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Posted by Michael Knight
on Feb 25, 2014
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After the meeting was opened, President Phillip welcomed guests, including visiting Rotarian Rodger Wilson from Kariong – Somersby, Rob Heriott, and Jonty Schuter,
 who is the father of our Exchange Student currently in Austria, Heidi Schuter. Both of these guests had been brought along by James Ross.
The Polioplus fundraiser at the Forum 6 cinema was attended by around 35 people associated with Wollundry Rotary, and featured a preview screening of the Movie “Las Vegas”. Peter Crozier had organised the contingent to attend this fundraiser, and the evening was made more memorable with a visit to the Thirsty Crow for an ale and some pizza.
Prior to the scre
ening of the movie, a short doco about Rotary’s polioplus project was shown. President Phillip was impressed by this short movie, had looked for it on the internet without success, but still wanted to find the clip to play at our meeting. The search is ongoing.
Last Sunday, the Peace ceremonies were held in Wagga Wagga. Doug Sutton represented Wollundry Rotary, and coordinated our contribution to the awards and ceremony. Each Rotary club can nominate a person for recognition on the day, and one of the nominees is selected to receive the Peter and Helen Walsh Award. The other nominees receive a certificate, and Sister Barbara Ferguson, John’s sister, was our nominee.
Doug thanked the Wollundry Rotarians who helped with shade shelters on the day – Peter Crozier, Laurie Blowes, Andrew Irvine and Frank Fuller.
Phillip noted that John Ferguson was back from Pets – Presidents Elect Training Sessions – and was now first in line to run our meetings. As the Americans would say, just a heartbeat away from the job.
There has been some interest from members about the selection process for the Food and Wine Festival beneficiary, and about the Amie St Clair Melanoma Trust. There were 12 applications received, and a shortlist of four was established. This was further trimmed to two, and then each of the final two was contacted with a list of questions about their activities. After the responses from the final two applicants, a unanimous decision was reached in favour of the ASCMT.
Phillip quoted from the answers provided by Richard Harrison for the ASCMT, advising:
- The trust was set up by local solicitor, Steve Dwyer.
- The trust does not invest its funds – it holds and distributes funds.
- Support is provided to families of recently diagnosed Melanoma Patients.
- Funds are used principally to pay a nurse working in the local community 6-12 patients daily.
- The nurse provides education within the community and to GP’s.
- The nurse’s hours have increased from 1 day per week to 2 days / week.
- Donations are received from local activities, Charitable foundations, and the community.
- Typical activities include sausage sizzles, clean up after sport events.
- There is no Government support, and no medical grants.
Phillip summarised that the our support for ASCMT will allow the nurse to work more days each week, see more families and raise the profile of this group working in our local community.
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Posted by Michael Knight
on Feb 25, 2014
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The Sergeant / Guest Speaker / This is My Life.
Laurie Blowes used elements of all these segments to extract / entertain / impress, those present at the meeting. He told the story of his life, acknowledged that not all would be interested, but if that was you, put your money in the can and have a snooze.
A lot of Laurie’s life revolved around Horses and endurance riding was his specialty, with events up to 200km, in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. Laurie claimed that he rode as
a heavyweight, 85kg with saddle and bridle, but as he sweated during events, had to carry rocks to maintain the weight. That doesn’t seem difficult these days – he is in a better paddock.
Other stages of Laurie’s Life involved stints as a scout leading to status as a Queens Scout, Piano Lessons, time in the Navy, orphaned and growing up with an uncle in Dubbo, Marriage to Del, Driving for Finemores and pride in the equipment he used.
An investment in land at North Wagga was a significant influence in Laurie’s life, and an interest rate around 19.5% provided the incentive to pay it off very quickly. He built a house on the block himself, and didn’t complain about the sell price when he offloaded. It came with a 9 hole golf course, and pelargonium nursery, so our Laurie must have been an energetic young fellow.
Laurie has a son who rides a Harley Davison and is the publican at the Black Swan Hotel in North Wagga Wagga. This lad currently has a Moustache and Mullet befitting his status, and both father and son will have their locks removed on March 16, which is a Sunday, to raise money for Leukaemia research. There will be live music being performed, and a good day is assured – Laurie said so!!!! Passing the box around netted over $200.
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Posted by Paul Milde
on Feb 25, 2014
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Paul Milde, in his role as Secretary, announced member commitments and Rosters.
