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Youghal Rotary News Issue 1 24-06-08
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Hi there ! This is the first of the new Rotary Year Newsletters - the others will be added as time goes by - so check in from time to time and see what is happening. If you are not a member - maybe one day you'll join us , lend a hand! The Club Assembly 26.05.09 Welcome Pat Dorian We welcome new Rotarian Pat
PLANS FOR 2008 - 2009 Guest of Honour - Assistant District Governor - Gerard O'Reilly (2008) (pictured here with outgoing President Dorothy and incoming President Peter
The Club Assembly is the night which ends one presidential term of office and begins another, the night when the various Service Chairpersons outline their plans for the year, the finances of the club are examined and the Rotary International objectives of the coming year are outlined. Each of these is covered individually - so if you want to skip to a particular section , just click on the relevant word and hey presto! you're there! OUTGOING PRESIDENTS' REMARKS - SECRETARY REMARKS - INCOMING PRESIDENT'S REMARKS Dorothy Heaphy as outgoing President thanked the Club for the honour bestowed upon her and all the fun and enjoyment she experienced during the year. She also thanked all the members for supporting the various projects throughout the year and assured them of her ongoing support for them in the future. In addition to resuming a former role as Club Secretary, Dorothy has been invited to take a seat on the national Rotary Foundation Committee. Secretary Kieran O' Connor's Report "The year gone by was a busy one. We took on board some of our usual projects that we have become well known for in the area e.g. the Memorial Christmas Tree, the Christmas Concert - which was very successful as Rebecca Storm literally went down a storm and the GAA Club were very helpful by providing us with an excellent venue , staffing the Car Park etc. The Sensory Garden in Cois Abhainn and the Ark Project in Cork were the main beneficiaries of our Christmas Fundraising. The Bowling night in aid of our two International Projects -i.e. the Good Hope School in Zambia and the ISLA Project in the Philippines were again the beneficaries. We were very pleased that Sr. Mary from the ISLA Project spoke at one of our meetings in September. We held a Wine and Cheese Party in January which helped raise funds for Foundation. Our mobile phone and used printer cartriidge collection in aid of the JAck and Jill Foundation has also worked well. We have maintained our links wiith Fermoy Rotary Club as their Sponsor Club and they hosted a thank you evening for Youghal Rotary in October. Our Past President , David Kelly, arranged for historian Kieran Heffernan to speak at a public meeting in Fermoy on the "Houses of the River Blackwater" and a good number travelled from Youghal for this. Outgoing President Dorothy hosted a wonderful Barbeque Dinner in June, we had our Round RObin Dinner in November and in May we had our third Club trip away - this tiome to Birr, Athlone and Clonmacnoise. Our social year ended witht he President's glamorous Midsummer Ball, our first Blacktie event. We attended District Conferences and District Council meetings throughout the year. It has been a good year for the club and we all look forward to President Peter's year. Fist of all, I would like to thank all of you for the confidence shown in me. I would like to thank Karen and all the staff in the Red Store for their continued support, making our meetings possible and pleasurable. following Dorothy is a hard act, her light touch with which she achieves results, her knowledge of everyone and everything in Youghal, her infectious sense of fun and her unfailing sense of humoour are irreplaceable. For next year I am proposing some slight changes of emphasis in order to help us be more flexibleand adapatale in a rapidly changing world. I would like more Guest Speaker and Job/ Hobby Talks I would like to have closer ties with our neighbouring Rotary Clubs. I would like to apply for a matching grant on one of our projects I would like to set up a Sub Committee with a view to recruiting more younger members. In September we shall have an opportunity to talk to families when measuring some sunflowers for our Sunflower Competition.
Membership- Community & Vocational- International Services - Rotary Foundation- Youth Opportunities-Communication -RIBI We are hoping to introduce three new members this year. A new Sub Committee is being set up with this in mind, particularly younger members . People are always welcome to visit us and to see what a Rotarymeeting is like before committing to membership. We are going to continue our exisiting projects . We have been called upon to assist the new Community School in a number of ways- interviews, professional experiences. We hope this will develop. We are always trying to identify new ways to become involved in the community and to enrich the community by being an integral part of it. This year's concert will be on December 11th and Phil Coulter will be the star attraction Our initiatives involving the Phlippines and Zambia worked well this year but, unfortunately, our project to send Seeds to Zimbabwe ran into difficulty given the current political turmoil there.Hopefully the situation will be resolved soon. When funds permit we also send a donation to the Nagymidlos Orphanange in Romania. We have consistenly et our Rotary Foundation target fundraising and even achived the highest per person average one year. We continue to participate in the postal survey and hold a weekly raffle. We plana Treasure Hunt in May. We have organised a Sunflower Competition whiich gives us an opportunity to visit schools and to talk about the work of Rotary.
We plan a regular Newsletter, regular updates to our website, more media coverage of our work so as to garner more support in the community for our efforts. Assistant District Governor Gerard O'Reilly spoke of Rotary at national and international level. The motto for the year coming is "Make Dreams Real" - especially for children. Alarmingly 30,000 children die each day due to malnutrition, poverty, disease. In Africa over 90% of children with disabilities do not get to school. This is common in many developing countries. School for all is an objective of Rotary. Bill Gates of Microsoft has offered to donate $100,000,000 to the Rotary Foundation objective of ridding the world of polio. The only condition attached to the wonderful offer was that it be matched by Rotary Funds - each club has a target. Youghal is reaching its target each year. Gerard O'Reilly reminded Youghal Rotarians of the upcoming Annual conference in Sligo in September (25th and 26th) and a number of projects that were being highlighted this year for action - the Organ Donor Project, the Alzheimers Project.
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