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President's Message
Alain Charles
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Hello Fellow Rotarians
 
On Tuesday evening we had the pleasure of welcoming Councillor Paul Taylor,thank you for visiting Paul in our new premises.
We also had the pleasure of welcoming our Guest speaker Brenton Rickard. Brenton is the Manager for Sport Services for the Commonwealth games 2018 and a former champion swimmer, having won  six individual Commonwealth Games medals, three World championship Medals and two Olympic medals.  Brenton gave a presentation about his  life as an Olympian and the sacrifices that were required to perform at an Elite level and how now he has had to adapt to life after reaching those dizzy heights during his distinguished career. Brenton also brought along his Gold, Silver and Bronze medals for us to get up close and personal with and which was appreciated by all.
Great to see Nancy back from a long sabbatical in Canada.
Thank you to the members who have come forward to assist Pauline with the 45th Anniversary preparations.
As mentioned at the meeting our visiting Rotarians from Sister club Taraunga have enquired about being home hosted whilst here. Please advise if you will be able to assist. It appears at this stage that we could have 8 visitors from Tauranga.
 
Ray Milton advised that POOTY preparations are nearly complete and has asked for members book their seats for what will be a great evening.
 
We have the President of Surfers Sunrise as guest speaker this coming Tuesday which promises to be another great eveing of fellowship and fun at the Broadbeach Rotary Club.
 
Look forward to welcoming all Rotarians.
Best regards
 
Alain
 
 
Links
Sausage Sizzle Roster
Car Boot Sale - Roster
Book Shop Staff Roster
Rotary International
D9640 Website
Miami Combined Probus Club
 
 
 
ATTENDANCE REPORT 3 OCTOBER 2017
25 Broadbeach Members
2
Honorary Members (Paul Taylor Uwe Seifert)
 
Guests                                                      
1 Guest Speaker - Brenton Rickard
28 Total Attendance
 
MEETING DUTY ROSTER
 
10 October
Door:         Ray Milton & Pauline Armstrong
Sergeant:   Russ Hutchison
Toast:        Noel Hodges
Scribe:       Nancy Smith
Anecdote:   Grahame Werrell
17 October
Police Awards Night
Scribe:       Neil Jones
Anecdote:  Denis O'Brien
 
 
FUNDRAISING ROSTER REMINDERS THIS WEEK
 
Sausage Sizzle Friday 13th October
8.00am Les Bulluss Bob Jordan
11.00am John Curr Ian Cowen Grahame Werrell
 
Carrara Markets Book Shop
14 October AM Kim Arden Susan Wolfe PM TBA
15 October AM TBA PM TBA
 
Car Boot Sale Sunday 15th October
5.00am Les Bulluss. John Curr. Alain Charles. Tony Lewis 
7.00am Denis O'Brien. TBA
 
 
FINANCE REPORT - PETER DIMOND
Meeting   26 September 2017  
Fines $27.65 Bunnings Sizzle $724.45   
Copper Pot $  Carrara Market Book Shop 23 24 Sept 17                  $550.50  
Raffle  
Car Boot Sale
 $
Dinner Takings $650.00    
Bar Takings $170.00     
TOTAL $847.65   TOTAL $1274.95
 
 
SECRETARY REPORT - Tony Lewis
 
What is the Role of the Secretary?
The role of the Secretary is to support the President in ensuring the smooth functioning of the Board in particular and the Club in general.
The following is a very brief overview of the Secretary’s role in our Club.
In this Club information from some, or at times most, of the following are received and are required to be dealt with on a daily basis. They include but are not limited to: District, RI, RDU, and the Public, Board members, members in general.
In order to ensure all issues and records are kept up to date, it is essential that they are addressed immediately. For example a membership enquiry or a visitor enquiring about attending a meeting. Thus if done correctly, the role of Secretary in this Club requires 10 - 12 hours work per week. This can increase at the time of a Board meeting
If left unattended the role can easily “get out of hand”
 
