Page 11 - Rotary Matters - March 2021

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Rotary Club of Broken Hill

We here in Broken Hill Rotary have been like every other Club throughout Australia, trying to function
normally in abnormal times. NSW has been very strict and these restrictions have made it very difficult
to operate at all.

In July, the Broken Hill Musicians Club, where we had been holding our Monday night meetings for the
past 3 years, informed us that under NSW Club rules we could not conduct our meetings there until the
COVID19 restrictions were lifted. We were worried that long absent periods may convince members to
request leave or worse resign. So with that in mind I approached the Junction Hotel where Hotel rules
differed from Clubs. We were allowed to have tables of 10 people up to a maximum of 30 in an area not
frequented by other diners. This solved the problem.

We continued in this manner through the next 4-5 months until the Musicians Club approached us in
December to welcome us back.

Our Major Fundraiser during this
period was our Christmas Raffle
which consisted of a 6x4 Trailer
filled with Toys, Engel Fridge,
Television and many other great
gift ideas. The tickets for this raffle
were sold mainly at Woolworths at
Centro Plaza and at Coles at the
Broken Hill Village Complex. Members were greatly assisted in the selling of tickets by various service clubs
here in Broken Hill (who got 50% of the value of tickets sold. Total sale of tickets exceeded $25,000.

Our only other income has been derived from 3-4 Community BBQ’s.

Three of our major fundraisers - Agfair, Silver City Races, and Carols By Candlelight in the Park were all
cancelled in 2020, and unfortunately Agfair which was hoped would run in 2021 has been cancelled again
due to the tough COVID-19 restrictions.

We, like all Rotarians hope that the World soon gets back to normal and the lifestyle most of us enjoyed
pre COVID19. This will allow us all in 2021 to celebrate 100 Years of Rotary in Australia.

Geoff Blake President

Port Pirie also receives an Award
RC Port Pirie has been granted the IFSR Youth Service Award as a result of an
article published in the local newspaper, the Port Pirie Recorder. The club
promoted the value of the Scouts and Guides Movement.

The IFSR, International Fellowship of Scouting Rotarians, is a Rotary Fellowship promoting service to Youth
through Scouting and Guiding. IFSR is composed of over a thousand Rotarians in 45 countries that work to
promote Scouting and Guiding through their membership in Rotary. They have a website: ScoutingRotarians.
org and a Facebook page.

Steve Henning IFSR

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