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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
Club Information
Welcome to our Club!
Grafton Midday
Service Above Self
We meet Wednesdays at 12:45 PM
Roches Family Hotel
85 Victoria St
Grafton, NSW  2460
Australia
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A Tribute to the Notaras Family in memory of Spiro & Angelo.
When: Has been postponed TBA  4.45pm for 6pm show start Where: 
Saraton Theatre
Drinks & nibbles on arrival. More details to come.  Click on picture to see the trailer!
Upcoming Events
Opera In the Vineyard
Ballandean Estate Wines
May 05, 2019
 
Midday Rotary Family Fun Ride
Memorial Park
May 11, 2019
6:30 AM – 11:00 AM
 
Public Relations Seminar
Mermaid Waters
May 26, 2019
 
District Assembly
Mullumbimby High School
Jun 02, 2019
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
 
Opera Under the Mountain
Uki - Presented by Rotary Club of Mt Warning
Jun 09, 2019
 
Midday Rotary Change Over Dinner
Jun 21, 2019
 
Every 3rd Thursday Night of the Month - Naked Bean South Grafton  -  Come along and have a Jazzy Kind of Night. Johannes Venter's son Zane is in this band lets support them! 
Please advise  Richard Nichols by a text message 0431 512 063 of all apologies & guests no later than 11am.  Charges apply.
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Grafton's 2nd Bridge Crossing
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Bulletin Editor
Lee Taylor
JOKE CORNER
A couple of elderly men were venting their frustrations about the woes of modern technology.
"I just can't ever seem to remember my darn passwords," grumbled one of them.
The other one smiled. "Oh really? I can never forget mine!"
"How do you manage it?" asked the first guy curiously.
"Well, I simply set all my passwords to 'Incorrect' so that whenever I'm told that my password is incorrect, I'll remember it!"
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BRIAN'S BANTER
The meeting held on 24/4/19 was attended by 15 members (50% of our membership list but it was
the week post- Easter weekend and amid the school holidays) plus a visiting Rotarian, Penni Hamilton from Rotary Club of Mt Barker, the fastest growing population centre in South Australia.

We had no guest speaker as the program was a Club assembly, to catch up on business transacted at
the 3/4/19 Board meeting. The bulk of the meeting heard reports from the relevant Directors.

Leila Thompson invited us to buy tickets in a raffle to support the Immunisation of Chlamydia in Koalas which is sponsored by the RCs of Currumbin Coolangatta Tweed.

Robert Blanchard raised the prospect of a dollar increase in meal fees which would be confirmed after the next Board meeting which will deal with budgets for 2019/20.

Sgt at Arms Camellia had great delight extracting fines based on extracts from the latest RDU, which
the members appeared not to have read, as yet.

The 24/4/19 trivia team (Lee Taylor and Terry Dwyer, Jacqui Lancaster, Richard and Jane Nichols, Brian and Gianetta Lane and Simon Roberts) scored a remarkable 7th in the Aussie themed night. We were the last team to identify the ‘baffler’ question: which proved that we did not spend enough time concentrating too hard on afternoon TV as kids!

Over to Bob next week!
 
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Stories
Salaam Exhibition
An exhibition at the Grafton Regional Gallery to raise funds for the victims of the Christchurch mosque attacks - 100% of money raised goes to Christchurch
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My daughter Leonie was is studying at the Lismore TAFE has entered a sculpture for the Auction.

Opening Saturday May 4 at 1pm
Continuing until Sunday May 19

​Over 45 NSW North Coast artists have donated works including
Rene Bolton, Michelle Dawson, Steve Giese, Christine Willcocks, Michael Cusack, Meredith Crowe, Emma Walker, Hillary Austin, Anne Leon, Suvira McDonald, Catherine Lane, Raimond de Weerdt, Zom Osborne, Bruce Pringle, Steven Perrin, Rochelle Summerfield, Tanya Ogilvie-White, Lynden Stone and many more...
 
 
Click on Picture to view website and items for the Auction.
 
Salaam is the Arabic word for peace. Salaam the exhibition is a fundraiser for victims of the Christchurch mosque attacks. 
It is to be held at the 
Grafton Regional Gallery Saturday 4 May until Sunday 19 May 2019.

All works are donated by the artists and will be auctioned at the Gallery on Saturday May 4th from 1:00pm.
Bids for the works can be put in via the contact page on this website beforehand, and will be taken into account.
Then bidders on the day will be able to either increase the offer on those pre-bids or bid for any other works in the show.
 
We will try to update the caption of an artwork once a day to indicate that it has been bid on and to show what the latest offer is.
Please check back in on the website to see if the bids have increased leading up to the show. 
​More information about payment and postage are on the contact page.

100% of money raised will go directly to Victim Support in New Zealand. 
 
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Working with children check - Compulsory
 
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The Working With Children Check (WWCC) is a requirement for anyone who works or volunteers in child-related work in NSW. It involves a National Police Check (criminal history record check) and a review of reportable workplace misconduct. 

The outcome of a check is either a clearance to work with children or a bar against working with children. If cleared, the check will be valid for 5 years, however applicants are continuously monitored. 

If you're applying because you're a paid employee or self-employed, there's a fee for the WWCC. If you're a volunteer, a student on a professional placement, potential adoptive parents or an authorised carer, you won't need to pay the fee. 

You can apply online for your WWCC.

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Helping Hands Trivia Night - Julie Holder 11th May 
Grafton Helping Hands Committee were approached to help this family in need and have supported the request by holding a trivia night.  
 
Can we put together a couple of tables to support this family?  $200 a table of 8 - $25 per person.  Nominations are being taken by Lee Taylor - bring along your money to secure your spot.
 
I have put together a little bit of the background story below for you.
 
Julie and Benny Holder refuse to give up on finding a miracle that could save Julie’s life.  In February, 2017 Julie Holder was diagnosed with Breast Cancer at the young age of 38.
Julie underwent chemotherapy and radiation treatment before having surgery to remove the balance of the tumor. Two years on Julie has now discovered that cancer has returned in her lymph nodes and lungs.

Julie is a local woman who is doing it tough. She is a beautiful wife, mother to 2 young teenagers and step mother to 2 young pre-teenagers, daughter, sister and friend to so many
and she is ready for the fight of her life.
 
Julie has worked with NSW Health as an occupational therapist for many years and is a member of the Riverside Church. She has a heart that is full of compassion whose health
has been compromised significantly with her choices and freedom taken away. Nonetheless she always has a positive attitude and continues to think of others. She herself is suffering and believes that with community support it is easier than suffering alone.
 
Julie has a strong faith within her soul even though her journey has faced extreme difficulties. She remains grateful despite her circumstances choosing positivity amidst the
turmoil she faces.
 
Julie and her husband Benny are holding hope and have some very expensive avenues upon them to try and beat this. Chemotherapy has commenced however further treatment options of doing clinical trials and immunotherapy are going to be expensive. Julie and Benny are looking at the possibility of her going overseas to get some different treatments.
Julie and Benny are givers to the community and it honestly could not of struck a nicer family.
 
We are hoping that the community will dig deep to enable her to obtain the further treatment she needs.
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