Bulletin. President s message. Club Details: 05 May Bulletin No. 38. Postal Address: P.O. Box 1134 Altona Meadows 3028

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1 Bulletin THE ROTARY CLUB OF LAVERTON POINT COOK DISTRICT 9800 Bulletin No May 2013 President s message 1,500% return on investment $2 million in freight $32 million shipped Club Details: Postal Address: P.O. Box 1134 Altona Meadows Lavertonpointcook@rotary Lavertonpointcook@rotaryd9800.org d9800.org Look out Austria, based on this weekends Club visioning exercise there will be an imminent request for Partner/Sister Club status with one of your clubs. More on that later. This is another bumper issue of our bulletin as last weeks was delayed due to the President not writing his report in time. Many things have happened and are happening and we ve all been involved. 2 weeks ago saw the celebration of the West Footscray Donations in Kind (DIK) store clocking up 100,000 Volunteer hours this century. Frank Spiteri represented the club at this celebration and spoke of it at our meeting that night. In the last 12 years a great deal has been accomplished outlined below: $2M raised to pay for freight $3M value of the volunteering allocated as Overseas Aid $32M of top quality material given to people overseas who deserve our help $37M the combined total of Overseas Aid 3.7 Km the length of the containers end to end 20,000m3 of goods recycled much of which would have ended up as landfill We heard from a very proud Father (John Ray) on this same night about the accomplishments of the Running on Empty team who completed the 100km Oxfam Trailwalker course in just over 18 hours. They finished in 34th position out of 750 teams and raised over $4,000 in the process Our last minute speaker on the night was Bob Hawkins who spoke on the origins of flight and the history of our area. He showed us some very interesting vision and with an obvious passion for history explained how the Point Cook RAAF base was instrumental in forming the country s first flying squadron. In fact Point Cook is the oldest continuously operating military airfield in the world. On 1 March 1914, the first flight at Point Cook was made in a Bristol Boxkite. When the RAAF was established in 1921, Point Cook was the only airfield. Website: Secretary: Mark Schirmer Next Meeting: Date: 08 May 2013 Venue: Intertek Time: 7.00pm sharp Program: Vocational Visit Page 1

2 Bulletin No. 38 A number of our members represented the club at the Anzac Dawn Service in front of the Werribee Cenotaph on Anzac day. While it was an early start, it was a moving ceremony with the largest turnout in recent memory. The club layed a wreath and enjoyed breakfast at the Werribee RSL before some of us left to join the march in the City. Lest we Forget. This past weekend, the club participated in a Club Visioning exercise. We were to imagine ourselves in the year 2016 and tell all of our achievements thus far. Many of us got into the spirit of the exercise by really imagining ourselves being in the year 2016 and I think one of the facilitators (Julie Mason) got right into it given that she will just be finishing her year as District Governor at that time. There were many new ideas and buy-in from all those that were present. A team of members will be digesting the results and coming up with a consensus vision in the coming weeks. A hearty congratulations to all involved and many thanks to the vision facilitators from district. A major project for the club, headed up by Chris Egger has been to install a Playground at the Laverton Autistic School. This became a multi cluster project with RC Williamstown and Point Gellibrand contributing along with support from our own cluster clubs and a Foundation Grant. Our members got together to build the playground borders and spread over 27m3 of soft fall mulch. The official opening of the playground will be in a couple of weeks. Our community, Our strength, Our future! Last week we had the Westbourne Grammar, Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA) representatives, Sarah and James talk to us about what MUNA is and about their own aspirations. They will be representing India in Bendigo later in the month and we look forward to hearing about their time there. Cluster Muster 3 The youth edition is to be held on 15th May. We will be meeting at The Brook this time and Stephanie Woollard from Seven-Women will be one of the main speakers. Our own exchange Student Signe, will also be presenting so I encourage all our members to attend. The cost for members is $25 and for non members is $45. Please let Michael know if you are coming and if at all possible, please pay in advance. Yours in Rotary, Page 2

