The object of our meeting this week was to set ourselves up with goals and ambitions to get back into Rotary action. We need to form working committees to share the load and allow us to make a strong impact in our community.
The attending members did not disappoint with three solid projects forming committees. Support for those committees is looking strong and I am confident that our Club will be doing some great things for our community before the Rotary year is out.
- Vocational Awards, or Pride of Workmanship being a terrific project that recognises the talented people we have in the workplace and brings Rotary forward into the community as a business-focused organisation, which is at our Rotary roots. Nominations for this committee included Laury Gordyn, Sam McCurdy, Gus Dominguez, Peter Batterham and Jim Wilson.
- Presentation Balls, which promotes the connection between Berwick College and this project's importance in fundraising for the club and also supporting the college financially as a partner. Nominations for this committee included Isobel Caulfield, Peter Batterham, David Nutter and Josie Wilson.
- Youth Youth Youth, a plethora of youth-related programs that creates leadership opportunities that go way past that participation certificate. Challenge, engage, and inspire. Our youth have many challenges ahead which are way past our time on earth. (That's a bit morbid!) Rotary has an opportunity to mould our youth into thinkers and adaptors for the future. EarlyAct, Interact, Youth Leadership Awards, RYPEN, MUNA, RYLA. It is getting late, but Rotary has some really cool youth programs!! Nominations for this committee included Tim Moore, Greg Lee and Josie Wilson,
There are many other projects ahead. Strong committees are the difference between talking about it and doing nothing or putting the building blocks together and making it happen.
Whatever happens, it is up to us!
