Rotary Club of Queanbeyan Inc

PO Box 155, Queanbeyan NSW 2620 District 9710

qbnrotary@gmail.com

Charter Date March 1952

http://www.facebook.com/QueanbeyanRotary

18 July 2012 Edition Presidents Report from Natalie Jupe

Hi All, Board Meeting went well last week thank you to the members who came. I also hope Kristin is feeling better as she was under the weather last week and missed the meeting. We are going to have a great vocational visit to the Ambulance Station this week (details below) and we are looking forward to having members of the Queanbeyan St John Ambulance also attending this visit with us. Dont forget to register for the Conference as it is this weekend it should be great and I really encourage everyone to attend!!! Natalie

What is happening this week

Visit to Queanbeyan Ambulance Station at 7 Erin Street, Queanbeyan We will be meeting Christy Blighton the station office at 6.30pm, 7 Erin Street Dinner will be at Punjabi Hut, Queanbeyan for those who wish to join us after. ***Note*** - We are going to be having members of the Queanbeyan St John Ambulance coming along with us on our visit

What is happening in the next week

Friday 20 July - Friendship Dinners (as part of conference weekend) If you have registered for the Conference you will get a separate email with details of which dinner you are going to. Sat 21 & Sun 22 July - Rotary Success Conference - Hellenic Club Woden, $100 per person for full conference, visit website to register http://rotarydownunder.com.au/events/AustralianRotaryConference2012/index.asp Wednesday 25 July - Guest Speaker - Bradley Carron-Arthur, telling us about his 131 days of solo running (4888km) from Canberra to Cape York

What happened last week

Board Meeting

Have you registered yet??? It is this weekend!!!

It will be a great opportunity to hear success stories and to share your own success stories. RI President Nominee Ron Burton and his wife Jetta will be in attendance.

Please keep collecting the used postage stamps and foreign coins. Collecting these helps us with our fundraising. If you have any questions about the stamps, you can email Klaus on klascha@gmail.com

Do you know someone who could be our next Guest Speaker? We are still looking for people to be guest speakers at our meetings. If you know someone who might be suitable, please let Tim Brown know via email timandmarian@grapevine.com.au
Joke of the Week
Q: Why do mermaids wear seashells? A: Because B-shells are too small and D-shells are too big.

District Governor Phil Armstrongs Message for July 2012 Firstly let me welcome you to the new Rotary Year. Also I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the great honour you have given me to serve as the District Governor for 2012-13. I look forward to working with you all so that we can continue to make a difference in the world. Rotary International President for 2012-13, Sakuji Tanaka has given us the theme of Peace Through Service and how well does that blend with Rotarys motto of Service Above Self. Rotary Clubs and Rotarians have been carrying out service projects locally, nationally and internationally for many years and it is amazing how those service projects can change peoples lives by giving stability, independence and self belief. The provision of safe drinking water, improved sanitation, health support, education and food security can provide an environment where peace becomes an option for people. It is easy to see why these areas are included in the Foundations Six Areas of Focus. So while our theme for this year is Peace Through Service, in reality we have been practising this for many years. This year gives us the opportunity to remain focussed on Service which is one of the many things that Rotary is very good at. From a District level my goals for the year start with our charity the Rotary Foundation. Obviously for me to achieve this goal, I am totally dependent on Members and Clubs. Within the Foundation I want to promote Every Rotarian Every Year. I understand that there are many worthwhile causes for you to donate your money to (the organisation that I work for is a charity) and I encourage you to still support those causes. All I ask is that you consider seriously the Foundation as part of your charity giving - $1 per week totals $52 per year and $2 per week totals $104 per year. Just think if we could get every Rotarian in our District to personally give $2 per week to the Foundation, our total would be close to $150,000. If we then add $1,000 from each Club and then additional personal donations from our Paul Harris Society Members we exceed $200,000 from District 9710 very quickly. If I am going to encourage you to donate to the Foundation you need to have good reasons other than the fact that it is Rotarys charity: We know where the money is spent and we know that all of the money that we donate is spent on the Foundations projects and programs. Administration costs are covered by investing your donations for three years the income earned from those investments covers the costs of administration and then the money is released for use. Polio is not yet eliminated we may be 99% there but the remaining 1% may well be the toughest and the most expensive. We need more money to finish the job.

The money that this District donates to the Foundation sets the amount that is returned to the District in the future for Clubs to utilise on projects. So if District donations reduce, so does the amount of money that will be available to District Clubs conversely if District donations increase, so does the amount available. This is a great incentive to donate to the Foundation and of course it is tax deductable.