In summary, the Secretary is responsible for, but not limited to:
  1. Ensuring meetings are effectively organised and minuted
  2. Maintaining effective records and administration
  3. Communication and correspondence
  4. Scheduling, advising and recording of the AGM
  5. Reporting to appropriate Government agencies
  6. Daily Duties
  • Check Clubs Gmail account and act on content
  • Reply to correspondence
  • Attend to incoming mail via Clubs PO Box
  • Attend to District 9640 mail and Email - about 10 - 12 per week are received
    This might not seem a lot, but it is reasonably time consuming.
    Most of the time the Secretary is the first contact a person has with the Club and thus must create an excellent image of the Club
    The secret to ensuring the role is successful - organisation and time management, never get behind in day to day issues.
    Other duties currently performed that are not an assigned role of the Secretary include, the preparation and framing of all Certificates presented by the Club such as Police Officer of the Year, Young Achiever, Honorary membership, community service awards, certificates of service including the outgoing president.
     
 
ALMONER REPORT - Bob Jordan
Bob is overseas
 
ClubRunner
Executives & Directors
President
Alain Charles
 
Immediate Past President
Bruce Kuhn
 
President Elect
Pauline Armstrong
 
Vice President
Neil Jones
 
Treasurer
Peter Dimond
 
Secretary
Tony Lewis
 
Director - Admin
Robert Jordan
 
Director - Service
Harold Busch
 
Director - International
Kevin O'Brien
 
Director - Membership
Les Bulluss
 
Director - Rotary Foundation
Pauline Armstrong
 
Director - Youth Services
Noel Hodges
 
Webmaster
Jim Hawkins
 
Upcoming Events
Guest Speaker - Andy Bell
Quality Hotel
Oct 10, 2017
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Police Officer of the Year Awards
Southport Golf Club
Oct 17, 2017
6:30 PM – 10:00 PM
 
Club Meeting - 24 October 2017
Quality Hotel
Oct 24, 2017
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Social Evening - 31 October 2017
The Hub
Oct 31, 2017
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Broadbeach Rotary 45 Year Anniversary
Southport Golf Club
Nov 04, 2017
6:52 PM – 10:53 PM
 
Melbourne Cup - 7 November 2017 - NO Meeting
Nov 07, 2017
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Club Meeting 14 November 2017
Quality Hotel
Nov 14, 2017
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Club Meeting - 21 November 2017
Quality Hotel
Nov 21, 2017
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Social Evening - 28 November 2017
The Hub
Nov 28, 2017
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Nancy Smith
October 16
 
Bruce Kuhn
October 25
 
Spouse Birthdays
Liz
October 8
 
Roslyn
October 13
 
Lorraine Hawton
October 17
 
Shanti Gowans
October 18
 
Marie Jorden
October 28
 
Anniversaries
Neil Baldwin
Carol Baldwin
October 7
 
Ian Cowen
Gay
October 10
 
 
 
MEMBER ANECDOTES
 
Peter Tomlinson
 
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ALL IN A DAYS WORK BY Peter Tomlinson.

The Boomerang Farm at Mudgeeraba was a Tourist park, where we taught the tourists how to throw and catch our exceptionally well-made boomerangs. The tourists could throw their newly purchased boomerangs on the many throwing fields, visit our small Museum of Aboriginal artefacts and purchase the many souvenirs that we sold in the boomerang shaped shop.

The entry to the Boomerang Farm was off Springbrook Road, down Boomerang Road, over a small bridge (over Mudgeeraba Creek), and into the tourist car park. It was easy to hear and see cars coming down Boomerang Road.  In the wet season of 1981 Springbrook and ourselves at The Boomerang Farm received record rains. Once the rain eased Mudgeeraba Creek would recede quickly, unless there were very heavy rain at Springbrook. It was not uncommon for us to have the bridge over Mudgeeraba Creek flooded even though we had no rain.

