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Rotary Club Of Naracoorte Weekly Bulletin Zone 2 Club Meetings: th Meeting held Monday Nights Kaniva: Monday 1830hrs, Club Hotel. 5 September 2011 Settlers Function Room @ 6:30pm Nhill: Wednesday 1800hrs, Union Hotel. Meeting Number 2732 Apologies to Michael Lyons Bordertown: Tuesday 1800hrs, Home: 08 8762 2463 Bordertown Hotel. Mobile: 0429 910 338 Ellis Up Coming Speakers: Attendance: % Meals on Wheels: 12.09 Settler’s – Graham McPhee (Members reported26 & 7 Hons) the 19.09 Attended Bullocky Jim 26.09 Honorarydray Rotarians and 03.10 Visiting Rotarianswagon are Guests Birthdays & Important Dates: 10.10 both Apologies 04.09 Malcolm McGlashan - Birthday Make upsavailable for 07.09 John Ruck - Induction Notice Board: 08.09 John Ruck – Birthday Leave the parade 26.09 4 Club Meeting for Group 2 10.09 John Stafford - Birthday 03/04.03.12 PETs at Halls Gap AWOL with the 16.09 Anne Flavel - Birthday 22/23/24.03.12 District Conference, Warrnambool possibility of 25.09 Dawn Reynolds - Birthday We had a good gathering of the available real horses to pull the dray while our cut-out Rotarians plus Yvonne and AG at the Burdett’s bullocks (with a little motorised help) pull the home. A batch of left over sausages plus the wagon. Ellis will be looking for assistance on the usually high quality (and quantity) of bring your creek walk next week. own food made for a very good feed. We had a good social catch up session followed by reports. Jim has received a $200 donation for the Catscan fund, from the United Bowling and Sporting Heather asked members again to find a wardrobe Association of Coober Pedy! How come you ask suitable to hang the banners. There must be one – surely they won’t be relying on our catscan! somewhere. They sell for nothing at clearing The answer is a combination of the Coober Pedy sales. She also asked for someone to make the branch of the Durdin family and some volunteer banners hang-able. Thanks John Ruck for work by Jim. Thanks to the UBSACP, to Jim and volunteering. to Olive the Organiser! Heather also asked for sub-committees to be set up to organise the celebrations. A lot of work has AG Val reminded us that we have a combined been done but needs coordination to make it all Group 2 meeting with Nhill, Bordertown and th run well. Kaniva at Kaniva on the 26 September. Most people present wished to go so Val is going to organise a bus. Inter club visits are a great way to learn about Rotary and to meet old and new

Date Sergeant Chairman Plaques Equipment Fellowship Raffle D 29.08 John Ruck Murray Burdett Andrew Shouksmith U 05.09 John Ruck Murray Burdett Andrew Shouksmith T 12.09 John Ruck Murray Burdett Andrew Shouksmith Y 19.08 John Ruck Murray Burdett Andrew Shouksmith 26.09 John Ruck Murray Burdett Andrew Shouksmith R 03.10 John Ruck Murray Burdett Andrew Shouksmith O 10.10 John Ruck Murray Burdett Andrew Shouksmith S 17.10 John Ruck Murray Burdett Andrew Shouksmith T 24.10 John Ruck Murray Burdett Andrew Shouksmith E 31.10 John Ruck Murray Burdett Andrew Shouksmith R 06.11 John Ruck Murray Burdett Andrew Shouksmith friends so hopefully we can get a bus load Refugee day: Sunday, September 18, 11am to set including some Satelliters. the hall up. Event kicks off at 12 noon. Power point presentations from a few nationalities Andrew is going to set up our club website on Quiz questions and bingo: Murray club runner. It will cost a bit but is easy to use Games: LJ and Tammy and our efforts in the past have not been Facebook: to all friends successful! Thanks Andrew. Map with tooth picks on map: Tricia Jennie has written letter to the Naracoorte Lucindale council in regards to waiving the fee for Don’t forget the “Trip around the world - a taste this event. of the nations” show on Sunday 18th September. Caves Cocktail Party: Saturday, October 15th, 2011, 12 noon start, BYO food to share. Please invite 7pm at Schultz’s Caves. any migrants you or your friends know to the - Jennie – Bulls to offer boss for nothing. Leaving Ncte Freight Centre at 6.30pm. show plus bring your friends as well. - Auctioneer: Tiffany has got Ronny (aka Aaron) - Licence – Murray to look into Julie invited everyone to the opening of the - Catering – Jennie to follow up Woolies for Migrant Resource Centre at TAFE this Sunday at platter prices/donations. 2pm. - Tammy to also follow up food/equipment for next meeting. - Entertainment – Jake Robson – not available Our District has been asked to approve the Chloe Williams and Mackenzie Schinckel to be extension of the Bowel Scan program to other asked by Tammy districts. Our vote was a unanimous “yes”. Nigel Fosdike and two others – a definite yes (Tennis elbow) Tammy to ask Sam Pitt and leave it up to him. Jennie Young, Micheala Ford, Val and I attended - Trica – has posters and tickets ready to sell the Rotary Leadership Institute training day on and will hang up around town. Saturday. It was an interesting day and very - Debbie – organising bubbly for the cocktails. pleasing to hear our new members tell the group - Tammy – cocktails of their commitment to Rotary for the “long haul”. Perhaps a certification of appreciation to be done for the helpers/students. (Maybe also a subway voucher Next week we are at Settlers, usual time, with given, if we can get subway in as a donation). guest speaker Brian McPhee talking about biological soils and in particular carbon in soils. AOB: The following week our meeting will be the a. Mandy cooked a BBQ for the skate park workers which her partner Chris is involved in and will speak at Sunday tour the world function on the 18th and our meeting in a few weeks. th then it is Kaniva on the 26 September. b. Red Cross are putting on a volunteer training course Busy times! on September 14, 6.30-9.30pm at SES building on Smith St.

