Greetings!
Please note that division 2 meeting is rescheduled for next week.
Wednesday's meeting agenda is provided below
The meeting was opened by Meeting Sergeant – Geoff Leddy
Guest speaker Sandy and Win Fowles’ daughter Libby; past members as guests, Marilyn Harris and Trevor Steel
International toast – Noel Bates
Rotary Club of Anaconda Montana USA, District 5390
Female President/Treasurer Meeting Tuesday lunch at midday
Copper smelter / Tallest single standing building – smoke stack 585’ (170m)
~9000 population
Projects – community/Christmas gift delivery present to 0-18y olds/safe escape for DV victims/scholarships/Rotary Park/community cleanup/painting/youth club/dictionary to all Year 3 students/civil projects
Members Moments:
** Trivia fund raiser 6 March – sweets provided, no dinner/Peter Hovey to write and present questions and MC - Don’t forget to get your tables of 8 together for the ROMAC Trivia Night, Greig has already sent out the flyer with details.
** Cedric Gowlett is feeling his age and spent Christmas in SCUH because of a walking disability.
** Brian Mason is very grateful for wheelie – Lyn Mason sent a thank you card.
** Les told a fishing joke about frogs and a brown snake, AGAIN.
** Allen Morgan noted that the Club Runner App are different information to Club Runner on the browser regarding member details and would like photos put up of all members.
** Jacqui spoke about the fun social night at Moffat Beach Brewery to start the year off. We had 2 teams - The Simple Minds team came 4th and Rotators came 6th - great result.
Guest Speaker:
Libby Harrison, (Win Fowles’ daughter) spoke about her Add Lib company where actors roleplay scenarios to assist with training professionals such as medical doctors, military personnel, police etc in simulated situations. The actors are generally acting as patients.
Add Lib is Affiliated with Griffith Uni. Lucy, Libby’s daughter, (who spoke at our club meeting) was also involved in acting when she was a 7 year old
Old saying:
Tell me and I forget
Teach me and I may remember
Involve me and I learn
To create better doctors and support their medical training
Teach me and I may remember
Involve me and I learn
To create better doctors and support their medical training
Libby has been working with Griffith Uni for 11 years – surveys of actors suggest they stay involved not for the pay but because of the warm fuzzy feeling they get being involved – the ‘kick’ they got out of the job was the best value in the job.
Eg how to break bad news to a patient
Specialty – sex health/body areas include respiratory and gastro
Patients are pretend
Why do they use actors? – role play – not popular with students/students too familiar with each other/too much medical jargon used – but actor will ask questions as don’t understand jargon
Role play with peers – doesn’t work as they are too familiar with each other
Realism v educationalism
Training:
- Body language extension
- Improvisation in simulation
- Heightened emotional status
- Providing accurate and concise feedback
Provides safe environment if situation doesn’t go well
Debrief actor as they have been told all day they have a bad diagnosis
Medical Doctors get counselling on situation. Goal (not medical feedback):
- How professional
- How much empathy was displayed
Trainers:
- Fake arm
- Fake breasts (to detect lumps) – mainly males (facebook photos)
- Pap smear, catheterize etc learn consent not just health (medical)
- Also includes training in areas of physiotherapy, pharmacology, corporate office, work place relationships, mediation, courageous conversations, bullying, military, law students, magistrates, job interviews, police, parliamentary driver training, mental health issues etc
Military and police are trained to be forceful!
After this very informative topic, we then went to our Fines session and collected a few dollars from most members.
Raffles were also distributed to winners and chocolates shared.
DIARY NOTES–
Any ideas about vocational visits would be welcome – a local business or organization that it would be good to know more about.
COMMITTEE NEEDED -
I need to have a committee to help organize Broadway in the Hangar end of August – the date is booked with QAM and Underground Opera, but we need sponsors and raffle prizes as well as any new ideas to make sure that it is another successful event. Thanks Eve
THURSDAY’S MEETING – please RSVP if you haven’t already! Topic is Housing Older Women's Support Service - Tegan Haslam (Co-Ordinator), accompanied by Kylie Lowe and Bonnie Lynn.
A NOTE FROM ALLEN MORGAN TO DAVID WALLIS -
HI PRESIDENT DAVID,
I believe you are a HIGHFLYER !
I think you are always up for a challenge, SO HERE IS ONE FOR YOU TO DO WHILE IN Mount Gambier
Adam Lindsay Gordon
On 28 July 1864, Australian poet and horseman Adam Lindsay Gordon made his famous daredevil ‘leap’ alongside the Blue Lake at Mount Gambier.
