How lovely it was to have the Rotary Club of Eastwood join us for breakfast last Thursday in a joint meeting. It was a good opportunity to meet new Rotarians, reacquaint ourselves with others and discuss projects and fundraising activities plus hear an address from an outstanding guest speaker.
Kyra’s talk on nuclear waste repositories following a study tour she participated in for interested South Australian parliamentarians and business leaders to go to Finland, France and U.K. to see how these countries had gone about developing their own domestic high level waste repositories certainly had us "all ears" as we endeavoured to retain the plethora of information and facts she provided. And her speaking time ran out...........!
I am thrilled that Dr Phil has been able to arrange for Kyra to speak to our club again and more specifically to enable members to have the opportunity to ask questions. Her topic “Q&A on the nuclear fuel cycle” is set for Thursday November 2nd and I have issued an invitation to Eastwood Club to join us on this date also as their members were also enthralled with her address.
We were also lucky to have past member Terry Rodoni and Ange Rodoni also join us for breakfast and pleased they will still keep in touch with our club as “Friends of Rotary”.
Bruce McDonald, John Campbell and myself attended the joint district membership summit on Saturday and Sunday and I must say it was a great workshop to participate in. Speakers all had a membership message that as a club we can work with. Congratulations to the organisers of the event and I would like to discuss ideas and action plans our club planning meetings. Meanwhile please speak to Bruce or John for their take on the forum.
Thank you to Fred Field and John Campbell who found time to assist with the packing of a container of shoes for Souls 4 Soles last Friday. In total 24,000 were loaded and will be shipped to Sierra Leone.
Next week is a Club Planning meeting so please bring your thoughts and ideas to breakfast, as our club is looking for new projects, fundraising activities, image improvement and member participation to enable our club to expand and flourish.
Thought for the week:
“There are three types of people – those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who say “what happened?”. Which one are you?”
I like to think Rotarians are the ones who make things happen.
Katrina Ball with guest speaker Kyra Reznikov
Andrew Kelly (Eastwood) and John Campbell
David Rowe, Jack Garrett (Eastwood) and Richard Jarrett
Yvette Reade, Phil Harding, Brian Lange (President of Eastwood Rotary) and Don Will (Eastwood)
Doug Hanley (Eastwood) and Phil Harding
John Campbell and Fred Field helping Dalice Kennedy load shoes for the Soles 4 Souls project
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.
(see this week's Rotary Horizons for details)
2. Rotarian’s innovative charity tackles men’s mental health crisis; calls for support
Young charitable organisation, Lifeback Limited is tackling one of Australia’s worst crises and the biggest killer of men aged 18-44.
In 2015, there were 1205 road deaths and 3027 deaths from suicide. Around 75% of suicide deaths were men, which equates to 6 men’s lives lost per day. Lifeline Australia estimates there were 65,100 suicide attempts in 2015. These are alarming statistics affecting our families, workplaces and communities.
Who better to help than a survivor of suicide who clearly understands how a man can find himself in this tragic situation? Lifeback Limited has been registered as a not-for-profit company by Rotarian, Anthony Hart. An entrepreneur and businessman, Anthony is absolutely passionate to help blokes like himself improve their mental health and wellbeing, before they find themselves in a suicidal state.
After learning how to get his own life back on track, Anthony created an early intervention program. Known as Lifeback Tracker, the program helps men monitor and record their results against 4 principles that Anthony advocates, to improve one’s health and wellbeing, including thoughts, feelings and mood.
With early encouragement from individual users, health organisations and the University of South Australia, Anthony has launched a crowdfunding campaign to translate his already successful booklet into an App.
Lifeback Limited, which has DGR status, is calling for support for its crowdfunding campaign. For more information, visit:
For the benefit of members, we will aim to give the Duty Roster a few weeks ahead - see below.
Responsibility
31 August 2017
7 September 2017
14 September 2017
Chairperson
Di Lane
Barry Grear
David Rowe
Attendance
Angus Tuck
Yvette Reade
Di Lane
Attendance
Richard Jarrett
John Wotherspoon
Angus Tuck
Furniture/Hosting
Don Tindall
Phil Harding
Dean Sullivan
Invocation
Barry grear
David Rowe
John Karran
Bottles/ cans
Rob McLennan
Dean Sullivan
Fred Field
Rotaract roster
TBA
TBA
TBA
Bread roster
TBA
TBA
TBA
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.
I just discovered my age group! I am a Seenager. (Senior teenager)
I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 50-60 years later.
I don't have to go to school or work.
I get an allowance every month.
I have my own pad.
I don't have a curfew.
I have a driver's license and my own car.
I have ID that gets me into bars and the wine store.
The people I hang around with are not afraid of getting pregnant, they aren’t afraid of anything, they have been blessed to live this long, why be afraid?
