Two years ago, U.S. Rotary members in Maine set out to improve the education system in Bikaner, Rajasthan, an Indian city near the border of Pakistan.
The Rotary Club of Kennebunk Portside chose Bikaner because club member Rohit Mehta was originally from the area and had connections there. Mehta put the club in contact with Rotarians in India to provide desks for four government-run schools.
But when community leaders returned with a request for more desks, the Maine Rotarians decided they had to think bigger. The Rotary Foundation had rolled out its new grant model, which required that the...
Enjoying calm winds and peaceful Pacific waters, Seung Jin Kim dove off his 43-foot sailboat, the Arapani, to swim with some dolphins nearby. The serenity that day near the equator was a stark contrast to the 60 mph winds and 23-foot waves he had to fight around Cape Horn, the southern tip of South America. But Kim, a veteran sailor and member of the Rotary Club of Seokmun, in Chungcheongnam, Korea, expected such challenges when he set out in mid-October on a 25,600-mile journey around the world. In addition to fulfilling a lifelong dream, Kim is using the trip to raise awareness and funds...
After the first cases of Ebola reached Liberia's capital, Monrovia, last June, local Rotary members feared that the city's limited health care system wouldn't be able to contain the highly infectious, often-deadly disease.
Those fears were realized when infections quickly multiplied, underscoring the speed with which Ebola can spread in an urban center. It was the first time the hemorrhagic fever had threatened a major city since it erupted in West Africa last March.
Now, after months of crisis-level response, and with the number of new cases declining, club members are looking to the long...
Despite his longstanding interest in polio eradication, polio was not on Joe Pratt's mind as he prepared for a mid-April 2012 climb of Mount Everest, the highest mountain on earth. But that changed in late 2011, when the resident of Nottingham, New Hampshire, USA, participated in a polio immunization project in Pakistan with fellow Rotary member Steve Puderbaugh.
Moved by the efforts of the Pakistanis to battle the crippling disease, and by the vulnerability of the young victims, Pratt reset the focus of his climbing adventure. Pakistan is one of three countries where polio has never been...
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As the first evening club in the city, it has attracted many young professionals from Silicon Valley tech firms whose work schedules keep them from joining a more traditional club that meets for breakfast or lunch. But more than that, the evening format has helped the club grow by 30 percent since it received its charter in mid-2013.
Danielle Lallement, who was its charter president, says the club has been...
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Welcome to our Club!
Service Above Self
We meet Tuesdays at 6:15 PM
Warrnambool Football Club
Cramer Street
Warrnambool,
Victoria 3280 Australia
In President Maree’s absence Michael Boyd as Acting President welcomed Rotarian's and their three visiting guests – Robyn Blackmore, Margaret Stuckey and Rosie Portbury. Michael also welcomed our special guests for the night Eric Fairbank and Kerry Robertson from Hospice in the Home.
Michael spoke encouragingly to Rotarian's and asked them to follow up with phone calls and visits on the fund raising/donations letters which have already been sent. All items donated are to be brought into Rotary and they will later be stored at the old BBQs Galore building until the fund raising auction.
Next week’s meeting will be a very special one commemorating the 100th anniversary of ANZAC and Gallipoli. Michael encouraged Rotarian's to bring family and guests to next week’s meeting as a lot of work has gone into making it a special night.
When closing the meeting later in the evening, members who were on duty next week were reminded to check the roster to see what role they had!
On Tuesday 21 April 2015, we are planning a special memorial program for the 100th anniversary of Gallipoli. This will be a very special evening and you are invited to bring along your spouse/partner, neighbour, friends, workplace colleagues. PP Duncan Stalker OAM has organised a special evening and we owe it to our fallen to remember them on this special occasion.
Midfield Meats Friendship Barbecue Sunday April 12
On Sunday 12 April our Club welcomed 287 young Korean’s living and working in Warrnambool to an international Friendship BBQ. The day was a huge success and our Club worked well with the East Warrnambool Club members who attended with their state-of-the-art BBQ trailer. Those of us from Warrnambool Club had BBQ and tent envy. Although it was very much a joint effort, our Club should take great pride in the initiative for the event which came from Gordon Curran. Gordon thanked Graham Ross for his negotiating skills in obtaining the meat at a reasonable price, for transporting tables etc; Keith McLeod for his catering expertise and coolroom organisation; Doug Maclean for arriving with our Club's BBQ trailer and Roy’s tent; John Nisbet’s expertise in putting up the “light as a feather tent” (no it wasn’t!); Rob Cuzens and John Nisbet for their BBQing skills; Svet for her delicious coleslaw salad and for cutting up the slices and Anne, Mary, Marie and Isobel for helping with the slices and the soft drinks.
Thanks also to Peter Abbott who made Flagstaff Hill available free of charge.
RYPEN
Terry O'Neill advised that our club has two RYPEN students from Emmanuel College going to Mt Gambier on Saturday 18 April for RYPEN - they have transport with to Mt Gambier with a student from another club but the three of them need to be picked up between 3 and 4pm on Sunday afternoon and brought back to Warrnambool. Please contact Terry if you are able to help.
