Jingling and Mingling at President Ann's, Trolleys full of Generosity at the Norwood Spar and a Certificate of Appreciation presented in the Year of the Nurse...

 Our President Ann rambling along......

Dear fellow Rotarians and friends,

 

Thank you to those who were able to join us on Friday evening – we were lucky enough to have 2 Past District Governors, 2 Past District Governor Anns, and 2 Assistant Governors with us!! What a lovely evening – and no rain!! Makes one realise what we have been missing for the past 8 or 9 months.

 We need to decide how and where we will be holding future meetings – I will be discussing this at Wanderers on Friday but in the short term one or two face to face meetings a month could be held at my house. We will also have scouts at the so called hybrid meetings to see how they go!

 Friday 11th will be our last official meeting of the year. Please do try and join from wherever you are – I know some of you are away already.

 I omitted to have an AGM before year end, so we will be having one in early 2021 – just a heads up, and I am probably in trouble!!

 School awards are being given out during the next week and our 2 Rotary Family Health Day certificates have been presented.

 Winding down has started – take it slowly.

 Ann

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas....

Due to Covid restrictions the enthusiasm demonstrated for a formal Christmas Lunch this year was at best luke warm, but we all perked up when we received President Ann's generous invitation.

We were blessed with a balmy evening, and armed with platters and our favourite tipple we descended on the Hope-Bailie household, and was it not a sight for sore eyes to at long last see our Rotary friends in the flesh and not on a Zoom screen.

Ann welcomed us all with a few  heartfelt words, duty sergeant PDG Ken Stonestreet led us in Grace and PP Costa proposed a toast to Rotary, after which the party began in earnest.

 

The food was excellent, the company sublime and as a going home present Charlotte Croswell gifted us each a Spekboom plant.

Trolleys full of Generosity....

Thank you to all of you who volunteered your time to ask patrons of the Norwood Spar to put a food item in their shopping basket, the proceeds of which will hopefully go a long way to provide some Festive Cheer to our chosen charities.

The generosity was overwhelming and over the last 2 weekends we managed to fill numerous trolleys. 

Phuthaditjhaba in Alexandra, Frieda Hartley, The Candlelight Club and Charity begins with Me will all benefit from this drive.

In Celebration of the Year of the Nurse.....

In lieu of the annual Family Health Days which could not take place this year it was decided that instead we would pay homage to our selfless nurses in this the Year of the Nurse.

The Rotary Club of Rosebank thought it was fitting that we should present these Certificates of Appreciation to the two institutions that we have had very close ties with over many years.

Today President Ann accompanied by Melodene Stonestreet and Sybille Essmann paid a visit to the Department of Nursing Education to present Professor Shelley Schmollgruber and her staff with their Certificate of Appreciation.

And  that, as they say in the Classics, is that! This will be the last publication of the Ramble for the year of 2020. I think everyone will agree that it was a tumultuous year, but we survived it more or less in tact and we can only hope and pray that 2021 heralds new beginnings.