He jumped his horse Red Lancer over a post-and-rail guard fence beside the Blue Lake and landed on a small 1.8 metre ledge, with a 60 metre drop to the water, then jumped back on to the road.
Then on 11 May 1934, Adam Lindsay Gordon was accorded the greatest literary honour when His Royal Highness the Duke of York unveiled his bust in Poets’ Corner at Westminster Abbey.
the only Australian to be so honoured. In 1970, Gordon was honoured on a postage stamp bearing his portrait issued by the Australia Post. On 20 September 2014, Gordon was inducted into the Australian Jumps Racing Association's Gallery of Champions. A suburb In Canberra, Australia's capital, is named Gordon in his honour.
The last time I was in Mount Gambier, I achieved the same feat as Adam Lindsay Gorden but without the horse!
Maybe after you finish putting out all the fires in & around Mount Gambier, you could try this but with a horse !
No reply needed, Just a photo will suffice as prove to show us all when you return that it can be done.
| Club Meeting | 23rd Jan 2025 |
| Room Set Up/Clear Away | P Harding |
| Sergeant/MC | D Millar |
| International Toast | G Bowden |
| GS Into/Thanks | M Healy |
| Guest Speaker | Teagan Haslam |
| Regn/Fellowship | G Carroll |
| Bulletin Note Taker | B Radford |
FOR ESSENTIAL ACTION BY CLUB PRESIDENTS:
PLEASE ENSURE THAT ALL CLUB MEMBERS ARE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO READ THIS EMAIL.
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR POSITION OF GOVERNOR OF ROTARY DISTRICT 9620 FOR THE 2027 – 2028 ROTARY YEAR
Occupying the role of a Rotary District Governor is a lifetime opportunity to give service to our organisation, Rotary International, to our District 9620, and to the wider community. While the role is challenging it is also very rewarding. It will take your personal time, but it will also provide opportunities to learn from the wider Rotary family, to extend your leadership and communication skills, and to enjoy friendships with others undertaking similar opportunities across the globe, as you share and learn from each other, and from your own District colleagues closer to home.
Each year Rotarians and Rotaractors within a District are called on to select the District Governor for a future year. The process is governed by RI Policy, and we are starting the selection process for the 2027 – 2028 year. Our current succession plan is that our current District Governor (DG) Sue Mulraney will be followed in 2025-2026 by current District Governor Elect (DGE) Mark Williams and subsequently in 2026-2027 by current District Governor Nominee (DGN) Ian Hope.
We encourage you to put your name forward to potentially join this team by nominating for District Governor 2027-2028. If successful you will become the DGN in 2025-26, the DGE in 2026-27, and then the DG in 2027-28.
The Process for Selection of District Governor Nominee has been uploaded onto the District Website at the following link -
The selection process for our District’s 2027-2028 Governor Is about to commence, and in this respect, as Chair of the Nominating Committee, I am calling for expressions of interest from District Rotarians and Rotaractors to be a member of the District Governor Nominating Committee. There are two positions available (as highlighted below).
Each year the District Governor Nominating Committee consists of:
· District Governor (ex-officio),
· District Governor Elect (ex-officio),
· District Governor Nominee (ex-officio),
· The Nominating Committee Chair (A Past District Governor appointed by the District Board. Traditionally, but not necessarily, the Immediate Past District Governor), and
· Two District Rotarians/ Rotaractors determined by a majority decision of the committee members listed above.
To qualify to sit on the Committee, the District Rotarians/Rotaractors will have held office for a term in a District Leadership position (not a District Governor) or full term as President of a Rotary or Rotaract club in District 9620, 9630 or 9600 during the five years prior to the establishment of the Nominating Committee.
No more than one person on the Nominating Committee can be from any one club.
No member of the Nominating Committee can be from the club of an applicant.
If you feel you are qualified and able to contribute to this important District process, please submit your expression of Interest with details of your past roles in the District on the attached form.
You have most likely heard about the earthquake that hit Vanuatu on Tuesday. Vanuatu is part of District 9910, and we have been trying to establish communication with our Rotarians on the ground where possible, to assess the needs for an immediate response. It has been difficult.
The latest status, as we understand it: On Tuesday, 17 December, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck near Vanuatu, followed by multiple aftershocks. With the number of fatalities and injuries rising, and major damage to health, roads and telecommunications infrastructure, it is essential that critical assistance in water, sanitation, health, and nutrition is provided immediately in Vanuatu’s state of emergency.
