Club Night Anni Brownjohn—My Business

Duty Officers—Peter Sochacki, John Stainlay

The Board of Murwillumbah

Central Rotary Club

next meeting date—

at Michael Grisedale’s house

Monday August 5 at 6.00pm.

Tonight’s Muster

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A weekly news update for members and guests of

Rotary Club of Murwillumbah Central Inc. Rotary International Club Number 17900 100% PHF Club (2012) 100% EREY Club (2012)

Meeting—6.00 for 6.30 pm EST or DST, At Murwillumbah Golf Club Mail to—PO Box 33 Murwillumbah NSW 2484

108108 YEARSYEARS

Tuesday July 30 2013

In the spirit!

Games Night on Saturday August 3

Wollumbin High Quality Portfolio Presentations

Rotary Foundation District News

Important Events Fundraising for our Banana Festival

Queen Tammy continues at a good

pace.

On Friday July 19 was a second

Tenpin Bowling event, just as

successful as the first. We had teams

on all 16 lanes again.

We have some important events

coming up, it is a really busy time of

year.

Firstly a Cake Stall on Saturday July

27 at the Mitre 10 Sausage Sizzle.

All members are asked to donate

cakes or similar to the cake stall.

In addition to the Cake Stall we will

draw the winner of the Farm Bike

raffle during the morning.

Then on Saturday August 3 we will

hold a Games Night. This is always

a popular event. We will be at Jack

Heffernan‟s house on the great deck

Jack built specially for the Games

Night. Try your luck at Roulette,

Blackjack, Crown & Anchor, and

other games using chips and at the

end of the night use the chips to bid

in an auction for assorted items,

something to suit everyone.

This night is one not to miss.

On Sunday August 11 we are invited

to Len and Judy Mason‟s place at 9

Merino Place, Terranora for High

Tea from 2.00pm. It is necessary to

book as this is limited to a maximum

of forty people. This is certain to be

a popular social occasion so book

early by phoning Judy on

0755904152 or email

judysmason@bigpond.com.

August 23 is the Banana Festival

Fashion Parade. Helpers needed for

this in all areas, so please volunteer.

D9640 District Governor—

Tony Heading

D9640 Assistant Governor—

Anne Egan

Club Office Bearers BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President—

David Vickers-Shand

Vice President & Pres Elect—

Judy Mason

Immediate Past President—

Jack Heffernan

Secretary —

Peter Sochacki

Treasurer—

Michael Grisedale

Membership Director—

Len Mason

Public Relations Director—

Denis Hallworth

Club Administration Director—

Denis Hallworth

Service Projects Director—

Judy Mason

Rotary Foundation Director—

Anni Brownjohn

CHAIRMEN OF COMMITTEES

Club Program Chair—

Richard Johnston

Community Service Chair—

Jack Heffernan

International Service Chair—

David Vickers-Shand

Vocational Service Chair—

Bob Shepherd

Youth Service Chair—

Diedri Shepherd

Social Activities Chair—

Bob Shepherd

Club Protection Officer—

Michael Grisedale

College of Presidents Chair—

Denis Hallworth

OTHER POSITIONS

Bike Ride 2011/12—

Michael Grisedale

Tony Worrad

Barry Lack

Noel Graham

Tweed Banana Festival—

Michael Grisedale

Sergeants—

Noel Graham

Ian Baker

Heads & Tails—

Noel Graham

Ian Baker

District Office Bearers FROM WHERE I SIT by David This was a great evening spent with the other Clubs in the Cluster last Wednesday. And

Denis Hallworth, Michael Grisedale, Jack Heffernan and Cathie, Bryan Threlfall and

Barbara, Anni Brownjohn and Glenn Nott, Noel Graham and MaryAnne, and I

thoroughly enjoyed it. That the evening was dedicated to raising funds for a school in

Nepal made it so much more worthwhile. Congratulations to RC Coolangatta Tweed

Heads and President Glenn Rees for organising this example of interClub co-operation.