It was one of these days, it was sunny yet the bridge was flooded so the tourist park was closed.  I noticed a car coming down Boomerang Road to go into The Boomerang Farm. The car never parked in the carpark and never backed up the hill, (after getting to the flooded bridge). Something was wrong. I moved quickly and took the Land Rover to investigate. I checked that there were no people or car in the tourist area. I drove on to view the bridge and to my horror and concern, I saw two men sitting on top of the bonnet of a rented Datsun Car and the car was drifting down Mudgeeraba Creek.

The two men were yelling out in no uncertain terms that they were in trouble (even though I could not understand a word they said). The car drifted on with the two men now sitting on the roof. The car came to an abrupt holt in a deep hole in the creek bed and settled. The tall slim man jumped into the water and made his way onto the Eastern Bank alive, safe and well. The shorter fatter man stayed sitting on the roof of the partially submerged car with Mudgeeraba Creek quickly rising.

Roslyn and I waved and called to the two men. They could not understand us and we could not understand them. The fellow on the Eastern Bank kept jumping into the air and insisted his friend jump into the water but the fellow sitting on the roof of the car was not moving. The water kept rising. We rescued the fellow sitting on the roof of the car by getting a rope to him (thank goodness for my roping skills) and with the rope around him we quickly pulled him to the creek bank, safe and well. Just in time as the car was soon covered in water.

We let the two men yell to each other as we had one on our side of Mudgeeraba Creek and the other was on the Eastern Side. (We called the Eastern side Rob King’s (From Rob Kings Nursery). A builder was building Rob Kings New Horse Stables and came down to the creek to see what was going on as a terrible commotion was being made. Luckily for us all, the builder spoke a little German and could settle the fellow on his side of the Creek and took him to Rob and Sandra Kings house. We took our fellow to our house and communications were a problem as our fellow could only speak German. We got our fellow bathed, gave him my clothes to wear, made him warm, fed him and gave him lots of hot coffee. We rang the Kings and our fellow spoke to his friend which helped him settle.

We suggested that the two men contact the car hire people and let them know what had happened to the car. The car rental firm said they had no record of the car being rented to these people. We suggested that they contact the German Consulate in Sydney. When they rented the car, they had to hand over their pass ports to the Car Rental Company. The Germany Embassy in Sydney at that time had a staff of thirteen handling accidents by German Drivers in Australia and helped our newly rescued fellow and his mate. Later in the day the German Embassy contacted me to advise that our rescued men had written off three cars in three days. (An accident in Sydney, an accident in Brisbane and The Mudgeeraba Creek Incident). We suggested to our fellow and again by phone to the other fellow that they travel by bus, train or plane in Australia from now on.

Apparently our two German Tourists stopped their car in the flooded Mudgeeraba Creek so they could take photos to send home. They wanted to show how they drove through the harsh, unforgiving Australia environment. The tourists were washed away in the process of taking their photos. Mudgeeraba Creek rises and falls very quickly, so when the Creek fell we could retrieve their cloths and possessions out of the now semi submerged car. We washed, dried and cleaned the rescued men’s possessions. We gave our fellow an Australian Navy Duffel bag to carry his possessions in as his bag was a total write off. We wished the men well and said good bye as the Kings drove our fellow and his friend into Surfers to catch a bus to continue their trip of Australia.

Two weeks later the Hire Car Firm dispatched a crane and truck to rescue the car from Mudgeeraba Creek and took it away. When they pulled the car out of Mudgeeraba Creek the fellow in charge said, “this car is a total write off”. We all agreed.

In case you were wondering. We never heard from these Tourists ever again.

There is lots to be learnt from this anecdote.

