Johnny Bueti was at the door (for Graeme Isaacson), Col Laurenson was Chairman and Andy Bell was Sergeant. We had apologies from Gerald East, Graeme Isaacson, Natasha Price, Adam Sheppard and Ian Mayberry.
President Charles Thomasson welcomed all members, visitors and guests, including David Baguley (RC of Gold Coast), Trent Belling (guest of Simon Brook), our former member Evan Mita (welcome back, Evan!), Daniel Wilson, Honorary Queenslander Ann O’Connor, KJ Jewson (Rotaract Club), prospective member Stah Nduku, and of course our Guest Speaker Briana Dorrough, accompanied by her father Michael Dorrough. Charles briefly talked about the Certificate of Appreciation Certificate presentations last Saturday (see last week’s bulletin), as well as the upcoming social dinner at the Highland Court Restaurant (see below). Meanwhile, this has been expanded to include the presentation of the Excellence in Workmanship Awards, which last year had to be cancelled due to COVID-19.
After the excellent presentation by Briana Dorrough on her participation in the National Youth Science Forum (see article above), David Baguley outlined the upcoming Gold Coast Ramble, to be staged on 31st March 2021, starting on Chevron Island (see article below). With a much more modern App, this year’s event only requires four check points to be manned. We need prizes! Can you assist? David also mentioned the upcoming Baton Relay, part of the 100 years Rotary in Australia.
Treasurer Doug Lipp advised that a very generous donation of $13,000 was made to the Wheelchair Trust, organised by Al Sirovs from the Edwards-Sirovs Family Trust. Thank you very much! Project Shed Chief Larry Murray elaborated on the happenings at the shed. We also seem to have a bit of a challenge to source new BMX style wheels locally. Paul Seymour briefly talked about Abbey Matthews, who recently attended our RYTS (Rotary Youth Transition Seminar). See separate article coming up in next week’s bulletin.
Finally, we experienced what has become an unusual event: Dept Sergeant Andy Bell presided over a very straight forward session: Outline your most embarrassing moment ever. Several members outlined their faux-pas. However, in view of this bulletin being widely read on the Internet, shall remain unpublished… (you should have been there! 😊).