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President’s Report
9 May 2018
Last week
Well, what an interesting and impassioned talk given to us last week
by Lynda Ben-Menashe, on the Jewish experience in Australia, in the
global context Those of you that missed it, really missed a very
interesting and thought provoking speech. A powerful and articulate
speaker, Lynda gave us a unique insight into the world of the Jewish
people, as seen from the inside. It is a complex story and history,
which most of us still only have a very basic understanding of. Very
educational.
The BIG Run
It’s done! Thank goodness for that. I really underestimated the
scale of this particular run. In all six ‘normal’ marathons I’ve run
to-date, I’ve run them in between 4:00 and 4:20 hours. This one took
me 7:13! It was BRUTAL, scaling steep hills on fire trails up and
down each peak on Hamilton Island. The whole island is one mass of
steep rolling hills There’s hardly 200m of flat terrain anywhere on
the entire place!
Anyway, I’m glad I finished it, and that through it we have been
able to raise a good amount of money to help Chalmers Road School
buy that wheelchair-accessible bus. We’re not quite at our $10,000
target yet, so we’re keeping the fundraising site open for another
week to see how close we can get. Thanks once again to all the
wonderfully generous Strathfield Rotarians who have support this
effort. It is much appreciated.
This week
We have a visit from our RYPEN students this week. I’m looking
forward to their recount of last month’s camp.
Also this week, we will have some visitors from the regional RWHESCA
event that Paolo coordinated. Along with the Presidents of the
participating Western Harbour clubs there will be representative/s
from Australian Rotary Health in attendance. Please make them all
very welcome in our Club!
Next few weeks
OK, our hard working Programs Chair, PP Raymond has a very exciting
and entertaining few weeks scheduled in for us. Please take note,
and don’t miss out. Next week (16 May 2018) we head back out to the
Ryde College of TAFE Training Restaurant for another great
experience and meal with their hospitality students. Our last time
there was great; I’m sure it will be again this time around too.
After several great speaker sessions on Interplast (from DGN Di
North), WestConnex, the overseas poor (from our own JP Baladi) and
Autism, we’ll be having our last meeting of this Rotary year as a
Ghost Tour of Old Government House. Great program, Raymond!
Rick
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