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The Weekly Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Woden Inc.
Meetings: 6.00 for 6.15 pm Wednesdays, Canberra Irish Club 6 Parkinson St Weston ACT.
Board of Directors
President: Deborah Whitfield
Secretary: Ed Klim
Immediate Past President: Lyn Svanosio President Elect: Mike Rodd
Treasurer: Lyn Svanosio
Club Service & Administration: John Widdup
Community: Shukry Sahhar
International & Foundation: Bish Mukerjee New Generations: Bruce Wyatt Membership & PR: Viola Kalokerinos
Contact Information PO Box 637 Woden ACT 2606 Secretary:[email protected]
Other officers Attendance: Val Burns
Program: Gary Scott & Mike Rodd Sergeants: Neale Emanuel, Shukry Sahhar Public Officer: Mike Rodd
Member Data: Ken Goard
Bulletins: John Gray, Bruce Wyatt, John Widdup
Facebook: Lyn Svanosio & Bruce Wyatt Webmaster: John Widdup
Previous Issues of the Raven Web: <www.wodenrotary.org.au/>
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.
ROTARY CLUB OF WODEN INC.
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DINNER ROSTER
THIS WEEK - 14 October NEXT WEEK - 21 October
Program: Movie night – Dr Rodney Evans –
‘The Martian’ 6:30 Hoyts in Woden ‘Trekking trip to the India Lemon Grass for dinner at 5:00 pm Himalayas’
Greeting: – Bish Mukerjee & Phil Ibbotson
Introduction: – Bruce Wyatt
Appreciation: – Shukry Sahhar
Raven Recorder: John Gray Stephen Pratt Anniversaries: Ed Klim & Karen Kaye on 17 October
Birthdays: None this fortnight
October is Rotary Economic & Community Development month
Number 16 Volume 49 – 14 October 2015
About:During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is
presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meagre supplies, Watney must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
Realism:It does not engage in fantasy: no monsters, no magic, no Nazis. However, there are a number of technical mistakes. See if you can spot the errors and be ready for a discussion at our next meeting.
Critics Consensus: Smart, thrilling, and surprisingly funny, The Martian offers a faithful adaptation of the best-selling book that brings out the best in leading man Matt Damon and director Ridley Scott.
Tonight 14 October
‘The Martian’ movie night 6:30 pm start at Hoyts Woden
Dinner at 5 pm in the Lemongrass Thai restaurant in Woden
Do not turn up at the Irish Club expecting to meet with others.
ATTENDANCE ADVICE Guestsif attending, and
Members if attendance or absence is different to previous advice, then please advise the Attendance Officer (to help us with catering arrangements) Debbie Whitfield 0455585436 [email protected] or you will be charged for the meal provided for you.
Attendance last week:
Members: 17 Visitors: 6 – Helen Sahhar, Gerda Lambeck, Joan Pratt, Louise Ibbotson, Celest Rowlands, Julia Widdup Andy Greenslade
Hat Day donations
The team at Australian Rotary Health send us their thanks for supporting mental health research and awareness. 100%
of all donations to Hat Day will go directly to funding research finding preventions and treatments for depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and more.
Make a donation now:
Online atwww.hatday.com.au/Event?id=956 > donate now.
Or give cash to our treasurer for passing on.
News Flash
Val and John have a new grandchild, their fourth, Harvey Robert John born on 6 October and weighing in at 2.895 kg.
www.facebook.com/WodenRotary
Polio eradication continues
Mid-year was a great milestone in the polio eradication effort with, for the first time in history, Nigeria and thus all of Africa having one year with no new polio cases caused by the wild virus.
We are closer to making good on our promise to end polio forever, but there 's still work to be done. As we protect the progress made in Africa, we focus even more sharply on Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Thirty years ago, we told the world what Rotary believes: that we can achieve the eradication of polio. Our dream is becoming reality. World Polio Day is on 23 October, so let’s push ahead to realising a polio-free world.
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Things you should know and do
Sergeant Neale opened the meeting with toasts to other Rotarians and then President Debbie welcomed members and our six visitors. Debbie then advised us that:
● Those wishing to go to the District Conference should register now.
● Canberra College Interact Club is having a barbecue in Eddison Park on 18 October and all are welcome to attend and support the Club.
