RC of Maleny Bulletin for 19 April 2023

 "THE RANGE" VOL 64 No. 19                                                                            

THIS WEEK'S MEETING
Maleny Hotel at 6:30 for 7:00pm for a Business Meeting.

DUTY ROSTER
                          19 Apr              3May               17May;
Duty Officer      Jim A               Peter McQ        Phillip S
ADO                 Ric T               Greg W              Michael G
Registration      Bernice McL   Roly N               Brian A
Fellowship        John McL        Chris B              Bill H

WOOLWORTH SAUSAGE SIZZLE ROSTER

13May 0730 - 1030  James McC   Sherryl G   Chris B

             1030 - 1330   Rick V   Phillip S   Keith R

10Jun   0730 - 1030  Andy S   Bernice and John McLennan

             1030 - 1330  Paulette S   Greg W   Ric T

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Our DG Tim Keeler has postponed his official visit to our Club on 10th May but will be joining our members attending the R&USCCF Scholarship Dinner that evening.  His visit to the Club is being rescheduled.

Wood Expo Parking April 29/30 and May. Another reminder to those who haven’t put their name down to do shifts at some point during this long weekend, please help if you can.

 MINUTES OF MEETING OF 19TH APRIL
President Paulette opened the meeting by welcoming members, Guest Speaker Anna Carrick and three visiting Rotarians from Bribie Island, Caboolture and Randwick respectively. Also present were the parents of Interactor Nathaniel Audley of MSHS who has expressed an interest in Youth Exchange. Bernie Wilson from RC of Bribie Island is the Distrist Youth Exchange Programme Director. She explained how the programme worked and the criteria used for selecting a host country. Although she has worked full time in her family business, Bernie has hosted 11 overseas students and explained the benefits and the happiness that she had enjoyed as a result of her experience. She then answered questions. 

The running of the meeting was a little disjointed due to problems in the kitchen - the problems were of delivery rather than quality. Our Sergeant managed deftly to reverse this vibe.

Our Guest Speaker was Anna Carrick of Food Agribusiness Network.  FAN is a not-for-profit food industry cluster that was established in 2015. It now has more than 370 members from across the food value chain located in Gympie, Noosa, Sunshine Coast, Moreton Bay and beyond and is recognised nationally and internationally as a leading Australian food cluster.

Anna is the co-ordinator for the Sunshine Coast cluster and now lives in Peachester.  She is a country girl, originally from Orange, NSW. With media and cultural studies completed from CSU in Bathurst, Anna headed to Sydney to start an eclectic mix of roles, in a variety of industries, across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Hospitality, skincare & cosmetics, events, model agent, advertising, interior design, even environmental science. Anna is also a marriage celebrant.

With FAN, she is involved with helping the existing members in her cluster expand their business and in finding new producers.  Her major clients in the town are Maleny Diaries, Maleny Coop and Maleny Cheese.

Keith R gave the Vote of Thanks and the meeting closed at 8:50pm.

FUTURE MEETINGS AND EVENTS
29Apr - 1May  Car parking duties at Wood Expo.

03May  Maleny Hotel at 6:30 for 7:00pm for a Dinner Meeting with Guest Speaker former member Jack Wilcox.         

10May  R&USCCF Scholarship Dinner at USC.

13May  Casino Night at the RSL.

17May  Board Meeting.

2/3June  Maleny Show.

WEDDING ANNIVERSARY FOR APRIL
13th Jeff and Jan Cornfoot  18th Brian and Gillian Allen  26th Bill and Marlene Hankinson

BIRTHDAYS FOR APRIL
1st Nancy Baker  4th Phillip Stark  12th Chris B  23rd John McLennan  27th  Andy Schouteten and John Whan

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT
WIT VERSUS ANGER

When Gandhi was a young student, studying law at University College, London, a Caucasian professor, called Peters, disliked him intensely and always displayed prejudice and animosity towards him.  Also, because Gandhi never lowered his head when addressing him, as he expected, there were always arguments and confrontations.

One day, Professor Peters was having lunch at the dining room of the University, and Gandhi came along with his tray and sat next to him. The professor said, "Mr. Gandhi, you do not understand. A pig and a bird do not sit together to eat."

Gandhi looked at him as a parent would a rude child and calmly replied, "Do not worry professor. I'll fly away" and he moved to another table. Professor Peters, reddened with rage, decided to take revenge on the next test paper, but Gandhi responded brilliantly to all questions.

