Theme: Economic and Community Development Month
Lookout Reserve roster:
21/10/18 – 27/10/18 John Paton, 28/10/18 – 3/11/18 Dick Clay
Rotary Meeting 23rdOctober 2018
Visiting Rotarians: Katie Vanstan, John Crawford, Chris Kinley, (Rotary Club of Lara)
Presidents Report:
The Main Beach clean up and BBQ on Sunday, 28th are organised. However, more volunteers are welcome.
Tickets for the Melbourne Cup sweep have been distributed. There are 5 tickets in each book, at $1 each. Please return your tickets next week. 23 horses will be drawn, and ticket holders will be notified by phone if they are allocated a horse. Prize money is shown on the tickets.
The Market Roster for Sunday 4th November has been circulated. Fred Andrews needs help to set up the car raffle stall. Please contact him if you can assist.
Graeme Chamberlain went to Narromine last week and presented the drought relief cheque to their Rotary Club.
Reports:
Pearl Macmillan, Secretary – the rotary shirt orders will be delivered next week. The cost for the club logo has gone up to $8.80. See Pearl if you have any queries.
Alan Keyse, Publicity – Rod Bush and Alan attended a social media information session. Our Facebook and other social media messages have been viewed by eleven and a half thousand people on the Bellarine.
Lynne Carlson, Vocational – next meeting will be on the 9th November. Her bee problem is under control.
Judy Greer, Youth – The Ocean Grove Primary School students have made their presentations for the Graham Bath Junior Community Awards, with 28 students completing. On Thursday, the Surfside presentations will occur with 8 students, with Star of the Seas presentations on Friday with 12 students. They will then select 4 students from each school to make presentations to the Rotary Club next Tuesday night. Students and their parents will arrive about 7 pm. Information regarding the RYLA camp on the 13th to 19th April for 18 to 25-year-olds has been received. We are looking for participants, so please encourage anyone suitable to apply by contacting Judy.
Rod Bush, informatics – Rod advised people that a link to a survey regarding holiday habits had been circulated. This is to trial a system to be used for the Vocation Awards. However, interesting maps showing members travel habits resulted from the survey and were circulated for information.
Gordon King, Foundation – Gordon is investigating differences between perceived club donations and the R.I. records reported by the District Governor. He will send out a message to members asking them to advise what they have donated to Foundation and Polio Plus for checking purposes.
Art Show Reports
Rod Birrell asked for help in setting up the display stands. He requires people at 9.15 am on Thursday, 1st November to set up and at 9.00 am on Monday, 5th to dismantle. Contact Rod.
Marg Campbell advised that cartoonist ‘Joffa’ will be attending throughout the show. He will do caricatures for $10; and run a series of workshops suitable for children six years and above and adults at $10 a head. See Marg for bookings.
Graeme Chamberlain indicated that the launch on Friday night, 2nd November was in lieu of the normal meeting of Tuesday 6th November.
Guest Speaker: Richard Grimmett – Community Radio
Community radio differs from mainstream commercial radio in that it is run purely by volunteers and is advertisement free. Mainstream radio stations carry common messages and music matched for their target audiences. Community radio is more innovative with the music and other content chosen by the announcers. In Australia, there are 260 commercial radio licences but 356 community licences. Wireless telegraphy is under the control of the Commonwealth Government. The first station was built in Point Lonsdale. Richard’s interest in radio started with a crystal radio set he had as a child at his grandmother’s house in Albury.
Richard is a D.J. / announcer for Radio ‘Parkies’ which is an internet hosted radio show based in Brussels, Belgium and is now a world-wide network. There are three announcers in Australia and 30 throughout the world. Its catch phrase is ‘May Your Voice Be Heard’ with the objective of giving suffers of Parkinson’s disease and their families a voice. One symptom of the disease is a low, breathless voice. The format of the show is information and entertainment, based on the philosophy that it is time for action and for the voice of sufferers to be heard. D.J.s are not trained but draw on their own past experience. Some checks are performed to ensure their systems are adequate to carry their broadcasts.
As well as music, his program includes segments such as ‘What App’ run with Rod Bush, ‘What’s Brewing’ which involves interviews with baristas, ‘Soundscape’ which combines words and music to give the feel of different locations, for example a recording of a busker and descriptions of their backdrop or environment, ‘Anonymous Owl’ for interesting gossip and ‘I hardly know you at all’ which involves interviews with strangers in the street.
The site can be viewed on https://www.radioparkies.com/
Thanks, Anne Hodgkinson
