ROTARY DISTRICT 9800, R.I. & OTHER ROTARY LINKS Richmond Rotary website: http://www.rotaryrichmond.org.au

District 9800 Home Page: http://www.rotarydistrict9800.org.au

District E-Zine: http://www.rotarydistrict9800.org.au/current_networker

Rotary International: http://www.rotary.org

ROTARY CLUB OF RICHMOND

Meeting 2129 21 February 2011

BirthdaysthBeryl Golding - 27

thJohn Birch - 28

Wedding Anniversariesrd

Kirsty & Mark Dwyer - 23

Induction Anniversaries

Simon Marriott - 1994

CLUB FORUM Our Future directions

CHAIRPresident Jo

Forthcoming:

Date

28 February

7 March

14 March

21 March

Speaker & Topic

NO MEETING - Chinese New Year Fundraiser, Sat 5 March [ See Flyer on pages 13 & 14]

Sandi De Wolf, CEO - Berry Street- Looking after children in Trauma

NO MEETING - Labour Day/Moomba Festival

Supt Dean McWhirter, Victoria Police- Policing our Local Community

Chair

Janice Kesterton

Jean-Marc Berthier

Meeting

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Greetings Rotarians and Friends –

Last Monday Dr. Peter Lee PhD BEng, a highly qualified mechanical engineer who has specialised in Bioengineering, was our guest speaker. There are 110 million landmines buried around the world and between 15.000 and 20,000 people are injured, maimed or killed by these explosive devices every year; these facts were featured in the latest edition of ‘The Rotarian’ magazine. They made Peter’s presentation even more commanding! Peter is the chief investigator in the development of an innovative technique to produce high quality artificial limbs and is leading a trial study of the PCAST project; to be conducted in collaboration with the Vietnamese Training Centre for Orthopaedic Technologies (VIETCOT) in Hanoi, Vietnam. Fifty volunteer amputees will participate in this study which is being conducted over a one year period.

I would like to thank Past President Trevor Pang who recognized the enormous benefits of this project and presented this opportunity to our Club and to the Board.

The Club decided to provide financial support for this international project, allowing the trial to take place. On Monday last, at the Club meeting, I was delighted to present a cheque to Peter for $2,200 on behalf or our Members and to have Jenny List, Friends of Richmond Rotary Chair (FoRR), present a cheque for $400. Rotarian Simon Marriott’s company, Formero Pty Ltd, has already generously donated $10,000. These monies will assist the continued development of this worthy project. Read more about the presentation and this project in The Tiger Rag this week, 21st February 2011. (See pages 4 & 5 and some horrifying information on page 16 of the web edition).

Our Abbotsford Convent car parking fundraiser – what an outstanding result! Last weekend we raised just over $2,200! This allows us to continue to support the Club’s projects, both in the local and international community. Thank you to all who volunteer for the rosters.

The Lunar Dinner preparations are well underway for the Club’s major fundraising event for 2010-2011. The funds raised at the Lunar Dinner allow us to respond when communities both locally and overseas face difficult times and to provide support for our projects to ensure successful outcomes.

However to achieve this success we need your continued help and support, so please come along and bring your family, friends and colleagues. (See flyer/form pages 13 & 14)

This Monday 21st February 2011 meeting is our 2nd Club Forum for the Rotary Year 2010-2011. This will be an opportunity for us to reflect on the Rotary year so far, to provide an update on the status of our Club projects and activities; a chance to celebrate our successes and to look forward to the future of our Club with confidence.

Until next week –

Jo Cowling President 2010-2011

FEBRUARY IS ROTARY ‘WORLD UNDERSTANDING MONTH’

Rotarians around the world celebrate Rotary’s anniversary this Wednesday, 23rd February, as World Understanding and Peace Day. (See page 8) On 23 February 1905 Gustavus Loehr, Silvester Schiele, Hiram E. Shorey and Paul P. Harris gathered in Loehr’s office for what would become known as the first Rotary club meeting. (See pic page 7) Harris’s desire for camaraderie among business associates brought together these four men and eventually led to an international organization of service and fellowship. Read about each of the first four Rotarians and about Harry L. Ruggles - who is often called the ‘fifth Rotarian’, at: http://www.rotary.org/en/MediaAndNews/News/Pages/110210_news_history.aspx

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ROTARY CLUB OF RICHMOND - CLUB FORUM

THIS Monday 21st February 2011 - 6.30pm - 8.30pm

The Rotary Club of Richmond will hold the 2nd Club Forum THIS Monday 21st February, 2011, to discuss the current status of the Club, the direction of the club and to provide an opportunity for members to comment, ask questions and to put forward new ideas.