More District Goals in the future. Once again, thank you for the opportunity and honour of serving as District Governor for 2012-13. Kim and I look forward to meeting as many of you as we can over the next twelve months and thank you for your efforts in making a difference in the world while we work towards Peace Through Service. Phil

2012-2013 Entertainment Books

Entertainment Book

Visit the link below to purchase online

https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/24402p
Note- It is not just the Canberra Edition of the book available, you can get copies for the following areas Adelaide $65 Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and Surrounds $65 Far North Queensland $50 Geelong, Surf Coast and Ballarat $55 Gold Coast and Northern NSW $55 Greater Melbourne $65 Newcastle, Central Coast and Hunter $60 NSW South Coast $55 Perth $65 Sydney $65 Sydney Greater West $65 Sydney North $65 Tasmania $60

If you are interested in doing a first aid course, please register your interest with Ross McConnell Queanbeyan Division Superintendent St John NSW 0401 101 913 Ross.McConnell@hp.com

Queanbeyan Division

Renal Unit We are now looking for donations of the following items for the Queanbeyan Renal Unit
kids colouring in books pencils/textas/crayons plastic toys (eg blocks, trucks) that can be easily washed.

These are so that a small toy box can be established in the waiting room.

If you can help with these please contact Natalie Jupe. Friendship Beyond Club Functions (FBCF) You might have noticed a few FBCF events listed in our calendar in the upcoming months. This was an idea discussed at the President Elect training earlier this year. It is purely a chance for Rotarians, friends and family to have a social outing of some kind (other than socializing at club functions). Our first two FBCF events are a trip to the movies in August, and a Coffee & Cake morning tea in October. We will see how these first two go, and if successful we will try to have a FBCF event ever few months. If you have any suggestions for what types of outings we should host, please let us know.

District Conference

Rotary District D9710 - Annual Conference 2012

Friday October 26 to Sunday October 28 Batemans Bay & Moruya Back to the Beach Theme

Registration available online at www.rotaryd9710.org.au Early bird prizes will be on offer for early registration

Library on the move

http://www.qcc.nsw.gov.au/

Queanbeyans new and spacious library will be open to the public from 13 August and will be located in the former National Parks and Wildlife Service building at 6 Rutledge St, Queanbeyan. The library has three levels which features dedicated areas for history and research, children and studying and is much more user friendly. To facilitate the move the library will be closed from 2pm 4 August reopening in its new premises 9.30am Monday 13 August. Members of the community will be able to get guided tours of the new library as part of Local Government Week on Thursday 16 August between 10am and 2pm. To reserve a time telephone the Library desk on 6285 6238. The library will maintain its opening hours which are: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 9.30am6pm, Thursday 9.30am-7pm, Saturday 9.30am-4pm and it is closed on Sundays.

Massive Baby Goods Garage Sale

Volunteers are required **** SATURDAY 11 August 9am till 1pm **** 5 OGrady Place, Wanniassa
***** ALL PROCEEDS TO MOTHERS & BABIES CHARITY ***** If you can volunteer on the day please phone Wendy on 6231 1190 or email her at gmm@webzone.net.au
National Tree Day 2012

Council will hold a community tree planting event at The Scar on Southbar Road on Sunday 29 July 2012 from 9.30am-12.30pm with a BBQ from 11.30 am and a kids treasure hunt activity. Please register at the National Tree Day site http://www.treeday.planetark.org/site/52804 or contact Council's Sustainability Officer at sustainability@qcc.nsw.gov.au or 62856800.
My name is John Sokol. I am the incoming president for Kankakee, IL USA District 6450. To date, ONLY ONE PERSON HAS RESPONDED TO MY REQUEST. I am still reaching out to the 1.2 million Rotarians around the world to start an AUTISM AWARENESS ROTARIAN ACTION GROUP. Over 46 million people in the world have some level of autism. Has Autism touched your life in one way or another? Is it a family member or friend, maybe a student? Please contact me today @ RotariansforAutism@gmail.com. I need 25 perspective individual members from 5 countries and 3 zones to get the Rotarian Action Group started. Please share this, thanks in advance! Many of the clubs we are reaching out to already have projects that support autism in one way or another. This is a great opportunity for us to unite our efforts. I personally am a firefighter that volunteers my time working with children with autism teaching them safety in their everyday lives. I also work with their caregivers and train first responders on how to interact with individuals with autism in an emergency situation. Our club help found the Ember911 Safety Education Program @www.Ember911.com. This is a child safety program with a focus on children with autism.

