Tag Archives: Rotary
We’re going home to Crows Nest
Last Monday was our AGM and it was most disappointing to only have 14 members present. We had reports from all the heads of services and everyone is doing a great job. There were no new dominations but at a later date someone will need to be appointed to the new board for next year. […]
Simon’s sad, and Shirley’s shirty!
The Rotary Club of Crows Nest weekly card jackpot has now reached a staggering $980, with only five cards left. Members enter a raffle at each meeting, with the winner given the right to draw from a diminishing pack of cards in the hope of choosing the Joker. With each failure, the prize jackpots by […]
On the road with Judie Stephens
Judie Stephens addressed the club on October 8 on her adventures with the 2012 centenary Veteran Car Expedition from Perth to Sydney”. The expedition began on March 16, fromPerth, bound for Sydney, travelling 4100km in 20 days. The expedition involved steam and electric cars and bikes of just one or two cylinders, all around 100 […]
Pride of Workmanship Awards 2012
The Rotary Club of Crows Nest joined with the Rotary Clubs of North Sydney, North Sydney Sunrise and St Leonards for the 2012 Rotary Pride of Workmanship Awards at Northbridge Golf Club on Wednesday, October 3. Each Rotary Club made two presentations to members of the community who had been nominated for their dedication to […]
Join Rotary’s petition to the UN to end polio now!
Rotary International is about to launch a new website to help End Polio Now! Follow this link for more information, but in short, the new website, EndPolioNow.org, will link browsers to a petition to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon during a session on polio eradication. There’s a funding gap of just under […]
Sharp’s daring cash raid blunted by Joker!
The Rotary Club of Crows Nest Weekly card jackpot is into serious money following Past District Governor Harold Sharp’s failure to snatch the joker from the pack at today’s club meeting at the Northbridge Golf Club. “I’m feeling lucky,” Harold said before guest speaker Ellie Williams, of CanTeen, drew the raffle ticket. “I’ve never had […]
Rotary Success Conference, Canberra
By Mark Wallace Editor, Rotary Down Under It was a weekend dedicated to good news stories, and as such, had me a little concerned. “Here we go again,” I thought. “A bunch of Rotary Happy Clappers telling us all the things about Rotary that are not the problem, completely avoiding the hard questions and […]
Rotary Matters, with President Celia Coote
With all this warm weather it feels as if spring is on the way. Last Sunday was no exception we had the most perfect sunny day for our long orange lunch. We had 52 attend, arriving there about 11.30am. After a look around the place and a cup of tea or coffee we fed the […]
The Lookout 