RYDA - Rotary Youth Driver Awareness A program developed to provide school students (of driver learner age) information on driving, purchasing, insuring & maintaining a motor vehicle. RYAG (Rotary Youth Agriculture) Aquaculture Program April 2009 Nomination Opening date 5th February Nomination Closing Date … For Students Years 10/11, Cost $250 per student Aquaculture, the farming of Fish, Oysters, Prawns, Shellfish etc is a fast growing industry both on the coast and inland. Great Lakes Rotary Club initiated RYAG Aquaculture in 2006 when 16 students from Wee Waa, Quirindi, Walcha, Armidale, Coffs Harbour, Port Macquarie, Laurieton and Forster areas participated in a very sucessful program that introduced students in years 10/11, who were considering a career in this exciting fast growing industry. People to People This is a home hosting opportunity for overseas students and their teachers on an organised tour of Australia to experience a weekend in an Australian home. The traveling students are matched with students from local schools as closely as possible. The Rotary Club coordinates the arrangements and is given funds by the tour organisers. These fund are then distributed to the schools involved and other Rotary community projects.

The Festival, set for is for the enjoyment of residents and visitors of any age who like the era of the Swinging Sixties and Seventies with its distinctive styles of fashion, music, entertainment and vehicles such as Harley-Davidsons, open sports cars and panel vans for the drive-in movies or carrying the long board to the beach. It is held in March/April each year Steve Wines, of Great Lakes Rotary that is sponsoring the Festival, said, “The large number and variety of local sporting and recreational clubs that are staging events and competitions means that there will be activities going on during each day to suit everyone". “Then on the three evenings of the weekend led by Club Forster, there will be music, singing and dancing performances of the Baby Boomers’ era at all the local licensed clubs". In 2007 these included the Donnie Sutherland’s ‘Sounds of Jukebox’ extravaganza, the Beatels and the Beatnix sound-a-like groups and ‘Forever Everly’ a tribute to the Everly Brothers. Bowelscan Rotary Clubs across Australia conduct an annual sale of testing kits (in March) to determine if a person has a likelyhood of having bowel cancer. The testing kits are purchased from Rotary Club stands for a nominal charge and the completed tests are returned to local participating pharmacies. The kits are forwarded to a pathology lab and analysed. The purchaser is informed by letter of the result and if positive is referred to their doctor for treatment. A positive result does not always prove to be a result of cancer and a negative test is not a guarantee that there is not a cancer but each year a number of poeple are sucessfully diagnosed and treated. The test kits are recommended but not limited to people over 50 years of age. Participating pharmacies and pathology laboratories all donate or provide their services at cost to this not for profit project.