Month: April 2016
Coolamon Rotary News Bulletin #38
Coolamon Rotary News Bulletin #38
APRIL IS ROTARY’S
MATERNAL & CHILD HEALTH MONTH
ANZAC DAY 2016
Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives … You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours … You, the mothers who sent their sons from faraway countries, wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.
This inscription appears on the Kemal Atatürk Memorial, Anzac Parade, Canberra.
The anti-Ottoman government bestowed the title of Ghazi (victorious) on Kemal as he had the vision to bring Turkey on par with twentieth–century western countries. Turkey became a republic in 1923 and Kemal became the first president. During his 15-year rule, many sweeping changes were introduced to the political, legal and socio economic fields. He was an immortal hero to his people and an extraordinary leader and peacemaker. Kemal said in 1933, “I look to the world with an open heart full of pure feelings and friendship”. In 1934, he accepted the title “Atatürk” (father of the Turks).
“MEETING” MONDAY APRIL 25th. 2016
ANZAC Day 2016. There was no official meeting today however we did host 11 Americans from District 5610 to a welcome BBQ at the Sports Club. Thanks to all the hosts who met the team at Wagga Wagga airport. Thanks also to Lance and Robyn Gillespie for bringing out Norm and Linda who arrived from New Zealand.
Many thanks to Myffy Collette and Bernadette Milne as well as Susan Glassford for the salads. The BBQ was cooked by Steve Exton and Alex Thompson with the steaks supplied by Henk Hulsman.
There were 15 members present a great role up for ANZAC Day!
Our guests were 11 D 5610 Friendship Exchange team members:
Rtn. Dr. Sandra Christenson, James Shafer RC Downtown Sioux Falls, PDG Nancy Moose and Rtn Roger Moose RC Madison SD, Rtn Larry Janssen and Marcia Janssen RC Brookings, PDG Linda Peterson and Rtn. Norman Peterson RC Rapid City, Rtn. Verl Scheibe and partner Kathy RC Custer, Rtn. Carol Nielsen RC Sioux Falls West.
Partners present were: Heather McKinley, Sally Farmer, Marg Perkin, Helen Lewis, Susan Glassford and Jann Breust.
Visiting Rotarians Robyn and Lance Gillespie Rotary Friendship Exchange Committee RC of Narrandera.
The D5610 team exchanged banners with President Wayne Lewis. A good night of fellowship followed and we are sure that the team slept well that night.
Next day the team was shown some of Coolamon’s highlights including the upcoming Cheese factory, the Up-to-Date Store. They then went to Junee for lunch at the Licorice Factory followed by a tour of the Junee Round House.
Today the Team visited Huff ‘n’ Puff Constructions in Ganmain followed by a mystery trip to Narrandera and then to Wagga Wagga and the CSU. More news next week.
President Wayne Lewis wishes to thank one and all for a busy week with the D9700 DISCON, the visit of the D5610 Team. Wayne would like to specially thank the host families for their generous time with the Americans and not forgetting the drivers and other members who spent time with them. Their visit is not over as yet still another day to go.
Photos of these visits and subsequent visits next week. NB I need photos from any of the hosts and guides that may have some, please send them to me, thanks.
Diary Reminders
Monday May 2nd MAY DAY! Club Assembly and Planning.
Monday May 9th. TBA.
Wednesday May 11th Board Meeting.
Thursday May 12th BINGO: Ian Jennings (Capt), Steve Exton, Rod Jarrett, Ivan Furner.
*Saturday May 14th International Night at the Ganmain Hall in aid of RAGES Inc.
Saturday 28th May 2016 – Wednesday June 1st Seoul RICON South Korea 
Saturday June 25th D9700 Change Over in Orange Hotel Conobolas.
*Monday June 27th Change Over Dinner at Coolamon. DEFINITE.
*Partners and Guests Night.
Apologies for Monday meetings call Ian Jennings on 0428 492 157 BY FRIDAY 12.00 pm.
ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT
K.R. RAVINDRAN “RAVI”
Join us in celebrating World Immunization Week, 24-30 April, by helping spread the word that#vaccineswork. Learn what #Rotary is doing to help end polio for good: buff.ly/1SZQ6q3
Register for the Jubilee of Rotarians and join Rotary International President K.R. Ravindran and thousands of Rotary members in a reserved section at St. Peter’s Square in Rome.
Rotary invites you to attend a weekend of events highlighted by a Jubilee Audience with Honorary Rotarian His Holiness Pope Francis on 30 April.
This Jubilee, as established by Pope Francis, is a commitment to serve with joy and in peace across the world.
Visit www.rotary-jubilee2016.org to register and to view the full program.
DISTRICT GOVERNOR GARY ROBERTS D 9700
DISCON D 9700 2016
ROTARY INFORMATION
Muhammad Mallah Hamza (left) with Rotarian Andreas von Bardeau outside Bardeau’s castle, Schloss Kornberg. Photo Credit: Mark Baker
That was the uncertain odyssey facing Muhammad Mallah Hamza, a 26-year-old ethnic Kurd, in late 2014 when he decided to leave his native Syria. The trip would lead the recent college graduate to a picturesque Austrian village – and into the arms of a local Rotary club that would allow him to begin a new life while helping others in his situation.
RAGES NEWS
This is the week of the BIG BURN where 110 tonnes of ivory and 1.5 tonnes of rhino horn go up in smoke. This is a very contentious issue however we at RAGES feel that it is the best way to demonstrate that ivory is worthless unless it is on an elephant.
These pyres represent over 4,000 dead elephants and around 500 rhinos.
In 3 days, on Saturday 30.04.2016, Kenya will host the largest ivory burn in history! This will be a clear statement against elephant poaching! Let’s hope this will mark the beginning of the end for the global ivory trade, which kills an estimated 33,000 elephants every year!
BURNING IVORY THE DEBATE.
RAGES WEB SITE JOIN RAGES HERE.
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FOOTNOTE
BEST CLUB BULLETIN
Announced at District Conference that:
COOLAMON ROTARY CLUB WAS THE WINNER IN 2016.
Awarded to the club that during the Rotary year has produced a bulletin on a regular basis that
consistently meets the following criteria:
• has a high quality front cover that includes the name of the club, RI President, District
Governor and Club President as well as the Rotary emblem and theme for the year
• contains useful information such as board members, details about club members, Rotary
Grace, Four Way Test etc.
• contains specific information useful to members such as rosters, club news, future events,
guest speaker program
• reports on last meeting
• includes the Club President’s report
• contains Rotary information for educational purposes eg. TRF, RI Projects
• has an attractive presentation through use of layout, headlines, colour
• is well written, easy to follow, error free and contains reliable information
• is regularly forwarded to the DG, DGE, DGN, District Secretary, AG for club group and
other clubs within the group.
Bulletin Editor and Web Site: John Glassford
Yours in Rotary
John Glassford Chair 2014 -2016
Rotary International President K.R. “Ravi” Ravindran
Governor of District 9700 Gary Roberts
Coolamon Club President Wayne Lewis
Coolamon Club Secretary Paul Weston
Club Treasurer Henk Hulsman
Coolamon Rotary Club Inc. P.O. Box 23 COOLAMON N.S.W. 2701
Websites of Interest
Coolamon Rotary Club: http://coolamonrotary.com
Road MAPS to Africa a Coolamon Rotary Project: http://www.mountainsofthemoon.org/
Rotary Down Under on line: http://flipflashpages.uniflip.com/2/26587/49598/pub
Mount Kenya 2015 Web Site incorporating the ORK: http://theork.com/
Our Rotary Centennial Twin Club Hout Bay, Cape Town, South Africa: http://www.rotaryhoutbay.org
Rotarian Action Group for Endangered Species RAGES: http://www.endangeredrag.org/#
Coolamon Rotary News Bulletin #37
Coolamon Rotary News Bulletin #37
APRIL IS ROTARY’S
MATERNAL & CHILD HEALTH MONTH
MEETING MONDAY APRIL 18th. 2016
Tonight we had a very good and enjoyable meeting with our own catering, i.e. a BBQ on the Rotary/Lions BBQ at the Sports Club. The steaks were the best (thanks Henk), and cooked to perfection by Daryl Breust and Steve Exton. Our two intrepid Ganmain members Myffy Collette and Bernadette Milne provided the salads. All in all a big effort from all concerned.
