Rotary donates more than $35,700 in a year

The Rotary Club of Umina Beach has announced that it has made donations of over $35,700 during the past year.

Major beneficiaries include the Brisbane Water Secondary College and Peninsula Village.

Past president Mr Geoff Melville presented the donation of a $5645 bladder scanner to the Peninsula Village retirement centre during the year.

Brisbane Water Secondary College agricultural farm received $5500 from the club.

In addition the club provided a $1000 bursary to the high school and raised another $520 through the sale of fluffy toys.

"We also sold Christmas trees, the funds going to the Brisbane Water Secondary College who assisted with manning the sales location," said the club's community services director, Mr Glen Scorer.

Mr Scorer said the club had run a successful program of barbecues at a local hardware store.

"In addition we supported Mary Mac's Place by manning a food collection at a Umina supermarket in the lead up to Christmas," he said.

Outside of the local area, Umina Rotary raised over $11,000 for solar panels on Vakuta Island Papua New Guinea and ran its usual Bowelcare project.

Other payments were made to: Save the Farm, Central Coast Family Support Services; a science and engineering project; RYLA; RYPEN; MUNA; Youth Connections; the Rotary Foundation; and Rotary Foundation End Polio Now.

Newsletter, 22 Jun 2016

Rod Radford, Rotary Club of Umina Beach