Presidents Report Tue Aug 1st
Hi All,
Our President Elect, Goran chaired his first Service Meeting on Tuesday.
Goran has great ideas planned for the rest of the year with the Service meetings. This year he plans on focusing his service meetings around the Rotary International Calendar, with emphasis given to the relevant Service topics.
We welcomed back Vicky and our guest Josie.
Grant missed the elusive Joker, which means even more suspense next week.
Community Service Committee will be the only committee to have regular Fireside Meetings this year. International and Vocational/Youth Service Committees will have informal meetings, to implement and arrange the secondment of members as required on their projects. Being a smaller club, we are lucky that everyone is always ready to help and support projects.
Peter Rowlands has done an amazing job manufacturing Benches for Rotary Park. Peter took on this task to produce a superior bench at a far lesser cost. Peter informed us that the Park Benches are nearly ready with only the plaque details to be finalized.
August, on the Rotary International Calendar is: - “Membership Extinction Month” I mean “Extension Month!” We are already engaging in new ways to promote Rotary Pakenham in our community. Our Web Page is up-to-date, and we made it on to the front page of the Pakenham Star news paper. Our Facebook page is breaking records with more “Hits” and “likes” received each week.
There are always interesting articles in the Rotary Down Under magazine, on how to modernize clubs and meetings agendas, with the possibly of attracting new younger business and community minded people. We at Pakenham Rotary have already implemented some of these ideas.
The question is?
Are we, as a Club prepared to go further and revisit our meeting schedules?
Well; with that thought in mind. ………….….
Best regards to all,
Greg.