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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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Heather Kucks
Welcome to the New Year!
I trust everyone is well rested from their Christmas break and ready and rearing to go working on having a successful and productive year. It is timely to remind everyone to remember to take care of themselves in the process.
Our Christmas break up in 2019 was held at member Marie and Rob’s, at their property in Kingsholme and we thank them for not only providing such a lovely venue but also their efforts to make this a memorable evening.
Prior to Christmas in conjunction with Beenleigh PCYC and Bendigo Bank Beenleigh we assisted with hosting a free sausage sizzle and Movie night at the Eagleby Giants grounds for the local community. Numbers were not as expected but those who came had a great night and were very appreciative of our efforts.
Bendigo Bank Beenleigh also assisted with sponsorship of a special BBQ we organised to assist Nightlight held at Bunnings Bethania. As this occurred close to Christmas the community really got behind us with this BBQ and Nightlight will be receiving a lovely financial bonus as a result very soon.
We sincerely thank Bendigo Bank for their support with both the PCYC and Nightlight BBQ’s.
Several members had the pleasure of attending annual local school awards events in our area to present our Rotary All Rounder Awards. These awards always reinforce what amazing young people we have in our community. We would like to congratulate all award recipients and their schools for their continued support.
Our provsional Interact Club of Beenleigh High School completed their first community project at the end of the school year by attending the Children’s Hospital where they handed out colouring books. We are look forward to working with these enterprising young people in the new school year, and working toward officially chartering this club.
We are also thrilled to announce that another baby has joined our Rotary family over the Christmas break. Congratulations to Naomi and Nick on the safe arrival of Gianna Rose Carroll. A lovely little sister for Gracie-Belle.
Our Sports Scholarship program is up and running with emails and applications being sent to sporting clubs around the Logan area now. We look forward to assisting many young people financially to access their chosen sport in varying ways. You can also find more information on our website.
This year we are sponsoring an under 6’s Rugby League Team at the Eagleby Giants. We look forward to their launch on the 4th of February and to watch the stars of the future develop.
We are pleased to also announce that our “Silver Angels” project will continue at Windaroo Valley State High School again in term 1, again in conjunctions with Seasons Aged Care Waterford West.
Our District 9630 conference will be held in Chinchilla over the weekend of the 13 - 15 March, 2020. There is still accommodation available too and I encourage anyone who is thinking of going to book as soon as possible. The District have great speakers to energise you as well as community activities and Masquerade Gala Dinner planned for the weekend. You can find all the details at 9630conference2020.com.au
Although we have technically been ‘back at’ Rotary for the last two weeks, we have utilised those regular meeting dates and had a couple of social evenings to slowly start the year off. Thank you to Alison for organising a Bee’s Wax Wrap and BBQ evening and John for arranging dinner at Cafe 63 at Springwood.
Our regular meetings commence this week, back at Club Beenleigh and we look forward to seeing you all. We have some great speakers already booked for the year. We welcome anyone to our meetings who wishes to find our what we are all about.
Yours in Rotary Service,
