BRINGING youth into a town’s service organisations is a constant challenge, so the Shepparton Rotary Club welcomed some younger guests to dinner last week.
Gap year trainees and young teachers from Shepparton’s Notre Dame College joined Rotarians at their weekly dinner to expose them to the workings and fellowship of a Rotary club.
President of Shepparton Rotary, Joseph Tam, said bringing young people into the fold of the organisation was important to keep the Rotary spirit going.
“This is a very important thing for Rotary,” Mr Tam said.
“We want to keep the Rotary spirit going so we need new blood, new ideas, to keep our club young and rejuvenated and have new ideas and projects.”
Mr Tam said he wanted younger generations to feel welcome at the club, and to show them Rotarians “are ordinary, normal people who have the same objective, and that is to serve our community and at the same time to develop fellowship between our fellow Rotarians and make our community a better place for all.”
Notre Dame sport and PE trainee, Nonie Shipston, who graduated from Year 12 last year and is taking a gap year before a move to La Trobe University in Bendigo in 2022, said the evening was about getting younger people involved in community service.
Nonie was one of five trainees present who had the chance to rub shoulders with Greater Shepparton City councillors Greg James, Anthony Brophy, and Mayor, Cr Kim O’Keeffe and talk leadership and community service.
The Shepparton Rotary Club meets on Tuesdays at 6:20pm at the Peppermill Inn Hotel.
