March Theme: Water and Sanitation Month
Notice of Meeting for the Rotary Club of Ocean Grove,
18 The Terrace, Ocean Grove, on Tuesday, 15/3/2016, 6.00 for 6.30pm
Speaker: Amanda Hough. "Interplast."
Chairman: Dick Clay
Greeter and Assistant Sergeant: Bill Walton
Assistant Cashier and Thanker: Alison George
Weekly Raffle: Fred Andrews
Birthdays and Anniversaries: 16/3 Alison George, 19/3 Gerry Spencer
Notice of Meeting for the Rotary Club of Ocean Grove,
Tuesday, 22/3/2016, 6.30 for 7.15pm A visit to the Boorai Centre is planned.
Dinner at the "Mex" will follow. There is a set menu.
Cost will be $18, but members are free to choose from the regular menu.
Meet at the centre before 6.30pm.
Chairman: Martin Geerings
Greeter and Assistant Sergeant: N/A
Assistant Cashier and Thanker: N/A
Birthdays and Anniversaries: Nil
Notice of the Meeting for the Rotary Club of Ocean Grove,
Tuesday, 29/3/2016, 6.00 for 6.30pm
Guest Speaker: Coral Naylor. "Uniting Care"
Chairman: John Calnin
Greeter and Assistant Sergeant: Ann Hodgkinson
Assistant Cashier and Thanker: Wal Kelly
Weekly Raffle: Bob Osbourne
Birthdays and Anniversaries: 30/3 Coral Barker
Lookout Reserve Maintenance Roster: 28/2/16 – 12/3/16. Coral Barker,
13/3/2016 – 27/3/2016. John Paton, 28/3/2016 – 23/4/2016. Dick Clay.
Report of Meeting: 8/3/2016
Visitors: Pearl MacMillan from Dunbartonshire and Lynne Collinshaw from Wodonga, both are prospective members.
Doug Redding, Derrinallum; a previous Rotarian.
Lynne Carlson, Corporate Member from 'Hello World
Jody and Ruth VanEekelen, Aussie Home Loans.
Max Beck: Guest Speaker
HEALTH REPORT:
- Geoff Brentnall is home and progressing reasonably well. He has appeared on the golf course.
- Geoff Ford is recovering slowly. He has appeared at the Bowling Club.
President: Emergency in Fiji – All districts have been asked to contribute to a RAWCs project being coordinated by a past DG in Tasmania. Individual donations are welcome. RC of Alexandria is organizing an "Across Egypt Challenge." See Adrian if interested.
Secretary Report: Please register for the District Conference as soon as possible
A thank you letter from Surfside Primary School for our attendance at the breakfast and for the Clubs assistance in building the garden that won the Gardening Australia award recently. Please see Tony if a new name badge is required.
Treasurer: Social membership of the Bowling Club is due. Please fill in the forms as requested. The Rotary Club will pay the fee.
Administration: A list for duties next Rotary year is being circulated by Judy Greer. Remember to register with Norm Elliot for makeups.
Community: Water feature position at the Uniting Church will be installed soon.
DIK Collection will be soon. Please let John Wynn know if you have goods for collection.
The walking track along Grubb Road may become viable again!
Footy Tipping: This very important competition is on again soon.
See Alex if interested with your $50.
Foundation: There will be a Film Night for Polio Plus on 13/4/16. The Film is "Eddie the Eagle" and the cost is $20. 20th Century Fox has donated a door prize of a DVD.
Fundraising: Ocean Grove Cup 21st Anniversary celebration was a great success. Fun, music, dancing and food were thoroughly enjoyed by all who attended. Over $4000 was raised. Richard Grimmett expressed his thanks to all those who helped set up and supported The Light of Day Parkinson's Research.
Peter Hawthorne expressed his thanks for the support shown for Red Cross Calling. He has banked $2000 and believes there is another $2000 to come from the bike riders who assist with the collection.
John Paton circulated the sponsorship list for the Polio Plus Bike Ride.
Youth: Two students for the RYPEN weekend have shown interest.
Information sessions have been held at the three Primary Schools re The Graham Barth Junior Community Awards. The response has been good with 30 students from Ocean Grove Primary School, 17 from Star of the Sea and 7 from Surfside Primary School.
The Club will continue to support an outgoing student for Youth Exchange, however it is unlikely that we can support an inbound student.
International: It was suggested the Club could send a couple of Shelter Boxes to Fiji but it is not possible for us to direct where they should go so the RAWCs project will be supported.
Market: It was a fairly good market. The gold coin collection netted $633.
The beneficiary was the 13th Beach SLSC. The next market will be on Easter Monday 28/3/2016. This is always a big market so all hands on deck!
Coral Barker has volunteered to run the Winter Markets and will need help to set up/take down.
Raffle books for the BBQ are available from John Paton. They must be returned immediately after the Easter Monday Market.
Guest Speaker: Max Beck. "A Different Earth."
Max was previously a Magistrate who has retired. He decided to trace the family of his Great great grandmother, Jane Dunstan. Her family lived in Cornwall where her Husband worked in the mines in appalling conditions. She decided that a better life might be possible in Australia; especially as the potato famine was making life even more difficult. In 1849 the family of nine accepted "free passage" in the Trafalgar, enduring conditions of crowded accommodation below decks, rough seas, and plagues of rats and insects and poor food. Upon arrival in Adelaide they hired a bullock dray and travelled 100 miles to the Burra copper mine diggings. En route Jane found she was pregnant and because housing was so poor at the mines, the family, like many others dug into the creek bed. She gave birth underground and unfortunately the baby died. The creek was subject to flooding but despite losses they persisted until her husband and daughter died in 1850. Gold was discovered and many families, Jane's included moved to the goldfields in 1852. They stocked up for the journey in Adelaide, and accompanied by a bullock dray and a driver with idiosyncrasies walked 550 miles to the diggings near Castlemaine. They crossed the Murray at Wellington and experienced many difficulties including dust, rough roads, indistinct tracks, swarms of mosquitoes and a bogged dray. The men who shot or trapped the wildlife along the way supplied food, conditions at Castlemaine were not much better but eventually she remarried and had three more children, bringing her total issue to eleven. She eventually has fifty-nine grandchildren.
A most interesting story about a very brave woman who risked so much to better the life and opportunities of her family as did many of our ancestors. There is much to thank them for.
Please note it is essential that apologies be recorded by 12noon on Mondays.
Also the Club has to pay for members who have not apologized and not turned up!
In future all members who have not apologized will be sent an invoice.
Phone number is: 0457 315 900
Thank You. AG
