Rotary Club of Kariong Somersby

25/03/2026

Shaping up up to be a great night for this Saturday's Trivia, many prizes to be won including :
❇️ Diddgeridoo made by rangers who work on the land surrounding Melsonby Ranger Station in far north Queensland
❇️Activate Foods: $100 gift voucher
❇️GPK: $50 voucher
❇️Cresthaven Meats: $50 gift voucher
❇️Waratah Dining: $50 gift voucher
❇️East Coast: $150 gift voucher (Factory tour, juice variety pack, spring water pack)
❇️Mangrove Mountain Memorial Club: Golf voucher for 9 holes for 2 people (including cart hire)
𝙋𝑳𝙐𝑺 𝒎𝙖𝒏𝙮 𝙢𝒐𝙧𝒆 𝒑𝙧𝒊𝙯𝒆𝙨 𝙤𝒏 𝒕𝙝𝒆 𝒏𝙞𝒈𝙝𝒕 ! 𝑪𝙤𝒎𝙚 𝙖𝒏𝙙 𝙟𝒐𝙞𝒏 𝒖𝙨 𝙛𝒐𝙧 𝙖 𝙛𝒖𝙣 𝙣𝒊𝙜𝒉𝙩 𝙖𝒏𝙙 𝙧𝒂𝙞𝒔𝙚 𝙢𝒖𝙘𝒉 𝒏𝙚𝒆𝙙𝒆𝙙 𝙛𝒖𝙣𝒅𝙨 𝙛𝒐𝙧 𝙉𝒂𝙧𝒂𝙧𝒂 𝑽𝙖𝒍𝙡𝒆𝙮 𝙃𝒊𝙜𝒉

08/03/2026

An impressive speaker joined our breakfast 🍳 meeting on Friday.

Phil Bligh, a founding member of the Coasts infamous "5 Lands Walk'.

The walk began in 2006 with 700 walkers. Last year there were 20,000 walkers supported by 700 volunteers 🙋‍♂️ 🙋‍♀️ WOW 🎉

The "5 Lands Walk" is a festival to highlight Sports and Art united with Aboriginal culture.

Join in the celebrations of its 20 year anniversary.

Follow the link to book your participation. 🚶‍♂️ 🚶‍♀️

www.5landswalk.com.au

05/03/2026

Hi community, The "5 Lands Walk" is approaching quickly. Organiser Phil Bligh is our guest speaker this week at our regular 7am Friday Breakfast. Guests are welcome. So, if you are interested to attend and hear of the changes for this years walk on June 20th, please comment below.
Here is the link for more info about this cultural walk - https://www.5landswalk.com.au/ #:~:text=Many%20Cultures-,One%20Walk,festive%20atmosphere%20at%20each%20space.

The winter solstice whale homage on the Central Coast. A coastal walk along 10kms of beach and headlands. Art, culture music and celebration on Darkinjung Country.

04/03/2026

Who loves a fun Trivia night?
It's always a great night of Entertainment with lots of prizes to be won on the night. Please come and support this great cause fund raising for Niagara Park High School students off to Cape York for an Indigenous Immersion project.
Book a table for 6 or 8 or make new friends by joining a table.
Booking is easy with the QR code in the flyer attached.
Who would like to join us?

02/03/2026

Another successful food run by our volunteers Gavin and G3 keeping Coast Shelter stocked up to support those in need
in our community.
If you can afford a little bit of time, reach out to our club to see where you can help 🫶

20/02/2026

Imagine living with a Hare Lip or Cleft Pallet?
Neil and Lynette Silver have changed the lives of over 108 babies, children, teens and adults through "Buy A Smile" non for profit organisation.
In most countries, correction is possible.
But in Borneo most families would not have earnt the cost in their lifetime!
"Buy a Smile" donations make life changing differences.

Click this link to learn more and make your donation. 🌟
https://lynettesilver.com/sandakan/community-projects/the-hare-lip-project/

10/02/2026

Here's our guys, Gavin & Reg, off to the Second Bite warehouse and cold store in Penrith. They bring back groceries and give it to The Kariong Neighbourhood centre. They then give it out to the needy on Wednesday in Kariong.
It's the little things that help community.
If anyone is interested in helping Rotaty Kariong Somersby in this way, PM us. 👍

05/02/2026

Dr Sarah Crowe had ingeniously designed a portable eye testing kit.
She's is looking for funding.
To read more, follow the QR code in the images.
One billion people worldwide are visually impaired simply because they lack access to glasses.
This is a cause worth supporting!

29/01/2026

FREE B&E ROLLS 🧇🥤come and join us this morning at Mingara Athletes Track with Gina & Matty from STAR FM. 📣
Eastcoast Beverages are here giving away cool drinks including their refreshing "Lemonade & Mint".
Congratulations to the winners of a Free 12 month gym membership.
🌟 Rotary supporting our community ❤️

15/12/2025

13,802 donated books heading to a new school library at Port Moresby Grammer School that had No Books to fill the shelves 😳.
Volunteering with Rotary is very rewarding 👍

15/12/2025

During a visit to the Port Moresby Grammar School in August I learned from the Principal that the school had a beautiful library, but no library books. In her words, “books are hard to come by in PNG”.
Confident we could assist the school, Kariong Somersby Rotary Club implemented the ‘Library Books for Port Moresby Grammar School’ project … and reached out to the community to help us with books suitable to the education of K - Y12 students.
The response from the community has been beyond all expectations. The project goal was to provide 6,000 books.
In the past week 4 shipping pallets, containing 13,082 books left Phillip House in Kariong, bound for the students and staff at Port Moresby Grammar School. The school’s Principal is overwhelmed !
On behalf of our Rotary Club, I extend sincere and heartfelt thanks to everyone in the community who contributed to this magnificent outcome … friends, neighbours, teachers, librarians, schools and others.
Books are still flowing into Phillip House and it is with some regret that we have to call time on this great project. The school will now have the books it needs, with some to spare.
As unusual (and ungrateful) as it may seem, we are respectfully asking the community not to bring anymore books to Phillip House.
Once again, to everyone concerned …. THANK YOU for your magnificent contribution to the educational welfare of the students at Port Moresby Grammar School.

Kind regards,

Paul Carroll
President
Kariong Somersby Rotary

13/12/2025

STOLEN from West Gosford, one of our Club marquees. If you see it around please send a message as when they open it and realise it has our name on it they will probably dump it. It is used for our fundraising events and will cost the Club considerable funds to replace. As a NFP this is a low act at Christmas.