Thank you to Robert Odey for allowing us to use your shed, including power, rent-free! This enables our Club to carry out our wood-cutting project with ease and also provides us with a safe place for our hot dog caravan to park up.
THANK YOU KING STREET MOTORS
Thanks to King Street Motors for carrying out our Warrant of Fitness inspections of the Hot Dog Caravan at no cost to the Club. What great support of our efforts for the community.
Members might like to return the favour by supporting King Street Motors; you'll find them at 143 King Street.
Thank You Humphris Engineering
Thanks to Humphris Engineering for completing repair work on our wood-cutting equipment - free of charge. Such a wonderful gesture to make from a local business.
Members may wish to return the favour by supporting Humphris Engineering Ltd; you can find them at 96 King St Timaru.
Thank You
Major sponsor of the
Rotary Club of Timaru
Hot Dog Caravan
raising funds to support our community.
Thank You Thompsons Refrigeration Services
Thank you to Thompsons Refrigeration Services for the discount on our recent HDV repair invoice.
They also carry out our electrical test tagging and temperature calibration certificates with no charges. A great show of community spirit!
Members may wish to return the favour by supporting Thompsons Refrigeration Servies; you can find them at 12 Bank Street, Timaru.
Wow, what a privilege it was to get a tour of the new Fraser Park multi-purpose facility last week, before our meeting. There is still some work to complete and funds to raise, but we gained an insight into how it will benefit our community in so many ways, not just Rugby. Unfortunately, the turf is not quite ready for playing on yet, but we did get to walk on and check it out. Good to know there is a Conference facility available to cater up to approx. 250 people, as well.
We had a great turnout of members, along with families, as we acknowledged a $30,000.00 donation made by the Rotary Club of Timaru Charitable Trust, via funds from the Bill Mackay bequest, to the Fraser Park Trust.
The Hot Dog Van was in action at a Soccer tournament last weekend, this was a first for us and also the tournament organisers. A big “THANK YOU” to Jess Wooffindin, Jenny & Basil Ensor, Gilly Oppenheim, Jim Garden, Bev Slooten, John Rushton, who were joined by me, for a full day roster. Our next outing will be at the SC Horsepower Rally, on Sept 28th & 29th. We have a few gaps on the roster, so if you can help, please enter your name, or let Jess know so she can.
The Christmas Parade Trust has met and wishes to advise the date for the Xmas Parade this year will be December 1st, this is the same day as the Rose Festival again, so we will need as many volunteers in the various roles as we can get. At this stage, I am notifying early so you can mark the calendar – more details will follow in due course.
Breaking news just notified – the current owner of the Santa sleigh that our Timaru parade has the use of each year, has notified he is selling it and looking for a new owner. We would dearly love to keep this in our local area so we can continue to utilize it, but the Parade Trust is not currently able to purchase it. If you, or someone you know can assist with purchase in any way, please contact either Jess Wooffindin or myself.
Catch up again soon.
Lynette
Fraser Park Tour
We were lucky to have a guided tour around the new Fraser Park Complex on Tuesday. We also presented our donation from our Chariatable Trust.
First Part of club AGM is set down for the meeting on Tuesday 26th November.
Christmas Dinner for the club is set down for Tuesday 10th December 2024, venue and menu to be advised.
Peter Jordan’s application for membership now proceeds to club Bulletin notifications (two of them), then a final Board decision.
The club meeting on Tuesday the 8th of October will start with a meal at 6pm at the Town and Country club and then move to the Eco Centre at Redruth with Brian Gallagher chairperson of the Eco Centre speaking on the vision of the centre and what activities he wants the Eco centre to be involved with in the new year that may have our Rotary club involvement?
The next Club Board meeting commences at 4.30pm on Tuesday 8 October at the T&C.
MS Spring Garden Walk Fundraiser
If any Rotarians would like tickets, please contact Robyn Baldwin.
The Social Committee wishes you all to keep Sunday the 13th of October free for our next Club Social Lunch Event. Details will follow in the coming weeks.
Creative Corner Charity Ball
Creative Corner is a community-run preschool with special connections to our Club - Grandies and children currently attend, and many have done in the past.
It's time to dust of the glad rags, find some lipstick, and support this great wee preschool to fundraise for a new playground and help keep fees down.
Get in touch with Emma if you have any other questions.
SC Cricket Fundraiser
This is one of Jess' other hats.... This event aims to support our local cricket community by keeping the sport affordable for everyone in South Canterbury and to grow our cricket programs. It won't be your traditional Bingo, so get your group orgnaised! 4-6 people per table, just click the link to reserve your table, look at SC Cricket's Facebook page, or see Jess.
