One of the faces of Hamilton’s Bluff Vineyard, Julia Andrews, laves Canowindra this week as part of a four week Rotary study tour to England.
Mrs Andrews is a member of a four person team of young business and professional people from central and southern NSW.
The team is being sponsored by Rotary and will visit an area to the north of London that includes the historic city of Cambridge.
Team leader is Rotarian, John Roberson, from Wagga Wagga.
Julia moved to Canowindra from Sydney 10 years ago to help her husband establish a vineyard.
Since then she has worked in regional tourism before starting a media consultancy.
An Aboriginal man of the Yorta Yorta Nation, Shane Atkinson has spent most of his working life working in indigenous affairs and community development.
He was one of the founders of the Black Suns, a group that worked for the social-enonomically disadvantaged community in Wagga Wagga.
Jennifer Menchin (her married name is Coombes-Pearce) is a radio broadcaster with 2BS and B-Rock FM in Bathurst.
In 2006 Jennifer won an Australian Commercial Radio Award for news as well as picking up a second award for Best Talk Personality.
Shane White is a Police District Superintendent who resides on a 50 acre property near Young.
Shane started his career as an accountant and spent some time as an undercover detective before taking up his current position.
The team leader, John Roberson, is a retired farmer from Wagga Wagga who has served as a Rotarian for many years.
He is currently a Project Volunteer Coordinator for Rotary Australia World Community Service.
Rotary’s Group Study Exchange program sends young professionals abroad for between four and six weeks to live and learn with professionals in their host country.
The program gives participants the chance to enrich themselves both academically and culturally and the chance to promote international goodwill throughout the global community.