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rotary International     
Rotary Information Weekly
 
 
A tour of Rotary's 2018 convention city reveals one common thread: a welcoming spirit. Visitors to Toronto will also find world class museums, restaurants, shopping, and attractions, like the CN Tower and Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada. Register through 15 December to save on convention fees.
Thinking of attending the 2018 International Convention in Toronto?
Now is the time to act with discounted registration fees available until 15 December and accommodation options reducing daily as Toronto is hosting a separate citywide event during the Rotary Convention that is raising demand and prices for hotels. To make sure you find a room at a rate that meets your needs, we encourage you to book your hotel through Experient, Rotary’s official housing partner, as soon as possible.  For more information and to register visit www.rotary.org
 
Club News
 
 
 
UPCOMING ROTARY EVENTS
 
GOLD COAST POLICE OFFICER OF THE YEAR AWARDS - TUESDAY 17 OCTOBER
The thirteenth annual presentation of The Gold Coast Police Officer of the Year Award will be held at the Southport Golf Club on Tuesday 17 October 2017.
Southport Rotary Club has kindly surrendered its venue to us and will be joining us for this special event on our annual Rotary calendar.
Cost on this occasion will be $55 per person. More details when finalised.
Don't miss this very special night - mark it in your diary now.
 
BROADBEACH 45TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION DINNER - SATURDAY 4 NOVEMBER 
Planning is underway for this milestone celebration and invitations have been extended to our Sister Clubs for this special event which will be held at Southport Golf Club on Saturday 4 November 2017. More details over ensuing months as program details are finalised. In the meantime please mark this special night (which will replace our normal meeting on 31 October) in your diary. 
 
NOTICE OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF BROADBEACH INCORPORATED - TUESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2017
The Annual General Meeting of the Rotary Club of Broadbeach Incorporated, will be held on Tuesday 14th November 2017 at the Quality Hotel Mermaid Waters 4218 commencing at 7.00pm
By order of the Board
Tony Lewis
Secretary
 
 
 
 
The Rotary Foundation Weekly
 
The Rotary Foundation
The Rotary Foundation transforms your gifts into projects that change lives both close to home and around the world. As the charitable arm of Rotary, we tap into a global network of Rotarians who invest their time, money, and expertise into our priorities, such as eradicating polio and promoting peace.
 
Access to several contribution forms is provided in the menu on the left, however all contributions to The Rotary Foundation can be done online by accessing with this button. All contributions are processed through the Australian Rotary Foundation Trust and Australian Tax Receipts issued.
 
Please be aware that contributions using the links below are transacted in Australian currency, but PHF recognition relates to US currency. To calculate the conversion from Australian dollar to US dollar, please use the link on the left titled "Rotary Exchange
Who are Foundation Alumni?
Ambassadorial Scholars, Peace Scholars, GSE Team Members, GCE Team Members, University Grants Teachers, Rotary Volunteers.
More than 116,000 people have received program awards from the Foundation since 1947. Foundation alumni include former Ambassadorial Scholars and Global Grant Scholars as well as Rotary Peace Fellows, Group Study Exchange, Group Cultural Exchange and Vocational Training Team leaders and members and recipients of Rotary Grants for University Teachers and various Rotary volunteer grants.
As talented, committed individuals, Foundation alumni know Rotary well and share its vision of furthering world understanding and peace. Alumni are powerful advocates for the Foundation because they put a human face on Rotary activities and demonstrate a commitment to the world community. They serve as volunteers for community and international service projects and are potential Rotary club members and donors to the Foundation.  They are available to speak at Rotary functions or participate in Rotary Programs
Contact District 9640 Rotary Foundation Committee chair, PDG Tony Heading to ascertain any Foundation alumni available for speaking engagements or club activities.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
FROM LAST WEEK'S MEETING -26 SEPTEMBER 2017 
 
Scribe: Kevin O'Brien
Meeting 26 September 2017
Scribe, Kevin
 
Sargent Les Bulluss opened the meeting.  From his research on ‘This time in years past”, he reminded us that Tina Rambaldini’s funeral occurred this time two years ago.
 
Bill Rex gave in an impromptu toast to “The Hub” and those who made it happen.
 
