Our Meeting November 29
President Geoff opened the meeting with Rotary Grace and welcomed our guests
Craig Dorward from Big River Plywood
Adelaide Kovak our CSU Scholarship recipient
Nellie Shepherd our Outbound exchange student
Willis Cheng our exchange student
Ed Clayton from DPI
Rennae Ross
Our Christmas Market will be held on the 10th of December and we are looking for a few extra
volunteers in addition to the rostered team to help with the extended hours on the day.
Darren Wallace gave a recap of the RYPEN weekend held last weekend. A very successful event with
over 60 young people enjoying speakers and activities designed to enhance their leadership skills.
Many topice were covered including health, road safety, youth exchange and leadership.
Peter Crozier from Projects Committee discussed a proposed donation to the Rail Trail Project.
As the issues were quite involved peter advised the proposal would be circulated to members and voted on in
two weeks time. The initial funding required was a donation of $5000 as part of a $40000 design phase for the
project.
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Adelaide Kovak gave an update on her progress in equine studies at CSU
She is enjoying her course, and has completed her first year and done work experience at Kooringal Stud.
Adelaide thanked the club for its support of the CSU scholarship.
Richard Rossiter gave a formal thankyou to Craig Dorward from Big River Plywood for allowing us to
visiti their factory at Forest Hill which was an interesting and enjoyable tour of a local business.
Dr Ed Clayton from Department of Primary Industries gave an interesting talk on his research
and history of the Ag Department in Wagga. They are currently studying the effect of diet on lambing
percentage and gender balance with changes in Omega 3 and Omega 6 acids.
Interesting results are appearing with increases in twins and females in response to diet changes.
Ed is working with MLA and AWI as well as large corporates like Cargills.
FOUNDATION FACTS NUMBER 18
“Did you know that the number one per capita club in Australia in 2015-16 was Archerfield in D9630 at $US 13,264.13?” This club has 17 members and is also the number 2 per capita club in the world.
Bob Willis