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Vol.26 No.34
February 17, 2009
Notice for the meeting at ‘The Wave’, Lake Avenue on Tuesday, 24th February, 6.30 for 7.00.
This public meeting on mental health will take the place of our regular meeting, and, as a consequence, our regular meeting at the hotel has been cancelled.
No evening meal will be served at The Wave, but supper will be provided.
This is a nation-wide community project sponsored by Rotary clubs, the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care and Beyondblue. Admission is free, and our duties will be to act as joint hosts with Barwon Health. Further details will be provided next week.
Keynote speakers will include Dr. Anne Ward, psychiatrist, Peter Brocklehurst – the ‘singing cobbler’, and Pamela McIntosh, a carer and educator with Barwon Health – Mental Health, Drug and Alcohol Services. Rotary’s involvement is through the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund.
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The ‘Stella Awards’ – 7th Place
Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son. It could only happen in America!
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Roster for the Organ Donor Week at Market Square in Geelong
Monday 23rd Feb Peter Hawthorne 1300 to 1700. Fred Andrews & Rod Greer 1500 to 1700..
Tuesday 24th Dick Clay & Geoff Ford 1500 to 1730
Wednesday 25th Tony Haines 0900 to 1100 Bruce Gilbert 1100 to 1300 Peter Hawthorne 1000 to 1300
Thursday 26th Alison George 1500 to 1730
Friday 27th John Dodgshun 1100 to 1300 Peter Hawthorne 1500 to 1900
Saturday 28th Peter Cullen 0900 to 1100
Birthdays and Anniversaries
We haven’t celebrated any since Jan Chandler’s on 21st, and it is hardly appropriate to have the Sergeant make such announcements at the Mental Health Forum, so please observe;
25th Feb. Shirley Dodgshun, 28th John Paton 3rd March Pam & Tony Haines 6th Dick Clay
6th Leone Clay 9th Helen & Richard Trigg.
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Rotary Projects around the World NEPAL
While her native Nepal undergoes political strife and transition, former Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar Sapna Malla offers stability and smiles. The Kathmandu-based dentist is the executive director of Nepal’s National Dental Hospital and its National Centre for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, which was created with help from the Foundation.
As a 2002-03 Ambassadorial Scholar co-sponsored by District 1020 in Scotland and districts 1030 and 1190 in England, Malla trained at Scotland’s University of Dundee School of Dentistry and studied under one of Europe’s top experts in cleft palate surgery.
She then was appointed executive director of the National Dental Hospital, overseeing a staff of 20 dentists and 50 support personnel, and a further appointment was initiated by a US$175,000 Health, Hunger and Humanity Grant as a joint project between Rotary Clubs of Kathmandu and Scotland. Malla’s hospital has helped more than 800 children regardless of their family’s ability to pay.
Grandma’s Home Remedy Extracted from ‘Blowflies and Bulldust’, a Victorian Mallee publication.
A boy came to visit his grandparents and noticed his grandfather sitting on the porch in his rocking chair, wearing only a shirt, with nothing on from the waist down.
“Grandpa, what are you doing? Your willy is out in the wind for everyone to see!” he exclaimed.
The old man looked off in the distance without answering.
“Grandpa, what are you doing sitting out here with no pants on?” the boy asked again.
The old man slowly looked at him and said, “Well… last week I sat out here with no shirt on, and I got a stiff neck – this is your Grandma’s idea.”
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Church bulletin reported by Gerry Spencer
The sermon this morning – ‘Jesus walks on water’. The sermon tonight – ‘Searching for Jesus’.
Our Club’s ‘Craft of Quality’ exhibition in the Surfside Primary School Hall on Sunday 7th June
I bet many of you have relatives or friends who are ‘crafty’ hobbyists. They won’t thank you if you forget to alert them to this great day until it is too late to get an entry form! Phone Jan Fox on 52 551675.
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Rotastat
Unsafe water and poor sanitation and hygiene kill 5000 children under age five around the world every day, or more than 108 million every year.
88% of diarrheal disease is caused by contaminated water and inadequate sanitation and hygiene.
Globally, diarrhoea kills more people than tuberculosis or malaria. 5 times as many children die of diarrhoea than HIV/AIDS.
The number of children who die around the world every year from diarrhoea is equivalent to the number of children under age five living in London ad New York combined.
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Stuff what went on tonight
Wal Kelly seeks advice from any member or associate who wants to enroll in a first aid course or refresher. Advise Wal by 3rd March.
Red Cross calling has been cancelled for 2009. Programme for 3rd March will be advised next week.
We welcome John Paton as the newest member of our club.
You all have a duty for the mental health forum. Wear Rotary top but no hat. Advise Coral if no go.
Margaret Campbell made an important announcement tonight, and she used the roaming mike, but there was such a noisy mob at my table that I missed it all. Marg, please e-mail me a précis.
The Graham Bath Golf Challenge will be held at Ocean Grove GC on Thursday 26th Feb. Contact Geoff Chandler if you haven’t already registered.
Rod Greer will head a delegation of three members to meet with CGG reps. next Friday about local projects.
Norm Elliott, a usually reliable forecaster of notable events, urges us all to watch Channel 2’s ‘Talking Heads’ next Monday evening.
Censorship I maintain two ‘group’ listings for Rotary. One gets the bulletin on Tuesday evening, and the other gets odd stuff of my choice occasionally, and is restricted to club members. As of tonight, JC has been taken off the second list at his request. If any of you want out, just let me know. No offence.
The presentation tonight by four members of the local Surf Lifesaving Club was excellent and well received. Chairman Noel Emselle is a life member, and joined at birth.
There is no permanent government funding, [what a pack of nongs are our politicians?], but 700 members tell a tale of enormous enthusiasm and dedication. Of those members, some 120 are volunteer life guards and regularly patrol the local beach.
Among many other activities, the local club run – for the past 29 years, the January ‘Rip to River’ event, which attracted 1500 competitors this year. Australia-wide, there are about 150,000 surf life-savers, including 52,000 ‘nippers’, 7-15yo. The club helped entertain our GSE team visitors last Sunday.
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