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President's Message
Sergio Bacchetti
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Hello Daybreakers,
 
We had a very informative meeting with our guest speaker Shane Wilson Coordinator of The Big Ride – Big Life fundraiser
and Big Life as a program in Warrnambool.
 
 
Shane wears two hats, one with the Big Ride and he is also on the Committee for the Melbourne to Warrnambool bike race.
 
As an enthusiastic cyclist himself, he was instrumental for The Big Ride to support the Big Life program.

The Big Life program is about student wellbeing, both at a secondary level and a primary school level.
 
Brauer College and Warrnambool College have become part of the program as well as the state government primary
schools of Koroit, Woodford, Merrivale, Grassmere and Warrnambool West Primary School.
 
The objective of the program is to identify needs at the various schools through the student wellbeing offices at the schools
and create designated programs for students at the various schools to minimise self-harm and suicidal ideation.
 
The Big Life is a wellbeing association where the costs are met half through the association and the other half
in partnership with the various schools.
 
There is a needs analysis which arises from the student wellbeing offices at the schools and then a specific program
is designated for implementation. There are three employed staff which is a Youth Mental Health Nurse as well
as two teachers with accreditation in Youth Mental Health.
 
This is an attempt from a grass root level to try and provide tools and coping mechanisms to reduce mental health
issues and hopefully suicides.
 
The Wellbeing Association has endeavored to concentrate on small primary schools at this point in time.It does
envisage also to extend to non-government secondary schools.
 
The Big Ride is an innovation from the local cycling community in Warrnambool.
 
The Melbourne to Warrnambool bike race used to have every alternative year from Warrnambool to Melbourne.

The race has a long hundred year history with its first race in 1895.
 
As from Docklands to Warrnambool is 285kms, The Big Ride which took place on 24 February 2023 started from
South Melbourne 
to Warrnambool, being 300kms.
 
There were four groups departing at various times in the early hours of the morning being effectively a ten hour ride
with riders commencing at 3am. A total of 85 riders of which constituted four groups.
 
Approximately twenty riders are in each group.
 
Each of the riders were required to do fund raising for Big Life and 50% of the riders were from Melbourne and two
of the riders from Melbourne raised $11,000 each.
 
The total funds raised from the ride was approximately $130,000. This is an excellent achievement by The Big Ride
Committee.
 
 With the unfortunate extreme heat declaration on 24 February 2023 reaching the South West at least 37° certainly
made it tough riding despite the fittest. Each group varied in age with some riders in their seventies and young riders
from fifteen or older with parental consent.
 
I congratulate Shane Wilson. It is an innovative concept with his support and enthusiasm for an unfortunate curse in our
society of youth mental health issues.
 
We all agree that the demands on our young have increased dramatically over the years and things have been much
tougher than the good old days for the baby boomers.
 
The statistics that Shane relied upon between 2014 and 2018 for year 8’s to year 11’s showed that 95.9% of students were
experiencing anxiety. Staggering to say the least.
 
There is no doubt that The Big Life cause is a significant program within our Warrnambool community.
 
I would like to thank Andrew Giblin for securing our participant for RYLA in April 2023, being Charlotte Cossens.
 
Hopefully Andrew and Charlotte are able to attend at one of our meetings before she attends and return when she completes
the RYLA camp.
 
In my absence over the next three weeks Chris will be stepping in. Again, I would like to thanks Chris for doing so.
 
So, in my absence… Let’s Imagine Rotary.
 
Your President,
 
Sergio Bacchetti
 
 
Rotary Celebrations
 
Rotary Anniversaries
Cheryl Bellman - March 1st - 23 years
Peter Inverarity - March 9th - 1 year
Jo-Anne O'Brien - March 9th - 1 year
Jo Hill - March 9th - 1 year
Alison Dennis - March 17th - 16 years
Barry Moran - March 27 - 4 years
 
 
 
How do you describe the organization called “Rotary”?
 
