Over the last weekend we lost a fellow Rotarian. PP Bert Browning a Paul Harris Fellow and one of the longest serving Rotarians in the Rotary Club of Coolamon. Here are a few photos of Bert at work for the local community of Coolamon.
President Don Dyce and all of the Rotarians and partners in our club send our deepest condolences and wishes to Bert’s family. Bert will be remembered fondly by all who worked with him on a Rotary BBQ. Bert will also be remembered by the patrons and members of the Coolamon Sports and Recreation Club.
R.I.P. Bert Browning PHF.
ONE piece of tomato ONE Piece of beetroot and NO butter!
This is great news for us and you are all invited to attend the Zone 8 Institute in Darwin in 2017.
“It was good to catch up with Sam Owori RI President Nominee for 2018-2019 in Evanston today prior to the RI Board meeting. Sam will be coming to the Zone Institute in Darwin in 2017. I don’t think I have ever seen Sam not smiling!”
The Coolamon Community Chronicle is out second edition. Get your copy it is free!
Congratulations to the Coolamon Central School Journalism Club who put this together. Six of the eight are pictured on the front page. The team is made up of, Sophia, Elise, Minnie-Lee, Hannah, Chloe, Brodie, Madison and Beth.
The CCC Committee is made up of Beth Batcheldor, Rtn. Myffy Collette, PP Grahame Miles, Rtn. Bernadette Milne and PP Paul Weston.
Just a reminder that our Kindra bike and walking trail opens on Saturday morning at 10.00 am.
We will begin with a welcome to country by Aunty Gail Clarke, a thank you to various donors and sponsors and the official cutting of the ribbon jointly by Rotary Club of Coolamon, President Don Dyce and Mayor of Coolamon Shire Council, Councillor John Seymour.
It would be nice to have a good number of Rotarians there to support the event. Our Catering caravan will be there providing a free sausage sizzle for the public. I will send the roster out as soon as it is finalised. Please find a photo attached of the new entrance sign. Ricky Hard has done a fabulous job with it.
We’ll have the food van on site to serve sausage sandwiches and drinks to attendees, so those that are rostered on (Daryl, Dave, Henk and John B) are reminded to show up at 9:30 to fire up the barbie.
Dear Fellow Cricketing Rotarians, Partners and Friends,
The International Fellowship of Cricketing Rotarians
It is with great pleasure that we invite you all for a week of cricket in Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia for the Bi Annual IFCR Australian Festival, from Sunday the 16th to Friday 21st October 2016.
The Festival will be held at the Bolton Park Sports ground Complex, which has four cricket ovals and is located in the centre of Wagga Wagga. Robertson Oval is the premier oval and home to the Wagga Wagga and District Cricket Association. Facilities include an International sized cricket field, turf cricket pitch and turf practice wickets. The other three grounds, the Mark Taylor Oval, Geoff Lawson Oval and Michael Slater Oval are all located within the Bolton Park complex.
Extensive planning and preparations are going into the Wagga Wagga Festival. We want to make it an enjoyable and a memorable occasion for you and your partner. Come along and be part of this great Rotary Cricket Fellowship. Wagga Wagga, being the largest inland city in New South Wales, has much to offer.
Today we launched the Coolamon Community Chronicle, the first newspaper that Coolamon has had as far as I know. We had 7 members present to hand out the free copies to all and sundry.
It is a joint effort between the Coolamon Central School and the Shire of Coolamon and of course Rotary Coolamon with Myffy Collette and Bern Milne and their team who have done a great job.
EVANSTON, Ill. (July 26, 2016) — Rotary and disaster relief charity ShelterBox renewed a three-year agreement to provide immediate, lifesaving assistance to survivors of natural disasters and conflict.
Rotary clubs worldwide have mobilized to provide immediate relief to thousands of displaced people quickly and efficiently with ShelterBox for 16 years. To date, Rotary members have donated US$48 million to provide shelter for families in need – 40 percent of ShelterBox’s total of US$119.6 million raised.
“The partnership between Rotary and ShelterBox has provided a place of refuge to people facing some of the most difficult and uncertain moments in their lives,” said John Hewko, general secretary of Rotary. “We are happy to renew this project partnership and honor our ongoing commitment to taking action to help communities devastated by disasters and conflict.”
Each ShelterBox container typically provides a tent designed to withstand extreme weather conditions, along with regionally-appropriate supplies such as a water purification kit, blankets, tools, solar lights, and other necessities to help a family survive for six months or more after a disaster.