● The filmBridge of Spies starring Tom Hanks in being screened on 21 October for Rotary clubs to raise funds for the End Polio Now campaign. More details at the Rotary E-Club of Brindabella: http://rotarybrindabella.org.au/
Buy tickets for $20 atwww.rotaryd9710.org.au/
The theme of this week’s meeting was ‘Hat Day’ for mental health. Friday October 9 is Hat Day, an initiative of Australian Rotary Health, one of the largest not-for-profit funders of mental health research in Australia. All of the money raised during this year's Hat Day campaign goes directly to research helping the one in five Australians affected by depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and many other illnesses.
Most members remembered to wear hats, some more outlandish than others! Those who forgot had to show their origami skills and fashion their own hat out of newspaper or a napkin. President Debbie presented book prizes for the best hats. George received one about Greatest Australians, Viola on Business Cards, Julia on Walking Chi Kung and Peter on Italian Food.
Shukry conducted the fines session with his usual mix of mirth and merriment. John Widdup fined himself as he distributed the previous week’s
The ‘best hat’ winner George taking his prize from President Debbie (with
a great ‘hat’ herself)
♥Saturday 31 October – World Polio Day display in Woden Plaza. Jeff has arranged for us to have a showing (stall etc) for Polio Plus and the Club and he is discovering the most appropriate times and will advise. Please put the date in your diary and be available to assist (set up, man the stand for some time, pack up). Contact Jeff at:[email protected].
♥25 November – Club AGM is on during the normal meeting.
♥FUNDRAISING EVENTS
♥ Tuesday 3 November, Melbourne Cup parking at Thoroughbred Park – all Club members are required to assist sometime between 9.30 am and 3.00 pm as this is a major fund raiser. Gary will make up a roster assuming you are available unless advised otherwise.
♥‘Five Peaks Plus One’ cycle event— Sunday 8 May 2016 (www.rotaryrides.org.au/).
♥ Bunnings Tuggeranong store barbecue– Ed is investigating the availability of suitable dates.
Production John Widdup
Ravens (he had printed them but forgot to bring them to the last meeting!). George won a box of chocolates in the 2-up competition.
President Debbie informed us of a communication from the District Governor. We were made to feel like naughty school kids because some anonymous person was offended by some unspecified behaviour of alleged Rotarians (not from our Club)!
John Widdup introduced our guest speaker Andy
Greenslade (pictured) who is a National Museum of Australia curator, currently working on permanent exhibitions and collections relating to material culture, people, cultural heritage and getting to know more about cultural practices by talking with First Australians. Her background is in the arts and in people, and she loves being part of an organisation that values and respects first cultures, just as she loves meeting people from communities Australia wide.
The artworks and objects in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Art Collection at the National Museum of Australia belong to a unique body of works that was started in 1967 by the Council for Aboriginal Affairs. For almost 40
years, the Council, and the agencies that supported and replaced it, including the Department of Aboriginal Affairs (1973-89), the Aboriginal Development Commission (1980-89) and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) (1989-2005), added to the collection. Regional offices developed significant collections of local artists, and the resulting diversity is one of the greatest strengths of the combined collection.
In April 2005 the Australian Government dissolved ATSIC. Soon afterwards, couriers collected all artworks and significant objects from the commission's offices across Australia.
About 2000 pieces were brought into storage. In 2007 the government transferred this collection to the National Museum of Australia, naming it the ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Art collection’.
Andy described the history of the part of the collection from the Pintupi people – familiar to our Club members who have worked at Kintore and Kiwirrkurra. The collection started at Kintore in the 1980’s. The last of the nomadic Pintupi people came in to Papunya, but then moved back to their country in the Western Desert. The collection includes early paintings from the Papunya Tula Artists, photographs and other artefacts.
Andy spoke of the changes relevant to indigenous people over the last forty years with regard to diet, health and well-being. Last year was the ten-year anniversary of the Purple House and the National Museum now has dialysis and osmosis machines in its collection.
Andy’ suggestion that she could arrange for a curator to guide the Club members for a tour of the upcomingEncounters exhibition at the National Museum (opening on 2 December) was greeted with enthusiasm from all present. The exhibition – old objects, new stories – is a collaborative project between the National Museum of Australia, the British Museum, the Australian National University and a range of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia. Rare Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander objects from the British Museum will go on show in Australia for the first time in the exhibition that is the climax of years of research and community engagement. TheEncountersexhibition is
supported by the National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach Program, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to the national collections for all Australians.
After an interesting question and answer session, Neale Emanuel thanked Andy for a most interesting and informative talk and then Debbie closed the meeting.
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