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Service Above Self
We meet Wednesdays at 6:30 PM
Club Beenleigh
Club Beenleigh
28A Alamein Street
(Upstairs Function Room)
Beenleigh, Qld. 4207
Australia
(Upstairs Function Room)
Beenleigh, Qld. 4207
Australia
Phone:
414 469 889
Fax:
7 3807 2516
Email:
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President
President Elect
Secretary
Treasurer
Public Relations
Effective Services
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Heather Kucks
This COVID-19 pandemic has hit each and every one of us in some way, and its impact will last for many months to come, in some shape or form.
As far as our club is concerned, we now meet every Wednesday night at 6.30pm via Zoom.
ALL ARE WELCOME
You can join us using this link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/2606887333
Last week was our first meeting and although we are a club of 23 members, 7 attended. This is a great start but hopefully our numbers will grow as we become more familiar with using Zoom. We will start to include guest speakers again soon as we have just purchased ZoomPro, which gives us more options with regards to meetings. It is funny how these things sometimes work out, because one of my own goals this year was to have the occasional zoom meeting or at least set up one every so often for members to join us who were unable to attend our regular meetings. Of course, I never expected it to the only way we will meet for some time.
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Our Annual District 9630 Conference went ahead in Chinchilla on the 13-15th March with approximately 300 people from around the district attending. Thank goodness it was before the self-isolation edict became mandated. This was truly a fantastic weekend, and the turn out under the circumstances was brilliant. Fortunately, our conference was one of the few to go ahead for any Rotary Districts in Australia. Our guest speakers were fantastic and well aligned to the theme of the conference “Connecting City to Country”. I am also proud to say that our club received two awards at the Conference. The first was for the highest proportional registration (for a club with 21-40 members), including Rotarians, Partners, youth exchange program & other members of the Family of Rotary to attend the conference, the second was for the highest aggregate of percentage registration of Rotarians and distance travelled (from home base) to attend the District Conference for a club of 21-40 members. It certainly was the largest contingent of our club for some years and I sincerely thank those members for making the trip out west. Those who attended have reported that they had a great time, learnt more about Rotary and enjoyed the many opportunities for fellowship over the weekend. I would like to congratulate the Conference committee on a job well done and their effort was obvious by the outstanding time everyone had.
We are pleased to say that we had several applications for our Sporting Scholarships, and we are currently in the process of distributing monies for this. Even though sporting activities have been suspended for the time being, these scholarships will be a welcome financial relief to families when their sports do start up again. We are still able to offer some further scholarships so if you know of any students who may benefit from this financial help when sport starts again, please encourage them to complete the application form available here.
As you can imagine with these uncertain times discussions have commenced about our annual club changeover. It has been decided that the official changeover to President Elect Martyn will be done via Zoom early in July and when we can all meet face to face again, we will have a proper celebration of the year gone by and the year to come.
I was reflecting with my children the other day about this retched coronavirus and pointed out that we should be very grateful that we are living in Australia. We have many things other countries do not have such as, clean running water, sanitation, free medical services, great weather, and advanced technology that can help us to keep in contact with each other just to name a few. During self-isolation this is the time to do all the jobs we have been putting off, as well as doing some things for each other and just for ourselves too.
I encourage you to keep connected, do some virtual tours of art galleries or museums around the world, catch up on reading, movies, TV series, play board games, do puzzles, plan your next holiday, learn a new language, spy on animals at the various zoos around the world, start writing a book or compile your family history, listen to some new podcasts, do an online course, practise your home cooking, gardening, reconnect with someone you haven’t spoken to for a while, don’t forget to do some sort of exercise, meditation or relaxation, and remember there are many online services available if you are having a down day or week. For those who have lost jobs or incomes have reduced we hope you are able to get assistance easily and that the industries that are growing because of the coronavirus can employ you in the interim.
Remember just because we are not seeing each other face to face at Rotary each week, (apart from zoom), we need to check on each other to make sure we are ok or need anything.
Stay Safe, Healthy and Happy.
Yours in Rotary Service,
