ROTARY CLUB of CLAYTON Inc. Weekly Bulletin

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1 ROTARY CLUB of CLAYTON Inc. Weekly Bulletin District 9810 Victoria, Australia Meets every Monday from 6:00pm at Clayton RSL 163 Carinish Road, Clayton (Melways 79D3) (No meeting on public holidays) 20th April 2009 In This Issue Volume 43, Number 36 Presidents Report Presidents Report Hello Team, Golf Day Sponsors How are you all? Club History Last Week & Upcoming Club Program District 9810 News Upcoming Events in Monash / Kingston Where other clubs meet Reminders Joke of the Week Rotary International News I was good to welcome back John Barnes to our Monday night meetings again. It has been a while since John has been to a regular meeting, so to welcome him back we gave him the best job in the club, the Sergeant. Like a true professional John is, he dealt with the job with no hiccups. I was also glad to see all the members back after their excursion to Hobart for the District Conference. I know I was inspired and hope so were all of you after hearing the fantastic report from Glenys Pattison on a first time attendee at the Bill Norling award presentation. I have asked Glenys to pass me a copy of her presentation as I would like to add it to our web page. During the week I had some feedback on the first meeting of the new Rotaract club which they are trying to start in the Monash area. The meeting was held on the 2nd April at the Village Green, but unfortunately only a few potential members attended. A positive from the meeting was that a brainstorming session was held and the team is currently trying to put some of these ideas in place. I have had a request from Kylie McMillan (DR) who is currently looking for venue ideas in the Monash area which are close to public transport. If you can help with some venue ideas please contact me direct and I will pass the information on. Also if you know of any potential Rotaractors between the ages of 18 30, please let me know. Members please do not forget about our Annual Charity Golf Day on the 4th May. If you can support with players, sponsors or being there on the day please contact either Bob Millen or Warren Fricke. Last of all I would like to wish the Rotary Club of Clayton a happy 44th Birthday which was on the 17th April. Page 1 of 9

2 Rotary Four Way Test "Of the things we think, say or do: 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?" Important dates to keep in mind are:- 04/05/09 Annual Golf Day (Spring Valley Golf Club) 09/05/09 Silent Auction for Monash Scouts (Malvern Town Hall) 17/05/09 District Assembly (Deakin University) 22/06/09 Club Changeover (Mulgrave Country Club) 27/06/09 District Governors Changeover (Details TBA) That is all for now from President Michael for this week and team, keep up the good work. Golf Day Sponsors A list of all our Annual Charity Golf Day sponsors can now be found on the Rotary Club of Clayton web page. To see the sponsors you can follow the following link:- All proceeds from the Golf Day will support the Rotary response to the communities affected by the Victorian Bushfires. Club History International President: Glenn E. Estess, Sr. Rotary Club of Shades Valley, Alabama Theme: Celebrate Rotary Michael Ellinger an ex Rotaractor and Quality Engineer at Bosch was President. During the year the following activities and events were supported by the club:- We joined 8 other clubs for the joint meeting of the Glen Kinross group and some certain president tried to take over the show. Governors Teddy Bear auction where we dressed and auctioned off our bear Clayton Ampang and raised $550 towards Rotary Foundation. Our Bear was the 3rd highest bid on the night. (all up over $25,000 was raised) The Rotaract Club of Clayton held an interest meeting by running a Rotaract meeting using ex-rotaractors as the board members. The rest is history as this year they doubled their membership. We had an international night where the district international board spoke about various projects including: Peter Morgan on MUNA (Model United Nations Assembly), Jackie Gleason on Rotarians against Malaria, Ron Dickson on ROMAC, Bill Farugia on Interplast & Adrian Clifford on Wheelchairs for Kids. John Barnes: appointed assistant Governor for DG Denis Hyland and Mandi visit our club for the DG s official visit. During this visit I think Dennis cuts his first cake as part of the 100th anniversary year for Rotary. We held our Community Trivia night. In all $3000 was raised on the Page 2 of 9

