District 9650

E News

Rotary International President

John F. Germ (Judy)

District Governor

Ian Jackson (Barbara) Number 5 - Thursday 4th August

Edited by District Secretary Phil Hafey. Contributions to E News are most welcome - please email to phil.hafey@bigpond.com

Rotary Foundation Centenary

Now that we have all celebrated our club changeovers and our new club leadership have had a chance to settle into their roles, this is a good time to make plans for celebrating the Centenary of the Rotary Foundation.

This worthy charity of ours has achieved so much, and has so much potential to achieve so much more. This year gives us a great opportunity to showcase its goals and the work that Rotarians around the world and here in Australia have accomplished through its grants. There is a website to provide ideas for this special year - www.centennial.rotary.org will get you started.

Here are some of the suggestions it provides for celebrating the centenary:

Plan a special Rotary Day and invite everyone in your community to participate. It can be anything from a concert to a race to a birthday party with a giant cake in the shape of the Rotary wheel.

Hold a fundraiser in your community to support a Foundation grant project, the Rotary Peace Centres, or PolioPlus.

Organize or participate in a global grant or district grant project.

Promote your club or district projects that are funded by the Foundation.

Dedicate some club meetings to Rotary Foundation topics.

Challenge members to increase your club’s contributions to the Foundation.

Challenge your members to become Centurions. There is a very interesting timeline of the history of the Foundation at http://centennial.rotary.org/en/history-rotary-foundation. See the attached page for many more ideas about how to celebrate and commemorate the Rotary Foundation Centenary.

Australian Transplant Games

District 9685 are one of many organisations supporting the Transplant Games which are being held in Western Sydney from 24 September to 1 October. More information on how Rotarians in District 9650 can support the Games is attached to E News.

Australian Rotary Health has announced an exciting initiative

Details are attached to this week’s edition of E News

of the week

Important District Dates

27 August Nambucca Heads Rotary - Wine, Beer and

Food Festival 3 - 4 September (Note date change) YEP 2016 Inbounders Orientation 20 September Walcha Rotary 60th Birthday Celebration 22 September Sawtell Rotary Movie Night - The Beatles 8

Days a Week 3-7 October RYAG Dairy Wingham 28-30 October IFMR AGM and gathering - Coonabarabran 5-6 November District Muster - Tamworth: Note venue change 26-27 November YEP Briefing 2017 Outbounders

Visit the District website for details of the District Governor’s visits and other activities.

 

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Your kitchen sink harbours 100,000 time more germs than your toilet bowl.

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DIRECTORY INFORMATION CHANGES Please advise the E News editor if any Club or Personal information in the printed directory is incorrect or has changed.

Calling all Rotacyclists!!

The International Fellowship of Motorcycling Rotarians (Australian Chapter) are holding their AGM in Coonabarabran on Sat 29 th October. During last year’s “Big Ride” IFMR members from around Australia enjoyed the hospitality of many parts of District 9650 including Wee Waa, Gunnedah and Tamworth.

Following on from this highly successful event, the IFMR would encourage any present, past or future members or friends to come along to Coonabarabran on the weekend of 28th, 29th and 30th October. Some great rides are planned through the Warrumbungle National Park and surrounding region, including a visit to the historic airfield at Tooraweenah. A guided tour through the Australian Astronomical Observatory is planned for the Saturday, to be followed by our AGM and dinner and another ride on the Sunday, following a Rotary Breakfast! For further details refer to the website www.ifmraustralia.org or contact Hugh Raadgever ( IFMR member, AG Cluster 7 )

Attached to E News this week:

IDEAS for celebrating the Centenary of the Rotary Foundation

ARH Sport Sawtell Rotary: The Beatles - 8 Days a Week The Australian Transplant Games Westpac Helicopter Service “Thank You” poster Westpac Helicopter Service “Facts Sheet”

Membership Discussion Groups

Nick Wright, Chairman of the 9650 Membership Development Committee writes:

Assistant District Governors are being asked to organise "membership development discussion groups" in their clusters from about October on. It is intended that the President and one or two members of each club in the Cluster get together with the AG plus someone from the District Membership Development Committee to sit down one evening or afternoon and have thorough discussions about membership matters.

