Our last meeting for 2021 was a self catering meeting and we did have guests present including one of our past members Sarah Colins (nee Bond). It was wonderful to catch up with Sarah in Coolamon visiting her family. We had four members from the Wollundry Rotary Club in Phil McIntosh, David Byfield, Frank Fuller and PE Phil Burgess, who were on hand to discuss plans for Gears & Beers, which will be held in March after being postponed by COVID. Also present were 17 members.
After dinner Phil McIntosh from Wollundry RC outlined the upcoming Bears and Gears event to be stage in March 2022. Our club’s involvement will be on the 27th March.
Phil showed maps of where we will be needed to guide riders at intersections and where best to cater for the riders and public on the day. Phil said that so far they have received over 3,100 registrations for the weekend. Gears and Beers 2022 will be held at the regular time over the October log weekend.
For more information on Gears and Beers please go top their Facebook page and their website listed below:
Sarah our visiting Rotarian and past member won the raffle!
Thanks to all who cooked, helped set up and clean up following the meeting.
Now one of the salads had a secret ingredient and I wonder how many knew of this particular fruit it was in the HOT salad with red chillies, mangoes, papaya, rock melon, capsicum, cheese, croutons and various greens. This mystery fruit is green on the outside and pink in the middle, is 125 mm in diameter has a pithy outside; any ideas?
MORE CHRISTMAS TREES
Paua shell Christmas tree, Napier New ZealandNorthern Lights!The scientist’s Christmas tree‘Christmas Tree on a Snowy Night’, Trumansburg, NY
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Friday, 31st December – New Year’s Eve Street Festival. Cowabbie Street, Coolamon (CRC food van).
Members are asked to keep an eye out for details on the roster which will require volunteers for NYE.
Wednesday, 19th January 2022 –First Board Meeting for 2022. Coolamon Sport & Rec Club, 7:00 pm.
Monday, 24th January – First meeting for 2022. Coolamon Sport & Rec Club, 6:30 for 7.00 pm.
Saturday and Sunday, 19 and 20 February –PETS President Elect Training Session {PE Paul Weston}. Cowra.
Saturday and Sunday, 26-27th March – Gears and Beers
Saturday, 2nd April – Sportsman’s Night featuring SCOTT REARDON – The CRC Sportsman’s Committee have organised a fundraising function featuring local Paralympian Scott Reardon. The event will take place in conjunction with the Coolamon Football Club at Kindra Park.
JUST FOR LAUGHS
THE PUZZLER
Answer to the last Puzzler: A lawsuit.
Here are some rebus puzzles to ponder over the holiday break!
ROTARY NEWS
1. Letter from our Rotary Centennial Twin Club, Hout Bay RC.
“Dear Paul and John,
The last couple of year have not been easy for Rotary in Hout Bay and indeed Coolamon. Zoom is not my favourite form of contact and how I miss the Rotary spirit of a meeting.
Our meeting room has wonderful reminders of the links with yourselves in Coolamon. Not least the table mats (who ever said that Rotarians were untidy eaters?) and of course we pass the framed blazer of the exchange student Ashley Kaimowitz who brought to the Club’s attention the wonders of the Nonceba Centre.”
“Some of the Coolamon members who came to SA to climb will remember the special place the Nonceba Centre held and the few members who sat in on a consultation with a young rape victim. My fellow Rotarians will wonder why Nonceba gets a mention before the amazing project headed by PP Patrick Mclaughlin.”
“I refer to the project to extend the Hout Bay Clinic at the height of the Aids pandemic, this was Rotary working not just locally but internationally and particularly the really wonderful support from Coolamon. There is no way for us to measure the “good” this project has and continues to do now mainly with feeding programmes. The many inhabitants of Imuzu Yethu have a warm feeling towards Rotary and continue to help with a great support of the IY Team. Their help makes projects requiring manpower possible and for the HBRC to further support this growing community.”
“But this missive was mainly to extend to you all at Coolamon Rotary (with President Ali’s approval given perhaps unknowingly)
A WONDERFUL HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND A SUPER 2022.
Cheers
Don Peters”
2. LIONS CLUB OF COOLAMON
Coolamon Shire Wide Christmas Light Competition is on NOW!
