Craig Carson

President

2019—20

Vol 32 Edition 4

7th

August 2019

The Rotary Club of Brisbane Centenary Inc. meets on Wednesday at 6:30am for 6:45am at: Solitude Solutions,

5 Wills Court,

Mt Ommaney.

P O Box 214 Mt

Ommaney Q 4074

This week’s Meeting

6:30 for 6:45am Board

meeting and club

meeting at Bev’s

Tuesday 6

August

Just Poppies

Event Assistance

14 August

Ekka Day Breakfast

Jindalee Boat Ramp

Park

21 August

Bob McMillan—

FoodBank

The Carson Commentary

The Board for 2019—20

President Craig Carson

Past President Neville Blomeley

Treasurer Gerry Gebert

Secretary Nick Curry

Effective Services Di Scotte

PR Terry Killen

Membership Graham Osterfield

Foundation John Woodward

Club Administration Craig Carson

Bulletin Editor Nick Curry

13—315March 2020

Chinchilla

The Rotary Club

of

Brisbane Centenary

Rotary International

Convention

1—5 June 2020

Craig

It was a wonderful opportunity to be present at the

handover of the $25,000 to Wesley Choices Centre,

helping to continue their valuable support to members of

the wider south east Queensland area impacted by

cancer irrespective of the type of cancer or where they

were treated. Wesley Choices has gained a reputation

as a world leading cancer support group It is impossible

not to gain inspiration from our connection with Choices.

Earlier in the week the “Shed Movers” working party

gathered at the Osterfields’ to relocate a garden shed

containing cub materials from the lowlands to the

highlands. Some exercise, a whole lot of fun and mission

successful.

I attended a meeting at “The Hub” at Mt Ommaney

where local community groups are being encouraged to

connect with each other and the wider community to

provide resources to build a strong local network.

Next week we will be helping out at the “Love your

Sister” fundraising event, Samuel Johnson has shown

what drive and determination can achieve raising $9.6m

in just 2 years.

Your challenge for our meeting on the 7th August is to

bring along suggestions to develop our community and

club.

Raffle: Andrew Rodgers will be drinking the Portuguese red tonight!

International Toast: Geoff Williams, noting that the UK had both gained a new prime minister and lost a tanker, toasted the Rotary Club of London—the first club to be chartered outside of North America.

ROMAC: Neville thanked the club for its support and noted that he was basically now an Ambassador-at-large for ROMAC.

Treasurer: Got the President to sign his first cheque for the club - $25,000!

Foundation: John Woodward noted the Polio film night “Rides like a Girl”. He will discuss with Jindalee and Sumner Park (and possibly Taylor Bridge). Noted a previous issue re: tickets in that on-line does not work as well as real tickets.

On the subject of polio, Nick noted that there had been an increase in the number of cases, especially in Pakistan (we are about double last year’s figure at well over 40 cases) but that Pakistan hoped to vaccinate all children under the age of five by the end of the year….and that there was some concern about vaccine derived cases world wide.

Satellite Club: Belinda told us that the person she has been getting advice from on 3D printing was not able to leave Melbourne at the moment for family reasons.

She will be organizing a recruitment drive for the satellite club shortly .

The satellite club has also donated 28 desk top computers to Computers for Learning. They refurbish the computers and sell them very cheaply to cover costs. Glen also noted that she had taken out lap tops (which they prefer).

BeefBank: Andrew told us that the Corrective Services are sending four cattle to us.

Pushing Barriers: Tracy noted that she had presented to Taylor Bridge last night and that they seemed enthusiastic, especially about volunteering as drivers It is an especially busy time at the moment with 60 players on the books.

International: Our RAWCS visit is very much in the planning stage with 7 going. Projects at the Kindergarten will include painting the bare timber interiors, putting up shelving and starting the fence framework.

President-

• The working bee on Sunday had gone well to relocated the shed (and our storage) at Graham Osterfield’s place

• Ada Filer will become our social secretary extraordinaire for our monthly end of month soirees.

• 6th August see us proving assistance at Poppies Trivia and fund-raising night...4:30pm—9:30pm. We are supporting Love your sister. The place normally gets around 150-200 people but they think they might get double that on the night.

• Our Fiji film night will be 8th August...Palm Beach with Rachael Ward, Bryan Brown and Sam Neil. Details being circulated as Craig spoke.

• Noted our Polio film, Rides like a Girl.

• EKKA day breakfast...Crain intends to invite our local stakeholders, e.g. MOSS etc.

• Wants to institute a system whereby each member organizes the guest speaker programme for one month.

That was the week that was or TW3

Nick Corcoran—RYLA student

Nick went on the recent RYLA camp as our sponsored

candidate. The first thing he noted were the camp leaders who

rushed to greet them all to the dulcet? tones of Birds of Tokyo,

each wearing a spandex superhero costume. Each morning was

not dissimilar with the cohort being roused to some rowdy

anthem and made to go on a run.

