Joy speaks about caring for our mental health at time of Covid
Joy spoke to this youtube video and some tips for looking after your mental health and mind in time of Covid. Important stuff. The video is available on You Tube. Search 6 tips to protect your mental health during covid.
All this mindfulness and stress reduction talk reminded a certain scribe of the time he went on a mindfulness seminar (cost him $5,000) for a day, and it clearly was worthwhile (?) as the only thing he recalled from the seminar was that ......A "mindfulness expert" spoke about 3 numbers. 4,7,8. So this is what you do to reduce your stress.. And it REALLY WORKS !!
Breathe in for 4, Hold your breath for 7 and breathe out for 8.
This immediately calms the body and the mind. No charge for this advice.
Also another speaker at the seminar was Wayne Bennett, and he spoke about how he instilled into the Bronco's mindset the belief to become champions. Apparently when the Bronco's joined the NRL for the first time, Benny had posters made up that showed the Bronco's celebrating winning the premiership. Benny got the squad to put up the imaginary wining celebrations above the squads bed, so that that the first thing that they would see in the morning would be them wining the premiership.
The power of the mind. Bronco's went on to win just about everything under Benny. Somebody should tell Kevvy.
On Friday we'll present Chloe Silva with $1,000 towards her "Surf woman of the Year" program. Some of you will remember Chloe from her help with Jackie MacGregor and Wallis ot the Winter Solstice Swim. What you may not know is that The Alex SLSC selected Chloe as their Surf woman of the year because of her outstanding contribution to the club and surf program and her leadership and community contribution. So we are delighted to support Chloe in her year of Surf Woman of the Year.
Jeremy Bishop - SEQ Water
Many of us in the club know of drought impacts through our support of Care Outreach. It now appears that the SEQ will be having water rationing soon. Something to do with the rain not falling in the right place I hear. Good news, our guest speaker on Friday will be talking to the club about what we can do about it.
Surf Show and Shine 2021 Saturday 2nd October Kombi Konvoy Sunday 3rd October Surf Show and Shine Show - Different plan for different times
Th club has decided (Covid permitting) to put on the Surf Show and Shine in the school holidays albeit a different version at the Alex SLSC car park and surrounding grounds.
This will be the 6th show the club has put on and in that time had a load of fun, and brought some smiles to the community and our amazing beneficieries who do so much for the Sunshine folks who are "doing it tough" all year round. So we'll be getting busy with the the help of Cricks Volkswagen and our supporters with permitting, registrations, stakeholders, Kombi's, musicians, and trying to turn this years version into a show to remember albeit in a much smaller location.
Meanwhile be sure to put this weekend in your diary.
Dave - a man of many hats - on the history and importance of the Helicopter rescue service
Past senior citizen of the year on the Sunshine Coast David Woodrow spoke to the club on Friday about the Helicopter service history on the Sunshine Coast. This is a great example of a Rotary initiative taking root, and is now pretty much regarded as an essential service, albeit one that still requires community fundraising to exist.
What Dave didn't mention was that over the years Dave has personally raised several hundred thousand dollars for the rescue service as well as being a leading light in the Emergency Services. His reward - knowing that he has "made a difference" - and a set of caps showing each time the helicopter rescue had a main sponsor change.
Money isn't everything, but along with showing our encouragement and practical support fort local causes, we are happy to give a helping financial hand where we can, so the club has made some donations to local community causes..
$500 has been donated to RESET, a local Domestic Violence Program that Mooloolaba Rotary brought to our attention. They are doing great work in education and prevention of Domestic Violence and just need a bit of support to continue and demonstrate that their long term viability. The Alex Rotary club has a history of support for DV causes, and delighted to contribute to this program.
The club has donated $1,000 from the Solstice Swim proceeds to the Surf Woman of the Year award. Chloe Silva is the Alex SLSC Surf Woman of teh Year and is known to us from her help with Jackie MacGregor at the Solstice Swim and we're delighted to support a great community cause and a future leader of our community.
District have generously approved our grant application and are donating $5,000 towards the new Salty Souls Legacy Precinct at the Thrive site in Maroochydore.
The club are contributing $10,000 towards the centre also, and look forward to a few working bee's to turn the 2 containers into a youth centre for teh "Stand Tall" and other programs that Tamara, Kerry and the team at Salty Souls legacy run fo rthe Sunshine Coast kids.
The club is also going to donate proceeds from our fundraising, raffles etc to the "Stove Team" which is a Rotary worldwide project to help save childrens lives and protect the environment. Michelle brought this to the clubs attention. Many of us were stunned to learn that 4,000,000 kids lives are lost , kids gained etc through open fires in third world countries. This donation will help the program extend its reach to villages where the local communities are shown and trained to build safe and environmentally better stoves.
