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R O T A R Y C L U B O F B E A U M A R I S W E E K L Y B U L L E T I N Number 27, 20 January 2014

Next Meeting

THURSDAY6 FEBRUARY

SPEAKER: TINADENT

TOPIC: SANDYBEACHCOMMUNITYCENTRE

CHAIR: KENMIRAMS

AV: GREGEVERY ?

CASHDESK: SUSANDEBOLFO& JIMOBRIEN

HOST: JAMESGLENWRIGHT

TUESDAY11 FEBRUARY

YOUTHSERVICESCLUSTERMEETING

THEBUCKINGHAM

1130 NEPEANHWY, HIGHETT

THURSDAY13 FEBRUARY

NOMEETING

THURSDAY20 FEBRUARYSPEAKER: MAIRINICHOLSON

TOPIC: ABC CLASSICFM

CHAIR: MARTINFOTHERGILL

AV: CHRISDARCY

CASHDESK: SUSANDEBOLFO& JIMO'BRIEN

HOST: GREGEVERY

Presidents Report

How do you top our first meetings attendance of 40 easily; by hav-ing 46 members and guests attend last week.

Three members invited a prospective member; Richard Shermaninvited Irwyn Shepherd, John Trvanan was a guest of Martin Fother-gill and Antony Nixon brought along Andrew Kerr. Thats five poten-tial members in the last two weeks with more to follow. Two of thesefive have already expressed an interest in joining which just goes to

show what we can do when we focus on membership growth (withapologies to our members from the British Isles who are copping itfrom Sergeant David at the moment, lets aim for 5 from 5 like the

Australian cricketers).

We also had PPs Bob Travers and Clem Quick from Mordialloc visitalong with Sue McArthur and our guest speakers guest Shareen

Vellin.

Guest speaker, Kerryn Redpaths story on her substance abuse,sickness and recovery was very disturbing for all parents and grand-parents particularly with the increasing ease of availability of Ice,GHB and other drugs.

Kerryn told how she survived her own devastating near death experi-ence to become a passionate drug and alcohol educator, bringingthe message of hope and a warning of the dangers of drug and alco-hol abuse to the young, by speaking in Secondary Colleges, schools,TAFES and to other interested groups. Well done Kerryn for thisvaluable contribution to the youth communities.

Last week we received the agreed donation from the ConcourseTraders Association for our organisation of the Concourse Festivallast year, following which we have donated $120 to the BeaumarisPrimary School to cover the gold coin donations generated from thecar parking at the school. We also received advice that all the boxes

Contents

1 Presidents Report2 Notices / Photo Caption Contest3 This Weeks Speaker

5 Club Structure / Picture of Week

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have now been ticked with District to sign off the ReflectionsGarden project at the Sandringham hospital so our project ac-count will be the recipient of the District grant very soon.

Zilla Roth Interplast District 9810 Chair sent an email during theweek asking the Board to consider our level of support for new-er members, Interplast sends volunteer surgeons, anaesthe-tists, nurses and allied health therapists to developing countries

in the Asia Pacific region to deliver programs of treatment andtraining. Interplast changes lives by providing access to freesurgery and free training to in-country medical staff. Zillas re-quest will be discussed at the Board Meeting on 12th February.

Zillas email was very timely as James Glenwright reminded usthat the Rotary Club of Mordialloc is holding their Interplast GolfDay at Woodlands Golf Club on Friday April 4. A number of ourmembers have supported Mordialloc in the past and Im sureJames will be keen to get a few names for this year as well(maybe thats why Bob and Clem were there to ensure Jamesgave the golf day a plug).

Tina Dent from Sandybeach Community Centre is our guest

speaker next week. Sandybeach are in the process of pur-chasing a new bus, towards which we have made a donation.The five year agreement with Sandybeach includes signage onthe bus plus RCOB publicity in all programs and other publica-tions

See you Thursday evening,

Robert

Hocking Stuart Sandringham62-64 Station Street

Note; As part of our arrangement with Hocking Stuart discountson agents fees are available to RCOB members.

A bottle of red winefor the best caption

for this photo.

Entries to the Editorby 0800 next Mon-

day.

Results published in

next In Gear.


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This Weeks Speaker; Kerryn Redpath

Topic; Impact of Alcohol and Drugs

Kerryn Redpath is anAustralian woman who

lives in the South Eastof Melbourne, Victoria.She grew up in a lov-ing family and is now adevoted mother ofthree wonderful, youngadults.

Today, Kerryn is apassionate drug andalcohol educator, arole that evolved out ofher own devastating

near life and deathtrials, many years ago.Her autobiography,Out of the Darkness,follows her journey from the darkest of depths in heryoung life, to a world filled with hope. Today, she bringsthis message of hope and a warning of the dangers ofdrug and alcohol abuse to the young, by speaking inSecondary Colleges/Schools, TAFES, and with manyother interested groups.

Kerryns presentation is personal, passionate, profes-sional and as she believes, vital in light of the currentevents in the lives of young people across this country.

Over the past 10 years Kerryn has worked in a very re-warding role as an Integration Aide at an IndependentCollege, with students across all sections of the College

Senior, Middle and Junior School.

With her compelling presentation and crucial message,

Kerryn is now on a mission to reach as many young

people as possible.

Kerryn gave an overview of the much longer presentation

she gives to schools in order to bring home the realities

of the dangers of alcohol and drugs.

On reflection she believes that she drifted into taking

drugs because she had no clear goals in her late adoles-

cence. She left home to live in what came to be the local

party house and gradually tried increasingly harmful

substances until she was a total heroine addict.

She lived through the harrowing experience of having to

bring her partner back to life after he had overdosed on

heroin and seeing her friends not survive similar situa-

tions. All of this is described in her book.

Finally the drugs took their toll and she suffered a com-

plete kidney and liver collapse and was hospitalised for

five months. Lucky to survive and with on health impacts

that stay with her still she realised she had to stay off

drugs.

Despite being told she could not have children she hasraised a family who are largely unaffected by her earlier

drug taking. In part her strength to leave her earlier life

came from a new found religious belief.

The images below have been selected from Kerryns

presentation to convey some of her message.


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NorthernLights

Photograph by ChristianNesset, National Geo-graphic Your Shot

Night view of Sunn-dalsra, Norway, a townsurrounded by spectacu-lar mountains

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