Janee Hong
Welcome to my first report as President of the Rotary Club of Beenleigh. My name is Janee Hong and I have been a member for nearly 2 years and now my journey as the leader of this amazing club begins.
I was honoured to be inducted as President on 18th June at the Eagle Tavern by our IPP Heather Kucks and was blessed to be surrounded by so many Rotary Members, from our club and beyond, dignitaries, IPDG Wendy Protheroe and friends. It was a great afternoon. I was humbled listening to Heather’s annual report on the varied projects we delivered and paused to reflect on the impact we had on our community and what an incredible group of people make up our club.
The new board gathered prior to our regular Wednesday meeting to start plans of looking at where our Club is now and where do we want to take it in the future. We have already conducted one club planning session that saw two thirds of the members attend and will continue to plan as we begin actioning our ideas. The club has embraced the new theme “Imagine Rotary” and hit the road running. I can’t wait to see what the collective comes up with!
We have wasted no time in continuing to be there for our community and have supported the Wesley Mission with the Eagleby South State School Joomungie Free play area and cooking up a storm to feed the hungry kids.
We have been approached to provide more dignity packs, we have an exciting project happening for the Peace Park in Windaroo to compliment our Peace Pole which was installed last year. We have had our first RYPEN (Rotary Youth Program of ENrichment) candidate apply to attend this incredible youth program since COVID. We are looking forward to hearing back from him after he returns from the 2-day camp in mid-July.
The final touches have been made on the Logan Hospital Palliative Care “Garden of Peace”. Watch this space for announcement of the official opening. In case you missed what we got up to - you can see the photos here.
This is going to be a fabulous year ahead, with a great board with many exciting projects already being planned. We will be collaborating with our cluster clubs and working together to maximise our impact in our City of Logan and bringing some exciting events.
Yours in Rotary Service,
