Rotarlight 17/18 #37 (Apr 15, 2018)

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Alain Charles

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Welcome back

At time of writing the Commonwealth Games are sadly moving towards its closing stages. I hope that you have the opportunity to attend and enjoyed some of the events as well as the festivals as much as Kerrie and I have. What a magnificent event it has been for the Gold Coast. All events have been extremely well supported. A huge congratulations to Goldoc for organising such a professionally run Games, the third biggest sporting event in the world. Contrary to some opinions we have found moving around the coast and travelling to events stress free. The Games would not have been possible without those hard working volunteers who were so helpful and made life very easy at the venues and transport Hub. A special mention to the QPS, Congratulations Bruce and Les for the magnificent job that your team has done. From the Baton Relay to the presence around the venues. It really has been the friendly Games. It was nice to see District Governor Darrell Brown take part in the Baton relay.

Back to business – we have received this email ( see below) from District Secretary on behalf of DG Darrell Brown referring to the Rotary Club of Glen Innes early proposed move to D9650.

“ Glen Innes has been offered the opportunity by RI Director Noel Trevaskis to move into D9650 as of 1st July 2018 in lieu of July 1st 2021.

As this move is inevitable as voted upon with the merger of D9640/D9630/D9600, the G Train (comprising of IPDG Michael Irving, DG Darrell Brown, DGE Terry Brown & DGN Harry Bolton) agree that it is in the best interest of Glen Innes to move as soon as possible rather than wait until July 1st 2021.

Accordingly, DG Darrell is calling on District 9640 Clubs to vote on moving the date for Glen Innes to move into D9650 from 1^st July 2021 to 1^st July 2018.

In order for this process to take place, we need each club to vote either: Yes in acceptance of the early move 1/7/2018 OR No to reject the early move."

I look forward to discussing further on Tuesday evening.

Bob Jordan advised that Cec Mc Paul was admitted to Pindara Hospital last Sunday. On behalf of the Club we hope he is in good hands and wish him well and look forward to seeing him at our meeting very soon.

So we are back on deck on Tuesday at the Quality Hotel. We have no guest speakers so please come prepared to share your Commonwealth Games experiences and stories.

I look forward to welcoming you all back on Tuesday evening.

Enjoy the rest of the Commonwealth Games.

Yours in Rotary

Alain

ATTENDANCE REPORT 27TH MARCH 2018

18	Broadbeach Members
1	Honorary Members (Uwe Seifert )
5	Member's Guests (Kerrie, Pat, Haidee, Pam & Roslyn)
1	Guest Speaker (Col Laurensen)
25	Total Attendance

MEETING DUTY ROSTER

17 April

Door: Bob Jordan & Malcolm Daviess

Sergeant: David O'Dwyer

Toast: Tony Lewis

Scribe: Neil Baldwin

Anecdote: Noel Hodges

24 April

Door: Bob Jordan & Malcolm Daviess

Sergeant: Russ Hutchison

Toast: Peter Tomlinson

Scribe: Neil Jones

Anecdote: Andrew McTaggart

FUNDRAISING ROSTER REMINDERS THIS WEEK

Sausage Sizzle Friday 20 April

8.00am Robyn Brown & Tony Lewis

11.00am Ian Cowen, John Curr & Neil Jones

Car Boot Sale Sunday 06 May

5.00am Noel & Kay Hodges, Nigel Hyland & Ray Milton

7.00am Harold Busch & Alain Charles

Broadbeach Carousel Wednesday 18 April

12 noon to 3.00pm Robyn Brown & Tony Lewis

FINANCE REPORT - PETER DIMOND

Meeting		27 March2018
Fines	$ 50.35	Bunning's Sizzle 23 March	$ 472.55
Copper Pot	$
Raffle	$ 32.00	Car boot sale 01 April	$ 252.00

TOTAL	$ 82.35	TOTAL	$ 724.55

SECRETARY REPORT - Tony Lewis

Please note that there will be a meeting of the Board next Tuesday night - 17th April following the Club meeting

Members are most welcome to attend any Board meeting

if you do have any issue you would like raised at a Board meeting please let he President, Secretary or any Director know

ALMONER REPORT - Bob Jordan

Spoke to Cec who is now out of hospital but still has some tests to be done.Is feeling o.k. but they still don’t have any satisfactory answers for him.
Bill as previously advised will commence radiation after the Comm games .
Still awaiting update on Frank but will advise as soon as I know anything.

