Weekly Message From President Ngaire
How quickly this year has passed. Here we are already at ¾ time with only the final quarter left to play in this Rotary year 2012-13.
The Club Forum on Tuesday allowed us the chance to congratulate ourselves on all the goals we have kicked so far and they are many. Highlights for me include the GardenDesignFest (November), our own Christmas dinner with Elvis – who can forget Gerry Cantwell’s song routine, Christmas Lunch for Socially Disadvantaged, (December) and or course our absolutely amazing District Conference this month. I am very appreciative of the great work done by all our directors, they really have put in, and for the overwhelming support of the conference committee and the entire club who attended Albury.
Our fundraising to date is $47,000+ which is a phenomenal effort, so we have many donations to pass on to worthy organisations. That will be a favourite task.
I’m so excited! The Peace Forum was a knockout – not the PowerPoint presentation, but the ideas that were forthcoming, both on Tuesday and by email since. All of a sudden that significant hands-on community project that I have been hankering for all year seems within our reach. Only after much discussion and some work of course! I’m developing a mind map encompassing all the ideas, and will be presenting that to the Board after Easter before we bring the total concept back to you at a lunch meeting.
I hope you’ve all remembered that Footy Tipping starts in earnest this Friday. The committee has put so much effort into getting this up and running again this season and it is not happening because more that 2/3 of our club is not supporting it. That’s really disappointing….
Relay For Life was well supported by a number of Rotarians keen to help the Anti-Cancer Foundation. I understand that in between laps David Rush was swinging from the rugby crossbar– by his feet. Oh, to be so fit.
Encouraging news from both Ian Stoney and Neil Roberts causes us to be ‘cautiously optimistic’ about improved health for them both.
Just a reminder – there is no scheduled meeting next week on Easter Tuesday, April 2. The Twilight Bowls is now planned for April 16th so we have a meeting with a difference that week to look forward to. And Rotarians at Work Day, organised by Gerald Swinnerton, is on Sunday April 21st.
Matt Maudlin from Servants Community is our guest speaker at our next Kooyong lunch on Tuesday April 9th. Matt has got a compelling story to share with us about the plight and life of the homeless men and women the Servants care for and it will be a real eye-opener about the circumstances of some of our residents of Boroondara. Please come to that meeting and make Matt feel very welcome.
Have a wonderfully happy Easter, and enjoy a Rotary free week next week – we deserve it!! See you on the 9th…
Yours in Rotary,
Ngaire
Thought(s) for the week: - Mother Teresa on "life"
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it. “