President’s Message 23 Oct 17

The guest speaker who we had arranged for

today, namely Louise Milligan, has had to

withdraw due to work commitments. Hopefully

she will be able to attend in the not too distant

future. Fortunately we have a more than

capable replacement, Emma Di Luca who

will present a Rotarian Behind the Badge address.

How do you describe Rotary when you are

talking to a potential member or to somebody

who asks about your badge or you are going

for lunch on Monday? It is easy to start by

saying that it is a charity and

describing Polio Plus. We also need to be able to describe

some of the work our Club has done over

many years at various levels. An obvious

example is our long term involvement with the

ONJ Centre, and cooking snags at the fun run

etc. We have also been involved with the

Exodus Community and various other local

organisations including our recent meeting at

the RSL on Bell where we donated towards

their fundraising for the purchase of a

community bus. Every year we seek nominees

for the RYLA program and the

National Science Summer School. It is important to

make it clear that Rotary is also a lot of fun,

with a wide range of guest speakers every

week as well as social activities from time to

time. If you are talking to somebody who

expresses interest then invite them to one of our meetings as a guest so that they can see a