Calpac Capers
Calpac Capers 2nd February 2023
President Frank welcomed Guest Speaker and Member Mark Paton – Hear4Good, Tony Long AG and Sylvia Hovey.
He also noted the Ross Harrison’s achievement for his and his team’s sales quota for this past year, for the ninth consecutive year.
International Toast:
Marion Schultz proposed a Toast to the RC of Houston Heights which was founded in 1939. The Club is one of 60 Rotary and Rotaract Clubs in Houston Texas. Chad Greer is the current President. The major fundraiser is a crawfish and shrimp boil. They donate bicycles to Harvard Elementary School after school program, Scholarships to Graduates of Houston Heights High School, Food Bank, transitional housing and food packages at Christmas.
Directors Moments:
Will Waterford reminded all Members to be aware of opportunities to ask contacts to become a Rotary Member.
This remains a major focus for all Clubs and indeed Rotary International.
Peter Hovey mentioned the following events, at the forefront of Members’ minds -
**  16th Feb – Bulcock Beach History Walk. Meet at La Promenade Café at 6.00pm. 45 – 60 minute walk followed by Fish and Chips on the Beach.
**  20thApril - Pride of Work Awards – Nominations (2 or 3 required)
Mat Lynn - We will conduct our annual clean-up of Sugar Bag Rd. from 7:00 am to 9:00 am.
Details - 
     Date: 5th March 2023
     Site Number: 35145
     Site Name: Sugar Bag Road
     Site URL: https://www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au/fundraisers/matlynn/sugar-bag-road 
If you have not attended this event before, please consider doing so. It's a lot of fun, and we go out for coffee afterwards. I promise you won't get your hands too dirty.
Members Moments:
Les Pontin lightened the mood with a little story with a twist. Basically – “Technology will be the death of us all”. Quite funny and if you weren’t at the meeting maybe ask Les to share it with you next time you see him.
Barb Bailey shared some Club history as penned by Cedric Gowlett. The Editor will pass the account to CALPAC Secretary to record in Clubrunner.
Greig Lee-Archer reminded all about the ROMAC Trivia Night on Thursday 2nd March 2023. A meeting was held after the Club Meeting which was well attended by many Members offering assistance to run the Night was fantastic. Progress thus far in terms of organisation appear to be in hand. Greig’s concern is the apparent reduced number of tables being organised by CALPAC Members. Please give this some thought.
 
President’s Dates for Diary:
a. Board Meeting Monday 6th February 2023
b. District 9620 District Conference – 24th March 2023
c. Jazz in the Hangar – 20th  May 2023
 
Guest Speaker: Mark Paton - Hear Here!
Geoff Leddy introduced Mark Paton who has been a Member of the Australian College of Audiology for 18 years, Chair of the Peer review committee for 4 years, Board Chairman of the College in 2019/20, current Board Secretary, appointed as representative to the Hearing Health Sector Alliance in 2019 and involved several working groups for, Teleaudiology, Aged Care, dementia impact and curriculum review for Audiology.  Studies have identified hearing loss is not age related however a legacy of what an individual has subjected their hearing too throughout their life.   Hearing loss costs Australians a staggering $11.75 billion annually in lost productivity and other impacts. Employment rates or hearing-impaired people between the ages of 45 and 65 are lower than for comparable people in the rest of the population (20.5% lower for men and 16.5% lower for Women).
GP’s treat (generally) ailments that “hurt” or are “bleeding” – patients can more readily see or feel such ailments. Hearing loss tends to be more gradual with the individual not noticing the change until usually somebody who hasn’t seen the individual for some time comments on the progressive deterioration.  Australia has a world leading program to attend to the hearing of its older citizens. The Hearing Services Program provides hearing aids to seniors and veterans with no Gap. A service where people 0 to 26 can access hearing aids at no cost and scheme is not means tested. Clearly world leading. We can however still do better with the Residential Aged Care Commission highlighting that services need improvement in that sector. In Australia around 3.6 million people have some level of hearing loss. More than 1.3 million people live with a hearing condition that could have been prevented. More than 1 in 3 Australians have noise related ear damage.
Les Pontin thanked Mark for his informative and entertaining talk.
Vocational Talk:
David Johnston proudly informed the meeting he is a retired dentist. (a reference to Colgate toothpaste ads in the past).   Born in Toowoomba, the eldest and smartest of 6 children (ED: modest too) his mother was a practicing catholic, and dad was along for the ride!!   Started school at Clermont Central Qld, then Woodridge primary school and on to St Laurence’s Boys College.   Chose dentistry as his career over civil engineering and medicine and as a result has been down in the mouth job ever since. (ED: thankfully stage comedy was not pursued).  One of the first things learned was to be careful of who he asked “how are you” – many told him way too much e.g. the lovely woman who told him she wasn’t wearing any underwear, the big biker type who told me he didn’t like needles and proceeded to faint.
His most embarrassing moment, apart from the no underwear admission, was when he asked the lady how far pregnant she was – turns out she wasn’t. (ED: just as well he didn’t take up obstetrics!!) The best excuse I heard for being late for the appointment was the woman who has 2 flat tyres on the way – she’d run over an echidna! (ED: still trying to decide whether David believed her).  He was introduced to Rotary by Peter Baynes, a newsagent in Caloundra at the time. "Peter introduced me as a struggling young dentist with too much time on my hands – we had just had our 5th child." said David. "I am proud to say that we now also have 13 grandchildren." (ED: I think that may have partly been a oneupmanship of Will Waterford – not sure).   Little did he know at the time that Peter was finishing as the treasurer and he was the intended replacement! Since then, he has served in most roles within the club, some repeatedly, but unlike some only once as President.
It has nothing to do with Rotary, but 4 years ago David had a heart attack. While visiting his 92 year old mum in Brisbane at the time and had just finished some minor gardening and was having a cold drink when I felt unwell. His mother called triple zero and a rapid response vehicle and an ambulance arrived. When the neighbours saw his mum standing on the veranda waving the ambulance off, they were surprised, as they surmised that his mum would be in the ambulance.
At the time Ann (wife) was over in the Amazon Jungle with one of their daughters at the time and didn’t find out until 4 days later when she arrived home. David is still explaining that one. (ED probably has some hearing loss from that experience I would suggest!!)
Ann and David have been fortunate to have traveled overseas and locally, starting with a cruise of the South Pacific for their honeymoon. This started well, as David spent the first 3 days in bed!! Next was a trip to Adelaide followed by 8 months spent touring UK and Europe in the late 70’s.   Since then camping holidays along the east coast of Australia with his young family were experienced and since 2000 they have traveled overseas multiple times - still have not finished.   "For now," he says, "I am happily retired enjoying life on the coast, family, golf, Rotary and exploring this great planet we have."   He realises how fortunate he has been with choices in life and feels very thankful.
Sergeant Fines:
The return from holidays, business jaunts and other commitments brought Ross Harrison back to inflict revenge on those wearing long pants on such a hot day/night. Payback for all those fines for members wearing short pants over the last year. Not many were spared and some entertaining fines handed out.
Riki Tiki
Evelyn McCorkell delivered Riki Tiki which saw Brian Reith the last person standing.
Raffles – by Les Pontin and Graeme Bowden
Many prizes were won and enjoyed around the tables with the lollies shared around in traditional manner.
Finished as usual with the Australian National Anthem sung by all and led by Frank Lunt and Michael Berris.
    