This year, Coolamon Lions Club is offering cash prizes for the best efforts in the following categories
• Best residential decoration – $500 and $250 runner up
• Best decorated shop front or business house – $500 and $250
runner up
• Best decorated mailbox or front farm gate (RMB addresses) –
$300 (proudly sponsored by Coolamon Chaser Bins).
There is no entry fee, simply decorate your house or shop front by 14th December and send a photograph to the Lions Club Facebook Page to be in the running for a prize. If you don’t use social media, you can email your picture to the Lions Club secretary, David McCann at [email protected].
There’s just one catch—Your display must have a LION included somewhere in it. The Lion can be a toy, a picture anything, as long as it’s a LION and can be seen in your picture!
The competition starts on 29th November, entries for all sections must be submitted by the 10th December. Judging will take place on 11th & 12th December and winners announced on the 15th of December 2021.
CONGRATULATIONS LIONS CLUB OF COOLAMON!
December is Disease Prevention & Treatment Month.
Graphics by Debbie Vance from Canada.
ROTARY CLUB OF COOLAMON Inc. 2021-22
Chartered March 3rd, 1971; Sponsoring Club Narrandera Rotary Club
Past President Daryl welcomed 18 members to our weekly meeting in Albert’s absence. With many members absent on the night owing to the continuing harvest, business was light and focussed on catering for the dog shows coming up this weekend in Ganmain. The club will be catering breakfast and lunch on Friday and breakfast on Sunday. In lieu of a fines session, Sergeant-at-Arms Bondy showed us how uncoordinated we were by having us rotate our legs while reciting the Greek alphabet, which cannot be done! Someone won the raffle.
CHRISTMAS TREES
Do you have your Christmas Tree up yet? Here are some ideas and one not so good:
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Friday, 10th December – Catering breakfast and lunch at Ganmain dog show. Ganmain Showgrounds. 7 am – 2 pm.
Sunday, 12th December – Catering breakfast at Ganmain dog show. Ganmain Showgrounds, 7 – 10 am.
Monday, 13th December – Last meeting for 2021.Visit by Phil McIntosh and 3 members of the Wollundry RC 2022 Gears and Beers committee.NB Self Catering at the Coolamon Sport & Rec Club, 6:30 for 7.00 pm.
Friday, 31st December – New Year’s Eve Festival. Cowabbie Street, Coolamon (CRC food van).
Wednesday, 19th January 2022 –First Board Meeting for 2022. Coolamon Sport & Rec Club, 7:00 pm.
Monday, 24th January – First meeting for 2022. Coolamon Sport & Rec Club, 6:30 for 7.00 pm.
Saturday and Sunday, 19 and 20 February –PETS President Elect Training Session {PE Paul Weston}. Cowra.
Saturday and Sunday, 26-27th March – Gears and Beers
Saturday, 2nd April – Sportsman’s Night featuring SCOTT REARDON – The CRC Sportsman’s Committee have organised a fundraising function featuring local Paralympian Scott Reardon. The event will take place in conjunction with the Coolamon Football Club at Kindra Park.
JUST FOR LAUGHS
THE PUZZLER
Answer to last week’s puzzler:
Each of the cars was turning left.
This week’s puzzler:
What is something you don’t want, but once you have you don’t want to lose?
Through Rotary Friendship Exchanges (RFEs), we experience new cultures, expand our global understanding and perspectives, and immerse ourselves in unparalleled travel and service opportunities while building life-long friendships. The Rotary Friendship Exchange Photo Award showcases memorable exchanges around the world. The 2021-22 award theme was Embracing Diversity. Participants were asked to show how their exchange embraced diversity and diverse ideas by learning something new and reimagining how their district could participate in an exchange during the pandemic. We received amazing photos and strategies that demonstrated diversity and are excited to announce this year’s winner and runner up.
2. CRC AT WORK
The Coolamon Ganmain Kennel Club Dog Show is on this weekend and we are cooking breakfast and lunch on Friday and Breakfast on Sunday. Thanks to our volunteers and so far (Friday) Garth Perkin brought the caravan to the Ganmain Show Grounds and set it up on Thursday ready for serving breakfast on Friday. Cooking were Anne Rzeszkowski, Garth Perkin, Mary Potts, Henk Hulsman, Ian Jennings, Albert Suidgeest and John Glassford.