Members will have received an email seeking their input into the "Acknowledgement of Country" process. Tony reached out to Wendy Protheroe, our super achiever District Governor. Her reply below..
"Hi Tony
This is a decision to be made at the Club level. Most, but not all of the clubs that I visit start their meetings with an acknowledgement statement. Don’t know if that helps or not .I intend starting District meetings in a similar way."
A certain scribe was banging on about Rotary and although it is very much non political and non religious, it does seem to have adopted the4 way test test as a sort of ideal. But the concept of applying it to our everyday life gets harder and harder, especially with the pandemic, which seems to have lowered everybody's IQ and common manners, respect and threshold of rage. So whats so hard about applying these words developed nearly 60 years ago??
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it fair?
Will it bring friendship?
Will it be beneficial to all?
Good luck with any of those questions in todays world of "Alternative Facts" and Social media trolls and conspiracy theorists... This is what a PDG in USA had to say..
"The Four-Way Test is a mirror, not a window"
Rotary members should not use The Four-Way Test to look at others but rather to look at themselves in considering the ramifications of a thought, statement, or action. It should not be a window through which we look to judge others. It is a mirror at which we look to judge ourselves.
The argument I’ve heard Rotarians make is that if they determine some thought, statement, or action violates any part of the test, it is their duty to declare that thought, statement, or action wrong. I have heard The Four-Way Test used to support any number of topics, some which readers would find hard to support. Yet through the Internet, one can cobble together any sort of argument to back any thought or concept with a plethora of “facts.”
I do not believe that is what The Four-Way Test is about. I believe the test is more about how we treat each other than how we measure ideas.
Cooking and Stoves - Rotary saving lives, children and the environment
Great talk from Michelle last week, telling the story of nearly 4 million deaths per year that are attributed to the health effects associated with cooking over open fires in impoverished countries like Nicaragua.
Another 4 million women and children suffer severe burns from open fire burning, and families spend up to 20 hours per week gathering wood to cook meals.
Smoke from indoor cooking fires is a leading cause of death of children under age five, and the world's largest environmental killer. It kills eight times as many people as malaria. Stove Team International’s program benefits the families and children impacted by smoke from indoor cooking fires.
StoveTeam is a nonprofit, organization that assists with the production of safe, durable, efficient wood-burning Ecocina cookstoves to replace open fire cooking. They work with nonprofit organizations and Rotary Clubs and help them place an order for stoves with a local entrepreneur in Latin America to provide the necessary training and support to produce them. Ecocina factories have produced more than 71,000 stoves, improving the lives of more than half-a-million people.
StoveTeam's model has been awarded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Partnership for Clean Indoor Air Award for Developing Local Markets for our innovative approach creating local employment while improving health and reducing air pollution.
Can you join the club in supporting this cause? Check it out or donate via Alex Rotary.
Alex Rotary is putting out a challenge to the Sunshine Coast Community and looking for sponsors to match their dollars to create a home for SalTy Souls Legacy kids programs.
The members have raised $15,000 for a new clubhouse for SalTy Souls Legacy and need another $15,000 worth of materials to complete the task. Rotarians and like reminded volunteers and tradies have already offered their labour to transform 2 shipping containers into a fantastic clubhouse that will be the home for the brilliant Sunshine Coast Kids program run by Tamara and Kerry Smith and family in remembrance of Ty Kennedy.
Kerry & Tamara have been running the Salty Souls Legacy programs for kids out of their garage and it has well and truly grown out of the family home. Now its time to find them a permanent home. Check them out at www.SalTySouls Legacy.org
You may have seen SalTy Souls on Channel 7 where the amazing Siena College kids got behind Salty Souls at their recent Benefit Ball?
So can you help? Can you match the dollars that Alex Rotary are putting in? Do you want to get behind this great cause?
If you can help create a home for SalTy Souls Legacy, no matter how small or large a donation, please donate to the Salty Souls Program on this link,
The really great news is that the site that SalTy Souls Legacy are looking to establish themselves on is already a big part of community youth through the THRIVE programs. Rotary are really excited by the possibility of collaboration and adding to the great work that Noel and the team are doing at THRIVE and helping build on the programs that are doing so much to re-engage with kids of the Sunny Coast.
...and here is an artists impression of what it all might look like with your support.
Click on image to go to the links
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Our Meeting Details
Fridays at 6:45 AM
Alex Surf Life Saving Club
Alex Beach
Alexandra Headland , QLD 4557 Australia
Enter from the beach side, next to Coffee kiosk. Magnificent morning views of sun rising over the pacific*
(Technically its the earth rotating and falling. Ed)
