Another festival of parking!
What a wonderful late autumn day for the PMM at Heathcote. Despite the major redevelopment of the lower lands, forcing those setting up to be innovative with the entry/exit ways, and a significant loss of parking places and the lack of volunteers for the afternoon shift, yet once again AxR achieved miracles in parking management for probably the biggest crowd ever to attend a market day.
Coming in from Applecross village, and elsewhere, the road verges were packed out, and unfortunately, this lead to more 'no entry' point signage as our parking areas were fully loaded.
Thank goodness this is our last market until September when the 6 weekly markets return for the spring into summer session.
I will be suggesting that for future markets we establish a club roster system for the hard yards/early starts etc of the storage area set ups, and returns, with all able bodied members to be part of this process. Bottom line would be that if you can't be present then you must nominate someone to take your place.
Two Points -
1. The same OLD, same olds have been carrying this role for years and we need some help with it, given that is the core basis for us making the project the success that it is.
2. Applecross Rotary needs to have more members skilled at what the role involves and give some of our older team a break from the duties.
Melville Cockburn Chamber of Commerce Awards Evening.
This was held at South of Perth Yacht Club last Thursday evening and was a great success, with over 150 attending the Chamber's prestige event.
Applecross, Melville and Attadale presented an Award for the best business in the Sustainability and Environmental Impact category, and which was won by a Cockburn based business TIDY UP. They do an outstanding job of keeping as much recyclables out of landfill as possible, working on discarded items and selling through their recycling outlets. We will have them attend a meeting as Guest Speakers as soon as can be fitted in.
The Event also saw the Rotary launch of our Partnership with the MCCC, with Peter McEwen presenting a very well received promotion on the benefits to business of joining with Rotary in our community service work. It certainly helped to open the minds of those attending to the role of Rotary, and we had some fruitful discussions around the topic. Lots more to be done to ensure that we actually make the partnership work, but we are at least underway. Two brochures outlining the partnership are available to help with the Rotary/business alignment. Four attended from Applecross Rotary, three from Melville Rotary and one from Attadale Rotary ... great support for our launch.
Kenn.
