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President Harry Galea’s Notes- 19th March 2010
Hello Rotarians, The news has been dominated by the COVID-19 virus. The adage that the world is a small place rings true given how the virus has spread - discovered on New Year's Day and a world pandemic only ten weeks later. Even in the last seven days our 'normal'...
URGENT MESSAGE – The Board of our Club have decided to suspend dinner meetings until at least the end of March 2020.
The COVID 19 virus has given us no choice. The Board will give more updates as we have more information and expect a further announcement before the end of March 2020 on the clubs long term strategy.
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...
Stephanie Groves
Last week’s guest Speaker, Stephanie Groves is a second-year university student, pursuing Bachelor of Applied Science and Master of Prosthetics degrees at Latrobe University, Melbourne. Stephanie has just returned from a month-long practical assignment in Cambodia, a...
Mary Farr – Author
Last week’s guest speaker was Mary Farr, an author and wife of Rotarian Andrew Whitehead, who happened to be the chairman of the night and therefore well placed to introduce her! Mary said she realized that she had a gift for writing when she was quite young and has...
President Harry Galea’s Notes -13th February 2020
Hello Rotarians. This week we have the pleasure of AG Brett Williams attending our meeting - as always, please make Brett welcome. For our newer members, please introduce yourself to the Assistant Governor who, of course, is part of our Rotary family. The new meeting...
Australian Rotarians respond to brushfires
By Ross Wade, Past President, and Issa Shalhoub, member of the Rotary Club of Milton-Ulladulla, New South Wales, Australia From August through October of last year, residents of the coastal community of Ulladulla, New South Wales, Australia, watched somewhat...
RI President Elect Holger Knaack releases Theme 20-21
At this week's Rotary International Assembly, RI President Elect Holger Knaack released his Presidential Theme for 2020-21. Knaack, a member of the Rotary Club of Herzogtum Lauenburg-Mölln, Germany, revealed the 2020-21 presidential theme, Rotary Opens Opportunities,...
President Harry Galea’s Notes (6th February 2020)
Welcome Rotarians to a new month. Last week I said hello to a few members at Festivale - very fickle weather but generally not as bad as predicted by the weather bureau. Thank you to members who attended last week's meeting for completing the questionnaire. Eight of...
The Four-Way Test isn’t a tool to judge others
In our contentious society, I see friends who are members of Rotary use The Four-Way Test to support opposing political and social arguments and to criticize the thoughts, statements, and actions of others. I see members with completely opposing viewpoints use the...