President's Message

Another good meeting last week with Tracey Farnsworth speaking about her own charity she started years ago to support young people in particular in Vanuatu. The Charity is called Progress Pikinini and the array of programs they provide over there is very impressive and with her involvement in rotary, she has been able to enhance her work by using rotary resources as well. If anyone is interested to find out more I suggest you check out their website.  https://progresspikinini.org/

If you feel like making a donation you can do so on this site as well. Our club will discuss possible support at our board meeting next week.

The updates on the "Walkwithus", Annual End Polio Walk which runs right through October our club team has raised about $580.00 mainly boosted by more donations to Ida. I urge members to log onto https://www.rotarywalkwithus.org/ and if you don't want to join the walkers then please make a donation. Especially as we actually still have 1 walker with no sponsors at all. We can't leave that stay that way. As I mentioned last week our member Ted Dziadkiweicz has set up his own team and they have now raised over $2,144.00 which makes them the 12th out of 43 teams. If our totals were combined our total of $2,724 would make us 8th overall.

Well done to Ted also for getting in our Grant Application to the district for the Year 11 & 12 Scholarship Grants which we are wanting to provide support to students at Simmons College together with matching support from past member Andrew Hanley.

Maggie Goodge has provided another update on Marj Hess to advise she only has one more chemo treatment left and then will have a month's break which she is looking forward to. Our thoughts are definitely still with her.

MUNA follow-up is still going on and though slow work getting results we are getting a few promising responses now. An interesting Susan Robb has made is with Haileybury College in King Street.

Susan has also reported back on her enquiries about operating an online homework club. It really looked like a very onerous task for our club to run. It really appears something that would be better run by a bigger club giving our members the opportunity of participating when they can but not running the whole program.

Upcoming speakers

We have 2 excellent speakers coming up on each side of next week's Board meeting. I am sure everyone attending tomorrow's meeting will be very interested to hear what Ian Bram has to say about the very distorted over the prominence of Indigenous, Islander, and African young people that are in custody.

The week after the Board meeting is the last meeting before American Elections so it should also be interesting to hear about how the US Electoral College Works from Steve Marantelli. Stephen is the author of the book Three Brothers: When George Washington and Edmund Barton Sat Down To Dinner 

 
 

Date

Speaker

Topic

Thursday, 15 October 2020

Ian Bram

Black Lives in Custody

Thursday, 22 October 2020

Board Meeting

Thursday, 29 October 2020

Steve Marantelli

How the US Electoral College Works

Zoom Meeting Details - 15th  October 2020, 7.30 pm 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82276302472?pwd=TjFmWFdUUUcrbFpCSGRoNUkrcS9Wdz09

Meeting ID: 822 7630 2472
Passcode: 879117

This week's quote is from Charles Darwin:

"It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change "

Have a great week everyone!

 

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