On the 23rd September our club president Paul Sayer and Warwick Pease joined with the Rotaract Club of Sandy Bay (inc. Ryan McConnon, Hannah Vermeulen, Emma Piccoli) to walk with an illuminated balloon from the City Hall around the docks and back again.  There were speakers talking about their experiences with Leukaemia.
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Past President Tracy Dance participated in the second annual walk for RAWCS along the Kokoda Trail last month.
Three Rotarians including PDG Bob Sydes and Gordon Hanson both of RC of Central Launceston plus 10 others from across Australia walked from Ower’s Corner to Kokoda from September 14th to 24th.
The purpose of the trek was to [...]

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Liam Dance, Paul Sayer and Anita Orchard
On Saturday the 25th July a few club members and Tracy’s son Liam enjoyed a beautiful winters days out on Phil’s farm in Colebrook where they helped plant some new native trees along the creek bed.
Due to the drought there were a number of trees that had been planted previously [...]

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Phil Headlam and Paul Sayer, with John Behrens from Lindisfarne Rotary Club, returned from Victoria last week.
They went to Traralgon South to help replace fencing lost in the bush fires.
This was the fifteenth team from Tasmania to spend a week replacing some of the 4000 km of fencing that was lost.
The team worked [...]

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Tonight Paul, Kate, Tracy, Anita, Chloe, Lucy and Warwick went to Jill’s house and made over 20 litres of soup for Loui’s Van.  We each brought some ingredients and enthusiasm and we created four different soup varieties.  We poured these into ice cream containers to be eventually kept frozen in the the freezers at St [...]

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This morning seven members of our club spent several hours delivering nearly 870 leaflets about Loui’s Van in Clarendon Vale and Rokeby.  Loui’s Van recently started serving Clarendon Vale, Rokeby, and Gagebrook in March 2009 in addition to the regular locations in Glenorchy, Hobart and Bridgewater.  It provides food, information and support for anyone who [...]

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The Club has sponsored Renee Grech as a member of our District’s Group Study Exchange (GSE) team to District 2170 (Hiroshima) in Japan.
GSE is a cultural and vocational program of The Rotary Foundation - paired districts send and receive 4 non-Rotarian professionals and one Rotarian Leader for 4-5 weeks to develop professional and leadership skills [...]

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Members of the Club took part in the launch of National Stroke Week in Hobart today.
The launch focused on FAST, which stands for Facial weakness, Arm weakness, Speech difficulties, Time to act. It is an easy way to remember the signs of stroke.
Around 30 people acted out the FAST test on Parliament Lawns, Hobart today [...]

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