Pe Ken Haines in the absence of President Nathan opened the meeting, welcomed our guest speaker and reflected favourably on the Port Adelaide clipper visit last week.
Guest Speaker: Alexandra Rose - Rotary Peace Scholar
David Middleton briefly introduced Alexandra, who has been chosen as the District's Peace Scholar, as being highly skilled, had worked in interesting places with a commitment to social work, and to the arts.
Alexandra explained that she is the District's Rotary Peace Fellow for 2022 and is enrolled at the University of North Carolina for her peace and social work studies. She was born in Dubbo 32 years ago and came to Adelaide over 4 years ago after working in the Gobi Desert and prior to that in Nauru. The RPS started 20 years ago and each year about 50 scholars are chosen from around the world with the intention that they be trained to a Master's Degree focusing on achieving peace through conflict avoidance/ resolution. There is a vison of achieving sustainable peace.
Social work is a practice based profession. In her 7 years as a social worker she has taken a keen interest in social justice and human rights. During her time in Mongolia DFAT hired her to develop greater child protection for the young 7yo riders involved in grueling races, equipping them with helmets and other safety gear. In Nauru she experienced the raw and acute trauma felt by refugees; this sharpened her commitment to social justice. In Adelaide she has been concentrating on methods for combating gender based violence, formulating responses to violence against women in multi-cultural settings.
Her other passion is ART. In 2018 she joined the David Roche Foundation at North Adelaide as a volunteer, which evolved into becoming a guide and then led to her being hired by the Art Gallery of South Australia to train its guides. She believes that art can play an important role in educating people and can be used as a means of dispelling ignorance and creating awareness. Each piece of art has a story to tell. She related that Peggy Guggenheim, a famous promotor and financer of art in the US, donned unmatched earings to signify a love of old and new (contemporary). Alexandra herself wears unmatched earings representing her passion for social work and the arts. A piece of contemporary art that really stimulates the senses and imagination is Absence Embodied in Gallery 14 at the Art Gallery. This is the work of Chiharu Shiota from Japan, unique in the world, with sculptured hands and limbs forming anchors to 240km of threads permeating the chamber........tethered and connected...capable of infinite interpretations. Alexandra was struck by the theme of Imagine Rotary being introduced by President Jennifer Jones next year.
Alexandra was applauded for her illuminating address.
SPOTS............a covid outbreak
Patsy Beckett related that donations at the Mitre 10 BBQ had amounted to $400 since July 2021.
Chris Davis explained that:
The Pride of Work presentation will be held on Tuesday 31 May at Barzaar
Negotiations are continuing with SAPOL to have the SA Police Officer of the Year presentation held at the Showgrounds
Valerie Bonython announced that the planting of 100 trees in a circle to commemorate the centenary of Rotary in South Australia will take place in Park 25 at 9.30am next Saturday. Further offers of help would be appreciated to combine with that being provided by Adelaide Rotaract, 2 volunteers from our club, and our Young Friends of Unley Rotary. There will be an unveiling of the plaque on 19 June.
Valerie is also putting together a table of 10 for the quiz night being organised by RC Adelaide Light and Adelaide Rotaract to assist Ukrainian refugees.
Stephen Baker required someone to fill in for Haydn Baillie next Saturday at the Rotary Thrift Shop. A swap was organised between David Middleton, and Jerry who would take his shift two weeks later.
Brenton Judge needs more volunteers to help the Salvos Red Shield Appeal at the Mitcham and Unley Shopping Centres end of May and early June.
Rhonda Hoare reminded that next we have our Young Friends of Unley Rotary presenting to the club. A strong attendance would be beneficial. The Music Awards are to be held on Thursday May 26 at the Goodwood Institute. The poster is shown below.....book early and book often through Humantix for what will be a great night. There will be no Rotary meeting on Tuesday 24th.
Jerry Casburn will be heading for the Adelaide Zoo next Monday. On Tuesday a team from our club will help cook about 1400 snags and 30kgs of onions for needy kids as part of the Variety Bash.
Wendy Andrews advised that Heather was down at Mt Gambier following the death of her mother but would be returning for the coffee chat on Friday at Impressa.
Finale
The males finally prevailed with Chris Davis winning the filthy lucre and Greg McLeod the fruchocs.