Topics for Discussion -

Board Update

Project Plans, current status and what has been achieved

Other updates:

Youth Exchange

Vietnam Low Cost Prosthetic Limb Project

What’s to come in 2011?

What’s to come in 2011 – 2012 ?

Continuing vision in 2011-2012

Celebrate our achievements

Comments, questions and ideas

President Jo Cowling

Committee Chairs

Nia Holdenson

Trevor Pang

President Jo

PE Rob Mactier

All

All

All

Please bring your copy of the Project Plan booklet distributed at the beginning of the Rotary year 2010-2011.

Please note that Committee Chairs will have an opportunity to report on the current status of Club Projects as per the Project Booklet - time will be limited but I will ask committee chairs to come forward in order of the Project Plans in the Booklet.

I look forward to a constructive meeting with sharing of plans and visions for our Club, now and into the future.

I encourage all members to attend this important meeting which will run until 8.30pm.

Kind regards

President Jo

KEEP UPDATED WITH THE RCR CALENDAR ON THE CLUB WEBSITE: www.rotaryrichmond.org.au Click on ‘Events Calendar’ below the header, then ‘Calendar’

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LAST WEEK’S ‘SPEAKER’S CORNER’ Meeting 2128, Monday 14th February, 2011

Our Guest Speaker: Dr Peter Lee His Topic: Development of Pressure Cast Techniques in Fitting Prosthetic Limbs – Vietnam & Cambodia Field Trials Meeting Chair: PP Trevor Pang TR Reporter: Annie Wysham – T Rag Sub-Editor

AN INTERNATIONAL PROJECT SUPPORTED BY THE ROTARY CLUB OF RICHMOND –

“A little boy was teased at school because he didn’t have a leg - now that’s all changed!’ stated Associate Professor Peter Lee from the University of Melbourne’s Department of Mechanical Engineering during his presentation to the Club last Monday evening. “The little boy from Cambodia was born without one leg; now thanks to a new prosthetic low-cost limb he’s just like any other little boy!”

We watched him on video happily playing, running and kicking a ball around with his family and friends. The Cambodian Trust’s ‘Cambodian School of Prosthetics and Orthotics’ will fit him with a new artificial limb every 3-6 months while he’s growing.

“Mobility is the first step to basic rights.” Dr Lee said. The Cambodian Trust also provide prosthetics and orthotics training for students from low-income countries. Students learn how to prescribe, manufacture and fit artificial limbs (prostheses) and orthopaedic braces (orthoses). These devices are essential for the mobility and self-sufficiency of people who have lost their limbs or mobility due to landmines, accidents and disease. Demand far exceeds the number that can be produced or distributed. ‘In Cambodia alone there are an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 amputees. According to a United Nations report of the Secretary-General to its General Assembly, in the mid-1990s this equated to a staggering one out of every 234 Cambodians missing a limb.’

In an attempt to make some positive difference to this disturbing world-wide problem, teams of final-year students, supervised by Dr Lee, have developed low-cost artificial limbs using the pressure cast (PCAST) technique which uses weight-bearing as a feature in making a cast. Gravity and the person’s weight determine the shape of the socket. He said that they have also been conducting research on various kinds of low-cost artificial limbs with patient trials on below-knee amputees at the Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre. This includes fabricating PCAST sockets used by test subjects to observe the ease of use of a casting system. As an extension to PCAST, a prosthetic socket was fabricated using the direct casting method with quick curing composite materials; it is aimed at developing countries such as Vietnam and Cambodia where there is a lack of skilled prosthetists to deal with the large volume of below-knee amputees.