Our guest speaker tonight was Georgia Booth from Ganmain. Georgia is still at the Kinross School in Orange and took the opportunity to talk about her experience at the Honeywell National Summer School that Georgia attended recently.
Guests tonight included Michelle and John Booth from Ganmain, Darcy Miles grandson of Grahame Miles and Phoung from Vietnam. Partners Sharon Miles, Marilyn Jennings, Helen Lewis and Susan Glassford along with 19 members attended a great turn out.
President Wayne Lewis congratulated John and Susan Glassford on their appointment as District Governor Nominee Designate and partner as Governor to District 9700 for the Rotary year 2018-2019.
President Wayne Lewis spoke of the upcoming District Conference in Wagga Wagga on Saturday and Sunday 23rd and 24th. More members were invited to attend. Wayne advised the meeting that the Southern Aurora will be in Coolamon on Monday ANZAC Day with a trip to Junee and back to Coolamon leaving at 1.30 pm and returning by 3.00 pm.
Several reports presented including the vandalism of the flag poles in Lions park, a successful Bingo Night raising a net $349. Pride of workmanship awards nominations required by Dave McKinley. Myffy spoke briefly on the Coolamon newspaper and that the Coolamon Community Diary will be coming to our Club.
Ted Hutcheon conducted a very amusing fines session as Sergeant and Susan won the raffle of a beautiful box of organic garlic products donated by the Booth family.
A committee meeting was held after the meeting to plan the Rotary Friendship Exchange visit starting on ANZAC Day with 11 visiting Rotarians and partners from the USA District 5610. A full report and photos in next week’s bulletin.
Guest Speaker Georgia Booth
Georgia spoke very well of Rotary and thanked the club for sponsoring her to the Honeywell Summer Camp. Georgia visited the UNSW, Sydney University, Sydney Technical University and Wollongong University. Georgia took part in several civil engineering projects including making a parachute to drop an egg from the 1st floor of a building and it did not break.
Georgia visited Blue Scope Steel, RAAF base and SITA Waste Management facilities. Georgia was able to discuss future careers in Civil Engineering and is keen to do Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering as well still competing in triathlons.
PP Ian Durham thanked Georgia and presented her with a well engineered kangaroo money pouch.
All of our members were very impressed with Georgia and hope that one day Georgia will come back to give progress talks on her career.
Please support the Booth family from Ganmain and their garlic growing enterprise:
Ganmain Garlic
Woodpark Ganmain contact John Booth 0427 276 402.
Ganmain Garlic is unbleached, less traveled and full of flavour!
Diary Reminders
Friday 22nd – Sunday 24th April 2016 D9700 Conference in Wagga Wagga.
Monday April 25th ANZAC Day 2016 USA District 5610 USA Friendship Exchange.
Monday May 2nd Club Assembly Business Meeting.
Monday May 9th. TBA.
Wednesday May 11th Board Meeting.
Thursday May 12th BINGO: Ian Jennings (Capt), Steve Exton, Rod Jarrett, Ivan Furner.
*Saturday May 14th International Night at the Ganmain Hall in aid of RAGES Inc.
Saturday 28th May 2016 – Wednesday June 1st Seoul RICON South Korea
Saturday June 25th D9700 Change Over in Orange
*Monday June 27th Change Over Dinner at Coolamon. DEFINITE.
*Partners and Guests Night.
Apologies for Monday meetings call Ian Jennings on 0428 492 157 BY FRIDAY 12.00 pm.
ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT
K.R. RAVINDRAN “RAVI”
RI PRESIDENT-ELECT
JOHN F. GERM
PRESIDENT 2016-17
ROTARY CLUB OF CHATTANOOGA
TENNESSEE, USA
John F. Germ is board chair and chief executive officer of Campbell and Associates Inc., consulting engineers. He joined the firm as an engineer in 1965 after four years in the U.S. Air Force. He serves on the boards of several organizations, including the board and executive committee of the Public Education Foundation, Orange Grove Center Inc., and as board chair of Blood Assurance Inc. He also is founder and treasurer of the Chattanooga State Technical Community College Foundation and president of the Tennessee Jaycee Foundation.
