BULLETIN

District 9810 Vic Australia April 5, 2006

Bulletin Week 14, 2006

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Meeting at Tudor Motel at 6.00pm for 6.30pm start

This Week
April 5
Visit to Taralye
Dinner at Taralye first
Chairman: Bob Hoskins / NEXT WEEK
April 12
Joanne Morabito
Royal District Nursing Service
Chairman: TBA /
April 19
Vanessa Taranto - returning exchange student
Chairman: John Lynch /
April 26
Live Your Vision
Speaker: Milton Wigdorowitz

DUTY ROSTER

THIS WEEK April 5

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NEXT WEEK April 12

HOST

CASHIER

RECORDER / Peter Schoner
Andre Scibor-Kaminski
Ian Symons
/ HOST
CASHIER
RECORDER /
Andre Scibor-Kaminski
Ian Symons
James Tan
ROTARACT ROSTER
April 12 Sue Cross, Susan De Bolfo

CELEBRATIONS

Birthdays / Anniversaries / Inductions
Dick Tregear 10/1968
Apologies: Please note that all apologies are to be given to the new attendance chairman John Lynchbefore10 am on the day of the meeting.
You can register your apology (in order of preference) by:
  • Email:
  • Phone: 9840-4463 (please leave a message if I am away from my desk)
  • In writing: Deliver by hand or to 44 Valonia Drive, Eltham 3095
  • SMS: 0438 324 583
  • Fax: 9840-2277
Please copy John Lynch on any requests for Leave of Absence.
  • Welcome
  • Jeanette Suhr – guest speaker
  • Greg Suhr – president of the Rotary Club of Healesville
  • Gordon
  • Welcome back
  • Paul Wiltshire
  • Bruce Simcox
  • The RYPEN program took place over last weekend.

I picked up our two attendees (Bronwen & Tyler) & took them up to Mt Evelyn to join some 85 others on Friday morning.

RYPEN is a 3 day seminar for selected & sponsored young people 14- 17 years old) on teamwork, leadership, personal skills and fun. It is run each year by district.

On Sunday when I picked them up from the camp to take them home it was amazing how much moretalkative they had become - even with the mandatory lack of sleep!

They are looking forward to sharing their experience with the club sometime soon.

Rgds Ian

  • Ian A applied to be a Rotary Observer for Interplast in Fiji and has been given the position. Congratulations Ian. We are looking forward to hearing the details.
  • Limbs for Life is a quarterly newsletter. Does anyone have contacts with a publisher to get this printed? Let Colin know. Greg Suhr forwarded a name.
  • Paul’s choral group has a concert on Easter Monday performing Handel. Ring him at Kirkbrae Homes if you require a ticket.
  • The Foundation for Homeless Youth house is nearing completion with doors being delivered and the plaster being done. Bob is organising the carpet. Completion is expected around June. There will be an open house with dinner first. More details to follow. Rotary Members can contribute by taking part in the final cleanup before the handing over.
  • Bruce has asked that volunteers for the Photoshop Course do not play around with the VGA cables.
  • The Auction is on May 17. Donations are now required. John V will store these.
  • Vanessa is OK now. She will speak on Wednesday April 19.
  • I have reserved excellent 'A" Reserve seats for the fantastic and exciting production of

'STOMP"-

An ' explosive extravaganza of dance, theatre and percussion combined into

one rhythmic and comical performance, which is currently celebrating its13th year on Broadway and 4th year in the West End. The cast uses everyday objects- garbage cans, brooms and even matchboxes- to sound out their distinct personalities in a production that transcends language and cultural barriers and plays to all ages.'

Are you interested

Date Tuesday 30th May (Opening Night)

At 7.45 PM at Her Majesty's Theatre

Seats Row E in the Dress Circle (opposite the Walk way so there is ample leg room and no bobbing heads directly in front.

Cost Group Booking Price is $65. Suggest $10 (non compulsory! )

donation to Romac. Box Office selling price is $75.

First in Best Dressed! I have reserved a conservative 20 seats and can get

more but I need to know very quickly. If the date doesn't suit let Len know

because as a 'Group Booker ' he can 'span' different nights provided he

Excedes the total minimum number of seats.

