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THE ROTARY CLUB
OF
MOOLOOLABA INC,
52nd Year - Volume 52
30 Sep 2024
Website www.mooloolabarotary.org
facebook.com/RotaryMooloolaba
President Ian Barnett
Our guest speaker at last week’s meeting was Olwyn Kerr from Guide Dogs Qld with her
ambassador dog Hero. Olwyn has been a regular visitor to our Club over many years. This
year we discovered many of the other services that Guide Dogs Queensland provide to
support the visually impaired. Many of the services are provided by volunteers who give their
time to assist either by visiting clients or being on call so clients can phone them when help is
needed.
We also heard about the guide dog training facility in Brisbane which breeds and trains the
dogs. The Club can organise a visit to the facility if there is sufficient interest from our
members.
Coming Events
The next couple of weeks is a busy time for our Club with the setup for the Nurture festival
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next Friday, the Nurture festival on Saturday and the Lift The Lid Walk on Sunday 13
October. If you have not put your name on the various rosters then please do so. It makes the
job of the organisers so much easier.
Next Club Meeting
The next Club meeting 30 Sep 2024
Our next club meeting will be held at the Mooloolaba Bowls Club. The guest speakers will
be 5 students who will the Rotary Youth Science Forum.
The five students will address us and talk about their reasons for going to the RYSF which
will be held later this year.
Director's Reports
SOLOMON SMILES PROJECT
RAWCS No 3 - 2024/25
Solomon Smiles is a project registered with RAWCS to provide dental services to the East
Solomons Province of Makira. It is directed by club member Som-Ling Leung as Project
Manager assisted by Graham McHugh as Deputy Project Manager and sponsored by the
Rotary club of Mooloolaba under the terms set out in the registration document issued by
RAWCS. Essentially, the responsibility of the club is to support the project, to ensure that
expenditure meets the guidelines set out by RAWCS and to audit the 6-monthy expenditure