Dr Sally Nobbs spoke at our meeting last Thursday about the long association that Wilderness School has with communities in Nepal, both education and medical based facilities. She outlined the projects already carried out, ongoing service provision required and the encouragement provided to students to trek in Nepal, the School provided scholarships for 11 primary school-aged Nepalese students throughout their primary and secondary years, and they provide assistance to the Nepalese communities while visiting with their Year 10,11 and 12 students.
Our club has, with great satisfaction and a sense of achievement, now assembled six artificial hands as part of the “Hands On” project. We thank our facilitator Linda Sweeney for ensuring that we followed instructions to the completion stage and also Alfonso’s Café in Hutt Street for allowing us to use their premises for the afternoon and supplying water and coffee to sustain us. It was also a team building exercise for our club members and we look forward to hearing which country these hands will be transported to and from the team that travel to fit them. Perhaps even a response from the recipients!
Please lock in 6-8 April 2018 for our club visit to Calperum Station.
Quote for the week: “Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worry about what happened yesterday.” Steve Jobs
Photos of Rotarians working out the intricacies of manipulating and successfully putting together the many digits, pins and other mechanical bits to make a working hand for landmine victims in Asia for the "Hands On" project which was held at Alfonso's, Hutt Street on 22 September:
The combined Rotary Conference to be held in the Barossa Arts and Convention Centre in 2018 will feature a Rotary Showcase where Clubs, District and Rotary affiliated programs can display and issue materials to publicise their activities.
Clubs and Organisations are invited to apply for the allocation of Display Spaces at the Conference. The Conference commences at 1pm on Friday 23rd March with Registration open from 9.30am. The conference concludes at 1pm on Sunday 25th March.
(taken from Rotary Horizons)
2. RAH Equipment for Kenya - by RC Walkerville
ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL has partnered with Rotary to send hospital beds, medical equipment and ward furniture from the old RAH, overseas to help Third World communities. This is the largest donation of its kind, and they want to ensure that surplus equipment is donated to those who need it most.
DONATIONS IN KIND has taken on the task of working with con-tacts overseas to determine needs
The project requires the following assistance;
1/ Man power to assist loading the container.
2/ Financial assistance to meet the budget and the Rotary Foundation requirements
For the benefit of members, we will aim to give the Duty Roster a few weeks ahead - see below.
Responsibility
28 September 2017
5 October 2017
12 October 2017
Chairperson
Don Tindale
Phil Harding
Dean Sullivan
Attendance
Katrina Ball
Rob McLennan
Barry Grear
Attendance
John Campbell
David Rowe
Katrina Ball
Furniture/Hosting
John Wotherspoon
Angus Tuck
Yvette Reade
Invocation
Phil Harding
Dean Sullivan
Richard Jarrett
Bottles/ cans
Dean Sullivan
Fred Field
Rob McLennan
Rotaract roster
TBA
TBA
TBA
Bread roster
1/10 Dean Sullivan/
Bruce McDonald
8/10 Richard Jarrett/
Angus Tuck
15/10 Carolyn Wigg/
John Karran
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.
A man on his Harley was riding along a Victorian beach road when suddenly the sky clouded above his head and, in a booming voice, God said "Because you have tried to be faithful to me in all ways, I will grant you one wish."
The biker pulled over and said "Build a bridge to Tasmania so I can ride over anytime I want."
God replied "Your request is materialistic; think of the enormous challenges for that kind of undertaking; the supports required reaching the bottom of the Pacific and the concrete and steel it would take! I can do it, but it is hard for me to justify your desire for worldly things. Take a little more time and think of something that could possibly help mankind."
The biker thought about it for a long time. Finally, he said, "God, I wish that I, and all men, could understand women. I want to know how she feels inside, what she's thinking, what she means when she says nothing's wrong, and how I can make a woman truly happy."
God replied: "You want two lanes or four on that bridge?"
OR
After 10 years, the wife starts to think their kid looks kind of different, so she decides to do a DNA test. She finds out that the kid is actually from completely different parents.
Wife: "Honey, I have something very serious to tell you."
Husband: "What’s up?"
Wife: "According to DNA test results, this is not our kid."
Husband: "Well, you don’t remember, do you? When we were leaving the hospital, we noticed that our baby had pooped and you said,
“Please go and change the baby, I’ll wait here for you.” So I went inside, got a clean one and left the dirty one there."
Moral: Never give a man a job that doesn't belong to him.
