So last week at our meeting we started by presenting a cheque to the Follow Baptist Church in support of their Food Van Project and we were lucky to have Dave Young in attendance to receive the cheque. Dave told us that they were very appreciative of our support and that our donation would go a long way in helping them.
We then had the pleasure of inducting another new member into the club and this time we inducted Mehananthie Sivarasa, or Meha as she told us to call her, into the club. Meha's further adds to the count of females in our club and certainly improves the average age of the club as well.
So welcome Meha and we look forward to you getting really involved in our club.
The club was then treated to a really interesting Behind The Rotarian Talk by Louise Jackel who did really well and actually kept breathing all the way through her talk.
After Louise was introduced by Wal Mcdonald we learnt from Louise that she was born and raised in Wangaratta and did her her schooling at Wangaratta Tech and Bendigo Institute. At the end of her schooling Louise headed off to Japan , sponsored by her Dad's Rotary Club. In 1192 Louise headed off to Queensland to live and started working with Australia Post. She returned to Victoria in 2001 due to her father's ill health and then having met Louise C (the quiet one) in 2004 and they pooled their money and bought a property in Clyde.
Louise was a member of the Clyde CFA for 6 years and finally retired from Australia Post in 2012. Then in 2018 they needed to move to a less built up area and chose Pakenham as the place. And as such she has now become a very active member of our Rotary Club.
This is just a summary of the extremely interesting talk given by Louise and so if you were not present then you certainly missed a a good talk.
After Louise had entertained us all we then had our weekly Joker's Wild and a lot of people thought it suspicious that Louise Carter's ticket was drawn but the crowd were more relaxed and happier when she failed to find the joker.
The evening finished with a relatively quiet Sergeant's fine session and we all got to head off home a bit earlier than normal.