Lindsay and Marg celebrated their wedding anniversary last week. They attended the Karen Water Festival. The hall was full, and food was delivered straight into their hands. John Pearce was the MC along with Pan Sain as co-MC and her sister Say Htoo who are both from the Karen community. Both girls were sponsored by our club to attend the RYPEN program recently. Pan Sain as MC spoke in the Karen language, while John gave the English interpretation of her speech. At the end of the address all Rotarians present were called up on stage to dance with the Karen dancing group. After leaving the festival Lindsay and Marg went to the Bennett Street Cafe in Long Gully, where they had a very nice meal while listening to some great music. In the evening to round everything off, they went to Porchelli’s for an evening meal.
Mick gave his thanks for all the support for the great camping swap mate thing. They will now be a consideration on whether to make any changes or what are the things might occur for next year. At this stage results are not confirmed. However, the meeting ran at a profit.
Friday Book Sale
This is all organised the setup will be outside the law courts in Pall Mall and the roster has been organised.
Because of the book sale we have been unable to do the football gates this Friday however our next session at Canterbury Park will be on 3 May.
Anzac Day gunfire breakfast is next Friday the 25th (obviously.) We will be cooking with the Lions club, and it will be a 5 am start with the service at 6 am and breakfast to follow that. The main service for Anzac Day will be at 9 am.
STUPA Parking for the Illuminate will take place on 10 May. Geoff Gallagher advises that this is a ticketed event so we will not be needing to collect money only need to be parking cars.
Star Cinema and the Heritage Festival will be occurring over the next few weeks. Speakers will include Mary and Laurie Preston, Willie Carnie and Leon Scott (PP PHF) plus others.
The Cashiers organised a raffle this week with first prize to Charlie and second prize to Kylie.
Next week our speaker will be Matthew Richardson, and he will present a pre-Anzac Day, possibly his history about his time in the ADF, and Afghanistan. Louise Wellard will perform the last post.
A board meeting followed our dinner meeting.
Some time ago Rachel spoke to our club about her journey of finding her birth mother. Rachel has created a podcast called “The one left behind” and it is available on Spotify and Apple podcast. 
