View
215
Download
0
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
DESCRIPTION
Â
Citation preview
am excited to see what we
can do with this balance and
diversity. Come join us - the
rest of 2014/15 Club year will
be a great thing to be a part
of!!!
Mark Hams-Club President
With so many events hap-pening in the Rotaract and Rotary circles that we move in, I thought it an appropriate time to have a go at an E-newsletter. We will pilot this as a way of keeping everyone updated with our movements and what we have coming around the corner. Let me know how we go – what you liked, what you believe we missed – your feedback will be welcomed with open arms With a quiet start to the Ro-
taract year the ball has well
and truly been rolling in the
past few month with a taste
of what we have been up to
in the following pages. A
number of us had the oppor-
tunity to attend the Rotary
International Conference in
Sydney in May. At the Con-
ference RI President Gary
Huang challenged each of us
to Light up Rotary. I am
pleased to say that the flame
is burning strongly at Rota-
ract South Brisbane with
some fresh faces in regular
attendance. The highlight
for me is the diversity of the
country of origin of these
fresh faces and the move-
ment back towards gender
balance within our club. As a
graduate with a degree in
Engineering being sur-
rounded by women for the
last couple of years has been
a welcome change but I think
there is benefit in balance. I
The annual Billycart Champion-
ship was organized by the Rotary
clubs of Carindale, Balmoral and
Port of Brisbane, who called out
for volunteers, and who is best at
helping Rotarians other than the
South Brisbane Rotaractors, we
divided ourselves into two
groups, a morning shift and an
afternoon one. Our help was
needed in two areas, putting the
carts on the start line and helping
the little kids when they crash
and restacking the hay. It was a
long day but it was so much fun,
plus we were on TV, Although it
was only Kerryn and Billy’s
shorts but it still counts.
President’s Editorial
I N S I D E T H I S
I S S U E :
Brisbane Billycart
Championship
1
Calling All Fans Of
Country Music And
Rotaractors
2
Artists Needed –
No Experience/
Talent Required
2
Lending A Hand
For Children In
Need
3
A Halloween Curse 3
About Us 4
Meet Our Board 4
Brisbane Billycart Championship
South Brisbane in Action N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 4 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1
P A G E 2
South Brisbane Rotarac-
tors with DG Phillip
Artists Needed – No Experience/Talent Required
Calling All Fans Of Country Music And Rotaractors
It was the combined effect of having a couple of won-derful contacts at the Ro-tary Clubs of Booval and Ipswich through RYLA, and seeing how much fun our friends from Rotaract South West Brisbane had at the Gympie Country Music Festival that drew us to put up our hand to help out at the Rotary Club of Booval’s 2nd Annual Coun-try Music Festival. Six of our members made the trip out to Swifts Sports Fields at Yamanto for the event. While none of our members claimed to be huge fans of the genre of country music the atmos-phere made it easy to set-
tle into the groove for the afternoon. The Rotarians of Booval and Ipswich had everything under control when we arrived so we were happy take the op-portunity to catch up with District Governor Phillip and Marlene while ensuring that the bar had drinks for the afternoon at an appro-priate temperature. Soon enough we were
commandeered into look-
ing after the Children's
Farm Race where I think
the adults had more fun
than the kids. Following
that the group moved onto
the positions of chief adju-
dicator, administrator and
measuring team in the
Gumboot Throwing Com-
petition where 2 of our
members Billy Nabil and
Mark Hams could only find
it in them to place 2nd and
3rd consecutively – surely a
reason to return next year
to better these results. The
standout of the day was
Anthony Liu’s raffle ticket
selling where after a solo 5
hours shift he was able to
raise over $300. Great job
Anthony and we look for-
ward to coming back next
year. A big thank you to
Phil Gray from the Rotary
Club of Booval for the Invi-
tation
bit rusty, but after about 50
batmans, spidermans, butter-
flies and dragons, it was a piece
