Great work by our designer in residence Steve who has out together this artists impression, and made a 3D model to get the ideas flowing for the new Salty Souls Legacy HQ.
The club are now on the look out for help (financial, materials labour) to help Tamara and Kerry move to the next level. Ask around, you never know.
Great work also by Liam Pinese from ADAPT planning engineers who is helping to guide the planning process for the new base on Aerodrome Road. Also pleased to say that Mal Pratt, Sunshine Coast leading philanthropist has given his OK for the SalTy Souls Legacy HQ to be placed on the THRIVE complex.
And our very own Scott Brimelow (Structures) has stepped up with a helping hand on the engineering. So let's find some more great citizens on the coast and make the dream a reality for this great cause.
Great talk and discussion on Friday with Maggie from SCRGI reminding us of how far we still have to go with reconciliation and healing with First Nations peoples.
Does Australia Day date pass the 4 -way test
Using the 4 way test needs to be done with care. A certain scribe has met a few folks who are all too quick to use it on others and not on themselves, (which was the original purpose of teh test). But how about applying it to the Australia Day date? Does it pass the test;
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and better FRIENdSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to ALL concerned?
What do you think?
Club gets nominated for Community Award - and causes an email stir
Alex Rotary has been nominated for a community award, and so had to submit a bio of 400 words. The courageous Tony filled his inkwell and took out his quill and penned together a creditable first effort at club bio. He forwarded to a certain scribe who had inherited a worn red pen from a certain school supremo, and set to work to tidy up the draft. So far so good. Then our erstwhile Secretary made the understandable mistake of showing this effort to the club. At this point two club members shone above the rest and sprung into action with red pens of their own. Such is the world of an enthusiastic and active club. You can see their efforts on the club webpage. www.alexandrarotary.com
There will be a dinner to celebrate the various community leaders and clubs who " make a difference" to our community. See Val for details.
If you never been whale watching on the coast, you are missing a treat. A certain scribe takes his overseas relatives when they visit, and its just an amazing experience. So we are going to organise a club outing and you are invited to let us know which of the following dates are convenient for you. Email your preference to Val at RCAHsecretary@gmail.com
15 August AM & PM cruises
21 August AM cruise
22 August AM & PM cruises
11 September PM cruise
12 September AM cruise
Please email Val with your preference
Container working bee
The wet weather has been playing havoc with our club container and we'll need to replace the personnel door. So be careful what you "volunteer" for as a working bee is looking imminent!
New Sound System for club
A big shout out to the Buderim Music Society who heard that our sound system had been stolen, came forward and donated theirs. It is much appreciated.
A certain club member has now got a new toy. On behalf of club, well done Davo. and also thanks for your reaching out to Maroochydore Rotary.
Our mate, Mark Skinner has let the club know that things are starting to take shape for the second stage of Casey's Yard makeover.
"Hey guys, I met up with Patrick from Beyond Landscapes [he did all the sleeper walls at Caseys] to look at what we could do to tidy up Casey's Front Yard.
It is pretty much as we left it in April with excess rubble, weeds and 2 cubic metres of pine bark.
We don't want to do anything as flash as the backyard, just something clean, tidy and maintainable.
Patrick has recommended weeding and revitalising the existing garden beds, then putting in all-new plants and dressing it with the bark we have on-site. This will require a short working bee and I was hoping we could get maybe 3 volunteers from each club to assist.
We will then scrape the whole front yard, spread some top soil and lay down all new turf. Patrick also wants to lay down 15 sqM of turf stone to the right of the driveway so Mel & Clint can park an extra car there. This will be top dressed and seeded.
Patrick is doing a plan for me and giving me a material list. I should be able to get all the materials donated but I still have some funds left from previous donations if we have to buy anything.
We don't have a date yet but hoping it would be in early August.
..and here's the Volunteer team from Part 1 of Casey's yard..
Here's what gone into our club bio for the community awards..
Alex Rotary has 19 friendly, community minded members aged from 28 to 83 who try and practice the Rotary motto of “Service above Self”.
Activities include.
Organising Winter Solstice Swim with Alex Surf Club attracting 200 open water swimmers raising around $12,000 for Salty Souls Legacy programme for disadvantaged kids. Previous beneficiaries include Young Vets, White Ribbon.
Organising the Surf Show and Shine surfboard and Kombi fun day attracting 4,000 to the coast raising funds for a 4WD and around $80,000 since beginning a few years ago. Beneficiaries include Sunshine Coast based Care Outreach for drought affected farmers, Nambour’s “The Shack”, Salty Souls Legacy and the “ The Board Meeting” Surf charity.
Promoting personal development of young community leaders through Rotary educational and international youth exchange programs. (Mark Jamieson and Fiona Simpson are past Rotary youth exchange students).
Developing and mentoring youth at other end of the social spectrum though the club’s “WorkLife program” and supporting local troubled kids programs such as Salty Souls Legacy.
