Given that two thirds of GP visits are concerned with mental health, and you can feel the stress rising as we head into the festive season, here's the top 10 mental health tips courtesy of a certain scribe;

 

 

Our intrepid reporter Charmaine noticed this "can do" Rotary club on the Queensland border. 

 

 

 

 

Not easy to have a cross border Rotary Club. Face to Face meetings have come down to straddling a marquee over the barriers on the QLD/NSW border and having Pizza delivered by Earth and Sea Pizza Coolangatta.

A BIG thanks to Marilyn and Tony for hosting the club Christmas party on Friday night. It was a lovely evening, with some surprise guests and don't some of our members crib up well!

 

The beautiful Shannon with mine host Tony. 

The South African contingent took this snap..with a springbok photobomber 

Michelle's pretty good at taking selfies...

Fiona, Mike and Lesley (where are the sherbets? ..under the table?)

Side note...our mate Dave W graciously donated a painting of his favourite monarch to Fiona's office. She's ecstatic. (The monarch..... not Fiona 😃)

Dave, celebrating the dispatch of painting with a glass of vino collapso ....and new mum Kate, and friends. 

Bob, Trudi and Di. Love the shirt Bob. 

Great to see John and Lol W at the party ....wow...tartan tablecloths (? ) a special treat for a certain scribe (?)

Grandfather Phillip with Charmaine and the amazing Freeman folks who put on the spread. 👏

 

 

 

Miss Daisy stole the show at Friday's meeting, a super smart ambassador dog for Smart Pups Assistance Dogs for Special needs children, with her best mate Robi.

 

Club members might recall Robi as a regular Kombi van supporter of our Surf Show and Shine event.  

 

While dogs and babies cannot talk (and that's why they are considered so cute and adorable !!) we were found out that Miss Daisy had just completed writing another fund-raising book with illustrations by Frankie. What a clever girl.

 

 

 

Rotary's newest member Geoff was inducted on Friday which gave our President Wendy another opportunity to put on the jewellery ...getting to be a regular thing. Welcome to Geoff and Di.

Not sure what the collective noun is for project managers...here is Peter D introducing Geoff to the club, with glowing references.😀

Things are moving at IFYS, with both Dan and now Clare moving on to greener pastures. We're looking forward to meeting our newest corporate member in the next few weeks. 

 

Also sad to let you know the Errol has resigned from the club (but not Rotary👍) and continues to contribute to the community through his efforts at Buderim. We wish them both well.

North shore community centre was the venue for Saturday morning workshop/ presentation of the great work that Rotary Australia World Community Services (RAWCS) does around our region. A big thanks to Mike and the team for coordinating this, and the club team for the morning tea. 

We've placed the containers at the THRIVE centre (thanks Noel & Mal) and in the New Year we'll be starting on shaping the new centre, to Kerry %& Tamara's specification. Meanwhile a BIG thanks to Joe Natoli and District for their contributions to the project. So soon Kerry & family will have their garage back and can start to think about New Year plans. 

 

We've hit a few snags on the way, which always makes things interesting, so stay tuned to find out how you can help..