Castello's Cucina, 123 Fisher Street, Fullarton SA
President Ken Haines
NEXT WEEK IS SAMMY D
Last Meeting
Venue: Castello's Cucina, Living Choice
Guest Committee Consultations
Guest: Garry Taylor
Attendance: 25 members 1 guest
Opening
Secretary Greg Mcleod opened the meeting and President elect John Peacham welcomed everyone in the absence of President Ken. Good to see Christina back with us after her mishaps. Guest Gary is due to be inducted next week. John reported that Jerry, Trevor, Rajat, Rhonda and he attended the District Assembly last Sunday, preceded by presidential training for him on the Saturday............perhaps we should organise a Q&A to test what JP learnt?
Committee Consultations - Reports et al
Thrift Shop
Vivienne Wood was pleased that we had a new volunteer at the Thrift Shop under the work for the dole scheme. Consideration is being given to introducing a loyalty card to encourage repeat business and discounts for non-Rotarian volunteers.
A later report revealed that President Ken had sadly had his phone, wallet etc stolen while working at the Thrift Shop.
Community Service
Brenton Judge explained that after a slow start the committee was mobilising. Immediate projects include helping out with the BBQ on Anzac Day at the Memorial Gardens and providing $3000 of assistance to Treasure Box. Other project options being examined include: following the example of RC Holdfast Bay by standing outside supermarkets at Unley armed with a list of needs of people doing it tough and asking for donations of these goods; volunteer and donation options with Cafe on the Square and Puddle Jumpers: liaison with Polio SA: and revisiting breast screening for indigenous women in Ceduna.
Youth
Trevor McGuirk reported that registrations had opened for our Youth Music Awards - volunteers are needed for the heats to be run 11.30am - 4pm on Sunday May 7 at Tabor College. Any member who has a close school contact is urged to publicise the opportunity. The concert will be held on Saturday 24 June at the Goodwood Institute. There is a multicultural event called Mosaic which is being run by the Rotaract Club of Adelaide on 30 September. Our support is being canvassed. Please be aware that any Rotarians working with children require a police clearance.
International
John Peacham explained that 2 projects previously examined ie Thailand eyesight and Ubud in Bali were not being pursued due to scarcity of local counterparts. Jason and Brendan had come back from Nepal with news that a health clinic built by a Malaysian Rotary club was not completed but for the modest investment of $10,000 could be made functional. Our club is looking at providing $2000. Another area being examined is Project Dawn which is providing food and clothing to Odessa. Paul Duke is back to his old stamping ground in PNG in September and needs help with dental equipment (supply and shipment)
The Solomon Islands project is nearing completion. Building a structure to enable collection of water run-off is no longer financially viable and an alternative of utilising the community hall roofing to feed the water tanks is being pursued. Materials and feed for the chicken farm are being organised and the raised garden beds are nearly complete.
Multiple Births Festival
Rajat Nagpal advised that most of the volunteer positions had been filled.....and he read out the list. There is also support from 2 other clubs which helps with a 10-member back-up force. The biggest need at this stage is for cars with tow bars. We have an ice-cream van needing a double shift on the way in and for return to the supplier, materials from the District Shed, gear from RC McLaren Vale and chairs from the Salvos. Jerry wants help at the District Shed on the Saturday.....and presumably for unloading on return. Trevor is into publicity with the ABC and Coast FM. It has been a mammoth effort y a few.
Spots.
David Middleton urged more Rotarians to visit Bob Laws who is in Carmelite Nursing Home with debilitating Parkinson's disease. Perhaps attending in pairs would work best.
Jerry Casburn revealed that our club had received a pennant at District Assembly for donating the third most amount in the District to the Rotary Foundation.......the editor seems to remember our club scooping the pool when JC was DG. There is a working bee planned for Calperum on 19-22 May.....painting is high on the agenda but no prior painting experience required, just adept body paint removal!
Greg McLeod said the thank-you dinner by the Salvos on Friday night was appreciated but we should have had a better roll up. The dress rehearsal of the musical Come from Away was enjoyed.
Finale
John Peacham won the filthy lucre and Paul Duke scored the mystery parcel.
