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Monday night‘s meeting occurred after a gap of three weeks from the Canterbury Neighbourhood Centre and it was nice for everyone to get together and enjoy a delicious meal of ribs and jacket potato with sour cream.
Our speaker, Colleen D'Offay from DIK, gave an in-depth discussion about how DIK is managed, who receives the the goods that are sent in containers both overseas and into our community, and how local Rotary clubs can obtain goods for their local projects.
The intervening time since the last meeting has been busy with the several cluster club activities- International Women’s Day breakfast, trivia night, and our club barbecues at Bunnings and Keiser which were both very successful in raising money for the Surrey Hills Neighbourhood Centre food pantry.
We have been asked for help from BlazeAid, who are organising hands on deck for repairs in the Longwood area, which was ravaged by the bushfires, as well as DIK requesting tools to be sent to to the areas requiring repair. We have asked that members bring any tools that they can donate to the meeting next Monday and they will then be transported to DIK.
We have a FaM packing session at Caulfield Grammar on 31st March and also will most likely be planting around the Peace Poles in Victoria Park on April 11th. We will need members to support for both occasions. Rimern always needs help. And last but not least there is the Rotary District Conference in Horsham on the 28th and 29th of March. Spaces at the conference are still available but accommodation is probably difficult.
Hopefully this coming week will be peaceful and relaxing and I’ll see you all next Monday.
Cheers
Jill