3 Bulletin No. 38 Progressive Dinner 2013 Last week I put this report in the bulletin, and I would like to thank Craig Dowling and Philippa KcKiernan for offering up their homes for one of the courses, but I am still looking for 1 more home to host a course so we can get to the next stage of knowing who will be attending and who will be cooking which course make this the social event of the year I think it will be. As past stated this event will be held on the Saturday 1st June, starting at 6.30 pm, and I am looking for your help to make it a success. For those who are unaware of how a progressive dinner works, you have Entrée at one members home, Main at another, and Desert and final destination at the third home, with members been allocated to make either an entrée, main or desert to feed us all on the night. If you are able to help please let me know as soon as possible so we can start with the planning of the night. This is a great way to get everyone together in a social atmosphere, and to help with the atmosphere the theme for the night will be an R Theme and I would like to encourage all members to dress up as something beginning with the letter R. This could be as simple as wearing your club shirt as a Rotarian, but why not put your thinking caps on and come up with something a little different, there are a lot of things and jobs that start with R. The sooner you let me know you are able to attend the better as we need to know how much food we need for each course. Partners and families are more than welcome, but remember it will be a late night so keep this in mind if you have young children. With your help we will have a great night of fun and fellowship, look forward to seeing you all there. Michael Nash michaelnash1@bigpond.com Ride for Recovery An update from James Bowles who has just completed the Ride for Recovery (Melb to Syd) Dear All, The final morning of the ride was quite enjoyable because we only had 30kms into the city from Cronulla. The day was perfect - sun shining and quite warm outside. Everyone woke up that morning slightly dusty after all the celebrations the night before (was actually the true finish line for many in their minds). It was hard to think that we just covered nearly 950km over the previous 6 days and literally was taking the glory ride into the city down to the Opera House where our families and friends were waiting. Even though the ride was short, it took two hours due to typical Sydney traffic. Also, George (VP of Celgene who was the biggest sponsor of this event) got his first flat tyre literally 500meters from the finish line so we had to stop for a change as well. Ha. What a classic way to finish the event?! District 9800: District 9800 Governor: Dennis Shore Assistant Governor Port Phillip Cluster: Cherrie Osborn Rotary International: RI President: Sakuji Tanaka All riders road into the Botanical Gardens together in two by two formation. Smiles were across everyone's face to the clapping and cheers of our families and friends. We did it! Our bums survived. Our legs were feeling great. Our spirits and pride were up. Thank you everyone for your generous contributions. As of Monday the riders (18 in total) raised a total of $160k for the Leukaemia and Myeloma Foundations. All money will be used to support patients and their families. That is a great success for our inaugural ride. To everyone that supported us we all thank you. The foundations thank you. Pictures can be viewed at Click on the Facebook link then the albums. Page 3

4 Bulletin No. 38 October May Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Dinner Club 75 Meeting visioning Upcoming events 8th May: Vocational visit at Philippa s work (Intertek) Vocational Dinner Meeting Visit Cluster Dinner Meeting Muster Dinner Meeting Social Sun Night Theatre Movie Night Point Cook Fiesta Shopping 21 19District Tour Assembly th May: Cluster Muster 3 - The Youth Edition 19th May: District Assembly Rotary Engaged 22nd May: Mark Campbell - Filming of Thai-Burma Death- Railroad, E-Club Melbourne Charter 29th May: Social - Ten Pin Bowling 1st Jun (Sat): Progressive Dinner If you want to see the complete calendar, please click here Meeting this Week We are NOT at the Sanctuary Lakes Golf Club this week. Instead we are having a Vocational visit to Philippa s workplace, Intertek on Wednesday night. Please see details later in this bulletin. Please ensure you have booked in Michael if you haven t already at michaelnash1@bigpond.com Club Anniversaries Peter Washington Inducted 4/5/2011 (Sat) Philippa McKiernan Inducted 4/5/2011 (Sat) Quiet Achiever Award No Quiet Achiever this week. If you know of someone deserving of this prestigious award, please quietly me at cwoods.rotary@hotmail.com Sponsor: A special thanks to Storage King Hoppers Crossing for it s strong and ongoing support of our Rotary Club. Page 4

5 Rotary Vocation Visit to a working laboratory (Philippa s work): Date: Wednesday 8 May 2013 Time: 7pm SHARP - for visitor sign-in (doors will be locked after this time) Address: Building 1 PIZZA & softdrinks afterwards but NO ALCOHOL allowed Paramount Road, West Footscray (Melway 41 E6) It is a red brick building halfway down the street (near the creek between Sunshine Rd and Somerville Rd) Limited parking in front of the building and plenty of parking behind the building. Tottenham station is the closet train station (~5min walk)