Regards c. Murray has delivered the 4 dozen bottles to Hugh Murray Crawford and Hugh would like the High School to print another 200 labels. Tammy to organise. Also Jennie to NARACOORTE ROTARY CLUB get Reymer to call Tammy and organise a time for a SATELLITE GROUP MEETING photo with Hugh, Brook and bottle of wine. Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 7.15am Naracoorte Hotel Motel, Billy Macs d. Bowelscan is only run in our district, we had a vote Present: Jennie Young, Tammy Schinckel, Debbie and allowed the bowelscan program to be run into Press, Tricia Colman, Murray Burdett, LJ other regions. Boddington, Taanya Harris, Mandy Hackett, e. On Monday, September 26 there will be a “group 2” Leon Wardle, Rudy Wrana. meeting at Kaniva. Bus is leaving TAFE at 5ish. Please Apologies: Michaela Ford, David Attwood, Michael let Murray know if you would like to go. Lyons, Marilyn Bartosek, Tiffany Williams Meeting opened: 7.18am f. We need a wardrobe to hang our banners in so they sheep singer who had flown in by helicopter which don’t get creased. If you see one at a garage sale, was very weird but interesting. On the boat back we please buy. had a sing along and sung Waltzing Matilda which was lots of fun. g. Debbie said Peter Walsh is doing everything he can to raise funds for the races which will go towards the Friday consisted of bungee jumping- I didn’t jump CAT scan. just watched! After that we went ice skating which Meeting closed: 8.19am. was a first for me and I only had one massive stack. We also went on the luge and gondolas. For tea we watched a kiwi haka show and had a buffet dinner. Kaitlyn update N0.4: The boys especially enjoyed that! As it was our last night we stayed up till one in the morning watching Hi all, movies.

Just a quick update on my week away on safari. Saturday was just a travel day. We drove back to Christchurch and then flew back to Wellington. Safari is where all the Australian students get Everyone was sad to go home as we had all grown together for a week to see some of New Zealand. close to each other. It was one of the best weeks of We were based in Queenstown. my life and the memories will stay with me forever. So we left on Sunday morning by flying to I have made wonderful friends and we all want to Christchurch. There were six of us from the catch up again soon. Wellington region who flew down. When we arrived in Christchurch a Rotarian met us and we piled into This week I have the week off because my year a mini bus before starting the drive to Queenstown. level has exams which I don’t have to do. So I’m We picked up another four exchange students along going out with my counsellor and just getting over the way. We arrived at our apartments where we the past week. I have two weeks left now until I were staying at about 6pm Sunday night. There were come home. I can’t wait to come home and see about 20 students and 4 Rotarians. everyone again. See you all soon Monday and Tuesday we went skiing or Kaitlin xx snowboarding at Coronet Peak. I went skiing. We got lessons and then were able to ski all day. The  It takes your food seven seconds to get view was amazing and we had good weather- no from your mouth to your stomach. snow storms. I improved a lot and was able to go down some steep blue runs. For tea most nights we  One human hair can support 6.6 pounds. would go into Queenstown for two or so hours and  The average man's penis is two times the we were given twenty dollars to buy what we length of his thumb. wanted for tea.  Human thighbones are stronger than On Wednesday we went to Wanaka, about an hour concrete. from Queenstown. Here we went to Have a Shot  A woman's heart beats faster than a where we participated in archery, shooting a .22 and man's. playing this game where you shoot each other with  rubber tennis balls. This was a lot of fun. After that There are about one trillion bacteria on we went to Puzzling World. Here were illusion each of your feet. rooms and a giant maze outside. The maze was  Women blink twice as often as men. really fun but we couldn’t find one corner. We kept  The average person's skin weighs twice as going around in circles but when we were looking for the exit we found the corner that we couldn’t much as the brain. find, so in the end we completed the maze by  Your body uses 300 muscles to balance finding all four corners. itself when you are standing still.  If saliva cannot dissolve something, you On Thursday we went four wheel driving to Skippers Canyon. Here we went jet boating which cannot taste it. was lots of fun but freezing cold. After lunch we went on a steam boat to a sheep station. This wasn’t very new to me but it was still fun. There was a Women will be finished reading this by now. Men are still busy checking their thumbs!