Reporter: Brian Lamb
President Lori once again chaired our lunch meeting and began by calling upon Lynne Murray to offer our invocation.
Today our annual Rotary Foundation auction took place under the watchful eye of Neil Rawnsley. The club collects and accumulates amounts it receives at our weekly meetings, primarily from the weekly fines and then breaks the amount allocated for auction (this year $3500 was put up for auction, broken down into 22 lots ranging from $100 to $250). Various members bid on these lots and the total brought in was about $11,150. Hence a total of $14,650 will be sent into Rotary Foundation in the names of successfully bidding members to be used by the Rotary Foundation to fund the grants and activities of the RF. Well done everyone.
- Other announcements (also covered off by separate emails) included the need for volunteers for the Merrython fun Run on Dec 4. I'm sure many of us were shocked by seeing that only 6 club members had signed up to stand at street corners of the run to ensure runners could safely get around the course. I know several other club members volunteer to help in other aspects of this event but a total of 6 members for street corners seems a little embarrassing. Hopefully the numbers will swell before the event.
- Dec 6 is our club (and club foundation) AGM so please make an attempt to attend if you can.
- Our club Christmas party is coming up and with Joan Firkins chairing that event, a good time will be had by all---won't it?
- Finally, early news that an application is being put forward for us to participate with several other clubs including the Atlanta club for a global grant whereby the Victoria Native Friendship Centre will be the recipient of the funds raised. Seems like another great effort for us to be involved with, thanks to those that are working to put this together. More info to come.
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