3 THE OBJECT OF ROTARY 1. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service; 2. High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society; 3. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life; 4. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service. night which was split between the 6 groups present on the night. Monash Scouts, St Johns Pre School, Neighbourhood Watch, Rotaract Club of Waverley, Rotaract Club of Clayton & Children of Nepal. The night was a great success and achieved all it was set out to achieve. To raise money for the local community by involving local groups in a fun and enjoyable event. To raise the profile and awareness of Rotary and especially the Rotary Club of Clayton. We helped with the McDonalds drive thru where the proceeds went to Romac. Our club helped in the raising of $113. We had our HUGE Garage sale at Safety Beach and rose over $1500 towards Interplast. Thank you to Jim & Jean Cochrane for supplying their home. We were also part of the 4th International Convention for Rotary cricketers at the Hunter Valley in NSW where we had Warren Fricke as part of the Australian team. We learnt that PP Jean Cochrane had spent over 400 hours knitting boots for Interplast. Never too Old for Christmas was held and was a great success. Our annual Christmas part was held at Pelicans Pantry in Hastings The deadly Tsunami hit countries in South Asia and part of Africa. Our club immediately donated $5000 to Care Australia to help out these communities. During this January we held our meeting at various members home to break up our normal routine. We help celebrate the 50th birthday of Ralph Zuccaro and we were also in attendance to the official launch of the wine label 6 acres. We held our 39th Annual Charity Golf day with great success and rose over $7,000. On the day we presented a cheque of $900 to World Vision towards the Tsunami Appeal. This is the month where we started to get involved with the 100th anniversary of Rotary. We were part of the Glen Kinross cluster group meeting where 8 clubs got together and held a big birthday party and had fun. We held the International & Youth Night where we invited the local schools to attend and gave talks about projects including: MUNA, RYPEN, RYLA, Rotarians against Malaria, Interplast, etc. We also helped the district out with providing Kelly Allen as a counselor for Sky Bivens an Ambassadorial Scholar from the United States. Also we helped out with looking after the GSE team from Iowa in the US for a day and touring them around the local area and finally a BBQ at the home of Bill &Dianne Sides. We held our second big garage sale at Safety Beach and rose over $1200 which went towards the Tsunami Orphans appeal. We were involved in the Synchrotron Open Day where we cooked and gave away over 3000 sausages and sold over 1400 soft drinks. In all we raised over $4000. We were also supported on the day from ex-members Bob Millen & Heather Norling, partners, daughters and mothers of Rotarians, members of the Clayton Rotaract club and also two members from St Peters church in Clayton, Albert & Suresh. We had six members from our club attend the District Conference. We celebrated our 40th birthday and were honored to have three of our original charter members in attendance (Bob Minter, Ed Allchin & Kevin Beaumont) We were also lucky enough to have in attendance Allan James who was the Governors special representative for the formation of the Rotary Club of Clayton. On the night we gave a PHF to Gaye Barnes. Page 3 of 9

4 Thank you to John Barnes & Warren Fricke for all the effort put in to organise the night. We also donated 5 benches to Heatherton Park as part of our contribution to the local community and part of the 100 years of Rotary celebrations. This month Warren Fricke was off again to represent Australia with the International Fellowship of Cricketing Rotarians on their Ashes tour of England. We awarded the Bill Norling Award to an apprentice at the TAFE College in Dandenong. Kelly Allen & Michael Ellinger were honored by Rotaract District 9810 and were awarded the Rotary/Rotaract award in recognition of great loyalty, dedication and service to Rotaract. As well during the year we sent students to RYPEN, MUNA and the Siemens Science School and also two Rotaractors to RYLA. We sponsored 5 Indonesian students. We gave money towards Wheelchairs for Kids. We were involved in Toss the Coin and the Monash Community Raffles. We bought Christmas cards and puddings. We also sponsored a Christmas tree for the Monash Adolescent unit. We performed our Food bank runs to support Dixon house. Last Week & Upcoming Club Program Last Meeting (06/04): Our guest speaker was Julius Peiker who works for the City of Monash and is the Community Planning and Development Co-ordinator. Julius spoke about the Clayton Community Strengthening Project. With the construction of the new, multi-purpose, Clayton Community Centre, the Monash Council is keen to facilitate a three year placed based community strengthening project in Clayton and surrounding areas with the Clayton Community Centre as a focus. The Monash Council is seeking funding from the State Government Community Support Program. Monash Council wishes to enter into a partnership with stakeholders to develop the submission for funding and manage its implementation. The first stage was for the Council Officers to commission a consultant to develop a Demographic Profile for the catchment area of the Clayton Community Centre (copy of this document is with Michael & Bob). Upon taking receipt of the document a list of stakeholders were identified. These stakeholders were sent the demographic profile and a number of questions that were used as a basis for a conversation regarding the community in the catchment area and the potential detail and nature of the proposed project. Conversations were then held with all the stakeholders. Copies of the Stakeholders Consultations Summary of Issues were passed around during the meeting for the members. For further information you can contact Julius Peiker directly on or His is juliusp@monash.vic.gov.au We also had a report on the sandwiches (90 of them) which were made for the Sudanese Youth Trip 2009 from the 4 th to 6 th April to Rawson in the La Trobe Valley on behalf of SEAAC (see photo attached). The ages of the students were between years old. SEAAC is a community based organisation that seeks to enable young people from migrant and Page 4 of 9

