rotary club of somerton park bulletin - 20/10/2015

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

27 OctoberWe will have as guest Speaker, Cindee Richardsonfrom Catherine House Inc. speaking to us thisweek.

Catherine house was established by the Sisters ofMercy in 1988 to provide emergency accommoda-tion and support for adult women unaccompaniedby children. There are 16 sites in the inner city ofAdelaide.

Homelessness and a variety of other problems areencountered and catered for.

3 NovemberAs well as 3 November being Melbourne Cup Day,we will have as guest Speaker, Keith Bettany whowill be speaking on and showing some drawingsand other artwork of Changi POW Prison as doneduring World War 2.

Keith’s father was Des Bettany who was capturedby the Japanese after the fall of Singapore and hekept a sketch book of drawings he did while beingheld as a POW.

Coming Meetings27 October and 3 November

Club Bulletin27 October and 3 November 2015

MeetingNumbers

1393 and 1394

President’s ParagraphsThank you to those membersand partners who were ableto attend the Group 8 com-bined meeting last week. Itwas a good fellowship oppor-tunity and we also heard agood guest speaker. It is al-ways worthwhile visitingother clubs to witness how

they may do things and if we might be able to learnsome new ideas to strengthen our own club.

Guest Speakers are always hard to find so if you seeor hear of someone that you think would be a goodspeaker for our meeting please contact Peter Thomp-son with some details so that he can arrange an ap-propriate date. Thank you to Rajni for nominating Law-rence as our guest speaker last week

Wine orders are still being taken by Linda so if you areable to sell some wine please contact Linda urgentlyas our wine bottling day is not far away. Please alsoconsider submitting raffle tickets as soon as they aresold so that we can proceed with payment of theprizes prior to the draw

On Friday 30th October the “Stars of Minda” awardsare due to be held and this is an event that the clubshould be particularly proud to be involved as it wasan event initiated many years ago and now has signifi-cant corporate support. It must surely rate as one ofour most significant achievements

Wednesday night’s board meeting again containedsignificant discussion on membership and I urge allmembers to think about someone that you thinkwould make a good Rotarian and ask them to comealong and witness a meeting and what we do.

Mike

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Broadcast on 1197AM RPH Adelaide each Tuesday7.30-8.00 pm. From each Wednesday the broad-cast program can be heard on-line27 October Professor Anthony Radford

“Overseas Projects— a World View”

3 November10 November

The Voice of Rotary

30 Oct. “Stars of Minda” Awards31 Oct. Wine Labelling, Langmiel10 April 16 President Elect’s Training (PETS)15 May 16 District Assembly

Club Diary Dates 2015



Previous Meetings

Our scheduled meeting of 13 October was cancelledand instead there was a Group 8 meeting on Wednes-day 14 October hosted by the Rotary Club of Glenelg.As it happened, other Group 8 clubs were not repre-sented but 13 Somerton Park members and partnersattended.Guest speaker at that meeting was Robert GordonMenzies who was named after the former Prime Min-ister and founder of the Liberal Party of Australia.Robert is a novelist and he spoke on the backgroundbehind some of his novels.“Culture Shock” is a story of a young girl from hishome town who received little respect, love or atten-tion from her parents and after becoming pregnant,having the baby which was adopted out by her par-ents, she eventually made a good life for herself inLondon.“Webs of Deception” was inspired by his time at KnoxGrammar School in Melbourne and details the down-ward decline of a school principal.Other books of his such as “Moroccan Gold” and“Killing is Catching but Sex Doesn’t Rot Your Teeth”were discussed.Robert’s anecdotes of his life were amusing, some ofwhich showed what could be called “novelist’s licence”but still good stories.Robert had a supply of his novels available at themeeting and he announced that he would donate $5from any books sold on the night to Australian RotaryHealth. This was to go with the takings from the raffleand the hats donations at the meeting.

Our meeting on 20 October was back at the Motel andwe were pleased to welcome back some of our over-seas travellers. Good to see Malcolm, Lyn, Linda andPam after their absence. Our guest speaker was Law-rence Kongwa, introduced by Rajni.Lawrence is a physical trainer in Glenelg and spoke onthe need for physical exercise to maintain wellbeing ,

prevent injury and to increase strength.“Exercise is done against one’s wishes but contin-ued because the alternative is worse”. Muscles contract and relax. Muscles work on the joints they cross. Muscles work best in the direction of their

fibres. Muscles become weak mainly from sitting

and other general inactivity.Exercises, such as walking, and stretching are of-ten needed to reactivate muscles which have be-come weak.Diet– most things in moderation.

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Club News

Fellowship Function

Although Bronwyn will be away cruising over the nextcouple of months, she has organised a fellowship“Drinks and Meal” night for Friday 6 November com-mencing at 5.30pm or whenever you can get thereat the Adelaide Sailing Club.The Sailing Club is at the Barcoo outlet, on the beachin front of the Sea Rescue Squadron. The sameplace that Linda had her changeover dinner.Bronwyn has tested it out on our behalf and says thatthe menu is good, (Schnitzels, Pizzas, Fisherman’sBasket and great sweets)A table for 12 has been booked, sounds like a greatlocation and close too.

Wine Labelling

Don’t forget to get your wine orders in to Linda ASAPbecause our annual labelling expedition to LangmielWinery at Tanunda is on Saturday 31 October.The wine is bottled commercially through Langmieland we attach our labels and box the finished prod-uct.A BBQ BYO lunch will follow in the very pleasant pic-nic grounds of Langmiel.

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The Four Way TestOf The Things We Think, Say or Do:

Is it the TRUTH?Is it FAIR to all Concerned?

Will it build GOODWILL and better FRIENDSHIPS?Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?




Will it build GOODWILL and better FRIENDSHIPS?Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?


President Michael Garland

Secretary Barb Humphries

Treasurer Brenton Aird

President Elect Mark Thomas

Past President Brenley Milsom

Community Service Malcolm Axford

International Service Pam Maxwell

Membership Jim Stevens

Fellowship Bronwyn Lambert

Fundraising Jim Parkins

Youth Programs Brenley MilsomSergeants Brenton Aird and

Rosalien van Loon

Board of Directors

Date 27 October

Speaker/Activity

CindeeRichardson

Topic Catherine House

ChairmanRosalien van

Loon

Door

Setup

3 November

Keith Bettany

Changi POW Art

Ladies

Men

Meeting 1393 Meeting 1394

Meeting Program

Club Meetingand Contact Details

CLUB MEETINGS

TUESDAY 7.00amAdelaide International Motel

521 Anzac Highway

Glenelg North

Club Contact Details:

PO Box 134

Glenelg SA 5045

Secretary Barb Humphries

Email: [email protected]

Club email: [email protected]

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THE FOUR WAY TEST OF THE THINGS WETHINK, SAY OR DO

Is it the TRUTH?

Is it FAIR to all concerned?

Will it build GOODWILL and better FRIEND-SHIPS?

Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

mailto:[email protected]

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