As part of the communities they serve, Rotary clubs help ShelterBox identify and prioritize immediate relief needs in disaster-affected areas and assist with the deployment of shelter kits, education materials and lifesaving supplies. Rotary members also fund aid boxes, become trained relief volunteers, assist with shipping customs clearance and connect with governments and other organizations in impacted areas to facilitate the delivery of boxes and aid. CEO of ShelterBox, Chris Warham said, “Rotary and ShelterBox will always stand side by side to help those less fortunate. This project partnership renewal simply indicates the strength of our long friendship, and recognizes the immense practical and funding support provided by Rotary members worldwide to enable us to reach out to families in distress.”
I know that I express all of our members wishes here in saying thank you to President Wayne Lewis and Helen Lewis for a great Rotary year for Coolamon and District. The only measure of a successful club is that the members keep on turning up every week. We had a lot of fun did a lot of work and made lasting new friends this year.
Thanks also to the Board and a special thanks to PP Ian Jennings for making the meetings attractive with many many excellent guest speakers. Also to our newer members who got stuck into projects such as Moo Poo with Dave McKinley. Trevor Parkes for the raffles each week a good team all round, and we look forward to the same with PE Don Dyce.
Well done Wayne and Helen.
MEETING MONDAY JUNE 20th. 2016
What a great roll up for the last meeting of 2015-2016. Our guests included:
John Bond, Wendy and Stuart Jennings, Dr. Sumera Amir, as well as partners Marilyn Jennings, Helen Lewis and Susan Glassford.
Guest Speakers Rylarians Lyndal Jennings and Lauren Exton.
We had 18 members attend President Wayne’s last meeting as President.
Wayne welcomed all our guests and members.
Short reports made by PP Garth Perkin on the Rotary Leaders Symposium in Young and Myffy Collette spoke on the progress of the Coolamon Community Chronicle. Myffy asked for contributions and for advertisers to kick off the paper. The Coolamon Central School will be playing a very important role in this Rotary Coolamon publication.
GUEST SPEAKERS
We sponsored these two young ladies to RYLA [Rotary Youth Leadership Awards], held at the Charles Sturt University campus in Orange recently. RYLA 2016 was conducted by the Rotary Club of Orange Daybreak.
Lyndal Jennings and Lauren Exton were our guest speakers tonight and gave a excellent presentation on the week long camp at RYLA.
35 young adults 18-28 attended from all over our Rotary District 9700. They made many new lifelong friends, were involved in many activities and a good line up of guest speakers.
RYLA provided them with teamwork activities both outdoors and indoors with some excellent memory challenges. They also participated in a few hours of community service with the Salvation Army and the PCYC in Orange.
On their last night they put on a concert for and with the Orange Rotarians.
Both Lyndal and Lauren thanked Coolamon Rotary for this opportunity and they recommend that we continue to sponsor young adults to RYLA. We look forward to the day when both Lauren and Lyndal join us as Rotarians.
The evening concluded with a vote of thanks by PP Neil Munro to Wayne and Helen Lewis for a job well done.
The raffle was won by Ian Durham and Ted Hutcheon conducted a heads and tails for 2 bottles of port.
Diary Reminders
Friday 24th June Red Nose Day Rural Style in the Ganmain Hall. 10.00 am-2.00 pm Wear Red free entry and BBQ Donations appreciated Contact Bron Hatty 0418 114 750
Saturday June 25th D9700 Change Over in Orange Hotel Conobolas.
*Monday June 27th Change Over Dinner at Coolamon.
Monday July 4th President Don Dyce’s FIRST Meeting 2016-2017
Saturday July 17th Street Raffle in Coolamon.
*Partners and Guests Night.
Apologies for Monday meetings call Ian Jennings on 0428 492 157 BY FRIDAY 12.00 pm.
REFLECTIONS
This will be my last bulletin as your Bulletin Editor. PP Paul Weston becomes our Bulletin Editor for 2016-2017.
It has been fun and most enjoyable preparing this bulletin on a weekly basis now for several years. So my last bulletin will be reflecting on the past.
Coolamon Rotary is on good shape with 25 members now getting back to where we used to be when I joined in 2003.
As with any club there have been some significant moments where we have had new members join us and continue to stay the course and work hard for our community both here and over the seas. Slowly we are getting more women to join us and that is a great thing for our future. Leslie Weston, Myffy Collette and Bernadette Milne make up a trio of dedicated members in our club.
Also the injection of youth into our membership with Alex Thompson joining us, is a great step forward for this club.
Our leadership under President Wayne Lewis this year has been of the highest quality and we look forward to another great year in Rotary Service with incoming President Don Dyce and his Board.
I look forward to working with you as DG in 2018-2019 and my work starts from July 1st 2016 as DG Nominee and in effect it is a 4 year stint. It is humbling and an honour to have been selected and as the first DG for our Coolamon Rotary Club a rare event indeed.
So here are some memories to contemplate as we move forward together. In no specific order just 150+ pics!!!
CLICK ON THE THUMB NAILS FOR A LARGER PHOTO.
John Glassford signing off!
