PRESIDENT STEPHEN MILLS welcomed members and guests to a special meeting with Ride to Conference riders. Guest speaker Rosemary Freeman and Michael Freeman with representatives from the Corowa, Seymour, Moreland, Cobram, Deniliquin, Numurkah, Yarrawonga, Eltham, Yea, Albury North Rotary Clubs.
PRESIDENT'S REPORT:
Marshalling for Fun Run.
Business Breakfast now Friday 5th April.
Next meeting at Routley Orchard, at 6pm followed by dinner at the Clydesdale Hotel Katunga. Meet at orchard at 6pm in Carrs Road. Follow highway to Carrs Road, turn right, 200m on right.
CHAIR: P.P. KATE HODGE:
25 riders plus support staff participating in Ride to Conference, "The Broken Creek Breakaway" raising funds for Australian Rotary Health.
Personal note, three daughter, farm is dry, now employed at Nathalia Vet. Clinic 5 days a week.
Kate introduced Ken Paynter who recited an original poem, to the delight of all.
GUEST SPEAKER: ROSEMARY FREEMAN:
Rosemary Freeman District representative on Australia Rotary Health.
Australian Rotary Health is governed by a Board of Directors from every District, administered from Paramatta HQ by volunteers.
Aim is to support healthier minds, bodies and communities through research, awareness and education.
Research projects include SIDS, Mental Health, Bowl Cancer, Ross River Fever.
In 1985 $45M granted to research and education programs unique to Australia.
Major program "Lift the Lid" with 1 in 5 Australians suffer a mental illness every year. $1.7M spent on Mental Health Research.
Small and large grants given to research projects, Mental Health of Young Australians, PTSD PhD Scholarship, Rural Medical Scholarships, Rural and Indigenous Nursing Scholarships, Indigenous Health Scholarships with $2.6M ranted in 2018.
REPORTS
Ian Crossley RC Albury, next year's RTC finishing at District Conference in Albury. "Next year let us do it again"
P.P. TERRY BREENNAN:
Tail end Charlie for ride told a cycling story
FELLOWSHIP:
Birthdays Geoff Stewart 16th, John Watson 15th, Grant Deppler 20th, Michelle Davis 24th.
Chris & Ross Hardham 1 year in Rotary.
Rotarian Ernest Jones is expected to return home soon, but may need assistance with transport to Shepparton for treatment.
HEADS & TAILS:
Dave Freeman, Seymour RC.
NEXT MEETING
DATE: MONDAY 25th MARCH 2019
VENUE: ROUTLEY ORCHARD
CARR ROAD KATUNGA
Travelling along G.V. Highway turn east at Carrs Road, orchard 200m on right.
CHAIR: IVAN ROUTLEY
APOLOGIES:
June Hewson
Phone: 5862 1944
Email: juneehewson@bigpond.com
Want to be healed?
Three guys were fishing in a lake one day, when an angel appeared in the boat.
When the three astonished men had settled down enough to speak, the first guy asked the angel humbly, "I've suffered from back pain ever since I took shrapnel in the Vietnam War ... Could you help me?"
"Of course," the angel said, and when he touched the man's back, the man felt relief for the first time in years.
The second guy who wore very thick glasses and had a hard time reading and driving. He asked if the angel could do anything about his poor eyesight. The angel smiled, removed the man's glasses and tossed them into the lake. When they hit the water, the man's eyes cleared and he could see everything distinctly.
When the angel turned to the third guy, the guy put his hands out defensively -- "Don't touch me!" he cried, "I'm on a disability pension."
