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Hi <<First Name>> What a great November we had!
We started the month with a wonderful BBQ held in the outside area of the Golf Club and it was mainly dedicated to fellowship but, sadly, for most of us, it would be the last time we had together with our late John Simpson; he is deeply missed.
Our 'behind the shed...' segment held on committee meetings nights (where a selected member tells a story from their past that nobody knows) has become a mainstay and eagerly awaited. Clive gave us a history of his youth and how he entered the merchant navy. At some stage Clive needs to tell the Club what happened at his first port of call!
A guest speaker highlight was Matt Swift, a WA magician, who spoke to us about 'Primeing' audiences and as a finale performed a card trick involving several members and had Julie Ninnis select the Queen of Spades from an imaginery deck - only to have Matt open and remove a real deck of cards from a pack that he had earlier put on a table in view of all prior to starting. He fanned the deck to show us that there was only 1 card face up - and you guessed it -it was the Queen of Spades! How he did it - well the magic is in the wonder of the trick.
Geoff Edwards and his vocational committee ended November with a superbly run and presented night of Pride in Workmanship awards to students of Hillside Farm. Again, well done Geoff.
WA Rotary Project:
Very few in our club will know about the Rotary Used Stamps Project and and even fewer that Frank Keays is our focal point.
Whilst this project is continuing in a healthy state with businesses and volunteer cutters making a great contribution, the project is a lot smaller now due to less stamped envelopes.
The project works like this: Used stamp envelopes are collected in bulk then brought in to Frank who takes them to a Rotary depot. From these depots cutters come to collect the bags of envelopes and return the cut-off postage stamps and also the leftover envelopes for recycling. The stamps are then packed in cartons each containing about 25 kilos in weight. These are then sealed, labelled and despatched to Oxfam in England. Through the sale of these stamps, Oxfam can continue its good work around the globe.
Again an example of doing one small thing leading to the betterment of humanity.
Please give this project some attention and start collecting postage stamp envelopes yourselves, ask your local doctor's surgery, bank, commercial business or your own and clients businesses to do the same. Hand them in to Frank and play your part in the success of this very worthwhile WA project.
Mike Raspa , President 2015/2016
Contact Mike
Rotary is Fellowship, Friendship and Community
If you would like to know more about becoming part of The Rotary Club of Southern Districts , click here.
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