In Gear Week 2 8 July 2013 HD

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R O T A R Y C L U B O F B E A U M A R I S W E E K L Y B U L L E T I N Number 2 8 July 2013

Next Meeting THURSDAY 11 JULY

CHRIS D’ARCY

NEW MEMBER TALK

CHAIR: MEGAN GLENWRIGHT

CASH; HEATHER CHISOLM & JOHN BEATY

HOST

; MIKE

HEDE

AV; DAVID LEA / CHRIS D’ARCY

THURSDAY 18 JULY

BRIAN NEGAS

RACV

CHAIR: MALCOLM SAWLE


HOST; GEOFF STOCKDALE

AV; GREG EVERY

THURSDAY 25 JULY

SALLIE GEARY

NATIONAL YOUTH SCIENCE FORUM

CHAIR: GEOFF ABBOTT


HOST; TRISH SMYTH

AV; DAVID HONE

Presidents Report

Before last Thursday night a number of us may haveasked “What the heck is a Loppet?” But after our guestspeaker explained that he’d completed in 20 Internation-al Loppets, we all know.

A Loppet is a cross country ski event with a distance over

15 kilometres with the emphasis on participation and fun.Alan Rae is a double world master and has competedraces in every Loppet country as well as 12 KangarooHoppets (the Aussie version). Not only that but Alan alsoswims 365 days a year in the Bay or Westernport andplays golf at Flinders Golf Club.

As well as having his own Engineering Consultancy whichhas been involved in major projects which include: East-link, Peninsula Link, Geelong Bypass, City Link and West-

ern Ring Road, Alan has been President of SandringhamRotary Club twice, is a PHF with 2 Sapphires and wasawarded and O.A.M. on 26 January 2013.

Alan was an engaging speaker with lots of stories, anec-dotes and a wonderful display of memorabilia and tro-phies.

Our other guests were David Wilson, a director of theBendigo Bank who is well known to a number of ourmembers and Shirley Frewen standing in for Roger.

RCOB has been nominated as one of three clubs ap-proved to submit two grant applications under the FutureVision District Designated Fund (DDF) program due to

Contents1 Presidents Report2 Notices3 Mental Health First Aid Workshop / This

Week’s Speaker4 The Amazing Jonathon Fundraise

5 Club Structure / Sight of Week

The Amazing Jonathon Usher

Magician / Comedian30 July 2013 See Page

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having previously nominated both an Internationaland a Community project for funding. DavidGreenall will work with Fred and Adrian to ensurethe applications are compliant with the new require-ments.

We have also been requested to organise and hostthe Southern and Central Cluster’s Foundation Infor-mation Seminar on Thursday September 19. Thiswill involve the 2 Kingston, 2 Monash and the Bay-side Clusters with an anticipated attendance of 100 – 120. More details to follow.

The first Board meeting of the year was held lastnight and details will be included in next week’snewsletter.

Coming up this week is a new member’s talk byChristopher D’Arcy with Megan Glenwright (whoswapped with David last week) in the chair.

Look forward to seeing you then.

Robert Robert Robert Robert

An Evening with Jonathon

Our first fundraising event for President Roberts’year is approaching fast.

The Magnificent Jonathon Usher is coming to amazeand entertain us at The Beaumaris, 472 Beach Rd.Beaumaris on Tuesday 30 July 2013 at 7 p.m.

Ticket sales have been excellent with eight other Ro-tary clubs plus D.G.’s past & present in attendance.Any member that saw Jonathon at the Wangaratta

conference will know what a treat is in store for usall.

Would all Beaumaris Rotarians who indicated theyare coming, but have not yet paid for this night,please finalise their payments to enable us to get acorrect number of members and their guests bookedfor this event. If any of your guests has special die-tary requirements, please let me know.

There are still some places available for those who

have not booked yet.

Payment must be made prior to 15 July 2013 bycheque or direct credit to;

BSB 633-000 Account No 121 443 964Account name Rotary Club of Beaumaris.Don’t forget to include your name.

If you have already paid, many thanks.

We are still asking for raffle prizes/gifts for thisnight. Bottles of wine would be appreciated, as weonly have 2 bottles currently, or small gifts to thevalue of $10 or more.

