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President’s report – 16th to 22nd April 2017

Congratulations to Di North who has been elected District Governor 2019/2020. Three great meetings were held during the week.  Firstly the Board of the Club met on Wednesday Night with the following highlighted discussions. Dress standard, club members to wear appropriate clothes to suit the situation where they represent the club. Where possible to wear our Rotary polo shirt in the community.  Wear our name badge when representing our club in the community. Christmas Raffle,…

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President’s report – 2nd to 8th April

  Mission Australia has 5 op Shops and have a number of clothing bins within the Illawarra.  Our guest speaker Jenny Hirst, Business Development Manager explained that Op shops have come a long way in recent years. They’ve had makeovers. They’ve embraced the dark art of visual merchandising. They’ve even got their own social media account. Jenny said “you still need stamina to trawl through the racks, but op shopping is affordable, ethical and fun….

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President’s report – 26th March to 1st April

The Illawarra Pipe Band has been a significant part of our Australia Day March.  Not only does the pipe band supply both the Australian National Anthem and the British National Anthem of the early 1900’s “God save the King”.  The Pipe Band marches with us as well. Mervin Riuslton gave an account of the difficulties of playing the bag pipes and marching as well as playing the Australian National anthem.  On behalf of our club,…

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