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President's Chat
Pres Chat 11/8
Minutes RC Warrnambool Daybreak
August 11, 2021
 
  1. Breakfast meeting opened at 7.00 am by Liz
  2. Apologies received: Ann Barker, Cheryl Bellman, Steve Bellamy, Mary Bouwman, Sue Cassidy, Peter Smid
  3. Barry introduced his guest, Rebecca Benny who is considering joining Daybreak and guest speaker CFA Captain Tom Woodhams of the Warrnambool Fire Brigade.
 
  • Soup kitchen is closed until next week.
  • Discussed the dispersal of funds with Glenn providing an overview. Motion by Jennie, seconded by Sandra, vote carried to disperse $4,000 of our funds as per the following:
St Vinnies                     $1,000
Parkinsons Group           $500
Coast Guard Jet Skis   $1,000  
Shelter box                   $1,000
Soup Kitchen                   $250
Anglicare                          $250
Total                               $4,000
  • A Strategic Planning Committee has been established comprising Barry, Glenn and Jennie who will work with the broader group in the following weeks to develop a Daybreak Strategic Plan.
  • Information provided on the NYSF. WDEA are sponsoring three students. Barry proposed that we provide $550 to a recommended student, William Gleisler of Emmanuel College. Moved Jennie, seconded Sandra, vote carried.
  1. Guest Speaker: Tom Woodhams

  • Tom provided a comprehensive overview of the implications from the Victorian Fire Service Reform Act 2019 and the on-going challenges in supporting and finding appropriate roles for volunteers under the new arrangements in order to have capable surge capacity during bush fire seasons.
  1. Barry presented Tom with A Certificate of Appreciation for his excellent chain sawing support in Anne’s garden.
  2. Other announcements
  • Lisa participated in a Climate/Peace Forum with topics covering the links between climate change/disruption and conflict and the impact of climate change on choice of crops. She will forward a link to the forum should it be made available. Liza mentioned she is attending an event at Deakin University on 7 September re the Hy Project. Jennie will also be going.
  • Ian provided an update on the CARE program and circulated the roster for volunteers during August and September. The updated roster (Jennie doing) to be sent to Ian, Liza and Gerard. Glenn/Ian met with WCC who are looking at a tender process to supply, install and maintain washing/drying facilities through one or two main sites. Archie Graham will most likely be one.
  1. Quiz by Sandra, fines by Bob
  2. Meeting closed 8.20 am
 
BUGSY’S BANTER 11th AUGUST 2021
 
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Rotary Fellowship
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Australian Rotary Health Latest News
A Snippet of information for some interesting reading.
 
Get Involved in Hat Day 2021
Australian Rotary Health mental health research grant recipients Professor Tracey Wade and Dr Simon Wilksch from Flinders University are getting into the Hat Day spirit!
Why not get your team, club, colleagues or friends together this October to celebrate Hat Day and support important research like Tracey's and Simon's? Even if some states remain in lockdown, there are some COVID-safe ways to get involved.
Find out more about their research in podcast episode 16 with Dr Simon Wilksch.
 
Motor Neurone Disease (MND)
The Rotary Club of Altona City - District 9800 sure are dedicated to their cause! At one of their meetings (on a cold winter night), Rotarian Charlie took part in the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise funds for Motor Neurone Disease (MND) research.
The club recently donated $2,000 to Australian Rotary Health and plan to do the challenge again next year.
ARH are extremely grateful for their support!
 
Celebrate Australian Rotary Health's 40th Birthday
In 2009 the Great Australian Bike Ride raised almost $250,000 for mental health research, with cyclists travelling a total of 17,830km around Australia.
That same year, ARH joined with other organisations in the Beyond Bushfires five-year research program to investigate community health and wellbeing in the context of bushfires.
Celebrate #40YearsofARH by donating to our birthday fundraiser today.
 
