15th November 2017 (Nov 15, 2017)

Andy Bell

I am told that the Presidents Reports need to be informative and motivational, fair enough. Speaking with various Past Presidents to a person they list writing this message every week and making it interesting is the probably the most taxing part of being President. When I accepted the role, albeit at very short notice, to be the President of the Rotary Club of Surfers Sunrise I promised to myself I would never have the dreaded ‘No Presidents Message to report’ in the bulletin. So far so good.

Informative bit. --

1. If you don't hurry up and register for the number 1 event of the year ( no not the Comm Game), the District 9640 Conference, you will end up with your nose pressed up against the window watching everyone else having a great time without you . It starts on the 9 March.

2. Pride of Workmanship Awards. Instead of our normal Breakfast Meeting on February 21 we are having a Dinner Meeting at the Surfers Paradise RSL It will be a great night and is a wonderful way for our club to interact with the local business community.

Motivational bit. -- Be nice to each other [or I'll tell father when he comes back from work! ☺ Ed].

May go back to my normal rambling next week, will be interested in any feedback. --just sayin

Siànte.

Andrew Bell

President, 2017-18

This coming Wednesday: Jane Rushton - Accepting Change

Posted by Franz Huber on Nov 09, 2017

Jane Rushton’s inspires and motivates people by sharing her journey of her near fatal, head on car accident in Balcutha, New Zealand in 1992 where she was unrecognisable and had to learn to walk again. After many surgery’s Jane realised she had to make a choice to be a victim or to learn how to heal herself and accept the changes so she could create more balance, bliss and productivity in all areas of her life. With Jane's easy formula, "MIND TRICKS 5 KEY STEPS" Jane and her clients have discovered how to create more balance, bliss and productivity in their life's. Easily and effortlessly

Jane, a successful Author, 'Mind Tricks' Coach, Spiritual Healer, Pilates and Gym Instructor, as well as an International Netball Festival coordinator and Director of two companies, has been an entrepreneur since the age of twenty-four.

Jane’s has been inspired to share her vision, started over twenty years ago when she began her search to find direction in life to uncover her passions and work through life’s challenges. Jane 's say's "Life's a Roller-coaster it's good to learn how to reduce the dips in life". She has studied so many modalities in Personal Development, Natural Therapies, exercise and rehabilitation she has lost count.

NOTE: New venue: Pavilion, Southport Surf Life Saving Club. Arrive early enough to order breakfast before meeting starts at 07:15 sharp.

Melbourne Cup Party 2017

Posted by Franz Huber

T'was the first Tuesday of November... a great time was had by some of our members at the Melbourne Cup party at Seaworld. Congratulations to Sue Lipp who won best dressed! Check out the Photo Album Section on the right for more pictures.

Photos by Jo Gorman.

And now in my dream it all comes back:
I bet my coin on the Sydney crack,
A million I've won, no question!
“Give me my money, you hooked-nosed hog!
Give me my money, bookmaking dog!”
But he disappeared in a kind of fog,
And I woke with “the indigestion”.

Last stanza in Banjo Paterson's 'A Dream of the Melbourne Cup' Click here to read the full poem.

Last week we had a social meeting

Posted by Franz Huber on Nov 09, 2017

It's good to have a social breakfast occasionally - no official business, no Sergeant, no Guest Speaker, just good ol' fellowship. Keeping in mind that the First Objective of Rotary is 'The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service'.

So it was last Wednesday at our new venue, the Pavilion at the Southport Surf Life Saving Club. But we still had a presentation anyway: Mario Fairlie got himself a "new" Mercedes - see photo on left. Well, actually it is not new, but it is worth more than a new one and it is as rare as hen's teeth: It is a 1954 model of the Mercedes Benz “Adenauer” Limousine 300b. Not sure whether the matching shirt was intentional or not, but knowing Mario, he never leaves much to chance, so I suspect it is not... Ed. ☺

Kerrie Brown's cushion goes to the Miller clan

Posted by Franz Huber on Jan 05, 2018

The Angus & Virginia Miller clan has a new heirloom: a ticket belonging to their family was the winning entry for Kerrie Brown's hand embroidered pillow. Kerrie selected ROMAC – Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children as her 'District Governor's Partner Project'. ROMAC flies severely disfigured or injured children to Australia for surgery. All work by the surgeons and volunteers is provided at no charge. Now you normally expect District Governors to ask for money. This time expect the unexpected. We are giving you something for money. Fair deal? I hope so. Kerrie is aiming to raise $25,000 for an operation to save the life of a child. We call it “Stitches for Stitches”. She has made 54 embroidered cushions - one for every club in the district. Every one is unique. There are 10 hours minimum in each cushion and about $50 of material.

Congratulations!

A photo from our Youth Exchange Student... in Paris

Posted by Franz Huber

Geez, doesn't time fly! Only two months to go and "our" Youth Exchange Student Kieran Power (third from left in the front row) will be on his way back from Germany. He sent us a photo from a recent tour of YE Students to Paris.

For those who came in late: Kieran, who comes from Warwick, is co-sponsored by the Warwick and Surfers Sunrise Rotary Clubs.

Duty Roster

Posted by Franz Huber

Duty Roster - note: subject to change. Please check every week:

Date	Chairman	Door
7th Feb 2018	Ray Higgs	Gerald East
14th Feb 2018	Jo Gorman	Fred Hamblen
21st Feb 2018	Col Laurensen	Ian Mayberry
28th Feb 2018	Charles Thomasson	Graeme Isaacson
7th March 2018	Peter Morgan	Chris Thurtell
14th March 2018	Mario Fairlie	Jim Blackburn

Inspirations - well, sort of... 151117

Posted by Franz Huber on Nov 13, 2017

HL Mencken’s first rule of pragmatic politics: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

The Secret Service no longer yell’s “Get down!!” if the POTUS is attacked. They now yell “Donald, duck!”

Teach your children the love of a Mercedes Benz and they'll never have enough money for drugs...

7th February 2018

Franz Huber
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This Wednesday: Charmaine Wheatley
Pride of Workmanship Awards: Evening meeting
AB Paterson College students to build wheelchairs
Last week's Speaker: Charles Thomasson
Two Baton Bearers from Surfers Sunrise
Snippets of last week's meeting
Last week's Sergeant, Ian Mayberry
Roster for the next 4 weeks
Inspirations (well, sort of....)

Weekly Meeting - TBA

Pavilion Restaurant, Southport Surf Life Saving Club

Feb 14, 2018
7:15 AM – 8:30 AM

Pride of Workmanship Award Evening

Surfers Paradise RSL Club

Feb 21, 2018
6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

President

Andy Bell

Immediate Past President

Simon Brook

President Elect

Joanne Gorman

Vice President

Ian Mayberry

Treasurer

Mitch Brown

Secretary

Mark Twyford

Director-Club Administration

Joanne Gorman

Director-Service Projects

Rosie Rocco

Coordinator-Vocational Services

Richard Smith

Director-Membership

Paul Seymour

Director-Public Relations

Mario Fairlie

Director -The Rotary Foundation

Gerald East

Director-Youth Services

Tania Laird

YEP Club Protection Officer

Gerald East

Deputy Sergeant at Arms

Ian Mayberry

Sergeant At Arms

Tania Laird

Director-Fundraising

Doug Lipp

Chairperson-Wheelchairs Trust

Daryl Sanderson

Coordinator - Social Media

Paul Seymour

Program Manager-Guest Speakers

Joanne Gorman

Webmaster & Bulletin Ed

Franz Huber

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