Calendar

Mon 7 July

Partners Night - Lily Betts to speak on her

Youth Exchange to Switzerland

Mon 14 July

Planning Meeting

Mon 21 July

Child Protection Procedures at High school

Mon 28 July

ANZ Exchange presentation with Leisl and

Joel

Mon 4 August

Partners Night - Induction of new members

- Ron & Judy Caine & Maree Knight

Mon 11 August

Steven Hadfield - Preparing for the Day

Mon 18 August

VTT - Michelle Webb & Lindsay

Mon 8 September

Partners Night - DG Visit

Sat 13-Sun 14 September

Weekend at Lightning Ridge

Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Coonabarabran Inc 30 June 2014

Notes from last Meeting

Welcome to our guests Jesse Doolan, Stephen Sanders, Mr James Mof-

fat, as well as Judy Caine and Sue Brookhouse, as always.

Aileen reported on the decisions of the Board meeting last week. Minutes

are on the website.

Request from Binnaway Central school for assistance with constructing a

sandpit for students. Moved John, sec Jo that we recommend to the

board that we support this request with $1,000.

Aileen recommended to members the magazine ‘Rotary on the Move’

which can be found on the club’s website www.clubrunner.ca/

coonabarabran/.

Webinar on Flexible & Innovative Clubs will be available on 26 August at

6pm and 27 August at 8am. If interested, let Aileen know, This can be

accessed individually at home, or a ‘group watching’ could be an idea.

RI semi annual report is due US$1335.00 - this year this will include

payment for RDU (Rotary Down Under).

Received from Baradine school - $60 for RYDA

Received from District - Receipt for $500 for RYLA.

Jesse Doolan, Mr James Moffat & Stephen Sanders,

reporting back after their MUNA experiences (Model

United Nations Assembly) in Inverell in May

Lightning Ridge Weekend - Information from PP Ian

12 months ago Coonabarabran Rotary Club decided to have a social weekend away and to invite our friends

to join us. We would like you and your friends to come.

The weekend is the 13th/14th September 2014. It will be at Lightning Ridge. The LR Rotary Club have

agreed to cater for our group at the Opal Caravan Park for dinner on the Saturday night. The OCP is a

new caravan park out near the Lightning Ridge bore baths.

On the Sunday Lightning Ridge has its market day and the LR Rotary Club will be cooking breakfast

there. The Ridge also has many tourist attractions including bus tours, walking tours, mine tours, opal

shops, and art gallery. I believe that nearer the time that we will be able to organise discounts for numbers

at some of the operators. Check out their website.

I hope to be able to get some locals to participate in the entertainment on Saturday night. Please bring your

bush yarn (‘true” of course).

At this time the Opal Caravan Park has 13 cabins available which will sleep about 40 people. $110 per

night per couple plus $15 per night /per additional adult where the cabin will sleep more than two. They

have agreed to hold them for two weeks (phone 0268294884). Please make your individual arrangements.

They also have tent sites and caravan sites. Let them know that you are with rotary.

Other accommodation is available at:

Wallangulla motel 0268290542

Lightning Ridge outback resort 0268290304

Chassin Opal holiday cabins 0268290448

Lightning Ridge Tourist park 0268290532

Crocodile caravan park 0268290437

Bluey Motel 0268290380

Black Opal motel 0268290518

Fossickers Cottages 0268290066

Black Opal holiday units 0268290222

Sonjas bed and breakfast 0268292010

Lorne station (5k’s out, 10,000 acres) 0268290253

Please let me know if you are coming for the purposes of catering. 0268422418

My wife and I hope to go out a day earlier, we hope

that you can join us for the weekend.

Kindest Regards Ian Klein

Bore baths above,

Opal Caravan Park below

Opal Caravan

Park cabins

Please Note that in order to fulfil the require-

ments of Fair Trading and the rules of incorpo-ration, we should have a full board. This in-cludes, according to our constitution, a Presi-dent Elect (to be President in 2015-16). Hence we are looking immediately for a nomination for this position. And while we are about it, why not a President Nominee ie for 2016-17?

K Barrington P R Cox P M Humphrey I McLean H Raadgever P C Welsh P

A Bell P R Dean G Jewiss A McWilliams P J Sawyer P J Wilkin P

I Bell P M Deep B Kelly P Morris P R Soussa L Wilkin P

P Brookhouse P B Guichelaar M Johnston P J Pearson P C Taylor D Winter

S Caine P D Hammond P I Klein S Perram M Unicomb P Young

Attendance 30 June: 16/30

Guest Speakers - Jesse Doolan, Stephen Sanders & James Moffat

Special guests at this week’s Rotary club meeting were Coonabarabran High school teacher James Moffat

and students Jesse Doolan and Stephen Sanders. James accompanied the two boys to Inverell in May to

participate in the Model United Nations Assembly, and Jesse and Stephen gave a report on their experi-

ences, accompanied by a presentation of photographs taken at the event.

Representing North Korea, the boys certainly made an impact on the Assembly, lauding at every opportunity

their ‘Great and Glorious leader Kim Jong Il’, and threatening everyone with nuclear action if their ideas were

not accepted! They certainly had a clear concept of North Korea’s world position, and the boys were re-

warded with the ‘Most Humorous Team’ award.

Also in attendance from Coonabarabran were Sarah Hincks and Jenna Cormie who, accompanied by

teacher Jenny Sullivan, represented the Ukraine. They went to a great deal of effort with their costume and

looked quite beautiful. In May, there was a lot of action in the Ukraine, so it was a perfect time in history for

the girls to be representing their political position in a world assembly. Unfortunately, Sarah and Jenna were

unable to attend our meeting.

The Model United Nations Assembly, known in Rotary by its acronym MUNA, is designed to give young peo-

ple an understanding of how the world organisation

works, an opportunity to research many of the cru-

cial issues of the time, and to speak persuasively,

taking the political position expected of their nation.

It is also a great opportunity to meet with students

from across the district, and to share a great deal of

fun as well. Our club thanks James and Jenny for

being prepared to transport the students to Inverell

and providing care and supervision over the week-

end.

Happy

Birthday

John!

The Weekly Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Coonabarabran Inc. Club No 17922 President: Aileen Bell Secretary: Lindsay Wilkin Treasurer: John Sawyer. Charter 13 May 1949

Enjoying the boys’ presentation