Another departure from normal living was the complete absence

of any mobile phone signal, thus rendering the cohort’s collective

mobile phones useless and isolating them from any news of the

outside world. (In the old days we used to rely on radios etc!)

All the activities were designed to get people comfortable with

what was uncomfortable and getting people used to challenging

themselves, understanding themselves, and working

cooperatively with others.

It is OK to fail but to succeed, one needs to trust others and work

with them. Communication is a key and some of the activities

were designed to work on communication other than verbal. For instance, they had to rank all the cohort in exact age

order without speaking, or conduct some task whilst both silent and blindfolded.

During the week, there were other activities designed to teach certain life skills including financial.

At the end, Nick found that he had made many more friends and that he had gained a different perspective. Whilst he

had always been focussed on where he wanted to go in the future, he also gained greater respect for the community at

large and for things he had not really given much thought to. RYLA may not have changed any particular direction of his

life, rather it added greater weight to his decisions

The two Nicks: Nick Curry congratulates Nick Corcoran on

his presentation.

Today (a while ago)!

1782 George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honour soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.

1858 The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College.

1947 Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have travelled from South America.

1955 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.

1962 Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.

Rotakids Report

Neville had a Rotakids meeting on Wednesday 24th July:

1 The kids have raised $255 for school equipment for Fiji – that will be presented to Glen/Di at a school assembly.

2 The next project will be within the school for some type of equipment to use outside for people not interested in sport e.g. a large chess set.

3 They will start collecting sports shoes for Pushing Barriers.

4 There will be a new activity to encourage being active with the best House to go onto the Honour Board we gave the school.

5. The Rotakids were asked to put their hands up to be Sports Shed monitors- it was pointed out by Tahlia that if they were in Rotakids this is the sort of service they should be volunteering for so the spirit of community service is being instilled in them.

6. Tahlia has nearly finished compiling the list of shirt sizes so will be able to order the Rotakids shirts soon.

Movie Night – Palm Beach

Rachel Ward’s movie “Palm Beach”, a comedy-drama

about a group of lifelong friends reuniting to celebrate a

special birthday. Celebrating a line-up of both Australian

and International stars, Bryan Brown, Greta Scacchi, Sam

Neill, Jacqueline Mackenzie, Heather Mitchell, and

Academy Award Nominee Richard E Grant.

You are invited for the screening of the movie Palm Beach,

helping to raise funds to continue our Nausori Village, Fiji

community rebuilding project. This is to help with finishing

touches to the recently completed new Kindergarten as

well as fitting out a community kitchen.

Numbers are limited; get in early to ensure your place!

When: Thursday 8th August 2019,

Time: 6:15pm for drinks, movie starts 7:00pm.

Where: Regal Twin Cinema, 381 Honour Ave. Graceville

Cost: $20 per person, includes a pre-movie drink and

nibbles

Bookings: https://www.trybooking.com/BEGCP

At last, the real cheque for $25,000 gets presented to

Wesley Choices...a great moment for everyone!

The

Great

Shed

move

Well

done

everyone

who

assisted

and got it all up and running.

Andrew- - the wine burglar—

shows up once in a blue moon

and takes the prize!

The 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 FRIEND-SHIPS?

4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

SMILE!

When Insults Had Class:

These glorious insults are from an era “ before” the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words.

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."

-Mark Twain

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." -Moses Hadas

Duty 21/08/2019 4/09/2019

Chair Gerry Gebert Graham Oster-

field

Duty Officer Bill Dalby Nick Curry

Fellowship

Officer Ada Filer Brad Butcher

Rotary talk John Woodward

International

Toast John Woodward

Editor’s note: I don’t know if this is actually true but it is a good

story!

The Sydney Morning Herald, June 15th 1999, reported:

An employee for Ansett Australia, who happened to have the last

name of GAY, got on a plane recently using one of his company’s

‘Free Flight’ tickets. However, when Mr Gay tried to take his seat, he

found it being occupied by a paying passenger. So, not to make a

fuss, he simply chose another seat.

Unknown to Mr Gay, another Ansett Australia flight at the airport

was experiencing mechanical problems. The passengers of this other

flight were being rerouted to various airplanes. A few were put on Mr

Gay’s flight and anyone holding a free ticket was being bumped off.

Ansett officials, armed with a list of these ‘freebee’ ticket holders

boarded the plane to remove the free-loaders. Of course, Mr Gay was

not sitting in his assigned seat as you may remember. So when the

ticket agent approached the seat where Mr Gay was supposed to be

setting, she asked a startled customer ‘Are you Gay?’ The man shyly

nodded that he was, at which point she demanded ‘Then you have to

get off the plane’. Mr Gay, overhearing what the ticket agent had

said, tried to clear up the situation, ‘You’ve got the wrong man; I’m

gay!’ This caused an angry third passenger to stand up and yell,

‘Hell; I’m gay too! They can’t kick us all off!’

Confusion reigned as more and more passengers began yelling that

Ansett Australia had no right to remove gays from their flights.

Afterwards, Ansett Australia refused to comment on the incident!

Ansett; those were the days...