Dear Members
There is a lot of current Rotary Event information. I am endeavouring to highlight the essentials so you can then follow up with President Deb or myself if you need more info.
1. Opera in the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens on March 23rd. Coordinated by Rotary Bne. Planetarium, Brookfield, Kawana Downs, Kenmore and Toowong. Price $60 to aid Drug Arm and ROMAC.
2. Pine Rivers' Golf Day 02 March. $35.00 per player
3. Gympie Cooloola's Inaugral Golf Day 05 April, Gympie RaceCourse
4. RI President-elect Gary C.K. Huang has chosen Light Up Rotary as his theme for 2014-15
5. R Leadership Institute program commencing on 16th Feb. Strengthen your Rotary knowledge, check the 9600 site
6. RAWCS 50th year dinner at Acacia Ridge Hotel on 22 Feb.
7. Samford Valley's Signature Fine Art Exhibition 30 Jan - 02 February. $5.00
8. Trivia Challenge with CalPac 06 March
9 Buderim has booked the Sunshine Plaza for a preview screening of "The Monoments Men " starring George Clooney for 20th February. All profits to Polio PLus
10. You have all received the TRF newsletter with such a lot of interesting information
11. Most Important - the District Conference 28-30 March at the Maroochy RSL.
Chosen by DG Trevor to reduce costs and enable as many members as possible to attend. Let's not let him down; let's make sure a good number of us are present each day. Go to the District Website for details and to register.
Then of course there is the International Convention in Sydney in June!
Saturday 25 January 2014
Sunday 19 January 2014
14th January Meeting - RACQ Helicopter
Chair
Ian
International Toast
Happy New Year for us but not for all.
We toasted RC Tonga currently being ravaged by Cyclone Ian
Someone had to count the 160 islands that make up Tonga
Rotary in Victoria is active there with development of industry and land care projects
Visitors
Welcome to Angela Miles from RACQ
Bernie & Anna
Apologies
Julianna, Jan, Col, Ron, Pam, the Hanleys & Merv
Makeups
Rotary starts early for some -Mark made up at District Board
Deborah & Noel tried one on but we were a bit suspicious
Presidents Report
Deborah welcomed Angela who she knows from the LNP and Toastmasters
More evidence of women taking over according to Deborah
A reminder of the International Conference - we already have a crew going
ROMAC will be holding its Sunshine Coast Trivia Challenge on Thursday 6th of March 2014. Bryan Mason OAM will contact us early in the New Year to arrange a time to visit the club
Golf Day needs to be organized
3 USC BBQ’s coming up in Febuary
A Mystery Dinner thing is in the pipeline
Don’t forget - No Rotary next week 21st Jan
but normal Rotary on the 28th plus opening of the Shed that week on Friday 31st
Jarrod and Mark are booked in so only two motorcycles please!
(I hope I got that right)
Speaker
Neil introduced Angela, who gave us a potted history of the helicopter rescue service, starting with Don Moffat as chair and involved Norm Provan who developed this resort. (yes, you are standing in it) 21 years ago
Their black tie fundraising event at Twin Waters had 530 participants and raised $157k
In 1979 Des Scsnlon had started a service
The Bell 206 helicopter was a daytime only operation, but has now been replaced with the VK 117, which is crewed by the pilot, one crew, a doctor and an intensive care paramedic.
They do the difficult & remote jobs, an example being the rescue on Mt Coolum this past week. Their SSC base is Maroochydore, and they have 34 staff plus doctors and paramedics in the North Coast region.
This year, there are 1.2m people in the region and they can reach all within one hour. In July, RACQ came on board and the service merged with Care Flight, covering GC, Toowoomba, SSC and Bundaberg. They have a $1.8m budget and six aircraft.
There were 23 missions in the North Coast area over Xmas/New Year
Angela recounted two separate incidents on Mt Tibrogargan involving 10m and 40m falls and the follow up with the victims. They can travel 100km out to sea, have a two and a half hour flight capacity, and can be in the air in five minutes.
The service covers 11 Council areas although only nine help with funding. During the Bundaberg floods, the hangar was used for an evacuation centre.
