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Rotary Club of Mundingburra

Townsville, Australia

Visting Rotarians and Guests are always welcome

Service Above Self

We meet In Person

Thursdays at 6:30 pm

CUTHERINGA BOWLS CLUB

8 Harold Street
West End, QLD 4810
Australia

Phone:

0438 404 886

Email:

rotarymundingburra@outlook.com

6pm for 6.30pm start Check Rotary News below as some weekly meetings are offsite.

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Mundingburra Rotary supporting Australia Day

AUSTRALIA DAY 2025

What are you doing on Australia Day? How about joining your fellow Australians to ‘Reflect, Respect and Celebrate’ all this great country has to offer. Mundingburra Rotary is doing their bit for Australia Day under the auspices of the National Australia Day Initiative. Resourced through a National Australia Day Community Grant, Mundingburra Rotary has partnered with the Alice River Community Association to conduct a family friendly fun afternoon. Everyone is very welcome to come along and enjoy everything on offer. Mundingburra Rotary will be operating its Wooden Toys Stall as well as giving away the FREE ice creams. Don’t miss out!

Mundingburra Rotary Membership night

Visitors are welcome to attend our Club membership night at the Cutheringa Bowls Cluv, 8 Harold Street, West End, as per the flyer information below.

No Meeting on Thursday 25th Jan

Members, Visiting Rotarians, and Visitors,

Due to Australia Day on Friday 26th our meeting this Thursday night is cancelled.

The club next meets on 1st February however we invite members, family and everyone, that we are working with the Alice River Association's Australia Day morning at Rupertswood Park, and everyone is welcome. See the flyer below as it will be a fun time for everyone.

Australia Day Event

What are you doing on Australia Day?

How about joining your fellow Australians to ‘Reflect, Respect and Celebrate’ all this great country has to offer.

Mundingburra Rotary is doing their bit for Australia Day under the auspices of the Rotary National Australia Day Initiative. Resourced through a National Australia Day Community Grant.

Mundingburra Rotary has partnered with the Alice River Community Association to conduct a family-friendly fun morning from 8am to midday at Rupertswood Park. With face painting, waterslide, sand art and games, inflatable playground and local entertainment by local singer Paige Thomas and Windy Wizard there will be plenty to do and see.

Mundingburra Rotary will be operating a Wooden Toys Market Stall. All very welcome to come along and enjoy a free sausage sizzle, mini soft-serve ice cream and snow cones.

No Meeting 23rd Nov 2023

Members and Guests

The club meeting this week is at Ingham for our Annual Cane Knife Debate.

Back to the Cutheringa Bowls club the following Thursday night

Peace Pole

The Rotary Club of Mundingburra was proud to provide a Peace Pole to St Benedict School at Shaw which was installed at a special ceremony at 9am on the 22nd of November with the help and support of various students and staff at the school..

The peace pole is the first one installed in the Townsville area to our knowledge and provides a message of Peace in the local area.,

The Pole is displayed with the words "May Peace Prevail on Earth" and is endorsed with a different language on each of its 4 sides.

St Benedict's pole contains, English, Latin, Spanish and Punjabi as selected by the school.

Planting a Peace Pole is a way to bring people together from many sectors of the community. Every Peace Pole dedication ceremony is a unique outcome of the shared experience of those who plan the program, as well as those who attend.

Hopefully, the club may be able to provide more poles for other local schools to spread the message of Peace, which is becoming more adnd more important every day.

Homeopathy

An Introduction to Homeopathy

Members and Guests at our meeting on the 16th of November were given a presentation on Homeopathy by Dr Asha Kiran..

An interesting topic on something not well known in Australia but apparently well known in large areas of Europe.

Bit t to involved to cover in this notice, however, others might like to Google it to see more about the topic.

Thanks, Asha for your presentation.

The Clubs annual Melbourne Cup night

Once again members enjoyed a fun night of fellowship with our annual Melbourne Cup Phantom night call meeting.

Our caller of many years, Tony Wode was overseas and sent us his replacement, his brother Laurie. Laudie did a really great call, so it will e interesting to see if his call of the race turns out to be factual on the read event this coming week. Regardless a good payout went to those who had the good fortune to win those houses in the calcutta.

One normal highlight is the fashions on the field, which was a bit restricted this year as not as many dressed up for the occasion. Never the less we had a male and a female winner.

A donation of $500 is being paid to the Family Emergency Accommodation Centre on Laurie's behalf fopr coming and doing the Call.

St James Cathedral Visit

What an amazing club visit to the Townsville St James Cathedral. This historic building is magnificent to see and learn about.

Lorraine Kennedy took time out of her night to provide us with a personal tour of the Cathedral and explain how the building came about, and also the various buildings and alterations until we got to the wonderful church it is today.

We ended the night in the Cathedral gardens enjoying a pizza meal.

Well worth a visit.

Townsville Toy Library

Another very entertaining speaker from the Townsville Toy Library, Nikki Dunn provided an overview of the wonderful work they are doing in our local community. They provide a very popular and necessary facility for the Townsville area.

Due to a major flood event in 2019, they had to find other accommodation, most of which has only been temporary, however recently the local Townsville Council provided them with an excellent facility in the suburb of Vincent on a 5 year lease. They are very appreciative of the new building and location however they are attempting to raise some funding to allow them to provide some more safety and also better access to the rooms.

