ROTARY CLUB OF CORIO BAY INC CHARTERED JANUARY 1963 THE CORIO BAY COURIER ROTARY DISTRICT 9780 5 NOVEMBER 2020 MEETING NUMBER 464 The Chairman’s Report: Our meeting missed the presence of President Deb who was in Hospital at the time of our meeting. We wish Deb the speediest of recoveries and look forward to her returning to Rotary once she is truly recovered. The Club real- ises that all members must step up and provide support to Deb, and share the load between each other. Please don’t wait to be asked. We will soldier on in her absence under the guidance of Past President Martin and supportive members. It was good to see Rob Kent on the path to recovering from injuries he in- curred in the shearing shed, which required hospitalisation and microsurgery. Hope he is following the Doctor’s advice and instructions to the letter!! Well done to PP Martin who has signed up family members as Friends of Rotary. Hopefully other members will follow his lead and we look forward to the Friends of Rotary increasing in number and participation. So it’s down to each of us to follow this up. Information has been circulated on several occasions, and the Pam- phlet has been attached with this Courier, so you can refresh your memories. The meeting proceeded as a Business Meeting with each of the Directors providing "State of the Nation" reports with great input from all. The club is trying its best to continue providing community support despite the difficulties of Covid 19. The Awards to students of Northern Bay College were front and centre. Great to know that the Awards will be supported by the Peter Legge Trust. We look forward to resuming meetings back at the Croatian Club hopefully during the month of November, and Gary is following this up with the Manager of the Club. Watch this space! We are awaiting the outcome of the COGG’s deliberations regarding the funding decision for the Beckley park Landscaping Project. Gary reported that the Car park at Beckley Park is being made over. Secretary Michael has agreed to represent the Club at the virtual AGM for District 9780. Other matters dis- cussed included the Christmas Break-up. This may be in the form of a combined Vocational visit and Mem- bers and partners BBQ at Rob and Heather Kent’s farm—depending upon the Covid restrictions etc. It was thought that this would be held on a Sunday lunchtime—depending upon the arrangements and availability of our hosts—to be. The club members would assist with the catering of this function. It was enthusiastically agreed that the club members be encouraged to provide Christmas cheer for disadvantaged primary aged children through the provision of donated Christmas Gifts. The way forward to achieve this will be discussed in the very near future. PP Kathy raised the matter of the Speaker’s Schedule going forward, and the dates of the Club’s end of year recess. Please keep our President foremost in your thoughts as we wish her a speedy return to health—and also to PP Rob Kent, in his recovery from surgery. Cheers PP Michael Carne Club Secretary. BECAUSE OF COVID 19, OUR MEETINGS AT PRESENT ARE HELD ON ZOOM. YOU ARE VERY WELCOME TO JOIN OUR ZOOM MEETINGS https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82081722537?pwd=YVliM2ZDeHNHSWRkQmxJT1YzNCtMUT09 THIS IS A RECURRING MEETING ON THURSDAY EVENINGS. ROTARY CLUB OF CORIO BAY COURIER Reg. No. A13973N ABN 12996860448 Famous Rotarians 'Colonel' Harland Sanders, Rotary Club of Jeffersonville, Indiana Founder, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). Harland (Colonel) Sanders became an active Rotarian in 1919 when he became a founding member of the Rotary Club of Jacksonville, Indiana at the age of 29. After that he joined the Rotary Club of Corbin, Kentucky and then the Rotary Club of Shelbyville, Kentucky, and was an active member until his death in 1980. He always wore his Rotary pin and was a Paul Harris Fellow. He was also relent- lessly hardworking, entrepreneurial, and charitable, giving away most of his wealth to organizations like the Salvation Army. But most of those details have been forgot- ten. To the public, many of the world’s most successful people are considered to be overnight successes. However, behind the public eye, many of these people had to go through and overcome lots of challenges in order to achieve the success they are known for. They have to persevere through hardships and work extra hard for years before hitting it big. The story of Colonel Sanders is a great example of the kind of life many successful people go through