Bulletin Monday 13th October 2014 I S S U E N O 1 5-2 0 1 4 / 1 5 Meets weekly at Benito s Restaurant 1196 Nepean Highway, Mount Eliza 5975 8060 6.00pm for 6.30pm start www.mountmartharotary.org.au TOM S TALES Hello Rotarians October is Vocational Service Month It was good to hear from our District Governor Charlie last week who reminded us that Rotary is a world organisation which is apolitical and non religious. He stressed also that as Rotarians we tend to hide our light under a bushel and we should promote our projects and Rotary more. He also brought us up to date on Polio plus and the fact that it is going well with some different strategies which with luck will be successful. The work done so far is amazing in having saved millions of children from the scourge of polio in the last thirty years and it is frustrating to be so close to removing polio from the world completely It was a very busy week for us last week with Lets Go Crusin and the car parking at the Archibald Prise and the working bee at the Portsea Camp, big thank you to all our members who helped out Tonight is our combined membership and Pride of Workmanship award night and I welcome all who have not been to a Rotary meeting please ask questions of any Rotarian about Rotary and to our members I m sure you will seek out and make most welcome our guests tonight. The Pride of Workmanship Program enables managers in our society to help employees achieve the goal of job satisfaction, and publicly recognize them for their efforts. Participating businesses promote the Pride of Workmanship theme of "Do it once- do it well" throughout their organization and nominate employees worthy of recognition, not only within the organization, but the wider community. Nominees of the Pride of Workmanship Program are presented with a trophy in recognition of their achievements. To all our awardees tonight congratulations and have a great night See you all Monday Regards TOM Rotary Club of Mount Martha PO Box 342, Mornington 3931 District Governor 9820: Charlie Spiers Assistant Governor 9820: Tyrrell McGeever President: Tom Barrett 59743143 trbarr@bigpond.net.au Secretary: Bernard Butler 03 59762227 bernard@datalinktech.com.au Apologies and Guests: Barrie Sweeney by Monday 12.00 midday at the latest (03) 59818663 lorbar@internode.on.net Bulletin Editor: Colin Stokes Contributions by midday Thursday please chstokes@optusnet.com.au Website Editor: Colin Stokes chstokes@optusnet.com.au
LAST MEETING AT BENITO S RESTAURANT Details of the Meeting Monday 6th October 2014 MEMBERS: APOLOGIES: L.O.A: MAKE UPS: GUESTS OF CLUB: 28 present Neil Armstrong, Freda Bowie-Horoway, Paul Clark, Martin Lowe, Wayne Norris, Peter Rawlings, David Wheeler. Adrian Davis, Justin Orr. Tom Goulding - Board Meeting DG Charles and Janne Spiers GUESTS OF MEMBERS: VISITING ROTARIAN: CHAIRMAN: Linda Ivanovski, Gayle Goulding, Margaret Crane. Chris Davis, Phylis Scales (Guest of David Piper) Aileen Piper, Glenys Groves, Kaye Stokes, Jenny Mayne, Yvonne Marks. Lara Barrett - Mt. Eliza. President Tom Barrett. Meeting Notes-Bill Cummins Notes of Rotary Club of Mt Martha Meeting - 6-10-2014 President Tom welcomed Rotarians, their partners, visiting Rotarian (Mt.Eliza) Lara Barrett, Phyllis Scales ( David Piper's guest) and District Governor Charlie Speirs and his wife Janne. Charlie was making his official visit to the Club. Announcements : John Marshall reminded all of the Lets go Cruisin bbq tomorrow night and volunteers for the working bee at Portsea Camp on Saturday and Sunday this week. Rob Davies handed out and spoke about the next play "Whose Wives Are They Anyway" being undertaken by his group. This will be held at the Mt Eliza Community Centre.in late November early December. Please contact Rob for further information and bookings. Maybe we could make up a table? Dee Tozer called for more past copies of the RDU magazine and reminded us of the Membership Information night next Monday. The meeting is 6.30pm for a 7.00 pm start. please RSVP the names of guests by noon Friday. Greg Buchanan handed out a roster sheet for the Archibald parking on Wednesday. Two persons required per shift. Five shifts in total. Acting Sergeant Greg : Many fines handed out, amongst which were : Roger Skipsey spotted getting a haircut, David Crane had a badge mix up, all Rabbitohs supporters, Barrie Sweeney for an All Blacks loss, Rob Davies for an Argentinian win, Yvonne Marks dressed for church- wrong day, last Saturday's sausage sizzle members for leaving the sign out, all the PDG's and President Tom for breaking the handle of his shovel. Bill Cummins fined,on behalf of the Club, for gaining a Presidents Citation for our efforts last year. Roger Annear, the swindler : Once again we failed to get a winner with the stakes standing at $275. President Tom, Greg Buchanan, David Piper and John Marshall were the unsuccessful members. With only a hand full of cards left, surely it will go off next week.
