Kate, Paul, Warwick, Phil, Belinda, Brett, Carmen, and Anita went to the Rotary Annual Giving Day which was held at Lovely Banks (Melton Mowbray).  The weather was terrific and the we all had fun.  Our club gave $1,000 to Rotary Foundation and the total given and pledged came to just under $70,000.  Thanks to Kate from bringing the wine

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Nick Brown from Tasmania Police (and Jill’s husband) was our guest speaker at last night’s meeting. He gave us a run down on the recent changes in the road rules and penalties. Most of these changes occurred from November 2009. He also showed us the drug swap test, which sum of our club thought was a pregnancy test.

We had Julia Fassina from Royal Life Saving Society as a guest speaker at our club last night. She provided a good overview of the organisation (almost 100 years old) and of the services they provide. An interesting item she brought along was the “First Aid in a Box”. This enables people to learn first aid in their own time, very useful.

Yesterday we had our first meeting at the New Sydney Hotel. We really appreciated the cool, air conditioned room as it got to an extremely hot 37 degrees outside. As it was committee meeting we worked out our plans for the next 6 months.

We had a terrific day down at Eaglehawk Neck today.  We had a relaxing BBQ on the deck facing the clear blue sky and ocean.  After lunch had settled some of us went down to the beach to play in the sand and water.  Many thanks to Anita for organising everything.

Ange & Lucy relaxing

Best friends Jill & Tracy

The following people were recently elected to the board for 2010-11:

Congratulations to everyone.

We just had our club Christmas dinner at the Hilltop Granton (nice of them to open specially on a Monday for us).  The entire club came along with family (including many children).  After the mains we had a Secret Santa most ably performed by our newest member Rebecca.

Our Rotababies and Parents

Club Photo

Recently our four Storm the Stage state finalists: Lauren Pegus, Robert Mallett, Rob Manion, Ollie Reading went to Perth for the national final.  Peta Knott accompanied them as a mentor.  Two of our state finalists won two of the three prizes in the national finals in Perth: Lauren Pegus won the Drama section and Rob Mallett won Briggs Gibbs (Audience Choice).

Congratulations to both of them on their prizes and for showing that Tassie has great talent.

Our club finished helping out with selling tickets and managing parking at the 2009 UTAS All Schools and Youth Athletics Championships from Friday to Monday.

The weather was extremely variable, but there was a great turn out.  The stamping of people as “Processed” to allow people back in became a bit of fun (for a while at least).

The money from this event will go towards RAWCS  (Rotary Australia World Community Service) via Tracy Dance’s Kokoda Trail walk (see the post on the 14th October).

President Paul Sayer inducting Rebecca Hook

Today we inducted a new member into our club, Rebecca Hook.  Her classification is Accountant.  She is a recent arrival from England.

We welcome Rebecca Hook into our club, and we wish to help her serve our community.