The Hope Soap 25 NOVEMBER 2013 BULLETIN OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF HOPE ISLAND PRESIDENT S SOAP BOX CLUB CALENDAR

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1 The Hope Soap BULLETIN OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF HOPE ISLAND Club President Sam Doumany D9640 Governor Tony Heading RI President Ron Burton 25 NOVEMBER 2013 PRESIDENT S SOAP BOX Sandy and I have been on the move this week flying to Canberra on Monday then driving to Moruya on the South Coast where we spent 2 great days with relatives and Past DG's from Since Thursday we have attended the Zone Rotary Institute and as Immediate Past DG's /partners we have served as Sergeant s under the watchful eye of Brian Heaton, President of Runaway Bay Club in his role as Chief Sergeant. We return from Canberra on Monday and will catch up with you all before Wednesday's Club meeting when I look forward to inducting two new members Rochelle Carter and Keith Jones - please try to attend so we can welcome them. Next Thursday 28th will be our AGM at 6.30pm at the Sanctuary Cove Golf Club to be followed by pizzas and fellowship. Sandy will need prior responses for access into the Cove precinct and catering purposes. Remember December 9th will be our pre Christmas dinner function at the Cove Restaurant in the Intercontinental Hotel Sanctuary 6.30pm with $50 per head to be prepaid with RSVP by 2nd December. Our Raffle is well underway and I wish our ticket sellers every success as this an important fundraiser at this stage of the year. Congratulations to Keith for his exciting promotional DVD which is now on the District website and receiving a lot of compliments - let's drive it forward and reap the benefits of showcasing Rotary and our Club. Have a great week. Yours in Rotary Sam CLUB CALENDAR 27 NOV 28 NOV 6:30 pm 30 NOV 01 DEC 04 DEC 09 DEC 6:30pm 11 DEC 18 DEC 26 DEC 04 JAN Meeting : Guest Speaker Mireille Allan Paradise Kids Annual General Meeting Sanctuary Cove Golf Club Oxenford Oxenford & Hope Island Meeting : Guest Speaker TBA Christmas Dinner Intercontinental, Sanctuary Cove Meeting : Guest Speaker PDG Brian Heaton 2014 RI Conference, Sydney Meeting : Last Before Christmas Christmas Raffle Drawn BBQ : Domayne Bundall BBQ : Bunnings Arundel CONTENT FOR UPCOMING EDITIONS Please send all content to Gareth as soon as possible each week. This included all diary dates, stories, pictures etc. Anything you want shared across the club. Don t just rely on the weekly meetings to communicate!

2 The Hope Soap : Club News ROTARY FOUNDATION POLIO PIG-O-METER POLIO $1, RYLA At our meeting last Wednesday (20 th ) we heard from Neil Jones, our District s Rotary Foundation Chair (pictured above with Amy Ford presenting our club with a banner to recognise us as the #3 club in the District for per capita Foundation donations). It is timely that we are all reminded of the great work of the Rotary Foundation and how we can all contribute. The mission of The Rotary Foundation is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty. The Rotary Foundation helps fund our humanitarian activities, from local service projects to global initiatives. Your club or district can apply for grants from the Foundation to invest in projects and provide scholarships. The Foundation also leads the charge on worldwide Rotary campaigns such as eradicating polio and promoting peace. Rotarians and friends of Rotary support the Foundation s work through voluntary contributions. In addition to the money directed from our annual dues, all of us can contribute directly to the Rotary Foundation. Attached to this week s bulletin is a form allowing you to make donations in a number of ways including direct debit and credit card. If you would like, you can also nominate whether the money you donate is directed to the Annual Programs Fund or towards Polio Plus. Wanda has confirmed that we have one nomination (Alexa Deighton) for the Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) camp to be held in January. Applications are now closed AGM & PIZZA NIGHT Don t forget to mark your diaries for our AGM and Pizza Night which is on on Thursday 28 November. The night starts at 6:30pm and will be held at the Sanctuary Cove Golf Club. As the venue is inside the residential area of Sanctuary Cove, please RSVP to Sandy ASAP.

3 The Hope Soap : Club News CHRISTMAS RAFFLE Our Christmas Raffle is off and running so the time to start selling is now! All members should now have their allocation of 300 tickets to sell. Please note that the number of tickets issued for $10 has increased from 6 to 7. Tickets are now priced at $2 each, 3 for $5 or 7 for $10. There are two great prizes on offer for the raffle 1 st Prize : Two Wheelbarrows of Household Goods, Vouchers & Children s Toys. Vouchers include $200 Mulpha Sanctuary Cove (use at any store in the Village) $50 Coles $50 Raw Café - Sanctuary Cove $50 EEV Fashion - Sanctuary Cove $50 Tango Lima - Sanctuary Cove $50 Super Butcher - Oxenford $50 Bojangles - Paradise Point $50 Marina V Fashion 2 nd Prize : A dozen bottles of Premium Wine Hit up your friends, family and workplaces to sell tickets. We have also been able to secure time at both the Centro Oxenford Shopping Centre and Hope Island Shopping Centre. If you can sell at either location on any of the following dates please let Abby know as soon as possible. Saturday 30 November (Oxenford) Sunday 1 December (Oxenford and Hope Island) A date at Bunnings (Arundel) is also being arranged. END OF YEAR / CHRISTMAS DINNER Now is also the time to start rounding up numbers for our end of year dinner / Christmas celebration on 9 December starting at 6:30pm A flyer is attached to this bulletin. A reminder that the night is $50pp with a cash bar operating. As required by the hotel we need to pay for a minimum of 50 people with any excess to be met on the day. It is therefore extremely important that we get as many people along as we can and make this night a great success. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU RSVP AND PROVIDE PAYMENT BY 2 DECEMBER.