Also on Wednesday evening, Diedri Shepherd, Youth Service Director, attended the

Rotaract Club‟s meeting on our behalf, and with the purpose of talking up RYLA. She

already has a clutch of aspirants for RYLA - great stuff, Deidri. She has, advised and

assisted by Denis, offered one NYSF candidate an alternative, the Honeywell Engineering

Summer School because the talents of that student lay in engineering. That‟s what we‟re

about - thank you Diedri and Denis for getting this year off to such a good start, truly this

small Club is Leading the Way, to ENGAGE ROTARY AND CHANGE LIVES.

Our President-Elect Judy, and Membership Director Len, are racing up and down the M1

to Brisbane where they have an son quite seriously ill. We wish you all well, Judy and

Len, and your son.

So what‟s next? There‟s a lot in the offing, and we need everybody on deck. Anni has the

Swap Till You Drop at end of September. We have, collectively, the Festival of

Performing Arts on August 6, and the Tweed Valley Banana Festival throughout August.

Coming closer is a BBQ for potential members, also in September. On an ongoing basis,

there are several fun events to support our Banana Queen candidate Tammy, starting with

the second Cake Stall this weekend and the Games Night on Saturday August 3.

That motor cycle - to our astonishment, Michael has banked almost $1,000 which he,

Denis and I braved the elements and cold outside the Banana Festival Office to sell, and

there‟s about $300 in the box still and counting. THIS IS BEING DRAWN ON

SATURDAY 27TH JULY -that‟s THIS weekend. Thank you to Peter Sochacki who

donated this motor cycle.

This week we have a very interesting talk on the programme - one of the occasional

“What‟s New In My Business” series. I hope everybody gets with it.

In between times, we get a bit of sleep. But in all these projects, and others as we go, this

small Club is Leading the Way, to ENGAGE ROTARY AND CHANGE LIVES. Let‟s

keep it going.

You will all be saddened to hear that Past President and Honorary Member of the

Southport Rotary Club Cyril Richarde, passed away on Saturday night (July 20) aged

100.

Cyril was a "Rotarian Extraordinaire" and a great humanitarian. As President of the

Rotary Club of Southport in 1962, he and PDG Keith Hopper (Rotary Club of Inverell)

established volunteer teams to build schools and hospitals in Indonesia. To obtain

subsidised transport from QANTAS they labelled the project "Fourth Avenue in

Motion" or FAIM. And so FAIM was born, and was recognised as a national project

not only by Rotary but also the Australian Government in 1971. The project Educating

Indonesian Children continues to this day as a RAWCS project sponsored by the

Rotary Club of Southport and coordinated by Bill Bonner (Rotary Club of Stanthorpe).

Cyril celebrated his 100th birthday on Saturday April 20 and what a delight it was for a

number of Rotarians to share in his celebration.

A MEMORIAL SERVICE will be held for Cyril on MONDAY JULY 29 but at this

stage I have no further details. I will provide these details as soon as they are

available."

We give thanks for the life of a very special Rotarian

PDG Graham Jones

Secretary, Rotary Club of Southport

Thought of the day

"I don't feel good."

- The last words of Luther Burbank (1849-1926)

THE OBJECT OF

ROTARY

To encourage and foster

the ideal of service as a

basis of worthy enterprise

and, in particular, to

encourage and foster

1 The development of

acquaintance as an

opportunity for service

2 High ethical standards

i n b u s i n e s s a n d

p r o f e s s i o n s ; t h e

recognition of worthiness

of all useful occupations;

and the dignifying by each

Rotarian of his occupation

as an opportunity to serve

society

3 The application of the

ideal of service by every

Rotarian to his personal,

business and community

life

4 The advancement of

i n t e r n a t i o n a l

understanding, goodwill

and peace through a world

fellowship of business and

professional men united in

the ideal of service

NOTES

of the things

we think, say or do.

1 Is it the TRUTH ?

2 Is it FAIR to all

concerned ?

3 Will it build GOODWILL

and BETTER

FRIENDSHIPS ?

4 Will it be BENEFICIAL to

all concerned ?

