Rotarlight 17/18 #15 (Oct 08, 2017)

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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 45^th 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

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		3 October 2017
Fines	$51.40	Bunnings Sizzle	$778.65
Copper Pot	$14.25	Carrara Market Book Shop 30 Sept 1 Oct 17	$252.15
Raffle		Car Boot Sale 17 September	$511.00
		Car Boot Sale 1 October	$497.00

TOTAL	$65.65	TOTAL	$2038.80

SECRETARY REPORT - Tony Lewis

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 commencing at 7.00pm.

Prior to this date a copy of the agenda and audited financial accounts will be circulated to all members.

Should you have an item for the agenda it must be received by the Secretary 7 days prior to the meeting

ALMONER REPORT - Bob Jordan

Bob is overseas

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

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

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

NOEL HODGES

One of things that happened to me when I first came to the Gold Coast as the Sewerage Engineer was that I was summoned to a Labour caucus meeting after hours. At that time the balance of power in the elected Council was Labour and the Councillor’s involved were John Laws, Athol Patterson, Jack Egerton (they called him Black Jack, I think from his penchant for wearing black shirts), the Mayor Dennis O’Connell and I think Keith Thompson at the time. I sat down and John Laws said to me “the dogs are barking”. I said what do you mean. “Someone is saying you are not going to finish the sewerage at the Council Caravan park in time for the December holiday period.” At that time we had a workforce of 500 laying sewers from one end of the Coast to the other. So I said I would check and advise the next day. I checked out how we were going in the caravan park and everything was on schedule to be completed well before the December holiday period. So I advised John Laws the following;

I don’t know which dogs have been barking about the Caravan park but they must be nervous, excitable types who should not be run in major events.

I survived!!

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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 following is an extract from this months District Governors Newsletter detailing District 9640 Rotary Foundation Grants.

We have been fortunate to be one of the recipients having been granted $4000 to go towards our Alzheimer's project

DG Darrell's views on the effectiveness of 'The Expensive' v 'The Inexpensive', a couple of marvelous examples on Rotarians in our District making a difference and of course another segment in 'Rotary takes ordinary people and gives them extraordinary opportunities...' And District Foundation Chair Tony Heading explains where all the Grants have gone to.

This year, the District Grants Sub-Committee moved the deadline for applications to 15 June to give clubs sufficient time after PETS and District Assembly to plan 2017-18 projects. Clubs applying for District Grants have had to attend a Grant Management Seminar since the new grant structure was introduced in 2013. This is now only a pre-requisite for clubs seeking the more complex Global Grants. As a result of strong district support for the Annual Fund in 2014-15, US35,306 was available for the District Block Grant application. Although the Rotary International $A-$US exchange rate dropped in August, we were able to approve most club applications in full. All clubs applying received at least one grant. In total, district grants of A$44,485 will support A$44,805 in club contributions for projects to the value of A$120,160. The balance is provided by outside club support.

In approving these 23 District Grants, the District Grants Sub- Committee considered:

This year, the District Grants Sub-Committee moved the deadline for applications to 15 June to give clubs sufficient time after PETS and District Assembly to plan 2017-18 projects. Clubs applying for District Grants have had to attend a Grant Management Seminar since the new grant structure was introduced in 2013. This is now only a pre-requisite for clubs seeking the more complex Global Grants. As a result of strong district support for the Annual Fund in 2014-15, US35,306 was available for the District Block Grant application. Although the Rotary International $A-$US exchange rate dropped in August, we were able to approve most club applications in full. All clubs applying received at least one grant.

In total, district grants of A$44,485 will support A$44,805 in club contributions for projects to the value of A$120,160. The balance is provided by outside club support.

In approving these 23 District Grants, the District Grants Sub- Committee considered:

 a club’s history of support to the Rotary Foundation
 the club contribution (has to at least match the District Grant)
 Rotarian involvement ( all Foundation grants have to actively involve Rotarians)
 involvement of other clubs (this is encouraged, but not essential)
 previous grant history of the club (if funds are limited)
 applications received by the 15 June deadline.

Thank you to all clubs that submitted applications. Congratulations to the following clubs on their successful applications ‘to do good in the world’ through The Rotary Foundation.

PDG Tony Heading

District Rotary Foundation Chair

PDG Michael Irving

Grants Sub-Committee Chair

FROM LAST WEEK'S MEETING - 3 OCTOBER 2017

Scribe:

David O'Dwyer

Les, our Sergeant for the evening opened the meeting and sucked most of us in about the homeless guy outside our venue.

Malcolm, proposed toast to our football teams.

President Alain, welcome members especially Nancy who returned after many weeks away in Canada and Honorary members Uwe and Paul Taylor.

Sergeant Les, then went into his task of extracting funds from as many members as possible, along with some little stories and jokes which added some merriment to the occasion.

President Alain, requested assistance from members in hosting our Kiwi and Japanese visitors for the 45^th Function.

Ray Milton, gave report on the Police Award night which is progressing well and everything looks good.

Malcolm reorganising troops for the Sausage Sizzle on Friday which he was successful at.

Pauline gave report on the 45^th and everything appears under control. Hopefully more members than visitors attend.

Bruce, in Bob’s absence, conducted the Winners Circle draw and of course his fellow Officer from the Qld Police Dept won. Funny that! Also Russ was a winner which cheered him up no end.

Bruce our Chairman for the night, then introduced our guest speaker Brenton Rickard who is now the Manager of Sports Services for the GC Commonwealth Games Corporation.

He gave a very interesting talk, starting off on his swimming career in earnest in Cairns when he was 15 years old and was in the Australian swimming team at age 16 with his specialty being breaststroke. He talked about the hours spent in the pool training 6 days a week and the mental aptitude required to remain focused and inspired. He was in the Australian Swim Team from 2002 – 2013 and won many medals which he had brought to the meeting and passed around. He also broke some records as follows.

2 Olympic Silver medals at Beijing 2008 (Bronze at London 2012)
World Champion and World record 58.58 at 2009 World Championships at Rome
Missed the 2004 Olympic team by 0.17 of second in the 100m Breaststroke
at 2006 Commonwealth Games, 3^rd in 50m Breast by 0.13, 3^rd in 100m Breast by 0.19 and 2^nd in 200m Breast by 0.01. 0.33 between winning 4 Gold medals
He recounted an episode when swimming for the World Championship Trials in Sydney and unbeknown to him he had developed appendicitis, however the Team Doctor obviously knew as he told him straight after the event.

He retired at 2013 World Championships in Barcelona before starting in the Sport Dept at GOLDOC and he has seen the organisation grow from27 to over 800.

A very interest talk from a nice fellow and a great athlete who was very unassuming and a pleasure to listen to. There were quite a few questions and the meeting closed at 8.10pm.

Meeting in Pictures

President Alain opening the meeting Sgt Les with another great

Sergeants session

Great to see Honorary member Welcome back Nancy

Cr Paul Taylor

Malcolm toasting the football teams Ray updating the meeting on the

Police Officer of the Year event

Pauline updating the meeting on Heads and Tails winner Uwe

the 45th Anniversary function

More Heads and Tails winners Happy Silver Circle Winners

Nancy and Ray

Chairman for the night PP Bruce Guest Speaker Olympic, Commonwealth

introducing Guest Speaker Games and World Championship

Benton Rickard medallist Brenton Rickard

PP Bruce presenting Brenton with his

special glass

SOME OF THE GOLD, SILVER AND BRONZE MEDALS BRENTON HAS WON AT THE OLYMPICS

AND COMMONWEALTH GAMES, AND AT THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

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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