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Our second Zoom meeting - (almost) all members who wanted to join got on ok. We had an apology from Gerald East. President Mario Fairlie welcomed all members. He primarily elaborated on our X-Ray Unit for Vanuatu project, which - due to COVID-19 - had to be suspended. We don't know at this stage whether the recent event of cyclone Harold, which hit Vanuatu at some 250 Km/hr, caused any damage on Pentecost Island. We are awaiting feedback from Dr Richard Leona, our contact over there. With the advent of physical on-site meetings cancelled, we don't have our regular meeting fee and Sergeant's fines income. It was therefore proposed that a fee of $10.00 per week - ($130.00 for the 3 months April - June 2020) be levied to be paid by each member. This is to be reviewed on 1st July by the incoming board. This was carried 17 in favour; 1 against and thus carried. Members please refer to last week's bulletin for details, including the club's banking details. [Note: at Monday's board meeting, the board ratified this as well. Ed.] Since there was no Guest Speaker (first one next week), members discussed what books and/or authors we like to read to survive the lock down. The aim is to publish a list, so other members might want to check them out themselves. The list so far is not exactly overwhelming. One wonders whether most of our members don't read anything at all, other than newspapers, stock reports and magazines...? ☺ Andy Bell recommends a book 'The Ninth Candle', Darrell Brown is working through Ken Follett's 'The Century' Trilogy [in my humble opinion, the best of Ken Follett. Ed.]. Karen Holland advised that one of her favorite authors is Elke Bergsma. And correctly, she suggests that not many of our members might be familiar with her - from my brief research, her books (which appear to be similar to Reginald Hill's 'Denziel & Pascoe' series) are only published in German... ☺ |
This is Des’ first design. Larry and the other members are investigating further items we could make. In the meantime, if you have any suggestions please contact Larry or me.
By now, this has become almost common place... Join us this Wednesday. The Zoom meeting will open at 07:15 am, for start of the "formal" part at 07:30 am. An invitation will be sent separately to all members and associate members which contains the link. Please let me know if you know of a friend or prospective member who would like to join, so I can send them an invitation too.
As we won’t be able to participate in RYLA & RYPEN this year, NYSF is a possible alternative at this stage. We need a student going into year 12 next year to participate. At this Monday's meeting, this was approved by our Board; we do have approximately $1800 that we would have expended with (then now cancelled) RYLA & RYPEN camps. This would cover more than half the cost of NYSF (with the parent contributing the other half) if we gained a successful student.
