Co-presidents report for 26 June, 2025

We were very pleased to welcome as our guest speaker this week, Daniel Robinson, the manager of our excellent venue, Pepper Green Farm.  Daniel has lived a most interesting life prior to this point, and this seems to have resulting in him finally arriving at this much-needed and highly effective, not-for-profit organisation.  His passion to ensure the ongoing success of the Farm and all who are associated with it shone through in Daniels’ presentation.  We hope our club is able to use the very good facilities there and the warm welcome we experience each week, at the same providing tangible support, for a long time to come.

In excellent news, Stewart Annan has put himself forward as our President-Elect, ie, to take the reins after the term of Allie and Cathie finishes next year.  We would like to congratulate Stew for doing this, as his action now gives us certainty in club leadership for at least the next two years.  Like us two have experienced, we are certain Stew will enjoy the whole-hearted support and friendship of club members in his presidential year.

Doug Lougoon gave us a run-down on our upcoming commitment at the Sheep & Wool Show.  We will be responsible for the initial marking-out of all sites, both indoors & outdoors, as well as bump-in and bump-out duties.  There is also a commitment to have a small “roving” presence for the duration of the show just to make sure that the event runs smoothly.  It’s a good opportunity to show our club in a good light, and Rotary in general, as we support this important event for Bendigo.  Please respond as generously as you can to the roster that Doug sent around on Tuesday night.  If we all pitch in as much as we can, it will share the workload around, be enjoyable, and a very good fundraiser for future activities and projects.

As this is our last report for this year, we would very much like to take this opportunity to thank all club members for their friendship and wonderful support of us for the last two years.  This is a great Rotary club, full of interesting, active, innovative, extremely friendly, hard-working volunteers.  We are both proud to be members of such a terrific group of people who give generously of their time, skills and effort to try to give others in our community and elsewhere a helping hand if we possibly can.  We know this will continue with Allie and Cathie as our co-presidents, and we look forward to next year under their leadership.

With our best wishes and thanks to you all once again.

Adrian and Ray.