Community Service Report:
Bird Hide at Heatherton - drawings finished and building permit applications filled. Some work yet to be completed and the bird hide to be moved closer to the lake.
Soft Pathways: Volunteer administrator recently joined and will be doing some door knocking interviews at medical and therapy clinics; a trial advertising campaign for new participants will be conducted before June 30th. Overall the Brighton venue continues to do well with younger attendees and a second group for older people has been established.
Bowelscan Program: Two more pharmacies have been added to our list to support. Press release and article in Leader Moorabbin/Kingston last week. See previous blog entry.
Baby Book Project: 200 printed bags were received and have been distributed to the 12 maternity and child centres in the district. There will be a launch with Kingston City Council Mayor on Tues 12 June at 1400.
International Director's Report:
Shelter Boxes: Confirmation of receipt donation from club. Box number is OZ1825 and its final destination can be tracked on the website http://www.shelterbox.org/. Certificate of Appreciation received for the donation.
Donations: all donations approved at last Board meeting have been paid.
Zambia: Request from RC Templestowe received for a donation to assist completion of an Operating Theatre at Mekeni Clinic Hospital in Lusaka Zambia. 2 members will be visiting Zambia in August to assist the RC Lusaka Central to install hospital equipment removed from the Lilydale Private Hospital and donated by Primelife, It is recommended that the Club donate $200 towards this project.
Vocational Director's Report:
Carwartha College watch presentation went well
6 Citizenship Ceremonies at Kingston Town Hall with over 1200 people naturalized.
3 members of the club assisted with mock job interviews at Carwartha College
President Elect Report
PR/Marketing/Bulletin – Blog site set up on: http://moorleighmoorabbin.blogspot.com/ New website is currently being investigated. New banners will be provided to Club on Changeover Night.
Fellowship/Fundraising: Golf Day fund raising was a success. Many members attended the Big Night Out at Kingston Town Hall on 18 May.
Membership/On To Conference/Club Almoner/Membership: No report
Changeover Night: Invitations have been sent for the night. Items necessary for changeover have been ordered. Anticipate over 85 people to attend.
Youth Director's Report:
National Youth Science Forum – will prepare to sponsor a student at 4 schools at cost $1700
Siemens Science Experiment information circulated to all schools for the Year 9 student. Willing to sponsor two students.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Thursday, May 24, 2007
$6 Kit a Lifesaver
From: Leader Newspaper Glen Eira Moorabbin
Date: 23 May 2007
MOORABBIN residents aged over 40 are being encouraged to combat a deadly disease with a $6 test kit.
The Moorleigh Moorabbin Rotary Club has joined forces with five local pharmacies to provide the Bowelscreen program with take-home test kits to screen for early signs of bowel cancer.
The club's community director Geoff Gray said there was a need for the service.
"It is critical for people over 40, who should be doing this on a regular basis," Mr Gray said.
Rotary's Bowelscreen program co-ordinator Ian Coleman said the program was designed to raise awareness of the disease.
"With early detection you've got a 90 per cent chance of getting through it," Mr Coleman said.
The service will be available this month, when Rotary has the resources of a testing laboratory.
Bowel cancer is the most common cancer in Victoria and more than 3400 people are diagnosed each year, the Cancer Council of Victoria records show.
The test kits will be available in five pharmacies in the Moorabbin area - the Moorabbin Pharmacy, Hampton East; Tucker Rd Pharmacy, Bentleigh; McKinnon Pharmacy and Post Office, McKinnon; Barts the Chemist, Moorabbin and Chamran Road Pharmacy, Cheltenham
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Guest Speaker:Jill Weeks 21 May 2007
“If you want to retire some place where you want access to quality medical and hospital services then look out for locations in Australia that have great golf courses and spectacular vineyards because our doctors will be there," said Jill Weeks, guest speaker.
Jill and her husband Owen decided to pack up their belongings and travel around Australia for 12 months to research the Australia’s best retirement locations. “It’s a hard job but someone’s got to do it,” she quipped.
Throughout their travels they researched over 200 locations and spoke to members of the community, local police, doctors and councils to write and publish their book, “Where to Retire”.
“Approximately 25% of the people who move for retirement purposes aren’t happy,” she said. “In fact, our research shows that the people who make a successful retirement move are the ones who move within 200 kilometres or 2 hours from where they lived. This is because they can still maintain the connection with family and friends back home. They can also return for any essential services they may need.”
People move for a variety of reasons. Her research states it’s because of sea change, spread of the family around Australia or that the local neighbourhood has changed. “One man complained to me because WOPs – Wealthy Old People – were moving in his area and escalating his council rates!” she said.
