Merry Christmas!

Many thanks to Sheila who organised a fabulous event last night to celebrate our last function at the Buckingham. It was great to see our partners and friends of the club enjoy the night and I thank Chris for bringing all those wonderful presents for our raffle prize.

I wish you and your families a merry Christmas and a wonderful new year. Please stay safe and healthy over the break and let's see you back again on Monday 16th January when we will gather at Centenary Park in East Bentleigh for an informal BBQ [BYO drinks, nibblies and chairs].

You may be interested to know that our collections from the sergeant sessions all helped towards a special cause - thanks to Ian for making us part with our coins for a good cause.

Today, we had an email from RC Yarraville who said....
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To all Rotary Sergeants....

GREAT NEWS!

As a collective, our clubs in D9800 and D9810 raised very close to $6,000.00 for Police Blue Ribbon Day this year!

Please ensure your fellow members are thanked made aware of this terrific effort at your next club meeting.

If your club has not yet deposited its fine proceeds from the day, it’s not too late! You can contact me with any queries on this.

On behalf of the Blue Ribbon Foundation, I thank you all for taking the time to participate.

These funds will now be directed towards worthy projects that honour the memory of those Victorian Police Officers have paid the ultimate sacrifice for their community
Many of these projects can be viewed by clicking here.

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We also had an email from RC Huntingdale thanking us for supporting the Masters Golf.

It seems like only yesterday I was writing to thank you and your Club for their support at the Presidents Cup – and now I am writing to say thank you again on behalf of the Rotary Club of Huntingdale for your clubs support during the Masters. I think that the effort from members of all Clubs involved to back up again and work at two events was fantastic and shows that the Rotary spirit is alive and well and contributed greatly to the success of the event. IMG have also asked me to pass on their thanks.

Helen's Headlines - Monday 5th December 2011

Well what a week I've had. Although I was coughing, sneezing and spluttering on Monday night, gleefully sharing my germs with everyone in the room, the next four days saw me in bed - with fever, sore throat, coughing, sinus congestion, lethargic and this strange rash that had appeared. After 4 days of being with a fever, I sought the doctor's advice (again) and I did my blood tests to rule out glandular fever. So now I await the results and secretly hope that it isn't glandular fever because I heard it knocks people about for some weeks and up to months in some cases. Oh well...is this my body telling me to just slow down?

On Monday night, we had a most interesting (if not, abruptly cut short) presentation on the history of wool in Australia. Dr Donaldson talked to us about the wool industry and the heights it had reached in the 1800s. As a keen knitter and lover of wool, I found his knowledge on the subject fascinating and it gave me a greater appreciation of this worthy yarn for when I go to my annual jaunts out to the Bendigo Sheep and Wool show every July - the biggest national gathering of sheep breeders, wool shows and wool crafts in all of Australia.

There's not much to write this week as I try to recover from this lurgy so I hope that everyone has a great week.