DG Charlie Spiers TONIGHTS Visit MEETING to Our AND DIARY Club DATES President Tom then introduced DG Charlie Spiers. Charlie began his presentation with the words "get involved" and "come along and play". Which is very much in line with this year's Rotary Theme of "LIGHT UP ROTARY". It is more than a theme, it is how we live in Rotary, think in Rotary, how we feel and how we work. It is how we make a difference every day throughout the world. We are part of an International Community but we fail to capitalize on all the good works that are being carried out throughout the World by Rotary. We must tell the World of the positive things being achieved instead of always having the negatives reported. A good example is Polio Plus. 2011 there were 200 polio cases reported 2012 " " " " " " 2013 " " 400 " " " 2014 " " 209 " " " Of the 209, 174 are in Pakistan and recently the WHO/Rotary had Imran Khan, ex Pakistan cricket captain and current leading politician and "cult figure", visit the infected area of Pakistan and meet with tribal chiefs in an attempt to convince them that the vaccine for the treatment of Polio is okay in Sharia Law. we can only hope they see it that way. It is planned to vaccinate between 40-80 thousand in that area. Charlie finished by encouraging us to find new members, help or start up a Rotoract Club or another Club within our own for younger members. The RC of Doncaster recently started a Club for up to 30 year olds within their Club. It does it's own thing, meets when it needs to, dispensed with all of therotary protocol, do their own fund raising but join the main Club for major projects and a meeting once a month. WE CAME TO PLAY- WE COME TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. DG s Wife Janne Told us about her great project in Bangladesh DG's wife's project: Janne spoke to us about her project for the year, which is Operation Cleft. Janne's interest in Bangladesh, which is where this project is being conducted, goes back to when her father spent some time in Bangladesh and came to care for the people a lot. In 2005, the RC of Box Hill Central agreed to fund a pilot program of 60 cleft repair operations. With the great success and the simplicity of the trial they decided to make Operation Cleft a Rotary International project. A $250 operation, would allow an underprivileged child to feed themself, speak properly, go to school and gain employment. It is estimated that there are 300,000 Bangladeshis born each year with a cleft lip or pallet. The operations are undertaken by Bangladeshi Plastic Surgeons.
Meeting 13th October 2014: Membership TONIGHTS MEETING and AND Vocational DIARY DATES Awards Night Chair Tom Goulding Birthdays Members: Nil Birthdays Members Nil Anniversaries: Nil ***************************************************************************************** October : Vocational Service Month Front of House - P. CLARK, J. Ivanovski, C STOKES (W. NORRIS, C. MINSTER) October 13 Membership-/ Vocational Awards Night - Chair Tom Goulding 20 Club Assembly (discussion on matters referred to members recently) Board Meeting follows 24 World Polio Day (Friday) See the article this Bulletin page 6 25 Sausage Sizzle: Bernard Butler, Neil Armstrong, John Routledge 27 Teenagers Road Accident Group (TRAG) Dr Nicky Martin Chair Wayne Norris, November: Rotary Foundation Month Front Of House - W CUMMINS, R. MARKS, B. SWEENEY (P. RAWLINGS, N.ARMSTRONG) November 01 Sausage Sizzle: Roger Skipsey, Martin Reid, Geoff Kaye 03 Melbourne Cup Eve Function 04 Lets Go Cruisin Sausage Sizzle 10 Micro finance in Africa Chair Christine Williams 11 Remembrance Day (Tuesday) 14 Golf Day (Friday) Mornington Golf Club 15 Sausage Sizzle: Tom Goulding and the Benton Square Community Centre volunteers 17 Club Assembly & AGM Chair President Elect: Peter Warren 24 TBA 29 Sausage Sizzle: Byron Groves. Martin Lowe, David Piper RED = FRONT DESK BLUE = WELCOME AND NAME TAGS
Articles of Particular Interest from DG 9820 Newsletter and District website; PENINSULA 2.0 INAUGURAL FUN RUN I am excited to let you know that we are now accepting registrations for our Inaugural Fun Run. This is going to be a fantastic event and one that we hope will grow bigger each and every year. Can you please help us spread the word by distributing this to your clubs, friends and family. Registrations are completed online. If you aren't interested in taking part in the actual run, but would still like to be involved, we are also looking for volunteers to help us on the day in a range of activities. If you are interested, please email our Volunteer Director John at iconicjohn@me.com. Any ideas for sponsorship would also be really appreciated. Thanks in advance for supporting us, Kim Schroder (Public Relations Director, Rotary Peninsula 2.0 {0431 434 300}) For flier go to www.district9820.0rg *************************************************************************************************************** 2014 2015 DISTRICT CONFERENCE, SHEPPARTON, MARCH 27-29 REGISTRATIONS are well and truly open for the Shepparton Conference. Don t forget though that as well as registering for the Conference itself, you can also plan to join with local Shepparton Rotarians for a meal on Thursday evening, enjoy the Pre-Conference Wineries Tour, have a round of golf on Friday, visit the local Rotary market on Sunday for lunch or join the Ride to Conference crew in a few relaxing days of pedaling!! Please remember that you can also book your accommodation by following the links on the website. You can also pay your registration in installments so please consider that as well. Visit the website at www.district9820conference.org FOUNDATION FACTS Did you know that The Rotary Foundation partners with seven universities in the world as part of the Rotary Peace Fellow Program? The University of Queensland is a Rotary Peace Partner Institution. Did you know that a Rotary Peace Fellow scholarship is valued at US $75,000? Did you know that The Rotary Foundation is Rotary International s only charity? Did you know that less than 20% of Rotarians in Australia make regular personal contributions to The Rotary Foundation?
