Rotary Club of Somerton Park Inc. | Chartered 7 April 1988

Club Bulletin

The club has had a busy couple of weeks with a BBQ at Radio Rentals last Tuesday, a break-fast to cook for the workers at Minda's Trak Furniture to cele-brate International Day of Disa-bility last Wednesday, Christ-mas dinner & drinks at the Somerton Surf Lifesaving Club last Friday night, the drawing of our annual Christmas Raffle

this week and 2 BBQ shifts this Wednesday for the Taxi Council. With December being Family of Rotary Month it has been great to see some familiar faces back and engaged at the club and I have been really pleased to see a general lift in club spirit. The breakfast at Minda's Trak Furniture last week was a success and definitely well appreciated by the staff. We were taken for a quick tour of the factory by one of the supervisors before the workers arrived and it was impressive to see what they achieve and the quality furniture they turn out. If you are looking for some solid timber furniture that is well made I suggest you go and have a look at their showroom. As well as furniture they are labelling paint tins for a local manufacturer and doing liquid fills for Foodland such as their home brand detergent. Last Friday night we had a great turnout for our Christmas dinner & drinks, nearly filling 4 large ta-bles. It was a wonderful evening with good food, fine wine, fellowship and laughter that saw the Somerton SLSC staff thanking us for our generous patronage, but ushering us out the door as the last to leave for the night. The conversations continued outside for

President’s Paragraph

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while longer - a big success all round and a very enjoya-ble night. Finally a very big thank you to Michael Garland this week for organising and bringing to a close another very successful Christmas Cruise Lottery that raised close to $15,000 in total or $12,000 after expenses. Though the number of tickets our club has sold through members was down a bit this year, the successful strategy of giving out tickets to local charities and or-ganisations to sell on the basis that we will write them a cheque for what they raise has seen an increase, with over $8,500 already allocated to various charities. So well done to all involved and thanks to all members who sold tickets - I know it isn't easy and I hear the col-lective groans when everyone is handed their 20 books, but when you look at what we achieve through this lottery I think we can all be proud of the result. Brenley

Important Meeting

Come along

Last chance to say

Happy Christmas to Rotary friends

AGM

full breakfast for $21

Kris Kringle gifts

(ladies please bring a small gift for another lady, and gents for gents).

NEXT MEETING: 6TH JAN 2015

Last meeting for year

16 Dec RCSP AGM

6 Jan First meeting for 2015

April 16—19, 2015. District Conference Ballarat

Jul 5 District Changeover

Club Diary Dates 2014

The Four Way Test Of The Things We Think, Say or

Do:

Is it the TRUTH?

Is it FAIR to all Concerned?

Will it build GOODWILL and bet-ter FRIENDSHIPS?

Will it be BENEFICIAL to all con-

kid selling post cards some money or not. Do you presumably support the family by buying a card whilst potentially denying the child an education by encouraging them to remain on the street.?

Anh was challenged at a deep level to think different-ly about community goals and her future career, and both experiences have clearly, for me at least, affirmed the value of our Rotary support for young people widening their horizons and undertaking community involving experiences. Anh was grateful for our support and will go on to reward our contri-bution to her.

Malcolm A offered this slogan which he saw in her presentation:

We make a living out of what we get We make a life out of what we give.

A Club Banner was presented to Peter and Gary.

Rotary Club of Somerton Park Inc. | Chartered 7 April 1988

Club Bulletin

11th Dec 2014

We began by welcoming Rotarians Peter and Gary from the Rotary Club of Yea in Victoria who were over for the cricket.

Michael provided us with not only the figures for the 2014 raffle but also those of the previous two years so that members could see how we were tracking. The net gain for this year’s raffle was nearly $12000. Duncan attended and thankfully did not draw a colleague in first place, but still did manage to draw a colleague for I think the final prize offered.!

Brenton introduced our guest speaker Anh Caprile. Anh is just finishing a Mas-ters at Adelaide University. Anh had also attended RYLA and with her CV of involvement is clearly a person interested in and committed to her fellow human beings.

