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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

Townsville RSL Club

139 Charters Towers Road
Hyde Park, QLD 4812
Australia

Phone:

0447 815 013

Email:

rotarymundingburra@outlook.com

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

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Rotary Helping overcome the ICE drug issue

The Rotary Club of Mundingburra is assisting the Anti ICE Campaign people to provide talks in Townsville Schools on the danger and impacts of using the drug ICE. Apart from some financial assistance, various members have also spent time at workshops packing literature to be handed to students at the ICE presentations.

The club views very seriously the dangers when people try this horrible drug and are keen to see the schools program alerting our youngers members of our community of the need to avoid peer pressure and not try the drug at any time.

Some of the team helping to packing the school information kits.

Australia Day Update

The Mundingburra Rotary Club celebrated Australia Day with the members planting 22 trees at Bluewater park.

The club also provided a Sausage sizzle afternoon for members and visitors to the park. The Club also had a small stand providing wooden items for sale to assist community project fundraising.

A great day was enjoyed by those that could attend.

Celebrating Australia Day

The Mundingburra Rotary Club will be celebrating Australia Day with a special event at the Bluewater Park.

The Club, in partnership with the Bluewater Association, will be planting trees in the park, holding a sausage sizzle, and a number of other events to celebrate this Australia Day. We invite people to come in the afternoon and share the day with us.

Happy New Year

The Rotary club of Mundingburra welcomes members and guests to 2021.

Our club meetings commence from the 7th Jan and visitors are welcome.

We wish everyone a very happy and safe New Year.

Mundingburrra Rotary supporting Canteen Bandana program

Our club is proud to be supporting the fundraising efforts of CANTEEN (an organization setup to assist our youth (12-25) who are experiencing cancer). This wonderful organization assists with the moral and mental health of our especially important younger members of the community.

Members have participated in purchasing CANTEEN Bandana’s in support of their Bandana Day fundraiser to help this important organisation who do a wonderful job for our youth with cancer.

Compassionate Friends Meeting

Our Rotary Club was privileged to have Alex Whitney speak to the members about the Compassionate Friends organisation. This wonderful group of people are a gathering of people who have lost a child, irrespective of the child’s age at death and the cause of the death, and is an organisation independent of any religious, philosophical or government body.

In presenting Alex spoke of her personal and tragic loss, and that Compassionate Friends is a mean that assists people facing similar issues, to be able to talk with like minded people in a special way.

Her talk was very moving and appreciated by the Club. It’s a great organisation that originated in the UK, and has provided a vital means for helping people in similar situations.

Melbourne Cup Night

For the 30 years, the Mundingburra Rotary Club has held a special event to celebrate the Melbourne Cup. It’s a very social night with members, and lots of friends, dressing up, and hoping to maybe share in any Cup Raffles.

The major event of the night is our very special Tony Wode, and very well known local race caller, who has made this a special night for us every year with a fantastic phantom race call. His ability to put everyone in the mood, and make them feel they are actually at the race, which was not being held for a number of days later, is beyond belief. His excited call is so well done, the cheering and suspense has everyone joining in and enjoying the night. He is brilliant.

Tony is an Honorary Member of our club, and has been for a number of years, and in appreciation of his 30 years of helping our club with this event, the club had our President, Shane Smith, present him with a Paul Harris award. The Paul Harris award allows clubs to donate $1,000 US to the Rotary Foundation on a person’s behalf. This money is then used to assist humanity projects around the world.

Paul Harris was a founder of Rotary International and it is a very special award for a club to make to a person. Tony’s commitment to community values was also highlighted with a decision he made 30 years ago, which he still applies today, that our donation to him is forwarded to the City OF Townsville Christmas fundraiser for needy people.

Rotary helping our Community

The Suprise.

Rotary Clubs around Australia do a wonderful job in assisting people in our communities as well as those in overseas places where our standing of living is much higher than some third world countries.

The story below is one of where three of our Townsville Rotary Clubs have worked together, with others in our City to achieve a new vehicle for a family doing it really tough.

Just take a few minute to read the following outline of what we called Project Devlin, to reach an outcome that highlights the compassion we have for those a little less fortunate than ourselves.

Project Devlin was born when the Southern Cross Catholic College wrote to Mundingburra Rotary club seeking community assistance for a family whose son attends the school.

Devlin is a resilient young man in year 9 at Southern Cross. At the tender age of 8 he was diagnosed with bone cancer resulting in the loss of the lower half of his right leg. Following his surgery, Devlin and his family had to relocate to Brisbane for him to undertake pediatric oncology for 12 months.

The family has since returned home to Townsville, where he regularly needs ongoing treatment, and three weeks ago had further surgery to his lower amputation.

Elvira is a single mum raising two children Devlin and Zita, and she is classified as Devlin’s full time carer. 12 months ago her 20 year old car gave up the ghost to the point the vehicle was scrapped. Since then she has been relying upon the gracious help of a neighbour to lend her a car.

Mundingburra Rotary proposed Project Devlin as a community service mission for our club to adopt. The plan included a financial contribution from Elvira herself, financial support of RC of Townsville, and RC of Townsville Sunrise as project partners, and an application for a Rotary Australia Compassionate Grant, and of course the RC of Mundingburra as project managers to purchase a new vehicle.

To satisfy their transport needs we identified the Mitsubishi Outlander as an ideal solution to accommodate Devlin’s wheelchair being the main issue for the family, and subsequently approached Pickerings Mitsubishi who assisted us for the supply of a new Outlander.

See over for more photos of the handover event which occurred on Saturday 17th October 2020

ICE - The horror drug

Past District Governor presenting Certificates of thanks to Glen and Andrea

Our thanks to the wonderful ambassadors from AAIC (Australian Anti ICE Campaign) for spending a few hours at night with our club to share the issue of the power of just one trial of ICE can do to hook people of all ages into a life of hell.

AAIC is primarily concerned with addressing the dangers with school children, however the message is very clear that regardless of age, this drug is something that no body should try even once.

Once you learn of (a) what chemicals often go into this evil drug – Main drain cleaner, and house dangerous chemical, (b) the way it links to the brain and takes over your ability to control yourself, you have to ask why would anyone use it.

Peer pressure and often false statements of how it can help you in difficult times, or to loose weight, are all things to avoid.

And to hear from a person who was an addict, and learn what happened to her life, and especially what she ended up having to do to fund her addiction, you really see that this product is one to avoid at all costs.

For people not able to attend the meeting, or maybe are reading this page from elsewhere, have a look at the two videos on the AAIC web page, the information will most likely shock you as it did to us attending the presentation.

The message needs to be spread far and wide to try and put a stop to innocent people making snap decision from false information, that will later create havoc for your body, your mind, your relationships with family and friends, and most likely will end us with you having a criminal record or loss of life.

Thanks to Glen and Andrea for a real understanding of this terrible drug,

Off Site Meeting 22nd Oct

The Rotary Club of Mundingburra will be meeting at the Townsville Yacht Club on Thursday 22nd October. Our special guest is the our Rotary District Governor. We will be returning to the Townsville RSL the following week(30th Oct) for our special annual Melbourne Cup night.

Visitors are welcome however due to catering needs prior advice is needed to ensure we can seat any additional attendees,, and arrange a meal.

Please contact the Secretary on the phone numbers on the home page if you want to attend.