Friday, the end of another working week, as well as the end of our week in Penrith. After lunch, the team proceeded to the lovely, quaint town of Bathurst for the District Conference.
After a short rest, we proceeded to the Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre for the opening program of the District Conference. After a brief welcome address by the District Governor, Marilyn Mercer, the district conference proceeded with the inspiring talk by RI President’s Personal Representative, Past RI Pres. Bill Boyd, followed great speeches from various speakers. The evening was concluded by a wonderful presentation delivered by the GSE Team for Taiwan.
March 19, 2011 - All dressed up, we had our breakfast at 7:00am of bacon, sausage and eggs, plus toast, coffee or tea.
Walked to the venue, Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre by 8:15am for the Saturday Plenary Session. After the call to order, parade of flags followed and had the honor to parade our Philippine flag while our national anthem was being played.
This was followed by various speakers including ---- Mayor Cr. Paul Toole and another talk of RIPR Bill Boyd, he is really amazing.
Governor Marilyn also had the district awards, both club and individual awards. PDG Bob Aitken, the managing editor of Rotary Club Down Under House received the “Service Above Self Award”. Afternoon was free and we got the chance to practice for our group’s presentation for Sunday morning. With our Rock and Roll attires, we met up with RC Burwood at 4:30 pm for drinks and “pica-pica.” Boarded the bus, together with the other Rotarians up we went to the venue at 5:45 pm. We were seated separately and I was assigned at the table of DG Marilyn and Sps. Dudley, Alex Buchanan and Sps. Jo, together with John Konrads. It was a sumptuous dinner of ribs or fish, with night long dances to the tunes of rock and roll. What a great night with Rotarians all in their fantastic and stylish costumes.
March 20 - Again, we were all up early and already in our Philippine costume and headed for breakfast at 7:0am. We were at the venue by 8:45am and stayed at the green room to wait for our team’s presentation time. We did our presentation at around 9:30am and ended it with a malong dance number.
This was followed by more inspirational talks and the 2012 conference presentation by DGE David Cook of Lower Blue Mountains. Afterwhich, brunch was served. The last part of the conference was a report on resolutions by Barry Thompson, address again by RIPP Bill Boyd and he ended his talk with this message, and I quote “the world doesn’t need more celebrities, it needs more heroes, people who are willing to stand up to their principles,” unquote. Finally, it was Conference flag handover and tribute and accolades to DG Marilyn Mercer for a very successful District Conference .
All bags packed and with wonderful memories of Bathurst, we, together with the Taiwan Team headed back to Penrith. All were “Koalas” once we hit off the road. Thanks again to Daniel Kellie for the ride. (Arleen)
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