Our Fellowship Chairman today was Rtn Francesco and our Sergeant-at-Arms was PE Thomas. Our Sergeant-at-Arms managed to collect $470 between the raffle and fines.

Today President Tobias announced that the RI Convention would be held from 11th to14th of June 2006 at Copenhagen and Malmo. While the District Installation will be held on 22 July (Sat) at Hongkong International Trade and Exhibition Centre at Kowloon Bay, our club will reserve one table for members.

PP George organized a community service programme for students of the HK Spastic Association School in Tai Po yesterday. The programme provided 12 kids to fish for two hours. Most of them got fish and were happy. Afterwards, the kids were brought back to the school to cook the fish.

PE Thomas reported that the last session of the English Dialogue Session would be held on 24th June (Sat) at noon time. The students will have performance and welcome our members to attend.

The speaker of today was Ms. Ellen McNally. Her topic was "Turning a Passion into Community Service - How 11 HK writers compiled a successful collection of Children's stories." The collection includes stories by: Sam Jam, Tony Lee, Laura Ros, Christine Morgan, Eva Ng, Nirmala Nagarajan, Shane Sakhrani, Arlene Brenda Siagian, Ellen McNally, Maxine Shaw, Ruchita Malhotra.

"The writers involved in this project had the idea of composing a book of short stories for children to raise money for Friends Unlimited, an organisation which supports underprivileged people in Hong Kong. This wonderful charity provides educational tutoring, children's leisure activities and small business mentoring as well as a range of other services. And it's wonderful that several local businesses and professionals have supported the project with their sponsorship." -- Nury Vittachi

Ellen said the book sold very well in book store and she was happy that people love all the stories in the book. While we bought 2 books for raffle; we would, in addition, buy more for the students involved in the English Dialogue Session as a gift.