See you all at the Change Over Next Monday Night 27th June.
AND JESSIE!
Bulletin Editor and Web Site: John Glassford
Yours in Rotary
John Glassford Chair 2014 -2017
Rotarian Action Group for Endangered Species
Don’t forget to regularly check our club web site for current information such as bingo rosters and various newsletters from the District Governor, the School of St. Jude’s, the monthly membership on the move newsletter as well as several other club bulletins.
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
We had a very good role up for a Club Assembly last night 17 members present.
It was our last assembly for President Wayne Lewis’s year and it was a raucous occasion with some business being conducted. Many jokes were told some good some not so good.
In the upcoming retirement of John Glassford as Foundation Director the members nominated Alex Thompson as Foundation Director 2016-2017 and the Board will ratify Alex’s nomination on Wednesday night. Alex will become the youngest Director of our club in memory.
Grahame Miles reported on Bingo and Dave McKinley on Moo Poo and also requested absence of leave as Dave is going to the Outback for some R&R.
The raffle was won by Henk and Ted conducted another amusing sometimes hilarious fines session.
There will be no meeting on Monday 13th June as it is the Queen’s Birthday holiday weekend.
John Glassford called for members to form the 2019 DISCON working committee in conjunction with the RC of Griffith.
Reminder that Bingo is on this Thursday.
We need names for our change over dinner please advise Henk Hulsman or Ian Jennings.
Diary Reminders
Wednesday June 8th Last Board Meeting for 2015-2016.
Thursday June 9th BINGO: Henk Hulsman (Capt), Trevor Parkes, Ted Hutcheon, Dick Jennings.
Monday 13th June NO Meeting Queen’s Birthday
Monday 20th June LAST Meeting for 2015-2016
Saturday June 25th D9700 Change Over in Orange Hotel Conobolas.
*Monday June 27th Change Over Dinner at Coolamon.
*Partners and Guests Night.
Apologies for Monday meetings call Ian Jennings on 0428 492 157 BY FRIDAY 12.00 pm.
ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
This week here is the Korean interpretation of how to boil an egg in a microwave. Seen in the breakfast room of my hotel in Seoul click on the images for a larger picture:
My hotel, The Hotel Icon Anguk, Seoul. Hard to find but a quarter of the cost of the official hotels.
REPORT FROM JOHN GLASSFORD COOLAMON & RAGES DELEGATE TO SEOUL RICON 2016
Be a Gift to the World – Mahātria Rā, Spiritualist
This is one of the sessions that I missed however you and I can watch him here.
Happiness is the way I saw the whole convention and my first visit to Seoul.
The best part for me was meeting every day Koreans on the metro every day. Finding small eating places with wonderful food. The Koreans’ happy faces, no policemen with guns, only one baton. The efficient and super clean metro trains, zero graffiti. So many happy memories that reminds me what the Object Rotary is all about, friendship through acquaintance!
I do not have enough space here ot convey all of my memories however here are some photos in thumb nail format.
PRESIDENT K.R. RAVINDRAN “RAVI”
RI President K.R. Ravindran shares a personal story of triumph over polio at the closing session of the 107th Rotary convention. Photo Credit: SJ Cho
RI President K.R. Ravindran closed the convention in Korea on Wednesday, 1 June, with a poignant story about his mother’s fight to survive polio at age 30.
When Ravindran was 11 years old in his native Sri Lanka, his mother awoke one day feeling weak and short of breath. Sitting down to rest, she found herself unable to move. The polio virus had quickly invaded her nervous system, resulting in paralysis.
She was placed in an iron lung at the hospital to enable her to breathe, and was told that her chances of walking, or even surviving without a ventilator, were slim. But most Sri Lankan hospitals were not equipped with ventilators in 1963.
Ravindran’s grandfather, a Rotary member, hosted a club committee meeting in his living room the evening after his daughter was rushed to the hospital. Rather than simply offer consolation, his fellow members went to work, using their business acumen and professional connections to find a ventilator.
One of the members was a bank manager who called a government minister to facilitate a quick international transfer of funds. Another member, a manager at Swiss Air, arranged to have a ventilator flown in. The next day, it arrived at the hospital.
FULL STORY HERE.
DISTRICT GOVERNOR GARY ROBERTS D 9700
Find out how Rotary members are improving the lives of mothers and children in Nigeria and Pakistan. http://on.rotary.org/1QXrPQj
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined us at the Rotary Convention and shared that “Rotary’s Polio Plus has helped to avert massive suffering. Some 16 million people who otherwise would have been paralyzed by polio can walk now. Around a million and a half children are alive today thanks to Polio Plus. I thank you for such a great contribution.”
This week we concentrate on the Rotary International Convention Seoul 2016.