There are so many characteristics of a Rotary club, as well as the activities of over a million Rotarians — there are the features of service, internationality, fellowship, classifications of each vocation, development of goodwill and world understanding, the emphasis of high ethical standards, concern for other people and many more.
 
In 1976 the Rotary International Board of Directors was interested in creating a concise definition of the fundamental aspects of Rotary. They turned to the three men who were then serving on Rotary’s Public Relations Committee and requested that a one-sentence definition of Rotary be prepared. After numerous drafts, the committee presented this definition, which has been used ever since in various Rotary publications: “Rotary is an organization of business and professional persons united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build goodwill and peace in the world.”
 
Those 31 words are worth remembering when someone asks, “What is a Rotary club?”
 
 
 
 
 
Check out the daybreak Facebook page for the stories. 
 
 
 
LAUGHTER, THE BEST MEDICINE
 
A man was driving down the street when he saw a flash in his rear view mirror.
He realised he'd just passed a speed camera but was sure he was well within the limit.
So to check the accuracy of the camera he drove past again, well under the speed limit.
The camera flashed but now he was satisfied it was faulty and feeling very smug.
Next week he received two infringement notices for not wearing a seat belt!
 
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'Cash, check or charge?' I asked, after folding items the woman wished to purchase.
 
As she fumbled for her wallet , I noticed a remote control for a television set in her purse.
 
'So, do you always carry your TV remote?' I asked.
 
'No,' she replied, 'but my husband refused to come shopping with me…”
 
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Wife: There is a problem with the tractor. It has water in the carburetor.
Husband: Water in the carburetor? That’s ridiculous.
Wife: I’m telling you the tractor has water in the carburetor.
Husband: You don’t even know where the carburetor is. Where’s the tractor?
Wife: In the pool.
 
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A chicken enters the library and approaches the librarian and says “Book book book. “
She leaves with three books. She comes back half an hour later and puts the books
in the return chute. She approaches the librarian again and says “Book book book.”
And leaves the library again with three books  The librarian wonders what’s going on.
 
The chook comes  back  half an hour later and puts the books in the return chute.
She approaches the librarian again and says “book book book.” and leaves again
with three books. The librarian decides to follow the chicken who heads down the
path and into the public gardens making her way to the pond. A frog hops out of
the pond and the chicken shows it the books. The frog says “ read it read it read it.”
 
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I always share any snacks I buy so my husband was apparently hurt when I didn’t
offer him any licorice from the bag in front of me.
 
After a while I went out to make some coffee and when I returned I found my husband
crying with laughter with the packet in his hand. Turns out he decided to sneak
a couple of pieces while I was gone. He had just put on his glasses and discovered
they were the dog’s liver balls!
 
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A Brit, a Frenchman and a Russian are viewing a painting of Adam and Eve frolicking
in the Garden of Eden.
 
"Look at their reserve, their calm," muses the Brit. "They must be British."
 
They pondered this possibility, but the Frenchman and the Russian soon shake
their heads in disagreement.
 
"Nonsense," says the Frenchman. "They're naked, and so beautiful. Clearly,
they are French."
 
Although the Russian and the Brit agreed on this point, there still seemed
to be something amiss.
 
"No clothes, no shelter," the Russian points out, "they have only an apple to eat,
and they're being told this is paradise. Clearly, they are Russian."
 
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A man is sitting in a fancy restaurant when his food finally arrives at his table.
As the plate is being served the man notices the waiter has his thumb resting on the
edge of his steak.
 
"Umm, excuse me," the man says, "but I couldn't help but notice you had your thumb
on my steak."
 
"Yes, I know, sir," the waiter responds, "but I didn't want to drop it again."
 
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A group of junior level executives were participating in a management training program.
The seminar leader pounded home his point about the need to make decisions and take
action on these decisions.
 
"For instance," he said, "if you had five frogs on a log and three of them decided to jump,
how many frogs would you have left on the log?"
 
The answers from the group were unanimous: "Two."
 
"Wrong," replied the speaker, "there would still be five because there is a difference
between deciding to jump and jumping."