Author: Magill Rotary

Simon stepped us through various updates to our Club Strategic Plan, including the new “actions” and “measurements” to support our Goals. We can also now link the activities to Rotary’s Areas of Focus to show how our plans support Rotary International’s goals. The feeling was the move to a simple and visual format will make it easier to work with. Bulletin 1188

Our Guest speaker over breakfast was Karyn Kennedy, advocate for the Hospital Research Foundation Stroke. Club member Mark Thompson had a link to Karyn when they both worked in the Life Insurance Industry; Karyn working as an self employed adviser and as an employee for corporate institutions. Karyn was aged 52 and self-employed as an insurance adviser when she suffered a life changing stroke. Bulletin RCMS 1187

Dr Conor Brand, Veterinary Surgeon and new owner of the Newton Vet Centre replaced retiring vet and Rotarian, Geoff Browne in March of this year. Geoff had been Mark Thompson’s vet for a number of years and was impressed with Conor’s treatment of his 2 dogs. Bulletin RCMS 1186

The Rotary Club of Magill Sunrise Changeover breakfast was held on Sunday 3rd July at the Café Outside the Square, in Whitmore Square. The café is a 100% not-for-profit community café and functions/meetings space, providing food, support, and training opportunities for marginalised groups, including those experiencing homelessness. All profits generated service their mission. Bulletin RCMS 1185

Thanks to everyone who provided feedback to the draft Strategic Plan. Belated thanks also to new member Peter who sent some outstanding feedback via email that arrived at 7.03am, so a little late to include in the discussion directly – although some aspects were raised. Your ideas will certainly be taken into account. Bulletin RCMS 1184

As the Market experience was fresh in our minds, talk turned to that. Once again, the issue of poor long weekend turnouts has certainly come along, and we chatted about the potential of moving to a third Sunday approach from next year (subject to a poll from stallholders). Bulletin RCMS 1183

Morialta are our parent club and it was great to join them at the Tower Hotel for their meeting. It was also an excellent opportunity to catch up on one of their major projects as they had some very important guests and a great presentation to witness. Bulletin RCMS 1182

It was a superb experience to welcome the students we supported on the Science Experience to find out how it all went. And just wow! It was extremely clear that this experience opened eyes and minds and was potentially life changing for all involved. Bulletin RCMS 1181

It was an absolute pleasure to welcome Charter Member and Past President Brenton Oates back to the club to tell us all about his life since leaving the club 10 years ago and his retirement in 2020, since when he has been writing his memoirs. Bulletin RCMS 1180

Simon Kelly is well known to many of us for his former role as a teacher at Rostrevor College, so it was wonderful to have him back to talk to us about his current very important role with Aboriginal Veterans SA (AVSA). Bulletin RCMS 1179