Sergeant Win opened the meeting and welcomed all, including partners Lyn and Wendy as well as exchange students Terka and Amanda (from Brazil).

President David called for donations to the Rotary Foundation as the Rotary year comes to a close.

Both exchange students spoke briefly of their exploits of recent times.
Terka has moved back to Noel & Bronwynne’s and will give her farewell talk in 3 weeks.
Amanda is from Sao Paulo state, Brazil and is hosted by the Rotary Club of Cleveland.

  
International toast was given by Ross Harrison to the Rotary Club of Galesburg Illinois USA, in DISTRICT 6460.
It was the first Rotary Club in the USA to charted in a town under 25,000 population in June 2007.
Meets Thursday at 12.00 pm at the East bar n grill.   They have 39 members.  President is Sam Fisk and he looks like about 40 years old.
Projects include:
*  supporting literacy programs to empower their community.
 * the Galesburg government Day participating in local government event to engage the community.
 * Rotary international foundation contributing to the international initiatives and projects.
 * International youth exchange facilitating student exchange programs to foster global understanding.
 * Supporting high school students with special needs with an interact club.
 * Installed solar lights to provide lighting in remote areas such as Navaho reservations in Arizona USA.

International Director Ross reported that this past week was the hand over of the teacher’s accommodation for the school in the Philippines. He had a very nice letter of thanks in which they expressed their appreciation of having a bed with a nice mattress to sleep on. They still do not have running water but that is next on the list.

Membership Director Will advised that changeover will be at the Power Boat Club and that future meeting will be there form then onwards.

Youth Director Bruce advised that this year RYDA will have reached 20,000 students since 2009. Bruce and Barbara are interviewing a student this weekend with the possibility of a short-term exchange.

Incoming President Peter reported that 5 members are helping the Nambour Rotary Club at the Nambour Showgrounds.

Vinnies Sleepout is happening next Thursday on 18th June - so still time to make a donation, nothing is too small and nothing is too big - support Les Pontin who has raised over $18,000 so far, for his Vinnie’s 2026 sleep out.

1 Minute Tit Bit!
As we had no guest speaker Win asked all members to give a short 1 minute tit bit about themselves that nobody here probably knows. 
It was a very entertaining segment.
Sergeant Win then proceeded to fine everyone according to their initials - 
Peter Asher PA - Makes announcements
Ray Capps RC – Rotary does not discuss religion
Barabara Bailey - BB and Bronwynne Bates BB – both Brigitte Barbot, not Standard and Poor credit rating
Noel Bates NB – note well
Graeme Bowden GB – is Graeme British or did he sell little Golden Books?
Amanda Matero AM – a morning person, NOT
Win Fowles WF – Wells Fargo
Ross Harrison RH - not left handed, blood donating RH+
Mike Healy MH – a multi mission helicopter designation
Ken Hinkly KH – a spy satellite
Wendy Hoskins WH – a type of premium Sony headphones
Peter Hovey PH – acidic or alkaline?
David Johnston DJ – Plays records at Rotary gigs?
Tony Long TL – a Turkish lire worth 0.02 euro
Eve McCorkell EMC – electromagnetic compatibility
Les Pontin LP – known for long playing Irish jokes
Bruce Radford BR – not British Rail but Brazilian Real
Marion Schultz MS – obviously a manuscript writer
Alan Stephens AS – arsenic
David Wallis DW – online slang for don’t worry – appropriate
Lyn Wallis LW – your choice of letter writer/low water/long wave radio
Will Waterford WW – does not shop at Coles
Terka Zankova TK – the ISO code for Tanzania not Czechia.
Riki Tiki was conducted by Ross and winner was Bruce.
Win then closed a very memorable and fun, meeting.

Last night, we had a terrific meeting - our annual Vocational Excellence Awards night, where our vocational service committee presented awards to four worthy local recipients - the Co-ordinator is Calpac member, Peter Hovey.

Sergeant Peter Asher opened the meeting in the usual way and handed over to President David, who welcomed everyone to the meeting.

Rotarian Bronwynne Bates proposed the international toast to our own Rotary club, Rotary Club of Caloundra Pacific!
For our guests, Bronwynne outlined some of the things that we do, namely, the ROMAC trivia night, cleanup Australia day, rice for Cambodia, our Philippine school project, Christmas boxes that we donate to the needy, our Broadway in the Hanger fundraiser, the Umoja orphanage in Kenya, RYDA - our year 10 students driver awareness training program, our National Youth Science Forum, Youth Exchange Students programme, our annual Golf Day Tournament, Christmas Trailer Raffle, Bunnings Barbeques, all of which help us support DV safe phones, Steps Pathway, Care Flight, and Angel Flight, to name a few.

Following dinner and fellowship Rotarian Barbara, our chairman of the vocational service committee, spoke briefly about this committee and what they do.

Peter Hovey introduced the 4 awardees, nominated for an award -

Our first awardee was Bryan Elivira.
Bryan works for Best Practice Eyecare in Caloundra. Rotarian Barbara Bailey spoke on the nomination of Bryan, and that he has been an employee for a very long-time. He's very kind and considerate and Barbara had pleasure in nominating him. Dr. Michael Karper, his employer, spoke about Bryan's work; his attitude is always service above self. He has integrity and always tries to do the best job at all times. He has is caring for all.  And…. Michael gets positive feedback every day. 

Next awardee was Toni Bonney, from Meals on Wheels.
Rotarian, Les Pontin introduced Toni. He commended her on her dedication and commitment to her position;  she works six days a week and arrives in the early hours and finishes late in the day.  She supervises and oversees an essential commodity in the Caloundra area, which includes volunteer drivers and kitchen staff, and the maintenance of quality of the meals for over 400 per day.  Her supervisor, Sandra Jacobs, also spoke about Toni's commitment to her work, putting in the long hours and always being friendly to all who come into contact with her.

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Our third nominee was Caity O'Keefe.
Rotarian Bruce was pleased to nominate Caity and spoke on her nomination, saying that Caity had liaised with the Rotary Club organisers of our RYDA program at the Sunshine Coast Turf Club for several years now, and has always provided excellent service to them in their efforts to save young lives on the road. As our “go to” person, she has made our job of running a significant program much easier. She has calmly sorted out any problems. Our three day managers and our RYDA coordinator,  all agree she is a worthy nominee. Unfortunately, Caity's supervisor, Andrew Smith couldn't be with us tonight, but Neville Woodforth, our Calpac members who is a key organiser, spoke highly of Caity's work ethics and her assistance to our club.

Our fourth and final nominee is Izzii Whetton (with the blond hair) , is proposed by Suzanne Lee-Archer, who is unable to be with us tonight, so Graeme Bowden stepped up instead. Graeme spoke highly of Izzii in her role at the Top of the Coast Hair Salon. Graeme spoke of her professional approach to her work and that she is always very friendly and this was reinforced by Amanda Leavy, her employer.  Amnda said that Izzii is a very special person indeed - she is always kind and positive and is very pleased to see that Izzii got this award.

Peter Hovey then thanked all the recipients, their sponsors and employers.
He thanked the awardees for their wonderful approach and dedication to their vocation.

Next to our sergeant, Peter Asher managed to extract money from everyone.

The raffle was drawn and won and there were quite a few happy faces.
Sargent Peter closed the meeting on a very happy note after a wonderful night.

Next week we have Kendall Hatcher giving us an update of what's happening in Caloundra -