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Iss. 7 | 17 May 2012, Meeting 2348 | 24 May 2012, Meeting 2349 | Fortnightly

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What’s next? 17 May 24 MayWelcoming NA Tom Appleby

Cash NA Edan Barnett

Sergeant NA George Magee

What’s happening?

General information and discussion.

Rinaldo Minniti at the combined Hat Day event.

This edition of the Bulletin includes five Club meetings that have not yet been reviewed due to a computer malfunction.

Mal Hyde Guest Speaker at Combined MeetingThe City of Adelaide Lions Club and the Rotary Club of Adelaide West held their second combined meeting at the Public Schools Club.

The meeting was held on 3 May with the retiring Police Commissioner Mal Hyde as Guest Speaker.

See page 4 for details.

President Elect Sioux Christiansen, Speaker Mal Hyde and President of Adelaide Lions Dean Scott.

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Meeting 2348, 17 MayMeeting on Thursday 17 May is cancelled and replaced with a combined Hat Day event with Adelaide South Rotary Club.Hat Day is Australian Rotary Health's official awareness and fundraising promotion for their Mental Health Research and Awareness and Education initiatives.

Adelaide West and Adelaide South Clubs again join forces to offer you this fantastic experience to mix and mingle while we enjoy the hospitality, food and bevvy's served by the Hilton Adelaide team.

The event is open to all. Rotarians and Non-Rotarians alike. Your attendance will be an inspiration.

OH - and you might be a lucky winner of:

1. A weekend night's accommodation in a Hilton Hotel Deluxe Room

2. A dinner for four at any of Fasta Pasta's restaurants

3. A family portrait courtesy of Coconut Productions Photography & Video.

 

RINALDO MINNITI guest speaker

Our special guest speaker:

Rinaldo Minniti  BA Dip Soc Psy MPsychmember APS College of Clinical and Health Psychologists will address attendees with an interesting talk on this topic.

Rinaldo joins us with 30 years of experience in the health care industry and is currently a Adjunct Senior Lecturer at both the University of Adelaide and Flinders University.

Venue

Victoria Room of the Hilton Hotel AdelaideCorner Grote Street and Victoria Square, Adelaide

When

May 17, 2012

5pm - arrival and welcome5.30 to 6.30 pm - drinks and canapés

Price

$35 per person

RSVP

Sioux Christiansen

Please spread the word. Bring a friend, a family member, a colleague.

What’s coming up?

Meeting 2349, 24 May General information and discussion.

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What’s been happening?

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Meeting 2347, 10 MaySpeaker: Vishal Jodhani

Subject: A journey from culture shock to global citizenship

Review David Griggs

There are times when you listen to an excellent speaker and you feel proud to belong to an organisation like Rotary International.

The members were engrossed from start to finish with wonderful relevant stories and some great images.

Vishal Jodhani was born and grew up in Mumbai. At age 15 he was a member of the Rotaract Club of Mumbai and played a very active role in the local chapter in his University. This was in District 3140 in India. At age 17 he was selected as a Rotary International Youth Ambassador to France. He then went on to work with AIESEC, the world's largest youth run organisation. He has travelled to more than 30 countries on a quest to develop the future generation of global leaders. He is still very involved with ASISEC on an International level.

Vishal explained how Rotary had helped him to develop a greater understanding of the  different cultures and beliefs of many countries.

Vishal is studying a Masters in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Adelaide. Why Adelaide? While attending an AIESEC conference in Holland he met a young lady from Adelaide named Kate. As he said, cupid does not know about geographical boundaries and we were delighted to have Kate join us at the meeting.

Vishal is very much the Global Citizen and one could detect a very warm glow of pride emanating from the Rotarians present, as Vishal thanked us all for contributing to an organisation that had been such a strong influence on his life. This is what international understanding is all about.

Photos. Top: 3 David thanking Vishal for his presentation. Middle: During the presentation. Bottom: President Randolph talking to Vishal.

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the people expect something to be done. This means that the Police, although in the past had a leaning towards a reactive approach, they now need to be proactive as well.

The main emphases at the present time are to concentrate on repeat offenders and the use of illicit drug usage.

Most offenders become repeat offenders so to break this cycle, the force must use intelligence to be able to quickly discourage such people from committing more crimes or for hopeless cases to ensure that they are put in prison.

Drugs were not around in huge quantities in the 60s but since then have built up into a major problem, the usage of which now causes most of the serious criminal violence. There is an urgent need of treatment for drug users as too often drug usage causes mental problems which can lead to criminal acts.

