Bally Barker Blog

Our meeting on Tuesday November 16 had something for everyone – an interesting guest speaker and our AGM.     Our guest speaker was Matthew Taylor from Bush Heritage Australia. He is the President of the North Head Sanctuary Foundation. Matthew described himself as a general naturalist with a fondness for birds, the only creatures he can reliably identify - on a good day!   His Day Job is fundraising for Bush Heritage, a conservation organisation. He gave an interesting presentation on the Birds of North Head and provided a good insight on this natural habitat on our doorstep.     Whilst many of us had visited North Head and enjoyed the walks and scenery, Matthew explained the variety of bird habitats  •        Heathland / Shrubland including Eastern Suburbs Banksia Shrub. •        Open forest •        Littoral rainforest •        Beach/Harbour foreshore •        Built environment / exotic plantings •        Oceanic

District Governor 9685 Lindsay May OAM and wife Tania visited our club via ZOOM on Tuesday October 19.    Tania is also the Past President of Lane Cove Rotary. They were also joined by Jade Catherall, DG Aide Metro, Johanna Johns, Area Governor Beaches.   Lindsay reviewed the club plans and activities with the Board and Team leaders and expressed his thanks to all the club for the efforts and achievements over the last year despite the difficulties of lockdowns and limited ability to properly function. He was most appreciative of the planning activities that club has undertaken despite the extra difficulties of conducting it using ZOOM. Lindsay said that with these plans in place, he was confident that we have a great future ahead.     Lindsay also invited all of us to attend the District Conference that is being held live on Friday – Saturday 18-19 th March 2022 at West HQ (Rooty Hill RSL).   The dinner will be held on the Friday night, the conference o

    Our meeting held on 5 October 2021, had two very interesting speakers, Will Wrathall, Acting Manager of Youth & Community Development and Russell Peake  Manager Social Planning and Services both from  Northern Beaches Council.     The overriding rationale of their presentation was for our local community assistance efforts and fundraising initiatives to become more strategic given the needs that have been identified by their work. The meeting was held via ZOOM and we were also joined by Sam Wilkins President of Rotaract Northern Beaches.   Will and Russell presenting to the meeting via ZOOM   Lindy Myers has already sent each Rotarian an Easy-Read doco on the Better Together Strategy. https://hdp-au-prod-app-nthbch-yoursay-files.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/6216/2208/1033/Northern_Beaches_Council_Easy_Read_Better_Together_2040_Accessible_features.pdf   A lot of this material from the document was presented in more detail and substance by Will