ROTARY CLUB OF EDWARDSTOWN

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1 ROTARY CLUB OF EDWARDSTOWN ANNUAL REPORT Club president Neville Brandon

2 PRESIDENTS REPORT Well my Presidential Year has nearly come to an end The position of President was accepted a little earlier than I had Anticipated but I made it with a lot of help To be invited to be President I consider a privilege and being able to represent our Rotary Club an exciting time I was fortunate to follow on from PP John Angas and as expected he had all the details in the correct order for me to move forward. I would like to thank John for his help to get me up to speed to take over from him as President. The Book shop under John supervision was transferred from Sturt Road to Towers terrace and basically ready to roll, subject to final approval from the Marion Council. This approval was finally granted and the book shop moved forward Ready for the club to expand this community centre. The association with the Marion Council has continued to the point that they have organised on open day (this Saturday) at the Bookshop inviting the local residents who will be asked to submit any ideas they might have for the site. Hopefully this may encourage us to move along to the next stage. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the book shop board for a positive year, a job well done. Membership Due to many members and an active membership committee we were able to induct 7 new members early in the year. Joseph Maseka, Greg & Libby Carey Leanne & Aubrey Wagener, Kirk Jones & John Chapman All our new members have become passionately involved in the separate committees of club which has been pleasing result. Friends of Rotary member ship has now grown to 24 members It is a real advantage to have these volunteers to support our club On the other side of the membership Ledger We lost 2 members After 23 years of membership an old friend MARK HAYNES passed away Early this year after 22 years of membership Sylvester Coster handed in his resignation The Board that helped me through my year PE Merilyn with her previous experience as president and her personal drive to move our club forward, we can now all be pleased with her taking over the reigns.

3 Secretary Claire she is so organised that many time after a meeting i would arrive home and to find the details already ed thro. Treasurer Rodrigo getting the job done with John Angas assisting with little problems that arise This year I changed the format of the committees It may not have been the best arrangement but I hope It has created some positive discussion Ray Trenodan & Lulu Peng Community Vocation youth service Environment Rob Fick & assistant Public Relations International Fellowship Membership Both of these groups of committees have performed exceptionally well. Numbers game With Keith Walter having health problems I for one have missed his presence and this enjoyable part of club fellowship Catering Trailer This venture is certainly an important part of our fund raising for our club, but I feel it is also a meeting place for great fellowship Finally our club is now in a positive position to move forward on to bigger & better projects for the community. I wish President Merilyn, her Committees and the Edwardstown Rotary Club members all the best for Neville T. Brandon President

4 Annual Secretary s Report I have now been Secretary for 25 months and whilst I have enjoyed working with Neville this year, I am looking forward to handing over the role and becoming President Elect. We currently have 33 members and recently awarded Life Memberships to Keith Walters and Bob Simes. As in previous years we seem to gain a few members but then lose the same number. Sadly this year we lost Mark Haynes. Weekly s are still being sent to all members with the various bulletins and information provided to me. I now also have a separate data base for Friends of Rotary that I use to invite them to certain events, the majority of our FOR do have accounts which makes it easy to reach out to them. I endeavor to get Board Meeting minutes typed and out to all members within a week of the meeting and I apologise in advance if s have not been timely, I am still without an active connection at home, it will be a year next month. I have maintained both the Rotary International and the Rotary Down Under Data Base s to ensure membership numbers remain current at all times and also keep an excel spreadsheet of all members and a separate one of all our Friends of Rotary. It has been a pleasure to work with Neville and the Board this year Clair Gasson Secretary

5 ANNUAL TREASURER S REPORT General Account Opening Balance 1/7/2013 $ 4, Plus Income $20, Sub-total $24, Less Expenditure $20, Closing Balance 30/6/2014 $ 4, Bank Balance 30 June 2014 $ 4, Less un-presented Cheques $ Reconciled Bank Balance 30/6/2014 $ 4, Special Projects Account (Including Express Saver Account) Opening Balance 1/7/2013 $ Plus Income $ 38, Sub-total $ 135, Less Expenditure $ 25, Closing Balance 30/6/2014 $ 110, Bank Balance 30 June 2014 $ 110, Less un-presented Cheques $ Reconciled Bank Balance 30/6/2014 $