Anne Adams had several notices;
The Rotary Club of Terang has Dr Ian Houlton from Interplast speaking on Tuesday 28 from 6pm for 6.30pm start $20 per head. For catering RSVPs need to be in by Monday 20 April.
Rotary District 9780 Assembly is meeting on 3 May in Stawell and registrations must be in by Monday 21 April. Anne encouraged members to attend and support Steve as he is soon to start his year as President. Brian Trenery will drive the bus if there is enough interest shown in bus transport.
Geoff James DG has announced that Rotarian Ray Herbert from Mt Gambier has been elected as DG for 2017-2018. Anyone objecting to this decision is to contact Chris Sims at Torquay club (see letter from DG below)
Anne is looking for spare flower pots if anyone has any - plastic, terracotta, large small she isn’t fussy.
ROTARACT
Rachel reminded members that the Rotaract Changeover dinner is on 15 July at Images and they are holding a Trivia Night on 17 July.
COMBINED MAY RACE DAY MEETING - THURSDAY 7 MAY
This promises to be another enjoyable meeting with funds raised going to ARH. Matty Stewart will once again do a phantom race call. Our Tuesday meeting on 5 May is cancelled. Instead, on Thursday 7 May, a combined meeting is to be held at the Mid City Motel at 7:00 am. Please let Anne Adams know as soon as possible if you plan on attending.
In accordance with the Bylaws of Rotary International and in particular Article 13 , Section 13.020.2 the candidate named below was nominated, and in the selection process conducted on Saturday 11 April 2015 was selected by the District 9780 Governor Nominating Committee as nominee for District Governor 2017 – 2018.
PAST PRESIDENT RAY HERBERT OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF MOUNT GAMBIER WEST INC
Any objections must be lodged in accordance with the protocols set down in the Manual of Procedure and be done so within 14 (fourteen) days of the date of this message (12 April 2015) addressed to Past District Governor Chris Sims.
If there are no objections received by this deadline, then as District Governor, I will declare the unchallenged nominee to be the official District 9780 nominee for District Governor 2017 - 2108.
Yours in Rotary Service
DG Geoff James
Member of the D9780 Governor Nominating Committee
Firstly I would like to thank the hard working scribes who do such a wonderful job each week in helping with notes for the bulletin. It makes the job so much easier. THANK YOU - Svet, Isobel, Jim, Mary and Andrew.
Secondly. Has anyone checked out our FACEBOOK site lately? We are sitting on an astronomical 196 "likes" with only 4 more likes to get to the grand total of 200. This is quite an achievement and the more "likes", "comments" and "shares" we get, the more people we reach. So please get onto FACEBOOK and start "liking" and "sharing" our page with prospective members, friends, family, other clubs etc. The site also has lots of interesting stuff on it and I try to put 2-3 new articles in each week.
If you would like to post an article/photo, just give me a call or email me on sharonstark55@gmail.com.
Remember: If you change your address, telephone number or any other personal details, log into Clubrunner and make the change. If you don't do this you may miss out on important announcements and the Bulletin. If you are having trouble logging in, let me know and I'll help.
John Stuckey introduced our guest speaker Dr Eric Fairbank and provided some background information. Dr Eric Fairbank graduated from Melbourne University in 1968. Following two years residency in Warrnambool, another two in Papua New Guinea and one at Box Hill, he returned to Warrnambool to become one of a two-doctor GP practice. At that time, GPs in Warrnambool did all of their own anaesthetics, delivered babies and were on call almost 24/7. Things changed in the 80s when an influx of specialists saw GPs less involved in the hospital scene. That’s when Dr Fairbank decided to pursue his interest in palliative care and gain more qualifications through Flinders University. In 1986 he was instrumental in establishing the Warrnambool Base Hospital’s Palliative Care Unit – of which he was the Director until retiring in 2013. In 2012 Dr Fairbank received a Victorian Rural Doctor Award for the profound impact he has had on the health and wellbeing of local communities. In 2013 Dr Fairbank was honoured with the Victorian Public Healthcare Award recognising more than 35 years work providing exceptional healthcare for hundreds of people facing the biggest fight of their life.
His work has had a profound effect on his colleagues, students, nurses, palliative care staff, volunteers, and most importantly on patients and their families.He has helped shape the way palliative care is delivered in Warrnambool, and his influence is now felt nationwide and internationally.
According to Dr Fairbank those of us who prepare for death do it better than those who don’t. 85% of people die from a chronic illness - rather than an accident of some kind. Those with chronic illness such as cancer patients tend the have a reasonable quality of life during a prolonged lead up followed by a shorter end stage death. Other people die from some sort of organ failure such as heart, kidneys and lungs etc and they tend to have a more drawn out end of life with critical health incidents followed by periods of some degree of recovery, before they finally die. Yet another group die as a result of old age frailty and dementia. The Base Hospital SWH has 6 palliative care beds, SJOG hospital has 2 palliative beds and Lyndoch also has some beds.