Once again District 9640 has achieved the US$100 per capita goal for contributions to the Annual Programs Fund. While not quite equating the figure of the previous two years, our contribution for 2012 - 2013 was US$132,420 or US$100.47 per capita. This is only the third time our District has reached the US$100 per capita target and your efforts in achieving this milestone are much appreciated by the District Leadership Team and particularly PDG Sandra. On this occasion it is disappointing to report that three clubs did not record a contribution to the Annual Programs Fund (really should have been only two clubs as a significant contribution by one club was received too late to make the cut-off but it does mean we have a flying start to 2013-2014). This is the best

club participation rate in any recent year for which records are readily available, and is due, in part, to the outstanding support by Presidents to DG Tony’s request for them to join the First Class by making a personal contribution to The Rotary Foundation. In actual dollar terms, our top ten contributing clubs were:

PolioPlus – Thirty six clubs contributed US$47,020 to PolioPlus which together with a US$8,000 contribution from District Designated Funds means a total District contribution of US$55,020. Our top contributing clubs were:

Congratulations to each of the above clubs and to all others who made contributions to PolioPlus. Other contributions relating to matching grants totalled US$17,773 bringing our total contributions to The Rotary Foundation in 2012-2013 to a very commendable US$205,213. We take this opportunity to extend a very big thank you to all clubs and individual Rotarians who have

contributed so significantly to ―Our Charity‖ enabling The Rotary Foundation to continue to do good in the

world.

Gold Coast US$8,733 Alstonville US$5,770 Ashmore US$5,480

Southport

North

7,320 Stanthorpe 5,635 Surfers

Paradise

4,882

Grafton

Midday

6,243 Broadbeach 5,628 Surfers

Sunrise

4,711

Hope Island 6,114

Southport North US$610 Stanthorpe US$131 Mount Warning AM US$117 Lismore Central 331 Mullumbimby 129 Burleigh Heads 116 Grafton Midday 271 Yamba 128 Tweed Heads South 115 Alstonville 262 E-Club of Next

Gen

127 Robina 110

Hope Island 235 Tenterfield 127 Coolangatta-Tweed

Heads

110

Surfers Paradise 232 Kingscliff 126 Boonah 109 Lismore 175 Parkwood 126 Kyogle 107 Murwillumbah

Central

161 Tweed Coast 125 Murwillumbah 106

Gold Coast 156 Surfers Sunrise 124 Lismore West 103 Mermaid Beach 144 Broadbeach 122 Summerland Sunrise 101 Ashmore 137 Nerang 122 Coomera River 131 Casino 117

Murwillumbah

Central

US$5,062 Lismore US$2,474 Murwillumbah US$2,118

Mt Warning AM 4,867 Ballina-on-

Richmond

2,320 Mudgeeraba 2,062

Southport 4,678 Gold Coast 2,153 Warwick

Sunrise

2,062

Surfers Sunrise 3,219 Tweed Heads South 2,125

Rotary Foundation News District 9640

Good CANADIAN Fun………; TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

1. Vancouver : 1.5 million people and two bridges. You do the

math.

2. Your $400,000 Vancouver home is just 5 hours from

downtown.

3. You can throw a rock and hit three Starbucks locations.

4. There's always some sort of deforestation protest going on.

5. Weed.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN ALBERTA

1. Big rock between you and B.C.

2. Ottawa who?

3. Tax is 5% instead of the approximately 200% as it is for the

rest of the country.

4. You can exploit almost any natural resource you can think of.

5. You live in the only province that could actually afford to be

its own country.

6. The Americans below you are all in anti-government militia

groups.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN SASKATCHEWAN

1. You never run out of wheat.

2. Your province is really easy to draw.

3. You can watch the dog run away from home for hours.

4. People will assume you live on a farm.

5. Daylight savings time? Who the hell needs that!

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN MANITOBA

1. You wake up one morning to find that you suddenly have a

beachfront property.

2. Hundreds of huge, horribly frigid lakes.

3. Nothing compares to a wicked Winnipeg winter.

4. You can be an Easterner or a Westerner depending on your

mood.

5. You can pass the time watching trucks and barns float by.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN ONTARIO

1. You live in the centre of the universe.

2. Your $400,000 Toronto home is actually a dump.

3. You and you alone decide who will win the federal election.

4. The only province with hard-core American-style crime.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN QUEBEC

1. Racism is socially acceptable.

2. You can take bets with your friends on which English-

speaking neighbour will move out next.

