SPOKE The Rotary Club of Burwood Inc.

Weekly Club Bulletin

SPOKE The Rotary Club of Burwood Inc.

Weekly Club BulletinVol 78 Issue 031st August 2016

President Keith Weeding

Donations in Kind Packing Hospital Beds

Rotary Anniversary: None on Record

Next Week's Meeting : Transfer

Transfer Meeting to Budha Ruksa Restaurant:

Partners Night

Next Week's Meeting : Transfer

Transfer Meeting to Budha Ruksa Restaurant:

Partners Night

Wedding Anniversary:None on Record

Happy Birthday:Tim O'Connor 2nd Aug

Rotary Grace: May Rotary friends and Rotary ways help us to serve our community here and abroad in many ways.

Additional Meetings tonight:

District GovernorTransfer RC Concord, Concord Golf Club

Introduction: Pres Keith Thanks: Pres Keith Notes: Peter Moore

District GovernorTransfer RC Concord, Concord Golf Club

Introduction: Pres Keith Thanks: Pres Keith Notes: Peter Moore

Meets at: Burwood RSL 96 Shaftesbury Road, Burwood Every Monday night - 6pm for 6.15pm

At our last Meeting: Monday July 25th 2016

President Keith opened the meeting at 6.25pm.

Apologies: Lloyd Roever, John Kane. Helen Isbister, Theo Kapeleris, Sana Kamalesan, Peter Hamer, Anna Hoyles.

Sick Members: pp David Wright mentioned Dickie Brooks had visited Ron and Athalie in their new accommodation and they seemed happy.

Pres Keith Reported District Governors meeting next week at Concord Rotary Club at Concord Golf Club. Partners Night. The following week transfer to Thai Restaurant. Round robin circulating Still looking for Vocational speaker for Burwood Girls High School for students not going to University and less academically involved. There is a Board Meeting tonight. Burwood festival approaching

Sec pp Colin: Incoming correspondence Careflight, Youth off the streets, RC Woden Adventures in Citizenship seeking nominations.

pp Tim Sri Lanka project pp Peter and pp Sana laying foundation stone in Sri Lanka

PP Walter discussion next container packing day this Saturday 30th July at Castle Hill, Now may have to spend extra time tieing the beds up so they don't extend during their transfer overseas. More help will be required on that day. The location is ideal for loading the container and should take no longer than 2.5 hours.

Pp Fred interested in organizing a Golf day and has some Rotarians who may help from Strathfield Rotary.

Sergeant at Arms Fred Walker fined everyone. .

PP Fuad Introduced our Guest Speaker. Joseph Vytilingham who took a global route to finally reach Australia. He lived in Sri Lanka, India, Africa Melbourne and finally Sydney. His father made matches and traveled all around the world. He met his wife in Sydney and now lives here.

The NBN will eventual service 8 million people via Modems, Cables and ADSL. The government has made many changes since its introduction. At the moment there are 2 million uses but they plan to hit their target on time . Will have Fiber to premises and then the options will be copper wires and cables and some satellites. Not the original plan but still effective. The goal was for everyone to pay much the same regardless oft heir location.

Speed essential as Australia is only number 56 fastest in the world Need speed for Business ( as well as games) Joseph is a Release manager bringing various parts of the NBN personnel together to achieve the appropriate outcomes. Make sure everyone communicates with each other.

The NBN is government funded but run as a private business and will ultimately be sold off to a private company .

Many questions Regarding cooper wires, contracts, schedules for completion

Pp John Mansour thanked Joseph for his presentation and presented him with a certificate of appreciation.

Raffle won by Helen Wright.

President Keith closed the meeting at 8.05 with the Singing of the National Anthem.

All correspondence to : The Secretary, PO Box 93 Burwood 1805 Editor: Peter Moore Email: mooreoptom@gmail.com

Several of our Members are travelling to the Philippines.

