Presidents' Message July 2020
Welcome to the new Rotary Year! Each year Rotary International chooses a theme for clubs to focus on. For 2020-21, a year that promises to be unlike any other we have been provided with a theme that embodies hope and encourages us to embrace change - Rotary Opens Opportunities. |
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Rotary International Convention 2020
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Monday night's Zoom Meeting1 June 2020Monday night with guest speaker Tobias Lehmann from West Walla Farm |
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Monday night's Zoom Meeting25 May 2020 |
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Your Rotary SurveyThe District Governors of 2018-19 petitioned the RI Board to develop a proposed pilot structure for Rotary in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific that will help us be relevant for our members, contemporary and flexible. They now invite all Rotarians to provide feedback on three simple questions:
Your responses will be collated and shared with the working groups to help them develop their proposed strategies and structure, which will feed into the design of a pilot structure for our region. They request that you be honest and bold and provide your feedback by 21 June 2020. |
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Concord Farmers Market - We're Back!
"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night etc. etc..."After much discussion and a lot more planning our markets will once more grace the bitumen of Cintra Park from next Sunday, 17th May 2020. All we need now are shoppers. So … tell all your friends and acquaintances and ask them to spread the word also. |
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OUTREDS - PRESS RELEASEOUTREDS(Outback Rotary Education Scholarships)The resumption of our OUTREDS program is certainly a very positive outcome during the period of "hibernation" and proves once again the resilience of Rotary. I have said it before but it needs reiterating, congratulations to both clubs involved and in particular to those individual members who have put so much effort into the success of this first scholarship which has the additional benefit of adding a further dimension to the relationship we have formed over the past few years. Press release received from the Rotary Club of Quirindi follows: |
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President's Message - May 2020Dear Members, Families, Honorary Members and Friends of Rotary, I want to thank all of you for joining our weekly online meetings. It is so important that we check in with each other and know we're doing okay despite the challenges this pandemic has caused many of you. I understand many of you have had impacts on investments, superannuation, jobs and family members being impacted as well. Please reach out to us and we can talk through with you how we can help you if you are experiencing challenges. Thank you to those of you who have reached out and we have tried to find solutions that work best in your situation. |
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President's Update Message - 26 March 2020Dear Members and Friends of Rotary, Please join us for our very first online meeting using an App called Zoom on Monday 30th March from 6:30 pm. Angela Porritt will be sending a link, with instructions very soon to you. Thank you David Brown for another bumper newsletter received recently. Also, a huge thank you to Angela Porritt, supported by Michael Brown, for a seamless transition to our new website. Thank you to everyone for many years of assisting with the Concord Farmer’s Market - all the behind the scenes meetings, hard work and planning are greatly appreciated. Please note that the Concord Farmer’s Markets have been cancelled until further notice. We are doing everything we can to support our stall holders via facebook and our website during this tough time. When this is all over, we’ll re-launch the markets, and we know we’ll have club and community support to build the market bigger and better than ever before. We care very much about all of you. Please keep us informed if you need our help, need to talk and keep us updated of any illnesses or celebrations. Please, during this challenging time, look out for each other and continue to take precautions as advised to keep yourselves safe. We need to care about each other more now than ever before. Thank you for your continued support during this challenging time. |
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March is Water and Sanitation Month
Clean water, sanitation and hygiene education are basic necessities for a healthy environment and a productive life. When people have access to clean water and sanitation, waterborne diseases decrease, children stay healthier and attend school more regularly and mothers can spend less time carrying water and more time helping their families. |
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Rotary Youth Driving Awareness (RYDA) 2020Rotary Youth Driving Awareness (RYDA) is starting up again for 2020 and Judy Love is after volunteers. The duties are far from onerous and indeed a reasonably easy day of Rotary fellowship is usually enjoyed along the way. So, if you have the time and you would like to join in, see Mrs Love for available dates. On the other hand, if you are new to Rotary and are unsure what RYDA is all about... |
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Presidents Message - February 2020Our club's calendar year started off really positively. The same cannot be said for those drought, bushfire and more recently flood-affected communities. While on duty on the bucket collection at our market last Sunday, one of the visitors to the market commented that "Australia is a country of extremes as evidenced by a bucket collection for both bushfires, drought and floods". Let's spare a thought for those reeling from natures' extremes. |
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Welcome Back in 2020Welcome to the beginning of another new year where we will continue to have an ongoing commitment to the Liverpool Plains community through the Rotary Club of Quirindi. At our next two markets we will be collecting tools in conjunction with Harry's Shed for the residents of the Balmoral/Picton area who lost over 200 sheds in the past few weeks. Ray Kane has already generously delivered a trailer full of tools to the area and hopefully we can add considerably to that. |
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Club Members Recognised in Australia Day Honours List
We are proud to announce that not one, but two of our long standing members have been recognised in the Australia Day Honours List on 26th January 2020 and will duely be presented with an Order of Australia Medal (OAM). |
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2019 Christmas Cards
The Rotary Club of Concord says 'Thank you" to all our friends, supporters and charities who have kindly sent us Christmas Cards, which we would like to share with you here and will add to as they are received. |
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Welcome to Daniel Music |
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A Visit with the Rotary Club of Guernsey  |
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The continuing fight against malariaRotarians Against Malaria (RAM) - an activity of Rotary Australia World Community Service (RAWCS) is a volunteer-run organisation working to eliminated malaria. In 1900s, malaria was pandemic in the world. One can only imaging the burden of malaria disease to all countries. Progress has been made. Fifteen years ago, malaria killed a child every thirty seconds. Under the Millennium Development Goals, however, considerable progress was made in preventing, diagnosing and treating malaria. As a result, deaths have fallen by 60 percent. Now under the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals, we are aiming to reduce malaria cases and deaths by a further 90 percent by 2030. |
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August is Membership Month...All of us are ambassadors of Rotary and of our club. Do you remember who invited you to Rotary? Did someone call you and invite you to your first meeting or did you seek out Rotary on your own? In my case, I not only had a moderate knowledge of Rotary through my father who was a member in our home town, but early in my career in the early sixties I was involved in the initial cover design for a new regional magazine which was to be known as Rotary Down Under, working with the first editor Paul Henningham. |
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To mentor or not to mentor... that is the question!Recently at a club assembly, President Charmaine posed the question.... did we as a club need a system of mentoring not only new members, but older and longer serving members as well? The word "mentor" originated in the mid 18th century from the name of the adviser of young Telemachus in Homer's Odyssey and is defined in the Oxford Dictionary of English as... "an experience and trusted adviser". |
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Saving lives in Ghana What is it like taking a large team to Africa? It has probably been one of the most rewarding experiences in my life. In mid February, I began leading Rotary members from all over the East Coast of the United States through Ghana. I’ve tried to give the team a warm Ghanaian welcome like I’ve received on my earlier trips. A large trip is a real blessing because each person sees Ghana and our work in a different way. |
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India celebrates three years without polio Throughout India and around the world, Rotary clubs are celebrating a major milestone: India has gone three years without a new case of polio. The last reported case was a two-year-old girl in West Bengal on 13 January 2011. To mark this historic triumph, Rotary clubs illuminated landmarks and iconic structures throughout the country with four simple but powerful words, "India is polio free." |