TONIGHTS MEETING AND DIARY DATES Presidents Message October 2014 GARY C.K. HUANG PRESIDENT 2014-15 In October 1914, Jonas Salk was born a man who would change world history by inventing the first effective vaccine against polio. When the vaccine was introduced in the United States in the 1950s, polls indicated that polio was one of the nation's two greatest fears, second only to the fear of atomic war. And with good reason: In the 1952 U.S. polio epidemic, 58,000 cases were reported, with 3,145 deaths and 21,269 instances of permanent, disabling paralysis. Globally, polio paralyzed or killed up to half a million people every year. Soon after the Salk vaccine was created, Albert Sabin developed an oral version, allowing tremendous numbers of children to be immunized quickly, safely, and inexpensively. In 1985, Rotary's Polio Plus program was born, with a simple goal: to immunize every child under age five against this crippling disease. Thanks in large part to the initial success of Polio Plus, in 1988 the 166 member states of the World Health Assembly unanimously set the goal of global polio eradication. At the time, the idea was breathtakingly ambitious, and many called it impossible. Today, we are closer to this goal than ever before, with only a few hundred cases of polio reported per year, and just three remaining endemic countries. We are on track to achieve full eradication by 2018 if we can keep up the momentum that has brought us this far. And this month, we will mark World Polio Day on 24 October, and celebrate the 100th anniversary of Dr. Salk's birth. I ask you all to Light Up Rotary this month by doing whatever you can to shine a spotlight on our efforts to eradicate polio. Call your government officials and let them know that polio eradication matters to you. Go to endpolionow.org for inspiring stories about Rotary's work, and share them on social media. And make the best investment you'll ever make, by donating to polio eradication right on the endpolionow.org website and earning a two-to-one match on your contribution from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. When we eradicate polio and we will we'll have brought the world into a better future, and Rotary into a better future as well. We will have proved ourselves, as an organization, capable of great things. And we will have given our children and grandchildren a gift that will endure forever: a polio-free world.
TONIGHTS MEETING AND DIARY DATES October is Vocational Service Month When men and women join a Rotary Club, they do so as a representative of their vocational classification their particular business or profession. Rotarians have the dual responsibility of representing their vocation within the Club and exemplifying the ideals of Rotary within the workplace. Vocational Service calls every Rotarian to: Aspire to high ethical standards in their occupation Recognise the worthiness of all useful occupations Contribute their vocational talents to the problems and needs of society. Ethics One of the central goals of Vocational Service is to promote and advance Rotary s high ethical standards. Two useful tools Rotarians have to assess these standards are The Four-Way Test and the Declaration of Rotarians in Business and Professions Vocational Service Month Every October, Rotarians are encouraged to focus their attention on vocational service. Vocational Service Month is an opportunity to begin year-long vocational service activities, ranging from Rotary discussions to awards to community projects. At our meeting on Monday night Pride of Workmanship awards will be again awarded as a part of recognizing the above qualities in the work place. *********************************************************************************************** * Recent Events Lets Go Cuisin last Tuesday night, another Successful fun night, raising funds to assist the community. Archibald Art Display Parking - Another opportunity to have an involvement in a local activity and raise some money to use in the Community. One of our esteemed members at work. Portsea Camp Working Bee - A great camp facility on the Peninsula for children and families from all walks of life. A wonderful organisation to support. Thanks to all who Participated