Wednesday Night, A Business Meeting, Spotty & the Queen.

Last Wednesday's dinner at La Restaurante Parreirinha was great.  We arrived an hour later than everyone else and were seated in a different room!  I should say in a room as everyone else was in the covered courtyard at the back!  But we did have the advantage of being beside the fire!

A good time was had by all....that's the main thing!

This week

It's a Business Meeting.....the last one for the current board so it is an important one.  How to illustrate it?  Here's a photograph of an iconic Cape Town Road House at Retreat.......long gone...murdered by a truck...

Spotty, we miss you!

  

REEA River Market Saturday Saturday 9th June

 Gregor Heidemann will be appealing for volunteers for the Coffee Stall this coming Saturday.  The colourful advertisement is in PDF format so I can't copy it.  You'll have to look at the logo instead!




Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee

Elizabeth II's personal flag as Head of the Commonwealth

As Commonwealth Citizens many of us raised a glass of champagne to toast the Head of the Commonwealth this weekend.  60 years on the throne of the United Kingdom and several other countries is an achievement!  Happy Jubilee!

Esprit de corps

by Diana Schoberg 
The Rotarian -- June 2012 
 

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Sharon Irving, a member of the Rotary Club of Cortlandt Manor, New York, USA.

Rotary International on Facebook

Sharon Irving’s 20-year-old son, Douglas, has developmental disabilities, but he doesn’t want to be on the receiving end of charity all the time.

“I notice this among people throughout the special-needs community,” Irving says. “They’re thrilled to be the ones giving for a change. They need self-respect and self-esteem just like everybody else on the planet.”

In 2010, she started the Rotary Community Corps of Keon at a vocational center for adults with special needs; 25 people signed up.

The members elect their own officers, each of whom is paired with a mentor, and select their own projects. Their first, a spaghetti dinner in March 2011, raised $1,000 for St. Jude Children’s Hospital. They’ve also joined members of Irving’s Rotary club to ring the bell for the Salvation Army and participate in a local parade.

“I’ve never seen a club where everyone shows up for every meeting and votes not ‘yes’ but ‘yay!’ for everything that’s brought up to do,” Irving says. “This gives them a chance to shine and to show that they have as much to give as you and I.”

A bonus is increasing the public’s understanding of Rotary. “If I died tomorrow, this project would be the one thing I could be the most proud of in my life,” she says. “I did it as a tribute to Douglas.”