Rotarlight 18/19 #40 (Apr 27, 2019)

Pauline Armstrong

Fellow Rotarians and friends

It was a fitting toast last meeting to our service men and women and, in particular, to PP John Harding. ANZAC day is a very special day to all of us and I hope you all commemorated it in your own special way.

Thank you Les Bulluss for standing in at the last moment as Sergeant. He did a great job and is really making it a fun time. I hope the monetary gain matched the quality of the session.

Could I remind you all re donating to the Rotary Foundation? This is our charity arm and it is vital that the funding level is such that we can continue our support for those in need both locally and overseas. Please re-consider if you have not already donated. Better late than never.

At the last club assembly we discussed the possibility of getting an Eftpos machine. Andrew has done the research and it is not a viable option. The outlays outweighed the convenience so the decision of the Board was not to go ahead.

We are at the Hub next week and you will be able to see the scooter we have recovered after 18 months of trying. The Southport Police were very helpful, and John Curr and I had a little trip up to Stapylton to pick it up where it had been in storage for many months! Quite a saga. If anyone is free for the Hub clean up Tuesday morning at 9.30 you will be most welcome. Please let me know. We have 2 starters so far.

Have a good weekend.

Yours in Rotary

Pauline

ATTENDANCE REPORT 23 APRIL 2019

21	Broadbeach Members
1	Honorary Member (Ian Cowen)
2	Member's Guests (Roslyn Tomlinson & Elizabeth McNeill) Visiting Rotarians
2	Guest Speakers (Claudia Clissold & Mischelle Pipe)
26	Total Attendance

MEETING DUTY ROSTER

30 April Meeting will be at The Hub

Door: Neil Baldwin & Ray Milton

Sergeant: Les Bulluss

Toast: John Monks

Scribe: Noel Hodges

Anecdote: Bruce Kuhn

07 May Meeting will be at St John's Crisis Care Centre

Door: Ray Milton and Trevor Taylor

Sergeant: Kevin O'Brien

Toast: Noel Phingsthorne

Scribe: Nasser Kaviani

Anecdote: Pauline Armstrong

14 May

Door: Ray Milton & Ian Cowen

Sergeant: Russ Hutchison

Toast; Bob Jordan

Scribe: Bruce Kuhn

Anecdote: Trevor Taylor

21 May

Door: Ray Milton & Harold Busch

Sergeant: Les Bulluss

Toast: Tony Lewis

Scribe: Russ Hutchison

Anecdote: John Curr

28 May

Door: Ray Milton & Bruce Kuhn

Sergeant: Kevin O'Brien

Toast: Robyn Brown

Scribe: Graham Sivyer

Anecdote: John Monks

FUNDRAISING ROSTER REMINDERS THIS WEEK

Sausage Sizzle Friday 03 May

8.00am: Malcolm Daviess & Tony Lewis

11.00am: Ian Cowen, Kevin O'Brien & Grahame Werrell

Car Boot Sale Sunday 05 May

5.00am Les Bulluss, Ray Milton, Noel Phingsthorne & Trevor Taylor

7.00am Alain Charles & Jim Hawkins

FINANCE REPORT - NOEL HODGES

Meeting		16 April, 2019
Fines	$ 49.50	Bunnings Sausage Sizzle 20 April	$1,380.65
Copper Pot	$ 9.90		$
Raffle	$ 29.00	Car Boot Sale Sunday 21 April	$ 147.00
TOTAL	$ 88.40	TOTAL	$1,527.65

SECRETARY REPORT - Tony Lewis

The following is an issue I have raised on several occasions in very recent times.

I produce a list of Members that contains contact information including address, phone and Email details. This document can be found on the Club website under "View Club Documents"

I also print out hard copies which I distribute to members.

Recently I have had several members approach me and state that they have tried to contact a member using details from this list only to find they are not correct.

My answer to these members who ask such questions is "I have asked and asked both in open Club meetings and through this column in Rotarlight, to advise me of any changes to their existing records, therefore not my problem"

Therefore, I ask members again to check their details and if there is a change, please let me know so I can adjust their records accordingly.

ALMONER REPORT - Bob Jordan

No report this week - Bob is moving house.

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

Social Night at The Hub

Broadbeach Rotary Hub

Apr 30, 2019

Visit to St. John's Crisis Centre

St. John's Crisis Centre

May 07, 2019
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Follow Up on Project at Merrimac High School

Quality Hotel

May 14, 2019
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Club Meeting on 21st May

Quality Hotel

May 21, 2019
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Social Night at The Hub

The Hub

May 28, 2019
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Member Birthdays