6 Coming activities at the club Apart from the Progressive Dinner, as we have a 5 th Wednesday this month, on the 29 th of May, we are having a social night Ten Pin Bowling at OZ Ten Pin and Entertainment Centre, 1 Linmax Court Point Cook. On the night we will be playing 2 games of bowls including shoe hire, and having food platters with finger food. The cost for the night is $20 a head if you are bowling, or $10 if you are not bowling, food only. As we have to make a booking before the night, could you please let me know as soon as possible if you, your partner, or other family members are coming, so I know how may platters we need to order. With your help it should be an enjoyable night. Also as mentioned at the last meeting, we will be attending the Wynspeak Final on Wednesday the 5 th June, but for those who are interested in attending any of the heats below are the dates of the four heats, which are being held at the Wyndham Youth Resource Centre, Derrimut Road Hoppers Crossing, (between the Events Centre and DiCaprios). Thursday 9/5/13, Tuesday 14/5/13, Thursday 23/5/13, Tuesday 28/5/13 As there are generally a lot of speakers on these nights with both a junior and senior competition the heats start at 6.30 sharp. Hope some of you are able to come and see some wonderful young people talk.

7 Rotary Engaged - the 2013 Assembly Sunday May Tabcorp Park, Ferris Road, Melton. District Governor Elect, Ross Butterworth, the District Training team and the Rotary Club of Melton invite all District 9800 Clubs and Rotarians to attend the Rotary Engaged the 2013 Assembly event on Sunday May at Tabcorp Park, Melton. Following feedback from next year s Club Presidents the newly formatted District Assembly will provide an opportunity for D9800 Rotarians to engage with a number of training options to be involved in conversation about programs of interest, learn how to develop Programs and learn about new projects, significant change to past District Assemblies. The Registration cost for Rotarians remains at $25.00, including lunch; only $10.00 if optional lunch is not ordered. The event begins at 9.15am with registrations being taken from 8.15am. Plenty of parking is available at Tabcorp Park but Rotarians are still encouraged to travel down in groups as this will enable you to engage with each other travelling to and from the event. This will be a great learning opportunity for all Rotarians. Club Presidents and Presidents Elect are encouraged to promote this new initiative replacing District Assembly and endeavor to have as many club members attending as possible. Club Presidents, Presidents Elect and Nominees are asked to attend the afternoon sessions for the Club Executives where a joint Presidents Forum will be held along with specific Elect and Nominee sessions. There will also be a Club Leaders session after the lunch break for the Club Secretaries, Treasurers and Protection Officers. Country residents have the option of taking accommodation at Tabcorp Park on the day before if they wish to make a weekend of the event; Essendon play Brisbane on Saturday at 2.10 PM at Etihad Stadium and Collingwood play Geelong at the MCG on Saturday at 7.40 PM. Trains from Melton can be taken to and from the city. Free parking is available at the Melton Rail station. Accommodation details for those who wish to take on this offer will be made available shortly. Tabcorp Park offers ample and comfortable facilities for up to 1000 guests and Rotarians will have access to tea and coffee throughout the event. Lunch for those who opt for it will be taken in the dining area. Registrations will be taken from next week through the Rotary Club of Melton, c/- PP Leigh Francis, leigh-francis@bigpond.com. Late registrations will be taken on the day but there will be a $2.50 processing cost per member and the member s club will be invoiced, no cash payments on the day will be accepted. Leigh Francis Rotary Club of Melton

8 Time Activity Rotary Engaged - the 2013 Assembly Program 8.15am Registrations 9.15am Plenary Plenary Community Service Toolern Room 1 Forum Break Out Sessions 10.30AM 1.30PM International Service Toolern Room 2 Vocational Service Pre-function Room Morning Tea in Breakout areas Session 1 What Do You Want? Session 11 Rotary Marketplace Session 111 Q & A Session Session 1V Program Development Session V Wrap Up Session V1 New Program Highlights Session V11 Club Service Relocation Break The Rotary Foundation Membership New Generations Legends Cafe Communications, Newsletters & Social Media Close Of Session - Club Delegates May Depart Optional Lunch For All Delegates Executive Session Executive Session 11 Executive Session 111 Presidents Elect Presidents Nominee Presidents Secretaries / Treasurers / Protection Officers Crucial Conversations District Business Session Combined Forum Optional HAPPY HOUR - AT BAR PRICES