Some photos from Friday:
Garth setting up the caravan.
Can you find Anne?
The Westons fast asleep.
Bella wants to join the show my vote for Champion Dog!
December is Disease Prevention & Treatment Month.
Graphics by Debbie Vance from Canada.
ROTARY CLUB OF COOLAMON Inc. 2021-22
Chartered March 3rd, 1971; Sponsoring Club Narrandera Rotary Club
Dianne and Albert Suidgeest were our hosts for this year’s CRC Christmas party. Our thanks to the Suidgeest’s’ for their hospitality and for all the work they and others put in to make the night a memorable one. Special thanks to all those who brought a salad or a sweet or both.
34 members, partners and guests attended the gathering. The garden is special and well worth a visit at the next open garden day. It was also Albert’s birthday!
We all met down at “Lake Albert” where we had entrees prepared by Mary and Anne and went down well. The first highlight of the night was the bogged Merc. It took a bogged attempt by a 4-wheel to bring out the big guns: Albert and a long strap. Eventually both bogged vehicles were free; thanks Albert and apologies for the ruts!
The meal, which included a whole lot of prawns and ham plus salads and sweets, was definitely another highlight of the evening.
Leo de Kroo, a well known Coolamon identity, then entertained us with a few Christmas songs, inviting those assembled to sing along and chiding us when we reflexively used the traditional words to Jingle Bells instead of those of the Aussie version! If for some reason you’re not familiar with the Aussie version of Jingle Bells, you can find it here in a video complete with bogan humour! BTW, Leo is listed in Wikipedia.
BTW Chez did not catch anything!!!
We all had a great night of fellowship and friendship.
MONDAY AT MARRAR
This Monday, being a fifth Monday, led Coolamon Rotarians to the Marrar Hotel for a social night. Twenty-four members and guests attended the meeting.
So good to have a change of venue and catering. The dinner was plentiful with two courses prepared by one of our members, Craig Lambert, who works at the Marrar Hotel. After some great fellowship we sat down in the dining room and were entertained by Grahame Miles and Ian Jennings “singing” our old grace! We now know why we have stopped singing grace! A good time was had by all.
RAINING FOALS
Leslie and Paul Weston have had two foals during this week. Leslie writes:
23/11/21 – So pleased to welcome our new arrival Eva this morning…… to mum Zsa Zsa and dad Theo. Another beautiful bay filly from RQH Ala Natural and Time To Be Radical born at 5 am and running around by 8 am.
26/11/21 – So pleased with the safe arrival of Rosa on Saturday am! The first foal for mom Time To Be Stylish and first appaloosa foal for dad Potentially Lazy!! A lovely filly with big white blaze and one sock…she’s a pretty colour too… light bay or dark buckskin…. time will tell but she’s loping already!!!
DIARY
Monday 6th December – Regular Meeting. Coolamon Sport & Rec Club, 6:30 for 7.00 pm.
Friday, 10th December – Catering breakfast and lunch at Ganmain dog show. Ganmain Showgrounds. 7 am – 2 pm.
Sunday, 12th December – Catering breakfast at Ganmain dog show. Ganmain Showgrounds, 7 – 10 am.
Monday, 13th December – Last meeting for 2021.Visit by Phil McIntosh and 3 members of the Wollundry RC 2022 Gears and Beers committee. Coolamon Sport & Rec Club, 6:30 for 7.00 pm.
Friday, 31st December – New Year’s Eve Festival. Cowabbie Street, Coolamon (CRC food van).
Wednesday, 19th January 2022 –First Board Meeting for 2022. Coolamon Sport & Rec Club, 7:00 pm.
Monday, 24th January – First meeting for 2022. Coolamon Sport & Rec Club, 6:30 for 7.00 pm.
Saturday and Sunday, 19 and 20 February –PETS President Elect Training Session {PE Paul Weston}. Cowra.
Saturday and Sunday, 26-27th March – Gears and Beers
Saturday, 2nd April – Sportsman’s Night featuring SCOTT REARDON – The CRC Sportsman’s Committee have organised a fundraising function featuring local Paralympian Scott Reardon. The event will take place in conjunction with the Coolamon Football Club at Kindra Park.
JUST FOR LAUGHS
THE PUZZLER
Answer to last week’s puzzler:
Thanksgiving comes after Christmas in the dictionary, of course!