Contact details for our members

Name Kristin Ballard Bill Hoare Joan Macdonald Bly Miers Tim Brown Michael Keys Natalie Jupe Dian Hollick Liana Dobson Doug Mitchell Mobile 0418 450 126 0418 656 880 0428 382 501 0427 006 680 0428 623 995 0413 934 777 0419 161 974 0402 678 322 0416 216 450 TBA Email kballard@westnet.com.au joan.macdonald@dfat.gov.au blymiers@hotmail.com timandmarian@grapevine.com.au mjkeys190877@optusnet.com.au nataliejupe@hotmail.com

tba lianakate@gmail.com doug@mitchellfamilyonline.com Useful Links

Rotary Club of Queanbeyan on http://www.facebook.com/QueanbeyanRotary Rotary District Site Rotary in Australia Rotary International Rotary Club of Queanbeyan West Rotary Down Under http://www.rotaryd9710.org.au/ http://www.rotary.org.au/en/ www.rotary.org/ http://www.queanbeyanwestrotary.org/ http://www.rotarydownunder.com.au/ http://www.rotarysouthpacific.org/ http://www.ramaustralia.org/ http://www.rotaryaustralia.org.au/

Rotary New Zealand and South Pacific Rotarians Against Malaria (RAM)

Rotary Australia a gateway to Rotary clubs in Australia National Youth Science Forum This Close to Ending Polio

http://www.nysf.edu.au/ http://thisclose.net/index.php http://www.rawcs.com.au/

Rotary Australia World Community (RAWCS) The Rotary Leadership Institute

http://www.rotaryleadershipinstitute.org/

Facebook Update As at 17/07/2012 our Facebook page has 119 likes Fantastic!!! Keep spreading the word

Upcoming Events
Date to be confirmed July 2012 THE NEW ROTARY YEAR Wednesday 18 July The Rotary Club Vision Facilitation Program 1 x 4 hour session Visit to Queanbeyan Ambulance meet Christy Blighton the station officer, 6.30pm, 7 Erin Street ***Note*** - we are going to be having members of the Queanbeyan St John Ambulance coming along with us on our visit Friendship Dinners (as part of conference weekend) When you register for the conference you will get an email about the dinner you are attending Rotary Success Conference - Hellenic Club Woden, $100 per person for full conference, visit website to register Guest Speaker - Bradley Carron-Arthur, telling us about his 131 days of solo running (4888km) from Canberra to Cape York Social Media Training Session see above for more details

Friday 20 July

Sat 21 & Sun 22 July

http://rotarydownunder.com.au/events/AustralianRotaryConference2012/index.asp
Wednesday 25 July

Saturday 28 July

August 2012 MEMBERSHIP AND EXTENTION MONTH Wednesday 1 August Official Visit from District Governor, Phil Armstrong Wednesday 8 August Board Meeting Saturday 11 August Baby Goods Garage Sale volunteers are required (see above for details) Tuesday 14 August Friendship Beyond Club Functions Movie night at Event Cinemas in Manuka more details to come Wednesday 15 August Guest Speaker Graham Waite, Projects Coordinator for Technical Aid to the Disabled ACT (TADACT) Wednesday 22 August Guest Speaker Martin Fish from Menslink Wednesday 29 August Guest Speakers, RYPEN Kids Ruth Dickinson & Sam Page telling us about their experience September 2012 NEW GENERATIONS MONTH Wednesday 5 September Wednesday 12 September Wednesday 19 September

Wednesday 26 September

Official visit from Assistant Governor, Lynne Duckham Board Meeting Guest Speaker - Tania McCartney, local National Year of Reading Ambassador, Tania is a published writer of children's books and is a very engaging speaker and is currently involved in many National Year of Reading activities. Guest Speaker from the Australian Electoral Commission, speaking about 2012 being The Year of Enrolment and also the work they do for electors and voters in the community.

October 2012 VOCATIONAL SERVICE MONTH Date to be confirmed Wednesday 3 October Wednesday 10 October Wednesday 17 October Saturday 20 October

Wednesday 24 October Fri, Sat & Sun 26, 27 and 28 October Wednesday 31 October

Selling Gnomes at Floriade Guest Speaker John Green from Rotary Club of CanberraWeston Creek will be speaking about the BowelCare Project Board Meeting Peace Crane Making Night Friendship Beyond Club Functions Coffee & cake morning tea, 10am Gloria Jeans in Riverside Plaza all welcome World Polio Day Dinner everyone welcome details TBA District Conference Batemans Bay & Moruya details above. Register at www.rotaryd9710.org.au Guest Speaker Lee Tunks from the Queanbeyan Division of St John Ambulance to speak about Asthma & Anaphylaxis