It is also intended to conduct these discussion groups on a cluster basis as conditions, problems and opportunities differ from one part of the District to another. We want to heighten membership consciousness and to develop new approaches to our common problem - membership!

We want to get club managements thinking, if they are not already, or if they are, perhaps thinking in different ways. We would like to give them opportunities to discuss techniques, to air their problems and brains-trust with fellow office bearers about how to handle them and to promote support for each other when difficulties arise.

Changes to the standard constitution will give us more flexibility: how do we use it; should we use it? There will be room for arguing a case against change but attendees will be expected to know what the new parameters are.

There will also be opportunities to discuss what sort of people are suitable as members of our clubs. Is having a club membership committee a good idea? What about how club meetings are managed.?

Please make sure your club is represented.

WESTPAC HELICOPTER SERVICE SAYS “THANKS ROTARY” Last Financial Year Rotarians in District 9650 donated $19,150 to the Westpac Helicopter Service plus contributed many in kind hours. Attached are a ”Thank You” poster and a “facts sheet” which details the operation of the Service.

IDEAS for celebrating the Centenary of the Rotary Foundation:

CELEBRATE 100 years of ‘doing good’ by

organising a Rotary Day event focused on the Foundation:

• Throw a birthday party with a cake in the shape of a Rotary wheel and light 100 candles. Invite community members and local media.

• Sponsor a centennial walk/run or bicycle race and open it to local participants. • Organise a centennial concert featuring local talent and music representing each

decade of the past 100 years. • Attempt to earn a place in the Guinness World Records — for example, by serving up

the world’s largest birthday cake. • Spotlight the Foundation’s international impact by sponsoring a Rotary Day with local ethnic restaurants. Donate a percentage of proceeds to The Rotary Foundation

and to a local food bank. • At a local festival, sponsor a Taste of Rotary booth featuring foods from various

Rotary countries. Decorate the booth with the countries’ flags and provide information about Rotary and its Foundation.

• Organise a Foundation alumni reunion, inviting past Rotary Scholars and Group Study Exchange and vocational training team members.

INFORM club members and your entire community about The Rotary

Foundation’s track record of improving life in communities worldwide:

• Organise a seminar with local experts discussing one or more of Rotary’s six areas of focus.

• Dedicate some Rotary meetings to Rotary Foundation topics. • At a community event, sell or distribute bottled water bearing a label promoting

Rotary’s water and sanitation efforts. Contribute proceeds to the Foundation’s Annual Fund to support water and sanitation global grant projects.

• Sponsor a Rotary information booth or table at a local event and share The Rotary Foundation story with everyone who stops by.

• Organise a book club for members and their families and read the new Rotary centennial book, ‘Doing Good in the World: The Inspiring Story of The Rotary Foundation’s First 100 years’. Order copies at shop.rotary.org.

IMPROVE your community by sponsoring a Foundation centennial event

and inviting the public to participate:

• Organise a drive to collect 100 items related to Rotary’s areas of focus — for example, books, water-treatment kits, first aid supplies — and donate them to local community based organisations at a centennial event.

• Plant a grove of 100 trees to protect the environment, or create a Rotary Foundation community garden. • Hold a 100-hour service marathon, encouraging Rotarians and their families and local School children to volunteer. • Conduct a needs assessment in your community and use the results to develop a

centennial district grant project, such as tutoring at-risk students, promoting vaccinations, or developing anti-bullying programs.

• Organise a Rotary Day community cleanup in a local park and encourage community volunteers to help.

RAISE MONEY for PolioPlus, the Rotary Peace Centres, or your

club’s global grant projects with fun events in your community:

• Hold a rubber-duck race on a local river. • Hold a fund raiser in your community to support a Foundation grant project, the

Rotary Peace centres or PolioPlus. • Challenge members to increase your club’s contributions to the Foundation. • Challenge your members to become Centurions. • Sponsor a dance-a-thon, walk-a-thon, or bike-a-thon. • Hold a raffle among club members for a leather-bound copy of “Doing Good in the

World: The Inspiring Story of The Rotary Foundation’s First 100 Years.” • Organize a talent contest or karaoke competition. • Organize a Chilly Golf tournament, a nine-hole winter event in the snow or a mid-

summer (mid-spring, mid-autumn) Golf tournament. • Sponsor a polar plunge, a quick jump into — and out of — icy waters!

