Please check the roster for the next few weeks and advise Vicki and David Ungar if you will be away that week. Meeting jobs will be allocated via email before the meeting.
Lauren Jane, founder of Find My Wild, shared that the organisation grew out of her own lived experience of leaving a domestic violence and abusive relationship. After 14 years in that relationship, she faced the complex and exhausting realities of separation, including post-separation abuse, navigating the Federal Court, receiving more than 150 texts and emails a day, and encountering both system and legal failures. During that time she worked with three lawyers, spent 12 months self-representing, and struggled with the immense emotional toll of the situation, including the impact on her own mental health and that of her children. She explained that the list of challenges survivors face can feel never-ending, and one of the hardest realisations for her was that no one was coming to rescue her. Because so many people did not understand what survivors were truly going through, she created Find My Wild to be the place that did.
THIS WEEK'S GUEST SPEAKER
Guenael Le Cann holds a bachelor in Physics complemented by a Nuclear Engineering degree. His Career in the Nuclear Sector has encompassed over 35 years working for the Nuclear Industry and Nuclear Regulatory Bodies. His last position - held for 16 years - was Manager of the Design and Safety Analyses assessment team within the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation in United Arab Emirates (UAE). In this regulatory position, he has overseen the implementation of the UAE Nuclear Energy Program through the construction and first years of operation of four nuclear reactors.
Friday night was a lovely reminder of how valuable it is to simply spend time together. A group of us met at Aztec Coolangatta, where good food, plenty of laughter and easy conversation made for a relaxed and enjoyable evening. Nights like this remind us that it’s not always the big events that matter most — sometimes it’s just sharing a meal and catching up that helps us reconnect and appreciate the friendships within our club.
Kieser BBQ
A few of our members also pitched in to support our corporate member, Kieser Australia, lending a hand at their open day sausage sizzle. It’s a great way to show our support for the local businesses that support our club.
Jimboomba Step Up Dinner
Saturday night, a group of us went to Jimboomba for the Rotary Club's Step Up dinner in support of Breakthrough T1D (Type 1 Diabetes). Steven Bradbury was the MC and he regaled us with the story of his epic win and how he became an overnight sensation 14 years in the making.
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Club runner information
If you do not have your Club Runner login information, you can go to the Club Runner website, scroll down a little and click on “Send me a Magic Link”. Enter the email address you gave to the club, and you will receive an email. Click on the login button and then select the club website. Go to ‘My Clubrunner’ and then ‘My Profile’. The ‘Edit’ button is at the top right and you can add/change any information on your profile. Click ‘Save’ and you’re done!
If you’re really feeling techy, you can download the Club Runner app.
If you would like any help resetting your password, or downloading the app to your phone, please let us know. There are a few members who can assist you.
We are looking to use Club Runner more for information and rosters, so it would be great if everyone is able to log in.
By Janet and Lonny Stormo, Rotary Club of Stillwater Sunrise, Minnesota, USA
When a simple set of crutches lands in the hands of someone in need, it can change a life. When thousands are collected, shipped, and distributed across the globe through Rotary collaboration, it becomes a movement.
Our Rotary club launched and spearheaded a district grant project in partnership with Crutches 4 Africa that not only collected crutches but created community. The project united more than 150 members from 15 Rotary clubs in District 5960 (Minnesota, Wisconsin, USA) who gathered, sorted, and shipped 3,681 mobility devices — including crutches, walkers, wheelchairs, canes, and other adaptive equipment — to people in Zambia who lack affordable access to these life-transforming tools. Read more here
Rotary Down Under
Imagine Better
A visionary Rotary-led initiative in Napier is transforming how young people imagine their futures by pairing opportunity-rich learning with targeted support for dyslexic students, proving that when hidden barriers are addressed, confidence, capability and potential flourish.
The Rotary Club of Ahuriri Napier, NZ, has launched Imagine Better, an exciting, ambitious project created by long-serving Rotarian Gary Hemmings. Its initial purpose was simple but powerful: widen the horizons of local students from two Napier schools by showing them a world far beyond their immediate surroundings. Using the old adage, ‘It takes a village to raise a child’ Imagine Better provides an opportunity for the village to rise to this challenge. Read more here
Rotary News
Destination: Rotary
By Geoffrey Johnson
They said there would be pyramids. I appear to have been misled.
A few days ago I was in Chicago, where Lake Michigan extended beyond the horizon and a steady stream of traffic coursed along all eight lanes of DuSable Lake Shore Drive.
But now, early on this October morning, I am the only traveler on another Lake Shore Drive — and I’m on foot. I’m in Lake Mills, Wisconsin, strolling along what might generously be called a two-lane byway. Big old houses line the road on my right, and to my left is legendary Rock Lake. I can see clear to the other side, and trust me, there are no pyramids.
