THIS THURSDAY 11 APRIL
6 for 6.30pm: Club Assembly at Narooma Golf Club. We can look forward to hearing about last week’s Board meeting, and Ange Ulrichsen and Julie Hartley will report back from Narooma High Year 11 students attendance at RYDA at Moruya (Rotary Youth Driver Awareness) with other Year 11 students from across the Shire.
Coming up
Our Business Networking Breakfast (18th)
Our guest speaker is Narooma Rocks General Manager Carrie Taylor who will talk about the rapidly approaching Narooma Oyster Festival on 3-4 May, its many attractions, and the challenges of staging the Festival (including the vagaries of the weather!). Please let Laurelle know if you are coming by Monday 15th. Breakfast costs $10 (please let her know if you do not require breakfast).
Pride of Workmanship Awards (also on 18th)
We have seven confirmed nominations for this year’s Pride pf Workmanship Awards presentation next Thursday (18th) at Club Dalmeny, with a possible eighth. That means these employers have nominated an employee who goes ‘above and beyond’. This is a prestigious event for the Club, second only to the Changeover; it should be another great night. David McInnes will be MC.
Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride
We have started our publicity for the first ever Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride (DGR) in Narooma on Sunday 19 May, organised by our Club. We will need assistance from all members if they are available.
Club organiser Françoise Cleret says the DGR is an annual international charity event that unites riders of classic and vintage styled motorcycles to raise funds and awareness for prostate cancer research and men’s mental health.
We are inviting riders of classic and vintage styled motorcycles along the far south coast to join the event.
The stats are sobering… One in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point in their life; in Eurobodalla Shire it is two in three. Globally, one man is lost every minute to suicide, that’s half a million every year. Françoise says, while the cause couldn’t be more serious, the way the DGR raises funds and creates awareness is by having fun in style and dressing ‘dapper’.
All riders must register online for Narooma’ ride at www.gentlemansride.com before the day. Riders must ride a classic & vintage style motorcycle (see DGR style guide on webpage), while dressed suitably dapper. Donations are welcome. Please go online www.gentlemansride.com, find the Narooma ride and support one or more registered riders. Funds raised will be invested by the DGR’s official charity partner Movember in local and global prostate cancer research and men’s mental health programmes. For Narooma DGR inquiries, please phone Françoise.
The DGR will start and finish at NATA Oval. Assembly no later than 10am. The 21km ride leaves at 11am. A market for community and sporting groups to promote themselves will be held on NATA Oval in conjunction with the DGR. David McInnes is organising the market. Food and drinks will be available for purchase.
Out and About
News from Lachie in Japan
Lachie continues to have a great time. He went on a trip to Tokyo for his 16th birthday with his host mother. He has been twice to the snow, once on a mini Rotary excursion, and once on a school trip. Here are some excerpts from his recent email to Susanna about the Tokyo trip…
“I did many things in Tokyo. We started by taking the Shinkansen from Nagoya to Tokyo. It only took around two hours but it felt like less. Along the way we also saw Mount Fuji, which was incredible looking. In Tokyo, we met up with my host sister who lives in the city. I knew her pretty well already because she was staying at our home in Ogaki for many weeks prior before returning home in Tokyo.
We checked in at a hotel in Gotanda and then made our way to Shibuya, where the famous crossing is. It was one of my top places I wanted to go to in Japan so I was very excited to go there and see it in person. ..We all went to Meiji Jingu, a Shinto shrine surrounded by a surprisingly large amount of trees and parks. Later we went to Shinjuku, which has a lot of the lights and screens you see in videos of Tokyo including the 3D cat.
Later when we went to the Minato region of Tokyo and ate at a Michelin Star restaurant where I was served pizza and a birthday dessert. Then we went to Tokyo tower and saw the city skyline from a night view. The next day, we… went to Toyosu. My host mother and sister went shopping while I went to Team Labs, which has a lot of immersive experiences. It was definitely a major highlight of the trip…We also went to Senso-ji, a Buddhist temple where I bought most of my souvenirs from the Tokyo trip.
Another major event that happened recently was going with my host mother to Takayama, a town in central Gifu prefecture surrounded by mountains. It was my host mother’s home town, so we saw her family along with more tourist-like activities. .. By the time we got to our next destination which was an outdoor museum, it had begun snowing quite heavily which made the experience even more enjoyable.
Not long after we went to one of my host mother’s sister’s hotel. Her sister told me I should try the small bathhouse/onsen since there was nobody else using it at that time, so I did. After we returned home.
NEXT THURSDAY 18th APRIL
This will be a double Rotary day for some of us
7am – Narooma Rotary Business Networking Breakfast at the Surf Club. Please book with Laurelle by Monday 15th.
6 for 6.30pm – Our annual Pride of Workmanship Awards Club Dalmeny