Watch this video from President Elect Alan Howard-Jones about RYPEN Rotary’s RYPEN provides a group of young people aged 14-17 years an opportunity to develop self-awareness and valuable leadership skills. RYPEN 2022 will be held between Friday 30th September to Sunday 2nd October at Nunyara retreat centre in the Adelaide Hills. Applications for sponsorship and […]
We welcomed DG Jeff and Jenny Neale to our meeting, and Jeff took the opportunity to reminisce on his year as DG of the new District 9510. The district comprises of 84 clubs and he and wife Jenny have travelled all year to get around all the clubs. Not a mean feat, and his […]
Cooper Whitbread was presented the John Tilley Memorial Award for Most Outstanding Student at Modbury High School for 2021. It was an honor to recognise his contribution to the Modbury High School community. Cooper has always been a driven and focused student, who constantly challenged himself to achieve academic excellence. He had a strong plan […]
2021 Overall Winner of the School & Community Service Award
Tonight we finally got to meet Sam Olafson from Kings Baptist College, he is the overall winner of last years School & Community Awards, and he addressed our meeting. His passion for service started at an early age of 10. He became House Captain and excelled in music; and he was a Youth Leader at […]
OCTOBER is Mental Health Awareness Month! Our club is supporting Australian Rotary Health “Lift the Lid” campaign with this raffle. 1st Prize is $100 Gift Card from Laubman & Pank, donated by our local store at Tea Tree Plaza. Lift the Lid on Mental Illness is Australian Rotary Health’s overarching campaign brand for mental health […]
Thank you to our guest Speaker Atefeh Jouhari, our recent RYLA attendee. She had an amazing time at this year’s camp building her confidence & making life long friendships. https://www.rotary.org/…/rotary-youth-leadership-awards Atafeh Jouhari, gave a great presentation on the RYLA Course she recently attended. Before she entered the course she used to put a lot of […]
Tonight we had our annual hand-over dinner and introduced the world to the new board. It was a great night of toasts, awards and fellowship. Please checkout more pictures from the event HERE.
Immediate Past President Otto’s Report for 2018/19
“Be The Inspiration”.
That was this year’s Theme. Did we live up to it??
Otto receiving a Certificate of Service Award for 2018/19 as club president
After the two clubs merged, we quickly melded together as one club and went to work.
We supported 4 local schools by providing cash prizes for their top students.
We assisted with The Farming Relief for Drought Affected Farmers.
The Calperum Youth Camp, which is run by Modbury High School was again supported in conjunction of the Rotary Club of Onkaparinga.
With “The Rotary Youth Exchange Program” we had Isaac Awramenko return from Finland and Imogen Morris came back from a year in Denmark, both students had a great experience.
Currently we have Kirrilee Pendergast on a one year exchange to Germany.
Jessica Ostendorf attended the Rotary Youth Leadership Awardprogram successfully, and currently we have a candidate in Brent Heaver for this year’s program.
The Good News Awardis now in its third year, and it will continue to be part of our program.
The club supported two of our members raising funds by riding their bicycles, one was in aid of Childhood Cancer Research, the other was for research into Spinal Cord Injuries, through the Neil Sachse Foundation.
We continued our support of Food Bank SA, and delivered Christmas Hampers again this year.
There is a Food Bank project under way in July to donate cans of food at the Tea Tree Plaza.
We supported the CFS, The Christmas Tree Festival, Christmas Party for Special Children (held at the Adelaide Zoo each year), and supported Dance SA (which helps Children to just enjoy Dance without pressure of achievement).
The highlightof the year was our involvement with Scout Jamboree Catering —- Not—-.
It was a long hot windy and dusty day for 8 of our members and will probably never be repeated again in our lifetime.
After finally finishing our shift after 8pm we experienced problems with the car, the motor shut down just in front of the Tailem Bend Hotel, and we had to rehydrate ourselves.
The club provided a Defibrillator to U 3 A, luckily no one had to use it yet, as far as we know.
We gave Monetary Support to Rotary Shelter Box, Queensland Flood Relief, The Christchurch Mosque Appeal and Rwanda Cyclone Relief.
We also relend money through our KIVA Account, which assists Under privileged communities in Africa and South America.
Finally, we again like every year since 1982, supported the Rotary Foundation and Polio Plus.
The eradication of Polio has been a Rotary Project since 1982, we are nearly there, it has taken 37 years so far, but there are just a couple of countries where we still have the disease.
In closing I would like to thank all current members and the board for their support they gave throughout the year, it was really appreciated.
Colin Willington, “Thank You” for all the assistance you provided.
To President-Elect Kevin Smith, I wish you and your board all the success, and you will have mine and the clubs support in the coming year.