Club Bulletin No 3, Vol 21, August 92002 The Cam |
||||||||||||||
| Features | If you are not getting The Bulletin let the committee know! | News |
President's Message | Missed Meetings | ||||||||||
| Guest Speakers And Coming Events |
Aug 9 |
Graham Koch:Interplast Presentation
to Innerwheel & TAS Rowing Team for Show support |
| Duty Officers | August | Dean Wolfenden Sandy Astill Ian Brauman |
| Duty Officer's Duties | Placing all the gear in Rotary Room after and before each meeting. | |
| Reminders | ||
|
|
|
2ND AUGUST 2002 On Monday we welcomed our inbound Youth Exchange Student Laura from the Netherlands who commences her year with our Club. After some confusion locating her at the airport Laura was safely in the hands of Brian & Royale White who will host her for the first part of her stay. Many thanks to those members who were able to make it to the airport to make Laura feel welcome. On behalf of the Club I welcome Laura to Australia and to our Club. We all hope that her stay with us will be an enjoyable and worthwhile experience for her. We had our first Board Meeting on Tuesday where a number of issues were discussed. The Directors have resolved to support the Interplast Program with a contribution of $ 1000. Rtn Graham Koch will visit our Club next Friday 9th August to talk to us on the work of Interplast. The Club has received forms to nominate a young person for the National Youth Leadership Forum to be held in Canberra from 29th August - 1st September 2002. If you would like to nominate an appropriate young person then please talk with Robyn Goodwin (Vocational Service) or Gina Raccanello (New Generations) and they will assist. We also had a Combined Presidents Meeting this week where a number of important matters were discussed. We are still accepting nominations for a GSE Team Leader to Turkey. The Business Liaison Association is desperate for ushers to help students and parents at the Careers Expo to be held at Fred Moule Pavilion from 29th - 31st August 2002. There are 2 shifts of 3 hours approx on Thursday & Friday and on session on Saturday morning. Our Club is required to provide one usher for each session, so if you can help out please contact Robyn Goodwin urgently. Ron Cheeseman is actively involved in the production of a video to be used to publicise Rotary during Rotary Awareness Week in September. Please remember to keep pushing our Rotary Community Art Union tickets. The closing date is not too far away and we need to make sure that all of the tickets are sold. If you know of an organization that may benefit from being involved in our unique Art Union then please call John Quinn (Community Service), Herman Ehrlich or David Kirchner and they will take it from there. Upcoming events that members are encouraged to be involved in include the FNQ Youth Assistance Fund Testimonial Dinner to honour Ted Elliott ( a great Rotarian and member of our Club) that will be held at Brothers Leagues Club on Friday 9th August 2002. So far we have 20 members from our Club attending which is fantastic support, however if you would like to join us please contact me or Michael Plunkett for a form. The next evening 10th August 2002 we have ( be member request) our Christmas in the Mountains function at the Lake Eacham Hotel. Numbers for this are also excellent so if you want to come and have some fun and fellowship please let Gina know and book your own accommodation at the pub. August is Rotary Membership Extension Month, so please think hard about introducing a new member to Rotary this month. If you have someone in mind all you need do is contact either David Kirchner (Membership Co-ordinator) or myself and we will contact the person to invite them to a meeting. We have inducted 2 new members recently in Dean Wolfenden and Carl Pie so lets keep the momentum going. That's about it for this week. See you all at the Hilton at 12.30pm for 1.00pm - remember the parking arrangements. Take care of each other, and be sure to talk to someone about Rotary this week. Garry Shirvington President Rotary Club of Cairns-Mulgrave 2002-03 Rotary 4-Way Test 1. |
| Features | Use the index on the left to scroll through this week's features. |
|
Ted Elliot Testimonial Youth Assisitance Fund Psychology Debate Milson helps Cancer Society raise $230,000 The Rotary Club of Harvey, W.A. Taree North Beats The Fly Problem Vibrant Broken Hill is club aim Cairns West saves families a long trip for help with hearing impairment Gloucester says enough, fights back and wins
|
Lawrence Edward (Ted) Elliot Testimonial Youth Assistance Fund Donations are being sought to establish the Lawrence Edward (Ted) Elliot Testimonial Youth Assistance Fund for the assistance of disadvantaged and isolated youth achievers throughout Far North Queensland. James Cook University Student Psychology Association July, 2002 Dear Rotarian We would like to extend to you and your family an invitation to this year's debate especially in light of Rotary's concern and involvement with Community Mental Health. For ten years now, the Student Psychology Association - Cairns has held the annual nature/nurture debate, inviting people from the wider community to a reliably entertaining evening. It has been decided that the nature/nurture topic has been thoroughly debated and this year, the 11th year of the annual debate, we are investigating a new topic: "There is no such thing as a mental disorder", Frost 2002. The debaters and researchers are first year psychology students. These students dedicate their time to providing the most insightful arguments. However, the evening is not strictly an academic event and the competition is light-hearted and even humorous at times. There will be flute playing during the social hour before the debate and Robert Bright, Clinical-Health Psychologist, Cairns Base Hospital will address the audience during the 15-minute break while the adjudicator's confer. Finally, trophies and door prizes will be awarded with complimentary coffee and tea following the debate. The 2002 debate will be held on Friday, August 16, from 6.30 pm at the Crowther Theatre at the Cairns Campus. The organising committee hopes you will be interested in attending this event as our honoured guest. This is an opportunity for the Community, the students and the faculty to share an enlightening and fun evening together. We look forward to seeing you on the night. We hope this presents Rotary with an opportunity to share a mutual concern with the community's future health care workers. Also, as there is a shortage of door prizes, would it be possible for a Rotary Club donation? Sincerely, Fay Agee, Advertising Chairman