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 - Membership

Les Bulluss

Director - Rotary Foundation

Pauline Armstrong

Director - Youth Services

Noel Hodges

Webmaster

Jim Hawkins

Club Meeting - April 24th

Quality Hotel

Apr 24, 2018
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Member Birthdays

Frank Adorjan

April 1

Robert Jordan

April 18

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

Les Bulluss

Cindy Bulluss

April 23

Join Date

Ray Milton

April 2, 2002

16 years

Andrew McTaggart

April 5, 2016

2 years

Les Bulluss

April 5, 2016

2 years

Robert Jordan

April 5, 1989

29 years

Peter Dimond

April 7, 1987

31 years

Uwe Seifert

April 28, 1987

31 years

MEMBER ANECDOTE

NOEL HODGES

In the early 70’s I was working in Mitchell Shire Council covering most of the rural area surrounding Wagga NSW. I needed to get a Shotfirer’s Certificate to use explosives for roadworks etc. Explosives were used to remove large trees and rock in some road excavation work. The Chief Inspector of the NSW Mines Department lived in Wagga at that time and he carried out all the technical and practical instruction to obtain certification. It was a very interesting course and we were even shown how to make shaped charges to blow holes in steel. The plastic explosive is “hand moulded “ over a small aluminium cone. The explosion concentrates all its force into the area under cone and can punch a hole through hard surfaces. I assume this had nothing to do with safes.

One day the Chief Inspector decided to show us how to blow up a tree stump. The stump was in a farmers paddock and the explosive was fertiliser (ammonium nitrate) mixed with diesel oil.

There is a formula for how much explosive to use based on the type of ground , circumference of the tree , tree tap root etc. We duly dug a hole under the tree stump and placed the formula amount of explosive under the stump.

We were about to light the fuse when the Chief Inspector informed all of us that our cars were too close to the stump. We were about 100 metres away so we all moved our cars further away, crouched behind our cars waiting for the explosion to go off. There was an enormous explosion and the stump was blown into pieces high into the air in every direction. I think there was a formula miscalculation but the interesting point was that a large lump of the tree stump hurtled from the sky onto the roof of the Chief Inspector’s car. I call it the revenge of the stump.

One of the most frightening incidents that I had to handle with explosives was a misfire. When a misfire occurs there are a lot of safety concerns because no one is sure that the explosive won’t go off when you go over to see why it didn’t go off . The Shotfirer has to do it because normally everyone else is conveniently missing.

A very large river gum next to a major road had been damaged by a camp fire and was considered dangerous because it could fall across the road. I used the formula for the amount of explosive needed and it was considerable because of the size, weight and height of the tree. 2 sugar bags (160lb)of explosive were needed. Two holes were dug under the tree and were connected by detonating cord so that one fuse would set off both lots of explosive together. Detonating cord is thin plastic containing a high explosive powder and when it is detonated every bit of it explodes and multiple lots of explosive can be exploded simultaneously using only one fuse and one detonator.

The traffic was stopped and the fuse lit.

The detonator and the detonating Cord went off but the 2 bags of explosive had not and were still under the tree. This was a misfire and no one wanted to help me out. I had to go and dig out the holes again ,put in more detonating Cord and have another go at setting it off. What had happened was the detonating Cord had been wrapped around the top of the sugar bags to stop the explosive from spilling and when the detonating Cord went off if cut the cord clean off without exploding the cord going into the sugar bag containing the fertiliser and gelignite. Digging out the holes with such a large amount of explosives for which there didn’t seem any logical reason for why it had not gone off was not so interesting anymore.

Such was the life of a country engineer!

Rotary Information Weekly

April Is Child & Maternal Health Month

Every day mothers risk their lives giving birth and millions of children die each year from treatable, preventable causes. At least 7 million children under the age of five die each year due to malnutrition, poor health care, and inadequate sanitation. To help reduce this rate, Rotary provides immunizations and antibiotics to babies, improves access to essential medical services, and supports trained health care providers for mothers and their children. Rotary’s projects ensure sustainability by empowering the local community to take ownership of health care training programs.

Maternal and Child Health Care is also recognized as one of Rotary’s Six Areas of Focus.

To get more information and read news about Rotary's work to promote maternal and child health, click here.

DISTRICT GOVERNOR NOMINEE DESIGNATE 2020/2021

Copy of letter from District Governor Darrell Brown follows:

Dear Presidents,

CONFIRMATION - DISTRICT GOVERNOR 2020- 2021

There being no appeal during the 14 day allocated time, it is my pleasure to
advise that the nomination of Rotarian PP Andy Rajapakse (Rotary Club of
Burleigh Heads), as Governor of District 9640 Ltd. for 2020-2021 is now
confirmed as of Monday 9th April 2018.

On behalf of the Distric, I offer my warm congratulations to Andy and wish him
all the very best in this special leadership position. Andy’s designation until July
1st, 2018 will be DISTRICT GOVERNOR NOMINEE DESIGNATE when he
becomes DISTRICT GOVERNOR NOMINEE.

