President Barry opened the meeting and welcomed all members.
Jan recited the invocation and Barry Brooker said the toast.
Barry noted there were quite a number of apologies today.
Barry said we had a great meeting last week on May Race morning and congratulated Jodie for winning the horse races, and thanked the organisers of the morning, Barry noted we raised $250 for the morning for Lift The Lid
- District Assembly is opened virtually.
- Group 5 meeting, Sergio and myself
- The Board meeting decided at it's recent meeting that club assembly held on June 1st at venues of directors choosing
- Barry raised the health and wellbeing of members and asked if anyone has any issues or concerns please contact Barry in strict confidence.
Birthdays
Barry’s wife Marianne celebrated her birthday on Monday
Anniversary
Sandra 18 years in Rotary, May 14
We then broke for breakfast
Members announcements
Chris – promoted District Assembly which goes over the next three or four weeks, with many online sessions and webinars.
Jenni – Long lunch committee met yesterday, a lot of members have said they are going but haven’t paid yet, if you are one of those please arrangement payment. Also need a couple of volunteers to be spotters
Chez – encourages members to organise a social event
District changeover is on the 3rd of July at Ballarat, lunchtime. The day after ours.
Glenn – WWC register and Vaccinations register, asks those members who haven’t updated information to let Glenn know.
Then Bob gave us a a presentation on one of his many trips.
Bob hadn’t had long to prepare for this, and when he thought about it realised this trip was over 50 years ago.
Bob went to England in 1969, arrived in London with the intention of getting a job in the winter and travelling in the summer.
He applied for a job at Australia House in London, the job was part of a relief team, he was sent around to mainly Birmingham, Manchester and Belfast helping a backlog of English and Irish to come out on the 10 Pound Passage.
He found a pub that had mainly Australians at the bar,
He stayed in walking distance to the Chelsea Football Club.
A typical Saturday morning would be going down the pub at 10am, find some mates and then play darts before going on to Stamford Bridge which is Chelsea’s Football Club’s ground, watch the game then back to the pub.
He and friends headed to Europe in a VW combi van, took off over the channel to France and headed to the north, finding some vineyards to test out their champagne.
Then drove down to the south of France and through Andorra into Spain heading for Spanish town called Pamplona which is notorious for the festival of San Fermin. A wonderful festival which starts on the 6th of July and ends on 14th of July. Lots of bands, food, fun.
San Fermin is Spanish for Saint Fermin. A festival in his honour started in the 1500s.
One of the things that happens at the festival each year is the Running of the Bulls.
The first bull run starts at 7.00am on the 7th day of the 7th month.
Australian Rotary Health
Research Spotlight
It was a dream of one Rotarian, Ian Scott, to make a difference in how e live our lives through research.
Ian set about to establish a charitable fund to raise money for Cot Death research and this fund has now become one of the largest non-government funders of mental health research in Australia. In forty years, Australian Rotary Health has made a major impact.
In 2022 the focus of research will change to the Mental Health of Young Australians aged 0-12.
“Each year approximately 14% of Australian children experience mental disorders – that is, approximately 500,000 children in this age range suffer from a mental disorder. Furthermore mental disorders have a major adverse effect on the well-being of children and their families, and on the education outcomes of children. There is evidence that approximately 50% of mental disorders across all age groups have their onset by the age of 14 years. The time between birth and 12 years is a very important developmental period where successes and failures can cascade down the years”. – Pressor Michael Sawyer OAM.