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President's Message
Bugsy Moran
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President's Chat
Pres Chat 13/4
Minutes of Meeting held at 7.00 am on 13th April 2022
Location: WFNC
Attendance: 19
Apologies: 8
 
 
Members Announcements, Braggs & Updates:
  • Cheryl:-  Warrnambool Race Day traditional combined Rotary breakfast event:- our turn to host but not all Clubs likely to attend, suggests that we still have the breakfast event on the Thursday, Cup Day. Put to members and general agreement from members.
  • Glenn:- a few members still to submit their Vaccination and Working with Children certificates
  • Sandra:- Tickets for Long Lunch available, asks that members promote the event with their contacts. Cheryl added that she is pursuing boosting / advertising the event on Facebook
  • Cheryl: Suggests that the Club conduct a training session on Club Runner
  • Rotary Content:- Janey spoke of an example of of Global Grant that has targeted neo-natal issues in a province in Mexico. The $172k Grant has provided ICU facilities and support for mothers and their infants. One of the many benefits has been  has been a halving of infant mortality.
  • Bob:- attended the Inner Wheels movie “A Stitch in Time” starring Glenn Shorrock. It so happens that Bob is a close friend of the Shorrock family , having co-habitated with Linda Shorrock in London for a few years and has maintained a lasting friendship ever since. Attended Linda’s wedding and invited to say a few words at the wedding, upstaging Glenn who was MC. Visits the Shorrcks in Adelaide regularly. 
    Bob also has had contact with Emily Lou Harris and Ron Barrassi.
Meeting Closed: 8.12am
           
BIRTHDAYS
Cheryl Bellman April 12
Sergio Bacchetti April 14
Jan Read April 16
Andrew Suggett, April 20
Dianne Brown April 26
Drew Giblin April 28
 
 
 
Taken from the RI Website
 
Two cargo planes packed with tons of medical equipment have already been flown from Chicago, USA, to Ukraine where members helped to unload the supplies.
 
by Arnold R. Grahl
 
Rotary members in North America, Argentina, and Europe are collaborating with a U.S.-based association of Ukrainian health care workers and using their connections to collect and ship more than 100 tons of critical medical supplies to Ukraine.
 
Two cargo planes packed with tourniquets, blood-clotting gauze, blood pressure equipment, and other items have already been flown from the city of Chicago in the United States to Europe, where members help unload the supplies and get them to Ukraine.
 
Rotary members in Ukraine, where Russia's military action has caused a humanitarian crisis, are in daily contact with hospitals to determine what supplies are needed most.
 
"It is Rotary doing what Rotary does best," says Pat Merryweather-Arges, a Rotary International director-elect and member of the Rotary Club of Naperville, Illinois, USA. "It networks, pulls people together, and gets the job done."
 
North American and Argentine Rotary clubs are combining their resources to purchase items from the list of needed supplies. They're also working with contacts at pharmaceutical companies and medical equipment manufacturers to arrange donations. A hospital in Peoria, Illinois, sent an ambulance, and members in Maine, USA, secured a C-arm, a mobile imaging device that can be used to X-ray people for shrapnel.
 
Supplies are streaming into a warehouse operated by the Ukrainian Medical Association of North America (UMANA) near O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. And more are on the way. Rotary clubs in the U.S. states of Nebraska and Iowa are collecting supplies to fill several large cargo trucks that will drive hundreds of miles to the warehouse in Chicago.
 
Inside the warehouse, UMANA and Rotary volunteers organize, sort, and bundle the items before they are shipped. Several donors have made contributions that offset the cost of shipping.
 
"It's amazing what one Rotarian talking to another Rotarian can accomplish," says Marga Hewko, president of the Rotary Club of Chicago.
Hewko is the spouse of Rotary International General Secretary and CEO John Hewko, who is of Ukrainian descent and is a charter member of the Rotary Club of Kyiv. The Hewkos lived in Ukraine for five years during the 1990s.
 
Earlier this year, Marga Hewko and the Rotary Club of Chicago had been working with doctors in Chicago and Ukraine to establish a stem cell storage facility for cancer patients in the Ukrainian city of Lviv that would allow the cells to be stored longer and enable more complex research.
 
That initiative shifted to a new focus when the war began.
 
"We were reaching out to the Ukrainian community in Chicago to learn how we could help, and at the same time, we already knew these doctors," says Marga Hewko. "That is how I found out about UMANA."
 
It was an ideal match. UMANA, founded in 1950, promotes education through conferences and exchanges of doctors between the U.S. or Canada and Ukraine. After the war started, UMANA volunteers began sending medical aid to Ukraine and using their network of doctors and pharmaceutical companies to get supplies and equipment. Rotary clubs soon joined the project.
 
Marga Hewko, who is from Argentina, used her contacts there to bring Argentine clubs into the effort, and those members are also using their connections to obtain funds and equipment.
 