Please let Len know ASAP by email or home phone if you are interested. He

is going and perhaps we can arrange a meal beforehand or coffee after

CUT OFF DATE for Bookings and Payment is Monday 10th April .( he has

to finalise the payment of these tickets before he leaves for overseas on the

14th April

Good News. We raised over $2000 in donations for ROMAC in conjunction

With the LION KING performances.

  • Colin won Heads and Tails

Jeanette has been CEO of Road Trauma Support Victoria for ten years. She won a Centenary Medal in 2000 signed by John Howard.

Jeanette began her talk by asking how many of us had:

  • answered their mobile phone
  • fiddled with the radio/CD
  • talked to a passenger

on the way to the meeting. She reminded us that it only takes a split second of distraction when driving to cause road trauma.

Jeanette talked of recent road deaths – many you don’t read about in the paper.

The Road Trauma Support Centre was first set up in Launceston.

Many people have trauma after road death.

Jeanette and Greg’s daughter, along with her boyfriend, was killed in a road accident in 1991. The drunken, drugged driver who caused it walked away. It took three hours for the police to formally ID Tanya which was like an eternity for the Suhr family.

In 1994 the Victorian Road Trauma Support Centre was set up by Jeanette and a few others and they operated from a home. The now have offices in Whitehorse Rd, Blackburn due to some funding. The group consists of professionals and volunteers (who have been through trauma). The group provides free counselling phone counselling, referrals and education programs. There are support teams for drivers (the crash might not be their fault). There is also support for carers of acquired brain injury victims.

The group also runs a program for traffic offenders and has many participants sent to them through the Magistrate’s Court.

The Road Trauma Support Group recruits, trains and manages support groups for anyone affected by road trauma. It will be extended to Regional areas soon.

They undertake their own fundraising – the largest event being a BBQ and open garden on November 18 and 19. Rotarians can assist in manning the BBQ or selling tickets in their raffle.

Jeanette told us that 1.2 million people are killed on the roads around the world in one year.

350 people are killed in Victoria per year and there are 20 0000 injuries, 6000 of which are serious.

Membership forms are available from Jeanette. Soon she hopes to take programs into schools and clubs on a fee for service basis.

Note from the editor

My family and I had moved into our corner block in May 1991. Jeanette and Greg were our ‘across the road’ neighbours on the bottom side. We knew them at that stage to wave to. Tanya was a beautiful young girl that we often saw coming and going.

Just before Christmas that year, the street went into shock as the police arrived at the Suhr house to inform them of Tanya’s death.

Tanya and her boyfriend had left his house to travel approximately one kilometre to hire a video. They were on their way back to watch it when they were hit by a drunken, drugged driver who ran a red light. Later we found out that he was also manufacturing drugs.

He did not receive the sentence that we were all hoping for, in fact, he got off relatively lightly.

Jeanette is the strongest, bravest person I know, and has since devoted her life to helping others who have to go through the same trauma.

The Suhrs moved not long after the accident.

Greg told me last week that the driver has since killed another innocent person in similar circumstances.

Hi from sunny Brazil, we had a great time in Buenos Aires, Mendoza and Rio de janeiro. We are now in Sao Paulo, going to Santiago soon.

I was wondering what had happened to Conny when I received the email below - looks like all is well

Regards
Peter

Dear Peter

I’m really sorry that I haven’t written back for such a long time!

Our computer is connected with those at my dad’s office. There they had huge troubles (I think they had a virus or something like that) and because of this we got them as well!

But I have to admit that I had heaps of school work in the last two or three month but I also was a bit lazy! The result of all these three things added up together were such a long break!

How are you? Hopefully fine!

How is the weather in Melbourne? Is it still hot or is it getting cold already?

This year we had the coldest winter since ages. It was snowing and snowing and snowing like it would never go to stop. Today it is the first day where we are expecting more than 15 degrees maybe even 20! It’s lovely. The sun is shining and everybody gets “spring feelings”. (If you can say it like that!)

At school everything is fine! I passed every single subject till now and the average of my marks was 2 which equals a B. I thing I’m doing alright for somebody who missed out on a year!

