LAST MEETING 18/03/2010

Dear Friends,

LAST MEETING - 18th March, 2010

Family Fellowship Meet hosted by Rtn. Dilip Shah and Ann Sandhya Shah was certainly a class apart. A new milestone in hospitality was created by Shahs'. Nearly 40 persons enjoyed the fellowship. Those who did not come missed out in a big way. Italy was flown into their house for the evening which lasted till 11.30 p.m. Spirits of RCBM soared so high that no other spirits were called for.

President showed a beautiful DVD on Polio - A Short Film which was nominated for Oscar last year. It is Rotary's polio efforts and the video has been filmed in collaboration with Google.org.

Rtn. Rachna, Rtn. Ashish and family put in lot of efforts to make it more entertaining with Quiz and Tambola. The food was so good that everyone wanted to say Yeh Dil Mange More - Dilip you need to think about our request.

Kindly find three pictures of fellowship below.

NEWS MAKER

Hearty Congratulations to SiddharthVrajesh Shah for being selected for short term IYE for France. Congratulations to proud parents as well.

IMPORTANT - NEXT MEETING - 25/03/2010 - Dinner Meeting - Hotel Surya Palace

1. Two new Members will be inducted into Rotary fold - (i) Sudhir Sethi & (ii) Mrs. Leena Smart.
2. Briefing Session by Chairman Alok Desai about PETS & SETS.
3. Yet another polio patient from Dediapada camp has been admitted for operation - Ankita Bharat Vasava. She will be operated tomorrow. Don't you think friends it is our earnest duty to care for these underserved ones? - That's the real Rotary Spirit. Arpan welcomes you at your convenient time... A cup of teach is guaranteed if it is between 3.30 to 5.30 p.m.

REMEMBER it is a dinner meeting so all please come to welcome new members and plan for upcoming PETS / SETS.

Dr. Manoj Desai - Bulletin Editor

METRO MUSING 22

Dear Friends,

Board of Directors' Meeting was held at PP Sunil Vakil's residence on 3rd March, 2010 in which 9 members remained present. President concluded the meeting with sincere thanks to Ann Nanda and PP Sunil Vakil . Gist of the same is as under:

PETS / SETS PROGRAMME - 4TH APRIL

• Discussed about preparation for District Event - PETS & SETS - Central Zone under Chairmanship of AG Alok Desai. Final discussion on 25th March in the regular meeting at Hotel Surya Palace.
• It was decided that we need about 10-12 Volunteers for the event.
• The venue for the same will be Hotel Surya Palace on 4th April from 9.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
• The Logistics for PETS - Registration charges - Rs.350 per participant as decided by the District (spouses free). [Rs.100 per participant will be given in the next Rotary year to the club by DG 2010-11]. Rs. 8000 - Rs.10,000 will be the expense from Club budget.
• Programme has been sent by DGE Devang and DT Ashokbhai. Separate programme for spouses is also planned.
• First intimation will go from Host Club President to Members of Faculty (already executed four days back).
• Personal calls to Faculty and Presidents (E) by AG(E) Pinky and PE (P) Premal.

ATMANIRBHAR CAMP

• Mega Camp is to be held on 23rd to 25th April at Chhotaudepur / Pavijetpur (with Shroff Foundation) and on 26th to 28th April at Godhra (with Rajesh Zaveri).
• Premal Smart will arrange a meeting with Shroff Foundation Social Workers for Planning, Advertisement, etc.
• We need Volunteers for administration of the camp. The suggested names are: Sharmishtha Desai / Pratima & Anil Bordavekar / Nileshbhai Patel / Vijay Bhatt / Sonal & Alok Desai / Nandkishor / Utkarsh / Manisha R. Bhatt / Meenaben Kothari.
• We also need Doctors for the camp.

MARCH - Literacy Month

It is decided to donoate books to the Library of M.P. Patel High School, Dashrath where we have formed Interact Club 'Divine.'

In the last two years the club has got Rs.45,000 - Rs.50,000 as admission fees from new members. It was decided to invest the same in FD to build a corpus.

IMPORTANT NEWS

• Accounts for last year (2008-09) have been passed in BoD and then in the General Body.
• Our Project Sanjeevani is covered (with photo) in the March 2010 issue of The Rotary News.
• Our Rotaract Member Ms. Niyati who went to Sri Lanka as a GSE Team Member has come back and will be invited to our Club for giving her impressions.
• Three boys from Interact Club 'Divine' participated in RYLA at Jetpur, Saurashtra.
• We are hosting a District Event - PETS / SETS of Central Zone on 4th April, 2010.

Polio Patient Kantaben Jivabhai will be discharged tomorrow (6th day) after two successful operations. She would have appreciated if Members would have shown their care and concern as per our earlier discussions.

Dr. Manoj Desai

Bulletin Editor