Walkerston Rotary

Walkerston Rotary Walkerston Rotary is a local club of volunteers supporting our community and global causes. New members welcome.

Contact us via Facebook or email us to get involved. The Rotary Club of Walkerston is one of the younger - chartered in 1991 - and smaller, clubs of District 9560, with around 15-25 members. Club meetings are held Tuesday nights at Walkerston's oldest pub, the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel. Walkerston Rotary coordinates, as well as supports, many local community event, and the club's main fundraiser - t

he Walkerston Tractor Pull. The club's continuing local community projects are the very successful Little Street Libraries which now has nine well used branches, and also Kerbside Numbering of all of Walkerston residences. Other yearly events initiated by the club are the Pioneer Valley Schools Public Speaking Competition and the yearly Dux Awards presentations at the two local school, as well as the Cliff Andersen Sports Award, the Max Adams Memorial Vocational Award and the Local Community Award. The club also supports other Rotary programs such as Rotary Youth Exchange Program (RYEP), sponsorships to the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) and the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) to name just a few...
Club members, both male and female, are from various walks of life. A good mixture, which makes for good fellowship and excellent club achievements.

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Thanks to the wonderful team of volunteers that helped with the Kerb Numbering this morning and thanks also to the resid...
11/07/2026

Thanks to the wonderful team of volunteers that helped with the Kerb Numbering this morning and thanks also to the resident of McColl St for your generous donation towards our project.
Along the we way we checked out one of Rotary’s Little Library’s, and noted it is due for some maintenance. Our team will be back to take care of this in the near future.

Walkerston Rotary was invited to run the bar at the recent Malta in a Plate event. Thank you Mary-Ann Refalo for your su...
05/07/2026

Walkerston Rotary was invited to run the bar at the recent Malta in a Plate event. Thank you Mary-Ann Refalo for your support that will allow us to do more good in the community.

This coming Saturday 27/06/26, Walkerston Rotary will be painting house numbers on the street kerbs again. This is a Com...
21/06/2026

This coming Saturday 27/06/26, Walkerston Rotary will be painting house numbers on the street kerbs again. This is a Community Service Project to assist Emergency Services find a property quickly when the need arises.
If anyone has a few hours to spare on Saturday morning and can lend a hand, please phone Col on 0418776196.

What an EPIC day we had cleaning up the Council land behind the Walkerston Shopping Centre today. Some of the things we ...
16/05/2026

What an EPIC day we had cleaning up the Council land behind the Walkerston Shopping Centre today. Some of the things we found:
- a wallet (very old) with Drivers License and Credit Cards ~ all expired.
- 7 Shopping Trolleys in various states of disrepair.
- front bumper bar off a Holden Commode
- mudguard - vehicle unknown
- several chairs
- mattress
- split system air conditioner
- sheet of corrugated iron
- old thunder box can
- car tyres and rims.

Thank you to all the volunteers for making it an EPIC event. Thank also to Woolworths for providing lunch and Mackay Regional Council for supplying free dump vouchers.

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