The floods caused the loss of all the toys that they loan to those in need, however, the support of various groups has allowed them to rebuild most of the things they need for a Toy Library. They currently hold around 2500 different toys so the community response has been very good.

Thanks Nikki for sharing this community asset with us and we hope to be able to assist in some ways to work with your organization on your items of need.

JCU Volunteer Simulated Patients

Members and Guests at our last meeting were given a very interesting talk by two Ladies from the JCU Medicine Volunteer Department.

In order to assist Doctors in training, JCU operates a small program in which members of the community register to be a volunteer to assist trainee Doctors doing their training by virtue of role-playing some nominated issues that a patient may have. The roles are non-invasive and cover a wide range of events during the year.

The program is voluntary and they understand that some times and dates are not suitable in all cases so they like a range of volunteers to ensure they can get suitable people when required.

The link below provides a more detailed explanation of the program which is vital for the training of our future doctors. It is also possible for volunteers to register for other more invasive role-playing however this is a separate part of the program and only applies to those that specifically advise they would like to participate in that type of assistance.

https://clubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000012067/en-au/files/homepage/jcu-vsp-sept-2023/VSP-Program-sheet-Sept-2023.pdf

The presentation was well received by everyone and appreciated that our community is providing assistance to our future medical needs.

Critical Minerals

Club members were provided with an excellent overview of the Critical Minerals resources that are available in Queensland, and more specifically within North Queensland by Scott Stewart.

We are blessed to have very large areas with what is fast becoming valuable minerals that are necessary for the variety of things that are being developed to enhance our future living needs as environmental aspects change.

Most of the minerals mentioned were not the common types we are used to, but are being sought by various countries for the provision of future power needs.

We learned that a number of projects are being undertaken to value-add these products rather than just sending them overseas in their raw state. All of which will add to future opportunities for our communities to grow.

An excellent, and non-political, presentation by Scott Stewart, a former member of our club highlighting how North Queensland is likely to grow.

Trivia Night

The Rotary Club of Mundingburra is holding a special Trivia night on Friday 9th June to raise funds for a very special and important Project called Flourishng Women being run by medical professional members of our Townsville Community to assist women in developing countries with special health needs.

The Trivia night is being held at the Holy Spirit Hall Cranbrook and is open to all. Bookings are necessary via phone 0406 381 572

Flourishing Women's Vision is listed below as,

Creating a world where women live free of pelvic floor trauma, without the humiliation and shame associated with prolapse of their genitourinary organs, urinary and faecal incontinence and fistulas as a result of birth trauma.

For more information on this very important project, Google Flourishing Women

F.E.A.T.

Members and guests at a recent meeting of the club had the privilege to hear about one of the very hardworking and dedicated work being done by the Family Emergency Accommodation Townsville (FEAT) team in our city.

The Speaker was Mandy Thompson, CEO of FEAT, who provided an outline of the organization's charter, the work they do, and how they are funded, which all highlighted the importance of this team of dedicated people trying to make life easier for people in our community.

The services they provide can be summarised as:

Information, referral & advocacy
Crisis intervention
Referral to crisis housing & shelters
Emotional support
Support to sustain tenancies
Link to a range of broader assistance
Support services for children

However, a better explanation would be, the provision of long-term housing(when available), Homeless Services, No Interest Loans to those in need.

Most funds come from the Government, however, other groups in the community also provide valuable assistance with fundraising and support, especially the Sisters of Mercy who have supported them for many years.

Mundingburra Rotary has provided some financial assistance to the organization and are looking at other ways of support.

The following Web link provides a more detailed outline of the wonderful work they do for our community https://feat.org.au/

Thanks, Mandy for a great presentation and for allowing us to understand more of the work FEAT do.

End Polio

A major project of Rotary International is to assist with the goal of stopping Polio around the world.

Below is some of the information on the progress todate.

What is polio?

Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a paralyzing and potentially deadly infectious disease that most commonly affects children under the age of 5. The virus spreads from person to person, typically through contaminated water. It can then attack the nervous system.

Learn more about the disease

Our goal

Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 35 years. Our goal of ridding the world of this disease is closer than ever.
As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, we've reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent since our first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979.
Rotary members have contributed more than $2.1 billion and countless volunteer hours to protect nearly 3 billion children in 122 countries from this paralyzing disease. Rotary’s advocacy efforts have played a role in decisions by governments to contribute more than $10 billion to the effort.
Today, polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But it’s crucial to continue working to keep other countries polio-free. If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children each year.
Explore the history of Rotary and polio eradication

By the numbers

$3 average cost to fully protect a child against polio

430 million children in total vaccinated in 39 countries in 2017

$100 million cost to conduct polio surveillance worldwide

Helping our Environment

The club guest speaker last week was Sandra Richards who spoke of the important work going on with a company she is associated with, QPLUS, in turning waste wood and plastics into products that save polluting our environment.

Interestingly the company is based in Townsville and is working with other groups to encourage other likeminded groups to assist with making our planet a better place.

Sandra indicated plastic waste from farms has always created a problem for farmers, do they bury it, burn it, or find some other way to store it, however the new facility in Townsville can turn it into products that can be used in both commercial and private ways to replace chopping down trees. These products could be a simple as decking boards for household decks, to railway sleepers & fence posts, plus multiple other products.

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