Dr Lee told us that ‘the PCAST is a cheaper and faster fabrication method that produces good fitting sockets’ – they cost approximately $100 each…compared to computer-controlled knee joint prosthetics (at the other end of the scale) that cost $25,000 each! He stated that amputees face terrible problems when trying to cope with hopelessly inadequate prostheses and struggle with well-worn, damaged artificial limbs that rarely last more than a couple of months.

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DISTRICT WEB SITE: www.rotarydistrict9800.org.au/

WEEKLY DISTRICT NETWORKER – E-ZINE, 2010-2011: http://www.rotarydistrict9800.org.au/current_networker

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Looking towards the implementation of PCAST in developing countries, last September Dr Lee conducted a feasibility trip to Vietcot in Hanoi, Vietnam. The trial was very successful with the project highlight being able to demonstrate the PCAST system to the Vietnamese Centre of Orthotics Training (VIETCOT). We watched a video of a ‘first time fit’ adult patient who was keen to show off to the team and jumped on a bicycle and rode it around – he was just so excited to be ambulent! With the project support of Richmond Rotary, Dr Lee said they are now concentrating on improving the socket – he then explained this further with overhead diagrams. The socket can be flexible or rigid depending on the needs of the patient and has a 2-3 years life expectancy, plus there are a number of different knee designs.

Dr Peter Lee was accompanied by project collaborators, Associate Professor Noel Lythgo, Rehabilitation Sciences Research Centre, University of Melbourne and Jim Lavranos, Certified Prosthetist Orthotist, Royal Melbourne Hospital, along with Robert Reid, Executive Director of the CASS Foundation and a member of the Rotary Club of Melbourne. Dr Peter Lee’s project is funded by the CASS Foundation (CASS is an acronym for 'Contributing to Australian Scholarship and Science'). It is a private philanthropic foundation. In closing Dr Lee shared these sobering thoughts: ‘110 million landmines are buried around the world still. Signs now warn of some with the message: WATCH YOUR STEP!’

In thanking Dr Lee, meeting Chair, PP Trevor Pang, pledged the support of the RC Richmond to the PCAST project and stated ‘that he sees this as an on-going long term association with the CASS Foundation & the University of Melbourne’. He reminded everyone of the Club’s Lunar New Year Banquet fundraiser to be held on Saturday 5th March, with funds raised predominantly going towards this project. (See flyer pages 13 & 14)

Club President Jo Cowling also warmly thanked Dr Lee and presented him with a Richmond Rotary cheque for $2,200. This was followed by Friends of Richmond Rotary Chair, Jenny List, with a cheque for $400 - the fundraising proceeds from the recent FoRR visit to the

Johnston Collection in East Melbourne. Richmond Rotarian Simon Marriott, Managing Director, Formero Pty Ltd, has already donated towards the project - a generous donation of $10,000. At the close of the meeting fellowship continued, with many of those present keen to speak with our guest speaker and the PCAST project visitors.

http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/the_melbourne_engineer/2010/10/15/low-cost-artificial-limbs-using-the-pressure-cast-technique/

[See statistics from UNICEF regarding LANDMINES on page 16 of the web edition]

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UPDATE 4: CLEAN UP AUSTRALIA DAY 2011 – JOIN RICHMOND ROTARY TO HELP CLEAN UP BURNLEY PARK, RICHMOND! By Annie Wysham, CUA Day RC Richmond Organising Committee

SUNDAY 6TH MARCH IS CLEAN UP AUSTRALIA DAY 2011

UPDATE 4: · THANK YOU to PDG Judy Nettleton who has offered her trailer (per our request in previous

Updates) for the pick up of the full bags of rubbish, hard waste collected etc so they can be returned back to the Base site ready for the final collection by the Yarra Council

· Yarra Council have booked a 12-seater bus from Budget Rent-a-car in Richmond for the day (free of charge to RCR) to transport our volunteers around the 4 cleanup sites. Thank to Krissy O’Reilly for her organisation of this!

