In Gear R O T A R Y C L U B O F B E A U M A R I S W E E K L Y B U L L E T I N Number 39 23 April 2018

Next Meetings

THURSDAY 26 APRIL

SPEAKER: LT.COL CHRIS GRIGSBY

TOPIC: MISCELLANY OF MILITARY MINUTIA

CHAIR: JOHN BEATY

AV: DAVID LEA

CASH : DESK: LYNDA DOUTCH & JAMES GLENWRIGHT

THURSDAY 3 MAY

SPEAKER: CHRIS MARA

TOPIC: NEW MEMBER TALK

CHAIR: ROY DOWNES

AV: GREG EVERY

CASH DESK: DAVID HONE & JOHN MANKS

MONDAY 7 MAY

MAH-JONG & CARDS FUND RAISER (SEE PAGE 3)

THURSDAY 10 MAY

SPEAKER: MAYOR LAURENCE EVANS

CHAIR: TONY PHILIPS

AV: BRIDGET HAGE

CASH DESK: CHRIS MARTIN & VIV ZOPPOLATO

THURSDAY 17 MAY

FELLOWSHIP

STRICTLY BALLROOM

THE NATIONAL THEATRE MELBOURNE

20 CARLISLE ST, ST KILDA

8:00 PM

2017—2018

Serving the Community since 1985

Presidents Report

Our speakers this week were Maggie Matheson and Dean Richards from Nightlife – now Eclipse, a not for profit organiza-tion delivering night time supports to people with disabilities. This organisation is directly enriching the lives of folks with a disability and their careers in our local community. This was one of the causes that the community team identified through the successful Lightbulb Moment initiative.

Our current District 9810 Secretary Alma Reynolds from the Rotary Club Doncaster has been selected by the District Gov-ernor Nominating Committee as District Governor for District 9810 during the Rotary year 2020-2021. This appointment is subject to a fourteen day challenge period which expires on Monday 30th April 2018. I am sure we all wish Alma every success in the role.

John Manks has been following up on the “Centurion” issues with the relevant people at District. An alternate and simpler route for making donations to The Rotary Foundation has been identified, John will be publicising this shortly. Please consider The Rotary Foundation in your giving plans, this year the club will have been a significant beneficiary. Also on District mat-ters, James Glenwright is confirming our club information for the 2018 -19 District Directory. Please look out for his emails and make sure you reply if the content applies to you.

On Friday a group of us helped out at the Bayside School’s ANZAC Day commemoration at Hampton RSL. Thanks to Chris, Heather, Bridget and Peter for their work setting up the event. Unfortunately, despite perfect weather, the number of children in attendance was disappointing and this together with a late Easter next year must put a question mark on a similar 2019 commemoration.

Also on Friday, Joy Lea’s Scrabble Afternoon was a success, raising $240 for the End Trachoma 2020 appeal. It is worth noting that all the funds we have donated to this appeal have been raised specifically for that cause, nothing has come from general club project funds. “The Art of Kakadu” pictures sourced by Robert McArthur have been a major contributor, as has the Trachoma Dog and the raffle of the Cycle Helmets do-nated by Ken and Shirley. Robert has arranged with The Sandybeach Centre in Sandringham to include a number of paintings in their upcoming art show. We have been given exclusive use of a large space at the centre to mount a display.

Contents

1 Presidents Report 2/5 Notices / Photos 6 This Week’s Speaker 7 Art of Kakadu Dates 8 Club Structure / Photo of Week

Unless stated otherwise venue is Victoria Golf Club 6.30 for 7.00

It will also give us the opportunity to promote Rotary to the Art Show patrons. Robert is looking for volunteers to help out on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th. Heather D’Arcy is hosting a Mah-Jong and Cards afternoon at Huntingdale Golf Club on Monday 7th May which will raise more money for this appeal. As a result of all this activity, we will be able to make a second significant contribution to the End Trachoma 2020 appeal before the end of June.

Our speaker on Thursday is CEO of The Defence Health Foundation, Australian Defence Force, Lieutenant Colonel Chris Grigsby. The Defence Health Foundation funds medical research designed to improve the health and wellbeing of serving and ex-serving ADF members and their families.

The Foundation is a charitable trust and has been award-ing research grants annually for this purpose since 2011.

Enjoy your week.

Community Projects 2017/2018

Here is an update of the current Community Service

projects.

Australian Rotary Health:

Beaumaris Life Saving Club:

Cheltenham Children’s Festival:

Family Life:

Matts Place:

Sandringham Hospital:

Light Bulb Moment Projects: –

Wingman

Night Life

Gecko Hangouts

Beaumaris Primary School

Girls Getting Real (paid from Youth budget)

Higher Ground Music Festival support and

guidance only

Individual Contributions: RCoB $19300, District $3200, Bayside Council $4380

Total: $26880

Supported Events

Daffodil Day

Concourse Car show

Oak Street Festival

Concourse Traders Christmas Festival

Black Rock Traders Christmas Festival

Details of the individual contributions are available on the Club Website Members Page, Club Information, Board Decisions, Policies and Procedures sub-Page.