Commissioner Hyde also stated that modern organised crime, which often include members of illegal bikie gangs is a big problem. Laws should be capable of being able to control this matter.

Another point mentioned by the Commissioner related to Aboriginal people making up only 2% of the population but representing 20% of criminal offenders. This is a serious social matter which needs serious research. Unfortunately no-one seems to have the answer. The level of homelessness also relates to criminal behaviour and again is a serious matter.

On a positive note, increased pressure by the Police with new technology and the visibility of officers on the road has had a dramatic effect on the level of road deaths over the past decade, down from 382 deaths to just over a hundred in 2011. Also, not withstanding the local headlines, the level of occurrence in various categories of crime has been falling regularly over recent years.

At the end of Commissioner Hyde's presentation, all present enthusiastically showed their appreciation of not only his talk but also of the fantastic job done by him during his 13 years tenure of office.

Meeting 2346, 3 May

Combined meeting with the City of Adelaide Lions Club

Speaker: Retiring Commissioner of Police Mal Hyde

Review Peter Thompson

Commissioner Hyde joined the Victorian Police Force in 1968, held a variety of postings including Detective, District Patrol Officer and Superintendent in a large inner-city Division. He was appointed Assistant Commissioner in 1962 and Deputy Commissioner in 1993. The next career move was being appointed Commissioner of Police, South Australia in February 1997

Commissioner Hyde began his talk with reflections on policing in the 1960s and the changes there-in continuing up to the present time.

In 1829 John Peel, then Home Secretary, started the first official police force in London with its doctrine being 'The Police are the Community; the Community are the Police’. This philosophy was adapted by the South. Australian Police Force on its formation in 1838.

Probably the greatest change in policing procedures in the last 50 or so years was due to modern technology ie. road side checks on drivers' licences or vehicle ownership.

In the 60s there was probably a more stable environment, crime was not sensationalised and police were enforcing the law locally, thereby reducing lawlessness. Now the world is more complex thus requiring the police force to work to a wider strategy to combat an enlarged criminal base within the increased population.

Com. Hyde commented that it is essential for the Police to listen to, and be involved with the community, the community wants to be safe and to feel safe and if something goes wrong

Photos. Left: Mal Hyde. Middle: President Elect Sioux discussing the Humanity Book with speaker Mal Hyde. Right: The book presentation.

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Meeting 2345, 26 AprilClub Assembly

John Madigan and Bill Marles presented a request from the Arthritis Foundation as a proposed Service Project for our club to Manage their Used Book Sales project which is currently held monthly and is in need of restructure.

The proposal is for our club to arrange the sale at their premises and change from a monthly to a weekly basis with proceeds of sales to be split on a 60% to Arthritis and 40% to our club. It is anticipated two Rotarians per day would be required to manage this project.

This project will provide funds to the club and importantly is a Service to Community Project. In addition it will assist the Arthritis Foundation which has been associated with our club for over 20 years. It also provides an opportunity for our members to be able to meet outside normal club meetings.

The proposal was put to the meeting and members voted in favor.

Membership Report John Madigan

Individual Members 30

Corporate 4

Total 34

Plus individual Corporate Members 7

Honorary 4

Total 11

Total of current members 45

Potential new corporate 7

Total of current and potential 52

8 new members have been inducted this year.

Chair David indicated other reports would be continued at another Assembly to be held in the near future.

See page 7 for more details on the booksale!

Meeting 2344, 12 April

Speaker: Club Member Catherine Logue

Catherine conducted a training session with specific ideas put to members to generate new enthusiasm and projects for the club to consider. Individual thoughts and group suggestions that would benefit the club were then recorded for future discussion.

President Randolph requested Catherine to send details to members to complete a questionnaire for future study and discussion.

Those discussion and information pages are linked and members are requested to review the survey.

Could members please review the two documents linked below, and then send your email address to Catherine at ‘catherine@trainingforlearning’, so she can send a questionnaire to you for completion.

Further club discussions will then take place.

Links:

Club facilitation session vision 2012

Feedback from Club 2012

Catherine Logue

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www.rotary9500inbendigo2013.org.au14 – 17 March 2013

District 9500 Conference@ Bendigo

Have you registered for our conference?

‘Actors are able to

trick themselves into

treating anything as

if it is fantastic.

It’s kind of madness

really.’

Tom Baker

Our organisers have arranged for all of our members attending Marie’s Conference to be accommodated at the same venue, however it has recently been discovered another conference has been booked in Bendigo at the same time.

It is suggested if you don’t book soon, you may find available accommodation may be a considerable drive from the conference venue.

