John J Glassford This week we started the new Rotary year with a street raffle in Coolamon.
It was a very cold windy cloudless morning and we were kept very busy.
Thanks to Henk Hulsman, Craig Corrigan, John Glassford, Dick Jennings, Ian Durham and Madison Durham for selling the tickets.
The proceeds go to our charity account.
RI President, Kalyan Banerjee and his wife Binota being received in Bangalore, India on 13th July. Photo : Kishore Shampur
A new Rotary year has begun, and with it several programs aimed at supporting and strengthening clubs and districts. In addition, a fresh slate of leaders take over at the club, district, and international level.
Kalyan Banerjee, of the Rotary Club of Vapi, Gujarat, India, is Rotary’s 101st president, and the third from India. Read a profile of Banerjee from The Rotarian. William B. Boyd, of the Rotary Club of Pakuranga, Auckland, New Zealand, has taken over as Rotary Foundation trustee chair.
Here is the latest news on what RFFA (Rotarians For Fighting AIDS) in conjunction with District 9200 East Africa are doing to combat the AIDS pandemic in Africa.
If you are a Rotarian one of the best things that you can do is to join RFFA as a life time member and to do this go to the RFFA web site:
Helen Austin, a singer and songwriter in the Comox Valley on
Vancouver Island wrote a song to help us celebrate 25 years of women
in Rotary. You can see the video and listen to the song here:
B y the time the 2011 photo contest closed at the end of March, we had received hundreds of entries, all striving to capture, in their way, the spirit of Rotary. We narrowed the field to several dozen and sent them to photographer Art Wolfe, best known for his PBS series Travels to the Edge, for the final judging. We awarded Canon cameras to the top three winners: an EOS 60D, a PowerShot G12, and a PowerShot S95. Then we picked a handful of others to feature here on the web as our Best of the Rest. See the full gallery:
Last night at our weekly meeting we had the pleasure of welcoming Jason Sachs to our Rotary club. Jason’s vocation is teaching and he has a young family and is head teacher at the Coolamon Central School. Jason’s classification is Head Teacher and will join Leslie Weston on the New Generations committee. We will be engaging the youth of our area in the coming years through our wonderful programmes like RYDA and MUNA. Grahame Miles will mentor Jason and teach Jason all he knows about Rotary.
We all look forward to enjoying Jason’s company over the coming years. Welcome Jason!
