TONIGHT
President: Lyn Svanosio
Secretary: Mike Rodd
Immediate Past President: Jeff Ibbotson President Elect : Debbie Whitfield Treasurer: Bruce Wyatt Club Service & Administration: John Widdup
Community: Shukry Sahhar
International & Foundation: Bish Mukerjee New Generations: Debbie Whitfield Membership & PR: George Pratt
Attendance: DJ Camangan
Program: Gary Scott & Mike Rodd Sergeants: Neale Emanuel, Shukry S.
Public Officer: Mike Rodd Member Archives: Ken Goard Photo records: Shukry Sahhar
Bulletins: John Gray, Debbie Whitfield & Bruce Wyatt Facebook: Lyn Svanosio, Bruce Wyatt Webmaster: John Widdup
Contact Information PO Box 637 Woden ACT 2606 Secretary: [email protected]
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DINNER ROSTER
24 December – no meeting 31 December – no meeting
14 January 2015 – President’s barbecue
21 January 2015 – meetings resume at Irish Club 26 April 2015 – Rotary Ride - 5 Peaks ride
Wanarn
FUNDRAISING –PARKING
11.30am to 2.30pm, 14 December 2014 - POWERLINES: John Widdup; Ed Klim;
Jeff Ibbotson; Phil Ibbotson. MEMBERS: Lyn Svanosio; Ros Osbourne; Ajit Banerjee OPPOSITE: John Gray; Debbie Whitfield; Des Henderson-Kelly.
Number 24 - Volume 48 - 10 December 2014
On the net for your information
The Club’s crest & bulletin name reflect ‘Odin’ (anglo-saxon ‘Woden’), the ancient Nordic God of Wisdom.
Odin had two ravens called Hugin and Munin (Thought and Memory) who flew forth every day and returned at night to tell him what they had seen, so contributing to his wisdom.
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The Weekly Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Woden Meetings: 6.00 for 6.15 pm Wednesdays, Canberra Irish Club, 6 Parkinson Street, Weston, ACT
Rotary International theme for 2014/2015.
“Light Up Rotary”
“Woden Rotary”December is Family Month
To assist with catering require- ments, please RSVP/apologise by
5pm Monday to:
Lyn Svanosio 0431028214
RSVP & APOLOGIES
Visiting Rotarians: Adam de Totth (Tuggeranong) Visitors: Ros Osbourne (Speaker); Celeste Rowlands;
Pixie Gray; Marie Jensen; Joan Pratt, and Former Rotarian Des Pain
Members attending: 13
Pre-Christmas function Lyn Svanosio N/AViola Kalokerinos Debbie Whitfield George Pratt Greg Whitfield 16/12;
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We welcome all our guests tonight and thank them for joining with us to celebrate Christmas and the end of an- other calendar year of Rotary
John Widdup has recently talked to Club members about our next West- ern Desert Indigenous Health Project at Wanarn.
Wanarn is a medium-sized Aboriginal community, located in the Goldfields-Esperance Region of Western Australia, within the Shire of Ngaany- atjarraku. It is 14 hours east of Kalgoorlie and four hours west of Uluru.
The community is managed through its incorporated body, Wanarn (Aboriginal Corporation) incorporated under the Aboriginal Councils and As- sociations Act 1976.
Wanarn Remote Community School is one of Australia’s most remote schools. All of the school’s 43 students are Aboriginal; all have English as a second or third language.
The Wanarn airstrip is 1950 metres long. It has a sand surface and is not all weather.
The community operates a small-crops farm which is staffed with CDEP workers. The community store employs Community staff under the CDEP scheme.
There are 26 permanent dwellings in the community. 16 are of concrete block construction. 10 are of metal frame and metal cladding construction.
These are fully insulated. All are 3 bedroom, with full services (septic sewer- age). All are in good repair.
There is a football oval, basketball court and small children’s play- ground.
High quality artefacts and paintings are continuously being produced by community artists and artisans. Maruku Arts of Yulara make periodic visits to purchase from the community. There is an urgent need for other sales outlets for the local artists’ work.
Little more than a year after Typhoon Haiyan caused devastation across the Philippines, Typhoon Hagupit is on course to reach the country at the end of the week. The tropical storm is expected to reach speeds of up to 190 miles per hour by the time it makes landfall over the weekend.
ShelterBox has a good amount of prepositioned stock in close proximity to the potential path of the storm, including around 1,000 tents and 400 ShelterBoxes. For further information click on:
http://www.shelterboxaustralia.com.au/news_global.php?id=1307
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RAVEN REPORTER Gary Scott PHOTOGRAPHER
John Gray
Last week Things you should know about
forthcoming Wanarn Project which is 449 km west of Uluru and is in WA.
John also reported on the 5 Peaks Ride (26 April 2015) Registration will commence in 1-2 weeks.
Gary Scott reported on Thoroughbred Park Parking Sunday 14 December 2014 (start 11.30 am) See the roster on page 4 of this Raven.
National Youth Science Forum District 9710 Committee member Adam de Totth reported on the two sessions in January 2015 and called for volunteers to regis- ter on the web for Home hosting and/or the meal. For further details read page 30 of the District Directory or click on:
http://www.nysf.edu.au
If you want to register for the dinners on 8 January & 22 January go to:
http://www.rotaryd9710.org.au/nysf-2015/registration.html.
