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Liza McCosh
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Dr Liza McCosh President 2019/2020
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President's Chat
Liza's Chat 5
Hello Daybreakers and welcome to Bulletin 5.
 
This week we had our last breakfast meeting at the Mid City and next week will look forward to our first gathering at The Lady Bay Resort in the back Bistro area. We envision a long relationship with The Lady Bay however there will always be hiccups in the first few weeks of any change, so please be patient as we settle into our new ‘home’ and get things running smoothly for members and our guests. We are asking members to retain their badges and bring along every week rather than the Club storing them. For the members who did not take their badges with them last week, we will have them for you at the meeting next week. A reminder that the venue does not open till 7am meaning a possible five minute sleep in when the alarm does go off, benefits all round!
 
 
Guest presenters this week were Jenni and Peter King who have established a South West Victorian Distribution Centre for Backpacks 4 Kids, a program that supplies backpacks full of comforting and practical items for children that are placed in out-of-home care for various reasons. In Victoria alone in 2015-16, 4,115 children were re-homed and since April 2015 Backpacks 4 Kids has delivered 6,000 packs. Jenni and Peter have delivered 290 packs to local family services since September 2018 and have a stock of 80 immediately available for emergencies.  This is an amazing and worthwhile program to have operating in our local community. For further information on the program and what can be donated contact jdouglasnyc@gmail or call  0401 611 123.
 
The Board met on Monday July 22 and I gave a brief report on some points to members at our breakfast meeting. The Board approved payment for the freight of donated football equipment to a small remote Aboriginal Community at One Arm Point Western Australia. The equipment will facilitate school children participating in an Auskick experience. We also approved a payment of $1000 to the Rotary Club of Bairnsdale to distribute to drought victims. This amount was redirected as it was previously set aside for the freight of hay to Gippsland, a cost that was picked up by two other Warrnambool Rotary Clubs.
 
At the Board meeting there was also a lot of discussion regarding how we collect the administration fee that we have been paying with our breakfast now for several years which covers the cost of our guest speaker breakfasts and other administration costs associated with our meetings. This amount remains the same as in previous years at $2 per week.  Previously the amount was built into the breakfast fees charged, however our members will now pay the provider directly for their breakfast. The Board decided to only charge this fee for forty weeks of the year (a saving for members) and that  members be invoiced for the amount in the coming weeks. Members may pay the amount in two instalments if they wish.  In future years the amount will be added to members annual dues.
 
Projects upcoming include National Tree Day on Sunday July 28. Unfortunately our club received late notice of this event. Anyone interested can join in by meeting on Sunday at the Flume between 10am and noon to ‘Reveg the Flume’. A free BBQ will follow. More information can be found at http://treeday.planetark.org/
 
The Volunteer Expo to be held at The Uniting Church on Sunday Sept 15 (12.30-5pm) and Monday Sept 16 (9am-2pm) will have participation by Daybreak. Geoff has kindly volunteered to coordinate the roster for this event.
 
Lift the Lid/Bunnings is an Australia wide project promoting Australian Rotary Health and Mental Health Research to be held on the weekend of October 5-6.  A combined participation between the four Warrnambool Rotary Clubs and Port Fairy Rotary Club seems likely with positive responses thus far from Daybreak, RCWE and RCPF.
 
Earth Day will occur on April 2020 so we have quite advanced notice of this event.  Rotary International has adopted Earth Day as an ongoing project. Full details can be found at http://www.earthday.org/earthday/countdown-to-2020   The date of Earth Day coincides with our Wednesday breakfast meeting, maybe members can explore ways we can be in involved? This is a world wide project that the Preserve Planet Earth Committee has been running for 3 years. In 2020 the Earth Day Network also celebrates its 50th anniversary.  
 
Members News - A reminder that Geoff is organising a trip to the National Gallery of Victoria to see the Terracotta Warriors. Contact Geoff if you are interested with a preferred day of the week.  Geoff is also organising a wine tour of the region for our members.  This is in initial stages of planning so more details on this excursion will follow in future editions of the Bulletin.
 
 
We welcome back Ann Barker from Nepal and look forward to her presentation on The Seven Women Project scheduled for our weekly meeting on August 21. Ian Watson is still in PNG with poor internet services so we have no pics coming through from the water project he is working on. Ian is scheduled to be our guest speaker at our meeting on August 28 when I’m sure we will see plenty of pics taken with his new wiz bang camera.
 
 
Meanwhile……….Sergio relaxes at Bitter Springs Thermals!
 
 
Rostered Members for the coming week include:
Friday July 26 - Meals on Wheels - Ian Harper
Sunday July 28 – Care Program – Chez Bellman, Sue Cassidy, Andrew Suggett
Wednesday July 31 – weekly meeting fun session – Chris Preston
 
Next week’s guest speaker is Prudence Raine who will speak on the topic of ‘An insight into International Environmental Programs. Prudence works for The United Nations but will not be speaking from this position or responding to questions regarding The United Nations.
 
If it’s not cold enough for you now, it’ll  be even cooler and wetter early next week. Stay warm and perhaps pass a little warmth onto others through a smile or how warmly you connect with them.
 
Have a great week and we’ll meet up at The Bay next Wednesday.
 
Liza
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LAUGHTER, THE BEST MEDICINE

While working as an airline customer-service agent, I got a call from a woman who wanted to know if she could take her dog on board.
 
I told her the dog was welcome, as long as she paid a $50 charge and provided her own kennel. I further explained that the kennel needed to be large enough for the dog to stand up, sit down, turn around and roll over.
 
"I'll never be able to teach him all that by tomorrow!" the customer complained.
 
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A married man was having an affair with his secretary.
 
One day they went to her place and made love all afternoon.
 
Exhausted, they fell asleep and woke up at 8pm.
 
The man hurriedly dressed and told his lover to take his shoes outside and rub them in the grass and dirt.
 
He put on his shoes and drove home.
 
'Where have you been?' his wife demanded.
 
'I can't lie to you,' he replied,
 
'I'm having an affair with my secretary. We had sex all afternoon.'
 
She looked down at his shoes and said:
 
'You lying rat! You've been playing golf!'
 
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Most of our generation 50+ were HOME SCHOOLED in many ways.
 
1.  My mother taught me to appreciate a job well done.
"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside.   I just finished cleaning."
 
2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."
 
3. My father taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"
 
4. My father taught me LOGIC.
" Because I said so, that's why."
 
5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC .
"If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me."
 
6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."
 
7. My father taught me IRONY.
"Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."
 
8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS .
"Shut your mouth and eat your supper."
 
9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
"Just you look at that dirt on the back of your neck?"
 
10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
"You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."
 
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My first grade daughter and her friend both needed new boots as winter approached. The friend got in the car one morning and finally had gotten her boots. "Tina," I commented, "I see you got new boots! Where did you get them?"
 
"At the store," she answered.
 
"Which one?" I asked.
 
She began looking at her new boots and after a pause said, "Both of them!"
 
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A woman had just returned to her home from an evening of church services when she was startled by an intruder.
 
She caught the man in the act of robbing her home of its valuables and yelled:
"Stop !! Acts 2:38 !!" (Repent and be Baptised, in the name of Jesus Christ, so that your sins may be forgiven.)
 
The burglar stopped in his tracks. The woman calmly called the Police and explained what she had done.
 
As the Officer cuffed the man to take him in, he asked the burglar:
"Why did you just stand there ? All the old lady did was yell a scripture to you."
 
"Scripture ?" replied the burglar, "I thought she said she had an Axe and Two 38s !!"