THOUGHTS FOR THE NIGHT
In keeping with the theme of the evening's presentation the thought for the night was:
"The economy is the start and the end of everything. You can't have a successful education reform or any other reform if you don't have a strong economy." David Cameron
And a second thought which is a bit different:
"Prison inmates are treated to cable TV, hot meals and a college education while on the outside, many people can only afford these things through a life of crime." Alfred E. Neumann
Notes from the Prez
Well, it was a smaller than usual gathering for our Rotary meeting this week with a couple of members unwell and several others away on holidays. Those assembled were still pretty involved and chatty which made for an enjoyable evening.
Our speaker, Matthew Sonnemann kept the attention of the audience, as we all wanted to hear his wisdom and views for where our economy is heading. We welcomed Pat Little to the meeting, accompanying member Helen Hartnett. John McCaskill was an urbane and welcoming Chairperson for the meeting.
Since John was away, George was in charge at the desk and ensured all attendees were ticked off, noting who was having a meal and who wasn’t. Everyone present will have to pay for this week when they next attend a meeting at the Canterbury Centre, and this won’t be until March 17 as we are visiting RIMERN next week and then there is no meeting due to the Moomba holiday.
I look forward to seeing many of you at 6pm at RIMERN next week as we tour the facility then enjoy a meal at the Darebin RSL. See the flier below for the address information.
Elizabeth
Matters in the Interests of Rotary
Canterbury Rotary has been accepted into the annual Boroondara Volunteers Expo on March 19th from 1-5pm. Please let me know on 0419121059 if you can help out that day for a couple of hours as we really need to encourage some more people to help us carry out our projects.
The next FAM is on April 2nd at Caulfield Grammar.