Highton News 1st March 2015 (Mar 01, 2015)

Stories

From President Ian

Posted by Ian Campbell

On Wednesday the BBQ team provided lunch for about 80 at Barwon Water fortheir regular values recognition session.
The photos later in the bulletin show some of the team of Brenton, Jenny and Doug Green and Jacko who doubled as Quality Control Manager.

Last Thursday we had a Vocational Service visit to Karingal Kommercial’s North Geelong facilities arranged by Mark Seller.
Manager Lisa Couper took us on a tour of the new $4.5m facilities that provide 120 disabled employees with a variety of work opportunities. The organization has 50 specialist supervisors.
The organization provides high quality food services to a number of Geelong organization and has built turnover to $70k per month.
The food preparation facilities are leading edge and provide both café style food as well as a range of ‘Seasons Brand’ hampers, gourmet jams, spreads vinaigrettes as well as high end event catering.

The food the kitchen provided us with a scrumptious meal. My shepherd’s pie was fantastic !!
Karingal Kommercial also does a range of outsourced work for businesses including packaging, labelling, assembly, mail services, and commercial laundry work. They also run the Geelong Commercial Nursery, and provide industrial gardening with four mobile land care crews.

The way the organization has managed to avoid loss of employees after losing the Alcoa garden work is a credit to Lisa Couper and her entire team. The visit was a wonderful opportunity to see how Karingal helps to give many of our disabled in Geelong an employment opportunity.The photo later in the bulletin shows Lisa explaining the new gardening facility, and one of the hampers they offer.

Regards,
Ian C

Guest Speaker on 5th March

Posted by Ros Horne

THIS IS A PRESENTATION NOT TO BE MISSED. BRING YOURSELF, YOUR SPOUSE, OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS, OTHER INTERESTED PEOPLE FROM THE COMMUNITY. THIS ENORMOUS PROBLEM DEMANDS OUR ATTENTION - IT'S A WHOLE-OF-COMMUNITY RESPONSE WHICH IS REQUIRED.

LET ROSS KNOW BY 12.00 NOON WEDNESDAY HOW MANY GUESTS YOU'LL BE BRINGING

Our Town's ICE Fight- A community's response.

Senior Sergeant Tony Francis will talk about the ICE issue from a police perspective and what we as a community are doing, and can do about it. Some information packs will be provided. Senior Sergeant Tony has been an operation police officer for 25 years and over the last 2 years has seen firsthand the impact ICE is having on our community.

Please bring guests, partners, spouses - we need to understand more about what the ICE fight is all about.

That was the week that was.

Posted by Paul Brewster

No comments this week - just catching up with photo's !!!!

Editor's turn

Posted by Paul Brewster

The Computer woes continue.

Nothing to do with power failures or network failures this time. Just a few emails gone astray or more to the point, turning up unexpectedly. Some emails I sent last year around September/October have elicited a response from the recipients over the past week saying they'd just got them !! Ros's photo's of our NYSF representatives and Jonathon Clarke took 4 days to arrive - which is why they're in the bulletin this week rather than last week. And the email I sent to Ross (in good time) saying that Jan would be coming to the Karingal Meeting (which he never received) ended up back in my in-box on Sunday.

Very frustrating and casts some doubt on the normally reliable email service and on technology in general. It brings to mind the fact that (as I said last week) we have come to rely on technology to such an extent we tend to look to it for solutions to problems - spreadsheets, databases statistics - all at our fingertips to research what's happening so we can propose a solution.

But 3 instances recently show how wrong this approach can be. Our meeting last week was all about Karingal and the absolutely mind-blowing work which they're doing in the area of creating worthwhile jobs for the disabled. Whilst they obviously use technology to assist them in this work, the ideas and the proposed solutions didn't come form a computer, they came from dedicated people with a common purpose working together.

Similarly 2 weeks ago Jonathon Clarke and his Food Bank story had a similar flavour but with its focus on a different need in the community.

This week we'll hear about another community problem - the ICE epidemic and the effects on our community. Will computers be able to help us solve this problem ? No way. It'll be up to dedicated, like-minded people working together who will ultimately solve this problem. Tony Francis will be able to tell us in detail more about the problem and what's being done so far, but more is required and it will be up to the community itself to figure out how best to deal with it.

When you take those items which have been presented to us in 3 weeks of Rotary meetings, it makes us realise exactly how much our community, for all its advances in technology, still requires human beings dedicated to the task of assisting those in need. Does that sound familiar ? Let's Light up Rotary to tell those in need that Rotary is there to help and pass on to them some of that light - a glimmer of hope for the future.

Polio this week

Posted by Paul Brewster

Polio this week as of 25 February 2015

The fourth meeting of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee concerning the international spread of wild poliovirus was convened last week. Outcomes and the Committee’s final report will be made available on www.polioeradication.org.

Wild poliovirus type 1 and Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus cases

Total cases	Year-to-date 2015		Year-to-date 2014		Total in 2014
Total cases	WPV	cVDPV	WPV	cVDPV	WPV	cVDPV
Globally	10	0	24	4	359	54
- in endemic countries	10	0	24	4	340	51
- in non-endemic countries	0	0	0	0	19	3

- See more at: http://www.polioeradication.org/Dataandmonitoring/Poliothisweek.aspx#sthash.gJ83KGrW.dpuf

Inspirational Quotes

Posted by Paul Brewster

Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes its jewels with. - Robert Leighton, 1611-1684
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small. - Edmund Spenser, 1552-1599
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

Days for Girls

Posted by pauline

The next 4 weeks

Posted by Paul Brewster

5th March Senior Sergeant Tony Francis - the ICE fight
Chair Ros Horne

Welcome and Property David Farnsworth & Doug Green

12th March NO LYNDON GROVE MEETING

Days for Girls - Yacht Club Breakfast on Friday 13th

19th March Ellish Long - Gordon Scholarship winner

Chair Terri Bosna

Welcome and Property Peter Hudson & Colin Hunt

26th March NO LYNDON GROVE MEETING - CHEF FOR A MONTH AT DAVIDSON RESTAURANT

Humour ?

Posted by Paul Brewster

A college senior took his new girlfriend to a football game. The young couple found seats in the crowded stadium and were watching the action. A substitute was put into the game, and as he was running onto the field to take his position, the boy said to his girlfriend, "Take a good look at that fellow. I expect him to be our best man next year."

His girlfriend snuggled closer and said to the surprised young man, "That's the strangest way I ever heard of for a fellow to propose to a girl. Regardless of how you said it, I accept!"

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New to town, I was eager to meet people and make friends. So one day I struck up a conversation with the only other woman in the gym. Pointing to two men playing racquetball in a nearby court, I said to her, "There's my husband." Then I added, "The thin one--not the fat one."

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A donkey had an IQ of 186. He had no friends at all though. Because even in the animal kingdom, nobody likes a smart-ass.

After a slightly uncomfortable silence she replied, "And that's my husband - the fat one."

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In the frozen foods department of our local grocery store, I noticed a man shopping with his son. As I walked by, he checked something off his list, and I heard him whisper conspiratorially to the child, "You know, if we really mess this up, we'll never have to do it again."