Australian Rotary Health Sport Initiative – 1:16-17 (July 2016)

Australian Rotary Health Ambassador Calls For Your Support

We are excited to announce ARH is starting a new initiative to be referred to as ‘Australian Rotary Health SPORT’ (ARHsport) – and it’s going to be a lot of fun.

We need at least one person in every club to volunteer as the 'Club Champion' to work directly with City2Surf Legend and ARH Ambassador Chris Edwards to bring this initiative to life.

‘The key objective of Australian Rotary Health is to support healthier minds bodies and communities and whilst we continue to be very successful with medical research and scholarships,’ says Chris, 'we also want to take our message to the community - and we plan to do this in a very practical way.'

Do you have a Champion in your club? If you have just one person in your club who is interested in helping to promote health and fitness within your club and your community we'd like him or her to visit http://arhsport.com/arh-rotary-champions/ and register your your club's interest in this initiative.

We will keep your Champion updated on all the ins and outs of this new program as it is rolled out.

Get Your Free Sports Clothing: It Starts With The City2Surf

This is a health and fitness project that Rotarians can do together, with Rotaractors and with non-Rotarians in your community. (It will be a great way to meet new people and introduce them to Rotary).

The idea is to bring people of all ages together to walk, run, play golf, ride bikes, sail ... You get the idea...

We are launching this new initiative at this year's Sydney City2Surf and we'd love to see as many supporters as possible either Running for Rotary or cheering from the sidelines.

TO GET YOUR FREE ROTARY SPORTS GEAR:

We are excited to announce a new range of ARHsport clothing that supporters can get for FREE under our 'Free for $100' scheme.

There are two ways to get FREE sports gear:

• Raise $100 or more for Australian Rotary Health • Sponsor one of the Run4Rotary team members

for $100 or more.

*We have a corporate sponsor who will pay for clothing for anyone who raises or donates $100 or more.

Join Our Run4Rotary City2Surf Team: Here's How

Why not do the famous Sydney City2Surf with us and join our team? We would love to have you and your friends on our Run4Rotary Team.

Step One: sign up for the event at http://city2surf.com.au but DO NOT select a charity. (They charge a fee to be on the list of charities and we didn't want to pay that) Complete the entry process before going to step two.

Step Two: After entering, go to https://city2surf2016.everydayhero.com/au/run4rotary and click the brown button 'Join Team' - then follow the EveryDayHero setup page.

Does your Rotary Club Run a Sporting Event?

Many clubs operate walk-a-thons, bike rides, golf days and other sporting or fitness activities as to raise funds.

Australian Rotary Health want to help support these initiatives and we'd like to start by building an online Directory of all Rotary Sporting events in Australia and New Zealand.

If your club runs a sporting event for fundraising we'd like your event listed in the new Rotary Sports Directory.

NB: We have added a few events for testing purposes and we'd like the clubs who's events are already listed to contact us ASAP. (Details on the Directory)

http://arhsport.com/rotary-event-directory/

More Sports Gear On The Way: Here is a glimpse

We have lots of exciting initiatives coming your way, so stay in touch.

Have a look at the sports clothing that is available for FREE now at http://arhsport.com

Make sure you don't miss out.

Your club Champion will be the person with all the details so be sure to notify us with your Champion's contact details.

The Australian Transplant Games is the country’s most inspirational sporting event. They unite all those touched by transplantation and showcase their renewed health through an exciting week of sports and promotional activities.

The Games highlight the benefits of organ and tissue donation to the Australian public. Media coverage gets Australian households talking about their donation decisions, which is crucial to increasing organ donation rates. There are currently more than 1,600 people on the waiting list.

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The Australian Transplant Games will be held in Western Sydney, Penrith and Blacktown from 24 September -1 October and Rotary District 9685 is a firm supporter. Please consider helping in some way – time or donations. We would appreciate your help in many areas: administration, signage, transport, healthcare, meals (BBQ items), sports, special events, media and communication.

