A good day for Rotarians to donate to the Polio Plus campaign.
Click on the End Polio Now logo above for the full story and to donate.
There is a US$945 million funding gap in the fight to end polio. What’s the impact? Campaigns in 33 countries will be cancelled and 94 million children won’t receive the polio vaccine.
We need your help! Send a message to world leaders to fund the fight to end polio at:
Great story on a rescue something we do well with orphans in Africa. Just thought that you might enjoy this story.
We had the following visitors: From Junee Rotary Club Peter Commens, John Higginson, Ian Good, Doug Bell, from Henty Rotary Club, Ron Wellington, Mark Janetzki, from Lockhart Rotary Club, Bob “Babu” Kendell, Alan Mulholland, Bryan Burgess, Colin Wiese, Bob Toose and from Wagga Wagga Sunrise Rotary Club, Max Chapman and PDG Fred Loneragan. From Italy Enrico and Ricardo and from Ganmain Susan Wingate-Pearse.
Ten members from our club were also in attendance, Paul Weston, Henk Hulsman, John Glassford, Mark Reardon, Dick Jennings, Christine Atkinson, Ian Jennings, John Burns, Neil Munro and Ian Durham.
Dick Jennings ran a chook raffle and there were two chooks on offer.
The presentation on Africa was in three parts showing where we had been where we are today and where we are going tomorrow. To date Road MAPS and District 9700 with PDG Fred Loneragan has raised $238,000 for our projects there. These include:
The School of St Jude’s in Moshono Tanzania.
Bishop Masereka’s Medical Clinic in Kasase Uganda
Orphan Rescue in Mathare Kenya
Coolamon House in Hout Bay South Africa.
The presentation concentrated on sustainability and the two main projects we will be supporting over the next three years, Orphan Rescue Kits for Mathare and Tracy’s 200 and Coolamon House in Cape Town. The 3 year plan for awareness and fund raising will be centered on World AIDS Day December 1st for the next 3 years:
Fred and John then went onto outline the project planned for ANZAC Day 2015 climbing Mount Kenya in aid of Legacy in Australia, the Returned Services Association in New Zealand and our two African projects. More information will become avialable over the next few months.
President’s report
This past Monday, the club and our many guests were treated to a very interesting presentation and a challenge by John Glassford and Fred Lonergan. John and Fred described progress to date on the “Roadmaps to Africa” fundraising campaign spearheaded by John and fabulously supported by Fred and the Rotary Foundation. To date, $238,000 has been raised by their efforts, centred on climbs of notable mountain peaks in Africa (e.g. Mount Kilimanjaro and Mountains of the Moon/Mount Margherita). The funds have been used to support programs aimed at easing life for the millions of AIDS orphans in Africa, children who have had the misfortune of being born into families whose parents have been victims of the AIDS epidemic. Pretty remarkable stuff.
Now the challenge: to raise funds to provide educational opportunities for 200 of these AIDS orphans. John and Fred described how $450 can provide the funds needed to send one of these children through primary school ($600 for secondary school). The focus on education is plain: without education, these children have virtually no opportunity to escape the fate that befell their parents. However, a very modest monetary investment provides these children with a sound education that will give them the footing to lead productive lives. This investment in education began with one 14-year old girl (Tracy), and now the challenge is to raise funds for 200 of Tracy’s contemporaries to provide similar opportunities for them. The starting point in this fund-raiser is to have people sacrifice their lunch money for one day (AIDS awareness day, coming up in December). Small donations such as this can add up to substantial sums, so John and Fred hope a fair bit of the funding for this challenge will be raised this way. Of course, individuals and groups can sponsor a child in whole. Look for details on this program in the very near future. It was inspiring to see how much of a difference a few people working together can make; hats off to John, Fred, Craig Corrigan (who climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro), Mark Janetzki of Henty Rotary (who climbed Mt. Margherita), and the other climbers who sacrificed time and money to make this possible.
Our next meeting features a workshop for the owners and operators of businesses in the Coolamon Shire who are interested in learning how to enhance their businesses via electronic media. This digital marketing workshop will be run by a firm based in Wagga, and will show businesspeople how to use the internet and social media to increase their customer base and profitability. The cost of the workshop is being shared by our club and the Coolamon Shire Council in order to encourage business owners and operators to learn about this increasingly important avenue of communication with existing and potential customers. Members of our club are welcome to attend for the usual cost of a dinner catered by Gilbert ($20).
Things keep rolling along, so don’t sit on the sidelines for too long! I hope to see you at the digital marketing workshop. The following week, being a fifth Monday, will be purely an opportunity for fellowship (a dinner hosted by Ian and Marilyn Jennings), so save that date as well.
Onward and upward!
