Coolamon Rotary Club
Coolamon New South Wales Australia
Welcome to the Official site for the Rotary Club of Coolamon. We live in a small town but achieve big things, from local events and fundraisers, services such as Bingo and our Annual Community Day, to large International Projects such as supporting Rotarians For Fighting AIDS (RFFA): www.rffa.org; and the Mountains of the Moon Adventure 2011: www.mountainsofthemoon.org, come join us, stick around and have some fun, thats what we do!
Rotary International 2010 Convention Montreal
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Join RI President John Kenny and his wife June as they take you on a journey to Montreal, site of the 2010 Rotary International Convention.
The Orphan Rescue Kit at Work
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Marion Bunch and Reagan Ondiju
“Photo” courtesy of Joe McGinnis Voyage Communications Atlanta}
Letter from Marion Bunch CEO of Rotarians For Fighting AIDS, Marion writes about the success of the donation of Orphan Rescue Kits from our Rotary District 9700 and our club. We will be able to meet Marion at our District Conference in March at Bathurst.
February 3rd Atlanta Georgia U.S.A.
“It is my distinct pleasure to present to you the results of your 2009 Orphan Rescue donation to the orphans and vulnerable children of Cote d’ Ivoire. You helped 450 children there get back into school.
WOW!!!
That is just really terrific! Please distribute this report to those people on your team that helped make this dream a reality to many children on the Ivory Coast of Africa.” Marion Bunch.
RFFA Ivory Coast Report
You can see what our funds are doing right now in the Ivory Coast below:
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- Books!!!
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- More Books!
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- AND More Books
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- School Uniforms
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- The Children
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- The Rotarian and member of RFFA
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- Marion Bunch and Reagan Ondiju
Coolamon Supports Haiti Earthquake
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Today members of our club collected donations and ran a raffle to raise funds to send a Shelterbox to Haiti. If you want to donate towards the Haiti earthquake a Shelterbox is an ideal way to get help on the ground to those that need it most see here on how Rotary and Shleterbox are delivering aid right now and have done from the very first day to Haiti.
Rotary Peace Day in Coolamon
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- Peace
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PEACE DAY COOLAMON
DATE: SUNDAY 21st FEBRUARY 2010
VENUE: LIONS PARK COOLAMON
TIME: 5.00PM SHARP
SPEAKER: SISTER BERNADETTE PATTISON
THEME: COMMUNITIES STRIVING FOR PEACE
FOLLOWED BY DINNER AT THE COOLAMON SPORT AND RECREATION CLUB 6.30PM FOR 7.00PM
COOLAMON is the first Rotary Peace Town in the world and followed Wagga Wagga as the first Peace City in the world. Since then 58 Peace Communities have been proclaimed in 17 countries around the world.
You are invited to join us to commemorate peace around the world and at the same time celebrate Rotary’s 105th birthday.
R.S.V.P. for the dinner immediately to Ian Durham Secretary of the Coolamon Rotary Club on 6927 3900.
Dinner cost will be $25.00 per head.
Haiti Earthquake and Rotary’s Shelterbox
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Dave Eby and Wayne Robinson collect the first ShelterBoxes at Port au Prince airport. Photograph: Mark Pearson
Rotary in action this time Haiti following the earthquake. Shelerbox is probably one of the best ways to provide short term relief for those Haitians that have lost everything. The news section of the Shelterbox web site has all the details. I am sure that Rotarians will want to support Shelterbox’s efforts in Haiti see:
SHELTERBOX NEWS
WELL DONE SHELTERBOX!
ShelterBox to deliver relief to Haiti via Dominican Republic this news article in the Domincan Today dated 15th January may also be of interest:
DOMINICAN TODAY
Rotary Theme 2010-2011
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President Elect Ray Klinginsmith
Every Rotary year a new theme and logo are announced at the San Diego training seminar for incoming District Governors. The RI President Elect Ray Klinginsmith announced the new theme and logo today in San Diego. Also the colour of the District Governor’s Jacket which is maroon for 10/11.
RI Theme 2010-2011
Full story here.
2010 Message from RI President John Kenny
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RI President John Kenny
January is the month the Romans associated with their two-headed god Janus: one head looking backward to the year that has just passed, and the other looking forward to the year ahead.
In Rotary, January is the halfway point of our year of service, and it is also a time for us all to look at both the past and the future. It is the time of year to take stock, to review the goals that we have set for ourselves, and to evaluate how well we have fulfilled those expectations. It is a time to look honestly at our progress and our challenges and to consider the steps we will need to take to complete our planned service successfully.
Full Story Here.
Merry Christmas to All
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Merry Christmas from President Craig and the members of Coolamon Rotary
Coolamon Rotary Christmas Party
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...On Monday night we had our annual Christmas Party another resounding success for our members. The highlight of the night was the yabbies caught and cooked by Bert Browning. Bert had some help catching the delectable feed both as an entree and as a main course. The dams on Dick Jennings farm yielded over 200 of these very tasty marin.
