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Pauline Armstrong

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Fellow Rotarians and friends;

DG Terry Brown has asked that we circulate details of a tour to New Zealand next year.

The Rotary Club of Pakuranga invites you to join The Ultimate 18 Day Rotary Tour of New Zealand

29th March – 15th April, 2019.

The Tour Key points and Highlights are:

 The Tour includes 2 Home hosted meals and 2 Rotary Meeting visits.

 The Tour size is limited to 26 persons. (Within a 30/33 seater coach.)

 Accommodation will be 4 to 5 star and includes all breakfasts on the Base Tour.

 A professional ‘Top Tour Guide’ will travel with you throughout the Tour.

 The Base Tour includes both the North and South Islands.

 An optional 5 day pre-tour to Northland and the Bay of Islands is also offered.

To receive a full 11 page itinerary please email Peter Hawkins: peter.hawkins@xtra.co.nz.

I have an update on the Drought Relief fund. The Orchid Society will be donating $5000.00 which brings our total to $8,000.00. I have emailed the President of Goondiwindi so hopefully they will have made progress on the disbursement to the areas where it is needed most.

I was delighted with our guest speaker this week, Flynn McFarlane, from the Young Professionals, Gold Coast. He is a very motivated young man and I was impressed that he and his colleagues have formed a group expressly to guide our city development in the future. The Q&A session after his presentation was very informative.

We have been approached by the Grill’d outlet at Pacific Fair regarding a contribution. This is the email: HOW IT WORKS: Each month, every Grill’d restaurant donates to 3 different local community groups, which are each represented by a jar. With every purchase we offer our customers a token which they are then asked to place in a jar of their choice. The group with the most tokens in their jar at the end of the month receives a donation of $300, and the other two receive $100 each.

If anyone has an objection let me know. Otherwise we will submit an application.

We have a vocational visit on Tuesday to the Fire Station. There have been many of you asking if I will be demonstrating how the pole works. You will have to turn up to find out!

Yours in Rotary

Pauline

ATTENDANCE REPORT 18 SEPTEMBER 2018

23	Broadbeach Members
3	Honorary Members (Ian Cowen, Uwe Seifert & Paul Taylor)
1	Member's Guests Guest Speaker (Flynn McFarlane)
	Visiting Rotarian
27	Total Attendance

MEETING DUTY ROSTER

25 September

Door: Grahame Werrell & Graham Sivyer

Sergeant: Russ Hutchison

Toast: Ray Milton

Scribe: Malcolm Daviess

Anecdote: Les Bulluss

02 October

Door: Graham Sivyer & Denis O'Brien

Sergeant: Kevin O'Brien

Toast: Tony Lewis

Scribe: Bruce Kuhn

Anecdote: Harold Busch

09 October

Door: Graham Sivyer & Ian Cowen

Sergeant: Les Bulluss

Toast: Bruce Kuhn

Scribe: Denis O'Brien

Anecdote: Malcolm Daviess

16 October

Door: Graham Sivyer & Harold Busch

Sergeant: Russ Hutchison

Toast: Jim Hawkins

Scribe: Peter Dimond

Anecdote: Jim Hawkins

23 October

Door: Graham Sivyer & Peter Tomlinson

Sergeant: Kevin O'Brien

Toast: Bill Rex

Scribe: Grahame Werrell

Anecdote: Russ Hutchison

30 October

Police Awards Night

Scribe; Ray Milton

Anecdote: Andrew McTaggart

06 November

Melbourne Cup Day - No meeting

FUNDRAISING ROSTER REMINDERS THIS WEEK

Sausage Sizzle Friday 28 September

8.00am No sizzle this week.

11.00am

Car Boot Sale Sunday 7 October

5.00am Graham Sivyer. Tony Lewis. Ray Milton. Denis O'Brien

7.00am Harold Busch. Kevin O'Brien

FINANCE REPORT - NOEL HODGES

Meeting		18 SEPTEMBER 2018
Fines	$ 59.20	Bunning's Sizzle Friday 14 September	$ 530.30
Copper Pot	$ 13.75
Raffle	$ 37.00	Car Boot Sale Sunday 16 September	$ 700.00
TOTAL	$109.95	TOTAL	$1,230.30

SECRETARY REPORT - Tony Lewis

The following are just some of the issues discussed at the Board meeting held on Tuesday 18th September

The full set of minutes for this and previous Board meeting can be seen in “View Club Documents” in Club Runner.