If you wish to register fror home hosting go to:
http://www.rotaryd9710.org.au/nysf-2015/home-hosting.html.
Contact phone numbers for Chair, NYSF Tony Trumble are: 6258 9070 and 0411 394 525
President Lyn presented Past President Ros Osbourne with a Paul Harris Fel- low upgrade, a recognition greatly supported by all members present.
Our speaker was Past President Ros Osbourne who spoke on her recent Captain’s Choice 2014 Round-the-world Qantas flight.
Where did she go? Sydney to Sri Lanka, then over the Himalayas to Sa- markand in Uzbekistan, a stop in Azerbaijan for fuel.Then on to Cyprus, Tel Aviv (to visit Jerusalem, Bethlehem, the Dead Sea and Masada) on to Marrakech in Morocco, and to the Portuguese Islands of the Azores. Next they flew to Guatemala in Central America, then to San Francisco (with a side trip to Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon), and home to Sydney after 21 days away.
In general they spent three nights at each destination. They travelled 50,000 kilometres and used 1 million litres of fuel; this is enough fuel to keep a family car running for over 400 years. On board were 332 passengers, a Qantas crew and support staff (engineers, a catering manager, baggage staff etc.). There were 15 tour escorts, and 2 doctors. They were often split into smaller groups and had choices regarding tours and restaurants. There were first class, business class, premium economy, deluxe economy and economy seats. The seating was different for each flight meaning they met a new person each time and had a share of window seating.
The company she travelled with has links with Rotary International. The founder of the company she travelled with, Phil Asker and his wife Kaye, have chosen to support communities throughout the world by direct donations. The com- pany has donated over $3million to charity in the past 20 years. During the trip they raised $US 44,245 for a charity, the Foundation of Goodness and visited a school in Seenigama run by the Foundation. Sri lanka was devastated by a tsunami in Decem- ber 2004, and Seenigama lost a large number of villagers.
Two destinations stood out as places where their presence assisted the lo- cal communities as they rebuild after civil strife. The first was Sri Lanka. From the 16th Century, Ceylon was ruled by the Portuguese, Dutch and British and was an important stop on the spice route from Indonesia to Europe. The country gained independence in 1948 and in 1972 Ceylon was renamed Sri Lanka. From the time of independence, rivalries between the two main groups, the Sinhalese and the Tamils, marred progress with bitter conflicts. An estimated 60,000 people died in the con- flicts. In 2009 a peace was brokered.
The second place which was trying to rebuild its tourist industry was Guate- mala in Central America. It is a country with a rich history of Mayan culture, a cul- ture dating from 800 BC until it started to decline late in the 9th century. The country has a recent background of military dictatorships accompanied by guerrilla warfare.
Sgt Gary Scott opened the meeting with a toast to Rotary Foundation.
John Widdup reported on the planning for the
Last week (continued)
Rotarian Bob Harvie illness: Bob, who is currently on leave from Rotary, is having health problems at the moment, as he goes through courses of chemotherapy and radiology. Bob, we wish you a speedy recovery.
New Arrangements for Apologies & Guests: Please note that in the absence of DJ until February 2015, President Lyn will be handling attendance, apologies & guests.
Lyn’s contact information is on page 4 of this Raven.
Helen Sahhar Exhibition: Helen has been asked to do a painting exhibition at Be- spoke Framing and Photography by Steve Brown. The exhibition opening was on:
Friday 5 December 2014 at 7:30pm at the store at 8 Townsend Street, Phillip.
A peace accord was signed in 1996 ending a war that lasted 36 years and claimed over 100,000 lives. In Antigua, the area where they stayed, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes are common. The most destructive in recent history was the 1976 quake with a magnitude of 7.5. Most recent was in 2013. In addition, three large volcanoes dominate the horizon around Antigua where they stayed and the most recent eruption took place in September, 2012.
Ros then presented a wonderful slide show supported with an excellent commentary;
some of the highlights were as follows. Co- lombo is a city of contrasts, old and new. They visited an area set aside for abused elephants.
This is a mahout bathing his elephant. Each el- ephant has one mahout who seems to stay with the elephant for life. They visited a very hot factory which was making paper from elephant dung.
Ros said Samarkand is a fascinating city on the route of the ancient silk road. The blue tiles on the mosques, mausoleums & , madrassas were intricately tiled. Some of the workmanship goes back 700 years.
She showed Snow covered mountains of Eastern turkey, Mount Aarat and Yoravam 250 kms west of Baku.
She showed the colours of the buildings in the old city of Jerusalem, the sand coloured brick, a legacy of British control many years ago.
They noted the Dome of the Rock, sacred to both Muslim and Jewish faiths and only accessible to Muslims. The dome is now covered with 1.3mm of gold donated by the late King Hussein of Jordan. The 80kg of gold cost the king US$8.2million and he sold one of his homes in London to pay for it.
There were the spices & leather at the Souk or market in Marrakesh.
And then to a vastly different world – Las Vegas where everything is exag- gerated, glitzy, dazzling, artificial, unreal, a pleasure paradise, the Sunset Strip, themed megahotels (her’s had over 3,800 rooms).
And so concluded an unreal trip. As one of her new friends said “an en- chanting, enthralling, one in a life time almost fairy tale experience”.
