This Week - A Business Meeting

 A Business Meeting is all about the agenda which is why I add a cartoon!

It was a pleasure to see the completion of the additional water tanks at Bethany Home for Abused Women & Children last week.  The fruit of last month's Business Meeting and also the refurbishment of all the bathrooms following our visit and realising what needed to be done, the baths re-enamelled and taps that went off when the handle was released.


Here you can see the link between the two tanks.  The tanks are filled from municipal water when it is available and when it is not the pump automatically switches on to supply the building when a tap is turned on.  We have added an additional 10 000 litres to the system.

The baths were another story.  Here is Before and After in one of them.

Last Week

Linsay Engelbrecht of Retina SA updated us on the Dischem SA Ride for Sight in February where we provide marshals.  Our recent discussions with the Scottish Constitution of Freemasons who strongly supported our Burns Night has resulted in mutual assistance.  The first example of this is the Masonic Bowls Day on Sunday 27th April where they have agreed that a group of sight impaired bowlers from Retina SA would be able to participate and we will sponsor them.  We are encouraged to to attend even if we are not bowlers.  A Scottish friend of mine said that bowls is very popular in Scotland as Bowls Clubs are the only bars that can be open at 07:00!

Next Week

Ati Badenhorst will be talking to us about The Saldanha Wine & Spirit Company and no doubt he will talk to us about Badenhorst Family Wines, in the Swartland as well. 

International - New Zealand

Members of the Rotary Club of Waikato Sunrise are flying high thanks to an annual hot-air balloon festival where they raise money and community awareness of Rotary. The 2025 Balloons Over Waikato event, slated for 18-22 March in the club’s hometown of Hamilton, will feature about two dozen balloons along with fireworks, music, amusement rides, and food tents, says Willemien Wennekers, a
club member and past manager of the festivities. Rotarians serve as crowd ambassadors and help staff the information tent and VIP area. They also sell merchandise and run a “walk-through balloon” that’s inflated but moored flat along the grass, allowing visitors to walk inside, Wennekers says. The $5,800 raised by the club during the 2024 event was donated to True Colours Children’s Health Trust, another of the event’s charity partners.