Strange Times

CHANGEOVER

As the end of the Rotary year approaches we are less certain that normal to what next year will bring.

We have scheduled our Changeover night as a Zoom meeting and hopefully you will all be able to attend. It will be shorter than our usual ones but hopefully will keep you entertained

President Peter wishes to hold off presenting all the awards including the Paul Harris Awards the President's Award the Sandy Christie Award and the David Jarman Award until we can all meet in person.

From what we hearing this is not likely to be until September at the earliest.

CLUB ASSETS

We have been taking stock of the Club's assets over the past years and apart from emptying the container that resided at Past President Andrew Duncan's property. There is quire of lot of of stuff cluttering up various members' homes. And eventually we hope to store it at the Church shed we are hiring.

There is quite a rich store of historic documents in filing cabinets located and Merv Prossors.

To make these accessible to the members, those of historic interest should, be converted to electronic documents and stored in our documents on the ClubRunner Website. This is a long process but can be accomplished with the help of a few members with appropriate skills.

A volunteer or two here would be welcome.

In particular the club owns quite a bit of Public Address electronics that we no longer have a use for.

It is proposed that they be put on eBay or Gumtree to put some money in our Club account.

Does any member have any thought on this?

Earlier this Rotary Year we helped fund Ziggy Chaplain, Wellbeing Dept, Extra curricular activities at Rosebud Secondary College.

This funding helped to make Ziggy's trip to Tasmanian with his band of students . Here is this report

On behalf of the lucky ones, Thank You.

Your substantial financial support, towards our long awaited and planned for Alpine Bushwalk for Secondary School students and staff in Tasmania, made it possible.We returned safely from one of the most highly regarded multi-day adventure walks in the world – The Overland Track, set within Tasmania’s World Heritage National Park.With pouring rain at the beginning of our adventure, (on the Peninsula, in Melbourne, Launceston and Cradle Valley) and - the beginning of the ‘shutdown’ we are experiencing now - at the end of our trip we were indeed the lucky ones.

Because, In the middle of our journey we experienced:

Spectacular mountain peaks with strenuous hikes to the top, crystal clear lakes, rivers and roaring waterfalls, weather-beaten walking paths, board walks and tree root covered Beech forest paths, pandani heath, spotted quolls, pademelons, (stocky little animals) snakes, group camping platforms booked just for us, meal times together, cooking dehydrated food (prepared from home), daily de-brief sessions, sun salute stretching sessions, blister first aid, gear repairs, valuable time without technology and a good soaking-in all that we are beginning to document contact with nature has to offer our health.

I will send a few photos through if interested. The students are still preparing little stories/accounts of the adventure from their perspectives, (two girls have already written a little piece on how important the ice cold swims were to them in the lakes and streams).

The weather was superb on the whole. Though our food was attacked by possums a number of times and a little rain at the end of the trip chased us out, we encouraging each other with the physical challenge of a multi day hike, particularly scrambling to the top of Cradle Mountain, around Dove Lake and scaling the highest mountain in Tasmania Mount Ossa at the centre of our trek.

Thank you again.

Ziggy

Gerhard Stanszus

Chaplain, Wellbeing Dept, Extra curricular activities
Rosebud Secondary College

We hope you will join us on ZOOM this Thursday

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