As we re-position for the wintry part of the year, we’ll be brainstorming for new ideas at this Thursday’s breakfast meeting. If you were pondering an appearance, this one is the one to attend. Set your subconscious a task to mull over the possibilities and let it all burst forth on Thursday. If you’re regrettably otherwise restrained, do pass on your creativity so your ideas can be sown in your absence.
A little later on Thursday morning Alison and I will attend the 2023 Aboriginal Health Scholarship Presentation Ceremony where we’ll meet our club’s scholar, Anesha Rahman. Kirsti has kindly agreed to mentor Anesha and their common ground in the health sector as well as Kirsti home and work location should help. We’ll enjoy slowly getting to know Anesha, while being mindful her time is best spent on a successful graduation outcome as medicine is a demanding course.
Margie Steffens received the Red Cross State Humanitarian Partner Award this week for her work with Red Cross to establish the ‘Common Ground’ Community Outreach Dental facility. We visited it on Light Square a couple of years ago and we‘ve donated some equipment via a couple of District grants. Margie and Common Ground ensures asylum seekers to appropriate and dignified dental care. Congratulations, Margie!
Margie, Katey, Paige and I joined Adelaide City Rotaract for their meeting last night to hear two young lawyers clarify the ‘Voice’ referendum, free of political influence. Drawing on consultation with constitutional lawyers, it was well worth hearing their balanced presentation. See photos below.
Our District 9510 Rotary Volunteering Expo on 3rd June 2023 in Bonython Hall is free and open to the public with exhibits and speakers on societal change and volunteering trends - themed “Proud of the Past Confident of the Future”. The Celebration Dinner 6:30pm that night at the National Wine Centre is $100 for a 2-course meal, welcome drink on arrival, entertainment and some very special guests. Move fast and put 3rd June in your diary… you can register for either here.
Thursday 18 May is another ‘White Picket’ Coffee Conversation from 9:30am and our next Club dinner meeting is 6 for 6:30pm Thursday 25 May at the Kent Town Hotel.
Come and join your local Rotaractors as we OP SHOP HOP through Adelaide City! Through local op shops around Adelaide!
Your $10 proceeds with your ticket will provide you with a goodie bag of snacks, but you're money will give back to the Community with all proceeds going to the Hutt St Centre!
We will meet at Cafe Troppo, for some fellowship and food and then walk and use public transport to take us to our first location- Salvos Adelaide!
On the day you can also donate your clothes to Salvos Adelaide in Whitmore Square! We will have a fun and relaxed day in the city! Everyone is welcome!
For the benefit of members, we will aim to give the Duty Roster a few weeks ahead - see below.
Responsibility
11 May - 7.15am
South Terrace Croquet Club
18 May - 9.30am
25 May - 6pm
Kent Town Hotel
Chairperson
Coffee Conversation
Yvette Reade
Attendance
Di Lane
Angus Tuck
White Picket Café
Furniture/Hosting
Fred Field
Bottles/ cans
Dean Sullivan
Fred Field
Rob McLennan
Bread run
Bruce McDonald (14/5)
Bruce McDonald (21/5)
Dean Sullivan (28/5)
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
Bruce McDonald, Carol Ganley, Brian Harvey, Margie Steffens, Stef Hou, Liz Tilley, Alison Carter, Paul Ensor, Richard Jarrett, Di Lane, Stuart Marshall
Present
16
Attendance
Club Guests
Apologies
11
Lili Osorio, Deidre Flynn (Guest Speaker)
Leave of Absence
4
Club visits etc
Absent
1
Other activities
Leave of Absence
Cans & Bottles this week
John Campbell, Julie Campbell, Alex Yepes, Maria Garces
Cans & Bottles YTD
$762.90
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.
A letter from an Eromanga kid to Mum and Dad. (Eromanga is a small town west of Quilpie in far south west Queensland)
Dear Mum & Dad,
I am well. Hope youse are too. Tell me big brothers Doug and Phil that the Army is better than workin' on the farm - tell them to get in quick smart before the jobs are all gone! I wuz a bit slow in settling down at first, because ya don't hafta get outta bed until 6am... But I like sleeping in now, cuz all ya gotta do before brekky is make ya bed and shine ya boots and clean ya uniform. No cows to milk, no calves to feed, no feed to stack - nothin'!! Ya haz gotta shower though, but its not so bad, coz there's lotsa hot water and even a light to see what ya doing! At brekky ya get cereal, fruit and eggs but there's no kangaroo steaks or possum stew like wot Mum makes You don't get fed again until noon and by that time all the city boys are tired because we've been on a route march' - geez its only just like walking to the windmill in the back paddock!!
This one will kill me brothers Doug and Phil with laughter. I keep getting medals for shootin' - dunno why. The bullseye is as big as a possum's bum and it don't move and it's not firing back at ya like the Johnsons did when our big scrubber bull got into their prize cows before the Ekka last year! All ya gotta do is make yourself comfortable and hit the target - it's a piece of cake!! You don't even load your own cartridges, they comes in little boxes, and ya don't have to steady yourself against the roo shooting truck’s roll-bar when you reload!
Sometimes ya gotta wrestle with the city boys and I gotta be real careful coz they break easy - it's not like fighting with Doug and Phil and Jack and Boori and Steve and Muzza all at once like we do at home after the muster. Turns out I'm not a bad boxer either and it looks like I'm the best the platoon's got, and I've only been beaten by this one bloke from the Engineers - he's 6 foot 5 and 15 stone and three pick handles across the shoulders and as ya know I'm only 5 foot 7 and eight stone wringin' wet, but I fought him till the other blokes carried me off to the boozer.
I can't complain about the Army - tell the boys to get in quick before word gets around how good it is.