Anh told us a little of the intensity of the RYLA experi-ence, which proved a useful backdrop to her journey to the University Leadership Symposium in Cambodia which was the subject of her talk titled ‘My Khmer Journey’. Her time centred around the people she attended with, the experience of meeting Geraldine Cox and visiting her Sunrise Village, and the guest speakers she heard who were clearly inspirational.

What was clear to all of us was the impact the trip had on Anh. She was ‘invited into their r culture’ and was deeply affected by the work being done for unwanted children by Geraldine Cox and others. She pointed up the often ignored conundrum of whether to give the street

Meeting 9th December

Rotary Club of Somerton Park Inc. | Chartered 7 April 1988

Club Bulletin

Club Meeting and Contact Details

CLUB MEETINGS

TUESDAY 7.00am

Adelaide International Motel

521 Anzac Highway

Glenelg North

Club Contact Details:

PO Box 134

Glenelg SA 5045

Secretary Barb Humphries

Email: thehumpies@yahoo.com.au

Club email: somertonpark@rotaryclub.org.au

Website: http://www.rotarynews.info/Club3794/

President Brenley Milsom

Secretary Barb Humphries

Treasurer Michael Garland

President Elect Michael Garland

Past President Carolyn Lelliott

Community Service Malcolm Axford

International Service Pam Maxwell

Membership Rajni Lalsinghani

Fellowship Carolyn Lelliott

Fundraising Jim Parkins

New Generations Brenton Aird

Board of Directors

The Voice of Rotary

Broadcast on 1197AM RPH Adelaide each Tuesday 7.30-8.00 pm. From each Wednesday the broadcast program can be heard on-line

December 2014

Dec. 16th PP David Hunter (R.C. of Port Adelaide) “The Club Art Show” Dec. 23rd Trevor Richardson “White Ribbon Ambassador” Dec. 30th Rtn. Julie Campbell (R.C. of Adelaide Light) “Soles4Souls”

Voice of Rotary

11th Dec 2014

Friendship Visit to Cusco, Peru – MAY 2015

Interested in travelling to Peru?

Would you like to see Rotary at work in the Inca city of Cusco and in the majestic Andes Mountains with hands on

involvement in isolated communities? A special Rotary Friendship visit, limited to 24 people, to

Peru and other South American destinations is being offered to Rotarians and partners in Districts 9500 and

9520. Tour Guides will include:

Ted Dzaidkiewicz, Managing Director of Contours Travel has been conducting tours to Latin America for over 30

years. See www.contourstravel.com.au .Ted is a member of the Rotary Club of North Melbourne and coordinator of the Agua Pura project in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Cusco. See www.aguapuracommunityproject.com Con-tours Travel was a sponsor of the District 9520 Warrnam-

bool Conference. Rotarian Professor Jean Jacques Decoster, social anthro-pologist, world authority on the Inca Civilisation lives in Cusco and is a member of the Rotary Club of Cusco. He

was a key note speaker at the District conference at Warrnambool in March. Jean Jacques will conduct tours of

the Inca sites such as Machu Picchu, Sacred Valley, Ollantaytambo, Chinchero, Lake Titicaca and much, much

more – not on the normal tourist routes. Trevor McGuirk, Past President of Stirling Rotary Club,

along with partner Andrea, have visited Cusco on 3 occa-sions. In 2010, Stirling Rotary Club, with the support of a RI matching grant and in collaboration with RC Cusco, estab-lished the school bus project at Quishuarani. Trevor and

Andrea organise “Kids of Cusco”, an educational and health program for remote mountain communities. See

www.kidsofcusco.com Expressions of interest...

to Cusco, Peru and other destinations in South America are being sought from Rotarians and partners in District 9500. Email contact: tmcguirk@chariot.net.au for further details. The tour will coincide with the RI World Convention in Sao Paulo in Brazil from 6th – 9th June 2015. Optional tours will be offered to other South American destinations.