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Craig Carson
President
2019—20
Vol 32 Edition 4
7th
August 2019
The Rotary Club of Brisbane Centenary Inc. meets on Wednesday at 6:30am for 6:45am at: Solitude Solutions,
5 Wills Court,
Mt Ommaney.
P O Box 214 Mt
Ommaney Q 4074
This week’s Meeting
6:30 for 6:45am Board
meeting and club
meeting at Bev’s
Tuesday 6
August
Just Poppies
Event Assistance
14 August
Ekka Day Breakfast
Jindalee Boat Ramp
Park
21 August
Bob McMillan—
FoodBank
The Carson Commentary
The Board for 2019—20
President Craig Carson
Past President Neville Blomeley
Treasurer Gerry Gebert
Secretary Nick Curry
Effective Services Di Scotte
PR Terry Killen
Membership Graham Osterfield
Foundation John Woodward
Club Administration Craig Carson
Bulletin Editor Nick Curry
13—315March 2020
Chinchilla
The Rotary Club
of
Brisbane Centenary
Rotary International
Convention
1—5 June 2020
Craig
It was a wonderful opportunity to be present at the
handover of the $25,000 to Wesley Choices Centre,
helping to continue their valuable support to members of
the wider south east Queensland area impacted by
cancer irrespective of the type of cancer or where they
were treated. Wesley Choices has gained a reputation
as a world leading cancer support group It is impossible
not to gain inspiration from our connection with Choices.
Earlier in the week the “Shed Movers” working party
gathered at the Osterfields’ to relocate a garden shed
containing cub materials from the lowlands to the
highlands. Some exercise, a whole lot of fun and mission
successful.
I attended a meeting at “The Hub” at Mt Ommaney
where local community groups are being encouraged to
connect with each other and the wider community to
provide resources to build a strong local network.
Next week we will be helping out at the “Love your
Sister” fundraising event, Samuel Johnson has shown
what drive and determination can achieve raising $9.6m
in just 2 years.
Your challenge for our meeting on the 7th August is to
bring along suggestions to develop our community and
club.
Raffle: Andrew Rodgers will be drinking the Portuguese red tonight!
International Toast: Geoff Williams, noting that the UK had both gained a new prime minister and lost a tanker, toasted the Rotary Club of London—the first club to be chartered outside of North America.
ROMAC: Neville thanked the club for its support and noted that he was basically now an Ambassador-at-large for ROMAC.
Treasurer: Got the President to sign his first cheque for the club - $25,000!
Foundation: John Woodward noted the Polio film night “Rides like a Girl”. He will discuss with Jindalee and Sumner Park (and possibly Taylor Bridge). Noted a previous issue re: tickets in that on-line does not work as well as real tickets.
On the subject of polio, Nick noted that there had been an increase in the number of cases, especially in Pakistan (we are about double last year’s figure at well over 40 cases) but that Pakistan hoped to vaccinate all children under the age of five by the end of the year….and that there was some concern about vaccine derived cases world wide.
Satellite Club: Belinda told us that the person she has been getting advice from on 3D printing was not able to leave Melbourne at the moment for family reasons.
She will be organizing a recruitment drive for the satellite club shortly .
The satellite club has also donated 28 desk top computers to Computers for Learning. They refurbish the computers and sell them very cheaply to cover costs. Glen also noted that she had taken out lap tops (which they prefer).
BeefBank: Andrew told us that the Corrective Services are sending four cattle to us.
Pushing Barriers: Tracy noted that she had presented to Taylor Bridge last night and that they seemed enthusiastic, especially about volunteering as drivers It is an especially busy time at the moment with 60 players on the books.
International: Our RAWCS visit is very much in the planning stage with 7 going. Projects at the Kindergarten will include painting the bare timber interiors, putting up shelving and starting the fence framework.
President-
• The working bee on Sunday had gone well to relocated the shed (and our storage) at Graham Osterfield’s place
• Ada Filer will become our social secretary extraordinaire for our monthly end of month soirees.
• 6th August see us proving assistance at Poppies Trivia and fund-raising night...4:30pm—9:30pm. We are supporting Love your sister. The place normally gets around 150-200 people but they think they might get double that on the night.
• Our Fiji film night will be 8th August...Palm Beach with Rachael Ward, Bryan Brown and Sam Neil. Details being circulated as Craig spoke.
• Noted our Polio film, Rides like a Girl.
• EKKA day breakfast...Crain intends to invite our local stakeholders, e.g. MOSS etc.
• Wants to institute a system whereby each member organizes the guest speaker programme for one month.
That was the week that was or TW3
Nick Corcoran—RYLA student
Nick went on the recent RYLA camp as our sponsored
candidate. The first thing he noted were the camp leaders who
rushed to greet them all to the dulcet? tones of Birds of Tokyo,
each wearing a spandex superhero costume. Each morning was
not dissimilar with the cohort being roused to some rowdy
anthem and made to go on a run.