According to the ABS 2001 data she said that the majority of people greater than 65 years of age move northwards to Queensland, specifically South East Queensland. She added that it was interesting to note that Northern Territory had no movement of people in this age group. “Maybe it’s because once you are a Territorian, you remain a Territorian?” she asked.
They use a 14 point check to assess the state of a location for retiree living. This includes researching medical care; access to internet broadband services; security; weather; cost of living; community issues; ease to start a small business; transport; access to adult education; and whether the town is growing or dying.
“All these factors play an important part on how successful your retirement will be,” she added.
So what are her tips on the Top 5 places to retire in Australia?
1. Manning Point, NSW
2. Burrum Heads Qld
3. Woodgate Qld
4. Port Broughton SA
5. Seaford, Qld
You can see more information on their website: http://www.retirebizzi.com.au/
Jill and her husband Owen decided to pack up their belongings and travel around Australia for 12 months to research the Australia’s best retirement locations. “It’s a hard job but someone’s got to do it,” she quipped.
Throughout their travels they researched over 200 locations and spoke to members of the community, local police, doctors and councils to write and publish their book, “Where to Retire”.
“Approximately 25% of the people who move for retirement purposes aren’t happy,” she said. “In fact, our research shows that the people who make a successful retirement move are the ones who move within 200 kilometres or 2 hours from where they lived. This is because they can still maintain the connection with family and friends back home. They can also return for any essential services they may need.”
People move for a variety of reasons. Her research states it’s because of sea change, spread of the family around Australia or that the local neighbourhood has changed. “One man complained to me because WOPs – Wealthy Old People – were moving in his area and escalating his council rates!” she said.
According to the ABS 2001 data she said that the majority of people greater than 65 years of age move northwards to Queensland, specifically South East Queensland. She added that it was interesting to note that Northern Territory had no movement of people in this age group. “Maybe it’s because once you are a Territorian, you remain a Territorian?” she asked.
They use a 14 point check to assess the state of a location for retiree living. This includes researching medical care; access to internet broadband services; security; weather; cost of living; community issues; ease to start a small business; transport; access to adult education; and whether the town is growing or dying.
“All these factors play an important part on how successful your retirement will be,” she added.
So what are her tips on the Top 5 places to retire in Australia?
1. Manning Point, NSW
2. Burrum Heads Qld
3. Woodgate Qld
4. Port Broughton SA
5. Seaford, Qld
You can see more information on their website: http://www.retirebizzi.com.au/
Sunday, May 20, 2007
District Assembly 2007-2008
Rotarians of District 9810 gathered at the breezy grounds of Deakin University on a brisk Sunday morning of the 20th May for the annual District Assembly 2007-2008. Our own PDG Denis Hyland opened the proceedings and introduced Rotarians on what to expect for the morning.
The theme for the year is ‘Rotary Shares’. The theme encourages us to share our time, talents and willingness to make a difference. DG Bob Richards, in his closing of his presentation left us with the thought provoking question, “What have you got to share with Rotary?”
DGE Dick Garner spoke about the new focus areas which are literacy, health & hunger, family of Rotary and membership. He spoke in detail about the District Simplified Grant Scheme and asked us to consider what projects we’d like to be involved with.
Through the District Matching Grants Program, every Club in our District be given a small amount of ‘reserve’ money ($750US) to be used by that individual Club (or pooled together with other Clubs for combined) for projects. He suggested one of the possible District Matching Grants Program Project to consider was the Pig Breeding Project headed up by Alan Davison from RC Healsville. The aim is to develop a pig breeding farm to feed the local Tibetan communities who are too poor to buy their own pigs. The cost of this project is $AUS28 500 and a project worthy of our consideration.
District 9810 Strategic Plan
The vision of our District is to be recognized by our peers and Rotary International as Australian’s leading district to achieve 2010 members by 2010 and establish Rotary programs as the community’s charity of choice.
The mission is to provide an opportunity for individuals and organizations to make a difference; as well as provide leadership and create an environment that supports, recognizes and facilitates our members personal development and growth.