He was Tennessee Young Man of the Year in 1970; Engineer of the Year, 1986; Volunteer Fundraiser of the Year, 1992; and Tennessee Community Organizations Volunteer of the Year, 2009. He is a recipient of the Boy Scouts Silver Beaver Award and the Arthritis Foundation Circle of Hope Award. In 2013, the White House recognized him as a Champion of Change.
Germ joined Rotary in 1976 and has served Rotary as vice president, director, Foundation trustee and vice chair, aide to the Foundation trustee chair, chair of Rotary’s US$200 Million Challenge, RI Board Executive Committee member, RI president’s aide, Council on Legislation representative and chair, membership zone coordinator, chair of numerous committees, area coordinator, RI training leader, and district governor.
Germ has received RI’s Service Above Self Award and The Rotary Foundation’s Citation for Meritorious Service and Distinguished Service Award. He and his wife, Judy, are Benefactors and members of the Arch Klumph Society of The Rotary Foundation. They have four children and six grandchildren.
DISTRICT GOVERNOR GARY ROBERTS D 9700
Harris was raised by his grandparents, Howard and Pamela Rustin Harris, and saw his parents only occasionally. He grew to revere the family values that characterized the New England of his youth.
FULL STORY HERE
2016 District Conference ‐ Wagga Wagga
April 23–24, 2016
Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre
Still time to make your booking. See you there!
ROTARY INFORMATION
COL 2016 CHICAGO
COUNCIL ON LEGISLATION GRANTS CLUBS GREATER FLEXIBILITY
The 2016 Council on Legislation may well be remembered as one of the most progressive in Rotary history.
Not only did this Council grant clubs more freedom in determining their meeting schedule and membership, it also approved an increase in per capita dues of $4 a year for three years. The increase will be used to enhance Rotary’s website, improve online tools, and add programs and services to help clubs increase membership.
The Council is an essential element of Rotary’s governance. Every three years, members from around the world gather in Chicago to consider proposed changes to the policies that govern the organization and its member clubs. Measures that are adopted take effect 1 July.
The tone for this year was set early, when the RI Board put forth two proposals that increase flexibility. The first measure allows clubs to decide to vary their meeting times, whether to meet online or in person, and when to cancel a meeting, as long as they meet at least twice a month. The second allows clubs flexibility in choosing their membership rules and requirements. Both passed.
Representatives also approved removing six membership criteria from the RI Constitution and replacing them with a simple requirement that a member be a person of good character who has a good reputation in their business or community and is willing to serve the community.
What does it all mean? Well we will have to update our Club Constitution and Club Bylaws at the AGM and then submit the documents ot the NSW Fair Trade Department for Incorporation of our club to continue. This will require a special resolution and subsequent votes in the affirmative. We have to remain incorporated otherwise the liability reverts to the individual members.
There are several resolutions and amended clauses that will have to be incorporated in our Constitution and Bylaws and once these are clear we will write them up and alter the documents prior to our AGM for pour members ot vote on.
RAGES NEWS
Kenya prepares for world’s largest ivory burn
Ahead of the mass burning event to take place in Nairobi National Park on Saturday 30th April, Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) personnel have begun transferring over 100 tonnes of seized ivory and 1.35 tonnes of rhino horn to the site.
Due to the sheer size of the stockpile, KWS Director, Kitili Mbathi, explained how the transfer will work, “We are moving them into the containers initially collecting them here and then we will transport them to the ivory burning site in readiness for the burn.”
Mbathi also explained how the high prices of such commodities are to blame for the high poaching rate. “This is part of our plea for the total ban of ivory and rhino horn trade globally.”
The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is proud to be a part of this significant event and will reporting live from the site using #WorthMoreAlive
RAGES WEB SITE JOIN RAGES HERE.
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FOOTNOTE
At Calingiri WA a bale compaction press using 400 tonnes of hydraulic pressure and compresses a 8′ x 4′ x 4′ 750 kg oaten hay bale to 1.2 m x 1.2 m x 900 mm for shipping to China. The machine is 20 years old and is portable.