Rotary Down Under July 2002 Milson helps Cancer Society raise $230,000 The Rotary Club of Milson in Palmerston North, New Zealand, has been involved in the Manawatu Cancer Society Relay for Life which raised $NZ230, 000 for new cancer treatment equipment at the local hospital. Milson Rotary was one of more than 100 teams in the 24hour continuous relay. The local university sports field became a mini-tent city as each team set up a base. Participants walked and ran for 24 hours with each team required to have at least one team member on the track at all times. The then President of the Rotary Club of Milson, Allan Rai, said: "The relay was a fantastic community event, not only for the money raised but the enormous community spirit developed. "More than half the Milson club took part in the event." The Milson Club was able to donate $3,000 to the cause from its fund raising efforts. Big feet welcome in Harvey Each year in March, the Mainstreet Committee in Harvey, W.A., organises a grape harvest to showcase the produce of the surrounding rich agricultural area. Local wine, cheeses, fruit, vegetables and handicrafts are sold to the thousands of visitors in Harvey for the day. The funds raised assist community development. The Rotary Club of Harvey, W.A., has established a Great Western Australian Grape Stomp as part of the festival with a $A1, 000 first prize to the winning senior team. Local businesses support the competition with donations of case or product for the placegetters. Club members John and Michael Lowe from Korijekup Estate and Charlie Capogreco from Palm Lake Wines generously contribute toward the appeal of the event. A team of two gets three minutes to stamp out as much juice as they can from a crate of grapes. The Grape Stomp attracts a large crowd to urge on the competitors. - Bill Russell. When district 9800 Past Governor Des Jones was appointed the community service director of the Rotary Club of Prahran, Vic., for 2001-02 his committee and the club responded to an approach from the Brotherhood of St. Laurence which suggested an urgent need existed for a computer study centre to help students within a housing complex. They had limited or no access to computer for study or homework. Assistance was enlisted from individuals and businesses in the wider community and the Victorian University Community Initiatives program in Melton, Vic., supplied reformatted computers, the end-product of their project to teach young people how to repair and reprogram computers to be made available to schools and institutions. All computers in the new facility have networking facilities and are connected to colour printers. The new facility was handed over to the Brotherhood of St. Laurence by PDG Des at an official opening. Parents in the housing complex will also be able to access news from relatives and friends in the 21 countries of origin represented within the complex. The project has created a great deal of interest in the Department of Human Services and has been covered by press articles. - John Harris. Taree North Beats The Fly Problem With the second-year funding of $A24, 000 from the Natural Heritage Fund, the Rotary Club of Taree North, N.S.W., has successfully seeded 150,674 dung beetles in the Manning Valley Catchment. Eight years ago the club surrounded Taree to eliminate the fly problem and then went on to cover Wingham. With the success of the program, Taree North sought funds from the Natural Heritage Fund and on its second application the club won half-funding. The Then President Ray Wallis, with then community service director Kevin Haigh and his commitee, are keen to continue the program. Gloucester Shire Council has undertaken the supply of dung beetle manuals for the initial three years. The club's application for further funds is now before the Natural Heritage Fund. Clive Woolcott is the club's dung beetle program co-ordinator. Members of the Rotary Club of Madang, Papua New Guinea, travelled by land and sea to get equipment to the staff of Gaubin Hospital on Karkar Island. The equipment, to e used for saving life in an emergency, was donated by the Rotary Club of Schleswig in Germany. Doctor Silke Bertram, who now is at the hospital to succeed Doctor Peter Knausenberger, brought the equipment from Germany with her. Dr. Knausenberger served at Gaubin Hospital for three years. The Madang members departed early in the morning, driving for an hour to Kubangum where they boarded the Lutheran Health Services boat to travel to Gaubin Hospital which is situated on the Karkar Island's coastline. It was an enlightening visit for most of the Rotarians as it provided an opportunity to see the hospital and talk with the staff. The hospital has had links with Rotary over many years. It serves a population of 40,000. - Maureen Hill. Vibrant Broken Hill is club aim The Rotary Club of South Broken Hill, N.S.W., is a leader in a community business partnership and sponsor of Broken Hill Community Inc. Through the Broken Hill Community Roundtables, citizens, community groups, business and government have been developing projects that will assist the community sustainability beyond the Pasminco mine closure. Then president of the Rotary Club of South Broken Hill, David Tunkin, consequently has welcomed the Federal Government's commitment