President's Report

Next Meeting Party Hard!

Recycling old playgrounds

Peter Harries beats the algae

Welcome to Rotary Rod and Mark

Club embraces Family Membership

Farmers Market Christmas Snaps

In this issue…

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PRESIDENT'S REPORT DECEMBER 16TH, 2018

be back again in early February all charged up for the remainder of the term. On Thursday December 6th, I attended the RYLA Camp in Mt Evelyn. The Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) is a leadership program coordinated by Rotary clubs in our District. This year the Rotary Club of Hawthorn hosted the camp. Our club has sponsored a participant this coming year, Conchita Khan, who is currently a student at the University of Melbourne. I managed to speak to Conchita and she was very grateful that the Club has supported her and has given her this opportunity to develop her leadership skills. She will visit the club sometime next year to give a report on her experience. A big thank you to Teresa Liu and Thelma Hutchison for organising the RYLA application process. On Tuesday 11th, I was honoured to induct two new members into our club for the remainder of the year. We welcome Mark Howlett and Rod Smith, both of whom are keen and excited (Continued on page 2)

This will be the last bulletin for the 2018 year and I have to say for the past six months, the Rotary Club of Glenferrie have been very busy. As president, I have made it to the half way mark and looking back, I am shocked and excited that the club has done so much in a small amount of time. I know that with good rest we will

The rain stops just long enough for a Jolly Christmas Farmers Market

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Coming Events

Tuesday December 18th: Christmas Party at Kooyong, featuring "The Potted Palms"

We're all going on a ....Summer Holiday

Normal services resume January 29th 2019

Next Meeting - December 18th 2018 Annual Club Christmas Party Featuring The Potted

Palms

Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club Tuesday December 18th, 2018 6:30pm for 7:00pm

PRESIDENT'S REPORT CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 to join the Rotary cause and devote their time and energy to the community. We also had a wonderful speaker at Kooyong this week, Peter Cribb from the Rotary Club of Flemington came and did his presentation on “Slides for Sri Lanka”. His project dismantles playgrounds that are no longer needed in our community and ships the parts to Sri Lanka for reassembly. Glenferrie Rotary member Chamil Fernando is a participant in the program, something that I believe our club should give support in the future. On Saturday, we had the last Farmers Market for 2018. Despite being relocated to the car park, it was great to see so many people and the weather was good to us for the morning. Santa was right on time, much to the delight of children there. Next Tuesday December 18th we meet to enjoy our Christmas Party, which will be held at Kooyong and will be joint celebration with the Rotary Club of Hawthorn. The evening will be a great opportunity for all members to wind down, relax and celebrate the hard work and achievements for the year. A big thank you to John Suriano, Lynette Spencer and Bob Scott for organising a wonderful Christmas dinner experience. Finally, to our members who cannot make it to the Christmas Party, I would just like to say, on behalf of the Glenferrie Board and myself, thank you for your wonderful service for the past year and we wish you all a good rest over summer. Jan and myself wish everyone at the Rotary Club of Glenferrie a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. For those who are travelling, safe travel, and for those staying at home, wishing you all a good rest. See you next year. Charles Tran President

There's going to be plenty if Ho Ho Ho's at this year's Rotary family Christmas Party as the Rotary clubs of Glenferrie and Hawthorn come together to celebrate the joy of Christmas.

"The Potted Palms" - An evening of sheer enjoyment

Featuring the world renowned quintet The Potted Palms, a visit from a special visitor from out of town and a bevy of Christmas carols, this year's event promises to take the cake (or maybe the pudding). Please bring a child's gift to put under the Christmas Tree, wrapped in Christmas paper labelled with the recommended age group.

Merry Christmas!!!

(cont.) The major investment required from partnering clubs for this project is the volunteer time required to assist with dismantling playgrounds and taking them to the DIK warehouse when required and Peter re-iterated that it would be great to get more hands on deck as the project increases in volume. Glenferrie assisted with a recent playground extraction at Caulfield grammar and will be looking for some volunteers in the coming months. Please get in touch with Chamil Fernando from our club if you’re interested in getting involved in this project. In appreciation of the significance of the project, Chamil’s Old Boy Association at St Joseph’s College also donated $250 for the project. Chamil is currently in discussion with Sri Lankan Airlines to get sponsorship for an air ticket so that Peter can visit Sri Lanka to report and review on recent playgrounds that were shipped to Sri Lanka. Peter Cribb is a great ambassador and this is definitely another great win to Rotary!

