PRESIDENT STEPHEN MILLS welcomed members and guest speaker Bernadette Steward.
APOLOGIES:
Ernest Jones, Sally Rose, Chris Sutton, Jeff Buzza, Allen Canobie, Michelle Davis, Gary Phillips, Jacqui Phillips, Phil Seager.
PRESIDENT'S REPORT:
Business Breakfast very successful with Susan Alberti a brilliant speaker, could have heard a pin drop. Thanks to Kate, Julie and Jeff for their leadership.
BBQ for Shire celebration of tyre dump removal.
Two BBQs for Shire - Community Neighbourhood $200, Community celebration of tyre removal $500.
Rex & Ross working on Melville Street Kiosk. Interior painted, roller doors installed.
10 members attended District Assembly.
Euroa and Numurkah highlighted for membership recruitment. Challenge to change things, vary meetings, look at attendance, offer membership options.
$63,000 available for District Grants with up to $2,500 available to a clubs with a focus on for the good of the world. Club funds to match District Grant with a separate bank account to be opened.
RSL Polling Booth for Federal Election BBQ.
Rotary Club auspicing Bendigo Bank Grants for two organisations.
ANZAC Day Dawn Service BBQ and the laying of a wreath.
Shire responded to letter re condition of Lake.
Numurkah Primary School support for hire of bus for Year 6 students to attend a leadership seminar in Melbourne.
Board approved $1005 donation to Australia Rotary Health Ride to Conference appeal.
White goods to be purchased for Umoja Orphanage in Kenya.
CHAIR: P.P. LOU HAMON.
Busy as ever in retirement, last few months, Rotary Art Show, advertising for Business Breakfast and for St. Georges Anglican Church dispatching 9,700 palm crosses all around Australia. Next two weeks spending on the Gold Coast to get away!
GUEST SPEAKER: BERNADETTE STEWARD.
Bernadette Steward as secretary of the Numurkah Wunghnu Cemetery Trust spoke on the Past the Present and the Future.
Numurkah gazetted in 1876 with cemetery gazetted in 1882 with 15 burials in first year. Previously buried in Wunghnu Cemetery.
Trust was formed with original trustees being representatives from each section. Present day Trust has 8 appointed voluntary trustees with chairman appointed for 5 years. The Trust employs a secretary and contractors such as grave diggers.
Trust undertaking improvements with Pavillio restored, thanks to Rotary and Lions, planning a new entrance, new fence and signage.
"Right of Interment" allows that person to decide who can be buried in plot and whether there is to be a head-stone.
Plots can be reserved in general section not in Lawn section.
Lawn Cemetery established in 1978 nearing capacity with land set aside for expansion.
Trust conducting "Cemetery Walks" giving information on pioneers and their stories.
Change in burials to Green Interments, without coffin and buried upright with no plaque on site. Diverse cultures also requesting different types of burials.
Trust is seeking grants and donations to carry our improvements and expansion.
REPORTS
P.E. LORRAINE GREENWOOD:
International Exchange Student Tinja Erika Nakki frpm Finland aged 16 years will be hosted by the club for 12 months. Speaks Finnish, Swedish with good English, learning French.
Thanks to District Assembly attendees.
Swimming Pool proposal will go the Shire Executives then Council before acceptance,
Kiosk launch BBQ.
SECRETARY JENNIFER RODGER:
Numurkah Fire Brigade looking for volunteers to assist with the Good Friday Appeal.
P.P. KATE HODGE:
Thanks to all Rotarians for their assistance with the Business Breakfast.
Sue was thrilled with the Breakfast commenting on how professional it was run.
REX SHIELD:
Last Friday roller doors were installed in Kiosk. Interior painted, floor to be done and furniture installed.
FELLOWSHIP:
Rex Shield's 70th birthday celebrated with a cake.
HEADS & TAILS:
Lorraine Greenwood.
NEXT MEETING
DATE: MONDAY 15th APRIL 2019
VENUE: NUMURKAH GOLF & BOWLS CLUB
CHAIR: GRANT DEPPLER
GUEST SPEAKER: GRAHAM COCKS
TOPIC: BOWEL SCAN PROJECT
APOLOGIES:
JUNE HEWSON
Phone: 5862 1944
I want to buy a golf ball
A blonde golfer goes into the pro shop and looks around frowning. Finally the pro askes her what she wants. "I can't find any green golf balls," the blonde golfer complains. The pro looks all over the shop, and through all the catalogs, and finally calls the manufacturers and determines that sure enough, there are no green golf balls. As the blonde golfer walks out the door in disgust, the pro asks her, "Before you go, could you tell me why you want green golf balls?" "Well obviously, because they would be so much easier to find in the sand traps