ROSTERS for meeting 4 March:
Fellowship: Tim Barter
Reception: David Benn
Furniture: Laurie Blowes
Bulletin Editor: Michael Knight
Sergeant: Tim Barter
Guest Speaker: Graham Hornibrook.
Sunday Markets: 02/03/2014. OIC: John Gray. Team: Laurie Blowes, Steve McCoy, Wal Paton, Kevin Roben, Kevin Watts.
Special Dates: Food & Wine Committee Meeting 05/03/2014, Board Meeting 20/03/2014, District Conference 21/03 – 23/03/2014 Orange NSW, World Conference June 2014, Quarterly Subs are now due.
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 G’day Wollundry, how’s it going? Today has been the start of my third week back home, and you know, it sucks. But before telling how my first days have been I’ll tell you how my journey was. I left Wagga at about 7 being the last person to board the plane, I got to Sydney an hour after, and I was cheeky, and left the airport to say a see you soon to Sydney, went to the markets and Circular quay and got to the airport 2 hours before my flight, and surprise, I had 16 kg of carry on after that, plus nearly 50kg of luggage! I admit I hesitated to go back to the airport while I was in the city, but it was the time to go home.
I had a 13 hour flight to Santiago, a 5 hour stop over and a 3 hour flight to lima. When I got to Santiago was the time to speak Spanish again, and my Spanish sucked! Got home picked my bags and saw my family waiting for me, it was rather weird, it felt like I had not seen them for a couple of days instead of a year. Stuck in traffic for 3 hours actually made it and went to my Rotary meeting and said G’day to everyone, they were quite surprised to see me, and received heaps of comments about my accent and grammatical mistakes in Spanish! I enjoy being back, but I need my surroundings to be full of my laid back Australians, everyone stresses a lot here!
These days I’ve been catching up with my relatives and friends before I start preparing for University. Of course, enjoying the life of no Rotary rules, and no travel forms! Nevertheless, I miss Australia a lot, and I hope to be back really soon! I do miss Wollundry and I hope everything is going great over there! Talk to you soon!
Nelson the Conqueror
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Posted by Michael Knight
on Feb 25, 2014
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The thirty seconders:
John Gray recounted that he had been batting with John Flynn, when injury struck in the form of a groin injury for J Flynn. Prospects for quicker singles seemed likely, until D Benn appeared as the runner.
Pride of Workmanship awards are again on the agenda for late April, early May. Phillip called for nominations to be forwarded to Dennis Shean, so that a program can be prepared.
Colin Mercer spoke from the bleachers about new procedures for Sunday Market OIC’s, and new equipment to improve the environment at Sunday Market. We have some shade shelters, tables and chairs, which should be assembled and placed near the food vendor.
Col spoke of recent efforts to invigorate the market, and noted the support of the food vendor, and the children’s ride operator. Members rostered on Sunday Market are encouraged to interact with these stallholders, and demonstrate that we are keen to grow a partnership with them.
There are discussions within the Sunday Market Committee to not operate Sunday Markets during the extreme heat period in January and early February, but no decisions have been made to date.
One proposal being considered is for an “autumn fair”, and we are preparing a database of prospective stallholders especially for our special markets – Christmas, Australia Day, Autumn, Food and Wine etc.
Public Liability Insurance, with $20 000 000 cover is another requirement for stallholders, and if a cover note is not sighted, then a charge of $5 per vendor for the morning applies. Colin was asked to have this condition noted on the container so that stallholders are forewarned.
President Phillip hoped to discuss our extreme weather policy for markets, but there was insufficient time, and this will be addressed at some future market.
Meal Wheel Deal:
Ken and Jacqui Taylor hosted a wheel meal dinner on Saturday evening. The photo published was taken by their son, Andrew, who is 6YO, and kept snapping until he got one where all were smiling.
Upcoming Dates of Importance:
District Conference: - Registration closes on March 7
District Conference: - Orange. March 21, 22, 23.
RYDA at Equex. - March 17 to March 21.
Laurie Blowes clean shaven - North Wagga, March 16
Food and Wine Festival: - All hands on Deck. March 28, 29. 30
RYLA at Camp Kurrajong - March 31 to April 5
Club Changeover: - June 17.
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OIC last Sunday was Brian Roberts, and in the trenches, were Richard Braid, David Hodge, Gerry Gerlach, Chris Metcalf and Jeremy Reithmuller. Brian, a man of few words reports:
