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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Christmas Party Lyn Svanosio N/A
John Gray
Des Henderson-Kelly Debbie Whitfield Nil
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DINNER ROSTER
10 Dec – Club Xmas party at Canberra Irish Club 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
Rotary Year 2015/16
FUNDRAISING –PARKING
Some parking duties are still proceeding in 2014!
Number 23 - Volume 48 - 3 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.
The Raven
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
Five to Forty Five Years
Visiting Rotarians: 0 Visitors: 0
Members attending: 15 Percentage: TBA
The ShelterBox team of Richard Innes (UK) and Richard Loat (CAN), successfully delivered 31 boxes and 3 SchoolBoxes to Sind- hupalchowk in Nepal, a village situated around 20 miles from the Chinese border. An entire mountainside had collapsed, burying the village. For the full story just click on:
http://www.shelterboxaustralia.com.au/news_global.php?id=1302
Ros Osbourne
Around the world in 21 days George Pratt
Des Henderson-Kelly Norma Donaldson Bruce Wyatt Gary Scott
Don Whitbread 1/12; Helen Sahhar;
3/12; Gerda Lambeck 5/12.
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We welcome Past President Ros Osbourne who will give a
talk on:
“Around the world in 21 days”
At the Annual General Meeting of the club last week the membership elected a new Board for Rotary Year 2015/16. The minutes of that meeting have been circulated via email by Secretary Mike Rodd to all members. We congratulate the following who were elected to the Board for 2015/16:
President: Debbie Whitfield President Elect: Mike Rodd Immediate Past President: Lyn Svanosio
Secretary: Ed Klim Treasurer: Lyn Svanosio Community: Shukry Sahhar New Generations: Bruce Wyatt
International & The Rotary Foundation: Bish Mukerjee Membership & Public Relations: George Pratt
(The list of Rotarians elected as “Other Officers” is in the minutes.)
As the result of the outstanding hard work of Ken Goard with the support of the Board & recent Presidents, the historical record of the Club for the past 5 years has now been completed. Congratulations to all who have contributed. It is available on the Club’s website. Just click on:
https://assets.imgstg.com/assets/console/document/documents/WodenRotary45year-2010-2014-report.pdf
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RAVEN REPORTER Jeff Ibbotson PHOTOGRAPHER
JohnWiddup
Last week Things you should know about
South America, has three Rotary clubs, the oldest of which was chartered in 1953.
President Lyn welcomed members including Debbie, who has just returned from North America.
Mr Parking Gary reported on parking at the MacGregor Primary fete as
‘good fellowship’, raising $107.35. Members endorsed Gary’s proposal to donate
$100 from the parking to the McGuigan family whose 3 year old daughter Annie requires continued treatment for a rare and aggresive malignant brain tumour – see http://www.gofundme.com/mcguiganfamily . Last week’s Raven reported that our parking duties for 2014 had finished. No sooner had the Raven gone to press than Gary was asked by Thoroughbred Park to park at race meetings on 28 November and 14 December.
John Gray passed on some sad news from Honorary Member Don Whit- bread, that Margaret Russell had died suddenly. Margaret was the wife of Ron Russell who was our Club President in 1989 – 90.
Phil Ibbotson reported that Louise’s health is much improved. She is once again getting out and about.
Jeff Ibbotson reported on the recent District Conference that was held in con- junction with District 9675 (which takes in the area south of the Parramatta River).
Dr Brendan Nelson, Director, Australian War Memorial, was the keynote speaker at Friday night’s opening dinner.
Conference speakers reflected the theme ‘Our Youth, Our Future’. Matt Kershaw, CEO of Ylead, spoke of Rotary’s advantage in competing for young people’s time and money. Rotary is well known for its results. If people see and hear of our results they will engage. While respecting the best of our past, our founda- tions, Matt said that we should cultivate new thinking and welcome new ideas.
Andrea Ho manages ABC’s 666 radio in Canberra, while Brent Juratowitch is a former diplomat. Each spoke of their year in Japan as a Rotary youth exchangee student as life changing. Andrea spoke of the importance of having a clear goal – End Polio Now is a perfect example. Brent said that while there has been a lot of emphasis on Rotary’s ‘brand’, our strength is our people who link with our local com- munity by listening to it and responding to its needs.
Yass Rotarian, Scott Burke, another former exchange student, also stressed the need to make Rotary’s purpose clear to potential members and recommended keeping in touch with former exchange students.
Katharine McLennan highlighted the importance of diversity and inclusion.
We draw members from a wide range of backgrounds and can work with them as a team by being curious, listening to each other and maintaining our mental fitness.
All three finalists in the Four Way Test Speaking Competition impressed the audience with both the structure and delivery of their talks.
Ken Linkhorn brought us up to date with End Polio Now. In the last 12 months worldwide polio cases dropped from 318 to 278. In Nigeria and Somalia cases are diminishing. However, in Afghanistan and Pakistan they rose.
Berry Rotarian Ken Hutt told how he flew a paraglider from 7200 m off the flanks of the sixth highest mountain in the world to raise funds for End Polio Now -
just click on: http://www.xcmag.com/2014/07/ken-hutt-paraglides-cho-oyu-for-end-polio-now-campaign/#sthash.QeWgvmzk.dpuf.
More inspiration came from young Australians who have set up successful small-scale self-sufficient aid operations in Africa and Cambodia – click on:
http://schoolforlife.org.au/ and http://www.humanandhopeassociation.org/ . Sgt Neale called the meeting to order and proposed a toast to honour Suriname’s National Day and to Médecins Sans Frontières. Suriname, on the Caribbean coast of
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Christmas Party - Apologies & Payment in advance!
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 Bespoke Framing and Photography by Steve Brown. The exhibition opening is on:
Friday 5 December 2014 at 7:30pm at the store at 8 Townsend Street, Phillip.
The meeting concluded with John Widdup outlining the club’s next Western desert project at Wanarn, WA: refurbishing an old clinic as quarters for staff who will operate the dialysis equipment in the new clinic. Google maps reckons we could cycle the 3000 km from Canberra in 146 hours, but we’ll fly to Uluru and drive 449 km to the community in WA. It will be a similar project to our refurbishment of the clinic at Kiwirrkurra. Wanarn’s old clinic is in better shape. The air con and solar hot water is working. We will convert a waiting room into a lounge and an office into a bedroom, install a flatpack kitchen, patch and paint the walls, insulate the ceiling, install an internal window, install a backup water tank and associated pump plumbing and power, and add a new fence. We should have an electrician.
John stated that Sarah Brown has Commonwealth funding for the project, so we don’t need to do major fundraising for this project. Perhaps mention of Rotary in- volvement helped her to get the funding. The project will be ready to start once Sarah receives formal possession of the building.
John estimates the project can be done by one work party working for 10 days over a 14 day round trip. John will do some more work on the logistics of the project with a view to sending a work party in the second half of May 2015.