Service

The Service Director reported on the following:

Projects at Cedar and Rosemary Houses :

Cedar House is almost complete with the need to finish off the pathway

Rosemary House - there is some painting to be done and a working bee is scheduled towards the end of the month. The Sensory Garden at Rosemary House is yet to be established

A teacher from Merrimac SHS will be a guest speaker at the Club to give an overview and update on their MERRIMAC STATE HIGH SCHOOL STEAM ROBOTICS INITIATIVES program which we are supporting

Rotary Foundation

The Foundation Director has a supply of money boxes for members to use to contribute to the Foundation

The Club will continue with the purchasing Rotary cakes and puddings.

Youth

The youth Director reported the following:

As agreed at board meeting held on 24 July 2018, Somerset College would assist with car boot sale for a trail

Due to school work place health and safety this was not approved by the college. The same group of children are keen to assist Broadbeach Rotary at another time.

RYTS 2018 Sponsorship of 4 or 5 children this year.

District 9640 Vocational Exchange 2018 - 2019 with Philippines District 3780 Team Leader Application for PP Bruce Kuhn was approved

Club meeting information on entry door of Hotel.

There is a need for the Rotary Club of Broadbeach meeting information to be displayed on the entrance door to the Hotel.

Literacy Nomination

An amount of $700 to be donated to the Benowa Primary State School Literacy Program.

MERRIMAC STATE HIGH SCHOOL STEAM ROBOTICS INITIATIVES

Proceed with a budget of $8000 for the MERRIMAC STATE HIGH SCHOOL STEAM ROBOTICS INITIATIVES program.

Support for applicant for the Group Cultural Exchange to the Philippines.

The Club would support and encourage an application for a team member’s position in the exchange group for Abby Coates, a past young achiever of the year of the Club.

An Expression of Interest for a Commemorative Grants application lodged by Neil Jones to the Community Benefits Fund for $100000 for the purpose of purchasing a Van and 15 Scooters has been acknowledged.

ALMONER REPORT - Bob Jordan

Nothing new to report - Bob is interstate for a couple of weeks.

President

Pauline Armstrong

Immediate Past President

Alain Charles

President Elect

Graham Sivyer

Vice President

Neil Jones

Treasurer

Noel Hodges

Secretary

Anthony Lewis

Director - Admin

Bruce Kuhn

Director - Service

Harold Busch

Director - Membership and Public Relations

Nigel Hyland OAM

Director - Rotary Foundation

Neil Baldwin

Director - Youth Services

Andrew McTaggart

Webmaster

Jim Hawkins

"Better Caring" - Jodie Schleusener

Quality Hotel

Oct 02, 2018
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Guest Speaker - Daniel Ricardo, Merrimac H. School

Quality Hotel

Oct 09, 2018
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Member Birthdays

Kirstin Yelland

September 1

Bill Rex

September 22

Uwe Seifert

September 24

Spouse Birthdays

Kay Hodges

September 14

Jenny

September 15

Barbara

September 19

Claire

September 27

Anniversaries

Bill Rex

Barbara

September 22

Frank Adorjan

Agnes

September 28

Join Date

Anthony Lewis

September 12, 2000

18 years

Bill Rex

September 12, 1992

26 years

John Monks

September 27, 2011

7 years

MEMBER ANECDOTE

NOEL HODGES

My first experience skiing.

I was living at Tumut and working there as an assistant Engineer with the local Council. Snow fell at Kiandra approx. 1 hr drive from Tumut and they opened the Ski run. I had been to high school at Tumut previously and one the clerks who I had played football with said lets go and have a ski.

Neither of us had ever skied before however being young ,fairly fit and up for anything ,we went. We had no ski equipment or ski clothing at all so we went to the local hardware store and purchased these dark green rain coats and matching dark green rain pants ( very cheap and you can probably still buy them).

