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President Harry’s Notes
Welcome Rotarians. A lot has happened in the past week. The board held a meeting essentially to establish a donations strategy during COVID 19 and to establish membership fees for 2020-21. Thank you to those who attended the club zoom meeting on Thursday 14 May and...
Holding a changeover ceremony virtually
The end of the Rotary year is fast approaching. And with that, clubs are beginning to think about their traditional changeover ceremonies. Like many things in the world after the COVID-19 pandemic, having these in person isn’t an option. Clubs are asking, should we...
Honouring the mothers behind our Peace Fellows
Written By Erika Isabel Yague, Rotary Peace Fellow at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia...…. As Rotary Peace Fellows, we find inspiration when we take time to remember and recognize the people who support and motivate us in our work of pursuing a...
President Harry’s Notes
Welcome Rotarians. We ventured into cyber space and held a video club meeting last Thursday. Thank you to the 21 members who logged in and a particular thank you to Rotarian (good) Les for the technology to make it happen. It was evident that members were not...
Prevent gender based violence
By Elsa Marie D’Silva, Rotary Peace Fellow alumna, …... During the lockdown enforced due to COVID-19, I have been reaching out to all my friends to see how they are doing. The other day I happened to call one of my girl friends who I know has been in an...
President Harry’s Notes
Welcome Rotarians. This week marks out first zoom members meeting. For all of us it will be a little bit different, so here is a tip - have plenty of your beverage of choice handy. Also have your say when the club discusses the important issues of next year's...
URGENT MESSAGE –
As you are all aware there has been many new measures put in place by the government re gatherings of people. Therefore our dinner meetings will be suspended until further notice. Our newsletter will be published each week and if any member would like to add an item...
Anzac Day 25 April
This year we can not go outside to attend an Anzac Service but we need to still honour our Veterans. Justin Wilbur - a War Veterans son, has suggested we all stand in our driveways or doorways at 6am on 25th April and light a candle or play the last post to remember...
PRESIDENT HARRY’S NOTES
Hello members. Welcome members to another week. I expect that for some the week has gone very slowly and for others, (particularly if you have outside employment), not so slowly. How did you go with contacting two other members? Can I ask that you ring two different...
Cancellation of District 9830 Conference advised by DG Michael Cooke
District Governor's Newsletter SPECIAL EDITION URGENT URGENT 15 MARCH 2020 Edition 34. 6th March 2020 To all Rotarians, your families and friends. Corrina and I have had to make a difficult decision; that is, to cancel the District 9830 Conference. After taking into...
President Harry Galea’s Notes (12th March 2020)
Hello Rotarians. Last Friday 30 or more from our club attended the funeral of Max Watkins. Max certainly had many friends - about 900 attended the funeral. There were times of extreme sadness and times of happy memories. In time let us remember the happy times of...
Last week’s Guest Speaker
Last week’s guest speaker was our club sponsored exchange student for 2019, Lucy Rivers. Lucy went to France in January 2019 and returned in January this year. Lucy said she went to the town of Montreuil-sur-Mer in Northern France not far from Calais. The town has a...
Peace Fellow makes films to heighten understanding
When I was six years old, my Japanese father and American mother took me to the Pearl Harbor National Memorial in Hawaii. When I saw the wreckage of the USS Arizona, I was shocked to learn that the two countries that I belonged to had once been at war with each other....
President Harry Galea’s Notes- 5th March 2020
Hello Rotarians. Words can not describe the sadness when I heard the news of the passing away of Rotarian Max Watkins. Few of us understood or appreciated the magnitude of Max's injuries. The South Launceston Rotary family have expressed our condolences to the...
A great Social Evening
Our Club went on a visit last Thursday evening, to the Adams Distillery, the Home of award-winning Tasmanian whisky and gin. We had a great BBQ selection of meats and very nice salads to start the night off, then Adam Saunders, one of the co-owners of this outstanding...
President Harry Galea’s Notes – 27th February 2020
Hello Rotarians. Welcome Rotarians to another week. Launceston Cup, Symphony Under the Stars (for those lucky to get tickets), visit to Adams Distillery and a South Launceston Rotary friendship dinner on Saturday evening - a lot of choice to keep us entertained and...
Last week’s Guest Speaker
Owing to a last-minute withdrawal of the scheduled guest speaker, President Harry stepped into the breach and presented a very interesting talk on waste management, in Tasmania, drawing on his experience as a former engineer with the Launceston City Council and other...
Blaze Aid Donations
Graeme LeFevre announced that one of his news agency customers wanted to help the club with our Blaze Aid donation and gave him a cheque for $1,000, which Graeme presented to President Harry. Our club also donated $10,000 to Blaze Aid for the Bushfire appeal The...
Rotary and Polio Fact Sheet
Polio Poliomyelitis (polio) is a paralyzing and potentially fatal disease that still threatens children in some parts of the world. The poliovirus invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. It can strike at any age but mainly...
President Harry Galea’s Notes – 20th February 2020
Hello Rotarians. It was great to hear from Stephanie Groves at last week's dinner meeting on her 'work placement' at a prosthetics clinic in Cambodia. A young person who wants you make a difference in our difficult world. This week the board will have its monthly...