Bulletin 23/9/20 (Sep 23, 2020)

Rotary Grace

Oh Lord and Giver of all Good
We thank thee for our daily food
May Rotary friends and Rotary ways
Help us to serve thee all our days

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Service Above Self

Wednesdays at 12:45 PM

Roches Family Hotel

85 Victoria St
Grafton, NSW 2460
Australia

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Peter Robinson
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JOKE CORNER

One day an Irishman, who had been stranded on a deserted island for over 10 years, saw a speck on the horizon.
He thought to himself: "It's certainly not a ship."
As the speck got closer and closer, he began to rule out even the   possibilities of a small boat or a raft.

Suddenly there strode from the surf a figure clad in a black wet suit.   Putting aside the scuba tanks and mask and zipping down the top of the wet suit stood a drop-dead gorgeous blonde!

She walked up to the stunned Irishman and said to   him: "Tell me, how long has it been since you've had a good cigar?"
"Ten years," replied the amazed Irishman.

With that, she reached over and unzipped a waterproof pocket on the left sleeve of her wet suit and pulled out a fresh package of cigars and a lighter.

He took a cigar, slowly lit it, and took a long drag.
   "Faith and begorrah," said the castaway "that is so good! I'd almost forgotten how great a smoke can be!"

"And how long has it been since you've had a drop of good Bushmill's Irish Whiskey?" asked the blonde.
Trembling, the castaway replied: "Ten years."
Hearing that, the blonde reached over to her right sleeve, unzipped a pocket there and removed a flask and handed it to him.

He opened the flask and took a long drink. "Tis nectar of the gods!" shouted the Irishman. "Tis truly fantastic!!!"
At this point the gorgeous blonde started to slowly unzip the long front of her wet suit, right down the middle. She looked at the trembling man and asked: "And how long has it been since you played around?"

With tears in his eyes, the Irishman fell to his knees and sobbed: "For the love of God, don’t tell me you’ve got golf clubs in there as well!”

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Stand in President's Pedals

Our beloved President Robert Blanchard has taken a well deserved break and is currently on holidays. Entrusting me to step up as Vice President – I was a bit nervous and started to prepare the agenda and realised how much we had to get through…..I called upon our trusty Sergeant Mark Thompson to help with the timing of the meeting. All went well and I got through my 1^st meeting successfully. What a fantastic club we have where everyone is so understanding and so willing to help younger club members participate in Rotary.

A group of helpers assisted with the First 2000 day working bee by putting furniture together - Leonie Staples was very grateful for our contribution – this is a very worthy program that I would love to see success in the Clarence Valley.

The Defibrillator project for South Grafton is processing well – Bendigo Bank have approved the grant Bob Booth applied for to install 3 defibs. The Bendigo Bank are very supportive have kindly agreed to purchase the 1^st unit to be installed at Newmans Newsagency with their funds as we do not have enough funds raised for the other half – total cost is $6400.00. The board agreed that all fund raising from now be set aside for ongoing Defibrillator project within the Grafton community.

WELL DONE BOB!

We have a proposed date the ‘A Musical Feast” at the Cathedral on 10^th April 2021 – so get your diaries out and pencil in – all will depend on the Covid-19 regulations closer to the time. The funds raised from this event will go to the organ restoration at the Christ Church Cathedral and PCYC.

Peter Robinson has applied for grant money from the Volunteer Grants that are open for new shelving for the booksale project. Thanks for preparing this and all your hard work that goes into this fundraising event that unfortunately has been postponed due to Covid – we are looking at other avenues to get some books into the community.

Eftpos machine has been set up by our Treasurer Johannes – and was tested out at the Wine and Dine night at Roches on Friday. You may pay your fees or Happy Dollars this way – it can be used at all our events too. Well done Johannes!

Corporate membership amendments to our by-laws is underway – a wonderful way to open options for businesses to join Rotary. Thanks Brian for researching this – Well Done!

The social corporate event held on Friday night was a super success where everyone had a fantastic night – A HUGE THANKS TO ALL OUR MEMBERS FOR ATTENDING AND ALL YOUR HELP TO MAKE SURE IT WENT WELL. Mick and Sharon have fully supported our club – many thanks to them for organising Ian from Taylors Wines and their generous donation of the magnum of wine.

Cluster Muster Rotary training is scheduled for 17 October 2020 at Kingscliff – we are just waiting for confirmations from Anne Farrell our Assistant District Governor.

Greg Butcher has many good ideas for the celebrations of 100 of Rotary in Australia – Greg cannot make the meetings due to Covid and risk to his clients – however we discussed some of the fund raising ideas and came up with a few more. Our club is capable of delivering projects that will benefit our community for many years to come – Gregs ideas are attached for you to think about as your feedback is very valuable to us – you may want to ‘take the reins’ on one of the projects or have something in mind…….many hands make light work.

Leila is seeking assistance for donations of clean cotton sheets, towels and small individual hand soaps – if you are Spring Cleaning the linen press we would love your donations.

Lastly I am so honoured to be entrusted with leadership duties and am so excited to start planning and commencing some big projects over the 2 years. Have a great week and hopefully you can make it to our meetings that are now back on at Roches in the Captains Room 1pm Wednesdays.