The goals of our District are:
- Achieve 95% retention and 78% attendance by 2010
- Increase service projects
- Increase club membership
- Establish 2 new Clubs per year
- Grow Foundation giving, Centurion Club and Bequests
- Improve District Leadership training
The District’s Club Focused Membership Activities you can undertake for your club are:
- Establish a Club Leadership Plan
- Undertake a Health Check on your club - an audit of its membership, marketing, and other factors that shows the ‘health’ or state of your Club
- Run a Club Clinic - where each member of the Club write down what they like to KEEP: what they like to STOP and what they like to START in their Club and then use this as a basis for discussion and implementation
- Obtain Club Banners to improve the image of your Club – all Clubs will receive a Club Banner by July 2007 which will have the logo, the district website and the 1300 number
- Run a ‘Two Up” Program
- Run the Share Rotary Program- invite members to your Club, one person per week, provide them with a ‘members invite card’ which entitles them to a meal and being hosted for the first night’s meeting. Rotarians then keep the invitation in the name badge box should that person return for a second time
* Run PRLS (Potential Rotary Leaders Seminar) which is a skills development seminar that will enhance the management, co-ordination and administration skills of Rotarians
* “You Wish” Billboard Campaign to raise the awareness of Rotary within the community
Cluster Group Membership nights to interact and complement the You Wish and Share Rotary Programs
* People Like You & Me Brochure will be printed up for dissemination
* Establishment of the Rotary 1300 782 662 – a 24/7 hotline of Rotary information across our District [1300ROTARY]
District Initiated Membership & Awareness activities to undertake for our Club are:
* Corporate Awareness Program [link with corporate volunteer schemes]
*Key Business link ups
*Shopping Centre Road shows
*Leader newspaper advertisements
*Poster advertising in public places
The Membership and Marketing Committees have been amalgamated to be called “Membership and Marketing” Committee and headed up by Jenny Coburn.
After morning tea, the group split into their respective office bearer positions to receive training and guidance on their new roles. Looks like a busy year ahead!
Monday, May 14, 2007
The Silver Hook Fails to Snag the M&Ms
On Saturday 5 May, three members of our Club and their family and friends tried to snatch the coveted Annual Silver Hook Trivia trophy from last year's winners, RC Cheltenham.
Named the M&M's for RC Moorleigh Moorabbin, they were seated at the number one table and secretly hoped that this was an omen for things to come.
The pressure mounted with each each passing round. Our Club was the clear leader by one point on the board but there was no time to slacken. With each wrong question our collective groans signified our desperation to win that Silver Hook.
Syd demonstrated his trivia prowess in geography while Sheila blitzed the Shows & Music section leading our rowdy table to sing operatic show tunes much to the amusement of others. Helen even brought her husband Andrew, the carry over champion of Temptation from two nights ago, all in an attempt to win. And who said we weren't competitive?
By the last round, we were the clear winners but there was one last trivia sheet to answer before the final announcement was made.
"Put the names to the faces of these Australian Prime Ministers, " the host asked.
He may as well asked us to derive a highly complex mathematical function. Our jaws dropped, we scrutinised the badly photocopied faces and guessed with the hope that something, anything was a right answer.
Does he look like Curtin? How did Curtin look like? Did he have a moustache? Didn't they all have moustaches back then?
Alas it was not to be. The Gods were not with us at Sandringham Yacht Club. Instead, we came in third after only successfully providing 11 correct answers out of a possible 20 prime ministers.
No we weren't sore losers but we did have a good time. We didn't bring the Silver Hook to RC Moorleigh Moorabbin but there's always next year.
Named the M&M's for RC Moorleigh Moorabbin, they were seated at the number one table and secretly hoped that this was an omen for things to come.
The pressure mounted with each each passing round. Our Club was the clear leader by one point on the board but there was no time to slacken. With each wrong question our collective groans signified our desperation to win that Silver Hook.
Syd demonstrated his trivia prowess in geography while Sheila blitzed the Shows & Music section leading our rowdy table to sing operatic show tunes much to the amusement of others. Helen even brought her husband Andrew, the carry over champion of Temptation from two nights ago, all in an attempt to win. And who said we weren't competitive?
By the last round, we were the clear winners but there was one last trivia sheet to answer before the final announcement was made.
"Put the names to the faces of these Australian Prime Ministers, " the host asked.
He may as well asked us to derive a highly complex mathematical function. Our jaws dropped, we scrutinised the badly photocopied faces and guessed with the hope that something, anything was a right answer.
Does he look like Curtin? How did Curtin look like? Did he have a moustache? Didn't they all have moustaches back then?
Alas it was not to be. The Gods were not with us at Sandringham Yacht Club. Instead, we came in third after only successfully providing 11 correct answers out of a possible 20 prime ministers.
No we weren't sore losers but we did have a good time. We didn't bring the Silver Hook to RC Moorleigh Moorabbin but there's always next year.
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In these pages, you will see the events that our Club is involved with both within and external to the Club's local community.
Although still a new site and a 'work-in-progress', RC Moorleigh Moorabbin members are automatic members of this site. This means that you can submit your own entries for any blog post.
This year's theme is 'Rotary Shares' why don't you share your comments or ideas in this blog?
As this site is in the public domain please ensure comments are not personal, derogatory or offensive in any way.
Happy reading!
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