John J Glassford

World AIDS Day December 1st 2010

by

Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge

Harbour Bridge World AIDS Day

Sydney Opera House in Red

Sydney Harbour Bridge World AIDS Day 2010

What are you doing for World AIDS Day?  How about joining Rotary and then becoming a member of Rotarians For Fighting AIDS.  Only $100 life time mebership go to the RFFA web site for details on what Rotary is doing for the World AIDS pandemic.

Join RFFA Today

Watch Bono and Austraian Prime Minister Julia Gillard turn Sydney Red

Welcome to Coolamon Rotary Lelsie and Paul Weston

by

Last night we welcomed Leslie and Paul Weston to our club as members of the Rotary Club of Coolamon.  Their induction will take place soon.

The Weston Family

Paul, Leslie and Nicole Weston

The NSW Government has been successful in encouraging one of the world’s ‘best and brightest’ minds to relocate to inland NSW to carry out innovative research into the development of natural herbicides. Professor Leslie Weston, from Cornell University, one of the United State’s premier research universities, has relocated to the EH Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation at Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Wagga Wagga Campus under the government’s Life Science Research Awards. The NSW Minister for Science and Medical Research, Ms Verity Firth said, “Professor Weston is a recognised leader in her field of research and her relocation to the state is a major scientific coup and will cement NSW at the leading edge of scientific research into natural herbicides.” CSU Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research), Professor Paul Burnett has welcomed Professor Weston’s move, stating it is a fantastic outcome for the University. The EH Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation is a collaborative alliance between CSU and the NSW Department of Primary Industries.

Leslie was our guest speaker last Monday night.   Originally from Western in New York State, USA

A special congratulations also to Nicole Weston who made her riding debut in Australia at the National show. Nicki was Reserve National Champion in Amateur Western Pleasure and Reserve Jackpot Futurity Champion in Amateur Western Pleasure aboard Time To Be Radical! Way to go Nicki!

Dr Paul Weston, BS Cornell University; MS & PhD Michigan State University.  Paul also works at CSU in Wagga Wagga

  • Insect ecology and behaviour
  • Intergrated pest management
  • Isolation and identification of biologically active natural products
  • Simulation modelling of insect behaviour and population dynamics
  • Degree-day modelling of insect development
  • Invasion and establishment of exotic insect pests
  • Biological control of insects and weeds
  • Web-based information delivery.

We look forward to a long and mutually rewarding association with the Weston Family.

Their passion:

Theo

SING Campaign

by

Annie Lennox is doing remrakable work for the AIDS orphans of Africa and here is one example of why we should all do our bit to help these, the most vulnerable children on the planet.

When Vilele and his brothers lost both their mother and father to AIDS, they became what is commonly described as a “child headed household”. There are an estimated twelve million orphaned children like them living in Sub Saharan Africa.

Since our first encounter 2007, the SING Campaign has followed their story. And with help from SING and the Treatment Action Campaign, their lives have been been supported and changed for the better.

Coolamon and Ganmain Hospital Fete

by

Last Saturday we helped with the annual Hospital Fete.  Our club conducted the chocolate wheel and raised over $1,000.  Here are some photos of the day:

Just click on the thumb nails below for a larger image.

VISITING ROTARIAN

by

Rotarian John McKenny from Glen INnes

It not often we receive visiting Rotarians, however recently John McKenny has made up at our club and John is from the Rotary Club of Glen Innes.

John is working in the Coolamon Shire at the moment and we have enjoyed John’s company.

THE GREAT COWRA ESCAPE.

by

“On a showery, freezing morning we all travelled to Canowindra where we wandered around the town inspecting various shops and attractions, stopping for morning tea at “The Taste”, before heading to “The Age of Fishes Museum”.  This is a museum built especially to highlight the discovery near Canowindra, of fish fossils that existed before the age of the dinosaur. After that it was out to” Toms Waterhole Winery” for wine tasting and a lunch featuring homemade bread, cheese, pickles, olives etc. A Coolamon Rotary banner was presented to the winery proprietors to hang on their wall for future visitors to see. From there  we headed on to “The Falls Retreat”, a winery with 500 acres of grapes and a very impressive resort featuring a heated indoor pool, full beauty salon, massage tables, spray tanning room, and many more features, too numerous to mention.

After breakfast the next morning we all travelled to The Japanese gardens to see a very beautiful and well presented garden that remembers the POW camp and the Japanese inmates that were interred there during the Second World War. From there it was a short trip to see the relics of the actual site of the POW camp that housed Japanese, Italian, Chinese, Korean and Indonesian Prisoners of War. This was also  the site of the “breakout” by Japanese POW,s on the 5th August 1944 that resulted in the deaths of 231 Japanese POW’s and 4 Australian military guards.”

{As told by the escapees.}

Henk and Maureen Hulsman, Ray and Maria Foley, Max and Sue Chapman, Ian Durham and Christine Lorraine as well as Marg and Garth Perkin.

The escapees from Coolamon doing what they do best tasting some excellent wines from the Cowra and Canowindra region of NSW.