There are two options for supporting this effort, and both ways, you can be sure that the funds will help directly:
1. Give a donation to the District 9910 Fund (NO tax deductibility, therefore suitable for club and district donations, for immediate funding availability), and / or
2. Give a donation to the Rotary Foundation Disaster Response Fund (WITH tax deductibility, therefore suitable for individuals, in support of a future Disaster Response Grant application that is being prepared based on the needs identified on the ground in Vanuatu)
1. Give a donation to the District 9910 Fund (NO tax deductibility, therefore suitable for club and district donations, for immediate funding availability), and / or
2. Give a donation to the Rotary Foundation Disaster Response Fund (WITH tax deductibility, therefore suitable for individuals, in support of a future Disaster Response Grant application that is being prepared based on the needs identified on the ground in Vanuatu)
The initial uptake of shirt and cap purchases last year was ok but not overwhelming. It is now very important that as many Rotarians AND Businesses, Mum's and Dad's & absolutely ANYBODY that can wear a shirt and/or cap be seen every Friday in a Purple Shirt / Cap.
We must continue to raise the profile of this Awareness Program across the State of Queensland - others are tackling the rest of Australia. The rest of the world will follow when we succeed in Australia!!!! In my opinion this should be the next Polio sized Project on Australian Rotary's radar.
Latest statistics indicate a considerable worsening of the DV scourge from one woman dying every nine days from a DV incident (excluding DV related suicides) in calendar 2023 to one woman every 3.4 days to November 30 2024 (11 month period - 98 deaths). Again excluding DV suicides.
Attached please find a flyer and order form to enable you to hopefully make a choice to purchase a shirt and/or a cap. The prices thereon you will note do not include freight. RC Cooroy holds a stock of shirts and caps which I maybe able to purchase from them (hopefully no freight). That will depend whether or how much they had to pay for freight when they made their purchase.
I think the worst case scenario would be a extra $1.50 to the costs shown on the Flyer.
Please find the attachment here: https://1drv.ms/b/c/163f7be983a3be60/EZeH5MmtSJlBh8EeTd3IMr8BRO9NQzRZ2qSblZng26BaOA?e=1aYmf1
As the end of my first six months presidency draws near, I thought I would provide an quick update on the club’s activities over the last six months.
Firstly, it is with some sadness that I inform you that Michael Berris has tendered his resignation from the club, citing personal reasons for his decision. Michael has been a powerhouse of support to the club, participating in almost everything we have done, trailer raffle, BBQs and particularly as the caterer for the Hanger event for the last two years. There is no doubt he will be missed. His leaving creates a vacancy on the Board (Club Services Director) which we hope to fill as quickly as possible.
As your president I am proud of the club’s activities over the last six months. We have participated in RYDA, conducted several BBQ events, the Golf Day, Broadway in the Hanger, and the Trailer raffle is in full swing. As a result of the funds raised by these events the Board has been able to allocate the following donations:
1 STEPS Pathway $9,000
2 Care flight $9,000
3 Angle Flight $9,000
Hello Good Day to All!
Please find the attached link below for the November-December 2024 RARE Newsletter
Thank you and have a great day!
RE: 2024-2025 Volunteer Grants - Now Accepting Expressions of Interest
I am contacting you to advise that my office is now accepting expressions of interest for the Federal Governments 2024-2025 Volunteer Grants Programme (“Volunteer Grants”).
These Volunteer Grants, set up by the previous Coalition Government, aim to support our nation’s vibrant volunteer workforce, to encourage volunteer and community participation and to highlight volunteer teams whose work has been faithfully tendered. Up to $66,225 is available for projects within our electorate of Fisher. The grants of between $1000 and $5000 are available to eligible not-for-profit community organisations to support the efforts of your volunteers.
Process from here:
1. Submit Your Completed EOI Form to andrew.wallace.mp@aph.gov.au by 11.59pm, Sunday 19 January 2025.
2. A shortlist of recipients will be nominated to the Department for assessment.
3. The department will advise successful nominees and enter into an agreement, which will include acquittal and reporting requirements.
A few things to note which may differ from previous rounds:
· This round enables organisations to utilise funds for items and services which support online communication initiatives.
· It also includes support to meet obligations for working with young volunteers and activities which support children’s wellbeing and development; and
· Grant funds can be used for other ongoing costs, including covering the costs of insurance, internet usage and phone bills for volunteer organisations
For more information, please refer to Grant Opportunity Guidelines or call the Community Grant Hub on 1800 020 283.
Containers for Change account no. C10219799
Donate your containers to the Rotary Club of Caloundra Pacific
