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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 3/7/2016 Moe eBulletin Issue No: 6
Next Meeting: Monday 8 August 2016
Rotary Club of Moe meets at 6.00 for 6.30pm
at the Moe RSL, 63-67 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: Bill Ringin
The Apiarist (Bee man)
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:
OCTOBER:
ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MONTH
FOCUS:Promotion of the Rotary Club of Moe within the CBD through the marigold beautification and community awareness projects.
Len’s Log 16
Another busy week as we head into our first Saturday (15th October) in Moore Street for our Rotary Club of Moe Awareness and Marigolds Project.
We will have a strong team present (thanks to all those who have volunteered) with our BBQ set up for a Sausage Sizzle and our Marigold Punnets ready for any takers for a gold coin.
Our town this week has the Moe Cup, with many Rotarians involved in supervising the Parking and possibly doing some betting!
A big sale in the shops with the Moe Traders going strong and then our efforts on Saturday morning in the middle of town.
Our Bali Group through Nathan Harding’s International Committee is off early November and we are raising funds for the new boys’ urinals at the school to replace old and broken toilets. We are also trying to arrange to have one of the girl students assessed for a diagnosis of what might be done for her disability in the future if there is any possibility of treatment.
Later this month we will be having our first Breakfast informal recruitment opportunity meeting at Turn Back Time Café in Moe (at the railway end of Shaw’s arcade). This will be on Wednesday 26th October at 7.30 am till 8.30 am.
How exciting for those of us who are sports nuts. This week we have the opening of Rio de Janeiro’s Olympics, with a fortnight of amazing sports coverage to totally destroy our sleep patterns. Bring it on!
Here, to get us in the mood, is a collection of some absolutely unnecessary, un-newsworthy and possibly uninteresting facts regarding the Olympics –
The shortest member of the Australian team is diver Melissa Wu at 1.52m while basketballer Andrew Bogut heads the list at 2.13m.
The youngest member of the our Australian Olympic team is Matildas footballer, Ellie Carpenter, 16, while the eldest is equestrian Mary Hanna, a five time Olympian, who is 61.
Rio 2016 in Numbers -
3 – times that the games have been in the Southern Hemisphere – Melbourne in 1956, with Syd-en-ee in 2000 and now Rio.
8 – sets of siblings will be part of the Australian team, including swimming world record holders, Cate and Bronte Campbell.
329 – Brazilian cities have been visited by the Olympic torch, including some deep in the Amazon.
85,000 – police and soldiers were employed to patrol the Rio Olympics, but since this week’s security scare, that figure has more than doubled to four times that of London 2012.
First Time Participants - Kosovo – After attaining independence in 2008, this team of 8 headed by Judo champ Majinda Kelmendi will be there this year. South Sudan- After breaking with Sudan in 2011, they will have a small contingent including Perth resident and former refugee Mangar Makur Chuot, 200m spinter. Refugee Team – introduced as a “symbol of hope”, the 10 athletes from the Middle East and North Africa will compete under the Olympic flag.
Hello everyone.
We are currently in a great little village named Betws-y-coed on the edge of the Snowdonia National Park. An area famous for the Welsh slate. We spent 4 days in London, 3 days in the Cotswold district and tomorrow head to the Lakes District and will be spending 3 nights in a Cottage in the Woods, in Braithwaite, near Keswick. Every area visited has been different from the previous one, both architecturally and the countryside. We have walked lots and still attempting to taste the local beverages! Alan continues to be amazed with the buildings and plumbing works constructed so many years ago. (He uses up his daily quota of questions by breaky time!!!)
We are having a fantastic time with many more places to visit yet.
CLUB EVENTS: Monday 17 October - Board Meeting Monday 24 October - Club Assembly Wednesday 26 October - 7.30 Breakfast meeting @ TBT Monday 31 October - Cup Eve at Traralgon Central Tuesday 1 November - Melbourne Cup Day 4-13 November - Bali International Project Monday 7 November - Monday 14 November - Monday 21 November - AGM/Board Meeting Wednesday 23 November - RJCA Barbecue 5pm
DISTRICT EVENTS:
21-23 October - RYLA Camp 19 November - eClub of Latitude 38 Charter (Cranbourne) 26 November - Foundation's 100th Anniversary Dinner
*I'm not drunk!
I'm just a naturally loud and clumsy person*
Let’s be perfectly honest. Strong membership is vital for the health of a club, and first impressions are critical. I wonder how many prospective new members slipped through our fingers because we didn’t make sufficient effort to make them feel comfortable.
I read recently of a male who was looking to join Rotary and his strategy was to draw up a list of reasonably local clubs, then find more about them before visiting the main contenders and making a decision.
His list quickly dwindled for a number of reasons which I have illustrated below:
STRATEGY
OUTCOME
1.Internet Search
Many sites were out of date and lacked basic contact information eg email contact.
Content failed to showcase club achievements.
2. Social Media
Few clubs had a SM presence, and those that did had few current posts.
3. Emails to clubs seeking information
Some didn’t respond, some responses were curt and unwelcoming, and one respondent didn’t know when the next meeting was.
4. Booked himself in to attend some meetings
Reception ranged from very welcoming to plain rude. Once he wasn’t introduced as a guest and few members took the time to engage with him, preferring to talk to their mates.
5. Eventually joined a great club.
Made to feel welcome as soon as he arrived – the clincher, however, was one member made a point of sitting next to him and explaining things during the meeting.
So, the tips to turn visitors into members –
*Keep the website relevant, informative and up to date. *Create an engaging social media presence. *Have a friendly and informed member at the end of your club email – one who will make a visitor’s experience really enjoyable from the first contact. *Find out a little about the visitor, then let club members know in advance where possible.
*Have procedures in place to cater for visitors. *Encourage members to speak with the visitor by including them in conversations. ABOVE ALL MAKE THE VISITOR FEEL WELCOME AND IMPORTANT
"When my husband and I arrived at a car dealer to pick up our car, we were told the keys had been locked in it. We went to the service department and found a mechanic working feverishly to unlock the driver's side door. As I watched from the passenger side, I instinctively tried the door handle and discovered that it was unlocked. 'Hey,' I announced to the technician, 'it's open !'
His reply, 'I know - I already done that side.'
Happened at the FORD dealership, Dubbo
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