As the sun starts to set on 2025, many community organisations are beginning to wrap up and look forward to the next year.
Boorowa Rotary is no exception, having quite a busy year with plenty of notable events and fundraisers as they plan for the future.
Lyn Diskon of Boorowa Rotary said this year has gone extremely well for the Club.
“It’s done especially well with both the markets, the Op Shop, and all our other projects that we do. It’s been quite a successful year,” she said.
“We have lost a couple of members due to age; however, we’d love to have new members, younger people who have an interest in or passion for doing something for the community or the world.
“Our changeover dinner was great, and then shortly after we did the distribution of the 24-25 takings from the Op Shop, and we gave away $55,000, which brought the total over eight years to more than $267,000, which was given back into this local community, so that was a highlight.
“The changeover is always a highlight, where our new president kicks in and she’s doing a great job.
“Earlier in the year, we sent a young fellow to the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, which is a week-long leadership training camp, and that young fellow has just done extremely well from it.
“We also sent two young people to RYPEN, which is a personal development thing for a weekend, and two young people from Boorowa Central School went to that, and they came back and their confidence levels had lifted and their outlook on life as well. It was wonderful. That was another really great thing.
“The Op Shop has done extremely well, and without community support, it wouldn’t do this well. We could do with more volunteers in the shop and more members for Rotary. If somebody just wants to find out a bit more about what Rotary is about and what it does, they can come along to a meeting on a Wednesday evening, talk to any of the Rotarians in town or come into the Op Shop and talk to us.
“We’ve supported some overseas projects, which reported some of the disaster relief in what’s happened with the hurricanes in the Philippines or Indonesia recently. We’re always doing stuff like that, as well as sending resources for floods that occurred earlier in the year.
“We have got a few things in mind for next year. Six members and two spouses are going to Namibia to work with our sister club in Swakopmund on some of their projects.
“Our annual Welcome to Boorowa barbecue is happening next year. “We also have the Hilltops Paint Boorowa Purple on Friday. That is a domestic violence awareness event. “We will also be involved in the sleepout. We didn’t do it this year as we had too much on at the same time. Of course, we will keep doing our markets.
“Rotary is an international organisation, but with local bases, it really goes global while staying local.”
– Jack Murray
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