Welcome to another issue of our weekly bulletin! Find out who our upcoming speakers are, what we covered during the last weekly meeting, and learn more about our Member of the Week.
Couple of years ago had the idea to start a dog walking club 'the mutt strut'
Starting a dog fostering shelter in 2019 by Tillia a cat lover
GV Pet adoption (GVPA)
No shelter on business address
All animals are placed into personal homes of volunteer foster careers
Steph is also a teacher at SMOTA
Steph has fostered 50 dogs since
GV PA is a not for profit, no government funding, only donations and grants
All fostered animals have no time limits
Some stay a couple of weeks, some 6 months
Potential new foster carers have to fill out a form and can choose what type of animal they are willing to choose to foster
Nathalia Boarding Kennels are an integral part of GVPA with assistance with doggie daycare and holidays
They supply a doggy daycare bus to pick up from carers
Consider joining as a foster carer or becoming an adoptee
There is an application process for potential adoptees to match potential
Costs are age related $700 for puppies, $500 for older than 5 yrs
Meet and greet at property of new home is essential
Vet bills are covered by the shelter and large dog food companies supply dog food for the foster carers
Reports
President Linda
Welcomed guests Mark and guest speaker Steph Sparrow and Judy's grand daughter Madison and past member Wilma
President Linda presented John Shrimpton a cheque to CFA for $419 from proceeds from the Family Funday last Saturday for the upcoming Royal Children's Hospital Good Friday Appeal
A big thanks to Steve, Rex, Judy and Ivan for manning the BBQ
ANZAC Day breakfast getting organised with volunteers
Ride to Conference - Chris Sutton received the Sportswoman's Award for 5 years of service in organising the Ride to Conference
The Good Friday Appeal is looking for volunteers at CFA shed from 9 am to rattle tins around town
Was very motivated by attending the District Conference and the presentations were excellent - next year the conference is in Melbourne at Pentridge Jail
Chairman Cathy
Grew up in Invergordon on an orchard with brothers
Went off farm and married and fruit picked
Went to Uni and studied nursing
Been at GV Health for 25 years
Met Mark husband 2010, 2 x dogs, 8 chooks
Secretary Chris
Apologies from Sally Rose
Looking for volunteers for DG nominations District
Treasurer Steve
Board agreed to fund the Cobram Quilters $500 for a new PA system
Move to have a second float for the club to be kept at Jeff's as a backup $200
Support the community of Western QLD for $2000 for the Rotary Appeal
Raised $520 at the Sidebottom BBQ
Taking orders for new T-Shirts or a jacket badged in by Wednesday
Community Service
Loaded up 18 pallets last week and then another 12 pallets today of batteries got a price of $700/ ton = $10080
Collected over 2 years
A big thank you to all those that have helped over the time
Looking for another Rotarian to take over with providing a place to collect them again as Geoff and Fay moving into town
John
went to the Historical Society to represent Rotary at the Time Capsule community meeting
Agreed to commit to jointly brand the distribution of envelopes
Envelopes small $5, medium $10 and large $20
Envelopes to be filled and returned by 25th October
To be buried in November
Steve Holmes repairing well and making it above ground with a new plaque
Chris
17th year of Ride to Conference
Australian Rotary Health the current recipient of money for $2500 healthcare scholarships
2019 Chris/Numurkah Rotary has taken over the running of the ride
2025 looks like it raised $11500 this year, to date $151,700 raised for Australian Rotary Health
