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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 22/11/2017 Moe eBulletin Issue No.22
Next Meeting: Monday 27 November
Rotary Club of Moe meets at 6.00 for 6.30pm
at the 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 Monday of the meeting.
Program: AGM and Club Assembly
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:
JANUARY
VOCATION MONTH
Vocational Service focuses on promoting high ethical business standards, recognising the value of all useful occupations and contributing vocational talents to supporting our community.
Maureen’s Moments
#26
Hi all
Happy New Year to everyone
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year with your family and friends.
As we come to the end of 2017, I can look back and see what we have achieved so far. I am very pleased to note that several of our proposed projects have taken place and have been completed. I feel quite proud of our club when I walk down Moore Street and see our Marigold Project alive and doing well. Each committee also achieved good results with their nominated projects.
We celebrated together with our end of year Christmas dinner. A great night was had by all with everyone getting into the Christmas theme. It was great to see members, partners and children come along to see Santa and enjoy the evening.
Following our Christmas dinner we still had two more fund raising activities to undertake. I would like to thank all those members who assisted with both the Woollies bbq and the Carols by Candlelight bbq. The Carols by Candlelight, which was held at the Racecourse this year, was a huge success, not only our club, but for the organisers of the event. Over 500 people attended on the night and everyone appeared to have a relaxing time listening to the music. I predict that next year’s event will be even bigger and better.
Now 2018 has arrived and we are about to get back into the Rotary year, we have quite a busy time ahead. The program for the next six months is quite full and includes many Rotary events as well as several social outings.
Just to name a few ……. we will be having a visit to the Warragul Rotary Club and will be replacing one of our Monday night meetings with a get together at the Yallourn Bowls Club in January. In February we will be enjoying a Sunday outing on a bus trip to Blue Gables Vineyard and the annual table tennis tournament at the Bishops. In March is the big Golf day and there will be lots of club participation in the lead up to this major event.
Lots to look forward to as well as organise starting with our first social evening for the year. Don’t forget our bbq at the Botanic Gardens this coming Monday 8th January.
Len Cairns spoke on behalf of this year's team, and ably assisted by his power-point presentation, informed us of the following-
Our school is Bunatan No. 3 School (one of six in the local area)
The school currently has 210 students, with 203 present on the date of our visit
2017 is the ninth year of our club's support, commencing in 2019-10
Bunatan is a poor fishing village surrounded by volcanic land and rocky beaches
(The troublesome Mt. Argung volcano, which threatened to cancel this year's visit, is just 15 km away)
All students now wear school uniform, and their respectful greeting is very touching
2017 Involvement - we delivered second-hand spectacles with various sight combinations, donated by Thrifty, and provided 210 sports uniforms. Maintenance work included repairs to the boys' toilet flushing systems, replacement of doors to the girls toilets, and distribution of a variety of stationery items. It was pleasing to note that previous works to ceiling fans and white boards installation, upgrades to the sick bay and other minor issues were all in good condition. Current school principal, Wayan, was very appreciative and complimentary of the involvement provided by the Rotary Club of Moe.
David Power was President and Bryon Puddy Secretary, President David reported, this year’s Rotary theme has been “Engage Rotary/ Change Lives”. As the first person to serve a second year as President of the Rotary Club of Moe, it is interesting to reflect on Rotary over the time since I was last President in 1979/80. The world and Rotary have changed and yet there are still many similarities between Rotary and the world in 1979/80 to Rotary now and specifically to the Rotary Club of Moe in 2013/14.There are still many needs of our community whether at a local level or the world at large. The relevance of Rotary and its members providing service to the community has not changed. Congratulations to those that have been awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship. The awarding of a fellowship is recognition of the great contribution each of you have made. The recipients are as follows; PDG, PHF, Bryon Puddy (Double Sapphire),PP Wendy Farmer, PP Peter Kingsbury, Daryl Benjamin(Figure head of Moe’s Good Friday Appeal), Carmel Cook (Gippsland Rotary Centenary House), John Buckton (Lions Club of Moe).
Community Service. Chairman Alan Bishop reported, in September 2013, our first big program began with the construction of a new pavilion at the Botanic Gardens, nicknamed “Pash’s Pavilion”. Pash and his handy team constructed the structure, the slab was poured in October and when all was complete the seats were installed in late October, also in October Albert Street Primary School approached us to assist with the construction of garden beds. A team of enthusiastic club members assisted on the day and constructed the garden beds and tidied up the surrounding area with new chip bark. As a part of the donation from the Fun Run proceeds, we assisted the Moe Rail Trail Committee by purchasing and fitting three seats along the trail. During the month of February we sold Polio Pins for the Polio cause. With the help of Sharlee, Daryl and Barry we managed to sell 75% of the badges and raised approximately $200 for this cause. We assisted the Newborough Girl Guides with some ongoing maintenance issues. With the help of Evan and Pash, we were able to repair a section of floor boards and clean out rubbish from under the building. Our plan is to assist with painting the interior of the building. In February we held a Hat Night to raise funds for Men’s Health. Members attended the meeting wearing a variety of hats. Prizes were presented for the biggest, most colourful and silliest hats.
