Club Bulletin 6th August 2020 (Aug 01, 2020)

August is

Membership and New Club Development Month

Board Meeting August

Aug 26, 2020 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Club Night

Sep 03, 2020 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Board Meeting September

Sep 23, 2020 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Club Night

Sep 24, 2020 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

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Member Birthdays

Mark Long

August 3

Spouse Birthdays

Val Hosking

August 8

Jenny Dart

August 23

Anniversaries

Harry Ziegerink

Trudy

August 21

Join Date

Ian McIntosh

August 17, 2017

3 years

Jul 30, 2020 7:15 PM

Robin Stewart ESRAG Chair 2020-2021

Rotarians for Bees

Aug 13, 2020

Terry O'Dea

The man behind the badge

Aug 20, 2020

Deni McKeegan and John Whalley

Safety Beach Dromana Mens Shed

Aug 27, 2020

Bernard Dobson

Refugee Support

Sep 03, 2020

Club night, no guest speaker

Sep 10, 2020

Janette Etherington

Interplast Australia

Sep 24, 2020

Club night, no guest speaker

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Last Meeting

Guests:

Chairman

gig

Welcome to our Club!

Thursdays at 7:00 PM

Old Shire Office.

Point Nepean Rd
Dromana, VIC 3936
Australia

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We will be back when we are allowed. We currently meet online with Zoom invitations. So just don't turn up to the above location at the moment because there will be no-one there!!

Join Us Online

District Site

Venue Map

Rick Hayllar

We have no guest speaker this week as you would know when you look at the home page of our Website so will will have a friendly chat and brainstorm and Q & A session and see how it goes. But look at the Website to see how many speakers we have lined up. Thank you Roger!

Before then there is some interesting stuff to read while you are stuck at home. In particular the links to some of the District meetings are worth a view.

As you know I slept in my car last Saturday night.

I seem to have set up two sponsorship pages on the site one in my name and the other in the Club's name. However you have donated to both so the total funds raise are. $336

Thank for Harry and Trudy, Peter and Mary, and Chris and Marg, David and Bob,and others that I may have missed who have helped Ray and Elaine over the past few weeks. And don't forget we as a club want to help our fellow memos if they are in trouble as a first priority.

I am pleased to see more members getting on the zoom meetings.
We need to make them as entertaining as possible some please all of you we need the collective thinking caps on to achieve this.

Fund raising while in lock down.

Are really going to do nothing or can we do something, The sleep in the car project was a great example that can be done. We just have to get inspired.

THE ROTARY FOUNDATION Supporting the Environment

The Rotary Foundation Trustees and Rotary International Board of Directors have both unanimously approved adding a new area of focus: supporting the environment.

More than $18 million in Foundation global grant funding has been allocated to environment-related projects over the past five years. Creating a distinct area of focus to support the environment will give Rotary members even more ways to bring about positive change in the world and increase our impact.

RI President Mark Maloney says that during his travels around the world as a Rotary senior leader he encountered many Rotary members and Rotaractors who advocated for the environment to be an area of focus.

“I believe strongly that our Rotary Foundation programs now have a valuable added dimension to our efforts,” says, Maloney.

Foundation Trustee Chair Gary C.K. Huang says that with the global population reaching near eight billion, protecting the environment is increasingly important.

“It is time for us to use our collective resources to invest in a smart and efficient way to protecting our environment,” says Huang. “We are qualified to take this initiative because we are a global group of problem solvers with diversified talents.”

In 1990-91, RI President Paulo V.C. Costa made the environment one of his primary causes, creating the Preserve Planet Earth subcommittee, which looked at ways clubs and members could conduct environmental initiatives.

“We have finally caught up to Costa [his vision],” says Past RI President Ian H.S. Riseley, chair of the Environmental Issues task force, which championed the new area of focus.

“As a lifelong environmentalist, I’m delighted that our great organization has recognized that the environment is a worthy and appropriate destination for our project activity,” says Riseley. “This is an exciting moment in Rotary history.”

Supporting the environment becomes Rotary's seventh area of focus, which are categories of service activities supported by global grants. It joins peace building and conflict prevention; disease prevention and treatment; water, sanitation, and hygiene; maternal and child health; basic education and literacy; and community economic development.

Grant applications for projects will be accepted beginning on 1 July 2021. Gifts and commitments from Rotarians and others will be sought to provide global grant support for the new area of focus.

More information about this new cause will be announced soon.

Interplast District 9820 Chair

It is my great pleasure to announce our new Interplast District Chair is Dr Kay McCauley from the Rotary Club of Mt Eliza. Kay has an extremely impressive medical background and has extensive experience in teaching and lecturing.

Interplast sends teams of volunteer plastic and reconstructive surgeons, anaesthetists, nurses and allied health professional to provide life-changing surgery and medical training in 17 countries across the Asia Pacific region.

Please join me in welcoming Kay to the District International team of Program champions and also consider inviting her to one of your Club meetings to speak about Interplast.

Best regards

Colin Byron

District International Service Chair (DISC)

The district assembly sessions from Sunday 21st June 2020 are now on YouTube.

Links below.

