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In Gear R O T A R Y C L U B O F B E A U M A R I S W E E K L Y B U L L E T I N Number 42, 18 May 2015

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Serving the Community since 1985

Presidents Report What a busy month we have had, and touched eve-ry aspect of Rotary. Congratulations to all club members who have supported these initiatives: Three new members inducted Continued Farmers Market success and add-

ed new concepts Supported Sandringham Lions as marshals

for the Triathalon Solar Panel Trial up and running in Sabu ANZAC 100th Cluster event at The RSL Engaged with the Mayor, Felicity Frederico,

and our MLA Murray Thompson Beaumaris Primary 100th celebration Representing Rotary at Bayside Council

meeting Supporting Hamptons Glow for Good event. Donation to help Nepal Represented Beaumaris on Governor Elect

2017/18 interview panel Attended District quarterly Presidents meet-

ing. Supported a team at MUNA Organised the Changeover Dinner logistics.

Numbers confirmed to date 65 Bayside Mayoral Charity Golf Day at Royal

Melbourne

This week we all learnt much more about the Royal Flying Doctor Service and the wide range of ser-vices they provide, thanks to the very professional

Contents

1 Presidents Report 2 Notices 3 This Weeks Speaker 6 Club Structure / Picture of Week

Unless stated otherwise venue is Victoria Golf Club 6.30 for 7.00

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talk from Annette Alison. For those who missed it, we are talking about Australias 3rd largest airline where you hope you are not on the frequent flyer program, but more important-ly, the many services they offer around Austral-ia. We were pleased to be able to make a do-nation on the night for this very important pro-gram. We have five of our members being trained in Food Handling thanks to Chris and the Sandybeach Centre. This will be important for future BBQs at the Farmers Market. Our next fellowship event will be at the Glen-wrights (31A Iona St) on June 4th. More from Megan shortly. Five dedicated Beaumaris members attended the District Assembly this Sunday, and I am certain Trish will update the club on the key di-rections for District and our cluster clubs being planned for her year. Next week we have an update from our Interna-tional Team on Sabu and our many internation-al projects that are active on this tiny island in Indonesia. More importantly, we will learn more about the new pilot project of solar power being installed in a school on the island. John Beaty will chair the meeting.

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Final Fellowship Event for

President Kens Year. Our final fellowship for our Rotary year is on Thursday 4th June as there is no meeting at VGC. Its called GUESS WHO YOU ARE HAV-ING TO DINNER. (Or more to the point who are you having dinner with?) Our current Rotary Royalty ,President Ken and his lady Shirley will be In residence with new-comers to the position , President Elect Trish

and her consort Wolf warming up to take their seats of power. Join us to wine and dine with them at; 31 A Io-na Street, Black Rock. 6.30 for 7 pm start. Three course meal plus nibbles. Cost $30 per person plus BYO bottle of wine. Seats are limited due to the size of the restaurant. Book now to pay homage and have fun. Book now to avoid disappointment. Megan 0418 578 114 or Glenwright @ aapt.net.au

Hocking Stuart Sandringham 62-64 Station Street

Telephone: 03 9521 9800

Note; As part of our arrangement with Hocking Stuart discounts on agents fees are available to RCOB members.

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T #"M: R F"' D M& S%"M Annette Allison is the Public Affairs Manager for the Royal Flying Doctor Service Victoria. An-nette was a Board member of the RFDS for three years before relinquishing her role to take on the Public Affairs position 9 years ago. Annette spent 30 years in the television and radio industry and has filmed many documen-taries in every corner of Australia. She has a solid knowledge of the workings of the Royal Flying Doctor Service and a passion for the out-back and its people. The founder of the RFDS the Reverend John Flynn was one of her early heroes and his story is told on the $20 note. The Royal Flying Doctor Service has been vot-ed four times the most trusted charity in Aus-tralia.

The RFDS began as the dream of the Rev John Flynn, a minister with the Presbyterian Church. He witnessed the daily struggle of pio-neers living in remote areas where just two doctors provided the only medical care for an area of almost 2 million square kilometres. Flynns vision was to provide a mantle of safe-ty for these people and on 15 May 1928, his dream had become a reality with the opening of the Australian Inland Mission Aerial Medical Service (later renamed the Royal Flying Doctor Service) in Cloncurry, Queensland. Over the next few years, the RFDS began to expand across the country. By the 1950s, the RFDS was acknowledged by former Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies as perhaps the single greatest contribution to the effective settlement of the far distant country that we have witnessed in our time.

Until the 1960s, the Service rarely owned our own aircraft. They used contractors to provide aircraft, pilots and servicing. They progressive-ly began to purchase our own aircraft and em-ploy their own pilots and engineers. Today, the RFDS own a fleet of 61 fully instrumented air-craft with the very latest in navigation technolo-gy. They operate 21 bases across Australia. Their pilots annually fly the equivalent of 25 round trips to the moon and the doctors and flight nurses are responsible for the care of over 270,000 patients; the same as a major hospital such as the Alfred or St Vincents.!

The Rev Flynn, the first pilot Arthur Affleck, and QANTAS founder Hudson Fysh who

leased the De Havilland bi plane Victory to the Australian Inland Mission. The initial

experiment was funded by money donat-ed by H V McKay, founder of the Sunshine

Harvester Company .

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Traeger completed the essential third leg need-ed to make Flynns vision of a Mantle of Safe-ty complete;

Aviation> Medicine> Communication

Find out more at;

http://www.flyingdoctor.org.au

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Waterfall of the Gods Photograph by Ed Gra-ham, National Geo-graphic Although the days are short in Iceland in Feb-ruary, the sun remains low on the horizon while its up, This al-lows six to eight hours of shooting in a beauti-ful golden lightif the weather cooperates. Here, the winter sun falls on Icelands Goafoss, or Waterfall of the Gods, one of the largest in the country.

CLUB STRUCTURE 2014 - 2015 UPDATED 20/04/2015

BOARD CLUB SERVICE

President Ken Mirams Director Trish Smyth

PE, VP Trish Smyth Auditor Tony Phillips

Secretary Roy Seager Program Richard Jones

Treasurer James Glenwright Meeting Attendance Trish Smyth

Foundation Mike Hede Communications David Lea

Branding & PR Malcolm Sawle Fellowship Megan Glenwright

International John Beaty Photographers John Beaty, Greg Every

New Generations Kerrie Geard Almoner Geoff Stringer

Community Chris D'Arcy Chair /Host /Cashiers /AV Roster

Fundraising Adrian Culshaw Youth Protection Officer Malcolm Parks

On to Conference Robert McArthur^*

TEAM MEMBERS

International Community New Generations Fundraising

Fred Hofmann Geoff Abbott David Rushworth Harry Wolfe

John Sime Rob Fenton Mary Sealy Heather Chisholm

David Langworthy Richard Shermon Tony McKenna * Roger Frewen

Geoff Stockdale Tony Phillips Max Darby TBC Geoff Stringer

Ross Phillips David Greenall LOA David Hone

Malcolm Parks Lynda Doutch Chris Martin Judi Hall

John Manks Jason Tonks Royal Melbourne Golf Charmaine Jansz

David Greenall Jim O'Brien Antony Nixon

Concourse Festival Branding & PR Harry Wolfe Peter Flude

Kerrie Geard Peter Flude^ David Hone# Mike Hede

Masters Golf Parking David Lea MUNA / NYSF

James Glenwright Martin Fothergill Heather Chisolm

^ Farmers Market # Indigenous Project * District