Would all male club members remember to ask theirwives if they have any gifts available to donate forthis night.

Special thanks to all that have dropped off theirgoodies so far, however we still require about 30more.

Megan Glenwright – Fundraising Committee

Sergeant’s Session Topic

Sergeant David has introduced his own novelty, atopic on which he will ask a question; those who failto get the correct answer will be fined. This week’stopic is;

American Independence

I am sure you are all busy researching the myriadpossible questions which could spring from such atopic!

Hocking Stuart Sandringham62-64 Station StreetTelephone: 03 9521 9800

Note; As part of our arrangement with HockingStuart discounts on agents fees are available to

RCOB members.




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Mental Health First Aid Workshop

Twenty-two participants attended the Mental HealthFirst Aid workshop hosted by our club lastweek. Presented by Cathy Hogan and IanGoodhardt, the workshop went very well with somevery positive feedback on the usefulness of theworkshop and the quality of the presenters and theirmaterial (see below). The feedback also indicatedthat all forms of publicity used by our club, (the roadsign, the newspaper articles, the direct emails andthe signs in local shops) contributed to getting a fullhouse. Two of the attendees, representing localcommunity organisations, were impressed enough tosuggest that they would like to join forces with ourclub to host another workshop. The club can be wellsatisfied with the outcome.

“Last week I was very fortunate to attend a twoday course on Mental First Aid. The course was or-ganised and supported by the Rotary Club of Beau-maris. I wanted to let the club know how much I ap-preciated the opportunity to be part of the courseand let the club know how worthwhile being involvedwith this area is. Jenny mentioned you are a member

of the club so I thought I would let you know how Ifelt about having the opportunity to attend. It bene-fits everyone and is a wonderful way of raisingawareness in the general community. Mental healthalong with other related areas still suffers from alack of community awareness and thus becomes sub-ject to misunderstanding and intolerance. This pro-gram is a wonderful way to promote understandingand tolerance.

I commend the club for its positive, practical promo-

tion in this area and encourage it to continue sup-porting such programs in the local community.

Thanks and cheers from Andrew Lamb”

This Week’s Speaker; Alan Rae

Topic; Skiing Alan has been akeen skier for over50 years and in hislater years has tak-en to participate inmarathon crosscountry skiingthrough the World-loppet series.

Worldloppet is aninternational sports federation of cross-country skiingmarathons. The federation was founded in 1978 in Upp-sala, Sweden. The aim of Worldloppet is to promote thesport of cross-country skiing through the various ski races

around the world through;High quality ski races around the World. Only one andthe best race from a country can be a member of World-loppet.Regularity and continuity. Each race, having its own his-tory, traditions and programme, is held usually at thesame time every year. After completing 10 differentWorldloppet races, at least one of them overseas, a skiercan apply for the Worldloppet Master title.Races for everybody. Races different by length, tech-nique, landscape and target group attract 80 000 par-ticipants every year. The races included are;Europe:Jizerská padesátka (CZE), Dolomitenlauf (AUT), Marci-alonga (ITA), König Ludwig Lauf (GER), Tartu Maraton(EST), La Transjurassienne (FRA), Finlandia-hiihto (FIN),Vasaloppet (SWE), Engadin Skimarathon (SUI), Birkebein-errennet (NOR), Bieg Piastow (POL)America:American Birkebeiner (USA), Gatineau Loppet (CAN)Asia:Sapporo International Ski Marathon (JPN) Demino SkiMarathon (RUS)Australia:Kangaroo Hoppet

Alan is a two time WorldLoppet Master as well as Glob-al WorldLoppet Skier having completed all the (then)races on the world calendar.

The races range from 20 to 90 kilometres in length andhave participation ranges from 1500 in Australia to60,000+ in Europe.




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Ice-Skater, Sweden

Photograph by PatrikStark,

We had been skatingaround in the thick fog in

the Stockholm archipela-go for a couple of hoursone morning in April. Itwas totally windless andthe only sounds werethose of our skates andsome birds in the openwater near us. Tour skat-ing on natural ice on thefirst of April is consid-ered late in the season,so this was our last trip.

Suddenly we saw it, thefogbow, and tried tocatch it.

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