· Now we need a volunteer driver for the 12-seater bus – you only need a car license! Contact Krissy @: kristenmaree@hotmail.com

· The staff of General Electric in Swan Street, Richmond want to participate and assist us clean up Burnley Park on CUA Day…

· McDonald’s Church Street staff are also coming along… · Melbourne Girls College staff and students will once again be participating... · Spreading the word…Deakin Golden Key (Golden Key International Honour Society) have

included news and registration details of the RCR - Clean Up Australia Day project in their latest newsletter. The other 6 Golden Key chapters will also be promoting the event amongst their members – all this thanks to Susanna Chan (Chew Chan) the Golden Key International Honour Society, University Relations Officer and one of our 3 Organising Committee members!

· See the ‘Richmond Rotary Roundup’ on page 10 for the ‘Yarra News’ CUA Day photo-shoot item!

*Check the RCR-CUA Day project links – Richmond Rotary website: http://www.rotaryrichmond.org.au/CLEAN_UP_AUSTRALIA_DAY_2011,_Sunday_6th_March.pdf City of Yarra’s Community Noticeboard: http://www.yarracity.vic.gov.au/Community-Noticeboard/?ItemID=88

VOLUNTEERS OF ALL AGES NEEDED FOR THIS ANNUAL COMMUNITY CLEAN-UP EFFORT…

Early on-line registrations encouraged! Increase our public support for this event by registering your participation online. · Register your details on our direct link under the 3121 postcode search at:

http://www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au/Burnley+Park

· OUR CUA DAY BASE SITE: Playground/BBQ area, Burnley Oval (Mel Map: 2H/H9-10. Enter off Park Grove, Richmond)

· Registrations on the day: 8.30am-8.45am Clean-up: 9.00am-11.00am Free BBQ: 11.00am - 12midday

· BYO Sturdy gardening gloves, sunscreen, water bottle & wear sturdy shoes CUA Day RCR Organisers: Annie, Krissy and Susanna

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ROTARY’S ANNIVERSARY THIS WEDNESDAY, 23RD FEBRUARY -

On the 23rd February 1905 'the first four Rotarians' – Gustavus Loehr, Silvester Schiele, Hiram E. Shorey and Paul P. Harris gathered in Loehr’s office for what would become known as the first Rotary club meeting.

The Rotary Club of Hawthorn will now meet at Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club on Tuesdays at 12:30 for 1:00pm.

AN INSPIRING DINNER

Sunday, 6th March, 2011 To Welcome

Rotary International President Ray Klinginsmith & Judie

TOGETHER WITH OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKER MAX WALKER

Who will Entertain and Enthral

‘VALLEY EVENTS’ Celebrity Room, Moonee Valley Racecourse,

McPherson Street, Moonee Ponds

Function Commences 6.30 for 7.00 pm Cost is $57 per person

Drinks available at bar prices.

Credit Card Bookings are available Online at www.trybooking.com/7895 (Note a 30 cent fee applies to credit card bookings)

Or Bookings accompanied by Cheque to PDG Jennifer Coburn 3 Walbrook Drive, Vermont South, 3133. Enquiries to 0407 689 777

RSVP Please by Sunday 27th February, 2011

Registration form at: http://www.rotarydistrict9800.org.au/site/1164/RI_PRESIDENT_KLINGINSMITH_MAX_WALKER_DINNER.pdf

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ROTARY WORLD UNDERSTANDING AND PEACE DAY- 23RD FEBRUARY. Sources: Community Service Update – Rotary International, February 2011 & Rotary International: The Rotary Foundation, January 2011.

Rotarians around the world celebrate Rotary’s anniversary, Wednesday, 23rd February, as World Understanding and Peace Day. An e-learning module about incorporating peace and conflict prevention & resolution, one of The Rotary Foundation’s areas of focus into club and district projects, is available on the Rotary International website at: www.rotary.org/en/Members/RunningADistrict/FutureVisionPilotProgram/Pages/AreasofFocus.aspx

CREATING A NEW GENERATION OF PEACEMAKERS IN UGANDA –

Uganda was torn apart by a 20-year civil war that left 300,000 people dead and displaced over 1.8 million. Although peace was declared in 2006, there is a lot of work to be done to address the lasting damage and to prevent future discord. With help from a Rotary Foundation grant, the Rotary clubs of Rubaga, Uganda, and Lambert Airport, Missouri, USA, are providing training in peace-building to 200 teachers and 1,300 students at 10 regional high schools. In November, The Rotary Foundation awarded a US$16,096 global grant to the Rotary clubs of Rubaga, Uganda, and Lambert Airport, Missouri, USA, to provide training in peace-building to 200 teachers and 1,300 students at 10 high schools in the region. The sponsor clubs will work with the Great Lakes Centre for Conflict Resolution in Gulu to carry out the project. The effort also will create ‘peace clubs’ at the schools, which will use music, drama, and other means to provide ongoing education about conflict prevention and resolution to the surrounding communities.