before the money and the fame starts pouring in. Today, almost everyone all over the world knows Colonel Sanders, the jolly and serene guy who founded popular restau- rant chain KFC. In fact, at one point, Colonel Sanders, in his signature white suit, starched white shirt and black tie, was even ranked as the second most recognizable celebrity in the world. However, many do not know his inspiring story and how he founded the now global restaurant chain that boasts over 20,000 outlets in 123 countries. He was a sixth-grade dropout, an army mule-tender, a locomotive fireman, an insurance salesman and a political candi- date. And that was before he became the world’s most famous cook after reaching “retirement age.” Colonel Harland Sanders was many things, but above all, he’s a great success story. Enjoy these truths and learn how the one and only Colonel came to be. Harland Sanders was operating a service station in Corbin, Kentucky, when he began cooking for hungry travellers who stopped in for gas. Pretty soon, they were filling up more than their tanks. Early life: Life for Colonel Sanders started about three miles of Hen- ryville, Indiana, where he was born on September 9, 1890 as Harland David Sanders. Sanders was born into a fairly modest family. His fa- ther was a farmer who worked at his farm at the time Sanders was born. Five years after Sanders was born, his father died, leaving the young family to fend for itself. In order to provide for her kids, Sanders mother was forced to take up work at a tomato canning factory in Henryville. She also sewed clothes for other families. Since his moth- er spent most of her days at work, little Sanders was left with the re- sponsibility of looking after his younger brother and sisters. Because of this, he had to learn how to cook at a very young age. By the time other kids his age were learning how to ride a bicycle, Sanders was already an excellent cook. In 1902, when Sanders was 12 years old, his mother remarried and the family moved to Greenwood, Indiana, to live with their mother’s new husband. Sadly, life in the new home was not so good. Their stepfather was very harsh on them, and after about a year at their step father’s home, Sanders and his younger brother felt that they couldn’t take it anymore. Both left home, with his younger brother going to live with an aunt in Alabama, while Sanders decided to start fending for himself. After leaving home, Sanders found a job painting horse carriages. Shortly after, at the age of 14, he landed a job as a farmhand near Greenwood, Indiana. The job paid fifteen dollars a month and provided him with a place to sleep and something to eat. Initially, Sanders balanced his work at the farm and school. He would get up before dawn, feed the animals, at- tend school through the day and then come back in the evening to feed the chicken and perform other odd jobs around the farm. After he completed sixth grade, he dropped out of school and decided to work full-time as a farmhand. He would later claim that algebra is what drove him off school. Sanders continued working at the farm until the age of fifteen. With nothing to do after leaving the farm, Sanders, now aged 16, lied about his age and enlisted in the United States Army in 1906. He was sent to Cuba, where he remained for about a year until he was honoura- bly discharged from the army. Owing to his short stint in the ar- my, you can bet that he didn’t earn the title of colonel in the ar- my. The colonel title came much later in life and was honorary title bestowed on him by two Kentucky governors, Governor Ru- by Laffoon in 1935 and Governor Lawrence Wetherby in 1950. 2 Once he left the army, with the help of his uncle, Sanders found a job as a labourer at the railway. He later advanced to the position of a fireman at the railway. It was while working at the railway that Sanders met a lady by the name Josephine King, and the two got married after a short while. The two of them would go ahead to have three children together, a son and two daughters. Unfortunately for Sanders, his life as a railway worker would not be long. Sanders was a hot tempered young man, and after a brawl with a worker, he was fired from this job. Dur- ing his days as a railway worker, Sanders was taking correspondence courses in law from LaSalle Extension University and had managed to ob- tain a law degree. Having been fired from the railway job, he decided to put his degree to work and started a legal career as a lawyer in the Justice of the Peace Courts in Little Rock, Arkansas.