Directors
Mostly about our Imbil trip so too late now - we have already been!
Ian
International Toast
Happy New Year for us but not for all.
We toasted RC Tonga currently being ravaged by Cyclone Ian
Someone had to count the 160 islands that make up Tonga
Rotary in Victoria is active there with development of industry and land care projects
Visitors
Welcome to Angela Miles from RACQ
Bernie & Anna
Apologies
Julianna, Jan, Col, Ron, Pam, the Hanleys & Merv
Makeups
Rotary starts early for some -Mark made up at District Board
Deborah & Noel tried one on but we were a bit suspicious
Presidents Report
Deborah welcomed Angela who she knows from the LNP and Toastmasters
More evidence of women taking over according to Deborah
A reminder of the International Conference - we already have a crew going
ROMAC will be holding its Sunshine Coast Trivia Challenge on Thursday 6th of March 2014. Bryan Mason OAM will contact us early in the New Year to arrange a time to visit the club
Golf Day needs to be organized
3 USC BBQ’s coming up in Febuary
A Mystery Dinner thing is in the pipeline
Don’t forget - No Rotary next week 21st Jan
but normal Rotary on the 28th plus opening of the Shed that week on Friday 31st
Jarrod and Mark are booked in so only two motorcycles please!
(I hope I got that right)
Speaker
Neil introduced Angela, who gave us a potted history of the helicopter rescue service, starting with Don Moffat as chair and involved Norm Provan who developed this resort. (yes, you are standing in it) 21 years ago
Their black tie fundraising event at Twin Waters had 530 participants and raised $157k
In 1979 Des Scsnlon had started a service
The Bell 206 helicopter was a daytime only operation, but has now been replaced with the VK 117, which is crewed by the pilot, one crew, a doctor and an intensive care paramedic.
They do the difficult & remote jobs, an example being the rescue on Mt Coolum this past week. Their SSC base is Maroochydore, and they have 34 staff plus doctors and paramedics in the North Coast region.
This year, there are 1.2m people in the region and they can reach all within one hour. In July, RACQ came on board and the service merged with Care Flight, covering GC, Toowoomba, SSC and Bundaberg. They have a $1.8m budget and six aircraft.
There were 23 missions in the North Coast area over Xmas/New Year
Angela recounted two separate incidents on Mt Tibrogargan involving 10m and 40m falls and the follow up with the victims. They can travel 100km out to sea, have a two and a half hour flight capacity, and can be in the air in five minutes.
The service covers 11 Council areas although only nine help with funding. During the Bundaberg floods, the hangar was used for an evacuation centre.
Directors
Mostly about our Imbil trip so too late now - we have already been!
Monday 13 January 2014
Thursday 9 January 2014
Program for Jan/Feb 2014
Dear Roger
Happy New Year (belatedly).
1 We have a revised and updated Roster now up to and including 18/2/2014 ( which is a very important date in the life of Roster- drawers- up).
2 Pres. Deb has just indicated in a Stop Press email to our Roster Drawer Up, that our meeting on 21/1 will be “ transferred “ to a Breakfast Meeting at the Salvation Army on Friday morning 31/1 when The Shed will be officially opened.
3 Other items of great interest include the news that Noel Begley’s last Rotary Meeting at Caloundra for approximately 4 months will take place on Tuesday next 14/1. After that Noel will be available to sign autographs around Tasmania and then the Southern States during late January, February, March and April.
Cheers, Alf
Happy New Year (belatedly).
1 We have a revised and updated Roster now up to and including 18/2/2014 ( which is a very important date in the life of Roster- drawers- up).
2 Pres. Deb has just indicated in a Stop Press email to our Roster Drawer Up, that our meeting on 21/1 will be “ transferred “ to a Breakfast Meeting at the Salvation Army on Friday morning 31/1 when The Shed will be officially opened.
3 Other items of great interest include the news that Noel Begley’s last Rotary Meeting at Caloundra for approximately 4 months will take place on Tuesday next 14/1. After that Noel will be available to sign autographs around Tasmania and then the Southern States during late January, February, March and April.
Cheers, Alf
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