eBulletin 28 November (Nov 23, 2016)

R.I. Theme 2015-16

Len Cairns
President 2016-17

Rog Taylor
(If you have any comments or questions, please contact the editor)

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?

Next Meeting

Posted by Roger Taylor on 23/11/2016
Moe eBulletin Issue No: 22

Next Meeting: Monday 28 November 2016

Rotary Club of Moe meets at 6.00 for 6.30pm

at Moe RSL, 63-6 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: AGM and Bali 2016 Report


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:
NOVEMBER: ROTARY FOUNDATION MONTH
FOCUS: The Rotary foundation (TRF) supports clubs and districts assisting them to help "do good in the world".

Len’s Log 25

Wow! We have reached halfway of the Rotary year!

A great first half, a number of changes, some small some potentially large. We will press on to have a top half year where our major fund raiser, the Charity Golf Day and associated raffle will be on again. With changes in our committee I am sure the great tradition of this event with lots of teams and many sponsors will continue. Wendy Farmer is heading up the committee on the Golf Day and we need everyone’s support to make it happen BIG!

Our Christmas event is this coming Monday 19^th and we are all asked to dress up “Christmassy”, but there will only be one Santa.

We break from the 19^th December till 9^th January when we resume at the Botanic Gardens for our usual partners and all start to 2017!

I want to take this time to thanks all Rotarians in the Rotary Club of Moe for a great first half. We have, in the second half of the Rotary year, the challenge of bringing to out club new members, and the need to think and implement new ideas for additional fund raising for club projects to succeed.

So have a safe and celebratory Christmas and look forward to a terrific New Year for 2017.

Len

Moe Rotary History

HISTORY OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF MOE

Year 1965-66.
President Henry Kirkwood led the Club with Brian O’Reilly once again as Secretary. Community Service was active. On the 6^th August Pastor Doug Nicholls spoke to the Club regarding the plight of Aborigines - the Club donated $50 to the Aboriginal Advancement League. The Club donated $2045 to the Hospital Building Fund with the annual Jumble Sale remaining the main source of fund raising. Ten Moe Rotarians attended the District Conference at Launceston. President Henry received, on behalf of the Club, the Maffra Shield for attendance in 1964-65. Waitresses replaced Rotarian Stewards at Dinner Meetings with the Dinner Fee set at $1 per head. Copies of The Rotarian and Rotary Down Under were distributed to the City Library, Secondary School Libraries and Doctors’ Surgeries. Contact with Overseas Rotary Clubs continued with exchange of information with Rotary Clubs in Tennessee, USA and Goodwood, South Africa. During World Understanding Week a display was organised on the growth of Rotary worldwide in Rotarian Bill Langford’s window. Past President Allan McHardy was nominated to serve as District Governor of District 280 in 1968-69. Membership 45 Gained 4 Lost 7. Attendance 95.09%

Energy Australia Barbecue

2016 Energy Australia Barbecue is on this Week:

Date: Thursday 15th December

Time: Cooking usually starts around 10 am with people starting to queue around 12 noon.

Location: On site at Yallourn

Any members who have not been on site within last 12 months will need to do a visitors induction before entering. This will take place at around 9.30.

Thanks for the offer of the extra 4 helpers to support Maureen and Alan. We now have a strong team of volunteers.

Forthcoming Events

CLUB EVENTS:

Monday 19 December - Christmas Party
Summer Break
Monday 9 January - BBQ get-together at the B/Gardens

DISTRICT EVENTS:

Watch this Space

*Trivia - 110 people once tied for second prize in a Powerball lottery
after playing the same lucky numbers from a fortune cookie*

President Len's Joke of the Week

The Perfect Man -
A man walks out to the street and catches a taxi just going by. He gets into the taxi, and the cabbie says, "Perfect timing. You’re just like Frank."
Passenger: “Who?"
Cabbie: "Frank Feldman. He’s a guy who did everything right all the time. Like my coming along when you needed a cab, things happened like that to Frank Feldman every single time."
Passenger: "There are always a few clouds over everybody."
Cabbie: "Not Frank Feldman. He was a terrific athlete. He could have won the Grand-Slam at tennis. He could golf with the pros. He sang like an opera baritone and danced like a Broadway star and you should have heard him play the piano. He was an amazing guy."
Passenger: "Sounds like he was really something special."
Cabbie: "There’s more. He had a memory like a computer. He remembered everybody’s birthday. He knew all about wine, which foods to order and which fork to eat them with. He could fix anything. Not like me. I change a fuse, andthe whole street blacks out. But Frank Feldman could do everything right."
Passenger: "Wow, what a guy!"
Cabbie: ‘He always knew the quickest way to go in traffic and avoid traffic jams. Not like me, I always seem to get stuck in them. But Frank, he never made a mistake, and he really knew how to treat a woman and make her feel good. He would never answer her back even if she was in the wrong; and his clothing was always immaculate, shoes highly polished too. He was the perfect man! He never made a mistake. No one could ever measure up to Frank Feldman."
Passenger: "How did you meet him?"
Cabbie: “I never actually met Frank. He died and I married his wife.

Celebrations

BIRTHDAYS:
28 December - Bryon Puddy

ANNIVERSARIES:

N/A

INDUCTIONS:
20 December - Len Cairns (1999)

DUTY ROSTER
Date	Chair	Invocation	Registration	Assist. Reg.	Set & Clean Up
5 December	(Vocation)	P. Demagistris	D. Power	R. Taylor	B. Paull
12 December		S. Guo	R. Taylor	D. Wood	B. Puddy
19 December	(Club Admin)	---------	Christmas	Party	-------

COMMITTEES
BOARD MEMBERS	VOCATIONAL AND YOUTH	COMMUNITY SERVICE	INTERNATIONAL	CLUB ADMIN.
L. Cairns (Pres.)	H. Morrison	A. Bishop (Chair)	N. Harding (Chair)	B. Puddy (Chair/Treas.)
M. Bishop ( PE / Sec)	J. Hutchinson	J.Yeatman	P. Kingsbury	M. Bishop (Sec)
M. Koch (IPP)	R. Noakes	L. Cassar	S. Guo	P. Demagistris (Sgt.)
B. Puddy	D. Wilkinson	P. Demagistris	S. Zhang	P. Kingsbury (Programs)
A. Bishop	R. Taylor	A. Sinnott	K. Manani	M. Koch/S.Guo (Pub.)
N. Harding	D. Carson	B. Paull	M. Koch	L. Cassar/PD (Catering)
H. Morrison	R. Crooks	B. Dunstan		R. Maxfield (Historian)
P. Kingsbury		D. Wood		R. Noakes (CPO)
		R. Maxfield		W. Farmer Facebook)
				B. Puddy (Webmaster)