Bulletin Editor and Web Site: John Glassford
Yours in Rotary
John Glassford Chair 2014 -2016
Rotary International President K.R. “Ravi” Ravindran
Governor of District 9700 Gary Roberts
Coolamon Club President Wayne Lewis
Coolamon Club Secretary Paul Weston
Club Treasurer Henk Hulsman
Coolamon Rotary Club Inc. P.O. Box 23 COOLAMON N.S.W. 2701
Websites of Interest
Coolamon Rotary Club: http://coolamonrotary.com
Road MAPS to Africa a Coolamon Rotary Project: http://www.mountainsofthemoon.org/
Rotary Down Under on line: http://flipflashpages.uniflip.com/2/26587/49598/pub
Mount Kenya 2015 Web Site incorporating the ORK: http://theork.com/
Our Rotary Centennial Twin Club Hout Bay, Cape Town, South Africa: http://www.rotaryhoutbay.org
Rotarian Action Group for Endangered Species RAGES: http://www.endangeredrag.org/#
Coolamon Rotary News Bulletin #36
Coolamon Rotary News Bulletin #36
APRIL IS ROTARY’S
MATERNAL & CHILD HEALTH MONTH
MEETING MONDAY APRIL 11th. 2016
Rotarian Ted Hutcheon regaled with the Reader’s Digest version of the story of his life at tonight’s meeting. Ted certainly has led an interesting life, and his story had numerous surprises for many of us. We weren’t surprised to hear that Ted was not a standout at primary school, but were surprised to hear that he completed an advanced uni degree, including several years of accounting.
After working for Jerilderie Shire as a clerk (the youngest clerk to serve in NSW) for a few years, he returned to Coolamon to work in the family business (Hutcheon & Pearce) selling farm machinery. Ted eventually took over a few John Deere franchises in NSW, and made a career out of selling tractors and making a range of loans to farmers (and friends!). Ted has made numerous trips to America to tour John Deere facilities, and has some interesting stories to tell (too numerous to recount here!).
Apart from selling farm equipment, Ted has been involved in a number of interesting hobbies, including racing cars, flying small aircraft, and shooting targets (he was state champion two years ago). Ted’s son Aaron has taken over the family business, so Ted’s legacy will carry on.
Diary Reminders
Wednesday April 13th Board Meeting
Thursday April 14th BINGO Roster: Ian Durham (Capt) Wayne Lewis, Paul Weston, Leslie Weston.
*Monday April 18th Honeywell Summer Science School with Georgia Booth from Golden Ganmain.
Friday 22nd – Sunday 24th April 2016 D9700 Conference in Wagga Wagga.
Monday April 25th ANZAC Day 2016 USA District 5610 USA Friendship Exchange.
*Saturday May 14th International Night at the Ganmain Hall in aid of RAGES Inc.
Saturday 28th May 2016 – Wednesday June 1st Seoul RICON South Korea
*Monday June 27th Change Over Dinner at Coolamon. DEFINITE.
*Partners and Guests Night.
Apologies for Monday meetings call Ian Jennings on 0428 492 157 BY FRIDAY 12.00 pm.
ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT
K.R. RAVINDRAN “RAVI”
APRIL 2016 Presidential Message
Many years ago, in Kolkata, India, I had the chance to meet Mother Teresa. She was an incredible woman with an incredible force of personality. When she walked down the street, the crowd parted in front of her like the Red Sea. Yet when you talked to her, if you mentioned the tremendous things she had done, she almost did not engage in this topic at all. By many reports, if you asked her what her greatest achievement was, she would answer, “I am an expert in cleaning toilets.”
The answer was both humorous and absolutely serious. Her business was caring for others. Toilets had to be cleaned, so she cleaned them. There was no question of a job being beneath her. Helping people who needed help was her work, and there was nothing higher, nothing in the world more important than that.
FULL MESSAGE HERE.
DISTRICT GOVERNOR GARY ROBERTS D 9700
2016 District Conference ‐ Wagga Wagga
April 23–24, 2016
Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre
ROTARY INFORMATION
RAGES NEWS
Today, only 29,000 rhinos survive in the wild. Four of the five rhino species are threatened. Three are critically endangered.
