Guests: Dianne and Paul Duke, Graham Ey, Peter Hicks, Lisa Thornton.
Attendance: 27 members 6 guests
PP Heather Kilsby standing in for Sorel welcomed our guests
Induction of Paul Duke
Stephen Baker introduced Paul for induction. (There was some conjecture whether he came from the Dukes of Cornwall lineage or Hazard) He is a retired Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgeon who first trained as a dentist at Adelaide Uni and then medicine at Flinders University. There were Postgraduate Fellowships in the UK and Australia. He worked in private practice and as a consultant at the RAH. He has been married to Dianne for 51 years with two daughters and 5 grandchildren.
He attends and contributes to the Christadelphian Church in the city and has been a volunteer in a number of overseas developing countries for many years including PNG for the last 20 years......but the door to continue this work is currently closed due to Covid. Paul helped organise the clean-out of the old RAH working with David Cockshell of Donations in Kind. Recently he has become a volunteer at the Salvos at Kings Park and is looking forward to contributing to and having fun with Unley Rotary.
Paul was inducted and assigned to the Peacham international crew. He was warmly welcomed into the club. The editor must do more to get everyone smiling at the same time on joyous occasions like this.
Guest Speaker: Penny Reidy - Food journey during Covid
Chairman Nathan White introduced Penny expeditiously.....most unlawyer like. Penny is the Marketing, Communications and Business Development Manager for the SA Produce Market at Pooraka. The skill set she brings to the job was honed in Defence and Higher Education and others in Australia plus firms in the UK and USA.
Penny explained that the original Fresh Produce Market was established in the East End of Adelaide in 1875 and moved to Pooraka in 1988. It is the premier fresh produce wholesale market for the State where over 250,000 tonnes of fresh produce with a wholesale value of over $590M is traded between wholesalers (150), growers and retail operators every year. You need to be there at 4am in the morning to see and feel the buzz....great potential for a club vocational visit for those suffering insomnia! With an estimated 10,000 individuals accessing the market site each week (before Covid), the market offers freedom of choice, with an extensive range of product variety, best quality and price and provides users with access to a large customer base and the ability to develop business and industry contacts by providing a unique environment that promotes healthy and open competition.
The Market has been working in partnership with Food Bank since 2012 and provides about 1m kilos of fresh fruit and vegetables each year.
As Penny explained one of her main tasks is to convince the public to support local fresh produce. Stories from the land like the new season launches play an important role. 2020 has been a year like no other with challenges coming thick and fast:
bushfires at Cudlee Creek ruined many fruit trees and vines...fundraising was launched for affected farmers
Covid 19 - the market was declared an essential service which enabled it to continue but under much stricter conditions including health screening of all participants and a range of other restrictions. Some madness prevailed with panic buying. There was considerable loss of business due to cessation of restaurant trade and exports. On the positive side new selling methods were employed like produce boxes delivered to the home.
One of the serious emerging issues is the lack of farm help to assist with harvest: in SA; the strawberries and cherry picking season is approaching with little prospect of replacing islanders and backpackers who have been the mainstay of rural harvests for many years. There appears little chance that they will be replaced by those on job seeker or keeper.
Fruit fly has never come to the market before but this year extra precautions have to be taken including enclosing an open area, extra cooling and a ban on displaying any produce piece for more than an hour.
Coles has excess capacity in its proposed $43m Victorian ripening facility which is likely to adversely effect our facilities.
There has been an upside with more home cooking. We should all be alert to the 'Pick a Local' signs developed at Pooraka.
Penny was applauded for her contribution
Spots
Heather Kilsby reminded that the fabulous coffee chat will be on again this Friday at 10.30am at the Unley Shopping Centre. Jerry suggested the soup was good but not sure how he mixes this with coffee. A special Peacham, not MacDonalds, sign has been laminated for the occasion.
Jerry Casburn told everyone to get their butts along to the monster book sale at 10am next Sunday at the Thrift Shop. He also reminded that we had to pre-book and pre-pay for the Great Debate meal next Tuesday....alternate drops.