Yours in Rotary,
Paul
Saturday October 20th Coolamon and Ganmain Hospital Fete 9.00am at the hospital grounds, volunteers needed for the chocolate wheel.
Volunteers so far Clare Munro, Ian Durham, Dick Jennings, Ian Jennings, Mark Reardon, Paul Weston and John Glassford.
*Monday 22nd October WORKSHOP for Coolamon Shire Business people on how to use the Internet for marketing your business facilitated by Linda Tillman and sponsored by Coolamon Rotary and the Coolamon Shire Council.
So successful was my attendance of a Rotary club meeting via Skype that invitations for me to attend other online meetings continue pouring in. All requests for online meetings must be in writing and emailed to: [email protected]. Please include your club’s name, address, and a member’s contact information.
Visiting Rotary clubs and projects around the world is a big part of my job as president. So if I’m unable to visit your club in person I would really enjoy participating in one of your meetings via Skype. I look forward to hearing from you, and thank you for your interest.
Rotary International President via Skype
Three Indian Squaws
There were three Indian squaws. One slept on a deer skin, one slept
on an elk skin, and the third slept on a hippopotamus skin. All three
became pregnant. The first two each had a baby boy. The one who
slept on the hippopotamus skin had twin boys. This just goes to prove
that the squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the squaws
of the other two hides. (Some of you may need help with this one).
“Parachuting”
Rotary International offers myriad resources to help Rotarians build effective clubs. Effective clubs are able to achieve the Object of Rotary by
Club membership
Kamchatka. Eruption Kluchevskoy, NE Russia
Rotary International President Sakuji Tanaka
Governor of District 9700 Greg Brown
Coolamon Club President Paul Weston
Coolamon Club Secretary John Glassford Coolamon
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
Rotarians For Fighting AIDS AUSTRALIA: http://theork.com/
Our Rotary Centennial Twin Club Hout Bay, Cape Town, South Africa: http://www.rotaryhoutbay.org
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.
Today is World Food Day! Our students at The Kibera School for Girls receive two full meals a day and a snack, providing essential nutrition for our girls. The parents of our students volunteer to cook the meals.
Join us today in acknowledging the importance of ending hunger worldwide.
This evening was a business meeting and we got through a lot of club business. The minutes will be distributed as soon as possible.
Thanks to Henk Hulsman for catering and for the Kranztki sausages, Dutch potatoes and Dutch cabbage. All delicious.
NEXT Monday Night 15th October
To all who read this bulletin you are cordially invited to Coolamon this Monday to hear what is next for Africa.
The talk is entitled Road MAPS to Africa Yesterday Today Tomorrow.
As a prelude to next Monday night on Africa by PDG Fred Loneragan and John Glassford here are some comments from the beneficiaries of the Mountains of the Moon Climb in 2011. Last week RAWCS distributed around $40,000 that was raised as a result of the climb to the 4 beneficiaries.
+ Zebedee
Our Treasurer Roy Graham has told me that your very kind donation amounting to R 56,516,97 has come in to our account. Thank you so much for your continued work on our behalf. You are friends indeed.
This is an absolute lifeline for us given our problems with Foundation and the matching grant. We shall put this toward the defibrilator for which we are awaiting a pro forma invoice or solid quote and as you know, this is a permitted item under the rules and will offset substantially the amount owing.
Patrick has to submit a progress report to Foundation in the immediate future and this will read well. Needless to say, our objective is to get the whole thing settled off and to get us all back in the good books with the Matching Grant people.
I expect that Patrick will be writing to you if he has not done so already. But from me as the President and on behalf of the Board I thank you and the Rotary Club of Coolamon.
Kind regards Peter Dutton
President Rotary Hout Bay
John, hello and hope you are well! Even though I am officially on maternity leave I had to sneak into my office to send a big note of thanks for your wonderful donation of 7k plus! How wonderful!
With your blessings we would love the money to go toward paying for our non academic staff-who keep the school running behind the scenes.
I hope you all had a wonderful trek and thanks again for never forgetting about our school.
Best wishes, Gemma
I paid a visit to the Rotary Club of Beijing, my first to a Chinese Rotary club, and I was encouraged by the active involvement of its members in numerous service projects. The president of the Rotary Club of Shanghai was also present. 北京ロータリークラブを訪問いたしました。奉仕活動を盛んに行っているクラブです。上海のクラブからも会長さんが駆けつけてくださいました。大変お世話になりありがとうございました。
Eleven people were hanging on a rope under a helicopter, ten men and one woman. The rope was not strong enough to carry them all, so they decided that one has to drop off, otherwise they are all going to fall. They were not able to choose that person, but then the woman made a very touching speech. She said that she would voluntarily let go of the rope, because as woman she was used to giving up everything for her husband and kids, and for men in general, without ever getting anything in return. As soon as she finished her speech, all the men started clapping their hands.
Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn’t seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy whips out his cell phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps: “My friend is dead! What can I do?” The operator says: “Calm down, I can help. First, let’s make sure he’s dead.” There is a silence, then a shot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says: “OK, now what?”
Arsenic? Jane walked into a pharmacy, strolled over to the counter, and caught the pharmacist’s attention. “Can I please get some arsenic?” she asked. “Arsenic? What do you want arsenic for?” asked the pharmacist. “It’s for my husband,” she replied. “Your husband?” exclaimed the pharmacist, “I hope you don’t mean what I think you mean!” She just nodded. “Well, lady,” he replied, “I’m an honest man. I can’t sell you arsenic, I wouldn’t if I could, and I don’t know what made you think you could just stroll into a respectable store and expect me me to sell you arsenic.!” She didn’t say a word. She just reached into her purse, fished out a photograph, and handed it across the counter. It was a picture of her husband, in bed with the pharmacist’s wife. Slowly the pharmacist looks up, over the counter, and then straight at her. “Lady,” he said, “why didn’t you tell me you had a prescription?”
A vocational service program conducted by the Rotary Club of St. Joseph & Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA, is helping junior and senior high school students develop careers by connecting them with mentors who are leaders in industry. Participants are selected by their schools and given the opportunity to explore their professional interests with behind-the-scenes visits to area businesses. They also meet one-on-one with mentors, who share their experiences and advise the students on how best to pursue their dream careers. Since the club launched the mentoring program in 2008, Rotarians have put more than 300 students in touch with professionals including lawyers, doctors, a Fortune 500 CEO, broadcast journalists, police officers, and a professional football player. Two Rotarians accompany each student who meets with a professional. The students are then required to report on their experiences at a meeting of the Rotary club. “This program leverages Rotary’s amazing network of professionals to help young people connect with their career interests,” says Jackie Huie, program chair and president of the St. Joseph & Benton Harbor club. “We have not had a vocation that we couldn’t find for a student.” The experience gives teenagers a chance either to reinforce their career choices or to rethink them, says Huie. Teri LaForest, a senior and a 2012 program participant, wanted to become a meteorologist. The club organized a meeting with a meteorologist at the local TV station. After the visit, LaForest concluded that that job might not be for her but that she still had a passion for environmental science.
High school senior Teri LaForest (right) meets with local TV meteorologist Cindi Clawson as part of a vocational service project conducted by the Rotary Club of St. Joseph & Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA. Photo courtesy of the Rotary Club of St. Joseph & Benton Harbor.
Rotary International President Sakuji Tanaka
Governor of District 9700 Greg Brown
Coolamon Club President Paul Weston
Coolamon Club Secretary John Glassford Coolamon
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
Rotarians For Fighting AIDS AUSTRALIA: http://theork.com/
Our Rotary Centennial Twin Club Hout Bay, Cape Town, South Africa: http://www.rotaryhoutbay.org
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.
Our Centennial Twin Club Hout Bay have resumed normal service and their bulletin is now available, click on the logo below:
Some photos form our visit last December with the Mountains of the Moon team at the Hout Bay Rotary Club.
Hout Bay has one of the best club rooms and venue right on the harbour.
Another great read from ROTI the fellowship for Rotarians On The Internet.
The more we use the Internet the more we can learn about Rotary around the world and this fellowship is a great place to make friends form around the world.
Here are two great mates of mine that I met through ROTI and then at the Chicago Convention in 2005. Some of you have met Chip Ross from Canada on my right giving me $50 Aussie for Road MAPS and on my left is PDG Todd Lindley from the USA.
Chip Ross, John Glassford and Todd Lindley in Chicago 2005.
Normally we would not be meeting on a long weekend, however we had a very good reason to go to Junee on Tuesday evening. Past President of our club Dick Jennings nominated Past President Roger Quine from the Junee Rotary Club to receive a Paul Harris Fellow Sapphire Pin. The nomination was endorsed unanimously by our members. Dick said that Roger was and still is an outstanding supporter of our club, and has been for many years. So President Paul Weston, Dick Jennings, Ian Jennings and John Glassford attended this meeting and presentation.
Paul called Roger up and presented the PHF Sapphire to Roger, Dick also spoke in support of the award and all present congratulated Roger on his award. Roger was extremely surprised and very humble in accepting his PHF Sapphire. Fay Quine told us that she had a huge blister on her tongue from having to keep the secret from Roger. Making it even harder was the fact that the Quine’s were expecting news of the imminent birth of a great grand child. Fay told us during the meeting that indeed a great grand child had been born during the meeting.