 
Indigenous Scholar Spotlight: Brianna St John
"I want to play my role to ‘Bridge the Gap in Indigenous Health’. I want to be a part of facilitating better health outcomes. I want to fund more clinics and facilitate a culturally safe empowering environment for Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people."
- Brianna St John, Indigenous Health Scholarship 2021 (Bachelor of Medicine)
 
Rotary International
 
 very good read on Mental Health is on the Rotary International website:

Rotary - Mental Health Research - Building a healthier Australia

Around the World

Mexico
In Ciudad Juárez, one woman’s work to protect children from street violence has blossomed into Soles de Anapra, a center serving some 80 young people. Since 2014, the Rotary Club of El Paso, Camino Real, Texas, had been donating goods to Lourdes Contreras for the after-school program she ran out of a small house. In 2015, the club decided to find her a bigger, better space. With $25,000 donated by the 16 clubs in Ciudad Juárez and two partners in New Mexico — the Rotary clubs of Los Alamos and Silver City, frequent contributors and visitors to the center — and $10,000 raised from a 5K run sponsored by the Eaton Corporation, the club purchased a 6,000-square-foot warehouse in 2016 and went to work. In April, the club completed a refurbishment of the building, carried out even as the pandemic temporarily halted the after-school program.

United States
In October, about a dozen Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Eau Claire Morning, Wisconsin, along with some of their family members, used a product called Invisible Spray to stencil temporary, water-activated artwork on sidewalks throughout the city. Rainworks, manufacturer of the hydrophobic, nontoxic liquid spray, donated the product, which allows users to create designs that only appear when the sidewalks get wet. At a cost of about $130, 16 ounces can cover up to 110 square feet. “We thought in the difficult times of the pandemic, we could bring smiles to our community” and inspire other organizations to do the same, says Sarah Stackhouse, a co-president of the club. A “thank you” below an image of a firefighter’s hat was traced outside a fire station, while a drawing at the entrance to a theater featured musical notes and suggested “singing in the rain.”

France
The Rotary Club of Nice Riviera Côte d’Azur has tackled an outsize number of projects in France and beyond in recent years. It worked with a sister club, the Rotary Club of Norwich, England, to install a rainwater recovery system in Ho, Ghana, and has done fundraising for cancer research. The Rotarians also donated to a charity that purchased garden planters valued at more than $6,000 for local pediatric medical facilities in Nice. The club also raises funds for cancer research. At local grocery stores, in exchange for a donation of 1 €, club members offer tokens used to unlock shopping carts.

South Africa
When COVID-19 shutdowns heightened hunger in his country, Rex Ifechukwude Omameh turned his family’s living room into a sandwich assembly area to prepare food for those in need. Omameh, who is a member of the Rotaract Club of Blouberg and the Rotary Club of Blouberg, and his family members made the effort a Friday tradition. Fellow Rotaractors sometimes help prepare the sandwiches, and most of the food is given to the Milnerton Community Action Network for distribution. Omameh has spent more than $1,500 on food, and a bread company has also pitched in to provide some of the bread and soup. Omameh also received contributions to defray the project’s costs as a birthday present

Sri Lanka
With 11,000 followers on Facebook and nearly 3,000 on Instagram, the Rotaract Club of Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) collects clicks when it takes on a cause. In September, the 331-member club wrapped up an initiative to use those social media platforms, as well as its YouTube channel, to promote pandemic-stricken businesses in and around Colombo, one of the nation’s two capital cities. The Rotaractors produced and posted 10 video interviews with the operators of various enterprises, including bakeries, an event-organizing company, and an auto parts supplier. “Many small business owners faced a lot of downfalls in surviving the crisis,” says Sharoni Anthony, a club member. “We hoped to make the public aware of them and their amazing products and services"

International President Nominee 2023 - 2024
Gordon R. McInally, a member of the Rotary Club of South Queensferry, Lothian, Scotland, is the selection of the Nominating Committee for President of Rotary International for 2023-24.
 
Care Program
This afternoon Peter Cassady, Di and myself were at Surfside 2 for the Care Program.
We had 2 clients and put $28 through the washing machines and dryers. No-one wanted a shower.
Peter was a great chef and cooked the snags and an onion that Di brought with her. Di pedalled down and back on her hi-tech bike.
The 2 guys there greatly appreciated that we were proving the service again this afternoon.
 
Rotary Celebrations
 
BIRTHDAYS
Stephen Bellamy August 9
Peter Cassady August 27
Geoff Grec August 27
 
MEALS ON WHEELS
20 Aug         Ali Dennis
27 Aug         Jan Read
3 Sept           Barry Moran
10 Sept         Fiona Steenhuis
17 Sept         Jan Read
24 Sept         Cheryl Bellman
 
Read more...
 
 
   
 
Check out the daybreak Facebook page for the stories. 
 
 

LAUGHTER, THE BEST MEDICINE

 
A man rushed into the doctor's office and shouted, "Doctor! I think I'm shrinking!!"
 
The doctor calmly responded, "Now, settle down. You'll just have to be a little patient."
 
