Bulletin 3 (Jul 23, 2014)

Speakers

Jul 23, 2014
Jeremy Forbes
"HALT" Hope Assistance for Local Tradies

Jul 23, 2014
Assorted
"HALT" Help for Tradies movement

Jul 30, 2014
Dr. Herbert Hermens CEO Keech Castings Australia
3D Printing.It is the Next Industrial Revoltion

Aug 06, 2014
Various Club Directors
Club Forum activities and updates

Aug 13, 2014
Cath McDonald
Strokes and relevent information

Aug 20, 2014
Murray Versoe Rotary District Govenor
Rotary progress and relevent issues

Aug 27, 2014
Member Judy Miatke
Experiences in India --her recent trip

Sep 03, 2014
Club Directors
Club Forum & Rotary Knowledge

Sep 10, 2014
Member Stan Hendy
Stormsafe -- preparation and sensibilities

View entire list

Birthdays & Anniversaries

Member Birthdays

Glenn Maloney

July 3

Evelyn Lehmann

July 15

Andrew Pickles

July 17

Kevin Reade

July 18

John Langley

July 19

Doug Lougoon

July 20

John Harkin

July 26

Wayne Combridge

July 31

Judy Miatke

August 7

Rob Guley

August 10

Patti Cotton

August 15

Kathryn Mackenzie

August 21

Kim Sykes

August 25

Spouse Birthdays

Barb Mitchell

July 1

Rebecca Threlfall

July 13

Wendy Price

August 18

Kerry

August 23

Join Date

Bruce Fraser

July 5, 1995

19 years

Lindsay Murphy

July 25, 2001

13 years

Rob Guley

August 2, 2000

14 years

Andrew Pickles

August 9, 2000

14 years

Martin Ruffell

August 16, 2000

14 years

Debbie Thewlis

August 17, 2011

3 years

Liz Commadeur

August 17, 2011

3 years

Doug Lougoon

August 18, 1999

15 years

Stan Hendy

August 26, 1992

22 years

Marcus Dingle

August 29, 2012

2 years

Executives & Directors

President

Cathie Miller

President Elect

Paul Henderson

Treasurer

Brian Hinneberg

Secretary

Geoff Michell

Community Service

Rob Rosaia

Vocational Services

Peter Elliott

Club Service

Conor Cunningham

International Service

Catherine McDonald

Youth Services

Glenn Maloney

Immediate Past President

Dowell Mitchell

Bulletin Editor

Bruce Fraser (If you have any comments or questions, please contact the editor)

Stories

4-Way Test

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?

Duty Roster

Week

30-Jul

6-Aug

13-Aug

20-Aug

Chairperson

Conor Cunningham

Adrian Schoo

Gerard House

Debbie Thewlis

Welcome

Cath McDonald

Das Devidas

Marcus Dingle

Peter Elliott

Cashier

Ray Carrington

Graeme Lynas

Katherine MacKenzie

Lindsay Murphy

Cashier

John Pacher

Linda Barrow

Pat Sheehan

Liz Commadeur

Set up

Nick Christian

Peter Rainey

Doug Lougoon

John Whelan

Set up

Neville Sharpe

Nick Christian

Peter Rainey

Doug Lougoon

Raffle

John Cannon

Ray Carrington

Toni Carrington

Nick Christian

Attendance

Apologies/Makeups to Geoff Michell - attendance@rcobs.com.au or 0418 992 425
Apologies	Makeups this Week	Attendance	Guests	Members Present
10	5	33	1	32/59 57%

Presidents Report

Hi fellow Rotarians,
There are a few functions/BBQ’s coming up – see Bruce’s notices.

A reminder to everyone to check the duty roster in the bulletin and if you can’t get to a meeting when you are rostered for a job, please organise a replacement/swap

Ken Evers is looking after our Club apparel, so if you need more items see him.

Wayne gave a report on the Racism Stops Here event where our club cooked the sausages. Sounded like it went really well.

Our guest speaker was Jeremy Forbes from HALT (Hope Assistance for Local Tradies). Many of the club were involved in the first event in Bendigo at Hume & Iser.
Jeremy has been a tradie for 20 years and has had struggles over these years – financial, physical and emotional. Some of these struggles can be related back to not being well prepared during his apprenticeship and not knowing where to turn to for help.
Last year (following the suicide of a fellow tradie), Jeremy wanted to do something to raise the awareness of how to help tradies know where to go to get help and try to change the culture.
He got support from the local hardware store in Castlemaine and other local businesses to hold a BBQ to raise awareness. The RC of Castlemaine also supported him by cooking the BBQ. This liaison worked extremely well.
He then approached Steven Iser who was supportive of the concept. He developed a relationship with our club and we organised the BBQ for this event.
After this event he was approached by Bendigo Community Health and was offered a 3 year contract to develop and expand the HALT concept over Victoria. He now works part-time with BCH to achieve this. Jeremy wants to work with Rotary clubs across the state to run these events. He wants to develop a model that will be sustainable into the future and one that looks at the emotional, physical and financial wellbeing and also encourages a change of culture in the tradie world where it is ok to get help.
He has developed brochures and a wallet card that provides important phone numbers of where to get help.
At the moment, Jeremy has 8 more breakfasts lined up across the state.
Well done Jeremy.

Cheers Cathie:

Notices

Coming event: Federation picnic Sunday 31st August 2014. Marong Trotting centre. (8am to 3pm)

Upcoming BBQ's. Sunday 17th August Bendigo TAFE car park 10am to 3pm sausage sizzle for TAFE open day, just cook and serve

Monday 18th August TAFE recovery breakfast 8am to 10am Bacon & Egg (Thank the businesses breakfast).

Wednesday 15th October. Ride to work day Hargreaves Mall 7am to 9am.

In June a Group Study Exchange Team from D9800 went to Germany for a five-week study tour.

The Rotary Clubs in Bendigo sponsored 3 of the 5 participants

Dr Phil West a member of the Rotary Club of Bendigo was the Team Leader,

Gemma Welch was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Bendigo Next Generation

Jarred Epps was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Eaglehawk.

The Rotary Club of Eaglehawk have arranged for the three Bendigo members to be the Guest Speakers at our meeting on Wednesday 30^th July.

An invitation is extended to members of the Rotary Clubs in the two Goldfield Clusters to attend this meeting to hear these people on the life changing event they have recently experienced.

The meeting will be held at the Mechanics Institute, School Street, California Gully.

Fellowship from 6.00 pm - the meeting will commence at 6.30pm.

Cost $22.00 per head (two course meal)

To ensure that our Caterers are aware of the number attending an RSVP is essential.

RSVP to President Richard Epskamp – email rkepskamp@dodo.com.au prior to 5.00pm on Monday 28^th July.