Come along and celebrate the return of Rotary to Clermont, with 21 new members!!

We are all looking forward to the club charter date - Saturday 11th June 2022. Please everyone pop over & “Like” 🤙 the Pending Rotary Club of Clermont page to stay abreast with what the club is doing. 

The bank details are:

 Emerald Rotary Club

Bsb: 034-181

Account number: 790165

$35.00 per person (Children Free)Please put in the description Last name and ClermontPlease email your name to President Courtney Murnane clermont@rotary9560.org

NB:  in the flyer below there is an error in the bank details.  It is 181 NOT 182 in the BSB.

Four of their members joined us at the Mackay Conference and made lots of new friends, as well as picking up some Rotary education. "We all meet so many interesting people and clubs. Many project ideas that we would love to bring to the community."

Courtney Murnane, Kimberly Turner, Sue Finger, Bradley Valler were at the conference. 

Laura Crichton, Secretary of the Pending Rotary Club of Clermont will be happy to hear that you will be joining them for the night and over the weekend:  clermont@rotary9560.org 

Laura says, "I’m excited to see Rotary returning to Clermont after a 25 years absence. I was previously in Lions but the Clermont Lions Club folded in 2014 due to lack of members. So we are really looking forward to meeting everyone on Charter Night."

Bit of history of Rotary in Clermont. The first Clermont Rotary Club was formed around 1967. One of its earliest projects was the restoration of an Aveling Porter steam engine that was used to help shift buildings to the new township site after Clermont was almost destroyed by the 1916 Flood. The engine ended up at goldmine site at Miclere and was quietly rusting away after being decommissioned. The engine’s owner handed the engine over to Clermont Rotary for restoration. My father, Jim Crichton helped the Rotarians salvage the engine from Miclere. The engine had to be pulled through the scrub by a bulldozer and loaded on to the back of a truck. My father was tasked with steering the engine through the scrub while it was being pulled along by the bulldozer!!!! The engine was brought back to Clermont and underwent restoration at Ernie Spring’s saw mill. Ernie was a Rotarian and one time owner of the engine. The Rotarians restored the engine back to working condition! The engine was on display at Centenary Park for a couple of decades before being taken out to the Clermont Historical Centre where it was again restored to working condition. The engine was fired up last year and driven around the CHC car park during the CHC open day. If it wasn’t for the original Clermont Rotary Club, this precious part of Clermont’s history may have been lost.

Of the buildings that withstood the force of the floodwaters and relocated to the new townsite, three were pubs! The pubs still had to trade as they were being relocated, to keep their licence.

Please enjoy reading the attached Media Statement released to celebrate the Chartering of the Rotary Club if Clermont.