Great Lakes Centre co-founder Robert Opira leads children in Gulu, Uganda, on a walk to promote peace.

Photo courtesy of Robert Opira The Great Lakes Center is the brainchild of two former Rotary Peace Fellows, Robert Opira (2005-07) and Godfrey Mukalazi (2004-06), who came up with the idea while studying at the University of Queensland in Australia.

Learn more about this project at: http://www.rotary.org/en/MediaAndNews/News/Pages/110114_news_glaccr.aspx

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REMINDER FOR THE DIARY– CHANGE OF NAME & DATE! The advertised Club fundraiser for ROMAC, ‘Wine & Chocolates’ night, will now be known as :

‘Wines on Park Avenue – a vï nous journey’ and will be held on Saturday 16th April (not the 19th March) at the same venue - Sandy’s home, Park Ave, Richmond, 7.30pm onwards (post-dinner). Supper, wine tastings & sales. Pre wine sales prior to the night. List of available wines to be published in the near future. Raffle to be held on the night - donations of value are now being sought. (Please contact Annie re your gift offers/ideas)

'WELCOME NEW MEMBERS' - Networker, 4th February 2011 featured a gorgeous shot of 'our new member, Liz Bartlett and her sister, President Jo Cowling, RC Richmond' taken at her induction at the Christmas meeting of the 20th December 2010. Sadly the added information forwarded with the pic didn't make it into print.

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RICHMOND ROTARY ROUNDUP – Annie Wysham, Tiger Rag Sub-Editor and Club Sergeant

üGetting to know you... At last week’s meeting, Jordana Senff, our Rotary Youth Exchange Student, gave a short presentation to the Club where she ‘introduced’ her family to us and her hometown, Florianópolis - the capital city of Santa Catarina State in Southern Brazil! Highlights were overheads of her handsome

family members, her 15th birthday celebrations, her Florianópolis school and the gorgeous beaches (47!). Jordana is settling happily in to school life now in Melbourne where she said that ‘the students at her new school, MGC, have been so friendly and welcoming’. (She now gets to walk to school with her ‘host sister’ Tess) Congratulations! A great presentation Jordana and very well prepared – we look forward to more! (Jordana pictured above)

üAnother great news item re ROMAC per John Benger: The story of a little girl from Fiji, Abigail Morris– I year old - featured on Channel 10 news last week and in the Herald Sun and the Daily Telegraph (Feb 18 2011): As Southern Director of ROMAC, John Benger, our Richmond Rotarian, explained that ‘Abigail had a cyst in her head which had grown to occupy 50% of her head’. Without surgery, Abigail would have suffered increasing disability, very poor functioning and possibly death. Local Fijian doctors raised the alarm when her eyesight worsened and ROMAC helped facilitate her admission to the Monash Medical Centre, Clayton for the surgery. It took a 3-hour operation for Monash surgeons to remove the cyst and all went smoothly and they are hopeful of a full recovery for the little girl. She will fly home to Fiji very shortly. [www.romac.org.au Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children: ROMAC]

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üTo John from President Jo: I would like to congratulate you and the ROMAC team for the support you provide to children requiring life saving treatments through this Rotary program. This was reflected in the news reports both on Television and in the print media over the weekend.

The greatest achievement is the children who are benefited by ROMAC and reflected in this instance by that of little Abigail. Please pass on our gratitude to all concerned for the wonderful work that you do through Rotary. We are very pleased that you are a member of the Rotary Club of Richmond.