Learn more at rhinos.org
Missing For 9 Years, Ahmed The Elephant Returns.
Andrea Turkalo, who’s gotten to know some 4,000 forest elephants over the past 20 years, has recently spent months focused on a bit of sad detective work: Through careful observation, she’s been slowly piecing together a list of the dead and of the living.
Each day, as many as 100 elephants materialize in front of her viewing platform in the Dzanga Bai forest clearing in Central African Republic. While the elephants socialize, wrestle, mate, and drink mineral-rich water, the Wildlife Conservation Society researcher figures out which of her study elephants were killed during a 2013 raid by Seleka rebels, and which survived. It is difficult work for someone who considers these animals to be family.
RAGES WEB SITE JOIN RAGES HERE.
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FOOTNOTE
Susan and I are currently in Western Australia conducting a straw bale workshop at Calingiri NE of Perth.
During last weekend I was interviewed by the selection committee for our District Governor for 2018-2019 via Skype.
I am humbled and honoured to have been selected to serve our District 9700 as Governor for 2018-2019.
Susan and I look forward to the challenge ahead and to be mindful of the legacy left for us by all the Governors Past, Present and Future who have worked so hard to maintain our Rotary presence in our District with some 41 Rotary Clubs.
This is the first time that a Governor has been selected from the Coolamon Rotary Club.
Bulletin Editor and Web Site: John Glassford
Yours in Rotary
John Glassford Chair 2014 -2016
Rotary International President K.R. “Ravi” Ravindran
Governor of District 9700 Gary Roberts
Coolamon Club President Wayne Lewis
Coolamon Club Secretary Paul Weston
Club Treasurer Henk Hulsman
Coolamon Rotary Club Inc. P.O. Box 23 COOLAMON N.S.W. 2701
Websites of Interest
Coolamon Rotary Club: http://coolamonrotary.com
Road MAPS to Africa a Coolamon Rotary Project: http://www.mountainsofthemoon.org/
Rotary Down Under on line: http://flipflashpages.uniflip.com/2/26587/49598/pub
Mount Kenya 2015 Web Site incorporating the ORK: http://theork.com/
Our Rotary Centennial Twin Club Hout Bay, Cape Town, South Africa: http://www.rotaryhoutbay.org
Rotarian Action Group for Endangered Species RAGES: http://www.endangeredrag.org/#
Coolamon Rotary News Bulletin #35
Coolamon Rotary News Bulletin #35
APRIL IS ROTARY’S
MATERNAL & CHILD HEALTH MONTH
Our own Tracy Monica Ochieng is going to University once Tracy has chosen the course that she wants to attend. We have helped Tracy through High School and now Tracy has graduated Tracy will obtain qualifications in Maternal and Child Health.
Then Tracy is going back to Mathare to work for the women and children in that slum that we have visited many times now. We are all very proud of this young lady who we met in Mathare in 2011 after climbing the Mountains of the Moon.
Quinter and Tracy Ochieng Tracy is in her school uniform.
Recent visit by the Mount Kenya ANZAC Day 2015 Team to Mathare.
April 2nd 2016, Latest news from Tracy:
How are you and your family? Hope this New Year you are having new experiences like I am. I passed my KCSE exams and am glad I have a direct entry to the public universities here in Kenya.
I had 60 aggregate points that’s a B. a C+ in maths, B+ in English, B+ in biology, C+ in chemistry, B-in Swahili, B- in Geography, and a D+ in computer studies.
I thank God for the results and for your unending support, your pride and belief in me, I am who I am because of you, I have an education, I am empowered because you made me feel like a champion. I’m eager to join the university with all aggressiveness to do something that will enable me give out to my society and have a better Mathare.
Tracy Monica
MEETING MONDAY APRIL 4th. 2016
Tonight 16 members attended our monthly Club Assembly.
It was wonderful to have Ted Hutcheon back after his very recent car accident and his stay in the ICU at Wagga Wagga Base Hospital.
The following topics were discussed some at length and with passion:
- Easter Markets a great result with a net return of around $1,200.
