Castello's Cucina, 123 Fisher Street, Fullarton SA
President Ken Haines
WE RESUME ON 17 FEBRUARY 2023
Last Meeting
Venue: La Scala Restaurant
Event: The Club's Christmas Celebration/Nosh up
Guests: Beverley Baker, Rtn Briony Casburn, Vaughan Duck, Di Duke, Graham Ey, Roger Hoare, Bronwyn Kenny, Vivienne Liddle, Maria Mills, Genese Mullins, Linda Sellers, David Short, Craig Westell.
Attendance: 25 members 13 guests
Opening
President Ken opened the meeting, ordered everyone to have a great time, advised 40 chews per mouthful, and duly closed the meeting...nicely done. Note however the dodgy bow tie. Greg McLeod passed on the thanks of Haydn Baillie for the strong support of members at the Carols on Sunday night.
Christmas cheer
La Scala gets a big tick for quality across its 3 courses...and starting with a complimentary glass of wine was just the right dose. Most of us will need an extra hour or two of exercise in the morning. Special mention for the night goes to Ross Smith arriving at 7.25pm after nailing a real estate deal and then being served immediately......not his fault that he invoked sympathy for working so hard.
Patsy ran a Christmas quiz with the winners being Simon, Jerry, Judy, Bob Mullins and Nathan WhiteX2. Note that it was the males who smashed the quiz!
The editor was rewarded for his weekly bulletin of almost good quality with a bottle of wine.
Valerie provided one of the most satirical of Christmas stories in rhyme....brilliant stuff.
Patsy was applauded for her organisation of the event. She then distributed sweets to the starving assembly
It was a convivial night with good food, good company, fun and stories aplenty.....3 hours of quality time.
Merry Christmas one and all!.
Finale
Valerie reported that we will resume on January 17 with a BBQ at the Circle of Trees, Park 25, Karen Rolton oval next to Adelaide High School. A few snaps follow....see if you can recognise yourselves.
The Gallery.................Carols at the Rotunda on Sunday 11 December
Keeping our fingers crossed for good weather didn't quoite work.... a whole new technique is needed the next time we are faced with forecast rain. But we did have fun. A crowd of about 400 assembled and were treated to an entertaining magic display by the Wizzbang Wizard. Mayor Michael Hewitson and President Ken launched the Carols with David Pisoni MP providing moral support. Matt Noble put the show on the road with the Unley Concert Band. Judy Shaw did the Salvos nativity in fine style. Rhonda had our Young Friends of Rotary face painting and supervising the destruction of 3 piñatas. It was going rather well (almost swimmingly) until the arrival of sprinkle sprinkle little star. Even Santa had the misfortune of a premature shave. The best parts were the thanks we received from a grateful audience after a 2-year absence due to Covid, and watching the little tigers still splashing in the rain at the end. Just a few photos for the memory bank:
Rotary International News
Rotary projects around the globe - December 2022
By Brad Webber
United States
The Rotary Club of Conway-Morning, Arkansas, is aiming to deliver birthday messages to every child and young adult in the state’s foster care system. Between January and September, more than 2,100 cards had been mailed, with an anticipated 3,700 individuals to be reached annually. “These children already face great uncertainty and disappointments in their lives, and I strongly believe that to consistently remember them on their special day would give them hope to go on, and to show that others around them genuinely care for them,” says Mike Altland, a club member who started the campaign. A dozen or so Rotarian volunteers coordinate writing and forwarding cards to foster homes with the Arkansas Division of Children and Family Services and The Call, a statewide nonprofit that works with churches to match children with families. American Greetings, which operates a production facility in the area, donated a supply of cards and envelopes expected to last nearly two years, Altland says.
Mexico
The Rotary Club of Guadalajara Internacional in March began training girls from the city’s underserved communities in the Korean martial art of taekwondo. The Reconoce Tu Poder, or Recognize Your Power, program has trained dozens of girls, says creator Bertha Sánchez García, the club’s immediate past president. Sánchez García, a brown belt in the discipline, and Zulema Fernández Sariñana, a member of the Rotary Club of Guadalajara, developed a manual and a training regimen with the assistance of Patricia Mariscal Alcalá, an Olympian who is one of Mexico’s most accomplished female taekwondo athletes. “At the end of the program, each girl knows that she is capable of knocking down her obstacles by breaking a board with a kick,” says Sánchez García. The effort has been replicated by clubs in two other Mexican towns as well as in India.