Frank Adorjan

April 1

Robert Jordan

April 18

Noel Phingsthorne

April 24

Spouse Birthdays

Gayle

April 7

Anniversaries

Grahame Werrell

Liz

April 4

Jim Hawkins

Pam

April 16

Uwe Seifert

Gayle

April 17

Cec McPaul

Margaret

April 18

Leslie Bulluss

Cindy Bulluss

April 23

Join Date

Raymond Milton

April 2, 2002

17 years

Andrew McTaggart

April 5, 2016

3 years

Leslie Bulluss

April 5, 2016

3 years

Robert Jordan

April 5, 1989

30 years

Peter Dimond

April 7, 1987

32 years

Uwe Seifert

April 28, 1987

32 years

MEMBER ANECDOTE

NOEL PHINGSTHORNE

In my early teens my two best mates and myself embarked on many adventures. Our first favourite pastime was building and flying model aeroplanes. We started making planes designed by us and whilst they flew well, we moved to larger models with increased engine capacity. I decided to buy a kit for a plane known as the Baron. The plane had a wing span of 6 feet and the engine requirement was 5-6 cubic centimetres. It took weeks to build and lots of money and the day to fly the beast finally arrived. My mates decided that Sunday morning was the best day and time because of Melbourne’s notorious weather. My Mother had other ideas which included Sunday School however I dodged that in favour of flying. We set up on a cricket oval by the Merri Creek in Preston Victoria and soon had a sizeable crowd of onlookers. My turn came up so we hooked up the Demon to the control lines and started the engine. The plane taxied along the concrete cricket pitch and rose majestically into the air. All was going exceedingly well and the next step was to try aerial stunts like loops and wingovers. The plane performed so well that I became very excited. Then something strange happened and the plane became disconnected from the control lines and started to fly off uncontrolled. It headed towards the creek and directly towards a group of Italian Nona’s busily harvesting their weeks supply of aniseed. The plane headed directly towards them losing altitude as It got close to them. They started to run away hysterically being closely followed by the plane. Then, finally, the plane ran out of fuel and the engine died and the plane crashed at their feet. Unbeknown to us a local resident the editor of The Preston Post was busy recording the events. This unfortunately came to the attention of my Mother after the story was published in the newspaper. For some unknown reason she grounded me for a Month.

Rotary Information Weekly

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DATE FOR YOUR DIARY

Our annual club changeover dinner will be held on Tuesday 25 June 2019.

We are hopeful of 100% attendance on the night so please mark your diary now to keep the date free.

FROM OUR LAST MEETING 23 APRIL 2019

Scribe: Ray Milton

Sergeant Les Bulluss opened the meeting and introduced President Pauline

President Pauline welcomed everyone present

Ray Milton proposed the toast to members of our Australian Defence Force (ADF) past and present with a special reflection for our late Past President John Harding

President Elect Graham Sivyer informed the meeting of a proposed project which may involve our club Surfers Sunrise and Gold Coast Rotary Club to build a pathology/X-ray facility at Mauna Hospital on Penticost Island, Vanuatu. Estimated cost of the Project is $40,000.00

Hon Members: Ian Cowan

Guest’s: Claudia Cissold, Mischelle Pipe, Roslyn Tomlinson & Elizabeth Mc Neill

Bunyip’s: Alain Charles and Graham Sivyer

Raffle winner: Andrew McTaggart. Heads & Tails: Mischelle Pipe

Guest Speaker: Peter Dimond introduced Mischelle Pipe and Claudia Cissold from Right at Home – Home Care and Assistance

The firm has been operating for 2 years in some 600 plus locations. Keeping people at home longer. 20,000 plus people are looked after daily

The firm offers:

In home care, Disability care, Skilled nursing care and Palliative care

24 hour call service

All staff are subject to a police check

All staff are aged care trained

Carer’s are matched to clients

Government Home Care Packages:

There are 70,000 people in the queue awaiting assistance

There are 74,000 people being partly helped

There are 1,000 people per week coming into the program

To join the program one contacts My Aged Care to undertake a 20 minute telephone interview and get yourself registered and ultimately assessed.

Available Packages:

Level 1 Basic care needs $ 8,000.00

: 2 Low level care $15,000.00

: 3 Intermediate care needs $34,000.00

: 4 High care needs $50,000.00

The program does not affect anyone on a pension

Private Pay packages are also available

The suggested questions to ask a potential provider are

What is your administration fee? Coordinator fee? and invoice process fee?

There were quite a number of questions from the floor

Peter then thanked Mischelle and Claudia for their presentation and gave Mischelle our Broadbeach Rotary glass and members thanked both ladies by acclamation

President Pauline then thanked everyone for their attendance

The Week in Pictures

Sergeant Les Ray toasted our defence forces

President Pauline PE Graham outlines possible Vanuatu Project

Andrew won the raffle Guest speaker Mischelle won heads & tails

Speaker Chair Peter Guest speakers Claudia & Mischelle

Peter presents our glass to Mischelle Peter thanks Mischelle & Claudia

WEEKLY LAUGHS

A couple of elderly men were venting their frustrations about the woes of modern technology.
"I just can't ever seem to remember my darn passwords," grumbled one of them.
The other one smiled. "Oh really? I can never forget mine!"
"How do you manage it?" asked the first guy curiously.
"Well, I simply set all my passwords to 'Incorrect' so that whenever I'm told that my password is incorrect, I'll remember it!"
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John's wife woke up one morning feeling completely deflated.
"My word, I feel like my mind has almost completely gone!"
"Are you really surprised?" John asked.
"Why would you say that, John?"
"Because you've been giving me a piece of it every day for fifty years!"
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I didn't think wearing orthopedic shoes would help me, but I stand corrected.
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I signed up for some aerobics classes and was told to wear loose-fitting clothes.
If I had any loose-fitting clothing I wouldn’t have signed up in the first place!
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Want to live forever? Then choose one of these professions:
Old bankers never die, they just lose their interest!
Old lawyers never die, they just lose their appeal.
Old limbo dancers never die, they just go under.
Old printers never die, they're just not the type.
Old tanners never die, they just go into hiding.
Old wrestlers never die, they just lose their grip.
Old chauffeurs never die, they just lose their drive.
Old archers never die, they just bow and quiver.
Old actors never die, they just drop apart.
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Q: After the flash on his camera malfunctioned, what did the devil get back from the drugstore?
A: Prints of darkness.

Q: Why did the rooster cross the road?
A: To prove he wasn't a chicken.

Q: Why did the kid bring a skunk to school?
A: For "Show and Smell!"

Q: How do you make an egg roll?
A: Push it!

QUOTE FOR THE WEEK

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen

( Phillip Adams - journalist)

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