4 The Hope Soap : District News PHILLIPINES TYPHOON ASSISTANCE DISTRICT DIARY 01 DEC 08 DEC 09 JAN 12 JAN Kingscliff Triathlon RC of Tweed Heads South Community Christmas Carols RC of Burleigh Heads Antique, Collectibles & Book Fair RC of Palm Beach NOT A BAD MORNING S WORK Your help is urgently needed! Please donate directly to Rotary District 3860 Disaster Fund, see below - Calls have been received on how we can help our Rotarians in the Philippines providing relief. The most effective way is to send money direct to the area affected. District Governor Edgar Chiongbian can use the funds where they believe it is most effective. Food, water, medicines etc. are in great need and can be sourced from other parts of the Philippines. DG Chiongbian has provided the following account details through which Rotarians can send contributions to the areas in Tacloban and Northern Cebu that were hardest hit by the typhoon. Account Name: Rotary District 3860 Disaster Fund Bank: Bank of the Philippine Islands SWIFT Code: BOPIPHMM Account No.: Currency: Philippine Peso Branch: Mango Avenue, Cebu City Please note these funds are going direct to the Rotary District and not through The Rotary Foundation. Boonah Rotary held a fundraising event in Boonah High Street on Saturday morning in aid of ShelterBox and specifically to Typhoon Haiyan that struck the Philippines. The club set up a display with a Shelterbox and its contents along with pull up banners (promoting Boonah Rotary) and A frames (with posters promoting the fundraiser) and a display board (with photos taken in the previous 48 hours depicting the tragedy that exists in the wake of Haiyan and previous deployments of ShelterBoxes). In only four hours, $1,207 was donated by the Boonah community. This will buy one box and Boonah Rotary will buy a second one. The event was a major PR triumph. The idea of ShelterBoxes, the organisation and distribution of them and Rotary s part in it really struck a chord with the public. Rotary District 9640

5 The Hope Soap : World of Rotary TALKING ABOUT TOILETS By age 40, Jack Sim was a successful entrepreneur running 16 businesses. He had enough money to retire, so he started searching for a neglected cause to which he could devote his time and effort. Toilets. Realizing that people don t want to talk about toilets, he set about making the humble commode into a media darling, founding the World Toilet Organization in 2001 and holding a special day every year to draw attention to sanitation. This year, the United Nations voted to make World Toilet Day, 19 November, an official UN observance. Sim credits Rotary with helping him break the taboo around the subject. In October, his organization inducted Ron Denham, chair emeritus of the Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action Group, into its hall of fame. The honor recognizes the work Rotary and the action group have done to change behavior and improve sanitation. It is good to see Rotary being recognized for the impact we are having on people in the developing world, Denham said. But this award is a wake-up call as much as a recognition. No progress has been made toward the [UN s] Millennium Development Goal of increasing access to safe sanitation. We as Rotary members must shift our focus from water to water and sanitation. The Rotarian sat down with Sim, also known as Mr. Toilet, at the action group s World Water Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, in June and here are some of the things he had to say - Once you make people laugh, they will listen to you. I saw another person who did it very well: Mr. Condom from Thailand. He promoted the condom by making people laugh, so I did the same with toilets. Everybody has their personal toilet horror stories, whether about their travels or about their children. You just have to let the conversation flow naturally, and everybody will talk about toilets. In fact, once they feel it s a legitimate topic, they can t stop. More than 100 years ago, one of the first Rotary projects was to build a public toilet. Every Rotary member should know this story. When members do water and sanitation projects, at least 85 percent of them focus on water. But you cannot have clean water if people are still defecating into the river. A market-based solution is the most sustainable model. Instead of putting toilets in the ground and hoping people use them, if you invest this money in training people to set up a factory to produce toilets and train local ladies to sell toilets on commission, then you create jobs, you create entrepreneurship, and you deliver proper sanitation. Even after your investment is used up, the business continues to grow. Read the full story at Rotary International

6 The Hope Soap : Club Information ABOUT OUR CLUB The Rotary Club of Hope Island is a dynamic and progressive Breakfast Club. Our membership boasts a fantastic cross-section of the community young and not so young; male and female; and includes a great range of vocations. Having our meetings in the morning allows everyone to participate while ensuring members and guests can still attend to their other commitments throughout the day and into the evening. CLUB BOARD PRESIDENT Sam Doumany TREASURER Phil Fairweather SECRETARY Jenni Heenan ROTARY FOUNDATION Amy Ford MEETING WEDNESDAY MORNINGS YOUTH SERVICES Wanda Tereba :45am 7:15am Fellowship 7:15am 8:30am Meeting LOCATION - Sanctuary Cove Country Club Gleneagles Drive Sanctuary Cove QLD 4212 o o o MEMBERSHIP Sandra Doumany ADMINISTRATION Sue Marshman SERVICE PROJECTS Jim Elmslie PUBLIC RELATIONS Keith Wilson DIRECTOR Karin Kolenko DIRECTOR Neil Moxey

7 End of Year Dinner When? 9 6:30pm Where? Cove Restaurant Intercontinental Hotel Sanctuary Cove Cost? $50pp + Cash Bar RSVP 2 December 2013 Bring along Partners & Friends Bookings Details on Next Page

8 End of Year Dinner The following people will be attending the dinner on 9 December

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