Birthdays		Inductions
Aug 5	John Harris	2 Aug 1988	Bernie Roache
Aug 5	Janet Blackley	9 Aug 1987	Ted Wilson
Aug 10	Margaret Stalker	11 Aug 1981	Jim Hanrahan
Aug 15	Lisa Cairns	11 Aug 1987	Duncan Stalker
Aug 19	Ian Sharman	12 Aug 1997	Ian Cairns
Aug 30	Stewart Bell	14 Aug 2007	Roy Slater
		16 Aug 2005	Svetlana Lineham

At Tuesday's meeting 35 Club members attended out of a possible 48 = 72.9%. Also attending were distinguished visitors from Sister City Miura Japan, Masanori Tanaka from Miura City Council Department of Education and Hisad Matsuda, a primary school teacher in Miura, Exchange Student Fabio Gomes, Russell Lineham, Tim Chenoweth, Nick Young, Cody Stewart, Vanessa and Michelle Crothers, Margaret Ross and Michael Boyd.

Father of the Year

Rotarian Ian Cairns thanked those Rotarians who have collected school entries and asked that late entries be left at Brophy in Timor Street. The presentation breakfast will take place on Friday August 30 from 7:00 am, at the Timor Street Bowls Club. Guest speaker will be Brian Brown, Vice-Principal at Emmanuel and father of sporting greats Jonothon and Gabby Brown. Good support is being given by 3YB and tickets may be purchased from Rotarian Svet.

Volunteers for the judging panel are needed next Tuesday night before Rotary from 5:15 pm. Please see Ian if you can help.

 

 

 

Rotarian Ron Rauert outlined Cam's assistance to the Club in 1971 at Tower Hill, in helping establish a lookout and gliding take-off point. He recommended members visit this amazing spot and reflect on the work done there, now 42 years ago.

 

Rotarian John is still in St Vincent's in Melbourne, making slow progress. Further surgery on a problem leg is likely. John is very much in all of our thoughts at this time.

 

A meeting of the Rotary Club of Warrnambool Board will take place next week. Reports to be circulated prior to the meeting.

 

President John Hunt has received a thankyou letter and cheque. Well done to all who assisted. Visitors to the Festival commented on the friendliness of the volunteers.

 

Rotarian Duncan Stalker advised that the RSL has contributed $500 to Caleb Ballinger's Canada-wide Science Fair expenses, for which Caleb and the Club are very grateful.

 

Rotarian Ron Rauert advises that the 2013 Eisteddfod has now concluded and he, together with the Eisteddfod Committee, thanks all Rotarians who assisted. Rotary volunteers are invited to drinks and nibbles before Rotary on August 20, at the Hammond Fellowship Centre, Anglican Church 5:15 pm.

 

Rotarians John Harris and Tony Austin have emailed members seeking assistance on Wednesday August 14 between 4:30 - 5:00 pm to set up and commence cooking no later than 5:45 pm, serving from 6:00 - 8:00 pm. Could any Rotarians who can help out please contact Tony ASAP so that he can organise a roster around the time slots below.

 

Setup	4:30 - 5:30 pm
Cooking etc	5:30 - 8:00 pm
Pack up	8:00 - 8:30 pm

Finesmaster Alan Bowes fined, amongst others, Rotarians Lisa Cairns and Eric Williams for appearing in the paper and Gordon Curran for not appearing, Ian Cairns for ignoring him in Aldi (what weekly bargain was it that was so preoccupying Ian's mind, we wonder), Keith McLeod for 60 fantastic years of Macs Snacks, Mary Fitzgerald for walking in the rain and Lois O'Meara for paying in coins.

Rotarian Ron Rauert won the jackpot of $131. Well done Ron.

Chairman Terry O'Neill introduced Brazilian Exchange Student Fabio Gomes as guest speaker. Fabio is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Joao Monlevade District 4520 Brazil. Terry described Fabio as a most pleasantly confident and engaging young man, fun to be with, outgoing and sensitive to those in need. As evidenced by those present, Fabio is already making some great friends at Brauer.

 

Brazil is the largest country in South America and fifth largest in the world. Australia is the sixth. Nearly nine times the population of Australia, with 85% of the population living in urban areas, six cities bigger than two million and the biggest Sao Paulo 11.5 million, followed by Rio de Janeiro with 6.5 million. The capital city is Brasilia with 2.7 million. Brazil is bordered by ten neighbouring countries and has the world's seventh largest and one of the fastest growing economies. Brazil was a founding member of the United Nations and has a woman President, Dilma Rousseff, one of the most powerful women in the world. Brazil has the world's largest Catholic population and the main language is Portugese. As in Australia, the public health services are universal and are freely available to all citizens, but millions of better off Brazilians also have private health care coverage. The currency is the Brazilian decimal Real, with one Australian dollar buying R2.03, down from R2.09 last week! About 8,000 Australians were born in Brazil and about another Brazilian 8,000 students are here as well.

 

Fabio's home city is Joao Monlevade, an industrial steel making centre, in Minas Gervas state, city population around 72,762. It is 742 metres above sea level and is located inland. The climate is humid sub-tropical and like Australia, must cope with droughts and floods. Time is thirteen hours behind us, so at any time in our pm, it will be one hour earlier there in the am, thus 7pm here is 6am in Joao Monlevade. Temperaure there today will range from 14C to 20C, rising to 25C by Saturday.

 

Fabio's dad has a business and his mum is an environmental educator and like many Australian teens, he lives half of each week with each parent. He has a fifteen year old sister and attends Kennedy College in Joao Monlevade, named after the late American President. School begins at 7:00 am and concludes at noon, with a few extra classes available in the afternoon. He studies twelve subjects and loves soccer, which is huge in brazil.

 

Fabio has dreamed of becoming an Exchange Student to Australia and is now living that dream and loving it. He likes the apparent lack of corruption in Australia and the organised way society here operates.

 

Fabio showed a brief video highlighting Brazil's magnificent scenery, including beaches, water falls and its cultural life, especially carnival time.

 

He hopes to study electrical engineering at university next year to make good use of his talent with mathematics.

 

President John thanked Fabio for a great presentation and advised him that the only Brazilian born Australian Rules footballer is Harry O'Brien of Collingwood and so presented him with a Collingwood scarf, a cap and a Sherrin football.

 

Fabio is making a great start to his exchange and has already found a special place in the hearts of all club members. Well done mate!