The Rotary Club of Coffs Harbour South
District 9650

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Our three annual Club projects are:

Bookfest from Saturday, April 10, to Saturday, April 17, 2010 starting 9.00am

Melbourne Cup Sweep for six days before the Melbourne Cup

Bowelscan from Saturday, March 06 to March 13, 2010 at Park Beach Plaza

The Club’s other community projects vary from year to year.

The Club has contributed significant amounts towards the acquisition of an ambulance for that great voluntary organization, St John Ambulance, and also for the running costs of the new patrol boat for Coffs Coastal Patrol, another great voluntary

organization in our community.

The Club's major project each year is the Bookfest

Bookfest is the sale to the public of secondhand books over a full

week in the school holidays in April. This Rotary year the Bookfest

will be at the Exhibition Hall at Coffs Harbour Showground for the

first week of the school holidays in April from Saturday,

April 12, to Saturday, April 19, 2008

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Books are donated by the public and collected by our members all year. We will be holding several drop off days where the public can bring their books to our Col Shelton Rotary Shed at the Coffs Harbour Showground and join us for a sausage sizzle. Dates will be advertised on 2Air FM and in the Advocate.

We are now able to store and sort our books as we

collect them during the course of the year as we

have recently constructed our own Storage Shed in

the grounds of the Coffs Harbour Showground.

Work starts in earnest for our Bookfest in late January with the distribution of flyers and picking up of books from the public and our drop off centres at City Centre Travel Service, Bananacoast Credit Union Branches and Coffs City Printing. Most books will be categorised and sorted at our shed before being moved to the Exhibition Hall for the Bookfest.

The Bookfest provides most of the Club’s funds, is a community service by providing books at reasonable prices to the book loving public and enables educational books to be collected and sent to the Pacific Islands for school students.

To have your books picked up, please phone Peter on 0421 274 520

or Jim on 6652 9827 or 0413 900 138

The Melbourne Cup Sweep

This is run for six days prior to the running of the Melbourne Cup. Tickets are sold at each of the three shopping centres, Park Beach Plaza, Palms Shopping Centre and Centro Toormina Shopping Centre.

Bowelscan

This project involves the sale of bowel

scan kits during the first week in March

at two sites at Park Beach Plaza.

It is a community service that assists

in the early detection of bowel cancer.

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