If you’ve not yet experienced our 7:15-8:30 breakfast meetings at South Tce. Croquet Club (2nd Thursdays of the month), do slot it into your diary. You can easily leave early if you need to be somewhere else before it finishes. These are some of our best meetings, as the format seated around a large table generates excellent discussion.
At last Thursday’s Board meeting we agreed to pursue sponsorship of an indigenous student studying medicine over several years. Indigenous Health Scholarships originated with the late Geoff Bailey from Mitcham Rotary Club. It pays $5,000 p.a. to support Indigenous Doctors and Allied Health professionals through their studies so they can later offer more culturally sensitive medical services to Indigenous communities. The $5,000 is borne 50/50 between our Club and the SA Dept of Health. It’s money well spent and through occasional contact over the years we’ll get to know our sponsored student for mutual benefit.
Our club donates to ‘Shelterbox’ each year. For decades they quickly delivered a survival kit in disaster situations. Instead, these days, they make tailored deliveries to match the need. After earthquakes, Turkey and Syria needed 200,000 thermal blankets, some family sized tents locally made with prayer mats, warm children’s clothing, cash vouchers and solar powered lights with USB chargers for phones. Rotary helped 2,000 families in Turkey, 930 in Syria and 50,000 in Ukraine!
Remember the Regionalisation Pilot we voted to support? With funding approved by Rotary International for our Zone 8 regional pilot proposal, it will now be established and annually reviewed. It’s an opportunity to craft a stronger future for Rotary in our Zone.
You know how clever our very own radio jock, Rob is with sales, PR and the media? Maybe you’ve heard the excellent promos he’s done for Rotary and our District 9510. They were sent to over 30 community radio stations encouraging Rotary memberships and were picked up and played in 19 of them. Great work, Rob!
This Saturday is our next Cuppa Conversation to help new Aussies settle in, 10am April 22 at Ballaboosta, 289 Halifax St in the city. Come along and start a conversation.
There’s a different kind of Coffee Conversation gathering 9:30am this Thursday 20 April at the White Picket Café in Dulwich. Our next dinner meeting is Thursday 27 April 6 for 6:30pm at Kent Town Hotel with Guest speaker Deirdre Flynn from Catherine House. Please let Rob know if you’re coming or not.
For the benefit of members, we will aim to give the Duty Roster a few weeks ahead - see below.
Responsibility
20 April - 9.30am
27 April - 6pm
Kent Town Hotel
4 May - 9.30am
Chairperson
Coffee Conversation
Angus Tuck
Coffee Conversation
Attendance
Richard Jarrett
White Picket Café
White Picket Café
Furniture/Hosting
Brian Harvey
Bottles/ cans
Fred Field
Rob McLennan
Di Lane
Bread run
Dean Sullivan (23/4)
TBA
TBA
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); register member payments/ apologies/ guests. Hosting: Welcome all at the door; ensure speaker and guests are introduced to appropriatepersons. Furniture: Flags; banner display; 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. Bottles/cans: Collect bags of bottles/cans at meeting and take to recycle centre for refund, pass refund to Bruce McDonald and empty bags to the next duty member, at the next meeting. Rotaract: Meets alternate Mondays at 6pm (for a 630pm start) at the Cumberland Arms Hotel, 205 Waymouth St. Adelaide. Bread Run: 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
Barry Grear, Bruce McDonald, Angus Tuck, Carol Ganley, Brian Harvey, Don Tindale, Margie Steffens, Kirsti Kankkunen,, Paige Honor, Stef Hou, Paul Jupp, Elaine Reade, Yvette Reade, Liz Tilley
Present
12
Attendance
Club Guests
Apologies
14
Lili Osario, Helen Smith
Leave of Absence
4
Club visits etc
Absent
2
Other activities
Leave of Absence
Cans & Bottles this week
John Campbell, Julie Campbell, Alex Yepes, Maria Garces
Cans & Bottles YTD
$731.10
For apologies, please phone Rob McLennan 0430 930 067 or Club Secretary Di Lane 0418 806 140.
Club Bank Account details: BSB 085-458, Account Number 20-505-9719
United in the spirit of Service we value truth, fairness and friendship; and we welcome the opportunity that Rotary gives us to contribute our talents and resources in support of others.
Rotary Club of Adelaide Light Mission Statement
To have fun and engage interest from new members and friends as we use our strengths for a better world here and abroad - a welcoming, flexible group having fun doing hands-on activities for positive impact.
RIFF RAFF - The Mississippi River was the main way of traveling from north to south. Riverboats carried passengers and freight but they were expensive so most people used rafts. Everything had the right of way over rafts which were considered cheap. The steering oar on the rafts was called a "riff" and this transposed into riff-raff, meaning low class.
COBWEB - The Old English word for “spider" was "cob.”
SLEEP TIGHT- Early beds were made with a wooden frame. Ropes were tied across the frame in a crisscross pattern. A straw mattress was then put on top of the ropes. Over time the ropes stretched, causing the bed to sag. The owner would then tighten the ropes to get a better night’s sleep.
