General News
10 August, 2023
A busy year for C’down Rotary
THE Rotary Club of Camperdown has had a very successful year despite having a small number of members.
THE Rotary Club of Camperdown has had a very successful year despite having a small number of members.
The club held eleven Sunday markets and two Friday markets, with the numbers of stall holders growing in strength through the year.
On several occasions the Lakes and Craters Band played and enhanced the event.
At the market, plastic bottle tops, glasses, hearing aids and stamps were collected.
The club opened the Clock Tower at markets and special events, including the Robert Burns Scottish festival and Rock the Clock.
The first half of the year saw the club being involved with selling show bags at the Camperdown Show and manning the gates at the Noorat Show.
The club also had a successful barbecue in the town square during mental health week.
In the second half of the year the club was also busy with the Keep Australia Beautiful Adopt a Highway Cleanup program, the delivery of 565 kitchen caddy bin liners for the Corangamite Shire, laying a wrath on Anzac Day and vocational visits to Uncle Keith’s, the Otway Brewery and Camperdown SES.
This year club members visited a number of other clubs and enjoyed the fellowship, especially the annual Cobden mini golf night.
Three members attended the World Rotary Convention in Melbourne in May.
Three members also attended a dinner in Mount Gambier, where Rotary International president elect Gordon McInally spoke.
During the 2023-2024 Rotary year, the club expects to sponsor students to several Rotary programs including Defying the Drift, the Science Experience and the National Youth Science Experience.
New members Jan and Norm MacDonald were inducted into Rotary at a meeting held on Monday, growing the number of members for the new Rotary year.
Club secretary Graeme Fischer continued his service on the National End Trachoma Committee.
The consolidation of the work has seen significant advances in the decline of trachoma in Australia’s Indigenous community.
In 2022-2023, the club made donations to the Corangamite Hockey Club, St. Vincent de Paul, The Rotary Foundation, Australian Rotary Health, Rotary Australia Recycling Equipment, End Trachoma and Shelterbox.
Donations were also made to Camperdown College and Mercy Regional College.
Club president James Carter extended his thanks to everyone that has helped the club during its many activities throughout the year, and paid respects to two former Rotary Club members that had died during the year.
“Brian Driscoll and Pam Redgewell both served the club passionately in many positions over many years,” he said.
“As the club enters its 75th year of service to the Camperdown community, we no doubt will remain active in the community.
“However, we need more members to assist our work with projects.
“I would be remiss of I did not express my appreciation to secretary Graeme, treasurer Pat and Rotarians and Friends of Rotary for their efforts during the year.”