Author: Graham

It was pleasure welcoming new District Governor Peter Schaefer along  with Group 6 – Assistant Governor Peter Perkins to the dinner meeting on 11/07/17.  As a member of Alice Springs Rotary, Peter is the first District Governor to be chosen from the Clubs in Central Australia.  After a brief introduction about his background and family, DG Peter Schaefer outlined and talked about his vision & goals for the rotary year.

As encapsulated in the rotary theme for the year 2017-18, Peter has vowed to make the difference to the lives of others in his rotary year. His goals and vision includes improving cohesive relationship between clubs and the district, encouraging Clubs to take up environmental projects, such as tree planting at Calperum Station in the district, increasing membership for the clubs and the district, encouraging Rotarians to engage in voluntary projects than purely focusing on club meeting attendance, encouraging clubs to involve regularly in International projects. He also briefly mentioned about the amalgamation of two districts (9500 & 9520) which is happening in 3 years time, by 2020 and his involvement in this project.

Tonight, we took the chance to farewell Shara Miller, our short-term exchange student from Alexandra, New Zealand, as she and Kirilly will be departing for Queenstown on the 24^th June. Clubs banners were also exchanged.

A group of Golden Grove High School girls received certificates for attending a recent Operation Flinders programme. The club had agreed to help with the sponsorship of these girls to attend the programme.

Sibrina Beukes (Golden Grove), Casey Stoneman (King’s Baptist) and William Fay( Pedare) receiving at the Rotary Club of Golden Grove Student of the Year awards.

As has been the case for many years the club has found it very difficult to pick the most outstanding student of the year as all the applicants were outstanding. However the selection panel finally decided on William (Billy) Fay as the overall student of the Year. Congratulations to Billy and the other two finalists and the club wishes well in the future and expects that it will continue to hear good things about them all.