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Set-up: Try to be there at 5.30 and help get the room ready for meeting Greeters: Please arrive by 5.30 to meet and greet members and visitors. Fill in Visitors badges and direct them to a member to host them if possible. Sell raffle tickets. Starting & Parting Thought: Be ready to go at 6.10 3 Minute Talk: Prepare something of interest, or entertaining. Or both. Introduction & Thanks: Do some research prior to the evening. Be there by 5.45 if possible to greet guest speaker. You are their host for the evening. Perhaps offer to buy them a drink. Introduce them to members. Host them at dinner. Sergeant: Prepare a session that will extract money from members through fines or other means.
Thanks to all of you who were part of last week’s visit by our District Governor Gillian Jones, I think the visit went well and provided a positive impression of where we are at and where we are heading. I did note her comments about how COVID has given us opportunities to do things differently. Build the future you want.
This week we will be setting up our Book Fair. Over the years this has been a good earner of club funds, and a little like the biblical story of the loaves and fishes at the end of each fair we seem to have more books at the end than we started with. It will be interesting to see how it goes this year, our venue is smaller, and we have fewer books to start out as there was a big cull last year. I understand there have been quite a few offers of more books so I believe over the three weeks we should be able to turn over quite a significant number of books.
Unpacking boxes of books, meeh, some fun and banter doing it yeah right, some healthy fish and chips or pizza, better still, come on.
Book Fair Pat Waite (for project kick off, needs a separate committee)
50th Anniversary Pat Waite Judith Gray
Some directors currently have more than one area of responsibility so it will be necessary for members to get in behind them in the committees to make this work. I have asked every one where their area of interest or passion is so you should be able to get involved with something that “Spins your Wheels”
Our meeting last week was District Governor Gillian’s visit to our club, I see by Facebook there were a couple of other club visits that book ended ours. The level of dedication to do Rotary 3 or 4 nights a week for weeks on end outstanding. I thought the meeting went well and the DG Gillian could see that we had plans and that now the COVID situation had changed we were starting to work on them.
There is much that could be done, but it is also better to do less and do it well than spread ourselves too thinly.
Good to see PP Denise pickup a couple of district awards for her year, well done and that is a thank you to all, a President can’t do much by themselves, we are a team.
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