6 Fellowship Account Opening Balance 1/7/2013 $ Plus Income $ Sub-total $ Less Expenditure $ Closing Balance 30/6/2014 $ Bank Balance 30 June 2014 $ Less un-presented Cheques $ 0 Reconciled Bank Balance 30/6/2014 $

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10 FUNDRAISING REPORT COMMITTEE: Mike Hiosan, Clair Gasson, Merilyn Russell, Leanne Wagner, Leslie Tonkin This Rotary year the club has supported the following in fund raising. YELLOW BRICK ROAD: The Yellow Brick Road, at the Royal Adelaide Show raised just over $1,300. Thank you to Ray Trenorden who organised the roster for this event. All members who participated enjoyed the experience, received free entry into the Show and met some lovely people. BEAUMONT HOUSE The Club was invited to provide a BBQ as part of the Beaumont House celebration held in the beautiful Garden. MARION PRIMARY SCHOOL: The Club held 4 BBQ S at the School, FATHER S DAY, CAROLS EVENING, STATE ELECTION, and MOTHERS DAY raising $ Father s and Mother s Day were Bacon, Eggs and Hash Brown Breakfasts. State Election was from 7.30am to 3.00pm. Sausage Sizzle Carols evening was from 5.00pm till 8.00pm Sausage Sizzle The Club will be raising funds for the School in the following way next Rotary year. The Breakfasts are a hit STRATCO BBQ: These BBQ s have been held on the 2 nd and 4 th Sundays of the Month. This has been a wonderful way to promote Rotary and the Book Shop, by handing out Book Shop Brochures. Special thanks to the trailer drop off and pickup drivers. Lyle has agreed to be the drop off driver each BBQ, Thanks Lyle Thanks to Ray and Leslie for organizing bread, onions, meat, ice drinks and firing up BBQ each time. Thanks to Merilyn for organizing Rosters, and we look forward to Mike returning. Great effort everyone including Friends From Rotary, thank you for taking up these challenges, we look forward to working with you all again in the next Rotary year. COLES DAFFODIL DAY AND RED KITE FOR KIDS (cancer program) DAFFODIL DAY We held a Sausage Sizzle at Coles Christies Beach store raising money for Cancer, Coles supplied all food we did the cooking and spruiking. RED KITE FOR KIDS Each Coles Store has to raise a $ for the Kids Cancer Program. This year we held to 2 Sausage Sizzles at the Coles Christies Beach Store, with Coles providing all the BBQ supplies. Coles presented Gift Vouchers to the value of $ to the Club. MASONIC VILLAGES

11 The Rotary Assistant Governor Loretta Rettig is also Manager of the Masonic Village on Diagonal Road and she asked for a Sausage Sizzle for a Pensioner week function thus we willingly obliged cooking on the Barbie and serving from the village kitchen to 80 residents. The second function was at the Hillsview Village at Happy Valley. MARION CITY COUNCIL RESIDENTS BBQ 28/06/2014 The Marion Council have circulated the residents of Edwardstown on the future development of the Book Shop site. A BBQ on Tuesday 28/06/2014 will a survey form to be completed by the visiting residents on what they would like to be developed on the site. The Council are supplying the food and Rotary is cooking the BBQ. The Council have requested that salads be served, and this will allow us to promote the versatility of our BBQ Trailer, as we have the facility to display up to 6 salads, served from the trailer. THE BBQ TRAILER What a wonderful asset for the Club, thank you Keith and Kewco Bathroom Products. We were honoured to be the BBQ operator for Kewco s 60 th Birthday Celebration on Brighton Road. BBQ DRESS Thank you to Sylvester for our BBQ uniforms; we are now truly professional BBQ CHEFS We have had a wonderful year promoting Rotary through our BBQ DAYS, and look forward to the New Year, well done good and faithful servants of Rotary COMMITTEE Ray, Merilyn, Clair, Mike, Leanne, Leslie,