This week’s puzzler:
Four cars come to a four way stop, all coming from a different direction. They can’t decide who got there first, so they all go forward at the same time. They don’t crash into each other, but all four cars make it through the intersection. How is this possible?
ROTARY NEWS
1. GOOD NEWS NOT ROTARY RELATED
While all social networks are full of hatred and negativity, I want to dissolve it with pleasant news and facts. The world isn’t that bad, look back:
The Norwegians have decided not to drill oil wells in the Lofoten Islands (with $53,000,000,000,000 in oil reserves) to preserve the islands ecosystem.
For the first time in Malawi history, a woman has been elected as the speaker of the country’s parliament. Esther Challenge cancelled 1500 marriages with underage girls and sent them back to school.
Swedish donors receive a thank you text every time their blood saves people.
Thanks to the Endangered Species Act, the almost endangered species population of sea turtles has increased by 980%.
Thai supermarkets gave up plastic bags and began wrapping up their purchases in banana leaves.
Holland became the first country without stray dogs.
South Korea organizes dance parties for people after 65 years. To fight dementia and loneliness;
In Rome, you can pay for a ticket in the subway using plastic bottles. Thus, 350,000 bottles have already been collected.
California restrictions the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits in stores so people can take pets from shelters;
Rice farmers around the world are starting to use duck fields instead of pesticides. Ducks eat insects and pinch weeds without touching rice;
Canada passed a law prohibiting the use of mows and dolphins in the entertainment industry;
Holland sows roofs of hundreds of bus stops with flowers and plants – specifically for bees;
Iceland became the first country in the world to legalize equal salaries for men and women;
German circuses instead of animals use their holograms to stop the exploitation of animals in circuses;
LarvalBot underwater robot sows the bottom of the Great Barrier Reef with microscopic corals, grown specifically for ecosystem restoration
To reduce the number of suicides, Sweden organized the world’s first psychiatric ambulance
4855 people stood in line for hours in the rain to test stem cells to save the life of a five-year-old boy;
An Indian village celebrates the birth of every girl by planting 111 trees. 350,000 trees have already been planted so far
Thanks to the ban on humpback whale hunting, their population has grown from several hundred to 25,000
The Netherlands has built five artificial islands specifically for the conservation of birds and plants. Two years later, there are already 30,000 birds living there and 127 species of plants are growing
NASA satellites recorded that the world has become greener than 20 years ago
Since 1994, the number of suicides has decreased by 38%. It saved about four million lives
2. RAGES To The Moon
RAGES Rotarian Action Group for Endangered Species this Rotary Action Group or RAG was started in our club by John Glassford and Phillip Merritt from the RC of Mabalacat Clark in The Philippines. John and Phillip are friends and members of ROTI or Rotarians On The Internet. Rotary approved this RAG in July 2013 and John was it’s 1st Chair.
The painting Tears of the Rhino by artist Paula Wiegmink originally of Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) will be going to the moon.
RAGES received permission to use the painting as the logo for RAGES from Paula Wiegmink. It has taken a life of it’s own following the meeting between John, Susan and Dr. Jane Goodall in Sydney in 2014.
Paula with her partner in her studio in Dunsborough WA. On the wall is Kushundwe painted by Paula from a photo that JJG took in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest Uganda in 2011.
JJG with RIDE Eve Conway at the RI Convention in Seoul 2016. Eve is a director of RAGES and now a RI Director Elect for 2023-2025.
The Say NO poster was created and printed here in Wagga and has since had many well known conservationists sign the poster thanks to Duke Ingram and Ruben Besureis who took the poster over and had it signed. See how many of those that signed the poster above you can recognise, just click on the thumb nail pics above.
Duke Ingram, a poet and a motivational spiritual speaker and currently chosen by RAGES Rotary action group to head the world wide Say No campaign with his band Besureis for endangered species protection, which is the first ever Rotary campaign approved to include animals and global climate issues the main focus extinction, which has attracted some of the biggest names leaders and freedom fighters with the likes of Dr. Jane Goodall, Jeremy Irons, Noam Chomsky, Sir David Attenborough, Jean-Claud Van Damme, David Icke and many many more.
included somewhere in it. The Lion can be a toy, a picture anything, as long as it’s a LION 