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Bloke sat in his armchair shouts to his wife, "When I die, I'm going to leave everything to you, Love"
She shouts back, "You already do, you lazy b*stard!"
 
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My wife and I walked past a swanky new restaurant last night.
 
"Did you smell that food?" she asked. "Incredible!"
 
Being the nice guy I am, I thought, "What the heck, I'll treat her!"
 
So we walked past it again.
 
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After a busy day commuters settled down on their train train trip home, when a chap hauled out his mobile and loudly started up:- "Hi darling it's Peter, I'm on the train - yes, I know it's the 6.30 not the 4.30 but I had a long meeting - no, not with that floozie from the typing pool, with the boss no darling you're the only one in my life - yes, I'm sure, cross my heart" etc.
 
This was still going on after many minutes , when the young
 woman opposite, driven beyond endurance, yelled at the top of her voice,
 "Hey, Peter, turn that bloody phone off and come back to bed!"
 
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In a train compartment, there are three men and one ravishing young girl. The four passengers join in a conversation, which very soon turns to the erotic.
 
Then, the young girl proposes, "If each of you will give me $1, I will show you my legs." The men, charmed by this young girl, all pull a buck out of their wallet. And then the girl pulls up her dress a bit to show her legs.
 
Then she says, "If each of you gentlemen will give me $5, I'll show you my thighs." Men being what they are, they all pull out a five-dollar bill. The girl pulls up her dress all the way to the top of her thighs..
 
Conversation continues, and the men, a bit excited, have all taken off their coats. Then the young girl says, "If you will give me $20, I will show you where I was operated on for an appendicitis."
 
Naturally, all three fork over the money, and then the girl turns to the window and points to a hospital in the distance and says, "Right over there!"
 
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A proctologist walked into a bank. Preparing to endorse a check, he pulled a rectal thermometer out of his shirt pocket and tried to write with it.
 
Realizing his mistake, he looked at the thermometer with annoyance and said, "Well that's great, just great... but I think I know where my pen is."
 
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A secretary, out with appendicitis, was being visited by a co-worker in the hospital.
 
"How are things at the office going, Claudia?" she asked.
 
"Well, they're all sharing your work. Jody is making the coffee, Louise is reading all your magazines, and Cathy is making it with the boss."
 
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On the way back from a Cub  Scout meeting, my grandson innocently said to my son, 'Dad, I know babies come from mommies' tummies, but how do they get there in the first place?'
 
After my  son hemmed and hawed awhile,  my grandson finally spoke up in disgust, 'You don't have to make up something, Dad.  It's okay if you don't  know the answer.'
 
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Three friends from the local congregation were asked, 'When you're in your casket, and friends and congregation members are mourning over you, what would you like them to say?'
 
Artie said: ' I would like them to say I was a wonderful husband, a fine spiritual leader, and a great family man.'
 
Eugene commented: 'I would like them to say I was a wonderful teacher and servant of God who made a huge difference in people's lives.'
 
Al said: 'I'd like them to say, 'Look, he's moving!'
 
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"For sale," read the ad in our hospital's weekly newsletter, "sleeveless wedding gown, white, size 10, veil included. Worn once, by mistake."
 
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Staring at an empty cage, a zoo visitor asks, "Where are all the monkeys?"
 
"It's mating season," the keeper replies. "They're inside."
 
"Do you think they'd come out for peanuts?"
 
"Probably not," answers the keeper.
 
"Why not?" persists the visitor.
 
"Would you?"
 
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A court room in Oklahoma where a person is on trial for murder. there is strong evidence indicating guilt; however, there is no corpse. In the defense’s closing statement the lawyer, knowing that his client is guilty and that it looks like he'll probably be convicted, resorts to a clever trick.
 
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I have a surprise for you all" the lawyer says as he looks at his watch. "Within 1 minute, the person presumed dead in this case will walk into this court room," he says looks towards the courtroom door. The jury, somewhat stunned, all look eagerly. A minute passes. Nothing happens.
 
Finally the lawyer says "Actually I made up the previous statement. But you all looked in anticipation. I, therefore, put it to you that there is reasonable doubt in this case as to whether anyone was killed and insist that you return a verdict of not guilty." The jury, clearly confused, retires to deliberate. A few minutes laster, the jury returns and a representative pronounces a verdict of guilty.
 
"But how?" inquires the lawyer. "You must have some doubt; I saw all of you stare at the door." Answers the representative: "Oh, we did look. But your client didn't."