The meeting closed at 7.55pm
Rotary International News.
Rotary clubs in Lviv find hope, strength in solidarity
By Orest Semotiuk, Chair of the Public Relations Committee of the Rotary Club of Lviv International, and a member of the District 2232 Public Relations Committee
Volunteers stand in front of pallets in one of several warehouses in Lviv set up for relief supplies.
The morning of 24 February began roughly as any normal morning would. I woke up, went for a jog, and had breakfast. While eating breakfast, however, I heard the news on the radio that Russian bombs were falling on my country, Ukraine.
I immediately called a few friends and acquaintances in other cities to find out how they were doing. Fortunately, most of them were unharmed and safe. Then in the afternoon, a TV station from Regensburg, Germany, where I had spent time during a research assignment in 2018, called me for a comment. Then more media, with an avalanche of requests, and my real work started.
Further interviews with journalists from Western Europe, Asia, and America followed. At the beginning of April, the editor of the Rotary Magazine for Germany and Austria visited us to research and report about our relief efforts and to interview Rotary District 2232 Governor Volodymyr Bondarenko.
Right from the first chat messages, I witnessed how Rotary members worldwide supported each other and extended that support to non-members who were in need. Rotary clubs in District 2232 immediately organized fundraising efforts and humanitarian aid for residents in areas under attack. Our district public relations committee launched a social media campaign to share current developments in Ukraine with our friends in Rotary around the world.
The Rotary Club of Lviv International put together a task force only a few days after the war began to coordinate, among other things, the supply of medicines, hygiene items, and medical equipment to Ukrainian hospitals and children’s homes. In addition, my own club, Lviv International, established useful contacts with international partners – both Rotary clubs and other charitable organizations in the United States, Germany, Poland, Denmark, Norway, and Latvia.
This enormous encouragement from the Rotary network gives us strength and new hope.
In daily Zoom conferences, we determine the needs of different recipient groups – whether refugees, children or wounded people – and plan further activities. We do this in close cooperation with the State Agency for Medical Care of Ukraine. We set up several warehouses for relief supplies in the Lviv region.
The items we supply through these warehouses range from mattresses and beds for hospitals to first aid kits, protective vests, clothing, and food. Everything is shipped to Lviv via the Polish-Ukrainian border where the relief supplies are sorted and then transported to areas affected by the war. A fundraising campaign to purchase more medical equipment for hospitals is also underway.
In the meantime, some of our Rotary members left the country. Others have remained in Lviv and open up their apartments, offices or production halls to be used as accommodation for refugees. Some even offer these refugees jobs so they can earn some money.
One of the things that helps us the most is the broad solidarity. On our club web page and on the “Rotary in Ukraine” Facebook page we regularly report about our actions and receive daily greetings, encouraging comments, and inquiries from all corners of the world. Other Rotary clubs, our partners, but also grateful people and institutions that we were able to help, get in touch. This enormous encouragement from the Rotary network gives us strength and new hope.
Early: Jerry Casburn (David Middleton) & Nathan White | Late: Vera Holt & Pam Trimmer
Week 4: 28 May 2022
Early: Stephen Baker & Judi Corcoran | Late: Jason Booth & Rhonda Hoare
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: Pam Trimmer (T) 8293 2612; (M) 0415 238 333; e-mail: pamela.trimmer@bigpond.com
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 May 2022
ALL the Bunnings Mile End Barbeque shifts are from 8am to 5pm
donned unmatched earings to signify a love of old and new (contemporary). Alexandra herself wears unmatched earings representing her passion for social work and the arts. A piece of contemporary art that really stimulates the senses and imagination is Absence Embodied in Gallery 14 at the Art Gallery. This is the work of Chiharu Shiota from Japan, unique in the world, with sculptured hands and limbs forming anchors to 240km of threads permeating the chamber........tethered and connected...capable of infinite interpretations. Alexandra was struck by the theme of Imagine Rotary being introduced by President Jennifer Jones next year.
The morning of 24 February began roughly as any normal morning would. I woke up, went for a jog, and had breakfast. While eating breakfast, however, I heard the news on the radio that Russian bombs were falling on my country, Ukraine.
An elderly man in Queensland, Australia, had owned a large property for several years.
