It was so good to hear the RYLA attendees talking of their experiences and what they got out of the week.  It is such a worthwhile project as so many of the attendees are motivated to give back to the programme by becoming mentors and go on to achieve so much in their lives and Rotary lives.

It was sad to hear of the passing of Brenton Lewis after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.  Brenton joined Rotary on August 1^st 1978, was an active member of our Club serving on various Committees and was President during 1996-1997. Brenton always believed that the town of Murray Bridge could be transformed and grow and worked hard to achieve his vision.  Brenton was chief executive of Regional Development Australia Murraylands and Riverland and then Mayor of our Rural City for eight years before retiring due to ill health.  Brenton received a PHF then a PHF sapphire.

Vale Brenton

Friday morning Sally, Jacquie, John Scarvelis and I, attended the SHOUT NO for Domestic Violence down at Sturt Reserve.  It was a lovely morning for the walk along the river.  A good crowd assembled and was joined by some students from Murray Bridge High School, including Roxanne Rowland. When we gathered together to shout NO to Domestic Violence questions we achieved over 100 decibels with the noise we made!

Saturday morning Jacquie and I went to the High School to be part of their produce and gift stall (Stall Crawl) - we were selling calendars.  I unfortunately had to leave to go to a Brunch with friends and Marg came to help Jacquie. 

Thought for the week from Neil Armstrong:  “I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.” - this resonates with Rotary’s philosophy of making every moment count in the service of humanity

PLEASE NOTE - Our AGM is a Members Only meeting. Please do not invite guests.

The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

• FIRST: The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
• SECOND: High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
• THIRD: The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life;
• FOURTH: The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.