Lee

EVERY ROTARIAN EVERY YEAR

Every Rotarian is encouraged to participate in a Foundation project and make a personal gift to the Annual Fund. This can be done through Every Rotarian Every Year our club offers to collect this on your behalf and forward it to R. I. In the past members have made a contribution of $100.00 towards the Annual Fund and it tax debuctible. Why not add your $100 to your club dues this year.

Just $10 will supply a Mosquito bed net in countries where malaria is a major health concern just think what your $100 contribution can do.

if you require any more information talk to myself, I can be contacted on 0408660732 Peter

From the Board

Following from the club's Board meeting

First 2000 days project. have asked for assistance to assembly of a number of flatpack furniture items, play equipment ( first working bee held 11th September ) more to come .
the 2020 End Polio Movie is " I am a Woman " a screening will be held in October awaiting news from the Saraton as to when. (28th October looks like the date)
A grant has been approved from the Bendigo Bank to fund 50% of the costs to install the Defibrillators in South Grafton.
"Musical Feast at the Cathedral" the club is to work with the CVOrchestra to run a fundraiser on the 10th April 2021 at Christ Church Cathedral.
Volunteer Grant has been submitted for more racking for the book storage shed to provide 6 more bays cost of $1560.00.
Club now has a portable eftpos device so members can pay their fees etc with a card.
Club Dues for 20/21 are $260.00
Charleze Girdler has been successful candidate for the National Youth Science Form in Canberra club to help with costs.

ROCHE'S RAFFLES

Our club has been offed the Friday night raffles at Roche's Hotel

Start time will be from 5.30 pm till 7.00 pm Proceeds will go towards the

defibrillators project. Come along and help and enjoy the fellowship.

Social evening

Guest enjoy a night of fellowship, Great wines, Good Food and good company

Our 1st social gathering for quite some time due to Covid. However under the corporate booking rules we were able to have a quaint gathering of Rotarians and some of their friends. Limited to 44 people everyone commented on how much fun they had.
Roches have been so supportive with Mick and Sharon organising their Taylors Wine rep Ian to host a wine tasting and dining experience.
Roches exceeded our expectations with a gourmet 4 course degustation.
There were smiles all around and I would like to Thank everyone for all their support.
It wont be long before we organise a similar event.

Suggested Rotary Centenary Projects .

Suggested Rotary Centenary Projects (May 2020).
Production of 100-150 Bottles of specially labelled Port
Option 1:
Correspondence from
Robert Channon Wines (Granite Belt Stanthorpe)
'The Verdelho'
07 4683 3260"
As an indication, a small run of say 100 ‘special labels’ will probably cost in the order of $1 each. Labels get cheaper as you order more of them. In the end it probably comes back to how many bottles or half bottles you think we might sell. If not the port, perhaps another wine would be of interest. Robert Channon Wines can get special labels made or put on directly and can be put in touch with their label maker to help with our design.
They don't have any unlabelled 750ml bottles left. They could do half bottles 375ml for you at $11 + gst which would probably be ok for us if you were selling at $24-25 a bottle. This would include applying the labels. We would have to work out delivery cost or could pick up.
The wine is bottled and ready - they just haven't released it yet because their cellar door is closed.
The design of the label is pretty much up tous. There is some information that you have put on the label such as volume, alcohol, standard drinks etc but that is only text.
We could perhaps adapt our label if you wanted to. Otherwise you could create your own entirely. They can put us in touch with their local label maker who does short runs of labels if it would assist.
*Greg’s RRP approximatley $25.00 (Costing $13.10 each bottle to buy, making $11.90 each bottle).
Outlay $13.10 x 150 = $1,965. Profit after costs $11.90 x 150 = $1,785
Pros: Cheaper to buy; supporting a winery closer to Grafton.
Cons: Smaller bottle, not as attractive to buy for the for price (may have bottle left over).
Option: 2
Correspondence from
Stanton & Killeen (Rutherglen Victoria)
The lowest they can do their Rutherglen Ruby (500ml) is $17.67 (not inc GST) per bottle.
It would be and extra $1.00 to supply the labels. They would apply the labels. There are some legalities that need to be included on the label (Volume, Alcohol Percentage, Std Drinks, Preservatives Added, “Produced by” etc).
*Greg’s RRP approximatley $30.00 (Costing $20.45 to buy and making $9.55 each bottle).
Pros: Bigger & more attractive size bottle, looking more exclusive - giving a ‘have to purchase’ ploy!
Cons: More expensive; not supporting local wineries in our vacinity.
Outlay $20.45 x 150 = $3,067.50. Profit after costs $9.55 x 150 = $1,432.50
Possible Scenario: If producing 150 Botttles to sell, we’d probably get rid of at least 50 bottles from within the Club, leaving 100 to sell during the year. They could be sold at Roches for a 50/50 split? Birthdays, Christmas parties other Rotary Celebrations would probbaly get rid of them all through out the year

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Partner Chris

Joined Rotary 7th December 2011

Held most Board Directorships

President 2014-2015

Assistant Governor Group 1 2016 -2018

Chair person of District RI & Awards committee 2020-21