The meeting closed at 8.20pm.................pumpkin territory
Photo (Rogues) Gallery
You can apply your own captions - eg John and Jerry bracing for the cold Antarctic winds at District Assembly last Sunday and those seeking Salvation with the Army on Friday night........served with a delicious meal.
Multiple Births Festival
Rotary International News
Rotary projects around the globe - April 2023
By Brad Webber
United States
Members of the Rotary Club of Kaka‘ako Eco, Hawaii, tossed 5,000 mud balls filled with beneficial organisms into the Ala Wai Canal in Waikiki as part of a rehabilitation effort to make the waterway fishable and swimmable. The healthy bacteria in the genki balls — made with soil, molasses, rice bran, and water — digest and oxygenate sludge at the bottom of the canal (genki means healthy in Japanese). In March 2022, more than 200 volunteers, including club members and friends, made the balls, advised by the Genki Ala Wai Project. Three weeks later, they threw the fermented genki balls into the waterway. Donors paid $5 per ball to defray some of the cost. “A lot of kids came out and we had canoes come through the canal to help throw the balls,” says Club President Jenny Do. “We blew the air horn and then hundreds of balls just went into the Ala Wai Canal.”
Canada
Guelph, Ontario, is one of 25 Canadian municipalities to sign a pledge with the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, to welcome people who have fled countries such as Afghanistan, Syria, and Ukraine. In December, the Rotary Club of Guelph Trillium launched a drive to collect winter clothing donations for refugees. “People were so generous,” says Club President Anne Day. The club placed a bin at a mall, and donors loaded it up with more than 70 coats, 109 hats, and 52 scarves — many of them with the price tags still attached. The club also teamed up with appliance company Danby to collect furniture and household equipment for the newcomers. Over 1 million refugees welcomed by Canada since 1980
Italy
The Rotaract Club of Milano Nord Est Brera collaborated with an art publisher to produce a book of photography featuring women who have had breast cancer surgery to put a face to the fight against the disease. “With body painting they show that the scars have been overcome while remaining part of their history,” says club member Stefano Mercuri. “The project was aimed at them rediscovering the beauty that comes from art, even starting from a scar.” The club worked with the artist Stefano Pelloni, whose style is based on tribal body painting, and Il Randagio Edizioni, a book company that uses environmentally friendly materials. The club printed a limited-edition run of 500 books and is selling them to raise funds for the Italian branch of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
55,700 Italians diagnosed with breast cancer in 2022.
United Kingdom
One coin at a time, a whimsical contraption celebrates a legendary Scottish locomotive while raising thousands of dollars for charity. Ken Wilson, a past president of the Rotary Club of Inverness Loch Ness, led the effort to commission and install the Flying Scotsman Automata in a local shopping center in 2016. A contribution of about $1 activates the complex mechanism, which depicts a kilted train conductor in an engine on a track trailed by bobbing carriages. Inside are characters that include a couple knitting and drinking tea, a pilot flying a plane, and Nessie, of course, whose tail spins to the musical accompaniment. The club has maintained the device and collected about $27,000, allowing it to disburse more than $350 in grants each month. “It has enabled Rotary Loch Ness to help nearly 60 local charities,” says the mall’s former manager, Jackie Cuddy, “which is amazing.”
Uganda
When the Rotary Club of Malta constructed its second primary school in Uganda, it made sure to consider the needs of menstruating girls in the design of washroom facilities. “Very often, girls are embarrassed to attend school due to the lack of these facilities, and their attendance, and therefore education, suffers,” says John de Giorgio, club member and past governor of District 2110. The construction of the school in Luwero District was carried out in partnership with the Rotary Club of Bwebajja, which “played an active part in the supervision of the project during construction, carrying out many on-site visits,” de Giorgio says. The Malta club spent about $60,000 on the project, and the Maltese government covered more than half the cost of the $140,000 school. In 2014, the club built another school on the Lake Victoria island of Nkose.