3. Other provinces basically bribe you to stay in Canada ...

4. You can blame all your problems on the "Anglos"

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NEW BRUNSWICK

1. One way or another, the government gets 98% of your

income.

2. You're poor, but not as poor as the Newfies.

3. No one ever blames anything on New Brunswick ...

4. Everybody has a grandfather who runs a lighthouse.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NOVA SCOTIA

1. Everyone can play the fiddle.. The ones who can't, think they

can.

2. You can pretend to have Scottish heritage as an excuse to get

drunk and wear a kilt.

3. You are the only reason Anne Murray makes money.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

1. Even though more people live on Vancouver Island , you still

got the big, new bridge.

2. You can walk across the province in half an hour.

3. You can drive across the province in two minutes.

4. Everyone has been an extra on "Road to Avonlea."

5. This is where all those tiny, red potatoes come from..

6. You can confuse ships by turning your porch lights on and off

at night.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NEWFOUNDLAND

1. If Quebec separates, you will float off to sea.

2. If you do something stupid, you have a built-in excuse.

3. The workday is about two hours long.

4. It is socially acceptable to wear your hip waders to your

wedding.

ROTARY GRACE

Oh Lord and giver of all good

We thank thee for our daily food

May Rotary friends and Rotary ways

Help us to serve thee all our days

NEXT WEEK’S MUSTER

Aug 6—Festival of

Performing Arts

Awards Concert—

6.15pm

Duty Officers

Not required

Apologies and guests must be phoned or faxed to Noel Graham Farm Machinery by 2.00 pm on the day of the meeting or meal paid for. Phone 6672 2555 or fax 6672 2063.

Any late apologies or invitees (after 2.pm) must be phoned direct to Hot Wok Restaurant 6672 4041.

Rotary websites

Club This is the new web site. www.murwillumbah-central-rotary.org.au Club (Facebook) http://www.facebook.com/murwillumbah.central.rotary District—www.rotary9640.org Australia—www.rotary.org.au International—www.rotary.org

Meeting Make-up locations Murwillumbah Monday 6.00pm

Greenhills Reception Lounge Mt Warning AM Wednesday 6.45am

Imperial Hotel

South Tweed Monday 6.30pm South Tweed Sports Club

Tweed Coast Contact for details

Kingscliff Tuesday 6.15pm Cudgen Leagues Club

Coolangatta Tweed Thursday 6.00pm

Greenmount Resort Mullumbimby. Thursday

1st & 3rd—7am Sandbar Café, Brunswick Hd

2nd & 4th—7pm Brunswick Bowls Club

On-Line - Rotary Eclub Next Gen Qld Australia

www.rotaryeclubnextgen.org

Coming programs details

Aug 6—Festival of Performing Arts Awards Concert—6.15pm

Aug 13—

Aug 20—

Aug 27—DGE Wendy Scarlett

Sep 3—

Sep 10—

Sep 17—

Sep 24—

Oct 1—

Oct 8—

Oct 15—

Oct 22—

Oct 29—District Governors Official Visit

Duty Officers

Aug 6—Not required

Aug 13—Denis Hallworth, Jack Heffernan

Aug 20—Judy Mason, Len Mason

Aug 27—Bob Shepherd, Diedri Shepherd

Sep 3—Peter Sochacki, John Stainlay

Sep 10—Anni Brownjohn, Noel Graham

Sep 17—Denis Hallworth, Jack Heffernan

Sep 24—Judy Mason, Len Mason

Oct 1—Bob Shepherd, Diedri Shepherd

Oct 8—

Oct 15—

Oct 22—

Oct 29—

Nov 5—

Birthdays— None this week

Anniversaries— None this week

The Club Song

We‟ve come to introduce you to the Murwillumbah Central boys,

The way you know that we‟re around is when you hear the noise,

There‟s tenors, basses, inbetweens, and some just here for show,

But all the same we‟ll sing to you, so boys just „Let „er go‟.

When Governor Georgie, gave us our charter,

He kissed our Rotaryannes to make it right,

We‟ve come to greet you, because we‟re after,

All the fun and fellowship that‟s going tonight.

So put it there!