What a fantastic fun night we had last night at our Rotary outing on the Captain Proud in Murray Bridge. We assembled on the wharf at 5.30 pm and had our meal, with lots of choices, travelled under the Bridge to Eastside past the beautiful riverside cliffs and the Riverglades Billabong seeing cormorants, black swans, wood ducks and other water birds. There was a lovely sunset in the west, we turned and went under the bridge again and down to Riverglen Marina arriving back to the wharf about 9.30.On the way the Captain told us the history of the riverboats and paddle steamers of our region of the Murray. The Captain Proud is 24meters long and has a draught of 800ml, has the capacity for 70 passengers. In 1987 it went to Echuca competing with the tourist and trading boats there then came back to Murray Bridge in 1995. It came back through the Murray Mouth which was quite a challenge. It has operated in Murray Bridge since. Thanks Lyn Sickerdick and her team for organising the event and for Past President Simon who stood in for President Sue in her absence. Roxanne Rowland updated us on the International activities, Murray Bridge High School has received a grant for a recycling plastic machine, the Solomon Islanders are using their boat for ferrying patients to hospital and shelter boxes have gone to Tonga, Philipines and the Ukraine and Jack Reddin reported on the Music headphones Project.
This week we also have ALHD “Theo” being placed with his recipient.
Theo is an Australian Labradoodle from Rusty Amber Labradoodles. He has been sponsored and named by Lions Club of Theodore in QLD.
A big thank you to Lyn and her family for fostering Theo. They have done an amazing job at raising a well-rounded and socialised dog, which was a fantastic start to his Hearing Assistance Dog career.
Theo has spent the last few days learning the sounds in his new home that he has to alert his recipient to. He has also been accompanying his recipient on outings into the community with the guidance of his trainer.
Badging The Bridge
In the background of your Club there had been a small group addressing how we can “Badge the Bridge” from a Rotary perspective, when serendipitously a District Grant offer appeared offering the District Clubs monies that were surplus to requirements.
The guidelines were in brief: -
Show how your project will promote the Rotary brand within the Community
How your project will collaborate with other Rotary Clubs and/or other organisations
Supports one or more areas of Rotary’s areas of focus
The “Badge the Bridge” committee (which included reps from the Mobilong Club), morphed in to a group dedicated to developing a plan or project to garnishee this money from the District coffers ($5k plus one third of our own ie $6.6k total per Club or double if combined with Mobilong).
Our recently appointed Club Marketer in Steve Walker was challenged with putting together a presentation to this small group with a view to finding a project that would give us a very real chance of scoring some lazy dollars from District.
Keeping in mind that time is of the essence (the Grant has to be submitted on 31st of March 2022 and finalised by November 2022).
Monday night Steve regaled us with all sorts of ideas and signs and badging which in the end he distilled down to a project which was: -
Badging all the recycling wheelie bins in Murray Bridge with a large sticker which says “Rotary supports recycling” and the badge might contain the Rotary Clubs Logo, it might contain the Rotary website landing page, it might contain in small print the business that printed the stickers etc.
Steve will follow up on the costs, and present that detail together with an abridged version of his presentation to fellow Rotarians tonight with a further outline in two weeks time. This will give you all an idea of where this small committee is heading thus far.
Here’s the rub. We need you, fellow Rotarians, to give us some feedback on what you think of the idea. PLUS if you have a project that might better fill the bill then this will be the time to stand up and give us your idea. Indeed any project that you think might be worthwhile will be considered, if not for this Grant then perhaps later in the year.
Projects are the life blood of Service Clubs like ours.
CALENDAR WINNERS 29th MARCH 2022
$100
645
Jim & Vicki Mason
Murray Bridge
J. Mason
$30
426
Alan Pomery
Victor Harbor
Strath Darts Club
$20
792
Heath Sissman
Strathalbyn
J. Sissman
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The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:
FIRST: The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
SECOND: High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
THIRD: The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life;
FOURTH: The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
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