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 is Friday 5 May 2023
Upcoming Meetings
Tuesday 11 April 2023 6 for 6.30pm Castello's Cucina, Living Choice
Guest Speaker: Rachel Horbelt Sammy D Foundation
Attendance and welcome: Bob Mills & Bob Mullins
Tuesday 18 April 2023 6 for 6.30pm Castello's Cucina, Living Choice
Guest Speaker: The Big Quiz with RC Edwardstown
Attendance and welcome: Bob Mills & Bob Mullins
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: 22 April 2023
Early: Stephen Baker & Judi Corcoran | Late: Jerry Casburn (Jason Booth) & Vera-Ann Stacy
Week 5: 29 April 2023
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 one is Saturday 15 April 2023
ALL the Bunnings Mile End Barbeque shifts are from 8am to 5pm
We have been allocated the last Monday of each month.....next one is Monday 24 April 2023.
The Tale End.....
Helpful hints on aging by the smartest of people:
"If you want to know how old a woman is, ask her sister-in-law." - Edgar Howe
"Old age comes at a bad time." – San Banducci
"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it." - Golda Meir
"The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened. - Mark Twain
"I’m at that age where my back goes out more than I do." - Phyllis Diller
"Nice to be here? At my age it’s nice to be anywhere." – George Burns
"First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down." - Leo Rosenberg
“You spend 90 percent of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10 percent trying to convince the Lord that you’re actually not that tired.” – Robert Brault
“Old people shouldn’t eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get.” – Robert Orben
Members of the Rotary Club of Kaka‘ako Eco, Hawaii, tossed 5,000 mud balls filled with beneficial organisms into the Ala Wai Canal in Waikiki as part of a rehabilitation effort to make the waterway fishable and swimmable. The healthy bacteria in the genki balls — made with soil, molasses, rice bran, and water — digest and oxygenate sludge at the bottom of the canal (genki means healthy in Japanese). In March 2022, more than 200 volunteers, including club members and friends, made the balls, advised by the 
Guelph, Ontario, is one of 25 Canadian municipalities to sign a pledge with the United Nations refugee agency, 
The Rotaract Club of Milano Nord Est Brera collaborated with an art publisher to produce a book of photography featuring women who have had breast cancer surgery to put a face to the fight against the disease. “With body painting they show that the scars have been overcome while remaining part of their history,” says club member Stefano Mercuri. “The project was aimed at them rediscovering the beauty that comes from art, even starting from a scar.” The club worked with the artist Stefano Pelloni, whose style is based on tribal body painting, and Il Randagio Edizioni, a book company that uses environmentally friendly materials. The club printed a limited-edition run of 500 books and is selling them to raise funds for the Italian branch of the 
One coin at a time, a whimsical contraption celebrates a legendary Scottish locomotive while raising thousands of dollars for charity. Ken Wilson, a past president of the Rotary Club of Inverness Loch Ness, led the effort to commission and install the Flying Scotsman Automata in a local shopping center in 2016. A contribution of about $1 activates the complex mechanism, which depicts a kilted train conductor in an engine on a track trailed by bobbing carriages. Inside are characters that include a couple knitting and drinking tea, a pilot flying a plane, and Nessie, of course, whose tail spins to the musical accompaniment. The club has maintained the device and collected about $27,000, allowing it to disburse more than $350 in grants each month. “It has enabled Rotary Loch Ness to help nearly 60 local charities,” says the mall’s former manager, Jackie Cuddy, “which is amazing.”
When the Rotary Club of Malta constructed its second primary school in Uganda, it made sure to consider the needs of menstruating girls in the design of washroom facilities. “Very often, girls are embarrassed to attend school due to the lack of these facilities, and their attendance, and therefore education, suffers,” says John de Giorgio, club member and past governor of District 2110. The construction of the school in Luwero District was carried out in partnership with the Rotary Club of Bwebajja, which “played an active part in the supervision of the project during construction, carrying out many on-site visits,” de Giorgio says. The Malta club spent about $60,000 on the project, and the Maltese government covered more than half the cost of the $140,000 school. In 2014, the club built another school on the Lake Victoria island of Nkose.
"If you want to know how old a woman is, ask her sister-in-law." - Edgar Howe
"Nice to be here? At my age it’s nice to be anywhere." – George Burns
