i-FOCUS Rotary Club of Stirling Weekly Bulletin

PRESIDENT OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 9520 GOVERNOR

Gary C.K. Huang Jerry Casburn

Our Core Value is “SERVICE ABOVE SELF”

CLUB INFORMATION

Club Details Meetings

District 9250 Our dinner meetings are held on Monday

The Rotary Club of Stirling 6:00pm for 6:30pm at the Stirling Hotel

PO Box 144 Stirling SA 5152 52 Mt Barker Road, Stirling SA 5152

www.stirlingrotary.org.au Apologies to Neil Wickens by 1pm Monday

Email: neilwick@bigpond.net.au

PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT

Robert Koehne Rod Cooper

SECRETARY TREASURER

John Osborne John Goslett

DIRECTORS IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

Neil Wickens– Club Admin Susanne Marie

Dennis Liddle-Community PRESIDENT ELECT

Ron Malcolm– International Rod Cooper

Sean Judge– Youth and Vocational

Date/Chair Club Meetings Guest Speaker/Topic

Monday 24th November - Meeting 1855 Chair: Sean Judge

Charlotte Blake

UN Youth Australia National Conference Canberra

Monday 1st December - Meeting 1856 Chair: Mark Ramsey

Future Plans and Objectives

Monday 8th December - Meeting 1857 Chair: Robert Koehne

Ivan Copley

Peramangka People

Monday 15th December - Meeting 1858 Christmas Party

Meeting 1855, 24 November 2014 Chartered 13th September

CLUB PROGRAM

Bulletin Editor: Kathy Judge. Information for the bulletin is to be emailed to Kathy by 7pm Friday.

Meeting 1854 Attendance & Draw

Attendance

Membership: 35

Members Present: 26

Guests: 5

Monika Aristeguieta , Simon Andrew,

Marcus Booth-Remmers, Ed Nixon &

Johannah Peter.

Guest Speaker: 1

Ivan Aristeguieta

Visiting Rotarians: 1

Alex Ullmer RC in Germany

Partners: 2 Sally Fraser, Socorro Wickens

Apologies: 6

Leave of absence: 2

Total Present: 35

Makeups: Nil

Lucky Jackpot Draw

Round 53 Lucky No. 3

Week 24: 16th Nov

Drawer: Rob Hill

Picked No: 1

Result: No winner

Added: $26

Jackpot: $48

Cumulative Club Return: $284

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Birthdays &Anniversaries

Birthdays

Mark Ramsey 2/11

Ken Patterson 4/11

Dennis Liddle 13/11

Rob Hill 18/11

Lucille Petty 26/11

Induction

John Goslett 14/11/1983

Ron Malcolm 23/11/2009

Wedding

Juliet & Hugh Browell 7/11

Sally & Colin Fraser 16/11

Schedule of Club Events

Bunnings Sausage Sizzle

20/12

Club X-Mas Party

Stirling Hotel 15/12

Club Diary Dates November 2014

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

1 2

Movie

Afternoon

3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Anniversary

Lunch

10 11 12 13 14 15

Bunnings

Sausage Siz.

16

Stirling X-

Mas Pageant

17

18 19 20 21 22 23

24 25 26 27 28 29 30

President’s Podium

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One issue for discussion at the Club Forum on Monday, 1 December, will be “scatter”

meetings. These are meetings that members attend in other clubs, in lieu of their own.

I was reminded of the value in knowing what other Clubs are doing when I recently at-

tended a Group 3 (Stirling, Blakiston, Mt. Barker, Murray Bridge, Mobilong, Onkaparinga,

Tailem Bend) Presidents’ meeting, chaired by Assist Governor, Group 3, Sue Piggott.

Murray Bridge runs an annual business dinner in conjunction with Regional Development

Australia Murraylands & Riverland – excellent for profile-raising and potential members.

We could explore doing something similar with our RDA

Blakiston runs an annual Fathers’ Day Breakfast, a good fundraiser

Mobilong has a Friends of Rotary scheme, in which individuals, or firms, pay $250 per

year. These are people who identify with the ideals of Rotary but who for various reasons

are unable to join the organisation formally

Tailem Bend advertises at a certain time every year inviting community groups to apply for

minor grants – this means that it is not responding to ad hoc requests throughout the year

and is able to prioritise applications.

It strikes me that “Scatter” meetings” are also potentially useful in ensuring that we are not

“re-inventing the wheel”.

