Next Tuesday's Meeting

The Queensland Air Museum is a not-for-profit community owned aviation museum located at Caloundra Airport. Its mission is to collect and preserve all aspects of aviation heritage with an emphasis on Australia and Queensland. The museum has the largest collection of historical aircraft in Queensland and it also has a large collection of aircraft engines, equipment, artifacts, photographs and books.

Geoff Smith is the Marketing and Promotions Manager of the Queensland Air Museum and has been for the last four years. He is retired, living in Pelican Waters/Golden Beach for the past 18 years after a career in finance. He has previously been involved with both Rotary and Lions. Geoff is married to Patsy and has two children and three grandchildren. His interests are travel, badminton and, of course, QAM.

Geoff will be presenting to us at the Oaks Resort on Tuesday morning, 20 March.

President Peter's Musings

Care Garden Project

Ian Belcher brought his skills to chairing our meeting and promptly introduced Julianna to spruik her fundraising efforts. You can help here. Julianna also updated us on her daughter, Jessica's experience so far as a Rotary Youth Exchange student in France. It seems that the first nine weeks might have been a trial but the trip around Europe will no doubt make up for that.

Vicky Meyer - the Business Engagement Leader with Integrated Family & Youth Services( IFYS) was our Guest Speaker. Chris Rees - who, with Rachael, has been representing the club on the project committee - ably introduced Vicky. She presented on the joint project to develop and build a therapeutic environment in the form of a garden and play area for young people living in the care of IFYS Foster Care. More here

Find out more

Save these dates please

District Assembly

Sunday 20 May 2018

St Columban's Lutheran College – Caboolture

Saturday 7 July 2018

Pelican Waters Golf Club

Caloundra Hat Day Dinner

Friday 12 October 2018

Pelican Waters Golf Club

LAST TUESDAY

13 March

View our photo albums here

Chair

Gilliland, Trevor

Registration Desk

Laing, Darryl

Speaker Intro

Lombard, Jim

3 Minutes on Me

Begley, Noel

If you are unable to fulfill your duty, please arrange a replacement

See the full roster on the website

20.3.18

Mar 20, 2018

Geoff Smith

Marketing Caloundra's Queensland Air Museum

Mar 27, 2018

No scheduled speaker

Stand Easy

Apr 03, 2018

Helen Sorensen

Equine Therapy

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Almost ST PATRICK'S DAY CHARITY GOLF DAY

Pelican Waters Golf Club

Mar 16, 2018 12:00 PM

RI Presidential Peaacebuilding Conference

Sydney Town Hall

Mar 17, 2018

Gala Dinner with RI President

Sandstone Point Hotel

Mar 18, 2018 5:00 PM

Dinner with RI President

Fitzy's Function Centre

Mar 19, 2018 7:00 PM

ClubRunner Clinic - 2018 Series - Day 2

McGrath Real Estate

Mar 21, 2018
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Member Birthdays

Lyn Roberts

March 2

Megyn Carpenter

March 2

Iain Nye

March 3

Deb Taylor

March 6

Merv Paddison

March 11

Spouse Birthdays

Patrick Cleary

March 20

Anniversaries

Anne Boland

Pat Boland

March 17

Darryl Laing

Shirley Laing

March 27

Join Date

Arnaldo Mendes

March 1, 1993

25 years

James Condon

March 1, 1972

46 years

Lyn Roberts

March 1, 1988

30 years

Anna Wheildon

March 3, 2014

4 years

Ian Belcher

March 7, 1994

24 years

Ron Strong

March 14, 2001

17 years

Avid Golfer

A young man, who was also an avid golfer, found himself with a few hours to spare one afternoon. He figured if he hurried and played very fast, he could get in 9 holes before he had to head home.

Just as he was about to tee off, an old gentleman shuffled onto the tee and asked if he could accompany the young man as he was golfing alone. Not being able to say no, he allowed the old man to join him.

To his surprise, the old man played fairly quickly. He didn't hit the ball far, but plodded along consistently and didn't waste much time. Finally, they reached the 9th fairway and the young man found himself with a tough shot. There was a large pine tree right in front of his ball and directly between his ball and the green. After several minutes of debating how to hit the shot, the old man finally said, "You know, when I was your age, I'd hit the ball right over that tree."

With that challenge placed before him, the youngster swung hard, hit the ball up, right smack into the top of the tree trunk and it thudded back on the ground not a foot from where it had originally lay.

The old man offered one more comment, "Of course, when I was your age, that pine tree was only 3 feet tall."

Courtesy: RC Encounter Bay

DIK volunteering

Thank you Bernie (& Ron)

Read the story here

ClubRunner Clinic 21 March

The second of our 2018 ClubRunner Clinics will be held on Wednesday 21 March.

You will learn your way around our website and its member area.

The sessions will be held between 3 and 5pm at McGrath Real Estate's offices.

You are encouraged to bring your laptop or other device to better follow along. Wi-Fi is available.

Please bring your questions so they can be addressed. The sessions will be inter-active.

Mark the dates and RSVP when convenient:

21 March- click here
16 May - click here

You are encouraged to attend our District Conference and stay for the Saturday night Dinner

We hope all our members will register for the Conference and stay for Dinner on the Saturday Night. Our regular meeting on the following Tuesday, 24 April has been cancelled and transferred to the Conference Dinner.

There is no cost to register for conference apart from meals and the evening events.

Let's attend as a Club!

Download the flyer and register

Julianna Neill - Caloundra Rotarian and owner of Pharmacy for Life - is taking part in the World's Greatest Shave for the Leukaemia Foundation. She is being joined by her staff member Michaela Kerr and daughter Stephanie.

Please sponsor her to give Aussie families facing blood cancer the emotional and practical support they need.

You may not know it but blood cancer claims more lives than breast cancer or melanoma. And today another 35 people will be given the devastating news they have leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma or another blood disorder.

Will you help by sponsoring Julianna?

Sponsor Julianna here

Sponsoring Julianna will ensure someone being treated in hospital gets a personal visit from a highly-trained health professional so they get the extra support they need.

Visit Julianna's shave page

An Evening with Ron D Burton

Oct 2018 Rotary 9600 India Experience

District 9600 trip to India - Delhi - Agra - Jaipur - Mumbai - Goa

The Rotary 9600 Club Development Officer [Peter Morley] has put together a visitation trip to India, visiting some Rotary Clubs but also visiting some of India's highlights. This is not a fund raising journey, but more of way to connect and see what happens in the Rotary World overseas. Add on extensions either side of ground component can be accommodated.

NEW - Detailed Itinerary

Interested in being a sponsor?

Download the website sponsorship guide

Care Garden Project

District Assembly

Annual Changeover Dinner

Caloundra Hat Day Dinner

The Reel

Avid Golfer

You are encouraged to attend our District Conference and stay for the Saturday night Dinner

District 9600 trip to India - Delhi - Agra - Jaipur - Mumbai - Goa