WEDNESDAY 15TH APRIL 2015
THIS WEEK'S MEETING
Maleny Hotel at 6:30 for 7:00pm with Guest Speakers Barbara Lamont & Edi Heide on The Opal Cutter.
APOLOGIES
Please tender apologies to Bernice by noon Tuesday.
DUTY ROSTERS
15 Apr 29 Apr 6 May
Duty Officer Chris B John W Michael G
ADO & Scribe Jim A Keith R Sherryl G
Registration Donna C Chris R-S Bernice McL
Fellowship Alan W Ric T John McL
SAUSAGE SIZZLE ROSTER
9th May
Lionel T (Leader) Robin T John W
23rd May
Malcolm B (Leader) Philip S Rick V
MINUTES OF MEETING OF 1ST APRIL
Our guest speaker was Morag Gamble who spoke about her work as director of programs for The Ethos Foundation – an organisation that she helped to create. She also runs courses on permaculture design and has a postgraduate degree in landscape design. She has been part of the Ethos Foundation (a registered charity) for the last ten years starting in Binna Burra and then moving to Crystal Waters near Maleny. It was this move that helped her to develop a whole new vision for the Foundation which is a not-for-profit holistic learning organisation based in the Crystal Waters ecovillage in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, surrounded by national parks. One of her responsibilities is to liaise with other community leaders.
As described on its website the Ethos Foundation is an educational foundation. Its mission is to cultivate effective new thinking, values and action for positive, ecologically sustainable futures. The Ethos Foundation exists to provide inspiration and renewal for people who are working to make a better world and supports people in developing and embracing sustainable practices in their personal lives, and their communities.
To help achieve these goals Morag said the Ethos Foundation will begin several programs in 2015:
1) Ethos Farm: This will be a small educational farm that she has developed to demonstrate the virtues of permaculture. Along with 10,000 cuttings, she intends to encourage young people to create their own farms as dedicated permaculture spaces.
2) Adventure survival skills: Morag is keen to send carefully selected children into the outback or forest so that they can explore how to exist and find food and shelter when isolated from any towns or villages and the usual support utilities - to really experience ‘the rock face of living’ in a rural environment. An ‘Outward Bound’ type of exercise. Learning maths in a way that is immediately applicable to engineering and architectural needs.
3) Living a sustainable lifestyle: natural building workshops: cob oven, straw bale seat, bamboo building. Future projects include appropriate technology workshops and displays – pedal power, solar power and much more… a regular series of permaculture workshops including permaculture design courses, permaculture camps, permaculture plants.
4) Courageous Conversations: Exploring the big issues of our time – climate destabilisation; food sovereignty; re-localisation; post-petrol futures; community resilience, wisdom and creativity; renewable energy.
5) Inspire Wellbeing: This is the Ethos Foundation’s short course and weekend retreat program to inspire and support, to cultivate creativity and deep connection, to nurture health and wellbeing, to explore eco-spirituality, and mindfulness.
One could see from the way she spoke that Morag was an inspirational leader, an idealist who communicated her ideas with clarity warmth and energy - so it was not surprising that she elicited so many questions that our president had to use the guillotine.
FUTURE MEETINGS & EVENTS
22nd April
Project Meeting at the Masonic Hall with $10 meal.
26th April
Parking duties at Cross Country event - TBC.
29th April
Maleny Hotel at 6:30 for 7:00pm to consider Community Grants.
6th May
Maleny Hotel at 6:30 for 7:00pm with Guest Speaker Michael Wearing on Mens' House.
13th May
Board Meeting at the Masonic Hall.
20th May
Combined Clubs meeting at USC for Rotary Scholarship Awards.
BIRTHDAYS FOR APRIL
1st Nancy Baker 4th Phillip Stark 12th Chris Brooker 23rd John McLennan 27th Chris Ross Smith & John Whan
WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES FOR APRIL
6th Lloyd & Shirley Larney 13th Jeff & Jan Cornfoot 26th Bill & Marlene Hankinson
NOW FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT
CLIMATE CHANGE???
SOME THREATENING IMAGES OF AUSSIE WEATHER
Come here Brisbane, I'm gonna EAT.
Good Morning Far North Queensland. First I'm going to roll you up, then I'm going to smoke you
Wadduya mean you've never seen a tsunami of sand at sea before?! This is AUSTRALIA mate, pull yourself together.
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