President Alain welcomed our partners and honorary member Ian.  President Alain presented Keith Hawton with a certificate to mark his rank as honorary member of our club. Keith has been in Rotary for 60 years and a long-standing and respected member of our club. Loraine accompanied Keith.
 
No guest speaker but Les conducted two trivia quizzes. One on the British Commonwealth and the other on science of the quantum, nuclear, astrophysics and other applied science which was in keeping for the high intelligence of our members.
 
With no director’s reports, Sargent Les with the help of bunyp Rex did their monetary extractions from unsuspecting members.  Les excelled himself with his two jokes for the night.
 
A father was surprised that their child gene’s matched  to neither his wife nor himself after a DNA test was conducted.  He said to his wife, “How could that happen”?  She said, “Don’t you remember?  When we were leaving the hospital, you noticed the child had a dirty nappy and you told me to go back in and change it”.
 
A child got lost in a large crown and could not find his father.  He asked a policeman for help. The copper said, “What’s he like?  Beer and women the child replied”.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Meeting in Pictures
 
      
  President Alain opening meeting                Sgt Les - another great and amusing
                                                                sergeants session
 
     
Bill proposing the toast for the night
 
All members were delighted to see Keith and Lorraine
 
   
                                           Enjoying the night
 
   
                                          Enjoying the night
 
President Alain had great delight in presenting Keith with his
Honorary members Certificate
 
   
Keith telling us about his call from          Heads and Tails winner Pam
past member Peter Grayburn
 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
WEEKLY LAUGHS
 
A lady walks into a bar and sees a really cute guy sitting at the counter. She goes over and asks him what he is drinking. "Magic Beer", he says. She thinks he's a little crazy, so she walks around the bar, but after noticing that there is no one else worth talking to, she goes back to the man sitting at the bar and says, “That isn't really Magic Beer, is it?" "Yes, I'll show you."
He takes a drink of the beer, jumps out the window, flies around the building three times, and comes back through the window.
The lady can't believe it: "I bet you can't-do that again."
"Oh yea?" He smirks.
He takes another drink of beer, jumps out the window, flies around the building three times, and comes back through the window.
She is amazed and immediately asks for a magic beer of her own.
The guy says to the bartender, "Give her one of what I'm having."
She gets her drink, takes a gulp of the beer, jumps out the window... and immediately plummets 30 stories down.
The bartender looks at the guy and says, "You know something, Superman? You're a terrible person when you're drinking."

While trying to explain to our six-year-old daughter how much technology had changed, my husband pointed to our brand-new personal computer and told her that when he was in college, a computer with the same amount of power would have been the size of a house.
Wide-eyed, our daughter asked, "How big was the mouse?"

One night a teenage girl brought her new boyfriend home to meet her parents, and they were appalled by his appearance: leather jacket, motorcycle boots, tattoos and pierced nose.
Later, the parents pulled their daughter aside and confessed their concern. "Dear," said the mother diplomatically, "he doesn't seem very nice."
"Oh please, Mom," replied the daughter, "if he wasn't nice, why would he be doing 500 hours of community service?"

A police recruit was asked during the exam, 'What would you do if you had to arrest your own mother?'
He answered, 'Call for backup.'

One day I went through a STOP sign.
The cops stopped me and asked why I had driven through the sign, I told them I didn’t believe everything I read

Q: How many tickles does it take to make an octopus laugh?
A: Ten-tickles!!!

Q: What did Cinderella say when her photos did not show up?
A: Someday my prints will come!

Q: What starts with a P, ends with an E and has thousands of letters in it?
A: Post Office.

Q: Why did the boy put candy under his pillow?
A: Because he wanted sweet dreams.

Q: What's the best parting gift?
A: A comb.

 
 
 
QUOTE FOR THE WEEK
 

“Organised crime in America takes in over $ 40 billion per year and spends very little on Office Supplies”              Woody Allen

 
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