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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 R. Taylor on 01/01/2018 Moe eBulletin Issue No.26
Next Meeting: Monday 8 January
Rotary Club of Moe meets at 6.00 for 6.30
at the Moe Botanic Gardens
For Apologies and Guests, please contact:
kishormanani@hotmail.com
or
Phone: 5134 1677
by 9.30 am on the Monday of the meeting.
Program: New Year Barbecue
$5.00 ph - Salad and meat provided
BYO Drinks
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
Rotary assists in providing access to safe clean drinking water
and basic sanitation facilities.
Maureen’s Moments
#36
Hi all
Our annual Gippsland Rotary Golf Classic took place last Monday after several months of planning and was another great success with a total of 96 players entering on the day.
The day started at 8am with several members out and about early assisting with erecting banners, delivering auction items and prizes and sorting our novelty prizes on the course. During the day our members continued to contribute and carry out their allotted tasks for the day as well as any other jobs that needed to be done. I am very pleased to announce that our club had 100% attendance for the evening meal. This is a great effort and I thank everyone for coming along and assisting.
It was wonderful to see members take up the challenge of approaching businesses and organisations for sponsorship and due to your great effort we ended up with a considerable number of goods and vouchers to use as golf prizes, in the loud and silent auctions and in the raffle.
I want to make a special thank you to members who volunteered to be on our golf committee and who have all contributed during the last few months of meetings.
Extra special thanks to Helen for coordinating the major raffle ticket sales and the members who had a turn at selling the tickets over the past 10 weeks.
We will be able to announce the financial outcome in a week or so and will advise as soon as figures are finalised as I am sure everyone is keen to know the end result.
This coming Monday we will be welcoming members of the Rotary Club of Trafalgar. Current President, Michael Fozzard, and several of his members wish to meet with us to brain storm ideas to assist their club in moving forward. So please bring all your innovative ideas to the meeting so that we are able to assist Trafalgar in their time of need.
Golf Planning Update as at Committee Meeting This Week:
Advertising Fliers - Each of the 3 main documents (Sponsor's package Letter, General Information and Entry Forms) have been updated, and will be on your email in the next few days. If you are visiting businesses requesting donations these are the documents that you will need to take with you.
List of Sponsors - The committee updated each of the businesses from the past year or two, and in some cases have made some additions, or alterations to the Rotarian visiting them. Please read these carefully to determine your role in our visits. In addition, Maureen is sending a list to Rotarians with 3 or more businesses and is providing a check list for your use. Please advise roger if you know of potential sponsors not already on our list.
Ticket Sales - Helen has circulated the roster for the first fortnight and will be updating this regularly. Full time workers will hopefully consider taking a weekend timeslot.
Miscellaneous - We have also made plans regarding catering, cart-hire, neighbouring Rotary Club participation, and a novelty event involving a local pro "selling" drives for each team at $10.00 each. More news about those issues soon.
Countdown - So it's all systems go! We have 8 weeks until the March 19 event, so we ask that everyone sells their ticket allocation (see Helen if you require more)
visits their businesses asap and collects donations and/or vouchers. Payments go to Bryon via our bank account
Let's all help to ensure that this event once again is a highly successfully fund-raiser for our local community.
. Michael Koch was elected President and Maureen Bishop was Secretary, President Michael reported, it has been 21 years since I served as President for the Rotary Club of Moe in 1994/95 and how things have changed. We had mobile phones, but not many people had access to them, there was no email, only normal mail, the world moved a lot slower. The change was starting, life was getting busier, and as the years moved on so did Rotary, we have a website presence we have Facebook, we have mobile phones, we are now in constant contact with the world. As a small regional Rotary Club, this years’ theme is very important. “Be a Gift to the World”. The Rotary Club of Moe is only a cog in our Rotary wheel and as a cog we play our part, helping the local community, disaster stricken countries and overseas projects. This year included my marriage to Ya and I want to thank all the Rotarians who came with us to Thailand for the wedding.
Vocational Service. Chair Helen Morrison reported, we had students from Elizabeth Street and Newborough Primary Schools come to our meeting over a number of weeks to share their experiences of participating in the Rotary Junior Community Awards Program, the graduation and presentation barbecue was held in November in the Botanic Gardens .In December we held the Pride of Workmanship Awards at the Gippsland Heritage Park, thirteen students were nominated from their respective schools and each student received a certificate and a $50 award. The John Dwyer Citizenship Award was presented to Shelly Wulffers at the Lowanna Secondary College end of year presentations. In May 2016 we presented two Moe businesses with the Vocational Service Business Award. Danielle Ferguson from Lilly Pilly Florist and Peter and Rita Ryan from IGA were our very worthy recipients. Vocational Service also oversees a number of Youth Awards and activities. These include Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA), Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA), Rotary Youth Program of Enrichment (RYPEN) and we actively encourage participation in these programs
Community Service. Chairman Pash Demagistris reported, some of our most successful fund raising efforts for the year have been catering at various community events .We have cooked up a storm at the Moe Traders Day, TM & H Timber and Hardware, Moe Race Day and the Jayco Herald Sun Bike Ride .We also assist with the catering at the Pride of Workmanship Awards as well as cooking and handing out free sausages at the Carols by Candlelight. Members volunteered their time to assist with the parking at the Moe Racing Club’s Car Show which resulted in a donation to our Club. Members assisted at the Moe Apex/Lions Club Bonfire Night and received $500.
Members doorknocked for the Good Friday Appeal raising $1,100.
In February our Club combined with the Morwell Rotary Club to cater for the Maltese Festival, this event was organised to raise funds for Centenary House, we raised $720. We once again assisted Energy Australia by cooking barbecues at their Christmas breakup and at their Open Day in April, together with the Apex Club of Moe we were invited to assist cooking a barbecue for the visitors, we spent a long day cooking sausages and hamburgers and we were rewarded with a cheque for $2000 and a personalised tour of the mine. We were approached by Headway Gippsland for a possible donation towards their yearly raffle, we donated a Television as a major prize and also donated the cost of printing the raffle tickets. A bus trip of 50 Rotarians and friends travelled to the Mornington Peninsula, Mt Martha to East Bar and Dining Restaurant. This was a fun and fellowship day.
International Service. Chairman Peter Kingsbury reported, the Takasago Sister City Rotary Club from Japan visited in early August. It was a light-hearted time with games on club night. Ryodi Nishinaka, President of the Takasago International Association, was accompanied by Yukihito Mobori Takasago City Major. Tatsuyoshi Tokura Club International Chairman, Fumitaka Konishi Club International 2nd Chairman .The Club hosted a golf match at the Yallourn Golf Club. I, Len, Roger and Alan attended a farewell dinner at the Century Inn to round off a great visit by the Rotary Club of Takasago Speisho (small Pinetree). Then it was off to Thailand for our President Michael and Ya’s wedding. On the way back we travelled to see our “adopt a School” project at the Bunatan No3 School near Amed. Tonya Cairns did a wonderful job as our interpreter as we handed over 323 school uniforms at a cost of $1600. $1200 of which was raised from outside sources. A regional education officer was surprised when 15 Rotarians and friends descended on the school to make the presentation. Once again (this was our 8th trip) a successful exercise in bridge building with one of our nearest neighbours – Indonesia. Mikayla Arnold was our out- going Exchange Student to Buffalo, New York State. Mikayla completed her Exchange this year The 16th Gippsland Rotary Golf Classic was held on the 21st March it was a great day again due to the generous support of our Sponsors, Community, Rotarians, Golfers and all those who participated in the day and evening. We raised over $25,000.00 on the day.
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