5,000 runners in this years' NB Sun Run.
Balgowlah Rotary members were proud to be part of the event as marshalls.
Lots of photos to see in the blog and our facebook page.
Balgowlah Rotary Club members visited Dalwood Spilstead for one meeting in November. We toured the site and heard the inspiring information from Service Manager Kerry Gwynne. Dalwood Spilstead provides a wonderful and successful "Early Intervention and Support Service" for needy children under 9 and their families.
Balgowlah Rotary Club sponsored 4 students from Mackellar Girls Campus and 3 from Balgowlah Boys Campus to attend the 3 day Rotary Youth Program of Enrichment Camp in the Blue Mountains aimed at building confidence, team building and personal values. The students joined our meeting to tell us of their experiences. They had a wonderful time and enthralled us with their experiences.
Quiz master David Stewart challenged us with 9 different quiz topics with table 11 just outscoring table 10.
There were prizes for the Reverse Bingo and tossing a coin at a bottle of scotch, plus for the raffle.
The silent auction items were in demand.
A special night to summarise the year that has been, to thank the outgoing President and committees for work well done and welcome the incoming presidents and committees for 2023-24.
Special guests included AG John Campbell and representatives from some of the groups we support.
Balgowlah Rotary Club is very proud to recognise and present an award to 13 very special people in our community for the work they do in one of the categories
- Youth
- Apprentice
- Small Business
- Pride of Workmanship
- Community Service
Balgowlah Rotary's third attempt at having our 32nd Charity Golf Day at Wakehurst Golf Club on 17th February was a great success, especially for the winners.
The silent auction, raffle and guessing competition added to the fun for the day.
Balgowlah Rotary Club team members braved an early morning to be marshals for the Northern Beaches Sun Run.
Balgowlah Rotary Club members deliver meals to people in need each Monday from the OneMeal location in Brookvale. to help our community.
Finally a time to celebrate the end of a busy year with a Christmas Dinner and to give gifts to the families supported at Dalwood Spilstead.
The last couple of months we have been supporting our community more.
A change of venue for our meeting on Tuesday 23rd August to NB Lifeline plus a tour and talk about the important work of NB Lifeline.
We enjoyed sharing pizza and discussion between the talks and our Rotary meeting.
A Rock and Rolling Night at Pittwater RSL, Mona Vale
30th July 2022
A huge thank you to Harvey Broadbent and the 3ARO for donating their time for this special evening.
Rally Winner: Anne McEnroe Team
Rally Runner up: Andrew Darragh Team
Car Guessing Competition Winner: Alan Jones nearest guess 118 - 117 Cars
Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for their support for this event.
Each year Balgowlah Rotary Club awards deserving groups in our community for the work they do.
The categories this year include:
Small Business, Pride of Workmanship, Community Service an Youth
Girls we sponsored, from Mackellar Girls Campus attended RYPEN in February and told us of their experience.
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Hon Brad Hazzard visited Balgowlah Rotary Club via Zoom. An interesting talk on management of Health with Q&A
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We have hit the ground running this year with a New Year BBQ, volunteering at the Sun Run, theatre at Genesian and back to meetings
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A special meeting for our club when the District Governor came to visit via Zoom.
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Welcome to our new president
Rick Van Brugge
Another Zoom Changeover for now past president Lindy Myers.
A very full and productive year in 2021.
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Balgowlah Rotary New Member
Welcome to Yvonne
Due to lockdown we are having to meet by Zoom only - again. However we are still working hard behind the scenes and have our Cars'n Clues Road Rally coming soon.
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Balgowlah Rotary 2020-2021
What a year, difficult but successful.
We coped with Covid-19, managed events, supported our community, held meetings via Zoom and live and much more.
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Finally a successful Charity Golf Day and Dinner after being postponed from October last year because of Covid-19 then the Dinner and Golf day being held on different dates because of flooding.
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Balgowlah Rotary Club is joining forces with 3 other local Rotary Clubs , local restaurants and hard working Northern Beaches first respondents to disasters to Reflect, Respect and Rejoice for Australia Day 2021 with a grant from the Australia Day Council.
Our restaurant vouchers will give back to our local community and celebrate 100 years of Rotary in Australia.
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