Report form pp Walter Bock

With Fellows form our Club, the group includes Gloria [Mrs. Days for Girls Australia from Newcastle] PDG Tony Castley and Sandra are also going. They will meet the founder of Days for Girls Celeste and Don Mergens from Seattle for four days negotiating material supplies from China before flying together to Manila. Also Dennis & Pip from Granville Rotary, Vera from Holroyd Rotary and friend Denise are going. They all meet at Cagayan de Oro in Mindanao’s north, the capital of Misamis Oriental State. They will meet the State Governor Emano before a welcome dinner by the combined Rotary clubs of the capital and district officers. This is followed by a 3 hour bus ride to the hotel in Gingoog expected to be reached after midnight.

They are going to a town of 125,000 people with a hinterland of 300,000 in total, Gingoog City at the north coast of Mindanao, a catholic region. We are going to meet many officials and politicians mainly from the education and health departments to publicise the program and solicit support to spread the project further throughout Mindanao, an island of 22 million people. They will take part in the education on health hygiene, menstruation, reproduction and related matters and the distribution of kits at high and primary school level. There will be very little time for any sightseeing because the visit has attracted attention way above what was envisaged in the beginning. There are likely to be more introductions, speeches and dinners than they can cope with.

pp Peter Hamer Reports form Sri Lanka

The three classrooms will be run and supported by the Australian Group "Orphans Now" who will supply all the equipment and supplies. The School will be staffed by another Charity Group in Sri Lanka called "Child Action" They currently run classes and provide food for poor children in Kandy Sri LankaThe Rotary Club of Burwood has agreeed to provide the building which is being Built on the Methodist Church Land with whom we have a 25 year agreementThe building will be completed in three stages and the expected date of completion is the 24th of October Currently the foundations are being completed. The total cost for this project is $21,000 which will be paid out in instalments as each stage is completed.

Representatives from the Rotary Club of Burwood attended the laying of the foundation stone and discussed details with the Builders from Jaffna

One Hundred Percent Effort packing the Container President Keith

Burwood Rotary Program 2016 - 20174. July Changeover from president Peter to vice president Keith for the 2016-17 Rotary Year

11-Jul Transfered to Sunday night Rotaract Trivia Night, Sunday 7/07 Rotaract meeting18-Jul Club Assembly Club runner training 16/07

22-Jul 11th Annual Historical SocietyDinner with Greame Innes the Keynote Speaker25-Jul Joe Vytlingam “NBN and my journey on what how I got here” Board Meeting1-Aug District Governors Partner's night at Concord Golf Course Horses birthday8-Aug Transfer to Budha Ruksa Restaurant

8-15.August 2016 Burwood club visit to Gingoog in the Philippines15-Aug No meeting 14/08/2016 City to Surf22-Aug Peter, Sana, Irene, Alf, Mary, Rosa, Shirley, Denise, Pip, Dennis, Vera, Walter - Philippive project29-Aug Mascot - One of the world's oldest airports - Ted Plummer Board Meeting

5-Sep Sana, Mohan & Peter on Sri Lanka School Building Project

12-Sep

19-Sep 24th Sept - Concord's 60th Anniversary

26-Sep Transplant Games

3-Oct Labour Day - No Rotary10-Oct Rotary area combined day ???? Board Meeting17-Oct 16-Oct Burwood Festival24-Oct

31-Oct

5-Nov Bush Dance & Lamb on the Spit 10th Nov Concord Golf day.7-Nov Blain Awardees Bree Rosengreen & Brydie Griffin 12-Nov Croydon Park Festival

14-Nov Board Meeting21-Nov PRISCA - Primary School Citizens Award Night28-Nov

5-Dec

12-Dec

19-Dec Burwood Rotary Christmas Night26-Dec Boxing Day - No meeting

2-Jan New Year's Day - No meeting

9-Jan

16-Jan

23-Jan Board Meeting

30-Jan 26-Jan Australia Day

6-Feb

13-Feb

20-Feb Youth Night ????

27-Feb Burwood Business Award Night ????

6-Mar Board Meeting

10-12 District conference

13-Mar

20-Mar

27-Mar

3-Apr

10-Apr Board meeting

17-Apr Easter Monday - No Meeting

24-Apr ANZAC Day 25-April - No Meeting - ANZAC Breakfast ???

1-May

8-May

15-May Pride of Workmanship ????

22-May Board Meeting

29-May

5-Jun

12-Jun Queen's Birthday weekend - No Meeting

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