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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 33, 3 March 2014

Next Meeting

THURSDAY6 MARCH

SPEAKER: GRAEMECHESTER

TOPIC: ROMAC

CHAIR: GEOFFSTRINGER

AV: MALCOLMPARKS

CASHDESK: ROBFENTON& MARTINFOTHERGILL

HOST: GREGEVERY

THURSDAY13 MARCH

SPEAKER: DRGOONTILLEKE

TOPIC: POSSIBLEDREAMSINTERNATIONAL

CHAIR: ADRIANCULSHAW

AV: GREGEVERY

CASHDESK: ROBFENTON& MALCOLMPARKS

HOST: GREGEVERY

THURSDAY20 MARCH

NOMEETING

DISTRICTCONFERENCE

Presidents Report

Great weather, a wonderful golf course and excellent Mexicanfood; what a great way to farewell Summer. Thirty nine mem-bers and partners attended the last of the Wine and Dineevents for the Summer at Peninsula Kingswood Golf Club onFriday night and shared the dinner with PKGC members.Fred Hofmann won the mens event on count back from Rich-ard Jones, while Megan (Miss Consistency) took out the

womens event (again on count back) from Rewa and Char-maine.

The Beaumaris North Primary School Fete is being held on29 March this year.

RCOB has had a strong association with BNPS and has hada great presence at previous school fetes.

Abi Henderson from BNPS has contacted us to gauge ourinterest in participating this year. The school is very commu-nity focused and Abi would like to see our students exposedto the positive work Rotary does. For those involved in the

last fete youll remember that despite the horrible weatherthere were great crowds and the school raised a lot of money.

Apart from having our Rotary tent selling olive oil, we also hada number of members manning the various activities, themost popular of which was watching the kids throw woodenballs at the shelves of crockery with the intent to smash asmany plates, cups and saucers as possible.

A new event addition to the fete is a 3km fun run, to start andfinish at the school. The run will commence at 9am, officiallykicking off the fete. Once the participants arrive back at theschool - apparently for some it will only take 10 minutes butthe majority will be half an hour or so - the fete will be into full

swing.

The fete will provide us with an opportunity to sell jewellery,hand out brochures and promote RCOB to a very large com-munity group.

Abi will attend the meeting on Thursday night to promote theGet up and Go Fete.

It was such a shock during the week to hear of the tragicpassing of Janine Chugg in India last Monday from a brainhaemorrhage after a fall where she hit her head. She hadgone to India to attend a wedding. Her son and sister were

with her when she died.

Janines funeral will be held at Tobin Brothers Funerals, 147Park Road, Cheltenham at 2.00pm Wednesday 5 March

Contents

1 Presidents Report2 Notices3 Rotary Areas of Focus

4 Club Structure / Picture of Week

SERGEANTSHOMEWORKTOPIC

LENININEXILE

Unless stated otherwise venue is Victoria Golf Club6.30 for 7.00


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2014.Janine was awarded the RCOB Citizen of Year Award in2009 and made a wonderful contribution to Pilot Boat3193 and was a key person in creating the "volunteeringhandbook". Her vibrant and energetic personality will bemissed by all who knew her. She has left a wonderfullegacy with all unconditional commitment to The Beau-

maris Theatre.

Tony McKenna, Susan De Bolfo and I will representRCOB on Tuesday night when we welcome the visitingGSE team from District 6580 Indiana.Graeme Chester, who has taken over the District Chair,is the guest speaker on Thursday night and will bring usup to date on ROMAC (Rotary Oceania Medical Aid forChildren).

See you there,

Robert

Hocking Stuart Sandringham62-64 Station Street

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

RCOB Polos Available in All Sizes

Need an extra RCOB polo for Conference.Yours worn out through all that hard work.

Contact Trish Smyth @

[email protected]

She has plenty available up to size XXXL, ata price of $30

RCOB Footy Tipping on Again

The Competition will be much the same as last year.This year it will be a $50 yearly joining fee with a Weeklypay-out of $50 to those who pick 9 out of 9. If no winnerthen it jackpots. Draws are a loss and this year if there

are more than 10 winners then it jackpots because obvi-ously it was too easy!

Click below to enter;

http://www.footytipping.net.au/cgi-bin/hone/join.cgi


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From time to time it is useful to be reminded of Rotaryscore areas of focus. The following extract from the RIwebsite gives a succinct prcis of theses areas and therationale behind them.

We have identified specific causes to target to maximizeour local and global impact. At the same time, we under-stand that each community has its own unique needs

and concerns.

Through global grantsand other resources, we helpclubs focus their service efforts in the following areas.

Promoting peaceToday, 42 million people are displaced by armed conflictor persecution. Through our partnerships with severalleading universities, Rotary Peace Fellows develop theskills to strengthen peace efforts, train local leaders toprevent and mediate conflict, and support long-term

peace building in areas affected by conflict. We provideup to 100 peace fellowships per year at Rotary PeaceCenters.

Fighting diseaseMore than 100 million people are pushed into povertyeach year because of medical costs. We aim to improveand expand access to low-cost and free health care inunderdeveloped areas. Our members educate and mobi-lize communities to help prevent the spread of major dis-eases such as polio, HIV/AIDS, and malaria. Many of ourprojects ensure that medical training facilities are located

where the workforce lives.

Providing clean waterMore than 2.5 billion people lack access to adequatesanitation facilities. At least 3,000 children die each dayfrom diarrheal diseases caused by unsafe water. Ourprojects give communities the ability to develop andmaintain sustainable water and sanitation systems and

support studies related to water and sanitation.

Saving mothers and

childrenAt least 7 million children under the age of five die eachyear due to malnutrition, poor health care, and inade-quate sanitation. To help reduce this rate, we provideimmunizations and antibiotics to babies, improve accessto essential medical services, and support trained healthcare providers for mothers and their children. Our pro-

jects ensure sustainability by empowering the local com-

munity to take ownership of health care training pro-grams.

Supporting educationSixty-seven million children worldwide have no access toeducation and more than 775 million people over the ageof 15 are illiterate. Our goal is to strengthen the capacityof communities to support basic education and literacy,reduce gender disparity in education, and increase adultliteracy.


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Cave Inn

Photograph by Ryan De-boodt, National Geo-graphic

"After two days of trekkingand caving, we reachedthe first camp inside HangSon Doong [mountain riv-er cave], the world's larg-est cave," "The entireway, I was in awe of thescene unfolding in front ofme. The atmosphere cre-ated by the clouds enter-ing the cave from the firstdoline (opening in thecave ceiling) was surreal.

The 2.5-mile cave is inVietnam's Phong Nha-KeBang National Park, nearthe border with Laos.

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