- District Assembly due to the upcoming sowing of crops only 3 Directors will be going to Grenfell on Sunday morning. Don Dyce, Dave McKinley and Dick Jennings will represent Coolamon.
- A discussion on the meaning of a Paul Harris Fellow explained by John Glassford.
- RYLA Coolamon has sponsored two candidates this year.
- Guest speakers Ian Jennings is doing a great job and next week we have the life and fun times of Ted Hutcheon followed by Georgia Booth on Golden Ganmain Garlic on Monday 18th April.
- We allocated the billets for the visit of the Rotary Friendship team from D 5610 USA Serving 43 clubs in South Dakota, northwestern Iowa, southwestern Minnesota, and Sioux City, Nebraska.
- A committee, made up of the hosts for the American team has been formed. We need to meet asap to plan the stay of these friends from Dakota! Don Dyce will coordinate the committee.
- DISCON 2016 Wagga Wagga we now have around 10 members going on Saturday 23rd April. We need more members to attend please. To our new members it is a great way to learn about Rotary and to have two past RI Presidents in attendance is very rare indeed. Bill Boyd is a wonderful speaker and worth the price of admission alone.
- A Taste of Africa Night Saturday May 14th flyers will be ready next week and Alex Thompson will collect them and give you each some to send to and give to your friends.
- ShelterBox stay tuned for a ShelterBox day in Coolamon this Friday 8th April contact Wayne Lewis. URGENT!
Diary Reminders
Friday April 8th SHELTERBOX in Coolamon.
Sunday April 10th District Assembly Club Directors Training at Grenfell High School 9.00 am start.
Monday April 11th The Life and Fun Times of Ted Hutcheon.
Wednesday April 13th Board Meeting
Thursday April 14th BINGO Roster: Ian Durham (Capt) Wayne Lewis, Paul Weston, Leslie Weston.
*Monday April 18th Garlic Night with Georgia Booth from Golden Ganmain.
Friday 22nd – Sunday 24th April 2016 D9700 Conference in Wagga Wagga.
Monday April 25th ANZAC Day 2016 USA District 5610 USA Friendship Exchange.
*Saturday May 14th International Night at the Ganmain Hall in aid of RAGES Inc.
Saturday 28th May 2016 – Wednesday June 1st Seoul RICON South Korea
*Monday June 27th Change Over Dinner at Coolamon. DEFINITE.
*Partners and Guests Night.
Apologies for Monday meetings call Ian Jennings on 0428 492 157 BY FRIDAY 12.00 pm.
ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT
K.R. RAVINDRAN “RAVI”
Following the Syrian polio outbreak and the influx of refugees, the country of Jordan faced a possible outbreak in their country. Through their diligence and commitment, the country has not reported a single case of polio within its borders.
DISTRICT GOVERNOR GARY ROBERTS D 9700
Humanity in Motion!!
Here is a great story from Wagga Wagga Rotary Club.
FULL STORY HERE.
What a couple of days we’ve had! (aka some VERY early mornings!) here Claire & Tina are representing Rotaract Club of Griffith Inc. on Sunrise this morning – did you see our signs on all the weather crosses?
Also really happy that our Burrumbuttock Hay Runners effort on the highway made it to a few media outlets (even the 7News Sydney 6pm bulletin & Pauline Hanson’s Facebook Page) – and even the man himself, Brendan Farrell for Australian of the year stopped to take a photo! We will announce our final fundraised amount this afternoon!
Thank you again to our friends, family and community for helping us raise money to this worthwhile cause!!
Some photos click on the thumb nails below for the larger version:
2016 District Conference ‐ Wagga Wagga
April 23–24, 2016
Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre
ROTARY INFORMATION
Rotarians equipped the neonatal intensive care unit. More than 160,000 babies have been delivered in the hospital since Rotarians became involved.
What Kerstin Jeska-Thorwart remembers is the silence. No birds chirping, no dogs barking, no car engines revving. Nothing. “I’ve never heard such a silence before, and never since,” she says. “I knew something must have happened.”