Germany
A project by the Rotary Club of Rosenheim-Innstadt serves as a reminder that the simplest of gifts can bring joy to children — and delight to the givers. For the past five years, the club has taken up a collection among members, raising about $1,500 each year to buy Christmas presents. The gifts, delivered to 33 youths during the 2021 outing, included toys and clothing — “whatever you can imagine on a child’s wish list,” says Hans-Georg Schmidt, immediate past president of the club. A local aid organization selected the recipients. “One girl asked for a skirt, which otherwise the family would never have been able to afford,” Schmidt says. Another girl requested and received perfume. A dozen club members coordinate the shopping, packaging, and delivery.
Italy
Up to 169 million tons of unused food is wasted in the European Union every year, and only about 40 percent of Italians take home their uneaten restaurant food. Working with the office of agriculture and food in the Piedmont region, the Rotary Club of Acqui Terme launched a project in April to encourage people to take home their leftovers. It offers recyclable and compostable boxes and wine bags to restaurants, bed and breakfasts, and farmhouses. Rotarians enlist members of the hospitality industry to reduce food waste and develop awareness of the value of quality foods produced by local farmers, says Giacomo Guerrina, immediate past president of the club.
India
Impressed by the work of District 3201 following a 2018 monsoon, Mumbai-based technology company Atos Global IT Solutions and Services decided to collaborate with Rotary members in its corporate social responsibility endeavors. The company donated nearly $300,000 for two global grant projects. About $250,000 of that funded construction of 31 low-cost shelters to house 126 displaced people in a project that involved eight Rotary clubs in Kochi (formerly Cochin) during the 2018-19 Rotary year. The second grant to support the installation of 25 water purification plants is underway in Kerala. “We found the Rotary organization in India was the best suitable organization to partner with because of their volunteer-based organizational structure offering negligible or minimal administration cost,” says Nasir Shaikh, a senior vice president with the firm. Damodaran Vellannur — a coordinator of the housing grant, past president of the Rotary Club of Cochin Midtown, and now a member of the Cochin Titans club — lauds the creation of the 500-square-foot homes as “a sustainable, well-executed humanitarian project.”
10.30 am on the first Friday of the month is good for a chat with Rotary friends and a caffeine fix! Next one is Friday 3 February 2022
Upcoming Meetings
Tuesday 17 January 2023 6 for 6.30pm A BBQ picnic at Karen Rolton Oval near Adelaide High School
Apologies and Meeting Enquiries to: Secretary Greg McLeod on 0417 811 838 or email to secretary@unleyrotary.org.au
Venue Set-up Enquiries to: Bulletin Editor Stephen Baker on 0403 687 015
Saturday Thrift Shop Roster
Early Shift: 10.00am to 1.00pm Late Shift: 1.00pm to 4.00pm
Early: Greg Mcleod & Wendy Andrews | Late: Virginia Cossid & Ging Tadiar
Week 3: 17 December 2022
Early: Jerry Casburn (David Middleton) & Nathan White | Late: Vera Holt & Rhonda Hoare
Week 4: 24 December 2022 Closed
Early: Stephen Baker & Judi Corcoran | Late: Jason Booth & Vera-Ann Stacy
Week 5:
Early: Bob Mullins & Wendy Andrews | Late: Virginia Cossid & Paul Duke
Rotarians, who are unable to attend as rostered, please arrange a swap or as a very last resort contact: Vivienne Wood 0408 819 630; e-mail: vwood#ozemail.com.au
Mitre 10 and Bunnings Barbeques
The Mitre 10 BBQs are the first and third Saturdays of each month. Morning shift 8.30am - 12 noon; afternoon shift 12.00 - 3.30pm, then clean-up.....next one is Saturday 7 January 2023
ALL the Bunnings Mile End Barbeque shifts are from 8am to 5pm