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Club Donations

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. 
Andrew and Ben visit club, and what a legacy for Tom.

Summit for Sarcoma- Andrew and Ben creating a great legacy for Tom Hardyman

On Friday Andrew and Ben revisited the club to let us know how their work to increase awareness and funding for Children Sarcoma has been going since their "Climb for a Cause" was hot by the pandemic. It was a very moving story as Tom has sadly passed away in the interim. But this has not stopped Ben and he's dad Andrew who have been busy generating funds for research into this disease and told of their visits to the Clive Berghofer centre and the fantastic work that those guys do in trying to find a cure. There was some amazing news hot of the press that a dry, already on teh market for psoriasis is confidently being predicted to be approved for use in slowing down the disease. Andrew's and Ben's fundraising has well exceeded their initial target and will be further enhanced when the pandemic is under control and the father and sun mountaineers are determined to climb teh +6,000 metres of Mt Mera.
What an amazing story of love and determination and great legacy for Tom. 
What would District Say?

Acknowledgement of Country

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."
 
Wendy Protheroe
 
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Rotary 4 way test - mirror or window

The Rotary Minute

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.

Stove team - who knew?
 

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. 
Surf Show and Shine 2021 is ON!! 

Surf Show and Shine 2021 - Different plan for different times

Graeme, Steve and John have met with Council officers and after getting the knock back from the Mooloolaba State School "Oval not available" have been in talks with Alex SLSC and agreed to have a Surf Show and Shine at the Alex Beachfront. 
 
So the Kombi Konvoy of 100 Kombis will be on Saturday 2nd 6pm - 8pm and the show on Sunday from 7 - 1pm at Alex Surf Club car park
 
It wont be possible to do any significant fundraising for our amazing beneficiaries, as the event will have to be free because of the location (fencing would be prohibitive/ impractical) so we'll be relying on sponsors and donations gathered by our club members and friends. 
 
But we think "The show must go on" and talking to a coupl eof the Kombi leaders the Kombi community want o come out in force and cheer up the community. After all its impossible to feel down while admiring some of the amazing Kombi's on teh coast. 
 
We've still to reach out to the Surf Board community and the Arts community - that will be happening over the next few weeks. 
 
Meanwhile be sure to put this weekend in your diary. 
 
 
 
Can you match Alex Rotary ?

Salty Souls Legacy - Can you match 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,
 
 
Thank You 
 
Alex Rotary
 
What a location !!
 
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.
 
 
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