Bulletin Week 29, (Jan 19th, 2016) (Jan 14, 2016)

Next Weeks

Meeting 26th Jan 2016

Meeting :29

Fellowship : No meeting next Tuesday : Australia Day Market

Reception :

Furniture :

Guest Speaker :

Sergeant:

Member Profile :

Next Market: Friday 22nd Jan. TAFE ( Family Services Expo ) Set up 12 noon Bolton Park near Skate Park , Pack up 8 pm

OIC Paul Milde , Doug Sutton Ken Cook ( Trailer ) , John Flynn , Col Duff ( set up only ), Frank Fuller ( Trailer ), Kevin Moffatt ( Trailer )

Kerry Pascoe , David Pyke ( Trailer ) Richard Rossiter ( Pack up only ) , Geoff Breust , Mal Robertson , John Hawkins , Darren Wallace ,

Laurie Blowes ( BBQ Trailer ).

Extra members able to help will be welcome

Club Rosters

Bulletin Editors

Feb 2,9, 16 John Ferguson

Feb 23, Mar 1, 8, John Egan

Mar 15,22,29 Andy Irvine

Apr 5,12,19 Doug Sutton

Sergeant's

26 th Jan : Australia Day Market

2nd Feb : Paul Milde

9th Feb : John Gray

16th Feb : Frank Fuller

Guest Speakers

26th Jan 2016 : Australia Day Market , no meeting

Market Rosters

Saturday Markets setup for everyone at 6.30am

(Please arrange a swap if you are not
able to carry out your duties)

Friday TAFE Market 22nd January

OIC Paul Milde, Graham Burmeister ,Doug SuttonKen Cook,John Flynn,Col Duff,,Frank Fuller,Kevin Moffatt,Kerry Pascoe, David Pyke, Richard Rossiter

Australia Day Market 26th January

OIC JOHN SMITH David Benn, Daniel Burns, Hugh Campbell, John Egan, Jim Gibson, John Hawkins, Pat Ingram, Andy Irvine, John Mason, Greg O'Hare, David Wishart.

Sat13th Feb 2016

OIC Hugh Campbell,Tim Barter,Geoff Breust,John Daley,Alan Eldridge,John Ferguson ,James Hamilton ,Michael Knight,Robert Pearson,Jeremy Reithmuller,James Ross,Doug Sutton,Ken Taylor

Sat 12th March 2016 OIC Craig Bromley,Michael Eldridge,Jim Gibson,John Gray,Mark Hillis,Pat Ingram,Andrew Irvine,Steve McCoy,Paul Murray,Rob Nicholson,Neil Pinto,Rick Priest,Bob Willis

Sat 9th April 2016. OIC Michael Eldridge,Craig Bromley,David Byfield,Ken Cook,Travis Downie,John Flynn,David Hodge,John Ireland,Nick Leywood,Peter McKinnon,Wal Paton,Mal Robertson,Bruce Spinks,Ken Taylor

Member Birthdays

Travis Downie

January 5

Laurie Blowes

January 22

David Wishart

January 24

Nicholas Leywood

January 27

Stephen McCoy

January 28

Spouse Birthdays

Heather

January 1

Brenda

January 4

Diane Wishart

January 5

Kym Hampton

January 5

Angie

January 15

Sandy

January 23

Sharon

January 27

Anniversaries

Timothy Macgillycuddy

Susan Macgillycuddy

January 2

David Benn

Cherie

January 4

Jonty Shuter

Lou Shuter

January 5

Rick Priest

Margaret

January 5

Geoff Breust

Ros Breust

January 12

Greg Conkey OAM

Jenny Conkey

January 24

John Egan

Maria

January 26

Join Date

Andrew Irvine

January 1, 1995

21 years

Richard Braid

January 15, 2002

14 years

Michael Eldridge

January 22, 2008

8 years

Andrew Irvine
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President's Report

Posted by Geoff Hamilton on Jan 19, 2016

At our Board Meeting this week we discussed a number of issues including:

Finances - we now have $62,000 in our Community account ready for new and on-going projects.
International Projects - Doug Sutton is chairing a District Committee which our Club is taking the lead in developing a Global Grant for a microfinance project in the Congo
We are hoping to support the upcoming Cambodian fundraising ball with strong attendance by members and partners and are looking to work up another International Project that will gain a matching Grant from the Rotary Foundation. Please try and come to the Ball on March 5th.
Youth - RYLA is being run in April in Orange and we are looking for 18-25 year olds for the great leadership program - talk to David Foster about this.
Public Relations - we are looking for volunteers to help South Wagga Apex with the annual Gumi event - Feb 14th.
Membership - although Rotary International requires 50% attendance from members many clubs do not record attendance and we have decided not to be too heavy handed but would encourage all members keep their attendance and makeups as high as possible as we will continue to record this.
Markets - although we looked at supporting a new weekly Farmers' Market we have all decided the workload would be too much for those available mid week on a regular basis.

Geoff Hamilton.

Our Meeting

Posted by peter mackinnon on Jan 19, 2016

President Geoff opened the meeting with a minutes reflection on our good fortune and a toast toWollundry Rotary Club.

He welcomed back traveling members, and especially Jonty Shuter who was back packing in Sri Lanka.

He welcomed our Exchange Student Kat who had birthday yesterday and was presented with a gift beanie.

Geoff reported on the last board meeting and noted we are looking for RYLA nominations, and

we are pursuing overseas projects in the congo for micro financing villages.

The club will produce a protective gear policy.

John Hawkins reminded that APEX needs 8-10 volunteers for GUMI race on 14/2/16

Exchange Student Kat updated us on her last week, with dinner at Fosters and the Conkeys,

water skiing and a Birthday yesterday!

John Gray gave us some rotary information on the role of the sergeant - which is to ensure the meetings run

efficiently, maintain decorum and of course generate some fines to help run the club.

Secretary Laurie Blowes reminded us there is NO MEETING next week.

We do have the Australia Day market on the 26th so please check the rosters.

There will be markets committee meeting 4pm next monday before the market to finalise details.

The TAFE are hiring tents on 22/1/16 and we need volunteers to set up 12pm at bolton park and pack up later.

The CPR courses are full.

There is a food and wine meeting 5.30pm 20/1/16 at commercial club

The club received the resignation of member Bruce Spinks.

Our next meeting is 2 feb 2016.

Laurie did a quick sergeants session and fined the usual suspects for appearing in the

media and being late through the door.

Travis Downey reminded us about the AED auto defibrillator project, to increase awareness and use

of machines throughout the community. Travis is calling for interested volunteers to help him spread the word.

Guest Speaker

Posted by peter mackinnon on Jan 19, 2016

Our Guest speaker was Paula Tooth from Murrumbidgee Life Education.

Paula has been an educator with Murrumbidgee Life Education in Wagga and the

surrounding region for over 16 years. Her work involves implementing programs in schools

to deliver a healthy lifestyle message to school children from kindergarten to year 12.

The programs cover healthy diet, alcohol and dru messages and are tailored to suit the

various stages of childrens education.

"Healthy Harold" is a popular giraffe character used in the k - 6 years to deliver messages

on healthy lifestyle and diet.

Older years are given information to make choices about using alcohol and drugs and the effects

they have on growing bodies.

All programs are delivered as part of the school curriculum.

The programs were started by the Reverend Ted Noffs to educate children about the effects of

drugs and alcohol on their bodies.

There are now 45 mobile learning centre vans in NSW featuring Healthy Harold.

The service is funded for years k-6 by the NSW government. The main areas covered are healthy living and eating,

safety, bullying,and cyber bullying and etiquette.

The messaging for high schools focuses on alcohol, smoking, and illicit drugs and how to stay safe.

The service is looking for volunteer drivers for the learnig centres (MR licence required).

David Wishart thanked Paula for an enlightening presentation.