12 ANNUAL REPORT PUBLIC RELATIONS INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE MEMBERS ROB FICK (BOARD MEMBER) JOHN PRICE JOHN ANGUS SYLVESTER COSTAR KEVIN DONALDSON ROSS McDONALD JEFFREY HOLLANDS JOHN HENSHALL KEITH WALTER AUBREY WAGNER JOHN CHAPMAN A different Committee structure awaited us as we set off for this Rotary year. The difference being that we had 4 committee s coming together under the direction of 1 Board Member. We set off for a year with a difference, 10 committee members to share the workload across all categories. INTERNATIONAL The International night was celebrated in February. We had an International celebration with a difference, instead of going out of our regular meeting place we decided to offer this night to the Marion Hotel. The Hotel was briefed on the format of our previous International Celebrations, these being held at a restaurant of the chosen International theme, asking the hotel to provide us with some options on the menu. Our committee chose Italian for the meal and our Guest Speaker for the night was Hendrik, our Exchange Student from Germany. The hotel provided a very good meal, also decorating the tables in Italian theme. Hendrik provided an interesting segment for us, based on his home town and family, and Germany. International also provided us with the opportunity to support projects through Rotary. Donations to RAWCS, DIK, were passed by Board during the year. FELLOWSHIP Fellowship in our Rotary Club is always a highlight and this year was no exception. The usual shows at Arts Theatre, always a great night with quality entertainment and fellowship. The annual Christmas Dinner, this year held at the Marion Hotel, High Tea celebration at various Rotarians homes, simple Fellowship nights held at the Marion. Thanks to the committee members that took on the task of co-ordinating these functions. MEMBERSHIP A very important part of our committee structure for this year. We decided that we should designate a committed leader for this important part of our Rotary year. Ross McDonald was chosen to lead us

13 in this important category. With the new direction in this category of our committee, (Friends of Rotary ) being included it meant that there would be a lot more work to be done in this area, thankfully all committee members contributed to make this successful for our Rotary Club, and Ross s leadership has seen a successful year in membership. Finally, thankyou to all committee members for your enthusiasm and your willingness to give it a go during this Rotary year, this made it enjoyable and rewarding. Also thanks to my fellow Rotary Board members for your support. Rob Fick Director 2013/14.

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15 ANNUAL REPORT Community Vocation Youth Service Environment 1. Donation of $360 plus two toy boxes made to The Daw Park Hospice. (Thanks go to Cheap as Chips for the generous support they gave for the purchase of the toy boxes). 2. Donation of $1000 given to RUFUS supporting the homeless. 3. Marion Primary School was supported with a BBQ for Fathers Day, Mothers Day and Carols Night. 6 IPads were given to the school and the Principal Ms Cheryl Ross spoke briefly to the club about the needs of the school. In total the school benefitted by $ Interpretive Sign on the Sturt Creek Linear Park was part financed by our Club. It was held in conjunction with the Marion Council. 5. Lulu Peng one of our club members was our RYLA awardee. 6. Mad Hat Day was held on October 15 th. This was the DG s visit plus a partners night. A total of $300 was raised. 7. Our group was involved with Clean up Australia Day. 8. White Ribbon Day was supported in April. The Lieutenant Governor of South Australia, Mr Hieu Van Lee addressed the meeting. $400 was raised and donated to Catherine House, a shelter for abused women. Thanks go to Joseph Masika for arranging the guest speaker. 9. We interviewed Claire Flashman, a student from Woodcroft College. We recommended her to the District interviewing committee for the National Youth Science Forum. We wish her every success. 10. Trip to Classic Jet Fighter Museum at the Parafield Airport. This was an extremely interesting visit. Thank you Mike Tucker. 11. Suneden Special School has been supported with the purchase of a special sound system to assist their students. The expertise of Greg Carey was greatly appreciated. 12. Frank Bibby, from our committee, is the main organiser for the RYDA event in July. 13. I wish to thank all members of the committee who gave of their time to make this a very enjoyable and busy year. Ray Trenorden Director June 2014