to purchase a bowling club building for the Centre for community. It will become a key ingredient as an entrepreneurial alliance of various sectors working to ensure that Broken Hill continues as a healthy and vibrant community. David Tunkin said the city's future would depend on the community identifying and driving projects as government could only do so much. The Rotary Club of Broken Hill South is keen for other service clubs, sporting, self-help groups and businesses to join the partnership to make sure the government's financial contribution gains the maximum value when renovations begin. Having heard about a similar event from visiting English Rotarian, the Rotary Club of Whangarei decided to organise a Pooh Sticks competition. Club members were reminded about the fund Christopher Robin, Eyeore and Piglet had dropping sticks over the bridge in the Hundred Acre Wood and seeing whose stick emerged first. All the club needed was suitable bridge in a suitable wood, a suitable number of sticks and a suitable number of children and parents who knew about Winnie The Pooh and Christopher Robin. Finding the right spot was not a problem. Whangarei City has a park full of beautiful native trees with just the right slow-running stream and a bridge large enough to hold 10 contestants at a time. The club was not interested in a big cash return, but wanted to promote Rotary, giving families a day of fun and remind them that they had a wonderful asset in Mair Park on their doorstep. Because the river is tidal, the day for the Pooh Sticks had to be chosen carefully. Local schools and a radio station entered into the spirit of the occasion, teachers reading Winnie-The-Pooh stories and the station having a Pooh Sicks Week. The Whangarei District Brass Band and the Whangarei Youth Orchestra offered their services and the Whangarei Youth Theatre supplied young actors dressed as characters from the loved book. One Rotarian became a storyteller and others in the club were involved as marshals, judges, stick retrievers (some kayaks were invaluable), stick-sellers and sausage sizzlers. The sticks were made from tongue depressors (supplied by a physician Rotarian) which were colour coded and bound in groups of three to make them heavy enough to fall from the bridge into the water. A finishing rope was strung across the river a short distance away. Prizes were courtesy of McDonald's Family Restaurants. The event attracted children who took part in 25 heats of 10 each. A draw decided the grand prizewinner of a Pooh Bear donated by story-time books. The club got a $A400 return for distribution to organizations helping to make the day a success and made 300 children happy and ready for the Pooh Sticks next year. Further details on conducting such an event are available by email from bertandbetty@xtra.co.nz or via the club secretary at P.O.Box 354, Whangarei, N.Z. - Bert Boswell Cairns West saves families a long trip for help with hearing impairment Action by the Rotary Club of Cairns West, QLD., has removed the need for people in North Queensland to travel almost the length of the state south to Brisbane for assistance on hear impairment. The club has donated a total of $A27, 000 over three years to the Hear and Say Centre, North Queensland. Eight hearing-impaired children are being taught to listen and speak at the Cairns centre now. Some of the money has been used to provide sponsorships for cochlear implants recipients, children who were born profoundly deaf. The sponsorship money allows these children to benefit from the option of auditory-verbal therapy provided by the Hear and Say Centre. As a result of this therapy, most young children achieve age-appropriate speech and language skills by school entry. Early diagnosis is essential, preferably before a baby is six months of age. The Rotary Club of Cairns West has been pleased to support this worthy cause, finding it a heart-warming exercise. It also has been gratifying to learn that other Rotary clubs in Cairns have offered to provide rental support for the new learning centre. Wings of Sound, a magazine for friends and supporters of Hear and Say, in its Autumn issue carried an article on a Cairns family's gratitude for the work of the centre and thanks to Professor Graeme Clark, director of the Bionic Ear Institute in Melbourne, Vic., and the inventor of the cochlear implant. - Terry Carmady. Cairns West, Qld. - Hear and Say's North Queensland Coordinator Diana Petrovich-Scholes, Kerrie Endres and son Sam, and then president of the Rotary Club of Cairns West, Qld., Terry Carmady at the Hear and Say Centre. Sam is a cochlear implant recipient. Gloucester says enough, fights back and wins Gloucester is a regional centre situated at the base of the Barrington Tops, north of Newcastle in N.S.W. Over the past five years the district has suffered, firstly from the closure of the timer industry, then dairy deregulation, and last year Diary Farmer Co-op, one of the largest employers in the district, decided to close its dairy factory. To top this off the N.S.W. Health Department was talking of reducing services at the local hospital, a significant employer in the district. It was time for the local service clubs to spring into action, so they decided to get behind an initiative by the members of the Quota Club to improve physical environment of the geriatric patients in the Narraweema wing of the Gloucester Soldiers Memorial Hospital. Fortunately, there have been administrative changes in Gloucester's health region, and it is now realise how important local hospitals really are, and the dollar support by the community is now appreciated. Work has now commenced on the alterations and extensions to the Narraweema wing. The community raised more than $A100, 000 for the project, of which the Rotary Club of Gloucester contributed $20,458. In May it was announced that services in Gloucester Hospital would be upgraded because of the huge support from the community. - Ken Graham. |