Rotary Club of Waratah Issue No.8

Monday Zoom Meetings from 6:00pmMeeting ID Number 978 7342 2801

Optional $10 Club contribution (Foundation $2, Fines $3, Jolly Joker $4, Wally $1)

GOOD NEWS: We will be back to face-to-face meetings on Monday 20 July at Memories Function Centre.Please notify Grant by the Wednesday prior if you are attending.This is most important as Covid-19 protocols will be in place, which will mean additional work for the Memories staff.

LET’S CELEBRATE:As we know, Rotarians are all volunteers. Let us celebrate the work we do in the community. Let’s respect the choices each of us make and accept that some of us can be more involved than others. Let us also celebrate that we have made it thought the Zoom meetings, remained firm friends, and will now meet up again soon in person.Please contact President Deborah if you have any concerns about face-to-face meetings.

ZOOM meeting with RI President Mark Maloney on 17 June 2020 at 7:15am (approx. 63 attendees) Arranged by Rotary Club of Armidale, District 9650. Thank you, Clarice for this report.RIP Mark Maloney talked about the 2014 Sydney convention and what a wonderful event it was, and the amazing bus transport.Also mentioned the Virtual International Convention - the sessions involved, how to register, the chance to have a virtual ‘walk through’ of the House of Friendship, etc. The 2021 International Convention is in Taipei.He acknowledged PDG Adrian Roach and his role in Zone 8 as one of the International Coordinators. These coordinators will be helping Rotary to ‘move forward’. Each co-ordinator was chosen because of their experience with membership, and the positive way they engage with Rotarians.RIP Mark said how it was important, as clubs slowly got back to normality, that they focus on ‘engaging’ with their members once again. This more so than

service or fundraising to begin with. It is time to reconnect with your fellow members – especially with the club members who were not able to zoom, or the actual clubs who did not do zoom at all.The meaning behind the Rotary’s theme this year has never been more valid. Rotarians ‘connecting’ with others via a virtual environment. Adrian Roach and the other coordinators will be looking into this platform more. Which leads into next year’s theme, Rotary Opens Opportunities – new ways, new opportunities to engage not only with the members, but also the public. The zoom tool can be used as a marketing tool – it might make clubs more attractive to prospective members. Perhaps meetings can be live streamed! Clubs could look at continuing to use zoom or a similar platform, for some, or more, of their meetings. Maybe 3 meetings face to face, and 1 using zoom! He said that a large club of 640 in his area have had more of their members attend their zoom meetings than when they had face to face ones (mainly due to the no driving to get to a meeting at the moment).RIP Mark then took some questions.

The last two weeks Jolly Joker results

1 July 2020

Monday 22 June Grant (Jack of Hearts) Monday 29 June Gerry (Eight of Hearts) Good luck next time!

The Newcastle Science and Engineering Challenge Committee has confirmed the change of dates to Monday 19 to Friday 23 October 2020. Please put these dates in your diary as Brian and Paul will be calling for volunteers again.

Rotary theme 2019-2020 “Rotary Connects the World”Club 1: Rotary Club of Leatherhead, Surrey, England (Madeleine)Club 2: Rotary Club of Perth-Kinnoull Scotland (Howard) Club 3: Rotary Club of Rouen Seine France (Deborah)Club 4: Rotary Club of Wanganui New Zealand (Clarice and Victor)Club 5: Rotary Club of Poipu Beach, Koloa, Kauai, Hawaii USAClub 6: Rotary Club of Greenland Silchar Greenland (Madeleine) Congratulations everyone. This was a beneficial activity. Our new theme in 2020-2021 is Rotary Opens Opportunities so let us think of a new idea to fit the theme.

Doug was the lucky winner of the door prize at last November’s Trivia Night, but it has taken him until June to get to use the Bistro voucher. I believe he took three women to lunch !!!!!

Where’s Wally going to live? Should we draw a name out of a hat? Will someone volunteer? I think it is time for Wally to thank Clarice and Victor for their hospitality, pack his bags and move to another members’ home. The lucky person can collect Wally at our meeting on 20 July, AND he received a $50 donation this week!

Rotary International’s Convention commenced on Saturday 20 June from Chicago, not Hawaii USA in person as Rotarians had hoped prior to Covid-19. The International Convention Committee must have had a enormous challenge to make sure the Convention was still available to everyone. It was tremendous that registrations were free to all Rotarians. The 8:00am Chicago time in the photo was 11:00pm here.

(Left to Right) The Virtual Cnvention Logo, RI President Mark Maloney and Gay, and Chair of The Rotary Foundation RI Past President Gary C.K. Huang and Corinna, the host of the General Sessions Mark Wright, News Anchor and Past President, Rotary Club of Seattle, Washington, USA, and Mark Maloney.

Celebrations coming up: July 4 – Helen McG and Ann

joined Waratah Club as Honorary membersJuly 6 – Madeleine joined Waratah Club

July 6 – Anne P’s birthdayCOMMUNITY PROJECT ONE:Can members, families and friends please see if they have any currently unused jackets, coats, beanies, scarves, and gloves for the Soul Cafe. These items are required urgently. We will collect any items you have at our first face-to-face meeting on Monday 20 July or please arrange to get them to Howard beforehand. Thank you for your support during this cold weather.