In the next 25 years deaths will double as the baby boomers reach the ages of 75 to 95 years.
70% of the population say they want to die at home but in reality Australia-wide the percentage of people who die at home is less than 15%. People don’t prepare well for death and death is seen as a medical event when it is in fact a normal stage of the life span. Dying is not a medical event and if you want a good quality of life and a good death you are better off at home.
It costs three times as much money to die in a hospital - $19,000 and around $6,000 to die at home. In the terminal phase to die in a hospital costs around $800 per day. A patient dying at home supported by Hospice in the Home costs around $125 per day.
The Hospice in the Home program is still very new and although initially they wanted a purpose built building, this was decided against because of the cost ($1,000 a day to keep a hospice open and running). Hospice in the Home has been very fortunate to have been offered a building at Deakin for $10 per annum rent. This building is furnished like a home and is a teaching facility to teach family members and friends how to use various bits of equipment and how to care for dying friends and family members. They are in the process of training non-medical volunteers to work with families caring for a dying person. The volunteers will assist with aspects of patient care to ease the burden on family members and they will also provide overnight and weekend respite. The first group will finish their training on 13 July 2015.
Hospice in the Home trained volunteers working in the homes of terminally ill people are supported by comprehensive assessments carried out by the Palliative Care team, District Nurses, on call Doctors and Ambulance staff.
Dr Fairbanks explained that so far the Hospice has raised around $250,000 and they need to double this figure in the next year or so. They hope to get some larger donations from various trusts and also from the Government once they have some facts and figures to justify why they need funding.
Rotarian’s were also introduced briefly to Kerry Robertson who is in charge of fund raising at Hospice in the Home. Kerry has some sort of fund raising activity happening most of the time and in early 2016 they are planning a Marigold Ball (Bollywood style) at Deakin.
Dr Fairbanks thanked the Club very much for nominating Hospice in the Home as the charity to be the main recipient of funds raised by the Dinner Auction in May 2015.
Just a quick little report of what I have been up to lately.
I have been very busy with school since the summer holidays ended, I'm now in year 12 at Brauer college, so it keeps me busy. I have also moved from Sharon and Michael's to Judy and Phillip Ross, so now I live almost beside the school so it's so easy and quick to get to and from school. I also helped at Port Fairy folk festival, and really enjoyed the music and met some lovely people there. Sunday the 8th of March Judy and Phillip invited me to Ballarat to visit their son and daughter in law and two grandchildren, I really enjoyed the day and Phillip showed me around on the farm and told me a lot of history from the gold rush time. I also went to the white elephant sell in Wangoom, and helped a little bit on one of the stalls.
The 20th to the 22th of March I went to district conference with Svetlana (our lovely driver), Judy and Cecilie (the other Danish exchange student from Warrnambool Central), we had a lovely time there. All the exchange students were staying at a camping ground outside Maryborough, in small cabins. Saturday night was our Scottish night, with lots of different costumes and tartan everywhere, it was good fun and lots of dancing.
The Rotary Lights night out at Deakin, was a nice social night with a good atmosphere and lots of sausages. Friday the 27th of March was Emmanuel College’s Debutante Ball night. I went to Rachel Melican's (neighbour from Wangoom) Deb there, and it was very interesting to experience because we don't celebrate Deb in Denmark. The 30th I was off to Bendigo with Judy and Phillip this time to visit the daughter and grandchildren. Tuesday we drove to Echuca to sail in a paddleboat, later same day the grandchildren and I joined a circus school, and I also crossed the Victorian border towards New South Wales for the first time. Thursday morning we were heading towards Avalon airport to pick up Robbie, on the way Judy and Phillip showed me Mt. Macedon where their son and daughter in law got married. Friday Robert and Veronica Cuzens invited us all out for lunch and to show the farm. And as some already know after a lot of begging Robert allowed me to shear a sheep, so I was one happy Dane. Easter Sunday Judy and Phillip had the whole family down to celebrate Easter, which was a nice experience because I'm use to having a big Easter lunch back in Denmark so it was nice to have my Aussie family around me. Sunday night Roy Slater invited Bella (Brazilian student hosted by Portland Bay) and me to the speedway for the first time. We both had a wonderful experience and lots of fun, after the racing finished Roy took us down to the pits, and we met heaps of people and got lots of autographs, I also got the chance to sit inside a race car just so I could imagine what it would be like.
Wednesdays I packed for Safari with help from Judy, I am very excited to see more of Australia and spend a long time together with the other students from all over the world, and I will try not to be too hard on Stephen Giddens. ;)
On Tuesday 21 April 2015, we are planning a special memorial program for the 100th anniversary of Gallipoli. This will be a very special evening and you are invited to bring along your spouse/partner, neighbour, friends, workplace colleagues. PP Duncan Stalker OAM has organised a special evening and we owe it to our fallen to remember them on this special occasion.
Hi Folks.