5 refugee backgrounds to be active, informed and well skilled members of society. A big thank you goes to Bob Millen, Jim & Jean Cochrane, Dianne Day and Bill Pontikis for their help and support. Jean Cochrane also presented a cheque of $1,000 to John Barnes for the A for A Life project which was raised during the District Conference at our stand in the House of Fellowship. Apologies = Lesley Zuccaro, John Goldspink, Jon Breisch, Dianne Sides & Bob Millen Make Ups = None Leave of Absence = None Visitors = Reddy Kandadi This weeks roster (20/04): Guest Speaker = Angela De Iacovo (Working in a Cemetery) Chairperson = Warren Fricke Desk = Bob Millen Visitors = Heather Norling Catering = Jean Cochrane Roster for 27/04: Guest Speaker = Louise Lang (Dixon House) Chairperson = Bob Millen Desk = Heather Norling Visitors = Glenys Pattison Catering = Jean Cochrane Roster for 11/05: Guest Speaker = (TBA) Chairperson = Heather Norling Desk = Glenys Pattison Visitors = Tom Portelli Catering = Jean Cochrane Page 5 of 9

6 Please remember if you cannot perform your rostered job, it is your duty to find a replacement to take your place District 9810 News 2010 District Conference The 2010 District 9810 Conference will be held in Geelong at the Deakin University Waterfront Campus and Costa Hall from Friday 26 th to Sunday 28 th February The conference will be hosted by the Rotary Club of Templestowe and the conference chairman is PP Trevor Dawson. General information about accommodation and touring activities in the Geelong region can be obtained by contacting the Geelong Visitor Information Centre on or by visiting the website: More specific information for clubs regarding registration and program details will be made available at the conference launch later in Upcoming Events in Monash / Kingston 2009 Winter Concert Series This annual series of six free concerts commences in April and will run until September. The concerts feature a variety of genres for all music tastes and are the perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon. For more information call Strings Unlimited Sunday, 17 May 2009 Time: 3.00pm pm Bookings: Monday 11 May - Friday 15 May Location: Monash Council Civic Centre Strings Unlimited is one of Melbourne's best-known ensembles, and has performed together for the past ten years. The members of the quartet are all professional musicians and between them have performed at all major venues in Australia, New Zealand and most capital cities in South East Asia and Europe. They have a vast repertoire that includes classical music, jazz, tango, evergreens and popular songs Page 6 of 9

7 Kingston Harvest Festival Saturday, 16 May 2009 Celebrate the Kingston Harvest Festival featuring Music stage - Country music with Bluegrass / Rockabilly, Health & Wellbeing Expo, Harvest Kitchen Food Demonstrations, Harvest Food & Beverages, Rides, activities for kids & more LOCATION: Roy Dore Reserve, Carrum (Melway Ref 97 F8) CONTACT NAME: Gabrielle Nime PHONE: gabrielle.nime@kingston.vic.gov.au WEB: Where other Clubs Meet A Rotarian can attend the weekly meeting of any Rotary club around the world. This is a make-up and counts as attendance credit when you are not able to attend a meeting of your own club. Details for all District 9810 clubs can be obtained in the district directory or website Details for clubs around the world are available in the RI Directory (held by the club secretary) and on the RI website ( Reminders Please ensure that the club is aware if you will be missing a meeting. Contact Bill Sides on by 4 pm on the day of the meeting, if you are not going to be present. Contributions for inclusion into the Bulletin should be passed to michaele@netspace.net.au by Thursday evening of each week. Joke of the Week An 80-year-old man went to the doctor for a checkup and the doctor was amazed at what good shape the guy was in. The doctor asked, To what do you attribute your good health? The old timer said, I m a golfer and that s why I m in such good shape. I m up well before daylight and out golfing up and down the fairways. The doctor said, Well, I m sure that helps, but there s got to be more to it. How old was your father when he died? The old timer said, Who said my father s dead? The doctor said, You mean you re 80 years old and your father is still alive? How old is he? The old timer said, He s 100 years old and, in fact, he golfed with me this morning. That s why he s still alive, he s a golfer. The doctor said, Well, that s great, but I m sure there s more to it. How about your grandfather? How old was he when he died? Page 7 of 9

