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President's Message
Gaynor Schols
President's Report No 35
Monday 5th March, 2018
Our guest speakers this week were Gabrielle Tremul and her mum, Leann Tremul, who spoke about Gabrielle’s genetic condition, Cystic Fibrosis (CF). There is no cure for CF and life expectancy for Gabrielle is 35-38 years. Hearing Gabrielle and her mother speak about their every-day challenges in such an upbeat, optimistic fashion made us all think about how small our own challenges are.
On Sunday 4th March Lesley, John Oswald and I promoted Rotary at the Geelong expo at the Rotary Waterfront Market. A great promotion which should perhaps be held regularly?
Our club donated $1000 to our Relay for Life team effort. The walk is on 16/17 March at Polwarth Oval, Merrijig Drive. If you have not registered and would like to join our team please contact Graham Gill.
I have yet to hear from many members about their availability for the mid-year Book Fair on Queen’s Birthday weekend (8-11 June). Please could you respond to the email.
Several members are not responding on Whoozin for each meeting. Please choose “yes” or “no” every week as it’s impossible for catering when 6 members don’t respond. You have the opportunity to edit your response up until Sunday. Please ring Greg Plumridge if you need help with this new RSVP system.
You are all invited to the home of Gaynor and Rudi for Happy Hour on Friday 23rd March. Partners and prospective members welcome.
If you have any video clips of our Rotary Club activities during the year please forward to Greg Plumridge who is compiling a video for conference on how our club has made a difference this year.
Trevor Pickles and myself attended the BNI meeting on Thursday morning. This is a business network group which allows business owners to promote their local business to each other and share customer referrals and contacts. It costs $1375 to join for 1 year but they have offered the Rotary Club of Torquay a free membership as their Charity Membership Seat. The one stipulation is that a Rotarian must attend BNI weekly meetings and share our activities with the group. Meetings are held at the Spring Creek Football Clubhouse at 7.30am (yes AM!) on Thursdays. The board is yet to approve this offer but I think it is an excellent opportunity for our club.
Thank you to those of you who have registered for our Rotary Relay for Life Team.
This years event is being held at Polworth Oval, Banyul Warri Fields
The Event will commence at 6.45pm on Friday 16th March and conclude at 3.00pm Sat 17th as per the link below.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE ROSTER and remember to arrive 15 minutes before you start time and advise the walker before you that you have arrived on site and ready to go for the Torquay Rotary Club Team
If you would like any further details please contact me.
We have been offered some additional dates for Bunnings BBQ's, our next events are as follows
Bunnings - March 31
9 till 12.30
Mal Slater, Tervor Brown, Gail Chrisfield,Chris Sims, Terry Charlton
12 till 3.30
Alan Anderson, Lelslie Shedden, G & H Mc Donald
BUNNINGS - April 1
9 till 12.30
J Oswald,G Gill,A Hough,D Mitchell
12 till 3.30
H Randall,T Pickles,G Birchall,B Smith
Strathewen 26/3/18 (9.30 till 3)
J Mcdonald, G & L Gill, M Slater, C Sims
Peace of Mind 13/4/18 ( Anglesea 5 till 6.30)
G& G Birchill , L Neale ,G& L Gill
Please note that the Cowrie Market 15th April is the same day as Ride the Bellarine so check if you are rostered on for the Cowrie Market BBQ before volunteering for RTB
You have received a completed 2017-18 BBQ Roster Spreadsheet via email. The Roster is also saved in Clubrunner Club Documents or just Click this link BBQ ROSTER If you are unable to do your rostered session then please find someone who you can swap with and advise me of the change.
Brian Mynott has again registered to participate in this years Ride and will be our Club's representative in the Ride. We will commence a sponsorship program to support Brian in coming weeks. Awesome job Brian.
Ride the Bellarine is a District Fundraising Event, run by the 15 combined Rotary Clubs of Geelong. This event, now in its 4th year, raises funds to support the End Polio Now Campaign.
Registrations for Ride the Bellarine 2018 now open!. Click https://www.registernow.com.au/secure/Register.aspx?E=28260 to register today. This unique ride, on 15 April 2018, will take you around the beautiful Bellarine, enjoying amazing scenery while you raise funds to End Polio.
We are now fully operational with our new system for registering for our weekly dinner meetings. Called Whoozin, this program is used by other local Rotary Clubs with great success.
To make it easy for everyone I have prepared a Whoozin User Manual which is stored on Clubrunner under "Club Documents" that you will be able to print off if you wish.
In Summary the way it will work is:-
You will receive an initial email invitation each Monday for the following week's meeting.
You can immediately accept or decline, leave until later.
You will receive a reminder email on the Friday Prior
You will have until Midnight Sunday to register your RSVP and can change your decision right up until the closing time.
You can register up to 5 guests
You can specify any Special Dietary requirements
Please Note that if you do not register your intentions you will be charged for the dinner fee.
If you have any problems please free to contact myself Greg Plumridge 0418521321 or Michael Reed 0418524315 for details on how to work the program.
If you cannot meet one of your assigned duties, Please contact Bruce Smith to advise.
The duty team should arrive no later than 6:00 p.m. Besides the below duties, the assigned team is responsible for Room Setup, Greeting Members and Guests, and Room Tidy at the end of our meeting - see checklist in storeroom or click here .
Notifying someone about changes to your meeting attendance is your responsibility!
Our meetings have catered dinners, so if you are unable to attend a meeting, or if your partner is unable
to attend a designated Partner's Night, YOU MUST ADVISE us of your or your partner’s absence.
This also applies if you are attending the meeting but not dining.
How to Book in for our Dinner Meeting?
For Members, Partners and guests of Members
you will receive email invitations to each meeting via Whoozin.
It will be your responsibility to RSVP using Whoozin by Midnight on the day prior to the meeting.
The only exception to this will be if you are expecting to be out of internet connectivity for an extended period.
In this instance you can notify Richard Mierzejewski at LET Surfcoast on03-5261 2777 by 4.00pm on the Saturday prior to the Monday Meeting.
Please Note there is NO Answering Service on this number.
Remember if you are bringing guests or your partner (to a non-partner night) you need to RSVP for the extra number of person/s who will be attending.
If no RSVP is registered as per the above process, the absentee member will be issued with an invoice to pay the Club the usual dinner fee of $25 for your non-attendance, and/or that of your partner if it is an official Partner's Night.
For Visitors to the Club
Any Visitors not being registered as a guest of a Member must call Richard Mierzejewski at LET Surfcoast on03-5261 2777 to Book in. RSVP's must be made no later than 4.00PM on the Saturday prior to the Meeting
Please Note there is NO Answering Service on this number.