of cake. Nevertheless the kids
were very happy with what-
ever they had on their faces
Our Sponsor Rotary club was
organizing their annual special
children’s picnic, and this year
they had more than 300
little children with spe-
cial needs, they organ-
ized lots of fun activities
for them, but the main
events were getting to
ride an army car, and
the face painting which
was the responsibility of
the Rotaract club of
South Brisbane. In the
beginning our talent
was… well lets call it a
Kate and
Claudia,
our great
artists
S O U T H B R I S B A N E I N A C T I O N
Lending A Hand For Children In Need
P A G E 3 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1
The first Saturday in November saw our Rotaractors up bright and early before we all arrived at a strange warehouse in the sleepy streets of Yeronga. On our way through the front door we passed a sign which read “Through these doors walk some of the world’s greatest volunteers” and then another showing a geographical repre-sentation of where the little boxes were to be shipped to
Children in need. The warm and fuzzy feeling had started to flow through us all and we got stuck in without a mo-ment’s hesitation
We were off course helping out Samaritans Purse with their annual mission to pack shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child. The Brisbane Warehouse processes over 50,000 each year and the organisation re-quires assistance from volun-teer’s to check the contents of each box before they are con-tainerised and shipped off to around 6 countries in the Pa-cific Islands and South East
Asia. These boxes are filled with toys, stationary and hy-giene items and are often the only Christmas gifts received by the children who they are dis-tributed to. It was a great morning being able to get hands on with this project in our local area. After-wards we adjourned to one of our members houses for swim and a BBQ. It was defi-nitely a great start to a weekend – for more info or to volunteer operationchristmaschild.org.au
After donations were com-
pleted we continued to Verve
Restaurant where the remain-
der of the group joined us for a
fantastic dinner of Pizzas, Pas-
tas and other assorted Italian
fare. While a few of us were
keen to kick on afterwards, it
was a school night so we called
it with a busy Rotaract week-
end ahead with Logan Rota-
ract’s Smart Pups Dinner, Op-
eration Christmas Child and our
Dinner with a Difference in the
days following. Looking for-
ward to our District Christmas
Party Camping Weekend in a
few weeks’ time
The month of October was kind enough to give us five Thurs-days – a good excuse for a so-cial night. A Blood Drive had been on the cards for a few months and this was a great opportunity for those happy to donate to get together as a group before we met for din-ner. Truth be told from 6 will-ing donors, only 3 were able to successfully complete a dona-tion. The remainder were un-able to donate due to a number of reasons – those question-naires are getting stricter year on year but hey, our hearts were in the right place.
South Bris-
bane Rota-
ractors
after pack-
ing
A Halloween Curse
Sponsored by the Rotary club of South Brisbane
PO Box 7111 East Brisbane QLD 4169
The Rotaract Club of South Brisbane is a group of
young people aged 18-30 who are interested in mak-
ing a difference.
We meet fortnightly in Woolloongabba, and work
on local and international community projects
through fundraising, service and social events.
Want to join us? Come along to one of our meet-
ings! Anyone is welcome!
When: The second and fourth Thursday of the
month
Time: 6:30pm
Where: Rotaract South Brisbane Headquarters:
Woolloongabba Rotary Hall – Upstairs, 22 Qual-
trough St, Woolloongabba
Rotaract Club of South Brisbane
Meet Our Board
Website: www.rotaractsouthbrisbane.org.au
Facebook: facebook.com/rotaractsouthbrisbane
President: Mark Hams 0434 587 224
Vice President: Craig Brennan 0431 279 937
Secretary: Pahia Cooper 0427 425 058
Treasurer: Jessica Shaw 0421 969 188
Mark Hams
President
Craig Brennan
Vice President
Pahia Cooper
Secretary
Jessica Shaw
Treasurer
Alisha Radford
District
Kerryn Gresty
International Director
John Keys
Club Director
Phoebe Thompson
Professional Development
Ahmed Nabil
Communications Director
Fiona Walpole
Community Director