Yours in Rotary Service,

Darrell

The Rotary Foundation Weekly

Update on Polio Eradication

31/3/18 ytd 31/3/17 ytd 2017 Full Year

Afghanistan 7 3 14

Nigeria - - -

Pakistan 1 2 8

Total 8 5 22

Since our last update new cases have been reported in both Afghanistan (3 March) & Pakistan (8 March) bringing the number of new cases this year to 8 compared to 5 in the same period last year. The good news is that Nigeria has not reported a new case since 21 August 2016.

A set of supplementary immunization days were planned to begin on 9 April in Afghanistan , during which vaccinators aim to vaccinate children across 24 provinces using bOPV. The beginning of the campaign is synchronized with a campaign that will take place in Pakistan, part of efforts to interrupt transmission of the virus across the shared border.

FROM OUR LAST MEETING 27TH MARCH 2018

Scribe: Neil Jones

Sergeant Uwe opened the meeting with a short history of the Commonwealth Games and then proposed the toast which was to all athletes participating in GC2018. Uwe then introduced President Alain who welcomed everyone to the Hub and particularly our caterers Chris & Gayle, Guest speaker Rotarian Col Laurenso, Chairman of DIK Norther Region and partners, Kerrie, Pat, Haidee, Pam & Roslyn.

Alain also mentioned and thanked all those who had participated in the working bee at the hub earlier in the day.

As usual Chris and Gayle provided wonderful catering including finger food, main course and deserts and President Alain led members and guests in thanking them for their efforts.

There were no reports. Bill Rex acted as revenue collector and John Monks took out the daily double of raffle and Heads & Tails. Caterer Chris joined in the Sergeants session with a few well chosen jokes.

President Alain introduced Surfers Sunrise Rotarian and Donations in Kind (DIK) Northern Region chair, Col Laurenson.

Col outlined the history and operations of DIK which operates predominantly in the areas of Health & Education supplying appropriate equipment and materials to Cambodia, Fiji, Nauru, PNG, Sri Lanka, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Timor and Vanuatu.

In the health area they collect and ship hospital supplies, medical equipment, dental equipment, wheelchairs, beds and mattresses as well as birthing kits and small items such as consumables which are highly valued.

In the education area books, desks and chairs are the key items but they also ship playground and sporting equipment.

Everything shipped is branded with the Rotary emblem.

In its 30 years of operation DIK Northern Region has sent out 884 containers. This year to date 41 containers have been shipped with the contents second hand value estimated at $2.9m

A number of containers are currently packed ready for shipping but needing funding - freight costs for a 20 foot container are $4,800 and a 40 foot container $7,200.

Col's address was warmly received and judging by the comments & range of questions raised, the services provided by DIK are very highly regarded.

President Alain proposed a vote of thanks to Col and presented him with a donation of $1,000 from the club to help meet its funding needs.

The Week in Pictures

Enjoying fellowship pre meeting at the Hub

More smiling faces Chris & Gayle ready to serve dinner

Malcolm & Bob were on the door, Uwe was Sergeant and a relaxed President Alain

John won the double - both the raffle and Heads & tails

Col Laurenson updated us on Donations In Kind and received a donation from the club

WEEKLY LAUGHS

Pharmacist to customer: “Madam, please understand, to buy an anti-depression pill you need a proper prescription.....simply showing your marriage certificate and husband’s picture is not enough."

A bookseller conducting a market survey asked a woman – “Which book has helped you most in your life?”
The woman replied, “My husband’s cheque book !!”

A prospective husband in a book store “Do you have a book called, ’Husband – the Master of the House?’"
Sales person: “Sir, fiction and comics are on the 1st floor!”

Someone asked an old man: “Even after 70 years, you still call your wife – darling, honey, luv. What’s the secret?"
Old man: “I forgot her name and I’m too scared to ask her."
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I need to re-home a dog. It's a small terrier, and tends to bark a lot.
If you're interested, let me know and I'll jump over next door's fence and get it for you.
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The class was being given a course in first aid. The question was asked, "What would you do if you had a younger sibling who swallowed the house key?" After a pause, little Maury answered, "I'd climb through the window!"
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Q: Why do dragons sleep during the day?
A: So they can fight knights!

Q: Why couldn't the pirate play cards?
A: Because he was sitting on the deck!

Q: How does a lumberjack start his computer?
A: By Logging On!

Q: What do you call a piece of wood with nothing to do?
A: Board!

Q: How do you kill a circus troupe?
A: Go for the juggler.

QUOTE FOR THE WEEK

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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