Coolamon Rotary Bulletin for December 2024

HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OUR MEMBERS & READERS!

This will be our last bulletin for 2024. We will do one for NYE and then resume the bulletin from January 20th 2025. This will coincide with our first meeting for 2025 Monday January 20th.

COOLAMON ROTARY CLUB’S CHRISTMAS PARTY

Monday 9th December 2024

Coolamon Rotary held our Christmas party at Adrian and Wendy Lindner’s beautiful property, “Lindoris”. Our thanks to Wendy and Adrian for hosting us this year and for all the work you put in to make it a success.

Catering by Michelle Seymour from Marrar.

Two wonderful surprises during the evening. First Wollundry Rotary presented President Adrian Lindner with a cheque for $10,000. This for the work that we as a club do for their Gears & Beers weekend.

The highlight of the night was the presentation of a Paul Harris Fellow award to Sharon Miles. Sharon is the engine behind the Coolamon Community Chronicle. Sharon’s PHF is well deserved!

Here are a few photos from the Christmas party.

Meeting of Monday 16th December 2024

Past President John Bond welcomed 23 members and one guest Susan Glassford.

Everyone was in a great mood with a lot of chatter and plenty of banter. Bondy did his best to keep everyone focussed however it was our last meeting for 2024.

We had a bit of general business including:

Mary Potts remanding us that our fees will be due on January 1st.
Albert Suidgeest is looking for certificates of appreciation for those who hosted and worked on the October garden viewing weekends.
Dick Jennings proposed that we do some working bees for a lady in need of some grass cutting. A good idea Dick we should do work like this.
Brian the Bear outlined the NYE programme for the catering side of the NYE Coolamon Street Party.
Ian Jennings said that he would get a roster together for NYE raffle selling.
Garth Perkin reported at length on the presentation to the Matong PS and quizzed the members as to the number of students at Matong PS and wanted us to work out the % of students to Matong’s population. I am not sure where we ended up here but there were 31 children in the flyer that Garth had. Apparently there are 28 students or was that 25? It was that kind of meeting!!!!!
We all congratulated Hannah on graduating from Nursing school. Hannah has been waiting on us on most Mondays now and we wish her all the best for her future as a nurse.

All in all a fun and most enjoyable meeting and the raffle was won by Bear.

S@A Albert had a very good fines session the best being on Grahame Miles who invested in one tenth of a Bitcoin many many moons ago and it is now worth so much more. Bruce was fined for not sending his fat lambs to market as Bruce is waiting for the price to rise to $350!!!!!

NEW YEARS EVE ROSTERS

1. THE CATERING VAN

6.00-7.30pm In the van: Bear, Gary, Bruce, with Dick as the runner. Tickets for food: Maree Jennings and Annie.

7.30-9.00pm In the van: Bear, Gary and John G with Garth as the runner. Tickets for food Mary and Bernie Milne.

NB. Garth will set up the van. The barrel for the raffle draw will be in the van.

2. The CRC NYE Raffle

6.00 to 7.30 pm: Mark and Sharon Reardon, Alex, Adrian and Don.

7.30 to 9.00pm: Adrian, John Bond, Leslie and Paul Weston and Myffy.

There will be two chairs and a table next to the Cubby House on a trailer.

THIS PAST WEEK OR TWO

Some of our members have been busy selling raffle tickets for the 3 prizes to be drawn on NYE, thankyou to all who volunteered and to Annie for organising the raffle.

Thanks to those who presented the annual school prizes form our club these are the only photos that I have for this giving to our schools every year. President Adrian Lindner did the honours for the Ganmain Public School:

Some of our members attended the Coolamon Carols in the park.

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:

CRC Program 24-25 UPDATE

Tuesday 31st December NYE. Catering with Lions Coolamon includes the 600 sausages donated by the CRC for the children. The NYE street raffle will be drawn at 9.00pm.

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.

JUST FOR LAUGHS

All of the above images were obtained from Facebook.

COOLAMON ROTARY CLUB’S PAST 6 MONTHS PICTORIAL

There have been many highlights over the past 6 months and we have been a busy team of Coolamon Rotarians.

Here is a sample of some of the things that we got up to as members of this club. This is a thumb nail presentation in a gallery so you will need to click on each photo to get a larger image.