Creating a $100,000 “Care Garden” for the IFYS safety house at Landsborough and smaller one at Maroochydore, Kids kindergarten makeover, and helped with “Casey’s backyard”.
Conducting “mock interviews” day at Maroochydore High School, preparing kids for that all important first job interview.
Supporting the Australian Golfing Fellowship of Rotarians annual golf tournament on the Sunshine Coast which raised $20,000 for Wishlist and brought Rotarians from all over Australia.
Working closely with IFYS on the “homeless” hub programme at the sportsman hub, helping clients with work preparation through the Alex Rotary WorkLife programme. The “WorkLife” program has been held in several local high schools and adopted by Rotary clubs in NSW, Victoria, Tasmania, UK and at an Alaskan Rotary club.
Supporting community mental health awareness via the Rotary “Lift the Lid” program and annual walk at Mooloolaba Rotary Club’s event every October.
Collecting pre-loved mobile phones for people escaping from domestic violence
Supporting the Alex Headland Community organisation at their Annual “Christmas at Alex” Christmas Party in Buhk Park.
Supporting the Rotary and University of the Sunshine Coast scholarship programme providing financial support for students to continue their PhD studies.
Supplied used medical and educational equipment. and packing containers bound for Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Nauru.
Providing financial support for plastic surgery to cleft palette and disfigured children through ROMAC (Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children)
Supporting the Rescue helicopter service on the coast for 20 years, one of our members raising six figures in donations.
Cows, Smallpox an 8 year old boy, and what we did before vaccines
Spare a thought for James Phipps. In the middle of the 18th century when 20% of the worlds population was dying from smallpox, and half of those who survived were left blind or disfigured, a chap called Jenner noticed that milkmaids seems to be immune from smallpox, and guessed that getting a mild dose of cowpox made you immune to deadly small pox. So James (8) was smeared with pus from a build on the arm of a milkmaid and put into a cut in James's arm. (I don't think that would be acceptable nowadays). Anyway James survived the cowpox "inoculation". So two months later James was further abused by being injected with the more deadly smallpox. He failed to develop symptoms and the rest is history. Smallpox was eradicated in 1977.
Before the 18th century humans practised "variolation" - basically exposing yourself to small quantities of the smallpox by breathing in dried pus. (yuck) It was thought that by introducing a milder form of smallpox, you would avoid more serious case. Results were mixed, and there were deaths from the practice and it was observed that even "variolated" people could spread the disease. So in steps another mathematician - Bernoulli (not Scottish) who worked with Edmund Halley of Halley's Comet fame, to develop a "life table" that showed unequivocally the power of medical intervention. However, as we know anti- vaxxers don't believe science or maths and prefer myths.
Jumping ahead to the end of the 19th century plague hit India - thought to have come for Hong Kong via rats carrying the "Yerstina pests" virus. The Indian government practised containment as pandemic control of the outbreak but it nevertheless stayed in the community for decades, eventually killing 12 million people. It was in India that a certain Dr Andrew McKendrick carried out his research and showed that bacteria increased to a carrying capacity according to a logistic growth model (SIR) that led to greater understanding of zoonotic diseases and public health intervention outcomes.
McKendrick was was able to accurately recreate the rise and fall of the plague in the 1905 Bombay outbreak, and the impacts of interventions such as containment, vaccination etc. and so gave public health officials the tools for humans to predict and manage pandemics.
Paralympic medalist and TV presenter Ade Adepitan, who co-hosts this year’s program, says that the eradication of polio in Africa was personal for him. “Since I was born in Nigeria, this achievement is close to my heart,” says Adepitan, a polio survivor who contracted the disease as a child. “I’ve been waiting for this day since I was young.”
He notes that, just a decade ago, three-quarters of all of the world’s polio cases caused by the wild virus were contracted in Africa. Now, more than a billion Africans are safe from the disease. “But we’re not done,” Adepitan cautions. “We’re in pursuit of an even greater triumph — a world without polio. And I can’t wait.”
Rotary Foundation Trustee Geeta Manek, who co-hosts the program with Adepitan, says that World Polio Day is an opportunity for Rotary members to be motivated to “continue this fight.”
She adds, “Rotarians around the world are working tirelessly to support the global effort to end polio.”
Rotary and University of the Sunshine Coast Community Fund Meeting Friday 6th August at USC . 5.435 pm
(RUSCCF)
Advancing tertiary education opportunities through a partnership between the combined Rotary Clubs of the Sunshine Coast & the University of the Sunshine Coast
Presidents, Secretaries and Committee Members,
Notice is hereby given that the next Committee meeting and AGM will be held on Friday 6th August 2021
(Unless COVID restrictions change). Commencing at 5.45pm in the Meeting Room 2, Level 1, Building ‘B’ at the University of the