Castello's Cucina, 123 Fisher Street, Fullarton SA
President John Peacham 0431 618 359
Next week is about Anglicare
Last Meeting
Venue: Castello's Cucina
Guest Speakers: Nic Jeffries
Guests: Phillip Comans plus Rob's assistants Eucumbeth & Lucy
Attendance: 19 members 4 guests
Welcome
President John welcomed our guests using a Melbourne Cup theme and fortunately avoiding the mention of abject failures by fancied international runners...aussie, aussie, oi, oi,oi
Guest Speaker: Nic Jeffries - Adelaide Youth Orchestras
Rhonda Hoare introduced Nic and explained that our club, through the Youth Committee, had sponsored a visit by the AYO to promote music in mid North and southern Flinders schools of SA. Nic was born in Sydney in 1983 and displayed a natural aptitude for playing musical instruments [the piano as a 4 yo followed by the saxophone] and for singing. He was a contestant in The Voice in 2016 and provided a brief but classy rendition of "Yesterday" for our benefit. He has performed in many events as a musician and a singer and with a number of famous artists. He ran his own business in Sydney but was attracted to Adelaide with his wife and 2 boys for a better lifestyle.
After receiving piano lessons from the age of 4, and gaining excellent marks in the HSC, Nic decided to embark on a career in music. He attended the conservatorium and university which enabled him to teach instrumentals to kids across NSW. His career also involved a wide range of gigs as a singer and saxophonist with artists like Renee Geyer and Doug Parkinson. He met his musically talented wife Skye in 2014, married in 2016 and together they ran music schools. On comimg to Adelaide he was snapped up on 16 January 2023 as the ED of AYO. He is a member of the Governors Leadership Foundation and president of the Adelaide Jazz Club......earlier this year he peformed in Frankly at Carclew.
Adelaide Youth Orchestras is all about music education and relies heavily on philanthropy. It provides pathways for SA's brightest young emerging msuicians. Nic played a video about scientific examination of the magic of music. Bottom line is that playing music stimulates the senses and activates multiple parts of the brain like no other.....and is measurable through electrodes. Playing is like a full body work-out. Physically, mentally, emotionally, academically and cognitively it is top of the pops. Every child deserves to play an instrument for their own well being.....excluding the editor who was a hopeless cause at birth..
AYO trains 300 students each week - classes include strings, wind, percussion and sinfonic. This year 7 young musos went north, helped by our club, to stimulate the musical interest of kids in Orroroo, Peterborough and Pt Pirie+. AYO operates leanly with only 3.2 FTEs. It provides scholarships of $15-20k per annum and its course fees are heavily subsidised. We can assist AYO through attending concerts, donating money or musical instruments, sponsoring chairs, and bequests. Liason with the 4 metropolitan music high schools - Playford, Brighton, Marryatville and Woodville - is progressing.
Nic was warmly applauded.
PRESIDENT'S ANNOUNCEMENTS
Jerry is temporarily out of Darwin Hospital but will be returning for an op on Friday.
The BBQ at the Council's Spring Fling on Sunday worked a treat with a profit of $900+.and excellent weather. Our new marquee was splendid (for those under it) after the oldie fell off the trailer in transit....but it was fortunately retrieved.
We need to fill all Director's and other positions with new blood at the AGM in January.
The Thrift Shop made a tidy profit of over $7000 in October.
Spots
Graham Beckett reported that the grant of $5000 through the International Committee to the Rotary Club of Wanganui had assisted to attract a Global Grant of US $250,000 for a theatre in Tonga.
Vivienne Wood explained that Rob McLellan of Coast FM was keen to provide publicity for Rotary good causes and needs to be utilised.....the editor's wife Beverley is a ardent listener.
Someone mentioned the synergy between Guy Fawkes on 5 November 1605 and the current US elections.
Finale
Valerie won the filthy lucre and Ross the weight-reducing chocolate.
The Prez almost closed the meeting on time, but his watch is running slow and a forgetful dog got in the way.
ROGUES GALLERY
Part of the Spring Fling team under our flash new marquee.......designed to protect much valued Rotary volunteers. But not the rednecks charcoaling the snags......who nevertheless benefitted from a dose of vitamin D.
Rotary International News
Rotary projects around the globe - November 2024
By Brad Webber
Guatemala
The Rotary Club of Guatemala La Reforma’s Upcycling Art Festival featured whimsical sculptures and paintings created with cast-off materials such as paper and cardboard, wood scraps, glass, plastics, metal, rubber, and electronic waste. Like many countries, Guatemala struggles with solid waste management, notes Esther Brol, a past club president who pioneered the event in 2023. “Pushing artists out of their comfort zone by challenging them to create works of art from waste has generated wonderful results,” including raising funds for club projects and The Rotary Foundation, she says. The club partnered with the Rotaract Club of Guatemala La Reforma and the Rotary Club of Los Altos Quetzaltenango to organize the three-week exposition and sale that concluded 5 June.
Canada
The annual Concert to Feed the Need has raised nearly $90,000 since 2018 to offer meals in the Durham region in Ontario, through a network of food banks, meal and snack programs, shelters, and other social service providers. Feed Ontario reports an increase of 47 percent in the number of employed people using food banks since 2018. “With the rising cost of food and the impact of the pandemic still being felt, food bank use is soaring,” says Joe Solway, a member of the Rotary Club of Bowmanville, which initiated the event. Members of six other Rotary clubs also sell sponsorships and tickets and promote the show, an eclectic mix of pop, folk, country, rock, blues, gospel, “and maybe this year some opera,” Solway says. Media attention surrounding the concert and its acclaimed performers helped it yield nearly $23,000 in 2023. The 2024 event will take place on 8 December.