Meeting 2343, 5 April

Speaker: Club Member Bill Marles

Subject: Our new website

Bill gave members a further visual update on our new website and an illustration on the new additions recently installed.

He thanked Heather Sloan for taking the individual photos of members and requested those who have not had theirs taken to speak to Heather and make arrangements.

Bill also asked members who have not completed their personal details to please attend to this issue as a matter of urgency and forward the information to Bill or John.

The Four Way Test of Rotary states:

Of the things we think, say or do...

 

Is it the Truth?

Is it Fair to all concerned?

Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships?

Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?

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Saturday, 5 May 2012

Saw members of Adelaide West Club visit the Arthritis SA booksale premises (corner of South Road and Richmond Road, Marleston) to introduce our members to the magnificent facility they have set-up.

Arthritis’ Marketing and Fundraising Manager Sue Lear welcomed a terrific turnout of club members and their partners for a guided tour of the Booksale. Sue provided an overview of a few regular duties required to run it.

The purpose of the day was to judge our members’ views towards formally committing to an agreement to assist Arthritis SA in the long term to running the sale.

It was terrific to hear that all who arrived were thrilled with the set-up and have indicated they’d be happy to be included on a regular roster, which would probably see each member having to attend the sale four times a year.

Our aim is to run the sale weekly, for about 47/48 weeks of the year, excluding a few weeks around the Christmas, New Year and Easter quiet periods.

Only two people are required on a day to run it. One person primarily responsible for the cash register, with a second generally milling around, tidying up the shelves and mixing with customers to talk up the goodwill of Rotary and Arthritis SA.

It’s all about having a bit of fun. We found that the customers were delighted to have a chat, and as we move along, we can all think creatively about how we can build up the sale, and maybe even pick up some new members for our club.

Already, Richard Armour came up with the idea of adding DVDs and electronic games to the stock. He had witnessed an amazing turnout to a Goodwood Street sale the weekend before that saw lines of people arriving to buy. We’ve already dropped this idea on Arthritis’ team who thought it was an excellent idea. This has the ability to attract a different demographic of customers, including young families and their kids.

Catherine Logue mentioned she thinks her daughter-in-law would be interested in assisting Arthritis’ ‘book-sorting team’ volunteers who meet during the week to sort the donations and stock the shelves. Likewise, Bill’s mother Maybelle, a past librarian with West Torrens library, has also put her hand up to both assist with book sorting, but also on occasion help staff the sale on a Saturday.

Book sale with Arthritis Foundation

While our customers hit the shelves, David Sabine and Ashleigh Lorraine made the most of the opportunity to bag-a-bargain! Ashleigh found himself a little treasure, he couldn’t believe his eyes.

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‘Australians are a

fantastic bunch of

people but the attention

is overwhelming for

someone like me.’

Cathy Freeman

General duties on an average Saturday are:

• Arrive at about 9.45am to remove some dust covers.

• Turn on the Cash Register.

• Open the roller door.

• Put a couple of signs out on the roadside.

• Mix and Mingle with customers for four hours.

• Generally tidy up around the place as the day progresses.

At 2 pm, reverse the above process to finish up and leave.

Our creativity will be the key to this sale. Ideas like introducing DVDs and games. How to cleverly promote the sale to build awareness and attendance.

At the end of the day, our aim is to build the sale up to a $1,000+ per week turnover.

Arthritis’ team within reason don’t mind really what we do. For example, if we want to bring their BBQ out to run a sausage sizzle on a busy day... we can go for it! One of Arthritis’ long term volunteers at the sale mentioned that this has worked well in the past with some balloons out the front to get more people stopping to buy a banger and a book.

We could promote other Club projects also such as Edan’s Kids Movie and Circus days. Sell raffle tickets. Promote our District Conference. All manner of things that will simply add to the ‘intrigue’ of the visit for a member of the public.

This sale is an excellent opportunity for our member Rotarians to get out in the public more. Spread the word. Educate the community about both Rotary and Arthritis SA’s projects and ethos. Plus of course, help raise some extra funds for Arthritis SA, a charity our club has supported for close to two decades.

Top: (l-r back) Maybelle Marles, Alan Smith, Ashleigh Lorraine, Peter Thompson, David Sabine, John Madigan, Kay Madigan, Richard Armour and Nan (l-r front) Yvonne Merendi and Catherine Logue – all dropped in early to have the guided tour.

Bottom: Arthritis SA’s Marketing & Fundraising Manager Sue Lear led Peter Thompson (a recently retired Arthritis SA Board Member) Ashleigh and David on a rather humorous orientation tour of the booksale warehouse!

