PRESIDENT'S REPORT
The year has gone so quickly and l find myself
wondering what have we achieved during the year. And it has amazed me how much a club
with 28 active members really can do when
every member does whatever they are able to
do.
We have effectively organised last year's town
fair twice as due to the rain we had to
postpone it and the committee rose to the
occasion and rescheduled it to November and
it was bigger and better than ever. The local
community love their town fair and will
support it whenever its run.
The end polio now raffle drawn on the original
morning of the town fair by District Governor
Alan Anderson raised over $10,000.00 which
was a fantastic effort for the organisers of the
raffle Jacqui Hodge and Greg Adams.
We were also active again with the carols by
candlelight again last Christmas we also again
supported Bowel scan a great project.
We gave financial support to Ahmed Kelly,
Royal District Nursing Service, Second Bite,
EPIC, Prostate Cancer Council, ROMAC, ARH
and the Diamond Valley Community Garden.
Some of the rotary projects we have
supported during the year include Aquabox,
ShelterBox (we are the district ShelterBox
representatives) the district Governors'
partners charity was supported again by the
club, we increased our sponsorship of the
Tender Foot Self Help School in Kangemi,
Kenya and now sponsor 4 children. We
supported the youth programs again last year
being RYLA, RYPEN.
As you can see from above we have had a
busy year of Rotary service. None of the above
can be done without each member giving
what time that they can. We are able to
achieve great things as a group so much more
than what we can do individually.This has been a year of learning with many of
the board members serving their first year in
their portfolio and l'm pleased to say they are
ready for the challenges that next year will
bring.
I would like to thank the board for their efforts
during the year all have done the normal
balancing act and helped achieve the results
that the year has brought with it.
A special thanks must go to Greg Adams who
has helped me with whatever l may have
asked him to help me with I could not have
done my year without his help.
I would like to wish Alan Jones all the best for
his year. I'm sure the club will get behind him
as they have me during the past 12 months
Clyde Hulme
President 2010-2011
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