We realise that the volunteering of time is geographically impossible. However, your club may be able to provide some financial support to help with the cost of the children transplant recipients’ activity day at Wet’n’Wild or Featherdale Wildlife Park as well as the Thank You BBQ for the volunteers on the last day – maybe $50 -$100 as a suggestion. Any donation will be greatly appreciated

- Bank: Westpac BSB: 032 099 Account Number: 43 0655 Name of Account: Transplant Australia Ltd – Australian Games Account

To register and find out more please go to http://www.australiantransplantgames.com/volunteer/

Or contact Marilyn Mercer PDG – Rotary E-Club of Greater Sydney Australian Transplant Games Local Organising Committee Volunteer Co-ordinator 0416 026 848 mmm@myisp.net.au

Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service

Fast FactsNo one has ever paid to be assisted by the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service.

That is because people in our community and NSW Government, through Health and the Ambulance Service, provide the funds that ensure the helicopters are there when and where they are needed.

History

• The Rescue Helicopter was established in 1975 as a voluntary part time beach patrol in the Newcastle area.

• For the past decade the Service has operated Bell 412s in Newcastle and BK117s in Tamworth. The helicopters cover the Hunter, Central Coast, Central West, Mid North Coast and New England - North West regions.

Missions

• The Service is on call 24 hours, seven days a week and attends about 1,000 missions each year.

These include:

• Primary – attend accident site, treat and transfer patients to a hospital.

• Secondary – transfer patients from one hospital to another.

• Search and rescue – help to locate missing people, rescue and return to safety.

www.rescuehelicopter.com.au

Partners

• Since 1975 the Service has enjoyed a successful partnership with the Westpac Banking Corporation, now recognised as one of the longest serving corporate partnerships in Australia’s history.

• The Service has always been owned by the community.

• Other valued partners include health, mining, community, media, business, Industry, transport, sport, farming and agriculture.

Funding

• It costs about $16 million a year to keep the helicopters and crews ready to respond when needed.

• About 50% of the cost is raised through sponsorships, Volunteer Support Group activities, events and partnerships with our community.

• The remainder is funded through contracts with the NSW Department of Health and NSW Ambulance.

Nelson Bay

Newcastle

Sydney

Cessnock

Singleton

Scone Gloucester

Walcha

Grafton

Lismore

Gunnedah

Narrabri

Moree

Coonamble

Gilgandra

Dubbo

KandosRylstone

Gulgong

MudgeeWellington

Coolah

Merriwa

Quirindi

Lightning Ridge

Walgett

Tamworth

Armidale

Inverell

Gosford

Glen Innes

Taree

Port Macquarie

Kempsey

Coffs Harbour

1800 155 155 | www.rescuehelicopter.com.au | enquiries@rescuehelicopter.com.au

Volunteers

• There are 34 Volunteer Support Groups with more than 750 members who live in the many communities that make up our Northern NSW region.

• They are tireless fundraisers, event organisers and advocates who help spread the message about the important work of the Rescue Helicopter.

People

• On board each helicopter is a crew of highly skilled and trained professionals. The crew includes pilots, doctors, paramedics, nurses and rescue crew members depending on the need of each patient.

• Crews are supported by the work of engineering teams which include experienced planners and technicians.

• Other important Service staff include marketing, training and administration teams.

Future

• The Service is now preparing for the beginning of a new contract to start in March 2017.

• The area covered will include northern New South Wales to the Queensland border making it one of the leading aeromedical services in Australia.

• Four new AgustaWestland AW139s will be online in 2017 and ready to go to work from: March - Newcastle, April - Lismore, May - Tamworth

• The expansion will result in a new operational base and a separate engineering and administration base in the Newcastle area, a new base at Lismore and an upgrade to the base at Tamworth.

• Additional training for pilots, crews and engineers is underway.

• Volunteer – help fundraise and organise events• Workplace Giving – make a gift through regular

payroll deductions• Partnerships - many different ways to support• Donations – every dollar donated is tax-deductible • Attend events – Cash Housie, Big Bucks Bingo,

charity balls, high teas, lunches, bike rides• Bequests – make an important gift• Visit – meet us at the base or online

How to get involved