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Last meeting's speakers, Warrick and Russell.
From the President’s desk
 
I have attended the PET Training over the weekend at the beautiful town of Merimbula with Monica. I will give you an update at our meeting on Thursday.
 
Last week’s meeting
 
On 16 March 2023 we had a talk from members Russell and Warrick, who are scam sleuths and gave us a primer on holding on to our money while online (or even reading a dodgy text message). For those who missed it or want to know more, https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/ would be a good place to look. If you want a copy of the Seminar you can email Russell for a copy.
 
New Editor – Stephen McMillan
 
Thank you to Russell Dew for stepping into the Editor’s role for a few weeks which eventually became a few months. I am now taking over the role. Please feel free to email me input to the Bulletin, preferably by 10 am on Monday mornings so it can be included in the Bulletin to be sent out later that day. My email is sjmcmillan1974@live.com.
 
Next meeting
 
Our next meeting be on 23 March at the Commonwealth Club at 12.15 for 12.30 pm. 
 
Community Services #1 provides emotional and practical support to thousands of families and individuals across the ACT and with the delivery of in home support services in NSW across the Murrumbidgee LHD.
 
Karen Pollard will tell us about their programs and services include Early Education and Care, Out of School Hours Care and School Holiday Programs, Aged Care Services, The Food Pantry, Community Support including Social Support Groups and Seniors Groups, Transport Services, Venue Hire and more.
 
Duty Roster
 
Date
23 March
30 March
6 April
13 April
Door
Ross
Ross
Ross
Ross
Open meeting and introduce President
Judy R
Stephen
Graeme
Astrida
Toast to Rotary at Work
George
Warrick
Russell
Judy
Thank speaker and write up for Bulletin
Bill
Sally
Michael
George
 If you are not able to perform your allocated duty, please arrange a replacement and advise President Andrea. Please advise Stephen of any planned absences to avoid being rostered on while away.
 
Club Mission Statement
 
Following consultation on the draft Club Mission Statement, here’s a revised version for comment:
 
RCCBG serves the residents of the ACT, partners with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples throughout Australia, and helps people in need overseas. We promote peace through the Canberra Rotary Peace Bell and the installation of Peace Poles throughout Australia.”
 
The reasons for the changes made to the original are:
  • In the first sentence, “serves” instead of “provides service to” is less wordy and more elegant.
  • In the first sentence, service to indigenous peoples has been amended to reflect our wide geographic engagement (we’ve supported indigenous people in Angus Downs, Hay, Mawonga and Robinson River). The words “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander” are from the Uluru Statement from the Heart. And the phrase “partners with” reflects our practice and desire to work alongside indigenous peoples.
  • The first sentence has been expanded to include international service, reflecting our involvement in this area and consistent with Rotary’s international charter.
  • In the final sentence, the words “in our area” were too limited and have been deleted. This reflects the fact that our school tours of the Peace Bell reach the whole country and diplomatic functions held there (such as Holocaust memorial and UN International Day of Peace) are national, not regional, events.
Please provide any comments to President Andrea and Secretary Russell before the next Board meeting, scheduled for 29 March.
 
OUR ROTARY PEACE PARK TOURS DURING HERITAGE WEEK
 
Dear Members,
I enclose a link to our Heritage Festival, Guided Peace Walking Tours through Lennox Gardens to the Peace Bell? Here it is, please book if you and your extended  family are planning to attend. Also please share through your own contacts and on your own social media sites. 
 
The is the first time we have conducted the tours during Heritage week and so we want to make this tour a success for the future in raising the awareness of Rotary and the Burley Griffin Club’s activity in the promotion of Peace in the World. So let us make it a success as each tour can take up to 20 participants.
 
 
Michael Rabey
0411367700
Look Out – Rotary’s About
 
Life is rush rush, busy busy and its only when travelling slowly around our country am I reminded of the wonderful work done by Rotary and all the other Community Service Clubs. There is not a town, however small, that does not have at least one community facility that has been funded and/or built by a service club.
 
While we tend to focus on the big important, often international, projects it is the small but more visible projects that most non-members notice.
 
On this trip away I thought I would participate in club bulletin activities reminding us all of the numerous and varied local work done by Rotary.
 
Lakes Entrance, Victoria, will kick-off this series by showing the co-ordination and leadership role Rotary plays in that community. The foreshore park used by most visitors is called Rotary Park and most of the recreational facilities have been provided by Rotary and its sponsors. The Lakes Entrance Rotary Club is also a promoter of the Rotary Peace Bell Project, well known by RCCBG.
 
Can anyone living in Canberra in 2003 not relate to the terrible bushfire events faced by the town of Mallacoota on New Years Eve 2019. Rotary in collaboration with the Lions Club were able to secure some bushfire recovery funds and purchase a mobile timber mill that harvested timber on local properties for fencing and other small re-building projects.  This has been described as locals seeing the need and developing their own rapid solution.
 
Having seen the reminders of our own fires for years I was quite taken back at how quickly Mallacoota has recovered to a state that one would never suspect such a major fire had happened so recently.
 
Faye Powell is our Travelling Burley Griffin Club Rotarian.

ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

JOKES……..PONDERISMS  

"It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the  idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone." - Andy Rooney. 

 "The older I get, the better I used to be." – Lee Trevino, Professional Golfer.  "Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere." – George Burns. 

 "The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened. - Mark Twain. 

 "First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your  zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down." - Leo Rosenberg. 

 "Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is  nothing you can do about it." - Golda Meir. 

 "Old people shouldn't eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they  can get." – Robert Orben. 

 "You spend 90 percent of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last  10 percent trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired." – Robert Brault.3 

 "At my age, flowers scare me." - George Burns. 

 "The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest. You are always being asked  to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down." - T.S.  Elliot. 

 "The important thing to remember is that I'm probably going to forget." – Unknown. 

 "At age 20, we worry about what others think of us... at age 40, we don't  care what they think of us... at age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of  us at all." -Ann Landers. 

 "We don't grow older, we grow riper." - Pablo Picasso. 

 "I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a lot more as they  get older, and then it dawned on me—they're cramming for their final exam."- George Carlin, Comedian. 

 "Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice  cream to reach your hips." - John Wagner. 

 "Grandchildren don't make a woman feel old, it's the knowledge that she's  married to a grandfather that does." - J. Norman Collie. 

 "When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure  sign you're getting old." - Mark Twain. 

 "You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks." - Joel Plaskett. 

 "Looking fifty is great—if you're sixty." - Joan Rivers. 

 Time is a great healer so put on a smile and keep moving forward. " – Anonymous. 

Eric.
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