COMMUNITY PROJECT TWO:Alan P is still saving stamps. I know we don’t write letters as often as we used to, but please remember to save any stamps you have and bring them to Rotary. Perhaps ask your family, friends and neighbours to help you gather some extras if they can.

COMMUNITY PROJECT THREE: This year Waratah Village shopping Centre are not able to allow us to sell raffle tickets for Father’s Day due to restrictions still in place for a few more months. In lieu, we have decided to gather a few small gifts for the male residents at Maroba Care Facility in Waratah. These can include chocolates, treats (lollies etc), colouring in books for adults and pencils, crosswords, find-a-word books, activity books etc. Use your imagination when selecting items.

We will require 30 small gifts so each resident will have a treat for Father’s Day. Please have them wrapped so we can collect and deliver the gifts the week before Father’s Day on Sunday 6 September.

ROTARY’S CENTENARY: FRIDAY 10 JULY 2020 from 12noon-1:00pmWe are invited to join Rotarians across Australia for virtual fellowship, as well as meet our R100 Centenary Ambassadors, the Governor General and Mrs Hurley, as they launch our national centenary campaign. We will witness the “Passing the Baton” ceremony which carries the symbols of our centenary, travelling far and wide to Rotary clubs and Districts. Rotary’s Centenary is a time of celebration, reflection on our past, and take

pride in all that has been achieved. The key project in our centenary year will focus on stopping the one in 16 children who die in 9 Pacific nations before the age of five. We ask for your support in raising funds for our R100 Centenary project, "Rotary Gives Every Child a Future", saving young lives in Pacific nations. 

Manus Province Project, Papua New Guinea Our club has supported a sanitation project to minimise Covid-19 incursions in PNG through the Rotary Club of Newcastle Enterprise. Our donation of $500 will go towards the larger financial contribution to supply hand-washing soap to all villages and residents in Manus Province (12,381 households, 72,000 people) over the next 8 months. Support has been received from the Rotary Clubs of Newcastle Enterprise, Waratah, Newcastle, Raymond Terrace, Greenhills Maitland, Wallsend-Maryland.The project consists of three parts. Sourcing the soap in PNG, distributing education signs and flyers in every village and household in the Provence by WPNG volunteers, and distribute the soap with the local leader learning and demonstrating to the population the proper approach to hand-washing, who by normal cultural behaviour should then follow.

The Manus Provence Soap Project meets three of the Rotary Areas of Service: Disease Prevention and Treatment; Water and Sanitation; and Maternal and Child Health.The Late Sir Clem Renouf – Live Streamed Funeral Service on Tuesday 23 June 2020.

Sir Clem passed on 11 June 2020.Sir Clement William Bailey Renouf, AM was the President of Rotary International in 1978-1979. Born in 1921 in Ingham Queensland, Sir Clem was a proud and renowned Rotarian. Sir Clem was a giant in Rotary history as the instigator of the 3-H program (The Health, Hunger and Humanity Program) that led to his significant contribution with his idea of freeing the world of poliomyelitis, so in 1985 the polio eradication effort began with his involvement.

Among speakers representing St Clem’s family, the Rotary Director for Australia, and his fellow Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Nambour, was speaker Glen W. Kinross, Rotary International President in 1997-1998.

Glen Kinross spoke of a friendship of two Queensland boys that lasted over 64 years.Sir Clem’s Rotary Theme was “Reach Out” and Glen’s was “Show Rotary Cares” (for your community, for our world, for its people), something both gentlemen achieved with high distinction.Waratah Rotary Club hosted a Clem Renouf dinner at a joint-club gathering at West Leagues Club on 23 November 1980 when he was promoting the 3-H program and Polio Plus campaign in Australia. Some of our long-standing members will remember this special event. The club raised $3,128 for Sir Clem’s projects on the night. Unfortunately, Clem Renouf was unavailable to attend the dinner, so Chris and Brian travelled to Bathurst to meet Sir Clem at a Rotary function there. A memorable overnight stay for them both.

Information from the District Changeover 27 June 2020. Twenty Governors, PDGs and partners, and District /executive Zoomed into an afternoon tea prior to the changeover at 7:00pm. The District Virtual Changeover saw well over 100 people joining the evening. Our club was represented by Chris and Helen, Brian and Madeleine, and Clarice and Rotary-Anne (Where was Wally?). We learned there is now a seventh avenue of Rotary Service “Supporting the Environment”.The new Area Governors are now in place; Zone A Joy Adams, Zone B Phil Gorton, Zone C Christine Walmsley, and our Zone D is shared by Craig Henningham and Pam Dean-Jones. David Roach is now our Governor, his partner Amanda is DGE, and Neville Parsons from Wauchope is DGN. Neville is from District 9650 to our north, and a fine Rotarian of great standing.

Our Zoom meeting on Monday 29 June was the usual fun, especially Deborah’s (hard) trivia questions and Howard’s videos. Thank you everyone for your input and fellowship.Diary Date: Internationally acclaimed Speaker Michael McQueen on Tuesday 14 July via Zoom at 5:30pm. Please contact Madeleine for details.

Contact Secretary Madeleine Atkins for assistance: Mobile: 0447 523 221 Home: 4952 3220 Email: madeleineatkins@bigpond.com Dated: 1 July 2020