Welcome to our district web site

	Welcome to the 2008-2009 Rotary year.
As you visit the website of District 9650, in Northern New South Wales, it gives both Di and I great pleasure to welcome you to this fantastic part of Australia.From the coast to the Inland, the District encompasses many and varied terrains and topographies from the fantastic coastal beaches of Coffs Harbour and Woolgoolga in the North to Taree and the Great Lakes region in the south.As you traverse the Great Dividing Range you experience the lushness of semi tropical and temperate rainforests and then onto the Western plains with the great cities of Tamworth and Armidale, the more western townships of Narrabri, Moree and Coonabarabran and finally after quite a long hike to the townships of Coonamble and Lightning Ridge. And Rotary is alive and well in the District with 55 Clubs and over 1600 Rotarians, with an emphasis to see this number grow to 2010 in the year 2010. Each Club in the District is autonomous, meeting at different times through the week and participating in a wide range of local, district and international projects. We have adopted as a theme in this 2008-09 year in District 9650 that all Rotarians in the District will work towards “Building Better Communities” – a great goal and one which we know can be achieved. So please come and join us in this exciting year where our International President Dong Kurn Lee has challenged us to work for the children of the world and “Make Dreams Real”.When we as Rotarians are faced with any task that seems too immense to contemplate, there is only one place to begin: and that is the place where we are standing. We begin our work where it can do the most good – and that is in our own community and in District 9650. Welcome to District 9650 where great things happen. DG Ken Hall (Di), Rotary Club of Tamworth District 9650