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President’s Report
21
February 2018
Last Couple of Weeks
Well… we’ve had a couple of Wednesday’s off recently, with the
transfer to the Indian Cultural Night (discussed below), and
Valentine’s Day last week. I hope you took the opportunity to take
your loved one out for a nice meal on that evening! I may be
checking in with some of you; I hope you didn’t waste this
opportunity.
Indian Cultural Night
What a fabulous success this event was (finally, after our false
start at this, last year; we have now made amends). This evening was
a true celebration of Indian culture, food, colour, music, dance and
song. We had a full house (over 200), with some very special guests
on the evening, including a ‘surprise’ appearance from the Mayor of
Hornsby Shire Council, the Hon. Philip Ruddock! Many thanks to the
Sinha family (Prabhat, Neena and Pallavi) for making the night a
huge success. I know that Prabhat and Neena worked very hard on the
overall program, with Prabhat coordinating the broader schedule of
the event, sponsors and guests, whilst Neena focussed specifically
on the Cultural Program. Pallavi, of course did a wonderful job as
our MC on the night, with much aplomb. There are many other people
to thank, and I’m sure we’ll get a summary from Prabhat tonight.
Importantly, on the night we were able to donate $10,000 to
Australian Rotary Health, and $2,000 to the Sri Om Care Foundation.
So this was a very successful service event too.
February Board Meeting
If you’re reading this tonight, we will have had our February Board
Meeting yesterday. I’ll report on the highlights from the meeting
tonight during the President’s Report section.
Reminder – District Conference
The District Conference is at Mudgee on 2-4 March 2018. I hope a few
of you are able to join Christine and I up there; it will be fun! So
again, there will be no Club Meeting on 28 February 2018, as we
Transfer to the Conference for this meeting.
Make up Meeting in Auckland
I’ve been in Auckland, NZ for a family friend’s wedding. As luck
would have it, one of the wedding guests is a current member of the
Rotary Club of Downtown Auckland. As I write this, I’ll be attending
their meeting tomorrow morning (7:15am for 7:30am! I’m supposed to
be here on a few days’ holiday ☹. At least I’ll get a free breakfast
). Anyway, once more I’ll report briefly on my experience tonight.
Avoiding your Heart Attack – 7th
March 2018
Heart attacks are one of the biggest killers these days, and
arguably the most avoidable. I know that lifestyle, diet and stress
factors significantly affect the likelihood of having an attack. So
let’s avoid having one if we can. Come along and listen to this
important talk and strike one of the things that might get us at the
end, off our list.
This Week
This week we refocus on our Youth Program, with 2018 RYLA students
joining us for our meeting. I often say and believe that Youth
Service is arguably our most important Area of Service, as we help
prepare our youth as future service leaders, with programs such as
RYLA, RYPEN, NYSF and recognition via the Youth Achievement Awards.
I look forward to hearing stories of our RYLArians experiences at
the Yarramundi camp, back in January.
Rick
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