Here is a summary of the event from PP Ron Ron Nethercutt RC of Mabalacat, The Philippines and D 3790 Information Chair & Fellowship Director. Ron is also Past Chair of ROTI and a great friend. (Rotarians On The Internet Fellowship). You can down load the report below in pdf, this was published in the Korea Joongang daily newspaper.
Convention goers await the beginning of the opening session on 29 May at KINTEX, the Korea International Exhibition and Convention Center in Goyang city. Photo Credit: Andrea Yoon
Members of Rotary and Rotaract, wearing traditional Korean attire, get ready for the Walk for Peace in Seoul Plaza on Saturday, 28 May. Photo Credit: S.J. Cho
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon indicates that we are “This Close” to ending polio because of Rotary’s great work, during the opening session of the Rotary Convention in Korea on Sunday, 29 May. Photo Credit: SJ Cho.
A Korean drum solo is part of the entertainment during the Welcome Festival on Saturday, 28 May.
Photo Credit: Andrea Yoon.
CLOSING CEREMONY
Korean Pop Icon PSY set the hall on fire with his electrifying performance. His internationally acclaimed ‘Gangnam Style’ had the audience up and dancing, and ended up with some amazing performers from around the world BUT that is a story for another time.
RAGES NEWS
This week we look at the RAGES booth at the Seoul Rotary International Convention 2016.
Our booth was just behind but hidden by the RI Resource centre. We were located with all the other Action Groups.
I attended the Action Groups Chair meeting run by Marion Bunch.
We had plenty of material for our RAGES booth and did not run out of forms or cards. I had my lap top with a power point presentation on loop at all times.
If I may make a comment; we in the Action Groups area had one or two unmanned booths. We were located behind the RI area right at the back end of the massive hall. We experienced a very low visitor rate. No Korean no Japanese Rotarians stopped at our booth and only a few I am told stopped at the other Action Groups.
My observations indicated that the Koreans and Japanese only came for one day and the opening ceremony. I maybe wrong but I do not think so. However the visitors that came to our end where genuine and most sought us out. So quality v quantity in Seoul. The RI staff also wrote to a couple of the Action Group booths to say that they must stay until closing time and not leave early. Fair enough.
I have no complaints even though I missed every plenary as I wanted to be at the RAGES booth. My sincere thanks to PDG Barbara Shayeb-Helou for all the help on our booth which gave me time to go do some souvenir shopping and have a break.
Our break out session was very well attended and our Moderator PRIVP Anne L. Matthews did a very professional job and thanks so much Anne for being there. On the panel was Moderator Anne with PDG Barbara Shayeb-Helou and PE RIBI Eve Conway. Plenty of genuine questions from the floor and we finished on time and in time to get to the closing ceremony. That was something special for another day.
The organising committee are to be congratulated.
The RAGES booth before the opening all ready to go!
Chair John Glassford RAGES, speaking at the break out session for RAGES. Moderator was PRIVP Anne L. Matthews RC Columbia East. District 7770 USA, and fellow RAGES Board members PDG Barbara Shayeb-Helou RC of Pleasantberg, District 7750 and PE RIBI Eve Conway RC Redbridge District 1130 UK were on the panel as well.
PE RIBI Eve Conway with John Glassford at the RAGES booth.
The RAGES shirt with Tears of the Rhino got a lot of attention!
Above Rotaractor Oyumaa Davaajav from the Rotaract Club of Nairamdal Mongolia. Oyumaa wants to save the remaining 22 Mazaalai bears from extinction in her country Mongolia. Oyumaa also made us aware of the plight of the White Tiger in Mongolia.
Mazaalai – this simple mongolian world means Gobi Bear who inhabits in the Gobi desert of Mongolia. No other place on the entire Earth is home for this rare specie of Bear. Its scientific name is Ursus Arctos Gobiensis. It’s listed in the Red Book of Mongolia with a status of VERY RARE. They were found in the Desert of Aj Bogdo of West Altai mountain ranges in early 1920s. Mazaalai is near extinction & globally threatened bear.
The last 22 members of this brown bear subspecies (known in Mongolian as mazaalai) live near three oases in the Gobi Desert, where the golden-coloured animals subsist on a mostly vegetarian diet of hardy desert roots and other plants.
But rising temperatures appear to have already started reducing the available water in the Gobi, making those plants harder to find and threatening the future of the bear.
Special toilets at the Icheon International Airport for children AND adults.
TWO Lids one smaller than the other, clever.
FOOTNOTE
Only a couple days left to take advantage of our special offer to register for the 2017 Atlanta Convention for only $265! Register and pay by 6 June 2016. TOO LATE Next deadline 15th December 2016 at $340 US.
Don’t forget to regularly check our club web site for current information such as bingo rosters and various newsletters from the District Governor, the School of St. Jude’s, the monthly membership on the move newsletter as well as several other club bulletins.
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
