Opening

Chris introduced Jacqui who was appointed in 2021 as the Business Development Manager for Meals on Wheels in SA,...this position was a first for MOW in its 68 years of operation. She has a background in aged care and with NDIS. For a number of years she was a designer, developer and consultant on children's playgrounds. Jacqui is a mother of 6 and her household includes another 2 children. Building and nurturing relationships with her home care clients and home care package providers is her aim.

 

In the 'aged care space' there are 100 home care package providers. e  4500 3-course meals are served each day. MOW has 78 branches/kitchens of which 38 are hospital branches. The average age of clients is 85. SA Health for food safety reasons will not allow the serving of fresh food or vegetable, so everything must be processed. 2 cold serve options are being offered each week during summer eg chicken with wild rice salad. Currently there are 5000 volunteers, 1000 less than before Covid hit.

Funding support for over 65s is provided by the Federal Government under My Aged Care. A 3 course meal costs $19.75 to cook and distribute. Some recipients can pay as low as $5.25 per serve, and others $10.50. It is normal for households to receive 3 MOW food deliveries each week, with a soup, 2 choices of main course, and dessert. Special diets are catered for and vegetarian options are being made available 2 days each week. Demand for frozen food rose dramatically during Covid.

 

Malnutrition among the elderly is a major reason for people being admitted to nursing homes. MOW is a big help in preventing that.

 

The key to the service is the well-being check by deliverers. Often health issues are noted when they chat to their clients, and there is follow up. Covid stopped home entry but there is a need for it to now resume. Innovations include the running of cooking classes for men and the pub lunch at Flagstaff Hill for $5. Effort is being made to recruit young volunteers. The largest kitchens are at Hilton and Christies Beach. 

 

Jacqui was thanked by acclamation.

 

Spots

• welcomed back the bulletin editor
• urged members to nominate for the Board positions
• advised that he is off to Cambodia to help with Cows for Cambodia in 3+ week's time....self funded.

• asked for volunteers to distribute the shop posters
• advised that there will be a mail-out to 1800 households...there are some excess cards for distribution
• canvassed options for kiddies entertainment like face painting, clowns & juggling......perhaps members could have their faces painted for the occasion....a scary thought! 
• raised the possibility of donating some proceeds to a worthwhile cause 

Vivienne Wood needs volunteers to fill spots at the Thrift Shop - a major helper is sick.

Brenton Judge has received positive responses from some members to look after the entry points at the French Market 25-26 November but there are gaps to be filled. The Salvos need help with their Christmas tree collections at Mitcham and Unley Shopping Centres.....please enlist.

Rhonda Hoare thanked Patsy and Valerie, and Graham and Graham, for the marvelous car rallies conducted over the last 7 years.......applause ensued. It is pleasing that Dennis and Vivienne will take up the challenge next year.  The Young Friends of Unley Rotary film event on 31 October was a great success with $1500 raised to assist women and children in Afghanistan.

Trevor McGuirk reflected on the hard work under trying conditions being undertaken by Fay in the Solomon Islands.

Finale

Rotary International News 

Iron lung’s third life builds awareness for End Polio Now

Posted on October 26, 2022

 

                

By Suzanne Gibson, 2019-20 governor of Rotary District 6440 and a member of the Rotary Club of Barrington Breakfast, Barrington, Illinois

 

While planning a youth assembly in the fall of 2017, Rotary leaders in my district were looking for a fresh way to connect young people with the story of polio. Their generation is largely unfamiliar with this disease because it has not been endemic in our part of the world for decades. They have little memory, aside from photos in history books, of polio scares and children in iron lungs.

We wanted to explain how Rotary has been working to deliver on the vision of a polio-free world and why. We have reduced the number of cases of polio by 99.9 percent since 1988. But still, as long as polio exists anywhere, it remains a threat. There is no cure, only prevention, through vaccines.

As work on our youth gathering progressed, we saw a feature in the February 2017 Rotary magazine about Roger Frank, a Rotary member in Upper Eden, England, who had purchased an iron lung and used it as a traveling demonstration piece. We were inspired. The quest began to secure an iron lung of our own, an iconic symbol of polio’s threat.

Clubs from throughout the northeast portion of the state of Illinois, USA, began collaborating to find one. Synchronously, The G. Whiz Science Museum in Sarasota, Florida, was closing and had a pristine iron lung available. And so the Rotary Iron Lung Education Exhibit (RILEE) sprung to life.

RILEE had spent her first life helping polio patients in Sarasota. Her second life was educating people at the G. Whiz Children’s Museum. And now in her third life, she is the centerpiece of a mobile museum serving northern Illinois. On Monday, 24 October, RILEE paid a visit to Rotary International World Headquarters in Evanston, Illinois, for World Polio Day.

RILEE’s message and mission are as important as ever. The recent paralysis of an unvaccinated man in the state of New York reminds us that the threat of polio exists everywhere as long as polio remains anywhere. Under-immunized communities are at risk, and we still have work to do educating people about the importance of vaccines.

 

 

Coffee Chat at Impressa, Unley Shopping Centre

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 2 December 2022              

Upcoming Meetings

Tuesday 15 November 2022 6 for 6.30pm Castello's Cucina (Damien on Fisher)

Event:  Committee consultations

Attendance and welcome: Stephen Baker & Graham Beckett

 

Tuesday 22 November 2022 6 for 6.30pm Castello's Cucina (Damien on Fisher)

Event: Youth night.....combined with McLaren Vale

Attendance and welcome: Patsy Beckett & Robyn Carnachan

 

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 

 

Week 1: 3 December 2022  

Early:  Jerry Casburn & Haydn Baillie |  Late: Robyn Carnachan & (Leonie Kewen)

 

Week 2:  12 November 2022

Early: Greg Mcleod & Wendy Andrews |  Late: Virginia Cossid & Ging Tadiar

 

Week 3: 19 November 2022  

Early: David Middleton & Nathan White  |  Late: Vera Holt & Rhonda Hoare

 

Week 4: 26 November 2022      

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 19 November 2022

 

ALL the Bunnings Mile End Barbeque shifts are from 8am to 5pm

Morning shift: 8.00am – 12.30pm | Afternoon shift: 12.30 – 5pm

We have been allocated the last Monday of each month.....next one is Monday 28 November 2022 

The Tale End.....  

One for the memory books

 

A QUEEN'S TALE    We'll always remember her sense of humour and that beautiful smile

 

I was on Guard of Honour, waiting for the King of Saudi Arabia, on Horseguards.

On the right flank; Scots Guard (100 guardsmen) a gap, HM The Queen, mounted in uniform; alongside her the CO Colonel Gerald, another gap, then on the left flank, the Queen’s Company Grenadier Guards (100 guardsmen).

We’re stood at ease waiting.

Suddenly the silence was broken by Colonel Gerald’s charger erupting with horse farts at full volume for two minutes.

Embarrassed and staring straight ahead Colonel Gerald says, “Sorry about that your Majesty!”

She replies, in a wonderful voice, “That’s alright Gerald, . . . I thought it was your horse!”

200 guardsmen silently cried with laughter and tapped their rifle butts on the gravel.

From that moment, every man there adored her!

 

Back to earth with some more good advice