Good week this past week. Started with a meeting and workshop with Gold Coast City Council, re future use of Council Assets. Our Projects Director, Geoff Croad and I attended, along with about 50 others representing many different disciplines, such as Netball, Associations, Rugby League Associations, Men’s Sheds etc. It is the start of a ‘future planning’ process so it will be interesting to see the outcome.
Ross Augustine, our Fundraising Director, held a meeting at his home on Tuesday night. Yours truly, Paul, Charles, Angus, Ian, Doug, Geoff, Ralph and of course Ross were in attendance. Some excellent discussion was held and a number of promising ideas were tabled to enable the Club to raise much needed funds.A huge thanks to the Legend that is Ross for hosting the meeting. The wine, beer and food was exceptional.
Wednesday morning was taken up by a meeting of the trustees of our Wheelchair Trust. Meanwhile, our President Elect Paul Seymour is on his way to the USA, along with other Rotarians from our District on a Rotary Friendship Exchange program to Pennsylvania, USA. We wish Paul and his fellow team members a safe and enjoyable trip.
I’m sure you are all waiting with bated breath on news about my knee. Well I’m pleased to report that It is getting better but slower that I expected. [Our President might want to consider buying a suitable T-Shirt. Ed.]
Our newest member Iain Campbell came all the way from Arizona to join Surfers Sunrise! This coming Wednesday, in the traditional Rotarian behind the Badge' presentation, he will give us an insight into his origins, his work, his hobbies and passions.
Surfers Sunrise Rotary keeps coming up with "firsts": So last Sunday, we enjoyed an outing to Stanley's Barn Restaurant, followed by a visit the Gold Coast Motor Museum right next to it. 16 adults, plus Ashleigh Symes' child Ruby (now a toddler) in attendance. Wholeheartedly recommended; the food is very good, and the motor museum doesn't just feature cars one would associate with "museum" from the early 1900's, but also the type of cars your editor drooled over when a teenager (such as a Lamborghini Espada...). Thank you, Adrian Crowe for organising it. Hugely enjoyable; a Rotary fellowship meeting with a difference.
OK, get your golf clubs polished! One of our major annual fundraisers, the Surfers Sunrise Golf Day, will be on the last Monday of October. Usual place, the beautiful Surfers Paradise Golf Club.
What? You don't play Golf (like me...)? You may have friends, business colleagues who do. It's open to all comers. Click on this link to book: https://www.trybooking.com/CVFRP or scan the QR Code. Want to forward a flyer to a friend? Download it (see Downloads section on the right)
We'll need plenty of helpers on the day, so if you can, please ask the organisers, Doug Lipp or Charles Thomasson, to put you on the roster. And we need Raffle Prizes! (Yes, you have had that bottle of Grange Hermitage in your cellar for thirty years. You might as well donate it! ☺)
The annual Golf Day on 28th October will be one of our major fundraisers for the year, and the raffle we conduct forms a very significant part of the income generated. Fundraising Director Ross Augustine needs your assistance to get a big table of prizes together.
This week, the board of the Surfers Sunrise Wheelchair Trust decided to proceed with an agreement between RAWCS (Rotary Australia World Community Service), respectively its subsidiary RARE (Rotary Australia Repurposing Equipment). What it is all about? It results in the solution of one of our biggest problems, the cost of overseas shipment of our 'rough terrain' wheelchairs and other donated equipment, such as hospital beds, walkers etc. Frequently, we are faced with a need in a developing country being very much apparent, but funds cannot be raised by the receiving party to ship the goods there. Often, RARE may have considerable spare space in a container, which can be utilised. This is also beneficial where only a relatively small number of wheelchairs are required, and filling an entire container would not be feasible.
Great result! Congratulations to Wheelchair Trust Chairman Geoff Croad, who negotiated the agreement with RARE.
Duty Roster - note: subject to change - please check every week. Note: Fellowship duty also is expected to be at the Project Shed on the Saturday following the meeting
[So let's have some comédie noire for a change: Sign spotted in Germany. For those of you who are not familiar with the language, here is the translation: 'Cemetery - 52 free places'. If you want to be buried there, you'd better hurry up! ☺]
Police have confirmed that the man who tragically fell from the roof of an 18-floor nightclub was not a bouncer.
The sense of death is most in apprehension;And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, in corporal sufferance finds a pang as great as when a giant dies. Shakespeare – ‘Menage for Measure (1604), Act 3
Did you know: Before Isaac Newton invented gravity in 1869, people could fly!
We wish Paul and his fellow team members a safe and enjoyable trip.
Our newest member Iain Campbell came all the way from Arizona to join Surfers Sunrise! This coming Wednesday, in the traditional Rotarian behind the Badge' presentation, he will give us an insight into his origins, his work, his hobbies and passions.
OK, get your golf clubs polished! One of our major annual fundraisers, the Surfers Sunrise Golf Day, will be on the last Monday of October. Usual place, the beautiful Surfers Paradise Golf Club.
The annual Golf Day on 28th October will be one of our major fundraisers for the year, and the raffle we conduct forms a very significant part of the income generated. Fundraising Director Ross Augustine needs your assistance to get a big table of prizes together. 
