25-7-18 Spoke N Words (Jul 25, 2018)

25 July, 2018, Volume 58 Issue 4

Next Week's Meeting Responsibilities

Chair: PP Jim Armstrong

Fellowship: PP Bruce Shaw

Diana Gomez-Fullaway

Attendance: Di Double

Steve Paton

Rotary Information Sessions

A series of short Rotary information sessions will be presented at our weekly meetings.

The team members involved and the roster are as follows:

August 1 - Clare Ganderton

August 8 - Gaetano Fina

August 15 - Cheryl Zuhlsdorff

August 22 - Adwin Town

August 29 - Gary Castricum

CLUB MEETINGS

The Rotary Club of Berwick meets

Every Wednesday evening at

Holm Park Reserve

(Beaconsfield Football Club)

Emerald-Beaconsfield Road

Beaconsfield

6.30 for a 7.00pm start

Please email your apology

or book in your guest to

attendance@rotaryberwick.org

All bookings and apologies

To submitted by 10.00 am on

Tuesday prior to the meeting.

President

Lea Paton

Treasurer

Gary Castricum

President Elect

Isobel Caulfield

Secretary

David Button

International Service Director

Di Double

Rotary Foundation Chair

Di Double

Vice President

Gerald Treasure

Membership Chair

Vivienne Armstrong

Public Image Chair

Ricardo Balancy

Club Administration Chair

Isobel Caulfield

Avenues of Service Chair

Bob Lay AM

Fundraising Chair

Gus Dominguez

Club Protection Officer

Graham Johnstone

Medical Sailing Ministries Vanuatu

Holm Park Recreation Reserve

Aug 01, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Kids Under Cover and Youth Homelessness

Holm Park Recreation Reserve

Aug 08, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

District Governor Visit

Holm Park Recreation Reserve

Aug 15, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Member Birthdays

Mark Caulfield

July 3

Murray Newby

July 10

Steve Paton

July 14

Graham Johnstone

July 17

Diana Gomez-Fullaway

July 21

Betty Tudge

July 28

Gerald Treasure

July 28

Vivienne Armstrong

July 30

Spouse Birthdays

Mark Caulfield

July 3

Steve Paton

July 14

Viviana Dominguez

July 19

Anniversaries

Anand Amarnath

Sheeja Prabhakaran

July 2

Doug Anderson

Rhonda Anderson

July 2

Rhonda Anderson

Doug Anderson

July 2

Gary Evans

Carol Evans

July 7

25-7-18 President's Preamble

It has been another busy week. This end of financial year stuff has got hairs on it. But that’s what I get for being in the business I am.

Our speaker this week was from RAWCS (Rotary Australia World Community Service). He explained the importance of registering projects and the difference between Rotary Foundation and RAWCS. RAWCS does not give out money, it deals more with the organisation and compliance aspects of projects.

A project registered with RAWCS means that the project team are covered by the Rotary Australia Personal Accident/Sickness and Travel Policy so if anything happens they can get the best medical care and be medevaced home if required.

The guys at RAWCS are a font of information and very willing to offer advice as our very own PP Gus knows. David Nutter gave the vote of thanks.

David R’s wife Sue and Malcolm Findlay (our District’s RAWCS person) were also at the meeting. David tried to get Malcolm to speak but was unsuccessful, I think he was a bit shy.

Rotary Australia World Community Service

Our guest speaker was David Ronskey, who is the Southern Region Projects & Volunteers Coordinator with the Rotary Australia World Community Service (RAWCS).

David was accompanied by his wife Sue and the RAWCS District Chair Malcolm Findlay.

He explained the intricacies of registering local and international projects online and the benefits resulting from the registration.

The benefits include:

An established infrastructure ensuring compliance
An online donation facility to accumulate funds
Tax deductability for donations
Insurance
Volunteer support
Assistance in project management

RAWCS also ensures that the local government in the project location is advised of the project and all compliance needs are attended to.

Berwick & District Benevolent Society Inc.

PP David Collyer reported that last Sunday on 22nd July, Kay Morland (representing Casey North Community Information and Support Service), Clare Ganderton and he attended a special service at Cardinia Presbyterian Church. There, he presented Graeme Dodson with a Certificate of Appreciation on behalf of the Berwick & District Benevolent Society for the long and continued support of the Society and therefore Casey North CISS.

The small, elderly, but very generous congregation was very appreciative of their visit and made them feel most welcome.

As announced at the last Club Meeting, the positions of Secretary, Treasurer and 2 Committee Members were declared vacant for the Benevolent Society. Therefore, David called for nominations for these positions, together with a proposer and seconder.

The following nominations were proposed and seconded.

Secretary: David Cutler

Treasurer: Peter Batterham

Committee members: Ann Kraan and Clare Ganderton

These nominations will be voted on at an Extraordinary AGM, organised for Wednesday 1st of August 2018.

Jokers Wild 25-7-18

Di Scheepers was the lucky winner of Jokers Wild this week. On cutting the deck of cards, she managed to get the 4 of Diamonds, so the Jackpot continues to grow.

Next time we have Jokers Wild, there will be 43 Cards and a Jackpot of $599.

See Sandi to get your tickets prior to the commencement of the Meeting.

Supporting a Community Fundraiser

On Wednesday 25^th July our Club rallied in support of the local Commonwealth Australia Bank (CBA) fundraiser for ‘Very Special Kids” at the Eden Rise Shopping Centre, Berwick.

Club Members, Rhonda Anderson, Gary Evans, Gaetano Fina, Peter Mangan and Bob Lay were on hand to provide sausages etc, supplied by CBA to the local shoppers.

CBA’s Joint Branch Manager’s Tanya Bondin & Heidi Greene also sold ‘Very Special Kids’ merchandise raffle tickets. Heidi has since advised us that in excess of $1,500 was raised on the day, with more expected from the raffle to be drawn next week.

Rotary at Work once again!

Robert Latimer

Our guest speaker for the Wednesday 1st August meeting will be Robert Latimer of Medical Sailing Ministries.

Robert founded Medical Sailing Ministries, 10 years ago in 2018 as an outreach activity of North Ringwood Uniting Church, where he is a member. A project that combines Robert's love of sailing with a practical way of expressing his Christian faith.