Theme: Rotary Fellowship Month
Notes from Meeting on 12th June 2018
Guest: Lesley Sheddon, Guest speaker.
President’s Report
- • Geoff Ford has recovered. Norm Elliott is unwell and having tests.
- • Next Tuesday, Lynne Carlson and Nicole Rappel will report on the recent Rotary visit to Japan. Partners are welcome, but please advise of their attendance by next Monday.
- • The Queenscliff Club Lego display was excellent with many very enthusiastic participants. The Club raised about $10,000 from the event.
- • Change over Dinner is on the 26th June. Please wear your Paul Harris badges.
- • At Board Tuesday morning, it was decided
- • Our old dinner badges will be replaced with simpler ones.
- • Fees for next year will be $230, with the couples’ discount continuing.
- • Rod Bush has developed the defribulator listing and is working with Ambulance Victoria to put the locations on their site.
- • The Board will review our commitment to Solmaid School with a possibility of helping to cover their lost sponsorship.
- • Nhill Rotary Club has agreed to host an exchange student from Norway, but as they are a small club, we have agreed to help cover their costs and will interact with the student while she is in Victoria.
Chair – Margaret Campbell
Administration Report – Graeme Chamberlain asked for two more volunteers to help at the Bunnings Sausage Sizzle on the 24th June. Two people volunteered, and all places are now filled.
Social – Richard Grimmett gave details for the car rally on Sunday 17th June. Participants are asked to meet at the back of the Bowling Club at 3 pm for a 3.20 departure. It will conclude at the same place and participants will be pooled. Rules:
- Each vehicle must contain no less than three participants.
- The participant in the front passenger seat will be known as the Navigator.
- The passengers in the back shall be known as the Back-Seat Drivers.
- The Back-Seat Driver behind the Driver’s seat must be the most responsible person in the vehicle.
- No electronic navigation devices
- No aeroplanes
- No mobile telephones.
- No Racing, this is a Rally not a Race
Specifications:
You will be given a clipboard and a set of questions. Seek the answers.
Good Luck
The Driver must not drink alcohol.
Prizes
The vehicle with the most correct answers is the Winner.
The participants deemed Best Dressed will win a bottle of wine from the wine bar and consumed here and shared generously.
The Driver of the Best Decorated Rally Car will receive a prize.
Entry cost $10 per person.
Footy Tipping: Alex Magee reported that Geoff Ford is leading the competition. Rod Bush, Coog and Rod Greer won over the last three weeks.
Guest Speaker: Lesley Sheddon, District Committee for ROMAC
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| Leslie Sheddon |
Lesley has been a teacher, librarian, marketing officer and is now the manager of the Bendigo Bank website.
ROMAC = Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children It has operated for 30 years, with the mission of bringing children from the Pacific Rim and other nearby developing countries to Australia for operations not accessible in their home country. It started in Bendigo and has now spread throughout Australia and New Zealand. It is an official Rotary program, run by Rotarians and funded primarily by Rotary Clubs. The main role for our District is fund-raising, as most treatments occur in Melbourne.
ROMAC provides life-saving or disfigurement surgeries. It has treated 508 children from Oceania over the past 30 years. Children have come mainly from Timor Leste, Fiji, Papua-New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. The main conditions treated are: Cardiac or Heart surgery, non-carcinogenic head tumours and growths, untreated scar tissue from burns, orthopaedic surgery and gastrointestinal surgery. ROMAC gets many more applications for help than they can assist.
Children are mainly treated at the Royal Children and Monash Children’s hospitals. Medical support is provided free but there are still hospital charges to pay. ROMAC has a register of supportive medical staff. Host families located near these hospitals look after the children and their guardians while they are in Victoria. Rotary also works with local ethnic communities for each family to provide support. It is often found that the children have dental and other health problems, which need to be treated before surgery can be conducted. Rotary also provides social support to patients during their convalescence in Australia.
Judy Greer thanked Lesley and encouraged members to help support the program. www.romac.org.au
Thank you, Ann Hodgkinson
