Last weekend, along with Di North  and 250 other Rotarian’s, we represented the Club at the District 9675 2016 Conference at Nelson Bay. This year’s theme was ‘The Magic of Rotary’ , and over the 2 days  there were some very interesting and stimulating sessions and Keynote speakers covering topics such as fundraising, membership, recruitment,retention and Community Service Projects. I personally came away from the Conference energised and full of new ideas to bring to…

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March is here already and there is so much on the Sunrise Rotary Calendar over the next little while for Club members to get involved in. Don’t forget it’s still not too late if you can spare an hour or 2 this Sunday helping out with Clean up Australia Day. Please contact Rowan Huxtable as soon as possible. Planning is underway for Swing into Wings on Saturday April 30th and Ride for Rotary on Sunday May…

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From the desk of Di North IMAGINATION LIBRARY Preschool children in disadvantaged areas are sent a book through the mail each month until they turn 5 years old. Warrawong-Cringila was the first area targeted. The Warrawong-Cringila area has 143 children registered but they have just had 46 children graduate as they started school, so there is room for more enrolments. Distribution to the Bellambi area was started in November 2015. A Rotary District Grant of…

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Hi Tony, I’m emailing to say thank you so much for the opportunity to participate in the raffle at Christmas time in 2015. I won the $1500 first prize Harvey Norman gift voucher.  I got myself a $1500 sound system and I enjoy it so much every single day. I don’t think I ever would’ve spent that kind of money on the stereo myself but it’s brilliant and I enjoy it so much. Thanks Tony…

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Recently , Jean Thomson from the Corrimal Club through her contact Janice Reid ,   was sent back an update from a Tasmanian Rotarian , Kevin Shadbolt , who returned recently from Nepal. It makes for sobering reading , and indicates that Nepal is STILL in need of as much humanitarian aid as possible. It was a very strenuous trip, 5 weeks is a long time away but the problems they have in Nepal in particular…

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This post helps first time users around the Events tab of the web site, more specifically this page shows what is coming up. The left hand menu shows a summary of specific calendars. At the moment the BBQ schedule, weekly meetings and speakers are summarised. The default layout of the events is a list. However, you can change this by selecting either Month, Week or Photo after clicking the “View AS” box at the top…

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This week I’d like to pass on congratulations and thanks to Club members in a number of areas. Firstly a huge thank you to those Club members and Friends of Sunrise members, who helped out last Sunday at Wave Fm’s Breakfast on the Beach. Leigh Robinson informed me that 55 Rotarians and Friends were in attendance. The event raised $9418 with proceeds this year going to the RSPCA. Congratulations also to John Bilboe, Peter Rixon,…

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