Finale
Valerie won the big bucks and Virginia the fruchocs on the wheel of fortune. Happiness abounded with Chris able to reunite with his daughter and her family in Sydney with the lifting of the border restrictions (fingers and legs crossed); Virginia is celebrating her 25th wedding anniversary; and Jerry has bought a new wedding from the insurance claim on the one he lost....can't help wonder about the gold comparison.
Heather Kilsby closed the meeting 13 minutes before we turned into pumpkins.
MONSTER BOOK SALE
UNLEY ROTARY CLUB THRIFT SHOP
130 Unley Road.
THIS SUNDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER
10 am - 2pm.
We have 1,800 books to sell. All by great authors of fiction, crime and other gripping stories.
Come along, buy a book and get your coffee next door – no better way to spend a Sunday morning.
ROTARY NEWS......to be renamed Trevor's Solomons corner
Meet the newest arrival born several weeks ago to Melody, the daughter of Peter Koti, Dalsousu village, Malaita, Solomon Islands.
Naming any child is a very important to any new parents, but in the Solomons great deliberation in the selection of the name is carried out, not just by the new parents but often the whole extended family. This little fellow has been named quite embarrassingly Trevor Reid Ellice – family name Waleurifo. I suppose had the child been a girl it may have been named Fay Trevor Ellice – (Brian Ellice has contributed to the work Fay is doing at Dalousu.)
What an honour – a child named after me a complete stranger to the family and only doing what Rotarians do – provide “Service above Self.”
In talking with Peter a few days ago he expressed his thankyou and gratification to Fay and myself for what the Global grant will mean to the community of Dalousu. Can everyone notice the resemblance!
Unley Primary School .....message from the Students Representative Council
The Unley Primary School SRC is excited to launch our sister school project with the Dalousu Village School in the Solomon Islands. The SRC has been planning this project after working with members of the Unley Rotary Club at the start of this term.
Through our partnership with Unley Rotary, we have connected with people who are directly involved in humanitarian work in the Solomon Islands. We have learned that the country is ranked as having one of the highest rates of poverty in the world.
When we discussed at our SRC meeting how we could make a difference to the lives of the people in Dalousu Village, we wanted to do something to benefit both the children who can go to school as well as those who can’t.
Attending school is a huge privilege for kids in the Solomon Islands as many families are unable to afford to send their kids. Currently there are 120 children at the Dalousu Village School. It costs approximately $100 for a child to attend school for a year.
We did the maths in an SRC meeting and worked out that if every student at Unley Primary School donated between $3 and $5, we could raise enough money to sponsor 20 children to go to school – that’s one child for each class at UPS! We have plans to become pen pals with these children and begin an ongoing connection.
But we didn’t want to stop there! The children who are fortunate enough to attend school do not have adequate supplies to use to help them learn. For example, students can only afford to have one pencil and one small notebook for the whole year. Their school does not have a library and there are no books, dictionaries or atlases for students to read and learn from. We want to donate stationery items for the kids to use. For example, we could donate pencils, textas, pens and note paper. See donations to date. Our school library will also donate some culturally appropriate books and encyclopedias.
Starting from next week, Monday 14th September, the front office will be accepting stationery donations until the end of the term. Please bring in unused items of stationery such as: lead pencils, coloured pencils, textas, paper and pencil sharpeners. We really hope everyone can get involved and help out – just like you all did for the Foodbank fundraiser last term which went really well.
To help us reach our fundraising goal, on the last day of school this term, Friday the 25th of September, we will be hosting a casual clothes day and inviting everyone to make a donation to this project. A small amount of $3-$5 dollars per UPS student will be enough for each class to sponsor a child to attend school. Any donation will be appreciated.
If you would prefer to make a donation online, we invite you to use the Qkr App that we use for electronic school payments.
Thank you for your consideration and generosity.