Bulgaria
In 2007, the Rotary Club of Sofia-Balkan teamed up with the Bulgarian Basketball Federation and the National Sports Academy to form a basketball club for wheelchair users, and the project has kept growing. Over the years, the club has lured coaches from the European Wheelchair Basketball Federation to offer a player clinic, cultivated referee skills, and established aRotary Community Corps to help. On 13 February, in conjunction with a Rotary zone event, the Bulgarian team faced off against a Serbian team for a friendly match. RI’s president at the time, Gordon McInally, sounded the starting whistle and tossed the ball into play. The club’s signature project is a point of pride for Rotarians, says Past Club President Krasimir Veselinov, and several organizations that advocate for people with disabilities have signed on to support the venture.
Kenya
Recognizing the importance of sleep to child development, the Rotary Club of Nairobi delivered bed kits for 8,000 school children in 2024, a milestone in a long-running project. Over the past 16 years, the club has partnered with Toronto-based charity Sleeping Children Around the World to supply bed kits to a total of 80,000 children at a cost of about $4 million, says club member Mumbi King. Each kit includes a mat or mattress, bedding, and mosquito netting, along with school supplies and clothing. The kits have an outsize influence on children’s lives, since better sleep improves health and school performance, King says. Twenty Nairobi Rotarians mobilized for the five-day delivery mission in February, serving the town of Naro Moru at the base of Mount Kenya and other villages, including in the Maasai Mara region. “The heat couldn’t keep the team from visiting the villages and interacting with the families,” says King.
Ethiopia
With the wind at their backs, members of the Rotary Fellowship of Kites and its founder, Henock Alemayehu, gathered for a day of kite making and flying with 250 children, many of them displaced by conflict among the more than 80 ethnic groups in Ethiopia. The children and volunteers converged on the grounds of an elementary school in Quiha, in the northern Tigray region, for the Ashengoda Kite Festival on 9 June. “The simplicity of this activity carried profound significance, offering a rare moment of peace and joy for these children,” says Alemayehu, a member of the Rotary Club of Addis Ababa Central-Mella. The kite fellowship, which has more than 100 members from 12 countries, is “creating lasting change through the simple yet powerful act of kite flying,” says Alemayehu.
Coffee Chat at Impressa, Unley Shopping Centre
10.30 am on the first Friday of the month is good for a chat with Rotary friends and a caffeine fix - Next one is Friday 6 December 2024
Upcoming Meetings
Tuesday 12 November 6 for 6.30pm Castello's Cucina
Guest Speaker: Ian Cox The work of Anglicare
Welcoming team: Garry Taylor & Christina Way
Tuesday 19 November 6 for 6.30pm Castello's Cucina
Event: Club reports and club strategy
Welcoming team: Vivienne Wood and Wendy Andrews
Apologies and Meeting Enquiries to: Secretary Greg McLeod on 0417 811 838 or email to secretary@unleyrotary.org.au
Venue Set-up Enquiries to: Bulletin Editor Stephen Baker on 0403 687 015
Saturday Thrift Shop Roster
Early Shift: 10.00am to 1.00pm Late Shift: 1.00pm to 4.00pm
Early: David Middleton & Nathan White | Late: Vera Holt & Rhonda Hoare
Week 4: 23 November 2024
Early: Stephen Baker & Judi Corcoran | Late: Jason Booth & Vera-Ann Stacy
Week 5: 30 November 2024
Early: Bob Mullins & Wendy Andrews | Late: Virginia Cossid & Paul Duke
Rotarians, who are unable to attend as rostered, please arrange a swap or as a very last resort contact: Vivienne Wood 0408 819 630; e-mail: vwood@ozemail.com.au
Mitre 10 and Bunnings Barbeques
The Mitre 10 BBQs are the first and third Saturdays of each month. Morning shift 8.30am - 12 noon; afternoon shift 12.00 - 3.30pm, then clean-up.....next due Saturday 16 November
ALL the Bunnings Mile End Barbeque shifts are from 8am to 5pm
Rhonda Hoare introduced Nic and explained that our club, through the Youth Committee, had sponsored a visit by the AYO to promote music in mid North and southern Flinders schools of SA. Nic was born in Sydney in 1983 and displayed a natural aptitude for playing musical instruments [the piano as a 4 yo followed by the saxophone] and for singing. He was a contestant in The Voice in 2016 and provided a brief but classy rendition of "Yesterday" for our benefit. He has performed in many events as a musician and a singer and with a number of famous artists. He ran his own business in Sydney but was attracted to Adelaide with his wife and 2 boys for a better lifestyle.
The Rotary Club of Guatemala La Reforma’s Upcycling Art Festival featured whimsical sculptures and paintings created with cast-off materials such as paper and cardboard, wood scraps, glass, plastics, metal, rubber, and electronic waste. Like many countries, Guatemala struggles with solid waste management, notes Esther Brol, a past club president who pioneered the event in 2023. “Pushing artists out of their comfort zone by challenging them to create works of art from waste has generated wonderful results,” including raising funds for club projects and 
The annual Concert to Feed the Need has raised nearly $90,000 since 2018 to offer meals in the Durham region in Ontario, through a network of food banks, meal and snack programs, shelters, and other social service providers. 
In 2007, the Rotary Club of Sofia-Balkan teamed up with the Bulgarian Basketball Federation and the National Sports Academy to form a basketball club for wheelchair users, and the project has kept growing. Over the years, the club has lured coaches from the European Wheelchair Basketball Federation to offer a player clinic, cultivated referee skills, and established a
Recognizing the importance of sleep to child development, the Rotary Club of Nairobi delivered bed kits for 8,000 school children in 2024, a milestone in a long-running project. Over the past 16 years, the club has partnered with Toronto-based charity 
With the wind at their backs, members of the 
