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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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12th December 2018 (AGM)
Welcoming
Curtis, Rob
Chairperson
Kucks, Heather
Sergeant
Hollindale, Gary
Vote of Thanks
9th January 2019
Welcoming
Chairperson
Sergeant
Vote of Thanks
President
Secretary
Treasurer
Public Relations
Effective Services
Club Administration
Membership
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Heather Kucks
Our first meeting back this year was a social evening at my home. During the night DJ and crew from Friends with Dignity collected two ute loads of donations for their Sanctuary homes. We would like to acknowledge the Gold Coast University Hospital staff who ran a Christmas Appeal to help us achieve such a significant donation.
Our first official meeting of the year was hosted by the Rotary Club of Brisbane International, the Rotary club of our District Governor. Our members enjoyed being chauffeured to and from the venue in one of our members minivans. The meeting included Rotarians from our cluster group which includes the Rotary Club of Loganholme, Rotary Club of Redlands Bayside and the Rotary Club of Logan. We had the great privilege of hearing from Pat Casos who is a charter member of the Rotary Club of Ipswich City, on his 38-year Rotary journey. This was an inspiring story that included both local and international Rotary moments. Our hosts cooked us a delicious chicken curry which hit the spot. A wonderful night was had by all, another great reason to strengthen our relationships within clubs and districts.
Later in January we had the opportunity to run our BBQ at a Farm Auction in Carbrook. It was amazing to see what the owner had accumulated over the years and the collectors among us showed great restraint in not purchasing more “stuff”.
It was with great sadness we learnt of the passing of Past President Graham Mossom. Graham led as President of the Rotary Club of Beenleigh in 1980-81 and was later made an Honorary member of our club. Graham always made an effort to continue his support of the club and events. Our thoughts go to his wife and family.
We had a fabulous dinner at the Coriander Thai restaurant at Holmview recently. This was in part to celebrate Berta, our Rotary Exchange Student from Spain, turning 17 while she was living with her host family in West End over the school holidays.
John and I had the privilege in attending the Graduation Ceremony of our two re-bound Exchange Students. We congratulate both Kyra (Denmark) and Nancy (Taiwan) on their exchange year and wish them great success and happiness in their future endeavours. We also thank them for being such great ambassadors for our club and district.
After many months of work, we are delighted to announce we have our first Corporate member of our club. Seasons Aged Care at Waterford will be joining us as Corporate members and will be inducted into our club on our Membership Information evening on the 20th of February. This is an exciting time for our club as it is a step towards ensuring our membership continues to flourish and to develop opportunities for business to partner with us in working on community projects. We already have two projects in the underway with Seasons and I am confident there will be many more in the future.
The Rotary Club of Ormeau-Pimpama (Provisional) is going strength to strength. Their twice monthly meetings are always full of enthusiasm and innovative ideas to service their young and rapidly growing community.
Recently some members attended an induction evening at Nightlife in Beenleigh. Over the next few months we are looking forward to assisting John, Makyla and the gang working alongside them in Beenleigh with their Nightlight Outreach Service.
Yours in Rotary Service,
