Today’s Meeting 12.00for12.30pmatServiesClub.

Guest Speaker Dr Greg Beresford. Greg will talk about the basic physics of heat gain and loss and how to use this knowledge in keeping your house warm in Armidale’s winter.

Greg started his professional life as a seismic geophysicist at Oxford Uni in the UK after becoming interested in digital signal processing at UNE in 1975. After completing his D Phil he worked for a year in Singapore and then joined the research department of GSI, a subsidiary of Texas Instruments in Dallas, Texas.

He moved to Melbourne in 1986 and was a senior lecturer at the School of Earth Sciences at Melbourne University.

Greg retired in 2015 and has been working on the design and building of an energy efficient house here in Armidale.

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Centraltarian Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Armidale Central May 4, 2017

Calendar 4May:GregBeresford6–14May: BookFair10May:RotaryYouthProgramWebinar

11May:LunchatRacecourse18May:OoralaVisit21May:DistrictAssemblyatDuvalHighSchool25May:PhilBookalil–ReportonhisrecentvisittoSchoolofStJude3June:UrallaRotaryChangeover8June:Changeover

In this edition ……………… • Calendar• DistrictAssembly• Reportpreviousmeeting• PhotosfromMeeting27April,

MulchingDay&MarketSunday• Maybirthdays• BoardShorts–notesfromrecent

BoardMeetings• InteractClubReport• Mother’sDayLunch• ArmidaleSymphonyOrchestra

Concert

District Assembly This will be held on Sunday May 21 at Duval High School. All may attend. The Assembly is especially relevant to incoming Board Members.

Report Meeting 27 April, 2017 SgtChrisColecalledthemeetingtoorderandPresidentElect,AndrewPrattproposedatoasttotheAnzacs.VisitorsincludedmembersoftheInteractClubofDuvalHighSchool,theirteacherLynetteRajaratnam,guestspeakerSimoneJohnstoneandprospectivemember,RalphMorris.

AnnekefromtheDuvalInteractClub,togetherwithclubpresident,Ebony,andLynetteRajaratnam,presentedachequefor$500forCarevantoChrisCole.

AlFrancisgavenewsofTerryInman’ssuccessfuloperation,ReonGentlespokeaboutBowelscan,andIanGarsketheBookFair.KristynBarkerreportedthatTimHanrahanwasimproving(seemoreaboutthiselsewhereinthisnewsletter).

JohnGuthrierelatedahumorousstorywhichwaswellreceived.

Guestspeaker,SimoneJohnston,describedherresearchintothesubconsciousfunctioningofthebrainandhow,despitetheevidencethatasweageourmemoryfades,thereisadditionalevidencethatthebraincouldwellretainlotofdetailedinformationthatthepersonisunabletoexpress.Simonesoughtmembersoftheclubtobesubjectsforherresearchproject.

ChrisColeconductedaspiritedfinessessionandDavidGeewonthewine,butdonatedittoLynetteRajaratnam.

News from our Youth Director ExcitingnewsfromLyndaLynchregardingSara.Sara will have her final treatment on May 24th! This will conclude the almost two-year journey since her diagnosis, and the Lynches are obviously very excited about this. Further, there is a family friend of the Lynches who is undergoing quite an extraordinary fundraiser for her: Thomas Pembroke will be swimming the English Channel (and then back again!) in Sara's honour. He is raising money via a GoFundMe page, which can be found here: https://www.gofundme.com/sara-lynch-our-hero . The whole Lynch family will be heading over to England in June to witness this first hand. TimHanrahanTim is officially out of ICU! He has taken a few shaky steps with his rehab team, and can happily wheel himself around the hospital hallways. As you can imagine, this is a huge achievement for Tim, who was on a respiratory machine just two weeks ago. JayneRobinsonElsewhere in this newsletter there is a report from our YEP student, Jayne.

Kristyn

Birthdays in May GraemeAndrews(tomorrow5May)andGordonWhite(23May).

Guest Speaker: Simone Johnston Duval Interact Club member, Anneke

Chris Cole receives cheque from Ebony (l) and Anneke Interactors Bernie (c) and Chris (r) with Simone (l)

(l) Lynette Rajaratnam and (r) John Guthrie speak

Photos from Meeting 27 April

Above:InteractClunmembersassistingwiththeBookFairSetUp.

(ltor):Ebony,Blake,Sam,Bernie,Lynette,Kaiden

Photos from the Tree Mulching Working Bee, 23 April

Interact Club at the Markets, Sunday 30 April

Duval Interact Club Report • FirstMeetingforTerm2heldMonday1May.Thiswasanexcellentmeeting

withadelightfulatmosphereandallmemberscontributing• $120wasraisedatMarketSundaythepreviousday(seephotosabove)• TheDuvalInteractClubnowhasapermanentspotattheSundaymarketson

MarketSunday

After the Book Fair Sunday 14 May – Lunch and Concert IanGarskehassetupa“Mother’sDaylunch”tofollowonfromclean-upoftheBookFaironSunday14th.

12.30attheWicklow–IanhasbookedthetableandwillneednumbersbyWednesday10th.

SomemightliketofollowthisupwiththeConcertattheCAE(OldTeachers’College)at3pm.OurmemberRobJacksonisconductingtheconcertwhichincludesthe‘CarnivaloftheAnimals’(SaintSaens)and‘theLarkAscending’(VaughnWilliams).LocalsoloistsintheSainSaensareRobynBradleyandKeithPowerandintheVaughnWilliams,HollyBennett.Noneedtobookforthis.

Board Shorts A summary of recent decisions taken by the Board

April 6, 2017

SavetheDate!Changeoverdinner–Thursday,8June2017attheEx-ServicesClub

ClubLunchtimeMeetingFormatThenewformatwasscheduledforreviewafter3months-sothenewformatwillbediscussedattheClubmeetingon13April.Comealongandhaveyoursay!

BookFair&Clubmeeting11MayTheClublunchtimemeetingon11MaywillbeattheRacecourse.Closertothedate,numbersattendingareneededtoorganisesandwichesetc.

YouthProjects• MUNA(ModelUnitedNationsAssemblyforschoolstudentswillbeheldinKempseyinMay.As

thereisconsiderableinterestinMUNAthisyear,theClubwillsupportparticipationbytwoteams.

• YouthExchange-assomemembersareinterestedinparticipating,theClubwilloffertohostanin-comingYouthExchangestudentin2018.

ClubRiskAssessmentAriskassessmentinductiondaywillbeheldatourClubmeetingon27ApriltobriefeveryoneonproceduresforriskassessmentfortheBookFairandotherClubactivities.Andyes,thisisimportant.

ClubRotaryShirtsSampleshortsleevedpoloshirts&longsleevedcottonchambrayshirtswillbesourcedtohelpdecideoncoloursandstyle.

OoralaIt’shopedtoarrangefortheClubtoholditsThursdaylunchtimemeetingatOorala(UNE)inMay.