It was 9:35 the morning after Christmas 2004, and in Sri Lanka, it was a Poya Day, a Buddhist public holiday held every full moon. Jeska-Thorwart, a lawyer from Germany, was on vacation in Hikkaduwa, on the island’s southwestern coast. Any other morning of her holiday she and her husband would have been on the beach, but today they stayed back at their vacation home, up a small hill about a half-mile from the water’s edge, to clean and prepare for guests.
After a few minutes, sound returned, as though it had been switched on. Now she heard people running, crying. She went down the main road to see what had happened. She saw people in swimming suits, shoeless, covered in blood.
They told her there was a big wave.
The tsunami, as she later learned, was caused when an earthquake with the estimated force of 23,000 atomic bombs rattled the floor of the Indian Ocean. The seabed rose 10 feet, displacing 7 cubic miles of water. A wall of water, in some places up to 100 feet high, slammed into countries throughout Southeast Asia and as far away as Africa. All told, more than 230,000 people died in 14 countries, and 1.7 million were left homeless. More than half of the dead were in Indonesia, followed by Sri Lanka, where 35,000 people were killed.
In the picture above, an orangutan can be seen exploring the bleak landscape they must once have called home, with a dart lodged into their back. Sadly, orangutans are often shot on sight if they wander onto a palm oil plantation. Over the past two decades alone, an estimated 20,000 of these animals lost their lives at the hands of the palm oil industry, and it has been estimated that they could be extinct in just thirty years if their current declining population trend continues.
Rome hosts Italy’s first ivory crush
Almost one ton of seized ivory, with an estimated value of USD $5 million, was destroyed at the Circus Maximus in Rome last week.
Government officials helped to load the tusks and carved models into an industrial stone crusher and a steamroller before the pieces were disposed of permanently.
Thanks to our friends Pengolifeproject per amore degli elefanti we are able to share these exclusive images of the event.
The ivory crush comes one month before Kenya destroys the majority of its ivory stockpile, at 105 tonnes of ivory and 1.35 tonnes of rhino horn on 30th April in Nairobi.
Read more: http://ind.pn/1Vg7UlL
RAGES NEWS BULLETIN MARCH 2016
RAGES WEB SITE JOIN RAGES HERE.
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FOOTNOTE
CRUISING YESTERDAY AND TODAY
This is how we used to travel to England from Kenya in the 50s. Union Castle Line or the BI Line through the Suez Canal onto Naples, Gibraltar then into the Bay of Biscay before Tilbury in London. The ships used to stand on their heads in the Bay of Biscay. Great fun! This was the Rhodesia Castle of the Union Castle Line.
The ship hit a hurricane in the Bay of Biscay, and the storm and size of the waves are etched into my memory. The ship rolled so far from side to side that she shuddered each time to regain her equilibrium. All we could hear was furniture and glassware and china crashing everywhere and muffled screams, as everyone had been ordered to their cabins by the Captain.
All except my Mother, sister and I and another woman and her daughter, who decided in all our wisdom, that up in the lounge was by far the best place in a storm. We were duly thrown about with the rest of the furniture (not bolted down in those days), the grand piano ended up in the Bay of Biscay in pieces.
NOT TODAY Cruising is for sissies with all the stabalisers!
Bulletin Editor and Web Site: John Glassford
Yours in Rotary
John Glassford Chair 2014 -2016
Rotary International President K.R. “Ravi” Ravindran
Governor of District 9700 Gary Roberts
Coolamon Club President Wayne Lewis
Coolamon Club Secretary Paul Weston
Club Treasurer Henk Hulsman
Coolamon Rotary Club Inc. P.O. Box 23 COOLAMON N.S.W. 2701
Websites of Interest
Coolamon Rotary Club: http://coolamonrotary.com
Road MAPS to Africa a Coolamon Rotary Project: http://www.mountainsofthemoon.org/
Rotary Down Under on line: http://flipflashpages.uniflip.com/2/26587/49598/pub
Mount Kenya 2015 Web Site incorporating the ORK: http://theork.com/
Our Rotary Centennial Twin Club Hout Bay, Cape Town, South Africa: http://www.rotaryhoutbay.org
Rotarian Action Group for Endangered Species RAGES: http://www.endangeredrag.org/#