8 The old timer said, Who said my grandpa s dead? The doctor said, You mean you re 80 years old and your grandfather s still living! How old is he? The old timer said, He s 118 years old. The doctor was getting frustrated at this point and said, I guess he went golfing with you this morning too? The old timer said, No... Grandpa couldn t go this morning because he got married. The doctor said in amazement, Got married!! Why would a 118-year-old guy want to get married? The old timer shot back, Who said he wanted to? Rotary International News Rotary to build a hospital dedicated to mother and child care in Tanzania Contact: Howard Chang at or howard.chang@rotary.org Rotary International News -- 9 April 2009 Groundbreaking of medical center to take place in Kibaha on 15 April ( Dar Es Salaam, TANZANIA: 10 April, 2009 ) Rotary, one of the world's largest humanitarian service organizations, announced the launch of a new US $1 million mother and child care initiative that seeks to improve the quality of the medical services for women and children in Tanzania. The dedication of the Rotary Mother and Child Medical Complex and the Tumbi Hospital Renovation Project in Kibaha is scheduled for 11 am on 15 April. Attendees at the dedication ceremony will include Rotary International President Dong Kurn Lee, Regional Commissioner, Minister of Health, Regional Administrative Secretary, Regional Medical Officer, Kibaha Education Centre Executive Director, and Sir Andy Chande. Worldwide, an estimated 26,000 children under the age of five die every day from preventable diseases such as pneumonia, measles, and malaria. "Once I understood the issues behind that terrible number, I made reducing childhood mortality my emphasis during my term as Page 8 of 9

9 president, said Rotary International President Lee. The new hospital dedicated to mother and child healthcare is expected to save up to 42 children per day. Lee sees this initiative as an essential step in reducing childhood mortality in Africa. The mother and child care initiative is focused in two areas: increasing the availability of preventive care, including drug treatments; and building a hospital system to reach as many women and children as possible with the care they need. Sang Koo Yun, a member of Sae Hanyang Rotary Club in Seoul Korea who spearheads the initiative, said that Rotary clubs in Korea had donated 500,000,000 Korean Won (approximately US$500,000) to support the initiative. The donation was matched by the Community Chest of Korea, which supports Rotary s commitment to childhood survival. The fact-finding team organized by Rotary was dispatched to Tanzania in November 2008, where they visited different medical facilities related to mother and child healthcare, and met with top health officials, hospital management, and local Rotary club members. Based on the team s recommendations, the Tumbi Hospital in Kibaha was selected as the site for the Rotary Mother and Child Hospital. The Tumbi Hospital is a part of the Kibaha Training Center, where health officers and nurses are trained. Since the existing mother and child healthcare facility at the hospital needs updating and refurbishment, new operating theater, delivery rooms, and an X-ray room are to be constructed, and also more modern equipment and furnishings are to be installed, said Yun. In addition, on-site training and education programs are to be implemented to improve the quality of the medical services and management, as well as public awareness programs to educate the residents about health and hygiene. Yun said, We hope the project will set an example for people who wish to engage in similar initiatives. More importantly, the project will enrich the lives of one million residents of Pwani region in Tanzania. And, ultimately, we hope to save up to 42 children a day. Rotary an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide in humanitarian service - has more than 1.2 million members in more than 33,000 clubs in over 200 countries and geographic regions. For more information, please visit Page 9 of 9