We arrived at Kiandra and hired skis and ski boots and put them on and slid /shuffled over to the ski run. At that time the ski run was very primitive affair with a long circular rope that pulled you up the hill and you had to line up and grab hold of the rope ,make sure your skis were pointing up the hill and away you went. Fortunately both of us stayed upright and up the hill we went. There was a line of skiers behind us. These skiers were all in flash ski gear, patterned jumpers, goggles, sunglasses etc.

Unfortunately I didn’t know how to control my skis or how to get off the rope pulley at the top of the little hill which was quite steep so I just fell over and sideways so that I didn’t just slide backwards down the steep hill. This was in the way of all those behind so this created a bit of angst because they all had to leave the rope before the proper drop off point.

Both of us crabbed sideways across to the middle of the ski run, turned around and took off. Well we both going very fast and straight down the hill and all the real skiers were swishing back and forth across the slope and not nearly as fast as us. We started yelling “ look out” and all the skiers scattered out of our way. Unfortunately I got bit frightened about how fast I was going and crouched down so that I wouldn’t hurt myself if I fell off. This made me go much faster.

At the bottom of the hill was a small creek with about a six foot wide foot bridge across it. I was going very fast and realised I didn’t know how to stop so I decided to lean over sideways onto the snow. The raincoat proved to be very slippery and I continued sliding down the hill. By some miracle I slid over the creek footbridge. I picked myself up and slid / shuffled over for another go.

A very attractive girl ( don’t tell Kay) took pity on me and showed me how to snow plough with the skis so I had some modicum of control on the next run. So I never learned how to ski properly and have no desire now to do so.

Rotary Information Weekly

Rotary’s digital annual report wins excellence award

Rotary's 2016-17 digital Annual Report was recognized as one of the top non-profit online annual reports by the MerComm Annual Report Competition (ARC) Awards – the world's largest international competition honoring excellence in annual reports.

Entries are judged by communications professionals who evaluate entries based on creativity, clarity, effectiveness, and excellence as symbolized by the ARC Awards.

This is the first year Rotary has created a digitally optimized annual report that includes video and interactive graphics.

"THE ROTARY SCOOTERS PROJECT HAS GIVEN MANY NEW-FOUND CONFIDENCE AND INDEPENDENCE THROUGH THE ABILITY TO GET OUT AND ABOUT UNDER THEIR OWN STEAM, RUNNING ERRANDS AND TAKING PART IN NORMAL SOCIAL ACTIVITIES"

"

The above editorial highlight and following item are extracts taken from a special section "Enabling the Disabled" in the September issue of Rotary Down Under and of which our club can be rightly very proud.

Dates for your diary

THIS TUESDAY 25 SEPTEMBER

Our meeting this week will involve a vocational visit to the Surfers Paradise Fire & Rescue Centre

PLEASE NOTE:

* We meet at the Chiangma Thai Restaurant (2279 Gold Coast Highway

* Ample parking in Cascade Gardens opposite the restaurant

* Meeting time 5.30pm for 6.00pm

For additional information/guidance please contact Harold Busch 0408 605 164

6 October: Rotary Surfers Paradise 16th Charity Race Day (see flyer below for full details)

Our Malaria Vaccine Project will be a major recipient of the proceeds from this day and we are keen to support the event to help ensure its success and maximise the funds flow to the project.

Bruce Kuhn is co-ordinating our table(s) so please let him know the number of tickets you require as soon as possible.

30 October: Gold Coast Police Officer of the Year Awards (Quality Hotel, Mermaid Waters)

This is a significant event on our club's annual calendar - mark your diary now - more detail to come over ensuing weeks.

LATE BREAKING NEWS

Congratulations to Past President Bruce Kuhn on his selection yesterday to lead the District 9640 Group Vocational Exchange team to District 3780 Philippines in 2019.

FROM OUR LAST MEETING 18 SEPTEMBER 2018

Scribe: Harold Busch

SERGEANT FOR THE MEETING…………………………………Les Bulluss.

INTRODUCTION MEMBERS TOAST…………………………..Ian Cowen proposed at toast to the clubs first Lady President Pauline.