Sincerely,
Hannah, Nabila, William, Jemima, Ben, Emily, Matthew and Josh on behalf of the Unley Primary School Student Representative Council
Upcoming Meetings
Tuesday 29 September 2020 6 for 6.30pm at Damien on Fisher
Event: The Great Debate with RC Hyde Park
Set-up and Welcome - Judi Corcoran and Virginia Cossid
Tuesday 6 October 2020 6 for 6.30pm at Damien on Fisher
Early: David Middleton & Nathan White | Late: Pam Trimmer & Wendy Andrews (Ken Haines)
Week 4: 26 September 2020
Early: Stephen Baker & John Peacham (Judi Corcoran) | Late: Jerry Casburn (Rhonda Hoare) & Jason Booth
Week 5:
Early: Bob Mullins & Wendy Andrews | Late: Jerry Casburn & Reno Elms
Rotarians, who are unable to attend as rostered, please arrange a swap or as a very last resort contact: Pam Trimmer (T) 8293 2612; (M) 0415 238 333; e-mail: pamela.trimmer@bigpond.com
Bunnings Mile End Barbeque
ALL the Bunnings Mile End Barbeque shifts are from 8am to 5pm
Next Date: TBA......may need to wait until next year.
The Mitre 10 BBQ now first and third Saturday of each month......next one 5 September
The Tale End
Last week was about religion......this week it is all about initiative
A man who'd just died is delivered to a local mortuary wearing an expensive, expertly tailored black suit.
The female blonde mortician asks the deceased's wife how she would like the body dressed. She points out that the man does look good in the black suit he is already wearing.
The widow, however, says that she always thought her husband looked his best in blue, and that she wants him in a blue suit. She gives the Blonde mortician a blank check and says, 'I don't care what it costs, but please have my husband in a blue suit for the viewing.'
The woman returns the next day for the wake. To her delight, she finds her husband dressed in a gorgeous blue suit with a subtle chalk stripe; the suit fits him perfectly...
She says to the mortician, 'Whatever this cost, I'm very satisfied. You did an excellent job and I'm very grateful. How much did you spend?'
To her astonishment, the blonde mortician presents her with the blank cheque. 'There's no charge,' she says.
'No, really, I must compensate you for the cost of that exquisite blue suit!' she says.
'Honestly, ma'am,' the blonde says, 'it cost nothing. You see, a deceased gentleman of about your husband's size was brought in shortly after you left yesterday, and he was wearing an attractive blue suit. I asked his wife if she minded him going to his grave wearing a black suit instead, and she said it made no difference as long as he looked nice.'
He attends and contributes to the Christadelphian Church in the city and has been a volunteer in a number of overseas developing countries for many years including PNG for the last 20 years......but the door to continue this work is currently closed due to Covid. Paul helped organise the clean-out of the old RAH working with David Cockshell of Donations in Kind. Recently he has become a volunteer at the Salvos at Kings Park and is looking forward to contributing to and having fun with Unley Rotary.
Penny explained that the original Fresh Produce Market was established in the East End of Adelaide in 1875 and moved to Pooraka in 1988. It is the premier fresh produce wholesale market for the State where over 250,000 tonnes of fresh produce with a wholesale value of over $590M is traded between wholesalers (150), growers and retail operators every year. You need to be there at 4am in the morning to see and feel the buzz....great potential for a club vocational visit for those suffering insomnia! With an estimated 10,000 individuals accessing the market site each week (before Covid), the market offers freedom of choice, with an extensive range of product variety, best quality and price and provides users with access to a large customer base and the ability to develop business and industry contacts by providing a unique environment that promotes healthy and open competition.
But we didn’t want to stop there! The children who are fortunate enough to attend school do not have adequate supplies to use to help them learn. For example, students can only afford to have one pencil and one small notebook for the whole year. Their school does not have a library and there are no books, dictionaries or atlases for students to read and learn from. We want to donate stationery items for the kids to use. For example, we could donate pencils, textas, pens and note paper. See donations to date. Our school library will also donate some culturally appropriate books and encyclopedias. 
