February Theme: World Understanding Month
Lookout Reserve Maintenance Roster:
12/2/2017 – 25//2/2017 Dick Clay, 26/2/2017 – 11/3/2017 Coral Barker,
12/3/2017 – 25/3/2017 Noel Emselle
Report of Meeting: 21/2/2017
Guests: Sue Honeywell and Tiffany. Sydney Coad, returning Exchange Student.
President: Club Assembly next week. The meeting will be at the Bowling Club.
******There will be no meeting on ANZAC Day******
- The Rotary Youth Driver Awareness program is going well. The Club has sponsored 112 students from the Bellarine Secondary College.
- Condolences were expressed to Jenny Schmidt on the very sudden death of her Mother
Community: Battery Collection is going well with 2.8 tonnes being captured. There are now 4 collection points.
- The Bike Shed project at the Bellarine College will not proceed, as the red tape has become a mountain too high to overcome.
- The Rotary Rotunda at Queenscliff has been completed after many years.
Publicity: DISTRICT CONFERENCE "BE BOLD" 31March – 1/2April will be held at the Barrabool Hills Centre and Saturday night dinner at the South Barwon Civic Centre with the theme of James Bond. Please check the District Website for all info relating to this important event. Registration forms are also available from the Website.
Foundation: Centurion donation boxes are available from Gerry Spencer.
International: A Crowd funding proposal is being set up for the Solmaid School.
Fundraising: District Fundraiser for ROMAC on February 18th at Buckley's Entertainment Centre was most enjoyable.
- 'Ride the Bellarine' for Polio Plus is being planned. See John Paton if you can help and confirm if you want the same Marshaling places as last year.
Market: There are some spots to be filled for the BBQ and Raffle sellers. Contact Coog if you can help on Sunday 5th March.
Health: Peter Hawthorne has had surgery. Rehab will commence soon.
- Gerry Spencer is still receiving treatment in St John of God.
- Jan and John Fox have moved to residential care in Melbourne. Their Address is:
Mercy Place Fernhill, 18 Fernhill Road North, Sandringham.
Phone 9291 8000.
Youth: Tiffany has moved to her new host family, the Honeywell's.
- The Junior Community Awards program (Graham Bath Awards) is underway again this year with good expressions of interest.
- There are three people interested in participating in RYPEN.
- Those interested in the trip to India please see Gill Morgan.
Vocational: The meeting for 7/3/2017 will be at Oakdene. A 2-course meal is being provided for $35.00. 30 persons are needed and this figure has been reached. See Martin Geerings if any information is needed.
Art Show Sub Committee: The first meeting has been held and it was decided that $400.00 would be given to Soldier On, The Mirabel Foundation and Uniting Care.
Social: Community Bowls are being held at the Point Lonsdale Bowling Club again this year. It is held every Monday evening during February.
Footy Tipping: It's on again. See Alex if you wish to have some fun.
Guest Speaker: Sydney Coad.
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| Sydney Coad |
She found the Japanese very welcoming and this with hard work helped her to greatly improve her Japanese. Initially Sydney found the members of her host Rotary Club were formal but all had great fun.
Travel to school was long and involved and the school day was seven hours of fairly intensive work. The Japanese students and Sydney worked very hard as teachers and family had high expectations of them. Sydney's load was eased as many of her classmates could speak English.
The food was very different. Servings were small and initially she found the predominance of fish and rice difficult.
The Karaoke and vending machines were 'cool'!
This trip has given Sydney a wonderful opportunity to become a 'whole' person and to gain much more confidence. She believes it has also made her think about her future more deeply. Sydney is finding it difficult to settle into the school routine but this will be overcome as she believes she is more decisive and will knuckle down. Her Rotary Club hosts in Japan were very Kind and they have kept in touch.
The exchange appears to have been most successful for Sydney as she has developed great confidence and poise and will become a fine ambassador for the Rotary Exchange Students Program.
Thank you,
AG.
