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INVOCATION
For Good Food
for Good Fellowship
and the Opportunity to
Serve through Rotary
WE GIVE THANKS
ADVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR
Australians all let us rejoice,
For we are young and free,
We've golden soil and wealth for toil,
Our home is girt by sea,
Our land abounds in natures gifts,
Of beauty rich and rare,
In history's page, let every stage
Advance Australia Fair!
In joyful strains then let us sing,
"Advance Australia Fair!"
FOUR WAY TEST
1. Is it the TRUTH? 2. Is it FAIR to all concerned? 3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? 4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Posted by Roger Taylor on 19/1/2017 Moe eBulletin Issue No: 28
Next Meeting: Monday 23 January 2017
Rotary Club of Moe meets at 6.00 for 6.30pm
at RSL 63-65 Albert St. Moe
For Apologies and Guests please contact:
kishormanani@hotmail.com
or
Phone: 5134 1677
by 9.30 am on the Friday before this meeting.
Program: Guest Speaker
Andrew McCarthy - Gippsland Solar
All projects, scholars, and vocational training teams funded by global grants work toward specific goals in one or more of the Foundation’s six areas of focus:
MARCH:
WATER AND SANITATION MONTH
FOCUS: Provision of safe, clean drinking water to decrease world-wide poverty, while improving social stability.
Len’s Log 35
The annual Rotary Club of Moe Charity Golf Day on Monday 20th March was a great success. The winners overall were Matt’s Mates, (Matt Wilkinson’s team sponsored by his mum PP Di Wilkinson) for the third year in a row. What a fantastic result. Matt and his team have certainly mastered the three player Ambrose game.
Unfortunately the President’s Hackers started well and after 9 holes were competitive but deteriorated on the second 9 holes to finish in the middle of the field. There will be more practice for next year!
The raffle was won by Brett Farmer which was also a terrific result.
All involved worked very hard all day and we should be grateful to the Golf Day Committee and volunteers who put in such efforts before and on the day.
We will know the financial results in a week or so and the Board will discuss the application of funds in the community and beyond.
Latrobe City and our Playground sub-committee have been working on the draft plans for the playground and Alan Bishop will be speaking about any member input to the draft designs at the next RSL meeting in two weeks.
This coming Monday we will be meeting at SafeTech and a meal afterwards at the Tabaret at the Race club. Peter Kingsbury tells us that we should meet at Safetech at 6.00for 6.15. Dinner will be a la carte at the RSL with numbers to Kishor by Sunday afternoon.
We had two prospective members at the Golf Day who saw the “social side” of the club with enjoyment.
Guests: Gary van Driel (CEO Latrobe City), Hutchy’s grandson James and Bruce’s partner Irene.
Gippsland Rotary Golf Classic 2017: Monday 20 March
Ticket-selling roster commences this Thursday, Friday and Saturday at K Mart.
Wendy to forward the 5 updated attachments relating to sponsorship and registrations.
Note that our golf day follows the Labour day holiday so no Rotary the week beforehand.
General -
Treasurer’s Report – second half-year fees of $95.00 are now due and payable.
Service – Botanic gardens final playground design is expected mid-late March.
Bowel Scan – Kishor has 30 kits for club distribution.
Guest Speaker:
Gary Van Driel alerted to the club of his background which indicated that he was a civil engineer with 35 years in local government across various Victorian shires and cities.
He cited local government as the best opportunity of creating change and mentioned that in Latrobe alone, the local council provides 80 services directly to the local community.
Latrobe City has a budget of $126m with an operating budget of $100m. The city employs 540 equivalent full time roles, although approximately 1000 people are employed when part tim fractions are included.
Getting to Know Our District 9820 District Governor
Lynne Westland
Since we are in the second half of the Rotary year with Lynne having visited all clubs and actively preparing for the District Conference in Hobart, this is a timely reminder of Lynne's background
Lynne joined Rotary in 1999 and is currently an active member of the Rotary Club of Casey, being instrumental in its charter in 2012.
At district level, Lynne has served on the Youth Exchange Program for 5 years, and was chairman for 3 years. She has been chairman of Rotary Youth Program of Enrichment, led a Group Study Exchange team to Denmark in 2005 and was an observer on an Interplast trip to Labasa, Fiji in 2012, a highlight of he Rotary career.
Lynne became district chairman of GSE in 2011 and has served on the District Foundation Committee and also on the District Training Team. Lynne and husband Trevor have 6 children and 10 grand- children.
Saturday 11 February - Table Tennis Barbecue Monday 13 February - Rotarian Behind the Badge Thursday 16 February - Morwell RC Interclub Visit Monday 20 February - No meeting due to last week's schedule Wednesday 23 February - Rotary celebrates 111 years of service Monday 28 February - Club Assembly
NB: March 13 - Labour Day
March 20 - Gippsland Rotary Golf Classic
DISTRICT EVENTS: February 12 - Rotary Foundation Meeting March 3-5 - Multi District PETS
Allan Ormond was President and Jack Skelton Secretary. The Board reluctantly increased the Annual Subscription to $24 per year. Community Service had an active year with a further 150 trees planted in Lloyd Street. Community Service Chairman, Neil Tresidder, thanked the Moe Thirds Football Club and the City Council for their assistance with the tree planting. A Paddy’s Market was organised at the Moe Trade Fair and proved most successful, both financially and in terms of fellowship. A band of Rotarians, led by Tom Allen, painted the interior of Sunny Creek School at Old Gippstown while a fellowship meeting was held on the banks of the Latrobe River – Did anyone end up in the drink? Vocational Service arranged for” two fine lads “from Moe to attend the RYLA Camp.
Internationally the Club was most active. Brian Handley spoke to the Club, after his return from his year as a Foundation Technical Training Awardee in Kansas, giving Moe Rotarians an appreciation of International Youth Programs sponsored by Rotary. In March a tour was arranged for a visiting American Group Study Exchange Team. The Club had two students involved in the New Zealand Youth Exchange Scheme and completed the program to send bicycles to Rabaul, New Guinea, which had commenced in 1970-71. Ten bicycles were successfully dispatched. The Club through PDG Allan McHardy, arranged for Moe Plumber, Eric Tabuteau, to become a member of a FAIM team working on a project in New Guinea. Membership 41 Gained 7 Lost 8 Attendance 92.18%.
Pat and Mick where on a Trans-Atlantic Flight from JFK to Dublin on a brand new 4 engine Boeing 707 expected to take 6hours. One hour out of JFK the Captain announced that they had an engine failure but the plane was perfectly safe but the journey would take an extra 1 hour.
Sometime later a second engine failed, same procedure except that Captain now said the flight would take an extra 3 hours. After the “third” engine failed and a further 3 hours was added to the journey Pat said to Mick “I sure hope that we don’t lose another engine otherwise we will be up here all night”.
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