One of the great joys of becoming the most fabulous Rotary club in the known world is that we are talked about everywhere and are a club of choice for visitors from across the globe.
Our It's Vegas, Baby Internet-based raffle clearly is the better mousetrap that has caused the world to beat a path to our door.
Latest visitors drawn to our door are the super Aussie-friendly Brian and June Bragg, both members of the Wetherill Park Rotary Club in the western Sydney suburbs.
Brian is immediate past president of the club, who fled Australia the minute his year was over.
In the picture, Brian and Las Vegas West President Bernie Hunt swap banners. Our club president envies Brian for achieving his title of past president and for lighting out for the territory as soon as he could. Bernie has only 46 weeks to go, but hey, who's counting?
June is treasurer of Wetherill Park and both are Paul Harris Fellows.
Among our other guests who dropped in to say g'day to Brian and June was PDG Roy York of the Las Vegas Fremont Rotary Club. Roy has visited the land Down Under several times, including with Rotary groups. If reincation is true, he hopes to come back as an Australian.
Brian says he and June left Sydney the day after he handed over to a new president. They've spent the last six weeks wandering in western Canada and Alaska, then dropping into Las Vegas for a week to check out the delights of Sin City. They're visiting the Grand Canyon and then heading on for a week or so with friends in California before heading home.
The Wetherill Park club is similar to the Rotary Club of Las Vegas West. It was chartered in 1993 and is situated in the western suburbs of a big city. It focuses its energies on aid to local schoolchildren.
We are even roughly about the same size, though Wetherill Park is a wee bit larger, at 35 members. But our membership drive this year is set to propel us past them. Brian is membership chair of his club, so it's an international Olympics of membership, then.
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