 
Frank suggests, for a bit of fun, that members who have an "old" photo of themselves, maybe in a group, submit this and we have to guess which member is in the photo and where they are sitting/standing!  Sounds like a giggle, here is the first one - send in your "old" photo to mccorkellevelyn@gmail.com and your answer to Frank Lunt - nudgee64@hotmail.com - first correct reply may get a prize?
 
Community Give Uz a Giggle | Sharing Self Improvement
 
 
 
Duty Roster
 
Please visit calpac.org.au/page/duty-roster for the latest duty roster.
Containers for Change/Bread Tags for Wheelchairs
             
  1. Collect eligible containers
  2. Take them to a container refund point - https://www.containersforchange.com.au/qld/where-to-return
  3. Donate to the Rotary Club of Caloundra Pacific using scheme ID C10219799


     
Please help us collect!
Evelyn McCorkell, our club member, has provided a collection box, so please bring to the club meeting and place in the box at the registration desk.  Thanks.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
We collect bread tags for recycling to fund wheelchairs,mainly in South Africa.
 
 
 
 
D9620 The Gist
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Meeting Neill Collie Silver Fox for Mental Health
Caloundra Golf Club
Feb 09, 2023
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Board Meeting February 2023
Cirrus Aircraft
Feb 13, 2023
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Club Meeting - Bulcock Beach History Walk
La Promenade Cafe
Feb 16, 2023
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Club Meeting: Mark McArdle - Life after Politics
Caloundra Golf Club
Feb 23, 2023
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
ROMAC Trivia Night
Unity College Hall
Mar 02, 2023
6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
 
Meeting - Our Pacific Neighbours–Today & Tomorrow
Caloundra Golf Club
Mar 09, 2023
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Board Meeting March 2023
Cirrus Aircraft
Mar 13, 2023
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Club Meeting - Philippines Outreach Program
Caloundra Golf Club
Mar 16, 2023
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Club Meeting - Partners Night
Caloundra Golf Club
Mar 23, 2023
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
D9620 Conference
Brisbane City Hall
Mar 24, 2023 – Mar 26, 2023
 
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Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Jackie Coward
February 3
 
Bruce Radford
February 17
 
Clive Seymour
February 29
 
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Belinda Lucy
February 1
 
Sylvia hovey
February 15
 
Margaret Woodforh
February 26
 
Sharon Seymour
February 28
 
Anniversaries
Barbara Bailey
February 3
 
Kevin Curd
Joan CURD
February 4
 
Ross Harrison
Robyn Hills
February 10
 
Bonnie Lynn
Mathew Lynn
February 15
 
Mathew Lynn
Bonnie
February 15
 
David Millar
Lyn Millar
February 16
 
Brian Reith
Margaret Reith
February 29
 
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Win Fowles
February 1, 1996
27 years
 
Ross Harrison
February 2, 2004
19 years
 
Ken Hinkly
February 7, 1986
37 years
 
Mike Healy
February 10, 1993
30 years
 
Geoff Leddy
February 24, 1991
32 years
 
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