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PRESIDENTS
MESSAGE
Members who attended the Ambulance
centre last Friday, enjoyed their vocational visit, and thank
you to Gina for organizing it on behalf of the club.
Our next Vocational visit is Friday
week October 17th. This will be a lunch meeting at TAFE. We
need to be at TAFE for 12.30pm to 2pm for lunch. Please advise Gina
if you are attending and people who say they are attending and do
not attend will be charged for the lunch, as the TAFE cater for
the numbers we give them.
Rotary shirts will be available
to purchase on Friday at the Hilton hotel, they are $25.00 each.
We are also seeking volunteers to design a new shirt for the club
Any people who may have ideas for this please contact me.
We have our BBQ this Saturday for
Passion for Life, members who have volunteered please remember
yuour times of attendance
We are having a joint meeting November
14th with Earlville Club, they are coming to the Hilton hotel.for
lunch.Our club and Earlville are combining to do a joint project
for 2005 Centenary of Rotary. We are purchasing two vans
to transport patients to and from the Cairns Base hospital dialysis
unit. We will be telling members more of this project at the joint
meeting.
Cairns West Rotary club has a cinema
evening Thursday October 16th. It is 6.30pm cheese and wine
and the movie is 7pm . It is Calendar Girls. If anyone wishes to
attend please advise numbers to me.
I sent flowers to Max Crittenden
during the week on behalf of the club, and spoke to him.
We are looking for a host family
for Sophie for the months of December, January and to 21 February
approx. If anyone can host her for that period please contact Bob
Fowler.
We are also looking for a few volunteers
from the club to help with our money raising bash or car rally next
to go towards our Centenary project. We need to start organizing
for that straight away. The time will be August 2004.
PRESIDENT ROBYN.
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2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
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Rotary
Club of Cairns Mulgrave
Invite two Year 7 students & a teacher/parent
as guests to lunch
On Friday 17 October, 2003
At Tropics Restaurant, TNQ TAFE College Gatton Street
12.15 for 12.30 lunch Finish 2.00pm
As part of Rotary’s commitment to
the youth of our region and in celebration of Vocational Month,
you will have the opportunity to hear and meet with a young local
person who is making her mark on the sports’ scene internationally.
Guest speaker: Caroline Cooksley
Imagine getting up to start your day with a 150km bike ride up the
Gillies Range and back home via Kuranda. Local girl come Australian
Triathlon Age Champion, 24 yo Caroline is competing internationally.
Come to learn how the drive to do the best and be the best motivates
Caroline to take a professional approach to her life’s goals. To
finish an event despite the blisters or all over gravel rash takes
determination! Let Caroline inspire the young people to attain their
aims in life despite the personal, mental and emotional barriers
they may come across.
R.S.V.P to Gina Raccanello Ph 40410565
Email: gina@absolutecomputers.com.au
By Monday, 13th October, 2003
The Australian
Youth Exchange Chairs Conference
The Australian Rotary Youth Exchange Program (YEP)
is held in high regard, being recognised intentionally as a world
leader.
For some 40 years, thousands of students have enjoyed
the benefits as a result of the dedication of hundreds of Rotarians
committed to the ideals of the Rotary YEP. Today, all 23 Districts
in Australia take part in the program, with active Youth Exchange
Committees working to further enhance and promote the opportunity
for students to spend a year at school in another country.
Each year the 23 District YEP chairs meet for the
Australian YEP Chairs Conference, which provides a forum for the
sharing of ideas, standardization of procedures and professional
guidance for YEOs. This is a vital tool for the education of new
officers as they are introduced to committees in line with District
leadership plans.
The YEP Chairs Conference is a constituted body,
having an executive consisting of the chair, secretary and assistance
secretary/treasurer elected for a two year term. The executive appoints
an insurance officer for a similar term. The conference has been
used as a model for many overseas. Districts,
who attend the meeting annually, thereby adding an international
flavour.
The structure is occasionally misunderstood with
the perception that YEP Committees and the YE Chairs Conference
have too much power and are laws unto themselves. Perhaps it's because
they manage a business with an annual turnover in excess of $3 million.
Quite the contrary exists. YEP committees going
to great lengths to provide absolute transparency and reporting
to their respective District governors. Each year, every DG and
DGE is invited to attend the Chairs Conference, in addition to our
R.I. director when possible.
In recent years, the Conference has placed great
emphasis on the protection of students by way of a comprehensive
Travel Insurance program, and currently Australia has arguably the
best insurance program in the Rotary world. The policy benefits
have been hard won, fiercely protected, and include among other
benefits, unlimited overseas medical and emergency services cover.
Until recently, there was concern that YEP had
a negative impact on each District in relation to insurance costs
as student insurance was included in the overall District insurance
premium.
To define clearly that the YEP is a 100 per cent
user pays program, the travel insurance premium has been removed
from the District accounts. YEP now has its own policy, separate
policy number and a renewal date of December 31, whereas the national
Rotary insurance program renewal date I June 30.
The administration of YEP insurance for Australia
is managed by the Australian YEP Chairs Conference, in conjunction
with our national brokers Aon Risk Services and ACE Insurance Limited.
Its responsibilities include attendance at renewal negotiations,
placement of cover for all outbound and inbound students wishing
to insure under the Australian program, the collection and payment
of premiums, provision of documentation, claims assistance, orientation
training and insurance procedural training for YEOs.
The system is unique in the Rotary world and the
envy of many countries and overseas Districts following presentations
at international conferences. The benefits, scope of cover and costs
are so attractive, 50 percent of inbound students to Australia choose
to purchase the Australian inbound travel insurance cover.
Countries such as Germany and Switzerland insure
their total contingent on one schedule, thereby guaranteeing that
every student is covered well before departure. The annual premium
pool is in the order of $A430, 000 with claims for the first half
of 2003 being $30,000.
With an estimate of annual claims of say $100,000,
the YEP Travel program will be profitable for the insurer and should
keep any premium increase to a minimum. In relation to the administration
by the Chairs Conference, Aon is delighted in the ability to deal
with one entity only instead of 23, and have discounted fess to
the YEP accordingly.
Australia can be very proud of the fact that it
is a world leader in relation to insurance for students taking part
in the Rotary Youth Exchange Program.
Peter Kay, Past President of the Rotary Club
Of Mundingburra, Qld.
Wordplay
Every year the "Washington Post" newspaper invites
its readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding,
subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
Here are the 2003 winners.
Beelzebug (n): Satan in the form of a mosquito
that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be
cast out.
Caterpallor (n): The colour you trun after
finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating.
Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund,
which last until you realise it was your money to start with.
Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a
hillbilly.
Bonzone (n): The substance surrounding stupid
people that stops bright ides from penetrating. The bozone layer,
unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself
for the purpose of getting laid.
Cashtration (n): The act of buying house,
which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite
period.
Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very,
very high.
Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of
sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously
when you are running late.
Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.
Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is
sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the
Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
Glibido: All talk and no action.
Arachnoleptic fit (n): The frantic dance
performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider
web.
Ignoramus: A person who's both stupid and
an asshole. From Barfly
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