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CLUB BULLETIN 31st JULY 2017

Meeting Responsibilities
Date: MONDAY 7th AUGUST 2017
 
Chair
Hewson, June
 
Upcoming Events
Club Meeting Chair June Hewson
Numurkah Golf & Bowls Club
Aug 07, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Board Meeting
Numurkah Golf & Bowls Club
Aug 07, 2017
8:30 PM – 9:30 PM
 
Club Meeting Chair - Ernest Jones
Numurkah Golf & Bowls Club
Aug 14, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Club Meeting - Chair Lorraine Greenwood
Numurkah Golf & Bowls Club
Aug 21, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Club Meeting - Chair Adrian Connolly
Numurkah Golf & Bowls Club
Aug 28, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Club Meeting - Chair Bill Hewson
Numurkah Golf & Bowls Club
Sep 04, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Board Meeting
Numurkah Golf & Bowls Club
Sep 04, 2017
8:30 PM – 9:30 PM
 
Club Meeting - Chair Geoff Holmes
Numurkah Golf & Bowls Club
Sep 11, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Club Meeting - Chair Judy Newman
Numurkah Golf & Bowls Club
Sep 11, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Club Meeting - Chair Chris Sutton
Numurkah Golf & Bowls Club
Sep 18, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
 

CLUB MEETING 31st JULY 2017


PRESIDENT JACQUE PHILLIPS welcomed members and guests Sally Rose and guest speaker Ross Abberfield.

  • Attended not-for-profit board conference in Brisbane over the weekend.
  • NDHS has made a submission for funding for Chronic Airways Disease, which is the largest contributor to admissions to the hospital.
  • Attended Vanessa Monk's funeral.
  • Great meeting with Bernie last week.
  • District Board meeting at weekend, Chris to report.
  • August is membership month. Club has set a target of 2 new members but DG Bernie has challenged the club to lift target number.
 
 
CHAIR: P.P. FRANK MALCOLM
Economic Development Officer with Moira Shire, acting as manager last weeks.
Planning applications received by Shire for 3 solar farms. The largest at Wunghnu.
VECAT approved, with conditions, the planning permit for the Drug Rehabilitation Centre at Brookfield.
 
 

GUEST SPEAKER: ROSS ABBERFIELD.

Ross was introduced by chairman Frank Malcolm.

Ross is the Goulburn Valley Regional Fruit Fly Coordinator in the Moira, Campaspe, Greater Shepparton, Strathbogie and Berrigan Shires.

Ross was born in Nathalia, joined the Victorian Police retiring in 2011 after 35 years.

Fruit Fly problem became worse with closure of quarantine stations.

Fruit fly is the worlds greatest threat to horticulture.

Australia produces $9B horticultural products a year exporting $4B, with Victoria producing $2.4B of the export market. Costing industry $300M to try and manage.

Sunraysia was pest free, now has had 100 outbreaks.

Victorian Government  funding a $6.7M integrated management effort in Sunraysia, Goulburn-Murray and Yarra Valley districts.

Growers spray trees with commercial applications.

Town growers not inclined to spray fruit trees in backyard. Advice is, if unwilling to manage, remove trees. If choose to manage need to pick, prune, protect. Pick early, prune trees to a manageable size and protect with fruit traps. Fruit traps not the answer as they only tell you that you have fruit fly. To stop flies protect trees with a fine mesh cover and harvest fruit in the middle of the day when the fly is not active. If fruit falls to ground get rid of.

Adult flies are about 7mm long and reddish-brown in colour. Most people discover fruit fly when they cut open their fruit and find it infested with creamy-white maggots.

Female fruit fly has capacity to lay 1000 eggs. The eggs are injected into the fruit and the larvae develop in the fruit leaving the fruit to pupate in soil.

Requires a community effort, not an individual effort to combat the menace.

 

REPORTS

SECRETARY PHIL MEAGHER:
Rotary Club of Nathalia Art Show 11-13 August 10am to 4pm.
Email sent to members listing acknowledgement of disbursements.
 
STEPHEN MILLS:
Attended the Bendigo Bank information session. Submissions for grants close 30th August.
 
P.P. KATE HODGE:
Membership team met with Sally.
 
P.P. CHRIS SUTTON:
Orange juice machine at Lions Market. Food stall permit for Foodbowl Festival.
District Board Meeting.
Role of AG is to communicate with six clubs in the group.
12 inbound exchange students have arrived in Australia.
District Newsletter will only be emailed, no hard copy.
District Chairmen are willing to visit clubs.
Presidential Citation has been simplified.
Mental Health being promoted.
Tocumwal and Nathalia visits next week.

 

ATTENDANCE:

 Ernest reported 23 present giving 64%

 FELLOWSHIP:

 No report.

 HEADS & TAILS:

 Graham Hodge.

 

 

NEXT MEETING

DATE: 7th AUGUST 2017

VENUE: NUMURKAH GOLF & BOWLS CLUB

CHAIR: JUNE HEWSON

 

 

APOLOGIES:

Ernest Jones

Phone: 5862 1968

Email: hidejones@bigpond.com

Adam and Eve said, 'Lord, when we were in the garden, you walked with us every day.

Now we do not see you anymore. We are lonesome here, and it is difficult for us to remember how much you love us'

And God said, I will create a companion for you that will be with you, and who will be a reflection of my love for you, so that you will love me even when you cannot see me.

Regardless of how selfish or childish or unlovable you may be, this new companion will accept you as you are and will love you
as I do, in spite of yourselves.'

And God created a new animal to be a companion for Adam and Eve.

And it was a good animal and God was pleased.

And the new animal was pleased to be with Adam and Eve, and he wagged his tail.

And Adam said, 'Lord, I have already named all the animals in the Kingdom and I cannot think of a name for this new animal.'

And God said, 'I have created this new animal to be a reflection of my love For you, his name will be a reflection of my own name, and you will call him DOG.'

And Dog lived with Adam and Eve and was a companion to them, and loved them.

And they were comforted.

And God was pleased.

And Dog was content, and wagged his tail.

After a while, it came to pass that an angel came to the Lord and said, 'Lord, Adam and Eve have become filled with pride. They strut and preen like Peacocks, and they believe they are worthy of adoration. Dog has indeed taught them that they are loved, but perhaps too well.'

And God said,” I will create for them a companion who will be with them, and who will see them as they are. The companion will remind them of their limitations, so they will know that they are not always worthy of adoration”.

And God created CAT to be a companion to Adam and Eve.

And Cat would not obey them. And when Adam and Eve gazed into Cat's eyes, they were reminded that they were not the supreme beings.

And Adam and Eve learned humility.

And they were greatly improved.

And God was pleased..

And Dog was happy.

And Cat . . .

didn't give a crap one way or the other.