Chris Werner

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237 Bay Road, Cheltenham VIC 3192

03 8535 7980

Yours in Rotary Chris

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Above: Joy Lea’s ladies Scrabble afternoon raised $240 for Trachoma.

Other: Hampton RSL School’s ANZAC

Service (and next page)

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Dean told his own story of becoming disabled following a water-skiing accident and with no compensation availa-ble getting back to work after 13 months with the help of parents, friends and family. After initial finding satisfacto-ry night support from government agencies this all change d when a centralised model was imposed. This lead him to his involvement with Nightlife whose flexible, needs centred approach provides a much better service for their clients and their carers.

Dean gave graphic case studies of how Nightlife’s ap-proach freed up carers to allow them to resume a more normal life confident in the attention that would ber pro-vided no matter what happened to their loved ones. In contrast the rigid bureaucracy of government services provides no flexibility or certainty to allow any return to normalcy.

Maggie spoke about her son, Toby, now 42 who had cer-ebral palsy as a result of a birth injury. His life long desire was to become independent like his older siblings and Maggie and husband Pete have tried to help him achieve that as much as possible.

However, the absence of suitable government support, Toby’s deteriorating physicality and aging began to make continued independence problematic. Until Nightlife changed their lives. With Nightlife providing a reliable, quality, flexible care Maggie and Pete can now know that they are free to live their lives knowing Toby will be looked after whatever happens.

You can find out more about Nightlife at:

http://www.nightlife.org.au/

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Speaker: Dean Richards/Maggie Matheson

Topic: Night Life program

Dean is the President and Maggie the Vice-President of

Nightlife Disability Services.

This is the Nightlife story:

In October 2003 a small working party of people with physical disabilities was formed. People of the working party were experiencing frustration and desperation at the lack of evening and overnight flexible support by service providers. This included such things as constraints on the hours in which support was provided during the night, occasions where support didn’t arrive, restricted set bed times, the strain on partners or aging parents etc. who provide support and the constant anxiety that if there was-n’t enough adequate support people could end up in a congregate care situation. With support from the then De-partment of Human Services (now DHHS) Nightlife com-menced as a pilot project in 2007. Now a service provider in its own right, Nightlife successfully provides in home flexible personal care support throughout the night.

Nightlife is a unique service that fills a gap in the disability support landscape. The support that is provided by Night-life is uniquely tailored to the support needs of each per-son and delivered by well trained competent staff.

After nearly a decade of successfully providing night time support like no other service, Nightlife is looking forward to a period of multi-dimensional growth. This growth will include increasing the numbers of people who access the service, expanding the target groups that we support, adding to the geographical area in which we operate as well as diversifying the ser-vice delivery model to in-clude daytime support and providing relief staffing where other supports break down.

Nightlife is an accredited, incorporated organisation who is also a registered charity. Nightlife is governed by a Committee of Manage-ment who oversee the gov-ernance and strategic direc-tions of the organisation and the day to day operations are run by a small and dedi-cated Management team.

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ICELANDIC

SUNRISE

The sun rises be-hind Kirkjufell, argu-ably Iceland's most famous mountain. The mountain stands 1,500 feet high on its own small peninsula.

PHOTOGRAPH BY PIRIYA WONGKONGKA-THEP, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC YOUR SHOT

President. Chris D’Arcy

President Elect. Heather Chisholm

Hon Secretary. James Glenwright

Hon Treasurer. Richard Jones

Projects Director. Roy Seager

Immediate PP. Malcolm Sawle

Independent Director. Vivienne Zoppolato

International. John Sime (Chair)

Fred Hofmann John Manks

Ken Mirams Ross Philips

Robert McArthur Clem Quick

Youth. Chris Martin (Chair)

Jan Cooper Lois Lindsay

Tony McKenna David Rushworth Vivienne Zoppolato Bridget Hage

Event Management.

Jim O’Brien Martin Fothergill

Robert McArthur Geoff Stringer

Antony Nixon

District Service.

Youth Services. Tony McKenna

Membership. Trish Smyth

Assistant Governor. Ken Mirams

Club Service & Administration.

Attendance & Dining. Heather Chisholm

Foundation. John Manks

Program. Lynda Doutch

Membership. Adrian Culshaw

Fellowship. Megan Glenwright

Auditor. Tony Phillips

Club Protection Officer. Ken Mirams

Communications. David Lea

Social Media. Kerry, Lynda & Trish

Archivist. John Beaty

Almoners. Lois Lindsay, Charmaine Jansz

Marketing & PR Peter Flude

Club Photographer. Max Darby

Community. Chris Werner (Chair)

Mary Cunnington Max Darby

Martin Fothergill Kerry Geard

Tony Phillips Roy Downes

Mary Sealey John Beaty

Richard Shermon Chris Mara

Market Management.

Vivienne Zoppolato (co-ordinator)

Heather Chisolm Ken Mirams

Greg Every Peter Flude

Indigenous.

David Hone (Chair)

Heather D’Arcy (Trachoma)

RCOB Club Structure 2017 - 2018 RCOB Board.