Professor Peters, unhappy and frustrated, asked him the following question. "Mr. Gandhi, if you were walking down the street and found a package, and within was a bag of wisdom and another bag full of money, which one would you take?"

Without hesitating, Gandhi responded, "The one with the money, of course."

Mr. Peters, smiling sarcastically, said, "I, in your place, would have taken wisdom, don't you think?"

Gandhi shrugged indifferently and responded, "Each one takes what he doesn't have."

Professor Peters, by this time, was beside himself with rage and so great was his anger that he wrote on Gandhi's exam sheet the word  "idiot" and gave it to Gandhi.

Gandhi took the exam sheet and sat down at his desk trying very hard to remain calm while he contemplated his next move.

A few minutes later, Gandhi got up, went to the professor and said to him in a dignified but sarcastically polite tone, "Professor Peters, you signed the sheet, but you did not give me the grade."

Wit always wins over anger. 

Rotary Club of Maleny Bulletin for 16th November 2022

 WEDNESDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2022

THIS WEEK'S MEETING

Maleny Hotel at 6:30 for 7:00pm for the Annual General Meeting followed by a Business Meeting. 

APOLOGIES
Apologies please to Bernice before noon on Tuesday.

DUTY ROSTER
                       16th Nov        7th Dec            21st Dec
Duty Officer    Michael G       Lionel T           Neal A
Assist DO       Sherryl G        Renee H         Peter McQ
Registration    Bernice McL   James McC    Malcolm B
Fellowship      Des C             Jared A           Chris B

WOOLWORTH SAUSAGE SIZZLE ROSTER
26 Nov   0730 - 1030  Phillip S   Sherryl G   Des C 

               1030 - 1330  Roly N   Chris B   Ric T

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

1. Well, first off a massive congratulations to all those on the sub committee for organizing such an amazingly successful inaugural Charity Golf Day at the Maleny Golf Club. I can’t believe we had such a big turnout of players and what about the best day weather wise that we could have asked for!! Over $9,000 profit is phenomenal and that’s a great sum to give to both Orange Sky, so they can help so many more homeless people, and to RAWCS to help those in Ukraine who have lost so much this year.

2. It’s AGM time at our next meeting! This is when we seek nominations for the committee starting 1 July 2023, which is a bit odd, when with most AGMs the existing roles are relinquished then and the new committee starts immediately after the AGM.

If you haven’t seen a copy of the Nomination Form that Bernice sent out this week, get in touch with Bernice and she’ll send you out a copy again. If you are seriously thinking about joining the committee and interested in any of the roles listed and maybe have a couple of questions, feel free to call me or one of the other current committee members about what’s involved.

The difference this year is with the Secretary’s position. It’s split into two parts now which will make it easier to do. The Secretary role is fine for someone to do who is looking to travel as it can all be done online. So as long as you have a phone and a laptop and an internet connection occasionally, there’s no reason to stay in Maleny for this position. 

So there is a new position of ‘Minutes Recorder’. For this you will have to attend the board meetings held each month and take the minutes and also send out the agenda, which is an existing template that simply transfers from month to month.

We already have someone showing a strong interest in one of the Director’s roles, so have a think about it. You can transition into one of the roles slowly over the next 7 months. Oh and by the way, I am super keen for someone who thinks the President role looks interesting in a couple of years to take on the President Elect role, which of course doesn’t start until 1 July 2023.

3. We are hopefully going to be busy next year with the Woodies Expo, confirmed for 2023, and then a few weeks later the Maleny Show. Also, it’s likely that we might be called on for our parking prowess again in early August for a major music event at the Showgrounds, to be organised by the Queensland Music Festival. They are talking about 5,000 people attending a one day event. We’ve already been approached to see if we’re interested in parking vehicles.

4. Lastly, we’ve got a Vocational Night on this month, now scheduled for 23 November. We are going to be given a tour of the new SES facilities on Macadamia Drive at 5.30pm and then we’ll go for yummy pizza and drinks at Jen’s Pizza at Finbars. We’ll be taking numbers attending at next week’s meeting and I’m sure there will be an email doing the rounds as well. Anyway, let Craig know if you are planning on coming along.

MINUTES OF MEETING OF 2ND NOVEMBER

President Paulette welcomed 18 members and guest speaker Nathan Dodd to the meeting.