Last Friday we had our (school) ball! It was great, everybody came dressed up and we had a lot of fun!! It lasted till 4 o’clock in the morning. The next day I had to get up really early because my mum had one of her fantastic ideas. She planed a day trip to Berlin. So we took an aeroplane at about 8 o’clock and arrived there one hour later! Then we had exactly 12 hours time to get to know Berlin. My mum loves walking and so we spent most of the time walking through Berlin and looking at famous places and buildings! At the end of the day I was exhausted and really glad that I could sleep in a couchette on the way back to Vienna! I think I never slept that well

In two weeks time we have Easter holidays. During this time I’m going skiing with my family for the last time of the season. I love to go skiing in April because it’s not cold anymore and you get a really nice tan in your face!

Have you been to the Commonwealth games?

Thank you very much for your Christmas E-Mail!

I hope that you had a fantastic Christmas and a good start in the new year!

I hope every single member of your family is still well!

Lot's of Love to the whole family and the whole Rotary club!

Conny!

For those at the Conference I have booked the Urban Bistro , 160 Fullarton Road, Rose Park for 7.30 PM Friday Night. It is on Fullarton Road on the other side of the East Parklands a short taxi ride or a long walk (3-4 km) from the Hotel. The menu and other information is available at It has been highly recommended for the quality of the food etc by some Adelaide friends in the know about such things so a good tip for those going to Adelaide for other reasons. Those at the conference please let me know if you are unable to make it by Friday AM at the latest my mobile is 0409412810

BOB DAVIS

Have you ever felt like this?

We will have our normal meeting and then go on to Taralye. Partners are welcome to join us there and supper will be provided at the conclusion of the visit.

PHOTOSHOP COURSE
LAST WEEKS
CLUB ROSTER
04-Apr-06 / TIME
SET UP / 2 REQUIRED / 5.45PM / 6.15PM / SUE CROSS
AUDITORIUM / MAX WITTICK
DEMOUNT / 2 REQUIRED / 9.00PM / 9.30PM / ROGER WILSON
AUDITORIUM / BOB HOSKINS
11-Apr-06 / TIME
SET UP / 2 REQUIRED / 5.45PM / 6.15PM / ROBERT McQUADE
AUDITORIUM / BOB DAVIS
DEMOUNT / 2 REQUIRED / 9.00PM / 9.30PM / ROGER WILSON
AUDITORIUM / ANDREW NARAYAN
PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE
COMMENCING 2 MAY 2006
CLUB ROSTER
2/May/06 / TIME
PARKING / 3 REQUIRED / 6.30PM / 7.15PM / MAX WITTICK
MARK HARRINGTON
JAMES TAN
9/May/06 / TIME
REDIRECTION / 1 REQUIRED / 6.45PM / 7.15PM / SUSAN DE BOLFO
SET UP / 2 REQUIRED / 6.00PM / 6.45PM / DICK TREGEAR
AUDITORIUM / BOB HOSKINS
DEMOUNT / 2 REQUIRED / 9.00PM / 9.30PM / LEN BREAR
AUDITORIUM / KEVIN THOMAS
23/May/06 / TIME
SET UP / 2 REQUIRED / 5.45PM / 6.15PM / ANDREW NARAYAN
AUDITORIUM / JOHN LYNCH
DEMOUNT / 2 REQUIRED / 9.00PM / 9.30PM / MIKE PRIOR
AUDITORIUM / IAN SYMONS
30/May/06 / TIME
SET UP / 2 REQUIRED / 5.45PM / 6.15PM / IAN ARMSTRONG
AUDITORIUM / JOHN VICKERS
DEMOUNT / 2 REQUIRED / 9.00PM / 9.30PM / COL TAYLOR
AUDITORIUM / ROGER WILSON

Paddy and Mick were both laid off, so they went to the unemployment office.

When asked his occupation, Paddy answered, "Panty Stitcher. I sew da elastic onto ladies cotton panties and tongs."

The clerk looked up panty stitcher on his computer and, finding it classified as unskilled labour, he gave him $80 a week unemployment pay.

Mick was next in and when asked his occupation replied, "Diesel fitter."

Since a diesel fitter was a skilled job, the clerk gave Mick $160 dollars a week.

When Paddy found out he was furious. He stormed back into the office to find out why his friend and co-worker was collecting double his pay.

The Clerk explained, "Panty Stitchers are unskilled labour and Diesel fitters are skilled labour."

"What skill?" yelled Paddy. "I sew da elastic on da panties and tongs, then Mick puts 'em over his head and says:

"Yep, diesel fitter."