Our first meeting for the year 2010-2011 was held on 11th September 2010 at Valpark Chinese Restaurant at 3.25 pm.
Present at the meeting were 19 members and 5 guests.

President Tara welcomed members and guests to the meeting and expressed enthusiasm to serve as president of the Inner Wheel Club of St. Augustine.

A very meaningful Invocation
“Father, Mother, God “by Maya Angelou,was done by Halima Boodoo.

President Tara made tribute to deceased members PP Indra Seetaram and PP Geeta Swarath and she expressed condolences to Manju and Mrs. Hassanali for the passing of their sisters.
“People need People; Friends need Friends by Styna -Rice

Apologies- Manju, PP Savi, Ursula,
PP Ayesha, Liloutie and Carolyn.

PP Juliana gave a brief history about the Inner Wheel Club.

President Tara launched her project for 2010-2011 which is Encouraging Reading, Promoting Literacy and Good Health

Chosen to begin this exercise is the Spring Village Hindu Primary School. President Tara introduced the Principal Mrs. Susan Ragoonanan. Mrs Rogoonanan spoke with passion about her school and students who came from a depressed area and that such a project will have a lasting impression on the children. She thanked the Club for our consideration. Presentation of Books were made to the Principal Mrs. Susan Ragoonanan by Secretary Geeta .

Dr. Vidya Gyan, VP spoke briefly about her intentions to help the children in terms of health.

Ms. Ruby Ramdial introduced our guest speaker Ms. Susan Roach Financial Services Ombudsman of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago. Ms. Roach distributed packages relating to banking and insurance and spoke briefly regarding same also of Clico Investments re the budget.
Presentation of Books were made to Ms. Susan
Roach by PP Rose.

Pallavi Shah President of The International Inner Wheel Club has declared that the theme for this year is Commit with “Conviction, Compassion and Consistency”

Unesco is a member of The Inner Wheel Club and has chosen 8th September 2010 as “Literacy Day”

Handing Over Speech from President Flor

Feature Speaker, Mrs Occah Seapaul, Incoming President Tara and her new board, specially invited guests, other Inner wheel members, friends. Good afternoon.  I am indeed honoured and humbled to have served as your President 2009-2010. We have had a good year not the best as I would have liked but nonetheless it was a good year filled with friendship and service to the community.  We were able to bring hope and help those less fortunate. Our service to the community included but not limited to Haiti’s donation $10,000, children needed medical surgeries abroad and donation to Rise Up Center   I am not one to make a lengthy speech so we have prepared a video to show my year in review. In closing, I would like to thank all the members who always responded to my call for assistance. I would like to make special mention of some members. To Vidya, P.P.Katy and P.P.Sita for rendering your home to host meetings. To all members who have assisted me in making my year a resounding success I am eternally grateful.

President Flor’s Year 2009-2010

Our February meeting for the year 2009-2010 was held on February 6th 2010 and was held at Valpark Chinese Restaurant. The meeting started at 3.30 p.m

President Florrie welcomed members and guests. She stated that since the Rotary Carnival Fete was being held the following weekend, she decided to move the meeting a week earlier. She was happy to see the members who made the effort to attend the meeting nonetheless.

A beautiful and inspiring invocation was done by P.P. Bianca.

Apologies: PP. Savi, P.P.Marina, Ursula, Sheila, Geeta and P.P. Ayesha

P.P. Bianca read the minutes and it was confirmed by P.P. Judith and seconded by P.P. Carolyn.

Haiti Donation
President Florrie updated members that she was trying to obtain a donation for Haiti and had approached several members. However, after giving it much thought she felt that Haiti needed a substantial contribution given their recent situation. As a result, she asked members to give their opinion on this matter. All members present were in agreement and it was decided that a $10,000 will be paid towards a Haiti fund and will be credited through the Rotary International Fund that was set up specifically for Haiti.

Correspondence
Our club received greetings from International Inner Wheel through board member Carole Young.. P.P Carole has been in contact with the Club and commented on the devastation of Haiti and how it has made us all reflect on our blessings. She also shared with the Club their celebrations in New Zealand for International Inner Wheel Day and wanted to hear more about our celebration for this day.

Additionally, P.P. Carole has indicated if we would like the International Incoming President for next year, Pallavi Shah to visit our country she will be more than happy to do so. IIP Pallavi is from India and have been accepting invitations to visit countries where there are Inner Wheel Clubs. In order to make her visit worthwhile, we were also encouraged to look at contacting other members club within the region. P.P Judith has been in contact with P.P. Carole to give her feedback on this matter.

The Club also received a thank you note and a Club newsletter from Innerwheel Club of Anand in India. P.P. Sita has assisted this Club in providing information about our projects. The Club send their greetings and a note of appreciation

Anyone for Tobago?
President Florrie would like members to note that the Club will
be organising a trip to Tobago during the month of March. Further details will be given at the next meeting.

Tea and Fashion Show
Our next big event will be a Tea and Fashion show. Further details will be given at the next meeting.

Dinner, Movie and Friends
We are having a girlfriend “lime” to go and see “Its complicated” starring Meryl Streep, Alec Baldin and Steve Martin on Tuesday 30th at 6.30 p.m. P.P. Judith will get tickets on Monday…Please call her. We are meeting 5.15 p.m near the food court by Caribbean Cinema in Trincity. It is a comedy so come ready to laugh…Walk with your id card ladies…its 18 years and over.

Dates to note

• International Women’s Day Tea will be hosted on Sunday 7th March 2010 at the Hyatt Hotel.
• Rotary District Conference in April

Dues…Dues…Dues
Dues are now due…please pay up!!

Next meeting
Our next meeting is on Saturday 13th March which is an Elections meeting. This meeting will be hosted at PP Sita’s home.