üFOR YOUR CLUB DIARY: Visit to the Lyon House Museum in Kew, Tuesday 3rd May, 1.30pm – 2.45pm, (limit of 25 people). Cost: $30 pp - includes afternoon tea at the List’s home nearby. Organized by the Friends of Richmond Rotary – all monies raised to go to the RCR’s ‘Vietcot - PCAST System’ project (Further details from FoRR Chair, Jenny List) Lyon House Museum website: http://lyonhousemuseum.com.au/

FROM THE RD 9800 NETWORKER, 11th FEBRUARY 2011 – üFREE: Women in Rotary Task Force meeting - Saturday 19 March 2011, The Travel Inn Hotel, Corner of Drummond & Grattan Streets, Carlton – contact: Kerry Kornhauser at kerry@travelinn.net.au or 0411 597 690. ‘Women In Rotary Can Make a World of Difference’. Only 17% of Rotarians are women. Around the world, Rotary membership is in decline. In Australia a trickle-down effect is in evidence with a steady loss of 300-400 members per year. Further details re the Task Force meeting go to: http://www.rotarydistrict9800.org.au/site/1164/Women_in_rotary_task_force.pdf

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RE: CLUB MEETING, NO 2128, 14th February 2011 Collated by Super Susie our serene Secretary!

Apologies: Jean Marc Berthier, Aivars Lode, Mark Dwyer, Rob Mactier, Barbara Woodberry

Make-ups: ROMAC: John Benger, Janice Peeler Ronald McDonald House: John Benger, Janice Peeler, Janice Kesterton Convent Parking: Michael O’Sullivan, Rob Mactier, Phil Mylecharane, Ben Hosking, Liz Bartlett, Jo Cowling, Sue Bolton Yarra P.S: Jo Cowling D9800 Conference “Early Bird” Meeting: Annie Wysham, Janice Kesterton, Trevor Pang Planning Meeting: Jo Cowling, Rob Mactier

Visiting Rotarians: Robert Read (RC of Melbourne)

Visitors: Les Frampton, Noel Lythgo, John Loughton

Guest of the Club: Jordana Senff – Rotary Youth Exchange Student

Guests: Jenny List, Sue Roberts, Maureen Pang

EARLY PEEK! CHECK OUT THE ‘YARRA NEWS’ COVER GIRLS (+ ONE LITTLE BOY)! By Annie Wysham, Tiger Rag Sub-Ed

To advertise Clean Up Australia Day 2011 on Sunday 6th March and the 6 official clean up sites that are registered within the City of Yarra, last week, at short notice, a group of Rotarians gathered at Burnley Oval, Burnley Park, Richmond, for a ’photo shoot’ with the City of Yarra photographer,

Michael Ward. They included our Club President, Jo Cowling and Rotarians’ - Sandy Day, Annie Wysham and Elissa Marriott with her young sons, Patrick and Lewis. Sadly Lewis had already dozed off in his pram and woke up when the ‘camera/lights/action’ were all over! As part of the Clean Up Australia Day Organising committee Annie took along the CUA Day ‘props’ (included BYO rubbish/recyclables!) and a Richmond Rotary banner to add colour and meaning to it all. Michael advised us that the one of the photos taken would be featured on the front cover of the Yarra News March 2011 edition. ‘Yarra News’ is a free, City of Yarra monthly glossy

publication, delivered to all residentials and businesses within the City of Yarra. As a number of photos were taken on the day ‘fingers crossed’ that the photo with our Richmond Rotary banner in the background is the one chosen by City of Yarra’s Communications & Media Department. The other RCR - CUA Day Project Committee members, Krissy O’Reilly and Susanna Chan, sadly couldn’t attend to include some (added) glamour, good looks and extra youthfulness to the photos! [No correspondence will be entered into re this latter sentence! Case closed! Sub-ed.] http://www.yarracity.vic.gov.au/News/Yarra-News-2011-Editions/

Remaining RCR Board Meetings for 2011: ? THURSDAY: 17th March, 6.30pm, Amora Hotel, Richmond. (Apols to Sue B)

THEN: 21st April/19th May/16th June (Joint & final meeting for 2010-2011)