Chamil Fernando

CLUB MEETING REPORT DECEMBER 11TH 2018 Peter Cribb: "Rotary Overseas Recycled Playgrounds"

Our guest speaker on 11th December was Peter Cribb from the Rotary Club of Flemington who spoke in great detail regarding a wonderful project he initiated, now known as the Rotary Overseas Recycled Playgrounds project. Peter's career has been in and around education, particularly mathematics education. His career can be broken into two phases. In the first phase he graduated with a mathematics degree from the University of Melbourne, following which he taught mathematics in a number of schools in Victoria. He was subsequently appointed the first district (Gippsland) advisor in mathematics and was a member of the Mathematics Standing Committee. Peter wrote the Victorian mathematics syllabus and is a co-author of over 80 maths books, mainly student texts. He was an International Teaching Fellow to Canada, maths education advisor to the Education departments of the Northern Territory, Malaysia and New Guinea. He was a principal and a director in the Victorian Education Department. In the second phase of his outstanding career, Peter was a publisher for Nelson Publishers, he was General Manager (Editorial) of Harper Collins, Publisher then Director of Cambridge University Press in Cambridge, and a director of Cambridge-Hitachi. number of occasions and also has held directorships of a number of companies. In his Rotary career, Peter founded RORP, a project that harvests playgrounds that are being replaced in Australia and ships them to countries around the world for reinstallation in schools and parks. The project itself is self-funded for most parts where councils pay Rotary $500 for each playground that is dismantled. The major cost is the shipping cost, where on Average a 40 FT container is $3200. (Cont. opposite)

Returning to Australia from the UK when he retired in 2005, Peter joined Flemington Rotary and has been Club President and a Board Member on a

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CLUB MEETING REPORT PETER HARRIES DEALS WITH THE ALGAE Tuesday December 4th 2018

Welcome to Rotary Mark and Rod

Club member Peter Harries was our dinner speaker on Tuesday 4 December 2018. Peter has been a member of Glenferrie RC since 2015, although his connection with Rotary goes back much further than that. When he was 26 years of age and living in Bangkok, he was introduced to Rotary by his employer Ford and attended a number of meetings. Peter gave us an insight into his most recent work project “Using ultra sound to kill algae”.

President Charles inducted two new members into the club at the meeting on December 11th, Mark Howlett and Rod Smith. Mark is a retired engineer and business manager with a Masters in Business from New York University who has, since retirement, embarked on an impressive social enterprise career, as a volunteer with Solve Disability Solutions, where he is on the board as Treasurer, and with Whitelion, an organisation supporting young people at risk.

He talked about his current involvement with Envirosonic and its effectiveness on controlling dangerous blue-green algae with ultrasound. The slides presented us with the history of ultrasound, , and of the way non-motile

algae are killed for 300 metres from the Envirosonic installation, which are often solar pontoon mounted in double set-up for reservoirs, giving a 600 metre circle of control.

Rod has had a successful career in real estate over many years, but is now fruitfully engaged in social research with Ipsos Group, where his empathy for people is highly valued. A very warm welcome to Rotary Mark and Rod. We look forward to sharing many wonderful years working with you to make a difference through Rotary.

The technology has no impact on fish and amphibians, with the installation on King Island demonstrating that the platypus were now more visible with clearer water, and no concern with the ultrasound waves (they

think it is a jacuzzi !). Peter showed some incredible figures of its effect on Barwon Heads Golf Course pond, where the Envirosonic displaced the installed algal pumps to huge savings in power, as well as elimination of the over 500,000 microcystis algae per cubic millimetre. Other installations, including Candowie Reservoir, the water supply for Philip Island, which has had no chemicals for algae control in four years, and Tuki Trout Farm (near Bendigo) which 27,000 trout are in cleaner water with no algae. This new technology is very power efficient, using only 100 watts of power (the same a light globe), and an effective chemical free way to control blue green algae. Thanks Peter for a very interesting presentation.

Thelma Hutchison

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Farmers Market Roster January 20th 2019

Early Shift 6:30am - 10:00am Newton Langford (Captain), Newton Langford, Gary Stoneham, Ian

Dobson, Bob Scott, Jane Gilchrist, Volunteer Required

Late Shift 10:00am - 1:30pm Cheryl Pisterman (Captain), David Pisterman, Peter Harries, Charles

Tran, Liz Andrews, Volunteer Required

Salvation Army Bread Run

20/12/2018 Helena Wimpole Bob Carey

17/1/2019 Newton Langford Volunteer Required

24/1/2019 Teresa Liu Don Moore

Club Meeting Duty Roster

Set up/Down and Welcome

Cashier Cashier Chair

18/12/2018 Christmas Party - Bring a Gift for the Giving Tree

All rosters for the year are now available in the => Member's Area of the club website.

Rostered on.....

If you can't fulfil a duty for any reason, please find a replacement and let the rosterer know.

GLENFERRIE GOSSIP Club Embraces Family Membership

The Club Board has formally approved a proposal that the club endorse a new membership category, Family Membership, effective from the board meeting on December 11th 2018.

Family Membership will apply to two adult people who define themselves as a family and include children. As families join, the club will introduce a broad range of activities in which families can participate together. The Annual Membership dues for a Family Membership will be $50 greater than the applicable single member rate. Family memberships will be covered by Rotary insurance, individuals within the family will get a Rotary pin and dinner badge, but the family unit will receive only one copy between them of Rotary Down Under. The club's Child Safety policy will apply to both adult members in full. Both adult members will be required to have satisfactorily completed a club application form incorporating the Rotary Form 3 Youth Declaration, and to have a current valid Victorian Working With Children Check, as defined by the club's policy. Family membership will enable Rotarians to blend Rotary with family, rather than having them compete, and is a further step towards meeting the club's number one priority - membership growth, and greater diversity.

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Christmas Farmers Market Survives the Rain Scenes from Patterson Reserve December 15th

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