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Safety Beach Sailing Club
Jun 30, 2016
6:00 PM – 9:30 PM
 
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Member Birthdays
Rick Hayllar
May 27
 
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Ginny McMillan
May 4
 
Freda Donaldson
May 5
 
Julie
May 30
 
Anniversaries
Roger McMillan
Ginny McMillan
May 31
 
Join Date
Mark Long
May 14, 2015
1 year
 
Last Meeting
Guests:
Our Guest Speaker Hans, Brugman Carol Hayllar Julie Little, Joy Jarman, Mich Shepherd
 
Apologies:
Tyrrell McGeever, Merv Prosser
Russell Hampton
National Awards Services Inc.
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Club Information
Welcome to our Club!
We meet Thursdays at 6:15 PM
Old Shire Office.
Point Nepean Rd
Dromana, VIC  3936
Australia
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Tyrrell McGeever
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President Tyrrell’s Tales
We had an interesting guest speaker and support team last week. It is amazing how people can gain strength out of adversary and go on to assist others who might be suffering from a similar problem to themselves. This was brought out last week with the presentation of Nick Shepherd and the team.  Nick has form an association to assist people who have depression and may consider suicide and is about to undertake a mammoth journey by para-boarding around Australia to raise funds and awareness. This appears to me to be an almost unachievable goal but strength of character and physical strength can overcome a lot.
Nick did not appeal for funds from the Club but asked what could Rotary, and Rotarians around Australia do to help. It might be possible for Rotarians around Australia to  meet Nick and the team as they come ashore on the circumnavigation by giving moral support or introduce Nick as guest speaker on his journey to make others aware of his quest.  I will speak to this at the upcoming Cluster Meeting.
See you all Thursday evening
President Tyrrell
Meeting Responsibilities
Meeting set up
Anderson, Pete
 
Meeting set up 2
Buchanan, David
 
Gig
Prossor, Mervyn
 
Chairman
Lewis, Lyn
 
Invocation
Long, Mark
 
Cashier
Barnard-Brown, Elaine
 
Cashier 2
Barnard-Brown, Ray.
 
Sonya Mendez, from the Rotary Club of West Pearl Harbour in Hawaii, visited us as a Guest, last Thursday
It was, when she was with another Hawaiian Rotary Club, when she decided to involve herself, with the Polio Eradication program, in a Third World Country
She went to a village called, in Ethiopia, Africa.  While she was there, assisting with the Salk vaccination, she had a chance meeting with a Village Elder. He explained, that the biggest challenge that they had, was that, the women & children, had to travel many miles every day, to collect water in plastic barrels & buckets
As well as Polio, they had many other diseases due to dirty local water, also used by animals. It was then at Gilo - Aeo she decided, to talk to her Rotary Club about fund raising to build a water well, locally for the village and then set about raising US $60,000 and the project got under way.
Sonya subsequently visited the village annually, for the next five years, as many wells drilled were too deep or were dry. Finally in the fifth year, on 16 March 2010, they struck water at 1,000 feet deep. The well became known as The Well of Hope.
Today, it is still producing sufficient water for 16,000 persons in Gilo - Aeo & three other local villages
Currently her current Club has only 17 members & their main focus is offering annual Scholarships to Schools in Hawaii.
Meetings held weekly at Old Shire Offices, Point Nepean Road, Dromana.

Arrive 6:00 pm        Meeting Starts 6:30 pm    Ends 8:00 pm
If you cannot attend the meeting,
then please send your apologies to Elaine Barnard-Brown - ebb9@bigpond.com - before the Tuesday preceding the meeting.
Catering for meals is expensive if you do not turn up and your meal has be paid for.