D9820 YouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1i-nkoD4K0FsDroTTqLsZw/videos?view_as=subscriber

Full Plenary Session

https://youtu.be/QGRlK-amP6I

President Training

https://youtu.be/UuIkeg_fDqo

Secretary Training

https://youtu.be/RA0IRH4OQho

Treasurer Training

https://youtu.be/8gRozpHcZdo

RI's Online Resources - Trudy Grice Guest Speaker

https://youtu.be/TsqnBUI_QYs

Creatures of Habit - Mark Huddleston Guest Speaker

https://youtu.be/cuJw0so4fzs

The Rotary Foundation Overiew - Sam Camporeale Guest Speaker

https://youtu.be/KnkySad3mVI

From Carol

My topic this week is Aboriginal Australians as we have purchased two reusable facemasks from Bundarra Brand on the net. I bought Stan Grant's book 'Australia Day' from The Book Barn in Rosebud. A brilliant read from a brilliant man on Chanel 2 most nights. He describes a life as a young boy shifting from rented house to rented house in town after town. His parents looking for menial jobs to put food on the table and their children shoes to wear to school. He tells that between 1996 and 2006 the indigenous community in Australia was transformed. Numbers of educated well paid professionals exploded. In just a decade, they increased by nearly 75%. That was more than double the increase in the non-indigenous middle class. This success was a surprise to me, thanks Stan for letting us know.

From Joy Long

Mark and I have had 46 wonderful years together and look forward to hopefully many more. We have been very fortunate to have travelled overseas to enjoy our passion of ancient history and walking ancient walls and roads, from Dubrovnik, Jordan, Appian Way to York. We have also seen many beautiful sites and cities in Australia. Kakadu and Kings Canyon highly recommended. We moved to the Peninsula 5 years ago and love the lifestyle here. After spending many earlier years in Apex, meeting and making wonderful friends, we are now enjoying the same in Rotary.

I nominate Barb Byatt.

Happenings at the last meeting

The Sergeant opened the meeting at 7:03pm

President Rick proposed a toast to the medicos, police and all who keep us safe during these trying times.

Harry gave the Rotary Invocation and was Chairman for the evening.

The guest speaker was Robin Stewart. He is the 9820 ESRAG Chair and PE Rotary Club of Frankston. ESRAG is the Environmental Sustainability Rotarian Action Group whose mission is to engage Rotarians in considering and applying environmental sustainability principles in their projects and daily choices. This is achieved by educating and inspiring Rotarians around the world to take action for the environment, and by bringing attention to the important role the environment plays in Rotary's six areas of focus.

The 7^th Rotary Area of focus on environmental issues opens opportunity. Rotary can now formally address the United Nations programs. This activities provide an opportunity to attract younger members. There are global grants of $18M.

He spoke about a group called Rotarians for Bees, a group interested in all forms of pollination. The global population of bees is dwindling through the changes in the environment, pesticides, pollution and so on. He spoke about issues associated with transporting bees interstate and about a project to identify individual bees entering and leaving a hive. He is also concerned about wild bees and has a bee hotel at his place.

Robin spoke about EnviroAwards for clubs who have a project that supports sustainability and environmental issues

Greg asked how our club can get a grant. Robin indicated that it is through a global grant.

Tony asked about hives being shared around a neighbourhood. Robin replied that all hives are registered. Rotary can be involved with Rotarians4Bees by planting trees and plants to support bees.

The club thanked Robin for his informative talk. More information is available on the website:

https://rotary9820.org.au/Stories/district-9820-environment-sustainability

Roger expressed an interest in bees and is prepared to the clubs liason person to ESRAG or Rotarians4Bees.

President Rick is going to sleep in his car and was looking for sponsors from the club. We hope he keeps warm!

Secretary Bob confirmed the DG visit on the 29 October. He will meet with the Board at 6:00 pm and with the club at 7:00pm, probably by zoom.

Bob shoke about District grants. We have a grant for 4 scholarships to 4 Dromana College students at a cost of $250.00 each. We were looking at shades over a playground as a District Grant, but the council had too many restrictions and requirements.

Bob is developing a District Grant the Dromana Community House. We could be involved with the “second bite” project associated with the Community House.

Bob indicated that the next international convention is in Taipei in Taiwan.

Ray is doing OK: his skin itch is being addressed with a new medicine. Chris said Margaret is also improving. We wish them both good wishes and trust they will be better soon.

Greg asked about the art show. Carol spoke about the annual art show at Sorrento and recommended that one or two brilliant artist submit and could sell their works there.

A couple of interested members at the meeting ...

Meeting was closed at 8:13.

On the lighter side ...

I went to the local hardware for a length of pipe. I was quickly asked to be more specific and the shopkeeper handed me this specification to digest. I thought it be useful if you were pre-warned about what you need to know about specifying a pipe.

Pipe specification

1. All pipe is to be made of a long hole, surrounded by metal or plastic centred around the hole.

2. All pipe is to be hollow throughout the entire length – do not use holes of different length than the pipe.

3. The ID (inside diameter) of all pipe must not exceed the OD (outside diameter) – otherwise the hole will be on the outside.

4. All pipe is to be supplied with nothing in the hole so that water, steam or other stuff can be put inside at a later date.

5. All pipe should be supplied without rust, this can be more readily applied at the job site.

NOTE: Some vendors are now able to supply pre-rusted pipe. If available in your area, this product is recommended as it will save a great deal if time on a job site.

6. All pipe over 150 m in length should have the words LONG PIPE clearly painted on each end so that the contractor will know it is a long pipe.

7. Pipe over 3 km in length must have the words LONG PIPE painted in the middle so the contractor will not have to walk the entire length of the pipe to determine where it is a long pipe or a short pipe.

8. All pipe over 150 mm in diameter must have the words LARGE PIPE painted on it so the contractor will not mistake it for a small pipe.

9. Flanges must be used on all pipes. Flanges must have holes for bolts, quite separate from the big hole in the middle.

10. When ordering 90° or 30° elbows, be sure to specify right hand or left and, otherwise you will end up going the wrong way.

11. Be sure to specify to your vendor whether you want level, uphill or downhill pipe. If you use downhill pipe for going uphill the water will flow the wrong way.

12. All couplings should have either right hand or left hand threads, but, do not mix the threads otherwise as the coupling is being screwed on one pile it is being unscrewed from the other.