? NEED TO NOTE – 2011

************************************************************* ? Sunday 27th February – NEW ENTRY! Afternoon family picnic in the Barkly Gardens, Coppin Street, Richmond, to welcome Jordana. 2pm to 5pm (See info page 15 – Web Edition) ? Monday 28th February – NO MEETING (In lieu of the Lunar Banquet - 5th March ) ************************************************************************** ? Saturday, 5th March 2011 – FABULOUS LUNAR NEW YEAR DINNER 2011 - YEAR OF THE RABBIT. To be held at the Golden Dragon Palace Restaurant, 363 Manningham Road, Lower Templestowe, 6.30pm for 7.00pm. $88 per person – tables of 10. Entertainment – Traditional Lion Dance – Chinese Youth Society of Melb. – Brendan James, Crooner of Jazz, Pop & Rock! An easy-to-access venue with plenty of on-site parking! EARLY BOOKINGS RECOMMENDED! RSVP by 25th February to President Jo Cowling. (All details on the flyer & booking form on pages 13 & 14 – Web Edition)

? Sunday 6th March – CLEAN UP AUSTRALIA DAY – Richmond Rotary Club’s registered clean-up site is Burnley Park, Richmond. Base site is Burnley Oval – BBQ & Playground area (Mel Map: 2H/H9-10).

Early ON-LINE registrations encouraged! To register your participation online - direct link: http://www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au/Burnley+Park then put in the 3121 postcode search. For all details go to the RCR’s CUA Day link at - http://www.rotaryrichmond.org.au/CLEAN_UP_AUSTRALIA_DAY_2011,_Sunday_6th_March.pdf VOLUNTEERS OF ALL AGES NEEDED FOR THIS GREAT COMMUNITY EFFORT. Club Contact - Krissy O’Reilly: kristen.o'reilly@monash.edu

? Monday 14th March – Labour Day/Moomba - NO MEETING ? Tuesday 15th March –TEXAS GSE TEAM’S COMING TO TOWN – WELCOME DINNER! 7pm for 7:30pm start, Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club, Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, Cost is $74 per person including two course meal, wine, beer and soft drinks. RCR are making up a Club table for yu’ all! Contact/bookings with your rootin’ tootin’: Pres. Jo! ? Wednesday 16th March – 2nd Heritage Cluster Bowls Night, Fitzroy Bowls Club ( See flyer on RCR website) ? Monday 28th March – NO MEETING – Pre District Conference ? Monday 28th – Thursday 31st March – Pre-conference Tour to Adelaide (See Janice) ? Thursday pm, 31st Mar-Sun 3rd April: Rotary District 9800 Conference to be held at the Adelaide Convention Centre. RCR’s super-women-conference-contacts: Janice K and Dot B. Want to be a last-minute entry? See further 2011 Conference details at http://www.rotarydistrict9800.org.au/major_events_rotary_district_9800_conference_adelaide_2011

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? Saturday 16th April –Club fundraiser for ROMAC: ‘Wines on Park Avenue – a vi nous journey’. To be held at Sandy’s home. Friends/family welcome. Limit: 60 (See page 8) ************************************************************************** ? Tuesday 3rd May - FORR Visit to the Lyon House museum in Kew, 1.30pm – 2.45pm, (limit of 25 people), followed by afternoon tea at the List’s home nearby.(Jenny L) ? Friday, 6th May – RC Rochester’s ‘Pie N Port’ night & RCR’s weekend away (Jo C.) ? Thurs 12th May – Mock Job Interviews, MGC, Richmond. Contact: Tim Baker ? Mon 16th May – Thurs 19th May (inclusive) – Ainger Award HEATS (Ben Hosking) ? Friday, 20th May – ARH’s ‘HAT DAY’ fundraiser for mental health research (Judy) ? Monday 30th May –Ainger Public Speaking Award FINALS Amora Hotel (Ben H.) **********************************************************************************************

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YOU’RE INVITED TO THE HERITAGE CLUSTER’S

Bowls Night To be held on

Wednesday 16th March 2011 at the

Fitzroy Victoria Bowls Club 578 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy North - next to the Edinburgh Gardens

(Melway Map: 2C Ref C1)

6:00pm for 6:30pm start

Cost: $40 per player Includes BBQ meal with salad and a vegetarian option; bowls hire, rink hire, 2 hour bowling

experience, a raffle ticket, a donation to a Rotary Community Health cause

Non-bowlers can join in for $30 per person. The bar provides a full range of drinks at very reasonable prices. The entry price covers

bottomless cups of coffee, tea and water!