PRESIDENTS WELCOME.

Guests………………………………..Flynn McFarlane (guest speaker)

Horary Members………………..Uwe Seifert…..Paul Taylor……..Ian Cowen.

REPORTS………………John Monks reported an impulse recipient of a wheelchair and referred members to RDU article re a wheelchair recipient at Goondiwindi.

Bruce Kuhn………Reminding members of the Rotary race day and it’s importance to the Rotary Foundation as a fund raiser.

Ray Milton……….POOY….25 nominations for POOY + 3 nominations for police unit + 6 nominations for civilian support.

Harold Busch……Update on alzheimers project. Cedar House outdoor tiling completed . ..Notice of an upcoming working bee at Rosemary House.

Neil Baldwin…..Money boxes are available for collection of spare coins for the Rotary Foundation.

SERGEANT’S SESSION………Bunyips……….. Nayer & Nasser……..Sgt Les fined all those members who did not attend the working bee at Cedar House. Sgt Les collected $54.00 on the night.

Raffle winners (not heads & tails)………..Bill Rex & Les Bullus.

Guest Speaker……….Past President Jim Hawkins introduced Flynn McFarlane who is the President of Y. P. (young professionals) Gold Coast.

Co-founder and Managing Director of Stead Lane, a leading Gold Coast digital agency who help clients to reach new customers and grow revenue by providing innovative solutions and ensuring quality return on digital marketing investments.

YP GOLD COAST………A not-for-profit organisation wants to help grow the Gold Coast's corporate culture. It is focused on facilitating prosperous career development and to push for job opportunities in our city. It is committed to helping the Gold Coast evolve to compete with other Australian and international cities. YPGC aims to enhance the reputation through the activation of a corporate forum to educate and inspire the next generation of decision makers, as well as advocate and support projects and plans that will see the Gold Coast become more liveable, sustainable and financially balanced. Partnered with Urbis the organisation was founded 7 years ago and currently has an audience of 3000 with an age group of 25 to 30.

FIVE PILLARS UNDERPIN YP GOLD COAST ADVOCACY PLATFORM.

1….TALENT………………..A bright future for young people.

2….COMPETITIVE………Taking Gold Coast business to the world stage.

3….TRANSPORT…………A city that moves with ease.

4….QUALITY………………Growth embodies the Gold Coast appeal.

5….TECHNOLOGY……..A city that thrives from technology and digital disruption.

CHAIRMAN Jim Hawkins thanked the guest speaker and presented the usual whiskey glass.

PRESIDENT Pauline closed the meeting at 7.55pm.

The Week in Pictures

Sergeant Les Ian Toasts President Pauline President Pauline

See Bruce re Race Day GPOTY Update from Ray Harold updates on Cedar House

Neil talks Foundation John updates on scooters

Bunyips Nayer and Nasser Raffle winners Les & Bill

Guest Speaker Flynn Jim presents our club glass to Flynn

WEEKLY LAUGHS

Fun with puns

I changed my iPod name to Titanic. It's syncing now.

I tried to catch some fog. I mist.

When chemists die, they barium.

Jokes about German sausage are the wurst.

A soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.

I know a guy who's addicted to brake fluid. He says he can stop any time.

I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.

I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. I can't put it down.

I did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words.

They told me I had type A blood, but it was a type-O.

Why were the Indians here first? They had reservations.

The Energizer bunny arrested and charged with battery.

I didn't like my beard at first. Then it grew on me.
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I read this article that said the typical symptoms of stress are eating too much, impulse buying, and driving too fast.
Are they kidding? That's my idea of a perfect day.
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Q: What stories do the ship captain's children like to hear?
A: Ferry tales!

Q: What falls but never hurts itself?
A: Snow.

Q: What's a King's favorite clothing?
A: A reign coat.

Q: What did one plate say to the other plate?
A: Dinner's on me tonight!

Q: Where did the spaghetti go to dance?
A: The meat ball!

Q: What does an envelope say when you lick it?
A: Nothing. It just shuts up.

Q: What's the definition of a will?
A: It's a dead giveaway.

QUOTE FOR THE WEEK

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