Thanks go to Dick for his foresight in honouring Roger in this manner. It is indeed very rare for a Rotary club to award a member in another Rotary club a Paul Harris Fellow. Well deserved Roger and thanks for all your wonderful support over the years, from all of our members.
{Click on any of the images below for a larger version}.
PRESIDENT PAUL WESTON’S REPORT
Despite the long weekend, it was another busy week in Rotaryland. The Mens’ Shed of Coolamon organised the first ever Scarecrow Festival in town, which brought antique cars and hundreds of visitors to listen to the music and visit the various stalls on offer. The more adventurous opted for helicopter rides which ran for most of the day. Coolamon Rotary was on the scene, rolling out the food van for the first time in several years and cooking up Kranskys and footlong hotdogs. Toward the end of the afternoon, I presented the winner of the live scarecrow contest with a certificate and check for $300, which Rotary ponied up to help fund the event. Judging from the size of the crowd and the happy faces, this event will become a regular feature on the Coolamon event calendar.
We had no meeting this week because of the public holiday, but four of us (John G., Dick, Ian J. and I) travelled to Junee on Tuesday evening to share fellowship with the Junee Rotary Club and to present Roger Quine with a Paul Harris Sapphire badge. It was a touching to see Roger’s reaction to the surprise presentation; according to those that know Roger, it was one of the few times that Roger was left nearly speechless. It was a very nice evening, and both clubs expressed interest in getting together more often.
Watch this space for details on the digital marketing workshop that Coolamon Rotary is organising for the 22nd of October for local business owners and operators (an co-sponsored by Coolamon Shire). Also, don’t forget about the business meeting scheduled for 8 October.
That’s all for now. Onward and upward!.
Yours in Rotary,
Paul
Friday 19th to Sunday 21st April 2013 D9700 Conference Leeton
June 23-26 2013 Rotary International Convention in Lisbon. RI Convention Lisbon
*Partners and Guests Night.
Polio eradication was discussed at a special event during the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, 27 September. I encourage you to visit Rotary’s End Polio Now website and to sign the petition urging world leaders to help bridge the funding gap. Every little show of support helps, and this is a fight that we cannot afford to lose.
ポ
リオ撲滅支援を各国政府に呼びかけるための署名運動にご協力ください。集まった署名は、ニューヨーク国連本部での国連総会中、9月27日に開かれる特別イベントで国連の潘基文事務総長に渡されます。
After becoming very frustrated with the attitude of one of the shopkeepers, the young blonde declared, ‘Well, then, maybe I’ll just go out and catch my own alligator and get a pair of alligator shoes for free!’ The shopkeeper replied with a sly smile, ‘Well, little lady, why don’t you go on and give it a try?’
The blonde headed off to the swamp, determined to catch an alligator. Later in the day, as the shopkeeper was driving home, he spotted the same young woman standing waist deep in the murky water, shotgun in hand.
As he brought his car to a stop, he saw a huge 9-foot gator swimming rapidly toward her. With lightning reflexes, the blonde took aim, shot the creature and hauled it up onto the slippery bank. Nearby were 7 more dead gators all lying belly up. The shopkeeper stood on the bank, watching in silent amazement as the blonde struggled mightily and barely managed to flip the gator onto its back.
Then, rolling her eyes heavenward, she screamed in frustration…..
DARN! THIS ONE’S BAREFOOT, TOO!
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is a partnership between The World Health Organisation, Rotary International, Centres for Disease Control and UNICEF. National Immunisation Days or NIDs are days where Rotarians gather to give polio drops.
Jon Deisher form the RC of Anchorage in Alaska, a good friend, has been on these NIDs and here he is below in Chandigahr, Punjab, India … Immunizing children against Polio. “One of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done”. Jon.
The pie chart and table below go to show and highlight the cost of this project started by Rotary in 1985. It has been a partnership with many counties from around the world as well as with the other members of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. So far the cost is over $9 billion. If you add the voluntary time of countless Rotarians working in the field the amount would be significantly higher.
However there is a large shortfall in funds required to continue with the project to eliminate polio from the face of the earth and it may surprise you to learn just how much is needed to complete the job. It is going to take countries from around the world to donate large sums of money along with Rotary International and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation . Bill and Melinda Gates have also contributed over $1 billion to date.
RI President Tanaka announced at the United Nations last week that Rotary will contribute a further $75 million over the next 3 years.
Here is the GPEI Web Site where you can find all the latest news on the fight against polio.
For Henk
Rotary International President Sakuji Tanaka
Governor of District 9700 Greg Brown
Coolamon Club President Paul Weston
Coolamon Club Secretary John Glassford
Coolamon 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
Rotarians For Fighting AIDS AUSTRALIA: http://theork.com/
Our Rotary Centennial Twin Club Hout Bay, Cape Town, South Africa: http://www.rotaryhoutbay.org
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.
