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Jack Thompson and Rotary 

Jack Thompson, Rotary and Purple House and Bus

If you watched Australian Story in February you heard of a "Purple Bus"..., that is...a mobile dialysis machine that is helping great Australian actor Jack Thompson recover from renal failure.
 
What you may not know is that Rotary has played such a huge part in getting the Purple House Project off the ground. This particular project was one that Rotary embraced, and I recall it also being a passion of Bo Morse from Brisbane. Here's snippet of information.
 

Kintore

Kintore or Walungurru is 550kms west of Alice and is where it all started.

 

Concerned by the alarming number of their people and families having to dislocate from community to Alice Springs for dialysis treatment, Pintupi people from the Western Desert region of Central Australia started the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal to raise money for on country dialysis services.

Their passion and perseverance paid off – from the funds raised they purchased a dialysis machine which was installed in the Kintore Health Clinic. The first dialysis in Kintore took place on the 25th of September 2004.

In 2010, due to the amazing support and hard work of the Woden Rotary Club, we opened the Kintore Purple House, increasing our capacity to two chairs and providing much needed accommodation for our nurses. This amazing team of compassionate and industrious people took on the overwhelming job of transforming the ‘blue house’, an abandoned building, into the ‘Purple House’ dialysis unit. This was a huge job and many Rotary teams travelled to Kintore from the Eastern states to work on the project. 

These days we are able to have significant community elders Hilary Japaljari and Maurice Gibson at home in Kintore full time and provide other patients from Kintore time at home on country.

Clean up australia day 2019

Clean Up Alex Beach 

 
If you can help on March 3rd - let Wallis or the Club know. 
 
 
Folks,
 
It's on again, on Sunday 3rd March we'll meet you at the playground next to Alex SLSC for the start of the Australia Day Clean Up.
 
We'll provide the gloves and bags, and there's a bacon and egg burger at the end for the volunteers. 
 
This is something that we've been doing for the community for he past +10 years, and collected hundreds of bags of rubbish in that time. So please come along and show you care.
 
If you can't make it, and /or  wish to make a donation here is the link to CLean Up Australia Day HERE
 
Now THAT'S a good neighbour
 
What would you think if you lent your BBQ to a neighbour and they returned it to you after they had thoroughly cleaned it?
 
Pretty nice neighbour eh?
 
But what if they returned it and had also given you a new gas bottle
 
Well, thats very nice. 
 
But what if they had also maintained the trailer the BBQ was sitting on and fixed up the lights and the wheel bearings? 
 
I'd say that was exceptional.
 
So HAT'S OFF to Geoff Hopkins and the Mooloolaba Rotary team for taking such great care of our BBQ trailer...and the best news of all...the funds that they raised all went to the Rotary (RAWCS) flood relief program. 
 
It's great to have such brilliant neighbours.
 
Local MP ticks all the boxes

Local State Member ticks all the boxes

Unbeknown to many of us, Senior Citizen of the Year, David Woodrow, reminded the breakfast meeting that because Rotary is Non Political, politicians are invited to speak only where they meet several criteria. (i) They can only talk during an non-election year. No electioneering (ii) Their speech must be positive not bringing someone else down to promote themselves (iii) Non argumentative and respectful of differing views.
 
What great rules. Wouldn't it be great if this applied to the whole of Australian Media?
 
Brent Mickelberg certainly ticked all the boxes.
 
Brent is passionate about the community (especially education support) aspect of State politics and tells us he is still getting used to the public speaking he gave the club an insight into his family and how public service played a large part in his development through a career involving some unusual jobs overseas and in Australia before a distinguished career in the armed forces before settling on state politics and community support. 
 
Thank you for your story and for the great interest that you show in the education and school system in the Buderim area. Who knew that there are over over 17,000 students in the Brent's Buderim area?
Mooloolaba Triathalon Volunteers
 

Mooloolaba Triathalon Volunteers needed

The TRI is back on again on the 17th March, and Colleen is again organising the club volunteers. So if you are able to spend a few hours on Sunday 17th March please let Colleen or the club know. 
Triva Buffs off to defend title
Our intrepid team is off to Caloundra on Thursday to defend our title as trivia champions of the Sunshine Coast...
 
Here's a topical trivia question on Turtles...can you name the 4 teenage mutant ninja turtles?
 
 
 
New Treasurer

Change of Club Treasurer

We are delighted to welcome Wendy as our new club treasurer, taking over from Bob Lane, who has been our "money man" for the past 2+ years.  Bob's done a fantastic job over that time in keeping our club accounts up to date, with great support and help from Georgina D, and Steve P (over in the middle kingdom) .in his oversight of the annual accounts.
The club treasurers role is one of those jobs that requires constant effort and diligence, in keeping up to date with our club's fund raising, event expenses, grants and donations.  We thank Bob for his work over the past while, in introducing new systems, and streamlining a lot of old systems.
 
Here's Bob with some other jobs he's picked up...
 
 
New Corporate Members
The club is seeking to increase its membership base and has initiated Corporate Membership status. This allows a local business to become a corporate member and to nominate up to 2 employees as members of the club for one year. 
We are delighted to welcome IFYS as our first corporate member. We already have a strong relationship with IFYS through Rotary projects, care Garden, Christmas hampers, WorklIfe so we look forward to exploring ways how we can help each other with "making a difference to the community".
Alex Rotary has a long history of helping the community and especially those organisations who are looking for a "helping hand and not a hand out" as they say. 
If you know of a business who have a community cause that might be looking for some help with their plans or projects and it aligns with the Rotary credo of "making a difference" to the community, let Mike or the Board know. 
Kids footy boots anyone?
 

Spare Footy Boots anyone ?

 
If anyone has any old (but good condition) kids footy boots would they please email the secretary (RCAHsecreatary@gmail.com) as our Honorary member Ashley Robinson, will put them to good use, and make a youngsters day.
 
 
 
 
Bunnings 25th Feb
Bunnings Volunteers
 
You'll have seen that we are looking for volunteers for Monday 25th Feb. Contact Trevor if you can spare a few hours. 
Upcoming Events
RCAH video conference w Maroochydore as guests
May 01, 2020
6:45 AM – 8:00 PM
 
Bunnings BBQ - postponed
May 03, 2020
8:00 AM – 3:30 PM
 
Maroochy Video Conf - RCAH fundraisers discussion
May 08, 2020
6:15 PM – 8:00 PM
 
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