Chair: Peter Duras.
Guest: Sue Duras
Announcements:
- Frank O’Brien announced that he played the bugle during his schooldays cadet service.
- Sarah Overton urged speedy acceptances for the ANZCA visit Wednesday July 25th, 6pm ANZCA office, 630 St Kilda Road. (See her email for details).
- Doug Robertson spruiked the multi-district Conference 15-17 February 2019 at Melbourne Convention Centre, with local dinner on Friday night and big dinner Sat. night. See http://www.rotaryconference.org.au Early bird registration is $175 vs normal $225.
- Peter Duras says Caprice has volunteered a further $8000 worth of kids shoes and boots, most destined for Shine for Kids.
President’s Announcements
- President Neville said DG Bronwyn Stephens was impressed by our member recruitment, engagement and retention stats.
- Kevin Walklate will coordinate tallying of our charity/admin hours worked.
- President Neville waved around a full-page illustrated story in July’s Rotary Down Under magazine on our police mentoring as an example of good club publicity and branding.
- He reported on the first board meeting including endorsement of the Docklands RC branch concept, feedback from our member survey and reduction of director reports at meetings to create more space and ease at weekly meetings.
- The next cluster meeting is at Southbank RC 31 July at Belgian Beer café, 5 Riverside Quay, 6 for 6.30pm. All welcome.
Donations In Kind – Great Effort!
Frank O’Brien congratulated the 15 members who strove at ‘DIK’ working bee 14 July. They included newbies Mal Fielden, Therese Robinson, Lynne Webber and Daniel Lim.
For a full report please see separate item in this BULLETIN.
Guest Speaker: Please refer separate report in this BULLETIN
Social EnterPrize Raffle:
Raffle prizes were a fine Barossa wine, chutney and minestrone soup -best imbibed separately!
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