Les opened the meeting by reminding us that Caloundra Pacific was chartered on 7th September 1977. He then introduced President Mike Healy.
 
President Mike welcomed guests Ian Aspinall (to be inducted tonight) and exchange student Gertrud. He also welcomed Gordon Watson, Mark & Judy McArdle and visiting Rotarian Julianna Neill from the Caloundra Club who is also the host parent for Gertrud. Mike welcomed the partners present and thanked them for coming.
 
INTERNATIONAL TOAST: Peter Hovey proposed the toast to Gertrud's sponsoring Rotary Club. The Rotary Club of Odense in Carolinekilde in Denmark. It was chartered in 1964 and conducts its meeting in English. It sponsors a Rotaract club and currently has two inbound exchange students, Jade from Texas and Peter from Taiwan. 
 
DIRECTORS and ANNOUNCEMENTS:
GOLF DAY 14th OCTOBER. Sponsors required.
Neville Woodford advised that the last two RYDA days for this year are on 11th and 12th october. See report later in the bulletin.
Win Fowles on behalf of David Smith presented Gertrud with two badges for her collection.
Will Waterford reminded to keep looking and ASKING people to join Rotary.
Kevin Leadbetter from Community Service reminded us of the projects we have this year. Zonta Safe House, Joel Archer (requires children's toys), Golf Day, Clean up australia Day, Cancer fund raising breakfast.
Barbara Bailey from Vocational Service congratulated Patrick King on his well present relocation celebration. Also we will be having a Vocational visit to Will Waterford's business in two Thursday's time.
 
COMMUNITY AWARENESS: Win Fowles advised us that the Sunshine Coast Art Prize night last week was a terrific event. Also that the previous owners of Little Mountain Produce (Jeff & Kerri-anne have a daughter with type 1 diabetes.
 
INDUCTION of Ian Aspinall, proposed by Greg Lee Archer.
 
Greg spoke to his proposal of Ian. They have been good friends of IAN and Cath for 6 years. Ian is originally from the UK. His father has been the president of the Haywood Rotary Club. Ian's background is in motor vehicle engineering. He moved from the UK to Hong Kong where he spent several decades. His wife is Cath and the have a daughter Amanda who is married to Simon. Ian enjoys reading, gardening, motor sports and is scuba expert.
 
Ian was inducted by Ross Harrison. Ian is allocated to the vocational service committee and will hold the classification of Government Technical Officer, Retired. President Mike presented Ian with his badge and invited him to say a few words.
 
Ian thanked Greg and the club for the honor. He spoke of his 20 years in Hong Kong as going very fast, the first 15 years was like a holiday but the last 5 years he had to work. He saw the writing on the wall when the Chinese were to take over so he left..
 
SERGEANT: Manfred did his usual wonderful job.
 
RIKI TIKI: not run.
 
GUEST SPEAKER: Exchange student Gertrud gave her first address to our club.
 
She is from Volund, Denmark. Her family consists of mum, Dad and two brothers. Her Dad is a vet and her Mum is a mid wife. The family usually has two holidays a year, summer camping in Italy and winter in Switzerland.
 
Denmark is a flat country, the highest mountain is Sky Mountain at 147 metres (no it is not a typo). It has a population between 5 & 6 million. Danes celebrate Christmas starting in the 1st December with the Christmas celebration on the 24th December. The majors companies are Lego, Carlsberg and Maersk. Denmark is the 4th oldest Monarchy in Europe being 1000 years old. Denmark has the famous author Hans Christian Andersen (Little Mermaid, Girl with the Matches). Denmark claims to be the happiest country in the world.
 
Typical food in Denmark is the open sandwich and licorice, Gertrud gave us a taste. The Danneborg is the flag of Denmark and is the oldest flag in the world.
 
Gertrud presented the club with a gift and a banner and was given a gift in return. She thanked Caloundra Pacific and Rotary for this wonderful opportunity. Asked why she chose Australia, Gertrud responded with it is far away and is English speaking.
 
Well done Gertrud on a well presented talk !!
 
RAFFLE: Yea!
 
CLOSE: President Mike thanked the duty officers and visitors and guests. He thanked Gertrud for her presentation.
He reminded us that next week is a board meeting to follow the regular meeting.
The meeting was closed with the singing of the National Anthem.
 
 
 
 
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