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Archive for 2015
Vale Rolly Dickins
South Australian born and resident in our local area for over 54 years. He was an ex Royal Australian Navy Aircraft Fitter. Owner-Manager of Local Carrying Company for 16 years. Company’s main interest then became involved with Building Supplies, Sand and Metal and ready-mixed Concrete. Later Rolly became proprietor of “Timber Art, Signs and Trophies” […]
VTT Leader speaks on ‘Voice of Rotary’
Rotarian Viv Valladares recently lead the Vocational Training Team (VTT) to Vanuatu in June 2015. Dr Valladares spoke on ‘Voice of Rotary’ on Tuesday 18th August about the experience. To hear her story please connect to these links. Voice of Rotary Part 1 Click here Voice of Rotary Part 2 Click here Voice of Rotary […]
Vocational Training Team to Vanuatu Blog
Our Rotary Club was pleased to support the Team Leader Rotarian and Dental Surgeon Dr Vivienne Valladares to the recent Vocational Training Team trip to Vanuatu in June. We also sponsored one of the Dentists travelling with the team (Dr Agnetha Valladares) and hosted the Farewell Dinner at Elizabeth.
Farewell Ron
1314384 – Ron Watts was very proud of that number, his Rotary membership number. Numbers for new members now are in the 9 millions. Ron joined Rotary in 1984, in the two year old club of Munno Para. He moved to the Elizabeth Club in 1987 and when the new Club of Playford was proposed […]
UMOJA Orphanage Kenya
RAWCS Project Number 51/2011-12 Early in 2013 the call to join a team of Australian Rotarians in Kenya at the site of a new orphanage was too great for local Rotarian Ron Watts to ignore. Past President Ron with wife Delwyn travelled to the Umoja site meeting the rest of the team in Dubai at […]
Vocational Tour
Port Pirie and Environs 07/03/15 – 09/03/15 On the long weekend in March our Club visited Port Pirie as a base for a Vocational Tour of the area. A two hour bus tour of Pt Pirie “Outside the Gates” (of the Smelter) was ably led by Nipper Nitz, brother of our PP Theo, where we […]
Rotary Barbecue
Rotary isn’t only about cooking sausages, but we do have a lot of fun doing it and we are grateful to Bunnings, Parafield this year for helping us boost our fundraising!
Shelter Box
ShelterBox What can a local Rotary Club do to have direct and immediate effect when disasters occur here in Australia and across the world? If homes were destroyed what would be needed immediately to keep a family safe, undercover and together in such times of great need?
Australia Day Breakfast
Australia Day and the Rotary Club of ElizabethIt’s never easy looking back to determine exactly when the Rotary Club of Elizabeth began an involvement with Australia Day but we think it was around the mid 1970’s. Everything was fairly new, the Town of Elizabeth, the Rotary Club and the community all shared a growing up […]
Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital
Elizabeth Rotary has financially supported this hospital for more than 20 years on an annual basis. Past President Arthur Eason first brought this project to the Clubs attention in September 1994.