Robert Koehne

Ivan’s website:

http://www.ivanaristeguieta.com/

Guest Comedian Ivan Aristeguieta

Monika Aristeguieta , Colin Fraser, Ivan Aristeguieta

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Rotarian Rod Cooper presents President Robert Koehne

with RC Stirling, Scotland’s certificate of congratulation for

RC Stirling South Australia’s 40th Anniversary.

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For those who couldn't understand the German, here is a translation of what I said:

Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen.

This evening we have a special guest, Alex Ullmer from the Rotary Club of Gernesheim-

South. Alex is the father-in-law of Marcus from Red Cacao.

Firstly I should like to excuse my poor German. I learnt it at school but that was a very

long time ago.

Alex, it gives me great pleasure to bid you a hearty welcome to our Club.

Our programme this evening is a little unusual in that we have a comedian to entertain us

which might make it a little difficult for you to understand. I am sorry, but please, please

don't ask me to translate his jokes!

Alex, once again, welcome to our club and now our President Robert would, with pleasure,

like to present you with our Club Pennant.

This is a highly edited version of what I actually said as I have to leave out all the remarks

and insults regarding various members of our club, knowing they probably wouldn't

understand!

Neil

English translation - Neil introducing Alex

Club banners are exchanged between

President Robert Koehne and Rotarian

Alex Ullmer from the Rotary Club of

Gernesheim-South, Germany.

Charlotte Blake

Notice of Annual General Meeting Rotary Club of Stirling (SA) Inc.

Members are advised the AGM of Rotary Club of Stirling will be held at the Stirling Hotel Monday 1-12-14

The AGM will follow a preliminary ordinary meeting.

AGM

Charlotte Blake is a year 11 student currently studying at Seymour college. She has lived in the

Adelaide Hills for the last 11 years and has interests in service, social justice and world issues.

Charlotte was selected to join a delegation of ten likeminded individuals to represent South

Australia at the United Nations Youth National Conference which was held in Canberra in July

2014. Recently Charlotte has competed in and won the UN Evatt diplomacy competition that

will see her represent South Australia in the Nationals in December.

Come and listen to a young lady who has represented the Rotary club of Stirling in the finest

traditions of our club talk about her experiences so far.

Guest

Speaker

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24th November

Felix Cabrera Junior & Jase Berry

will outline their recent experience

at RYLA

Well it’s the final week of Movember and this year looks to be my most successful yet. I have

been doing Movember for the last 8 years and to date this year have raised in excess $640 with

my work team raising almost $6000 for 2014. This of course could not have been done without

the generous support of Rotarians and in particular: John Stoddard, Owen Bevan, Dick Wilson

and Rob Koehne. With just over a week to go it is not to late to donate, either online

http://mobro.co/judgey or hand some $$ to me and I’ll donate it in your name.

Think of me as I try to get into Bali next week.

Sean Judge

Sean Judge - Movember

The Four-Way Test asks the following

questions of the things we think, say or do:

Is it the TRUTH?

Is it FAIR to all concerned?

Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

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Laughter is the Best Medicine

PECANS IN THE CEMETERY On the outskirts of a small town, there was a big, old pecan tree just inside the cemetery fence. One day, two boys filled up a bucketful of nuts and sat down by the tree, out of sight, and be-gan dividing the nuts. 'One for you, one for me, one for you, one for me,' said one boy. Several dropped and rolled down toward the fence. Another boy came riding along the road on his bicycle. As he passed, he thought he heard voices from inside the cemetery. He slowed down to investigate. Sure enough, he heard, 'One for you, one for me, one for you, One for me...' He just knew what it was. He jumped back on his bike and rode off. Just around the bend he met an old man with a cane, hobbling along. 'Come here quick,' said the boy, 'you won't believe what I heard! Satan and the Lord are down at the cemetery dividing up the souls!' The man said, 'Beat it kid, can't you see it's hard for me to walk.' When the boy insisted though, the man hobbled slowly to the cemetery. Standing by the fence they heard, 'One for you, one for me. One for you, One for me.' The old man whispered, 'Boy, you've been telling' me the truth. Let's see if we can see the Lord... Shaking with fear, they peered through the fence, yet were still unable to see anything. The old man and the boy gripped the wrought iron bars of the fence tighter and tighter as they tried to get a glimpse of the Lord. At last they heard, 'One for you, one for me. That's all. Now let's go get those nuts by the fence and we'll be done.... They say the old man had the lead for a good half-mile before the kid on the bike passed him.