üRegister teams of 4

üAll teams will have at least 2 matches

üThe winning team on the night will win the Heritage Shield - won in 2010 by the (fantastic) Richmond Tigers - as well as a splendid team prize! The donation made by participants will be directed to a Rotary Community Health Project supported across the Heritage Cluster üOther prizes and special awards will be available on the night. üThere’ll be some bowls coaching available for those new to the sport üDress code is casual - footwear is barefoot or flat soles üTeams may wish to adopt a ‘uniform’ – there’ll be a prize for the most creative effort in this regard! NOTE: Payment is due prior to the event! Closing date is Friday March 11th.

Payment details: Account Name: Rotary Club of Fitzroy Bank: Bendigo Bank Clifton Hill

BSB: 633-108 Account No: 110

Cheques payable to: Rotary Club of Fitzroy, PO Box 1135, North Fitzroy 3068

At the Audi Penfold Burwood - Early Bird Registrations cocktail party, held 10th February, I was speaking with Saxon Mitchell of the Rotary Club of Melbourne Park – the recently chartered Rotary club with members aged from early 20’s to the mid-30’s. I said I would send him some information re our Richmond Rotary - Clean Up Australia Day project, Sunday 6th March, for their Club bulletin.

'We don’t have one!' Saxon said, "We just use Facebook!' Annie Wysham, The Tiger Rag Sub-Ed!

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Red and White wines

Special Fried Rice

Pacific Salmon Rolls

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OLA! THE ROTARY CLUB OF RICHMOND WELCOMES JORDANA, OUR ROTARY YOUTH EXCHANGE STUDENT!

Let’s get together for an afternoon…

PICNIC IN THE PARK

Sunday 27th February 2.00pm to 5.00pm Barkly Gardens Coppin Street Richmond –

*Meet at the BBQ & Playground area *Street parking available

BYO · Afternoon tea to share · Drinks · Picnic Rug or chairs · Glasses

*Tea and coffee, plates and serviettes will be provided

RSVP Jo Cowling 0438 305 611 or jocowling@optusnet.com.au

If the weather’s inclement an alternate venue will be made available and you will be advised via email

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BUILDING COMMUNITIES

THE SECOND SPECIAL ‘PEARL DAY’ LUNCHEON WAS A ‘REAL PEARLER’ OF A DAY!

Once again Rob Mactier’s ‘Pearl Day’, held last Saturday, 19th February, 2011, at his property, ‘Allendale’, Elphinstone, in memory of his late wife, Kate, was a wonderful success with over 100 people attending! This included a large contingent from Richmond Rotary. Thanks to Rob’s 3 gorgeous daughters – Annabelle, Lucy and Clementine – and other family members, we were wined, dined, waited-upon and welcomed in true country style to their lovely 120 year old, history-laden homestead. In thanking everyone, Rob stated that the $50 donation per person charged will be donated to Australian Rotary Health – Cancer Research; and all the costs incurred for the event will once again be met by Rob himself. A real ‘pearler of a day’ Rob and a loving tribute to your Kate. (Photos will be featured in the next Tiger Rag, 7th March – Sub-Editor)

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Source: THE STATE OF THE WORLD'S CHILDREN 1996

http://www.unicef.org/sowc96pk/hidekill.htm

Total number of land-mines110 million in 64 countries

Human cost of land-mines 800 deaths a month, mostly innocent civilians, with thousands more maimed

for life

Dollar cost of land-minesTo buy one: $3-$10

To remove one: $300-$1,000

CountryNumber of land-mines

per square mileEstimated total number

of land-mine

Bosnia and Herzegovina 152 3,000,000Cambodia 143 10,000,000

Croatia 137 3,000,000Egypt 60 23,000,000Iraq 59 10,000,000

Afghanistan 40 10,000,000Angola 31 15,000,000

Iran 25 16,000,000Rwanda 25 250,000

Source: United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs. Note: There is too little information about some countries. such as Viet Nam

to include them in the estimates