On Friday President Wendy tested our Christmas knowledge with this quiz...how did you go?

 

Answers at bottom of bulletin. No cheating. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For our penultimate meeting of the year we welcome Karis Ramsay to talk to the club about the problems and opportunities that are happening in the workplace around diversity. Karis is a well known local and international advisor who has spent many years improving this important area of the work environment. 

This is the last time the members will gaze upon the magnificent portrait of HM the Queen before our mate Dave donates in to local MP and honorary member Fiona Simpson. 

 

Apparently the Queen sat for the portrait in Chinchilla on her royal visit in 1952, before going to the local B&S Chinchilla ball in this beautiful dress.. (really?)

The club has donated $500 to St Vincent de Paul Christmas Appeal.

 

 

Geoff seems to be wondering what club has he joined that asked hime to talk for one minute on its history after only joining last month?

Big shout. out to Sunshien Coast Council and volunteers who run the award winning Migrant work ready program. Charmaine and Wendy visited them on Friday. Check it out HERE.

 

 

Some of our not so young members may have experienced the feeling that a certain scribe felt when our ideas lady (that's Michelle) noticed that whereas the Mooloolaba SLSC laid out a mat on the beach from the club - the Alex SLSC did not. 

 

So the club rallied and said, OK lets do it for the disabled community. "Not so fast" a certain scribe said, "there's something in the cobwebs of my noggin about this...lets talk to Honorary member Ashley" (the fount of all knowledge) and so on Friday after the meeting we discovered that the SLSC did in fact have a mat and beach wheelchair that they wanted to use, but was not being used because of a question mark over the gradient access to the beach.  

So I am pleased to say that since Michelle and Ashley and a certain scribe got involved that local Councillor Joe Natoli and SLSC Club captain Neil are back on the case and we're hopeful of a good outcome for local disabled community to use the beach. Stay tuned. 

 

..And by an amazing coincidence..

 

 

 

The club has sent out its dues for the next 6 months. ($150) or about $6 / week.

Just to explain that the club works hard to keep the dues down, and we're almost certainly the cheapest Rotary club in Queensland for membership.

The fees are a "pass through" from Rotary District / International and go towards the various (many, many) Rotary projects around the world and the various Rotary programs that continually rate in the top 5 effective charities.

Our ongoing club running costs are met by our seperate project fundraising, members fines and the like. 

So thank you to all our members for your support.