Yabby
Thanks Bert and Dick and as always thanks to those who helped on the night especially Henk Hulsman.
Only one of our members entered into the spirit of Christmas dressed as a reindeer other members were too shy. Well done Grahame Miles:
Grahame the red nosed reindeer
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- Yabby
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- Grahame the red nosed reindeer
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- Ed blessing the yabbies
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- President Craig opening and closing the meeting in record time!
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- The wine buff Ian
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- Waiting for Father Christmas
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- Half of the Holzapfel Family
Coolamon’s BIG Day in South Africa
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...It was a great day for all involved, whether Australian or South African….to see Rotary in action!
At 4.00pm on 25 November 2009, after two years of hard work by both the twinned clubs of Rotary Club of Coolamon and Rotary Club of Hout Bay, everything came to fruition with the opening of the completely re-furbished and extended Main Road Clinic in Hout Bay. This will enable the small of the clinic to seriously begin the fight back on HIV/Aids and TB in the nearby poverty-ridden shack township of Imizamo Yethu. Over 4,500 patient calls a month are handled by Sister Carolus in what has been difficult conditions.
Don Peters and Butch Liebenberg
Above Don Peters, who has been with Rotary’s Operation Medical Hope since its inception in Hout Bay and Butch Liebenberg who supervised the current phase of building operations at the Main Road Clinic.
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- Dr Ivan Bromfield, on the left above, City of Cape Town Director of Health
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- Don Peters and Butch Liebenberg
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- Some of the singers from Imizamo Yethu whom Sister Carolus brought to thank Rotary
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- The plaque which is now on the wall of the main patient waiting area
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- One of the rooms fully equipped by Rotary in the additional pre-fabricated area
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- Any day in the crowded patient waiting area.
Full Story Below:
Coolamon House Opens in Hout Bay
Coolamon Rotary Youth Exchange Student Millie Butt
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...In 2010 we will be sponsoring Millicent Butt or Millie as she is known from Marrar a small town near Coolamon. Millie will be going to Belgium for 12 months and will be hosted there by three families near Liege. Last Monday night we farewelled Millie after she gave us a talk and slide show on her upcoming adventure in Belgium.
- Millie Butt
The members and partners of Coolamon Rotary wish you all the best for your exchange and we will know you will do yourself, your family and your friends at Coolamon Rotary proud, congratulations Millie:
- The Coolamon Team and Millie Butt
You can learn about Rotary Youth Exchange programmes here:
- RYE
World AIDS Day December 1st 2009
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World AIDS Day Message from RFFA
The RFFA logo on the front of our web site shows that we at the Coolamon Rotary club supports Rotarians for fighting AIDS or RFFA for short. RFFA is a Rotarian Action Group and RFFA’s mission is to mobilise all Rotarians around the world and there are 1.2 million of us to fight this pandemic that is causing so much death and destruction especially in Africa.
Here is the message from the board of RFFA for World AIDS Day:
RFFA World AIDS Day Message
Rotarians For Fighting AIDS, Inc. (RFFA) shares a greeting card and an inspiring message of hope with Rotarians everywhere as we Honor World AIDS Day, December 1, 2009. These notes, pictures and paintings are sent by two groups of Kenyan school children who represent only a small fraction of the 12 million HIV/AIDS Orphans living on the continent of Africa today.
Thanks to so many of you who have supported RFFA’s work, the children who send their vision of a world free of HIV/AIDS are in school today. They are there because you gave the gift of education and hope for the future by paying for their school fees, supplies and uniforms. We want you to see and read about the world you are changing.
Did you know that even basic education is not free in Kenya? An orphan child has no way of affording any school without assistance from concerned adults like our Rotarian partners in so many countries. These children sent their thanks and their vision to all of you for your kindness and generosity. As RFFA’s Board of Directors, we are deeply grateful as well.
We invite all Rotarians to join Rotarians For Fighting AIDS, Inc., and our Founder and CEO Marion Bunch
, as we continue to help the orphans and vulnerable children of Africa achieve their dreams. Visit our website www.rffa.org for more information.
Sincerely Yours In Rotary Service,
The Board of Directors
Rotarians For Fighting AIDS, Inc.
Rotary Peace Convention
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...In 1990, several students from Leipzig, Germany, visited Houston as part of a historic Rotary Youth Exchange that took them to District 5890, just months after street marches in their city set the stage for the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The seeds of the exchange were sown years earlier, when Houston Rotarians took seriously a suggestion from Rotary International to reach out to non-Rotarian countries in communist-controlled Europe.
Full Story Here.
The Impossible Dream
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There are also those in Rotary who dream impossible dreams and then see them come true. They fight when their arms are too weary. They right unrightable wrongs. They go where the brave dare not go. The YouTube link below is for them, too.
Starring Peter O’Toole and Sophia Loren, this is one of the most inspirational theatrical pieces I know.
Onward and upward,
Rotarian Jon Deisher in Alaska
Join us in Rotary Srevice and make your dreams and those we serve come true.
