What a Blast !!!
The Bendigo South East College Band and Chorus in
The Mall this morning, for Ride To Work Day
Do see the video at
https://www.facebook.com/BendigoSandhurst/?fref=ts
Future Rotarians [We Hope] Chorus Line set the beat
for the morning:
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We missed Adrian Schoo, our club cyclist ..
in bed with the ‘flu.
News tidbits:
Our Team 48 arrives home Monday, from Maulau,
Maubisse and Dili Timor-Leste … into Tulla at 11:30
Monday night. “Coach Captain” Waters has volunteered
to drive the bus.
Martin Ruffell captured two little Timorese men
Watching Team 48 repair the roof on their school.
The boy in yellow shorts is holding a standard Timorese toy ..
a flattened plastic bottle which he will use to push along
an old motorbike tyre.
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Kevin Reade is phoning today to lock in our Fellowship Weekend
at Barham, most probably weekend of April 28 – 30 2017.
Ray and George are to meet the [new] CEO of Radius Disability Services,
next Wednesday towards a MOU re the proposed wool
[and wiring & electronic boards] baler purchase.
Paul and George to have another tête a tête next week
to kick around ideas, preparing for our board
meeting October 24th.
George is off to PETS [Now PELTS .. President Elect
Learning and Training Seminar] all day Sunday.
If you’ve read A BURNING QUESTION in October RDU,
you’d be frightened off taking on the PE role forever.
Nevertheless, PE George and Graeme [Retirees Inc]
agreed to meet to formulate an innovative funding
theme for our board.
Apart from the formal, annual, public “suggested” donation
to The Rotary Foundation, [TRF], we do make “silent”
donations towards the six TRF Areas of Focus:
· PEACE AND CONFLICT PREVENTION/RESOLUTION
· DISEASE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT
· WATER AND SANITATION
· MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH
· BASIC EDUCATION AND LITERACY
· ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
A “silent” donation towards TRF Areas of Focus example
is our Team 48 self-funding their travel and personal
expenses in Timor-Leste.
Our next “silent” donation is us all dressing up and
attending the Dinner at Silks, Bendigo Racecourse,
November 23rd.
In its centennial year, this Cluster Foundation Dinner
will be one to remember.
We need to ask our “Club Foundation Director”
Brian Hinneberg, to coordinate the $45.00 per
person into the nominated Bendigo South Cluster Account.
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Martin Ruffell, and his deputy Glenn Maloney seek
volunteers for the Swap meet cluster clubs’ event:
Nov 12 – 13
Eaglehawk Trivia Night is on at the Showgrounds
this Friday evening: First prize in the $2 raffle
is a watercolour painting, by Terry Jarvis, valued at $750.
October 24 is World Polio Day
A wee true Polio story:
George, walking Schnauzer Bailey the other morning,
spied a garage sale sign and wandered in … Young lady
in a wheelchair … “Why” .. “Polio” .. contracted in China
before her sojourn in Indonesia and now Resident of Bendigo.
“Do you know anybody else post-polio ?
“No”
Her email address later, and she’s en route to contact
the lady chair of Post Polio Victoria, who happened to
speak to Woodend RC recently, which Grant Hocking
just happened to mention at RLI Training last week.
Rotary in Motion !!!
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