Cathy Murphy is the Executive Director of The Mary Potter Foundation and has been in the role for eight years. She has been in the charity sector since 1997 when she recognised that she wanted to build a career that would have a positive impact on people’s lives.
The Mary Potter Hospice holds a special place in the hearts of many people in our community. With a rich history linked to the Venerable Mary Potter and the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary, today the Hospice team embraces modern palliative care practices with a truly holistic approach and a focus on individual needs. Last week’s speaker, Cathy Murphy spoke about the important role the Hospice and palliative care plays in helping people to live well at the end of their lives. She explained hospice is an “ethos” of care and is about the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of patients and their families. Their aim is to make each day as special s it can be for patients and they provide music therapy, massage therapy, skin therapy, pet therapy, creative arts and biographical services. 40% of their patients are 60 years or younger.
Remember no meeting this Thursday as all members are encouraged to join others and participate in “Walk a Mile in My Boots” meeting at 7am between the registration tent and coffee van and afterwards at Alphonso’s in Hutt Street for breakfast/coffee with members of the Eastwood Rotary Club.
One way our club can grow and evolve is by learning from others, including other rotary clubs. Adelaide Light is open to new ideas and varying ways of running our meetings so I encourage members to visit other Rotary Clubs and discuss your observations to us at Club Planning meetings. It is also a great way of making new friends and learning about rotary Projects.
Quote for the week:
“If someone offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later”
The Adelaide Rotary Club are organizing a wine lunch at the Caledonian Hotel North Adelaide.
- Heartland wine lunch Sunday August 20th 12.00 for 12.30
The cost is $90 a head of which each club makes $20 from each ticket sold.
There are generally up to 6 courses and 12 different wines served. and there is also an opportunity to purchase wines at very good savings from which each club also gets a small return.
2. RC Adelaide South - Lunch invitation
RC Adelaide South invite us to join them for a luncheon meeting, Friday, 18th August, 2017, at the Adelaide Royal Coach Hotel.
The occasion is a visit by Valerie Browning, Principal of the Ethiopian Afar Pastoralists Development Association the International NGO responsible for construction and administrative matters relating to our Water Capture and Storage Project in Ethiopia.
The Birikat Water Capture and Storage Project resulted from an informal meeting early 2011, between RC Adelaide South members and Valerie about a need for accessible domestic water for villagers in her adopted country.
With contributions and assistance from others, Adelaide South has now funded three Birikats in the Afar Region of Ethiopia.
As an interested contributor to this very successful project, members of the Rotary Club of Adelaide South would welcome your attendance on this special occasion.
If you would like to attend, please advise by Wednesday, 16th August, 2017, to assist with catering.
For the benefit of members, we will aim to give the Duty Roster a few weeks ahead - see below.
Responsibility
10 August 2017
17 August 2012
24 August 2017
Chairperson
Phil Harding
Katrina Ball
Attendance
No meeting
Richard Jarrett
John Wotherspoon
Attendance
Di Lane
Dean Sullivan
Furniture/Hosting
"Walk a Mile
David Rowe
John Karran
Invocation
in My Boots"
Katrina Ball
Rob McLennan
Bottles/ cans
Dean Sullivan
Fred Field
Rotaract roster
on 11/8/17
TBA
TBA
Bread roster
13/8 Richard Jarrett/
David Riggall
20/8 Richard Jarrett/
John Karran
27/8 Carolyn Wigg/
John Wotherspoon
Members corner
Chairman: Meet/greet speaker for the meeting; introduce and thank speaker. Preparation:- find details about the speaker prior to the meeting. Attendance: Set up reception table (attendance sheet; members list – re -payments; guest welcome sheet; money; wine raffle sheet); register member payments/ apologies/ guests. Hosting: Set up name badges display; welcome all at the door; ensure speaker and guests are introduced to appropriatepersons. Furniture: Flags; banner display; raffle balls; collection boxes; Rotary theme banner; gong and hammer; lectern position before and returned after the meeting. Computerset up – Connect to projector. Switch on. Hold function key & press F5 twice. Invocation: Recite Rotary or other invocation relating to Rotary and fellowship. Bottles/cans: Collect bags of bottles/cans at meeting and take to recycle centre for refund, pass refund and empty bags to David Rowe at next meeting. Members’ Corner: write for the Newsletter on a topic of your choice, particularly during the 3 weeks you appear here on the roster, but also anytime you have something to say. Rotaract, Bread roster: Roster is for the Sunday/Monday after the meeting date. Rotaract: Meets alternate Mondays at 6pm (for a 630pm start) at the General HavelockHotel in Hutt Street. Bread: Sundays, meet outside Romeo's, North Adelaide at 4:55pm
Members rostered for Thursday morning duty are asked to be in attendance by 6.45am
For good food, for good fellowship and the opportunity to serve through Rotary, we give thanks
Rotary Club of Adelaide Light Mission Statement
To be recognised as the Service Club of Choice in the Eastern Precinct of Adelaide because we are a Friendly Breakfast Club that appeals to a broad range of busy people who want to make a difference to local and international communities.
While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt.
Apparently, his 5-year-old son and his playmates had found a dead robin.
Feeling that proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small box and cotton batting, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased.
The minister's son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his Father always said: "Glory be unto the Faaaather, and unto the Sonnn .. and into the hole he gooooes."