International Service. Chairman Daryl Larsen reported, the Bali project supporting the Banyuning SD3 Primary School was continued. This year in November we had a total of 19 Rotarians, partners and friends attend the school in the village of Bunutan. Our group was very pleased to see the completion of the toilet work, the class room painting, new chairs and desks as well as the installation of 3 new ceiling fans all done by a local builder on our behest. New school uniforms (scout style) were also purchased and presented at the school to hand out to all the children.
In February we held an International Theme Night at 101 Beers in Yarragon. We were all entertained with the owner regaling us about the history and types of international beers available. The BBQ was organised and run by Neil McCluskey as chief chef on the night. Our Youth Study Exchange student from Swifts Creek, Tom Boucher-Hill, returned home and gave us a thorough run down on his year in Germany. We have also received confirmation that we have Vincent Powitz - an incoming German student arriving in the new Rotary year as well as a potential outgoing student Mikayla Arnold.
RAWCS was again promoted through the Club by selling stickers for dinner badges. Rotary International Foundation was also again supported. We supported shelter boxes through Disaster Aid Australia. This year with the Philippines typhoon disaster we also supported Rotary’s International Aid initiative. The Rotary International Conference was held in Sydney and was well attended by Moe with 7 Rotarians attending. Bruce Paull, Peter Kingsbury, Lyn Cassar, Neil McCluskey, Kishor Mannai (with wife Reshma and son Joey), Wendy Farmer (with husband Brett) and Daryl Larsen.
Vocational Service. Chair Maureen Bishop reported, our year commenced with a presentation from three Lowanna Students who attended the MUNA program in May 2013. Nicole Walker, Tonya Ryan and Isa Pendragan gave a great insight into their experience representing Egypt. In May 2014 we sponsored and supported two more Lowanna students, Summer Scott and Wade Evans they, attended the Forest Edge two day camp and represented Columbia. In October 2013, our Club was pleased to present two local businesses with the Vocational Business Excellence Award. Andrew Parniak from” Butchers on George” and Michael and Carmel Tyler from “Moe Fresh Poultry”.
Our Pride of Workmanship Awards was once again held in early December at Old Gippstown. Students from 13 local schools were identified by their teachers as being enthusiastic and task driven students and deserving recipients of an award. Rotary Junior Community Awards was conducted this year for the first time. The grade 6 students from Elizabeth Street Primary School have to complete four areas of activities: Community Service, Physical Recreation, Skills and Social Experience and maintain a diary of their experience. In order to assist the students in the Social Experience section, we arranged for students to attend our weekly meeting and give a report on their project to date. The program will finish in October, when their diaries are collected and marked by Rotarian volunteers. Our Club will then organise a presentation for them to receive their certificates. The John Dwyer Citizenship Award was awarded to Max Lietzau from Lowanna College. Our participation in the John Flynn Scholarship continued this year with Julian Pavey a third year medical student joining us. The National Youth Science forum is to be held in January 2015. Kellie Wilson has applied and approached our Club for Support.
AUSTRALIA AND AUSTRALIANS Another extract from Douglas Adam's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy": The inhabitants - A Short History: Sometime around 40,000 years ago some people arrived in boats from the north. They ate all the available food, and a lot of them died. The ones who survived learned respect for the balance of nature, man's proper place in the scheme of things, and spiders. They settled in and spent a lot of the intervening time making up strange stories. Then, around 200 years ago, Europeans arrived in boats from the north. More accurately, European convicts were sent, with a few deranged people in charge. They tried to plant their crops in autumn (failing to take account of the reversal of the seasons), ate all their food, and a lot of them died. About then the sheep arrived, and have been treasured ever since. It is interesting to note here that the Europeans always consider themselves vastly superior to any other race they encounter, since they can lie, cheat, steal and litigate (marks of a civilised culture they say), whereas all the Aboriginals can do is happily survive being left in the middle of a vast red-hot desert, equipped with a stick. Eventually, the new lot of people stopped being Europeans on 'extended holiday' and became Australians. The changes are subtle, but deep, caused by the mind-stretching expanses of nothingness and eerie quiet, where a person can sit perfectly still and look deep inside themselves to the core of their essence, their reasons for being, and the necessity of checking inside their boots every morning for fatal surprises. They also picked up the most finely tuned sense of irony in the world, and the Aboriginal gift for making up stories. Be warned.
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