THE ROTARY Club of Redland Sunrise have named charter member Gail Wallace as the club's president for the next year.
Ms Wallace has held many positions at the club since joining in 2002, including sergeant, vocational director and assistant governor.
She will travel to Vietnam in October with board member Kathy Reimers to inspect past Rotary Club projects and plan for new ones.
Ms Wallace said the club had helped build a water tank for school kids and a house for an elderly woman in a Vietnamese township.
"The school kids used to carry water from home to school with them in farmer's containers that had previously held poison," she said.
"We sent some money over and a husband and wife team built a huge water tank in a week.
"We're going over there to see how it is because they've had rain recently.
"There are a couple of good projects there that we're going to have a look at."
Ms Wallace said the Rotary Club would hold a book fest on October 19 at Thornlands Dance Palais.
The money raised would be donated to the Yalari Foundation which offered secondary school scholarships to Indigenous youth.
Ms Wallace said the club would continue to sponsor a public speaking award at Cleveland District State High School and support other community programs.
The Rotary Club hosts a breakfast on Wednesday mornings at 6.50am in the Thornlands Community Hall.
Ms Wallace said the breakfast meetings are open to the public.
"One or two weeks out of the month we have guest speakers that come and talk about different topics," she said.
"We have a few good cooks that make up a mean breakfast to go along with it."
A pride in workmanship award was given to Monique Scott at the Rotary changeover luncheon.
