Meeting was opened by seargant Murray
Passed over to Pres Pete
Peter then proceeded to Induct another new member Benton Ellis, Brenton and his wife Karen have been a great value to our club with the youth exchange program and decided to join our club, great to have him as a member.
Rotary grace done by Chairman Bob Donaldson
Invocation done by Merv
Secretary- Spoke about Pres Peter's talk from last week about the TRAG program, it was decided that Dromana Rotary would go ahead and help fund this program ,Chris also mentioned a BBQ later on and wanted to see if we were interested in doing it, he will get more info about it,Chris handed out correspondence and told another good Joke.
Director- Tony spoke about the Market and how they went at Red Hill Market in getting more stall holders, things are looking good.
Pres Pete spoke about the DIK visit and is waiting on advice from Harry who is not well at the moment, we all wish him and Trudy well.
Member-
Lotto was won by - Ian Mac
Seagents session- NON this week
MORNINGTON MAZDA RAFFLE DRAW
WINNER OF THE CAR JOSEPH SOFIA FROM DROMANA
GUEST SPEAKERS
Julie Allan and Michael Everett
Julie spoke about how she had been on the Foreshore comity for over 25 years, and her father was on the comity for 40 years, it stared back in the late 1800's ,Julie spoke about how they are only funded through local donations like the Bendigo Bank and money raised through Boat shed fees, Julie said the shire doesn't contribute to them at all, They showed a few photo's of the area as well as a pic of early days of Dromana.
Julie also spoke about the seal that lives on the foreshore for a lot of the time of the year, and how it is blocked of for the safety of walkers, how they organise the cleaning of the toilets over summer and manage the caravan section at Anthonies Nose, it was a great talk to hear a little history of Dromana.
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