During a tour of the UMANA warehouse, Marga Hewko, Merryweather-Arges, and Jane Hopkins, the governor of District 6450 in Illinois, praised the efficiency and scale of the operation.
 
"UMANA is simply amazing," Merryweather-Arges says. "We opted to work with them because they are well connected to the Ukrainian community in Chicago and have worked to sort and pack nearly 400 pallets of supplies."
 
Members in Ukraine continue to develop the list of needed supplies. Olha Paliychuk, who is a surgeon, a member of the Rotary Club of Cherkasy, and a member of the Turkey-Ukraine intercountry committee, calls hospitals each night.
 
The delivery of the items to hospitals is coordinated by Paliychuk in Cherkasy; by Borys Bodnar, of the Rotary Club of Ukraine Unity Passport, in Lviv; and by Mykola Stebljanko, of the Rotary E-Club of Ukraine, in Odesa.
 
Marga Hewko says the actions of members in and outside of Ukraine demonstrate the power of Rotary's network.
 
"In the middle of the war, when some of the targets of the Russian army are hospitals, the fact that we have volunteers in Ukraine driving supplies across their country — if that is not Service Above Self, I don't know what is," she says.
 
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LAUGHTER, THE BEST MEDICINE

 
Knock, knock,
Who's there?
Zany
Zany who?
Zany body home?
 
 
Knock, knock
Who's there?
Teresa
Teresa who?
Teresa are green!.
 
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Some teacher jokes
 
Teacher: John go to the map and find South America
John: Here it is
Teacher: Now class who discovered South America?
Class: John
 
 
Teacher: Alan your composition on “My Dog” is exactly the same as your brothers. Did you copy his?
Alan: No sir, it’s the same dog.
 
 
Son: "Dad, will you do my maths homework for me tonight?"
Dad: "No son, it wouldn’t be right."
Son: "Well, just do your best."
 
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As we were driving down the road. "Sweet Caroline" came on the
radio. I said to my son, "Little known fact, Neil Diamond used to be
called Neil Coal until the pressure got to him."
 
 
Did you hear about the two artists having a contest?
It ended in a draw.
 
 
I have a fear of speed humps but I’m slowly getting over it.
 
 
PEOPLE WHO USE WRONG WORDS sometimes should have the
humidity to admit it.
 
 
I recently took up meditation.
It’s better than sitting around doing nothing.
 
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During a commercial airline flight an experienced Air Force Pilot was
seated next to a young mother with a babe in arms.
 
When the baby began crying during the descent for landing, the
mother began nursing the infant as discreetly as possible.
 
The pilot pretended not to notice, and, upon disembarking, he
gallantly offered his assistance to help with the various baby-related
items.
 
When the young mother expressed her gratitude, the pilot responded,
"that's a good looking baby, and he sure was hungry!"
 
Somewhat embarrassed, the mother explained that her paediatrician
said that the time spent on the breast would help alleviate the
pressure in the baby's ears.
 
The Air Force Pilot sadly shook his head, and in true pilot fashion
exclaimed, "And all these years, I've been chewing gum."
 
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A grandmother overheard her 5-year-old granddaughter playing "wedding." The wedding vows went like this: "You have the right to remain silent, anything you say may be held against you, you have the right to have an attorney present. You may kiss the bride."
 
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An Australian tourist in London decides to skip his tour group and explore the city on his own. He wanders around, seeing the sights, and occasionally stopping at a quaint pub to soak up the local culture, chat with the lads, and have a pint of Guinness.
 
After a while, he finds himself in a very high-class neighbourhood.....big, stately residences... no pubs, no stores, no restaurants, and worst of all...NO PUBLIC RESTROOMS.
 
He really, really has to go, after all those Guinness'. He finds a narrow side street, with high walls surrounding the adjacent buildings and decides to use the wall to solve his problem.
As he is unzipping, he is tapped on the shoulder by a London Bobby, who says, "I say, sir, you simply cannot do that here, you know."
 
"I'm very sorry, officer," replies the Australian, "but I really, really HAVE TO GO, and I just can't find a public restroom."
 
"Ah, yes," said the bobby..."Just follow me". He leads him to a back "delivery alley", then along a wall to a gate, which he opens. "In there," points the bobby. "Whiz away sir, anywhere you want."
 
The fellow enters and finds himself in the most beautiful garden he has ever seen. Manicured grass lawns, statuary, fountains, sculpted hedges, and huge beds of gorgeous flowers, all in perfect bloom. Since he has the cop's blessing, he unburdens himself and is greatly relieved.
 
As he goes back through the gate, he says to the bobby, "That was really decent of you... is that what you call 'English Hospitality'?"
 
"No, sir" replies the bobby, "that is what we call the French Embassy."
 
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When we brought our new-born son to the pediatrician for his first checkup, the doctor said, "You have such a cute baby."
 
Smiling, I said, "I'll bet you say that to all the new parents."
 
"No," he admitted, "just to those whose babies are really cute."
 
"So what do you say to the others?" I asked.
 
"He looks just like you."