Another departure from normal living was the complete absence
of any mobile phone signal, thus rendering the cohort’s collective
mobile phones useless and isolating them from any news of the
outside world. (In the old days we used to rely on radios etc!)
All the activities were designed to get people comfortable with
what was uncomfortable and getting people used to challenging
themselves, understanding themselves, and working
cooperatively with others.
It is OK to fail but to succeed, one needs to trust others and work
with them. Communication is a key and some of the activities
were designed to work on communication other than verbal. For instance, they had to rank all the cohort in exact age
order without speaking, or conduct some task whilst both silent and blindfolded.
During the week, there were other activities designed to teach certain life skills including financial.
At the end, Nick found that he had made many more friends and that he had gained a different perspective. Whilst he
had always been focussed on where he wanted to go in the future, he also gained greater respect for the community at
large and for things he had not really given much thought to. RYLA may not have changed any particular direction of his
life, rather it added greater weight to his decisions
The two Nicks: Nick Curry congratulates Nick Corcoran on
his presentation.
Today (a while ago)!
1782 George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honour soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
1858 The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College.
1947 Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have travelled from South America.
1955 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.
1962 Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.
Rotakids Report
Neville had a Rotakids meeting on Wednesday 24th July:
1 The kids have raised $255 for school equipment for Fiji – that will be presented to Glen/Di at a school assembly.
2 The next project will be within the school for some type of equipment to use outside for people not interested in sport e.g. a large chess set.
3 They will start collecting sports shoes for Pushing Barriers.
4 There will be a new activity to encourage being active with the best House to go onto the Honour Board we gave the school.
5. The Rotakids were asked to put their hands up to be Sports Shed monitors- it was pointed out by Tahlia that if they were in Rotakids this is the sort of service they should be volunteering for so the spirit of community service is being instilled in them.
6. Tahlia has nearly finished compiling the list of shirt sizes so will be able to order the Rotakids shirts soon.
Movie Night – Palm Beach
Rachel Ward’s movie “Palm Beach”, a comedy-drama
about a group of lifelong friends reuniting to celebrate a
special birthday. Celebrating a line-up of both Australian
and International stars, Bryan Brown, Greta Scacchi, Sam
Neill, Jacqueline Mackenzie, Heather Mitchell, and
Academy Award Nominee Richard E Grant.
You are invited for the screening of the movie Palm Beach,
helping to raise funds to continue our Nausori Village, Fiji
community rebuilding project. This is to help with finishing
touches to the recently completed new Kindergarten as
well as fitting out a community kitchen.
Numbers are limited; get in early to ensure your place!
When: Thursday 8th August 2019,
Time: 6:15pm for drinks, movie starts 7:00pm.
Where: Regal Twin Cinema, 381 Honour Ave. Graceville
Cost: $20 per person, includes a pre-movie drink and
nibbles
Bookings: https://www.trybooking.com/BEGCP
At last, the real cheque for $25,000 gets presented to
Wesley Choices...a great moment for everyone!
The
Great
Shed
move
Well
done
everyone
who
assisted
and got it all up and running.
Andrew- - the wine burglar—
shows up once in a blue moon
and takes the prize!
The 4-way Test
Of the things we think, say or do
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIEND-SHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
SMILE!
When Insults Had Class:
These glorious insults are from an era “ before” the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words.
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
-Mark Twain
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." -Moses Hadas
Duty 21/08/2019 4/09/2019
Chair Gerry Gebert Graham Oster-
field
Duty Officer Bill Dalby Nick Curry
Fellowship
Officer Ada Filer Brad Butcher
Rotary talk John Woodward
International
Toast John Woodward
Editor’s note: I don’t know if this is actually true but it is a good
story!
The Sydney Morning Herald, June 15th 1999, reported:
An employee for Ansett Australia, who happened to have the last
name of GAY, got on a plane recently using one of his company’s
‘Free Flight’ tickets. However, when Mr Gay tried to take his seat, he
found it being occupied by a paying passenger. So, not to make a
fuss, he simply chose another seat.
Unknown to Mr Gay, another Ansett Australia flight at the airport
was experiencing mechanical problems. The passengers of this other
flight were being rerouted to various airplanes. A few were put on Mr
Gay’s flight and anyone holding a free ticket was being bumped off.
Ansett officials, armed with a list of these ‘freebee’ ticket holders
boarded the plane to remove the free-loaders. Of course, Mr Gay was
not sitting in his assigned seat as you may remember. So when the
ticket agent approached the seat where Mr Gay was supposed to be
setting, she asked a startled customer ‘Are you Gay?’ The man shyly
nodded that he was, at which point she demanded ‘Then you have to
get off the plane’. Mr Gay, overhearing what the ticket agent had
said, tried to clear up the situation, ‘You’ve got the wrong man; I’m
gay!’ This caused an angry third passenger to stand up and yell,
‘Hell; I’m gay too! They can’t kick us all off!’
Confusion reigned as more and more passengers began yelling that
Ansett Australia had no right to remove gays from their flights.
Afterwards, Ansett Australia refused to comment on the incident!
Ansett; those were the days...