Thank you Jon.
Montreal Rotary International Convention 2010
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Montreal 2010
Sophisticated yet friendly, Montréal offers an ideal setting for Rotarians to gather at the 2010 RI Convention. More than 80 nationalities and ethnic groups reside in Montréal. In addition, it is also the largest francophone city outside of Paris, making it the most bilingual metropolis in North America. Register early now for “An International Experience” and to receive the best rates and accommodations.
Gare du Palais by Wayne Walton, Lonely Planet Images
The Biosphere by Allan Montaine, Lonely Planet Images
Casino de Montreal by Richard Cummins, Lonely Planet Images
Underground City by Ray Laskowitz, Lonely Planet Images
Reimar Gaertner, World of Stock
Keith Levit, World of Stock
Photos of Montreal by Concierge.com
Meetings at Other Clubs
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Jenny Horton above with Nigerian Elders
One of the best benefits of being a Rotarian is that when you travel you have instant friends around the world in over 33,000 Rotary clubs with 1.2+ million Rotarians. Rotarians call it make up meetings and as a Rotarian one is always made welcome to visit other Rotary clubs when you travel. You never know who you will meet at such a meeting.
Tomorrow night we get the opportunity to meet Rotarian Jenny Horton of the Kenmore Rotary Club in Brisbane. Jenny has done some wonderful work with polio and here is a short story on her adventures in Nigeria recently.
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Hout Bay Rotary Club
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Rotary Club of Coolamon, Australia, after a visit from their Rotarian PP John Glassford to Hout Bay, identified the need for support and, subsequently,together with a team of Rotarians from the club, made a site visit to establish the situation in South Africa. They returned to Australia where the club ran a public lottery in New South Wales to raise funds for Operation Medical Hope.
John Glassford and, subsequently a team from Rotary Coolamon, re-visited Africa and together with Anna Kuzwayo, a social worker on the HIV/Aids hospice team in Hout Bay, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in a further fund raising scheme. These funds provided sufficient basis for a major matching grant between Rotary Clubs of Hout Bay and Coolamon to be undertaken with the support of both club districts and Rotary Foundation.
Coolamon Rotary also supports Phumlani Nyanga from Imizamo Yethu in Hout Bay. Phumlani is doing very well at High School and is going to finish year 12 with our support, below Phumlani Nyanga with President Craig Corrigan in Hout Bay in 2007:
The Coolamon Kid with President Craig Corrigan in Hout Bay
Hout Bay Rotary have now established an excellent web site and for all the news from Hout Bay visit:
HOUT BAY
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- Hout Bay Cape Town South Africa
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- Hout Bay Fishing Village
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- South Africa and Australia meeting in Hout Bay
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- Some Hout Bay Rotarians
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- The Vultures
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- The Coolamon Kid with President Craig Corrigan in Hout Bay
Engage your members, and they will stay
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Mike McGovern, 2009-10 chair of the RI Membership Development and Retention Committee and past RI vice president
“Rotarians, like most people, need to feel like they belong.”
That is the No. 1 tip from Mike McGovern, 2009-10 chair of the RI Membership Development and Retention Committee and past RI vice president, on how to expand membership. McGovern says many members leave their Rotary clubs because they don’t see how they are contributing, or they feel disconnected from other members.
“We need to connect with members of our club within our meetings and at our projects, but also outside of Rotary,” he says. “This involves having other members and their families over for dinner or going together to be a spectator at an event.”
Full Story here:
PS Mike McGovern is also a board member of RFFA (Rotarians For Fighting AIDS).
RFFA {Our Club supports RFFA}
Kalyan Banerjee is choice for 2011-12 RI President
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Kalyan Banerjee for President of Rotary International in 2011-12.
Kalyan Banerjee, a member of the Rotary Club of Vapi, Gujarat, India, since 1972, is the selection of the Nominating Committee for President of Rotary International in 2011-12. Banerjee will become the president-nominee on 1 October if there are no challenging candidates.
CONGRATULATIONS ROTARIAN KALYAN BANERJEE
Full Story Here.
World’s Largest Rotary Emblem
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World's Largest Rotary International Emblem
ATIMONAN, QUEZON, THE PHILIPPINES.
In their aim to protect and rehabilitate the vast fishing grounds fronting
this town, officials, environmentalists, fisherfolk and members of civic
groups have banded together and built a massive artificial reef, which they
sank to the bottom of Lamon Bay on Tuesday.
Touted to be the Philippines’ biggest, the concrete, man-made reef is about
4 meters high and 21 meters in diameter, and weighs some 85 tons. It is
supported by hundreds of concrete-like balusters joined together in several
sections.
The different sections were assembled on land. The steel bars were welded
and cemented together.
On top of the artificial reef is a two-inch concrete slab showing an exact
replica of the official emblem of Rotary International, the world’s first
service club organization.
The giant emblem—a gear wheel with six spokes and 24 cogs with the name of
Rotary International written on it—was painted with the club’s official
royal blue and gold colors.