Greg W reported on the Festuri Multi Cultural Festival held at Beerwah on last Saturday, where our Club joined with the RC of Glasshouse Country in having a stall promoting Rotary. One positive from the event was that it looks like Glasshouse will gain a new member.

Craig S advised that there will be a vocational visit on November 23rd to the new SES and RFS headquarters in Maleny commencing at 5.30pm and afterwards having dinner at Jen’s Pizza. As Jen is not able to renew her lease at the Purple Palate complex, this will be the last opportunity for the Club to savour Jen’s Pizza’s.

Rick V advised that there will be an Australia Day event at the Showgrounds next year, although it will not be the same as previous years. At this stage there will be a Flag Raising ceremony at TS Centaur followed by a Citizenship Ceremony. It is not known at this stage if APEX will be putting on their traditional Breakfast. Rick will keep the Club updated as more information becomes available.

Jim A reported on the highly successful Golf Day held at the Maleny Golf Club on Friday 28th October. Fortunately the weather on the day was fine and warm and 73 golfers hit off at 9am. With the support of many sponsors and donations, the day was not only a success socially but financially. The golf competition raised $8,446 and, when the proceeds of the raffle are added, the total raised on the day was $9,283 which is an outstanding result. Jim thanked the organising committee of Roly, Lionel, Jeff, Craig and Greg for the smooth running of the day and particularly Roly, whose idea it was to have a Golf Day. Jim also thanked those members who helped on the day, particularly the breakfast BBQ cooks who were run off their feet cooking bacon and eggs for the hungry Golfers!!! It is hoped to run another Golf Day in 2023, probably in late September.

Greg advised that the “Lift the Lid” walk for mental health that was to be held in Maleny has been cancelled .

Paulette reminded members that the Maleny Christmas Festival will be held in Maple Street on 9 December. The Club will be running a BBQ outside the Maleny Food Co on the night, as well as storytelling.

Talking of storytelling, Sergeant Chris was back on deck again and was up to his old tricks of fining members for anything and everything - some true and some not so true!!

Phillip introduced the Guest Speaker  Nathan Dodd. Nathan, who lives in North Maleny, is a Level 3 cricket coach. Nathan who hails from Lismore (Go the Blues!!!) had a love of cricket since his early days of playing in his back yard. He eventually moved to Sydney to further his cricket career, playing Grade Cricket for the strong Manly Warringah Cricket Club. He soon realised that he had a talent for coaching, so successfully undertook a level 3 coaching course with Cricket Australia. His first coaching position was with the Sandgate-Redcliff Club, where he enjoyed considerable success. He was then appointed as coach of the Australian Men’s Disability Cricket team. The team consists of men who have an IQ of lower than 75 and with a permanent intellectual disability. He was with the team as they played competitions in many countries around the world. Nathan stressed that Cricket Australia gave the Australian Disability team the same level of support that they give to all Australian Teams, from having the same uniforms to having similar support staff. Nathan said that he really enjoyed seeing the members of the team grow both as cricketers and young men. His coaching career also took him to Nepal, where he was coach of one of the franchised teams in Nepal. He said it was very different coaching a franchise team than it was coaching the national team. As well as playing in front of crowds of 20,000 plus, the franchise owners expected results and didn’t take “no” for an answer. Nathan has also coached the Northern Territory women’s team, and is currently assisting ex Qld Bulls player Chris Wildermuth as he attempts to again play first class cricket.

Jim thanked Nathan for his interesting talk and expressed his delight that there was now another “Blues” supporter in Maleny!!!

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FUTURE MEETINGS AND EVENTS

23 Nov  Vocational visit to new RFS and SES complex, followed by Jen's Pizza.

7 Dec  Maleny Hotel at 6:30 for 7:00pm for a Dinner Meeting with Guest Speaker Michael Hinds of BOQ Maleny on Protection From Online Scamming.

9 Dec Maleny Christmas Festival in Maple Street.

14 Dec Board Meeting.

21 Dec Christmas Party at Roly and Kerry Neiper's home.

WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES FOR NOVEMBER

12th Ric and Jacinta Townsend  19th Michael and Sherryl Gregory

BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER
2nd Sherryl Gregory  11th Ric Townsend  25th Bill Hankinson  29th Brian Allen

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT

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