From the Pen of our President....
Our District
Governor Dr Stella Anyangwe is scheduled to visit the club on 10
September. It is very likely that this
will be a Zoom meeting. Initially this
will be with the Board prior to joining in our regular Friday meeting with all
members. This will be an opportunity for
you to ask any questions you may have about District activities, grants, etc.
Please keep up
your efforts in getting more people to join the Clem Sunter event on Wednesday
and so boost our fundraising. This event
will replace our quiz. A number of
members have not yet participated in our regular quizzes. They are great fun and it will be super if
more of you give it a go. The link to
the quiz will be sent to you in advance.
Hope to see you at our next quiz on 11 August!
Costa Qually
President
Tailpiece
Some mistakes are
too much fun to only make them once
Last Friday.....
…. our monthly Social Meeting.
With the third Covid wave still very much a stark reality it may be quite a while before we can resume physical meetings, but let us be grateful that we can still enjoy the camaraderie and fellowship of Rotary, albeit at a distance.
Social meetings give us an opportunity to share what we have been up to, what we will be getting up to, have a laugh or commiserate.
The good news: Jerry was discharged from hospital, but please keep him in your thoughts and prayers as it will be a long road to complete recovery.
And of course the other good news was that Tatiana Schoonmaker had made history by beating the World Record and winning an Olympic gold medal in the 220 m breast stroke. What an achievement!
PP Ann spent a wonderful week with her family at Welgevonden and they were lucky to have encountered the Big 5 and had many other wonderful sightings.
Marianne Soal and her husband are about to embark on a two month road trip around South Africa, starting off in the Northern Cape, where they will be just in time to experience the beauty of the Namaqualand Flora, then on to Cape Town and up the coast to the Eastern Cape. They are leaving all their plans in the hands of the Lord and will take every day as it comes. What an adventure they will have!
Gareth Hood is still on summer vacation in China and is exploring many exotic travel destinations. We hope that he will share some pics with us.
Lorenzo Locatelli-Rossi will be flying out to Angola where he has been asked to report on a project by a Lebanese company who wish to establish a salt pan there.
Sybille will be heading up north to Tzaneen and Magoeba's Kloof for the long weekend to spend some time with Dr Coenie Louw who has an impressive CV as long as his arm to get some insights into sustainable projects that he is involved with.
Ann and Jean visited the Woodside Sanctuary a Home for the Intellectually Disabled and gifted them 20 wonderfully warm blankets.
Assemblies of God in Alex also spread good cheer.
The Rotary Club of Rosebank's Green Shoots to help save the Environment....
Lyn Collocott has assembled an impressive committee who are all passionate about saving our environment - Jean, Sybille, Pam, Melodene, Roger, Lenore and Gareth.
Lyn won't let grass grow under her feet and with National Arbor Week (30th August - 5th September) fast approaching, her first port of call was to get hold of her local councillor Tim Trulock, who is very active in the Parks (that's short for Parkhurst, Parkview, Parktown, Parkwood) who remarked that "everyone plants trees. Maybe look at putting protection around the trunks of existing trees."
And so an environmental seed is germinating, and Lyn would love to hear your thoughts.
One last appeal to support our fundraiser....
Please join us to listen to David Grant tell us about the Alex Community Corp.
It promises to be very informative.
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