MOVING 'DIK' – BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
Following a desperate plea from Donations In Kind ('DIK') chief Bob Glindeman for one final working bee to clear and clean up their former home (Shed 40), twenty plus Rotarians dutifully attended on Saturday 16 December.
Our Club supplied six (Alan Seale, Rohan Williams, Peter & Sue Duras, Roger Thornton and Frank O’Brien) and RC Balwyn supplied 7 (including DG Peter and Anne).
DIK had to be out of Shed 40 by Christmas (some months overdue) and Bob had planned this day meticulously. Amongst other things, two massive bins were filled with hard rubbish, four bins were filled with cardboard and one of the DIK trucks was completely filled to the roof with non-useable items which had become scrap metal. By the time we departed, Bob was left with completing the move of remaining pallets to Shed 39 or into a container headed for South Sudan and filling one last bin with hard rubbish.
Was he happy? To quote him, he was “ecstatic” with the result and thanked us all profusely.
Well done to our Club volunteers who gave up much of their 2nd last Saturday before Christmas for this key Rotary exercise. Of interest, DIK has now shipped 526 containers overseas in the last 15 years.
We understand Sue and Frank were talking about their recent fishing expeditions.