.
JUST FOR LAUGHS
The Ganmain Gazette; a must read find them here on Facebook.
All of the above photos were obtained from Facebook. Credit to the owners.
ROTARY NEWS and ITEMS OF INTEREST
1. THE ROTARY FOUNDATION
OUR MISSION
The Rotary Foundation helps Rotary members to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace by improving health, providing quality education, improving the environment, and alleviating poverty.
Since it was founded more than 100 years ago, the Foundation has spent more than US$6.5 billion on life-changing, sustainable projects.
Together, we can make an impact in your community and around the world.
OUR FOUNDATION AT WORK IN THE WORLD.
The above graphic shows you the seven areas of focus where The Rotary Foundation supports on the ground via various forms of grants and partnerships. Let us look at one area this week which is the latest area of focus for our Rotary Foundation.
THE ROTARY FOUNDATION SUPPORTING THE ENVIRONMENT
Environment
The vision for the Environment Area of Focus is that Rotary leaders act locally and globally with evidence to sustainably address shared environmental issues and foster harmony between people and nature. The Environment Area of Focus overlaps closely with all the other areas of focus and many of the UN sustainable development goals. The new vision statement and strategy aligns closely with the following SDGs:
- SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation – specifically, SDG 6.3.2, referring to the proportion of waterbodies that attain good ambient water quality
- SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
- SDG 13: Climate Action
- SDG 14: Life Below Water
- SDG 15: Life on Land
Rotary’s new strategic partnership with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) encourages Rotary and Rotaract clubs to take action in the Community Action for Fresh Water initiative to protect, sustain and restore a local freshwater body (e.g. rivers, streams, lakes and wetlands).
Through this effort, citizen science can help attain SDG 6 goals by providing local governments with baseline water quality data, projects to help clean up plastics and litter in and around the water, and advocate for policies to reduce pollution to our freshwaters.
Projects under the Community Action for Fresh Water initiative will likely have positive impacts on sustainable land use, fish habitats and more (visit rotary.org/UNEP for more information).
Other current Rotary projects that are making an impact include: The Environment Sustainability Rotary Action Group’s goal of 1 M solar panels, with more than 48,000 recorded to date, which provide affordable, clean energy and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels; and efforts among all ages of Rotary members to reduce food waste in schools, promote composting in local communities, and planting native species (e.g. native pollinator plants, mangroves) to encourage biodiversity and prevent flooding in coastal areas.
This strategy shifts the emphasis from not only providing infrastructure and technology to training local communities to maintain and sustain practices that benefit our environment. Our efforts are concentrated on raising awareness, strengthening our numbers and involvement with our strategy UNEP partnership, and growing our service projects to result in short-term and long-term outcomes that have a positive impact to the environment.
ROTARY protecting the Environment
Do you have a good idea for a project that looks after our environment?
HOW TO SUPPORT OUR ROTARY FOUNDATION.
In all of our seven areas of focus projects that go to support a particular area of service need support from clubs and members alike. So here are two ways you, we the club can support the Rotary Foundation.
A. BECOME A CENTURION
Get one of these cylinders and put in $2 a week and then give it to our Treasurer and voila you are a Centurion.
How to become a Centurion
You can become a Centurion along with fellow Rotarians and others by making a tax deductable contribution of AUD$ 100 or more per annum while ever you are in a position to do so. Your contribution (payable to The Australian Rotary Foundation Trust) supports the work of the Rotary Foundation.
Fifty percent of the money donated to the Annual Programs Fund comes back to the District after 3 years and is used in developing our Foundation projects. Rotarians and their partners and friends become a Centurion by donating AUD$100 each year to The Australian Rotary Foundation Trust.
Rotarians, their partners and friends also receive Paul Harris Fellow recognition credits for each donation made in their name.
B. JOIN THE PAUL HARRIS SOCIETY
Rotary started with the vision of one man — Paul Harris, a lawyer who envisioned a place where professionals of diverse backgrounds could exchange ideas and form meaningful, lifelong friendships. His idea took shape in 1905 when the first Rotary club meeting was held in downtown Chicago. Harris’ death in 1947 death prompted an outpouring of contributions to The Rotary Foundation and his name continues to evoke the passion and support of Rotary members and friends.
In his honor, the Paul Harris Society became an official Rotary Foundation recognition program in 2013-14. The society recognizes individuals who notify The Rotary Foundation of their intent to contribute US$1,000 or more each year to any combination of the following:
- Annual Fund-SHARE
- Annual Fund-World Fund
- Annual Fund-Areas of Focus
- PolioPlus Fund
- Disaster Response Fund
- Disasters of Magnitude
- Approved global grants
2. ROTARY CLUB OF TUMUT CHRISTMAS RAFFLE
Rotary Christmas elves packing and wrapping all of the amazing prizes for the 2026 Mega Christmas Raffle. This years prizes are valued at over $6000! The first tickets go on sale Tuesday October 27th at the mobile skin cancer bus and then from November 6th outside Hello World Tumut!! It’s time to spread the Christmas Cheer!
NOVEMBER IS THE ROTARY FOUNDATION MONTH
ROTARY CLUB OF COOLAMON Inc. 2026-2027
Chartered March 3rd, 1971; Sponsoring Club Narrandera Rotary Club
- President: Leslie Weston
- President-Elect 2025-2026: Michael Trinidad
- Secretary: Henk Hulsman
- Treasurer: Vicki Langtry
- Rotary Foundation Director: Gary Truscott
- Membership Director: VACANT
- Service Projects Director: Anne Rzeszkowski
- Youth Services Director: Lexi Furner
- Club Admin Director: Dick Jennings assisted by Mark Reardon
- Public Relations & Image Director: Paul Weston
- Sergeant @ Arms: Daryl Breust
- Immediate Past President and Vice-President: Mary Potts
NON board Positions
- Club Environment Representative: Adrian Lindner
- Bulletin Editor: John Glassford
- Webmaster and Social Media: John Glassford