A Gala Dinner night is planned for Saturday 17th April at the Maroochy RSL. It will be a night of fellowship, fun and dancing and a chance to celebrate Rotary’s fantastic achievements over the past 100 years.
Bookings are now open and tickets can be purchased by clicking on the trybooking link on the Invitation attached. We advise you to book early, because seating is restricted due to Covid. Why not get a group together and join with old friends to celebrate this wonderful milestone? You can reserve a table as part of the booking process.
We are also planning to erect a monument, in order to recognise Rotary’s achievements, particularly on the Sunshine Coast.
We want this monument to ‘belong’ to all Rotarians past, present and future on the Sunshine Coast. The monument will be 2.69 metres high and have a diameter of 1.8 metres, the tendrils will ‘float’ from the 24 teeth on the Rotary Wheel and each one will bear the name of a Rotary Club on the SC. The design is meant to suggest that all clubs come from different areas but come together for the Centenary and then each go their own way to continue the good work of Rotary. Around the bottom will be 2 stainless steel panels, one about Rotary Clubs on the SC and the other, the story Sir Clem Renouf and his legacy.
Dean was our guest speaker on Friday and gave an inspiring talk to the club on some of the amazing work that Vinnie's do in our community. Homeless Youth is a terrible blight on our community and its great to see folk like Dean making a real difference to young folk who through now fault of their own find themselves on the street.
You can't help but think that a bit more attention to helping the youth, would avoid some of the youth crime that we see in Townsville and around our community. politicians please note....you don't solve youth problems by locking kids up or putting a tracker on them! Better use of resources would be to support organisations like Vinnies and people like Dean. Just saying.
This is a community health issue that some members may like to participate in..
The Central Queensland, Wide Bay, Sunshine Coast Public Health Network PHN are undertaking a survey to help inform the development of health services for our communities. Our Community Health Survey is available online
The survey will help the PHN to understand what’s most important to our community and the health needs our community are facing.
We hope to reach as many people as possible so a range of voices from all ages and walks of life are included. The more people who can tell us their opinions, the more we can plan for better health outcomes in our communities. You can assist us by promoting and sharing this survey among your community and networks.
Survey closes 28 February 2021.
How can you help?
Take the survey online to have your say (as you are a community member yourself)
Share the survey link and poster via email to your friends, family, clients, staff
Sharing the survey link and social media tile (attached) on your social media
All survey participants will go into the draw for one of four $200 grocery vouchers. Visit: www.ourphn.org.au/survey
Your support in building healthy, resilient, connected communities across our region is very much appreciated.
Our mate Mark Skinner has been busy organising the project for a 5 year old Casey Harms and her grandparents. Mark got in touch with the club with this progress report, and a shout out to Alex Rotary to help out with the garden. This will be our 4th (?) garden blitz to make a difference and delighted to help Mark and the team he has organised. Here's a bit from his emails...
Casey is a beautiful little 5-year-old who has RTD [Riboflaven Transporter Deficiency Type 2]. For Casey, his condition includes paralysis of the cranial nerves and sensorineural deafness, the later being addressed with a cochlear implant in the hope that by hearing, he will eventually learn to talk. He also has severe damage to other nerves, particularly his limbs which are heavily distorted. Amazingly he moves around by shuffling his backside. There is hope that one day he may walk but that will be a fair way down the track. He also lacks the ability to regulate his body temperature.
MixFM leading the charge and coordinating the project.
From Monday 22nd February, Todd & Sami from MixFM will start a soft launch on-air, mentioning Casey's story.
Then W/C from 1st March they will ramp up with the callout for everything that is needed to complete the makeover and run this through W/C 8th March as well.
Sami will liaise directly with Jason from iLandscape and have him in for many of the days across the two weeks to update listeners where we are at, what supplies we still need to be donated etc.
Then the yard makeover day will be on Saturday 13th March.
This will be fairly major but Jason from iLandscape is an expert in this field and will manage all materials and labour.
We are also going to upgrade all the front gardens and whilst Jason will coordinate all materials, we are hoping Rotarians from Mooloolaba and Alex Heads will assist.
We will also want to run a bbq for most of the day to feed workers and suppliers. Perhaps Rotary can assist with this too. I can get meat, bread, eggs and a coffee van.
Really appreciate everyone's support to give this family a great new backyard for Casey.Here's Casey at play, and the task ahead, to turn this existing garden into a place of memories for Casey.
We have one short for the Alex Rotary quiz team, if anyone enjoys a trivia quiz competition while supporting a great cause. Let Tony know if you can make it. Just saying that in the past few years the club has an impressive record in this prestigious quiz of being of runner up, 2 times winners, and generally being a bit of pest to the other Rotary Clubs in the district..let's hope we can maintain this in 2021.
Meanwhile here's where your entry fee is going...oh, and did I say that there is a bar with some nice Australian wines going cheap.?
Vincent to fly back to the Solomon Islands after 16 months of life-saving medical treatment in Canberra
Vincent Toto (centre) and his mother Cosinta Matesonia (right) have been in Canberra for the past 16 months for medical treatment. They stayed with Sandra Goldstraw (left). Picture: Karleen Minney
Vincent Toto has a smile that could brighten up any room = he came to Australia in July 2019 at two months old, he was only expected to stay for eight or nine months but he and his mother, Cosinta Matesonia, have stayed for the past 16 months.
During that time he has had three major surgeries and about 30 gastroscopies.
Vincent's treatment was possible due to a memorandum of understanding between ROMAC and the ACT government.
Vincent Toto and his mother, Cosinta Matesonia are now back in Honiara this weekend.
"I want to say thank you to the hospital for helping us and also thank you to Rotary as well for the help, if not my baby was going to die," she said.
AGFR (Australian Golf Federation of Rotarians) 2021 - Talk on Friday
Jeanne Motteram has being doing a fantastic job in getting this Rotary National Golf competition to this stage, and we're now getting down to the details of how we can help Jeanne and her team make this golfing week a success for the Sunshine Coast.
So Covid notwithstanding the AGFR will definitely be going ahead and there are things we can be doing now to help Jeanne and the AGFR team.
Jeanne will be talking to the club on Friday, and has flagged with us the areas where we can help. So there are things to do in regards to spreading the word, gathering local sponsors, prizes, and local golfers to participate.
Then there are the details around tournament and golf days itself, and the arms and legs needed to make sure the golf goes smoothly and everyone enjoys the fellowship and activities in the clubhouse.
Michelle smiles through cliff hanger with Rotary International President
Guess who's smiling through this terrifying ordeal? None other than our Youth Group supremo Michelle.
Following on from Michelle's Rotary minute (wow!) she cleaned up with the raffle and two-up scratches
(has anybody ever won money from these - ed.?)
Anyway later in the day our mates Tamara and Kerry graciously offered the club 2 free tickets (value $260) to their Superbowl extravaganza, complementary drinks, fun morning and as luck would have it Michelle was first in, so hope your team won.
While we are on "all things Michelle", its great to see Michelle starting the organising of the Rotary Youth Interact /Earlyact programs and we wish her every success.
The club has been helping out clean up Australia Day for almost its inception.
This year if you want to help please log on to the clean up Australia site. We'll have the usual brekky burger / sausage sizzle for our amazing volunteers.
There will be registration on the day, with hand outs of gloves, bags and high viz.
So please give up some of your Sunday morning on 7th March to help keep our beach and foreshore clean.