Thank you to all who came down. Thanks for eagerly putting your hands up to assist with the roster every now and then. Collectively, we’re confident of being able to ‘person’ the sale each week.

For more info, give either John Madigan a call on 8379 1640 or Bill Marles on 0410 523 106 / 8231 0636.

Any ideas you have for PROMOTING the sale around Adelaide will be greatly appreciated.

Our next sale day will be Saturday 2 June, with an aim to run weekly from then on.

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‘Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions

and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my

time as a puppet.’

Hedy Lamar

Rotary is an incredible organisation it is an organisation that is made up of individuals who are involved in their local communities and the world community and are doing great work. Mostly people do this without looking for thanks. Rotarians do it because they believe in giving service above self. People join Rotary because they respect the organisation and hold it in high regard because it is a trustworthy organisation. Rotary has an incredible history of what it has achieved; polio is a classic example. From the idea of one man, Clem Renouf, to the position where thirty years later we are almost at the stage of saying polio has been eradicated. All Rotarians can say that they have helped to do that, no other organisation can say that but we can. We started the task and we will finish the task! Rotarians like Ian Scott who started Australian Rotary Health, Tom Henderson with ShelterBox. So many good ideas come from the vision of one person who then turned their vision into a reality. It is because of great programmes like these examples that make people want to get involved and join Rotary.

So why do so many of them leave so soon after they join? Does it have anything to do with the name of Rotary? No, people respect and are impressed with the history of Rotary. They know about our work in communities around the world and of how we help people in our own local communities. I was discussing this problem with a friend who is a long time Rotarian. His idea of why people leave is because of the following reasons, and I think he is right. He says “I believe simply that we lose our members because of a lack of leadership, fun, fellowship and the emphasis we are placing on fundraising”. At clubs he visits in his varying capacities, the emphasis of the meetings is mainly about rosters for special

events or fund raising. What happened to Clubs having quality speakers, Directors reports, welfare reports and FUN!

Does your club have strong leaders and leadership? Meetings need to be well run, be on time and have quality speakers, consistent director’s reports and welfare reports. This will contribute to members enjoying the meetings and they will want to keep coming as often as they can. However, remember the meetings have to be FUN. People like to have fun and if they aren’t having fun at club meetings and enjoying themselves their attendance will start to drop off and eventually they will leave, and this is exactly what has been happening in a lot of clubs.

Every club has the ability to make their clubs dynamic clubs, where members enjoy fun and fellowship. It takes strong leadership by the Club President and the Club Directors with good planning and engaging all the members to do that. Too often we hear of clubs that are controlled by the “old school” members or the two or three “club wet blankets” that manage to kill off every good idea or suggestion that comes from some of the newer members. We need good strong leadership in clubs by people who can see that their Rotary Club does have a future. We need club leaders who are visionary and who can see a bright future for Rotary. Leaders who can see the benefit of the club having fun and working together on projects and programmes and getting enjoyment out of achieving things in the local community and world community. We need our members to stay and enjoy themselves in Rotary, all of us can help to do that by showing leadership and making sure our Rotary Club meeting is FUN.

“Have we taken FUN out of Rotary?”

Have we taken the FUN out of Rotary?Article by Rotary Coordinator, PDG Noel Trevaskis, from Rotary on the Move, Zones 8 and 7B Rotary Coordinator Newsletter May 2012 Volume 2 - Number 10

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Office Bearers 2011-12Rotary Club of Adelaide WestPresident: Randolph Alwis AM

Vice President: Sioux Christiansen

Past President: Tom Appleby

Treasurer: Geoff Beer

Sergeant: David Griggs & friends

Secretary: Kym Green

Rotary Foundation: Alan Smith OAM

Community Service Chair: Sioux Christiansen

International Service Chair: Alan Smith OAM

Vocational Service Chair: Catherine Logue

Membership and Extension Chair: John Madigan OAM

Club Service Chair: George Magee

International / DistrictInternational President: Kalyan Banerjee

District Governor 9500: Eric Russell

District Governor 9500 Elect: Marie Dorrington

Contact usRotary Club of Adelaide WestPO Box 7142Hutt Street, AdelaideSouth Australia 5000

Bulletin Editor: John F MadiganOAM jfklmadigan@hotmail.com

MeetingsThursdays @ 12.30 pm for 1 pm start

The Public Schools Club 207 East Tce, Adelaide South Australia 5000

Adelaide West Rotary Club was chartered 20 January 1964

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