District Govenor Stephen O'Connell OAM Visit
This weeks meeting was our combined clubs District Governors meeting, held at the Country Club Hotel, Yea.
President Penny opened the meeting, welcoming members from all our neighbouring clubs and in-troducing Stephen O’Connell, OAM, District Governor, along with his wife Carol, PDG David Anderson, and RCL Sharon Fox.
We had a wonderful representation from Alexandra, Mansfield, Seymour, Southern Mitchell, Kinglake Ranges and Yea Rotary Clubs.
Stephen welcomed all guests, and one of his first jobs for the evening was to raise the awareness of End Polio Now by handing out Certificates of Acknowledgement to the Rotary Clubs of Alexandra, Kinglake Ranges, Southern Mitchell and Yea.
Elizabeth McCormick, Southern Mitchell Club, spoke of a recent interactive workshop she attended in Sydney “Fit for Purpose” featuring changes for clubs to embrace to ensure meetings are project fo-cused and relevant in this busy life we lead.
Stephen spoke of “9790 Teams”, creating a 3 year plan for District, and member engagement health check.
Carol spoke of her partners project, after much searching for the most appropriate project, she has chosen “Interplast”. A project providing much needed surgery opportunities for communities in the Asia Pacific re-gion. Carol encouraged donations, along with running a Lucky Number raffle this evening, raising $380.00 President Penny announced a $500 donation from Yea RC. Raffle winners were Paulette from Mansfield and our exchange student, Haru.
RCL Sharon Fox thanked Penny and Glenda for organ-ising tonights meeting. She spoke of Domestic Vio-lence as being a potential project for clubs.
DG Stephen announced the District Conference, to be held in Albury, 11—13 April, 2025, with a theme of “Hitting The High Notes”, and being a musician, closed the meeting with a saxophone rendition. Wonderful!
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| DG Stephen | DG Stephen and Partner Carol | DG Stephen the Musician |
DG Stephen, Club Presidents and District Visitors