The Pelican News. ROTARY CLUB OF THE ENTRANCE INC. Chartered 26 th April, 1972 District PO Box 8173 Tumbi Umbi: 2261 WEEKLY BULLETIN

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1 The Pelican News ROTARY CLUB OF THE ENTRANCE INC. Chartered 26 th April, 1972 District 9685 Facebook; Rotary Club of The Entrance Website: PO Box 8173 Tumbi Umbi 2261 WEEKLY BULLETIN Volume 47 Issue 15 October 2, years helping the local community RI President: District Governor: Barry Rassin Susan Wakefield (OAM) CLUB BOARD MEMBERS President Secretary Treasurer Robin Hearder Martin Davies Clive Denmark President Elect (19-20): Club Administration: David Waterhouse Foundation: Clive Denmark Membership: Youth: Gordon Crawford International: Community : Peter Lethbridge Vocational: Peter Ward Bulletin Editor: George Clifford Auditor: Community Audit Services Address Correspondence to: The Secretary Rotary Club of The Entrance Bulletin Editor PO Box 8173 Tumbi Umbi: 2261 gclif@bigpond.com CATERING To assist with seating could you make your apology or book in any guests to David Waterhouse by telephone call or SMS by noon on Monday on or Child Protection apply at Use the name on your driver s licence. Receive a number APPxxxxxx. Attend RMS office with number & proof of ID. A WWC number ending with V will follow by eg. QQC V The Rotary Club of The Entrance Page 1

2 President Robin s Report October 2 Last Tuesday's meeting at Mingara. Apologies were received from Peter L (in Sydney), David W ( Dianne was in hospital ),David Adermann (still in Berkeley Vale Rehab), Anthea, Martin & Barbara (in Melbourne). John Bennett was welcomed again as a potential member. Community Raffle.- David W had reported that several clubs/organisations had visited James Sleeman Optometry to collect their raffle tickets including the flyer about our Club, but reminders should be sent out to those who replied to say interested but had not yet shown up. Raffle tickets would be distributed to our Members next week. Robin had spoken to David W over the October - November program. Noted that the meeting scheduled for Tuesday 23rd Oct. at Mingara had been cancelled as it was our Social event week. This would be held on the previous Saturday 20th Oct as our Charity Night at Woy Woy Little Theatre. Speaker next week was Glen Marie Wright from the Yarran Early Intervention Centre. Discussion took place over Melbourne Cup evening on Tuesday 6th Nov and as several members would be away at various Lunches, it was agreed to cancel the meeting that night at Mingara, and Mingara has been notified. Charity Theatre night - Gordon reported that we still had about 30 tickets for sale. Cathy Ross at PCYC now had a copy of the flyer, and would circulate it. Cathy reported that the recent PCYC Golf Day which several of our Members had supported, had been very successful. Hopefully we would also have some more sales from the Autism School parents. Treasurer Clive reported that another $300 for Drought Relief had been received from Joel at Sutcliffe Meats, and he and Robin would visit the Northern Bank at the end of the week to sort out signatories, and uplift some of the Deposit for the General a/c. The District Rotary Foundation would hold its Annual Dinner on 26th November at Sydney Olympic Park with Ian Risely, Past RI President as the Guest speaker. Tumbi HS Interact Gordon reported that the Interact Club at Tumbi Umbi HS had made contact with another High School in the Blayney area for making some donations in kind for Drought Relief and were working through a Rotary Ambassador.at the school. The 4 Corners program last night had focused on the problem at Quirdi near Moree. Peter W reported there was also a Rotary Health Dinner later this month. RC Erina was holding a Film night next week on the 11th Oct in aid of their Midwife s East Timor project. Guest Speaker Heather Yates of the Central Coast Family Historical Society then gave a fascinating and very interesting talk on the work it performed. Their premises at Building 4,8 Russell Drysdale Street, East Gosford contained some excellent research records and equipment, and they had links to other Historical Societies in Sydney, and other States as well as the State Library ( First Fleet and convicts - no problem ) so it was possible to make Australia - wide searches. Robin thanked her for such an enthusiastic and informative talk. The Rotary Club of The Entrance Page 2

3 Urgent Appeal: Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami Image Arimacs Wilander-AP-Shutterstock. On Friday 28th September, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake and tsunami with 3m-high waves devastated the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. At least 844 have died and thousands of homes have been turned to rubble. Access to the affected area is severely restricted and the full extent of the destruction and damage to homes is not yet fully understood. Will you help us provide shelter and essential items to families whose hopes and homes have been ripped apart? We are sending a ShelterBox Response Team to Indonesia to understand how we might be able to help Sulawesi families who have lost everything. The Rotary Club of The Entrance Page 3

4 Just $50 could buy a water filter to provide a family with safe drinking water. $100 could pay for a ShelterKit to repair a damaged home or build an emergency shelter. $1,000 could fund an entire ShelterBox Disasters don't stop. Neither do we. We currently have a team on the Indonesian Island of Lombok helping families recover from the 6.9 magnitude earthquake which hit in August and left 20,000 people homeless. As well as our team in Lombok, ShelterBox is also helping families recover after Super Typhoon Mangkhut devastated homes in the Philippines, and in Kenya where flooding has made thousands of families homeless. We also responding in Syria, Iraq, Lake Chad Basin and Somalialand. Please give what you can today. Many thanks for your support. Regards, Mike Greenslade CEO ShelterBox Australia The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire My mentor said, "Let's go do it", not "You go do it". How powerful when someone says, "Let's!" - Jim Rhon And just whose cruel idea was it to put the letter 's' into the word "Lisp"?. If a pig loses its voice, does it become disgruntled?. A Polish immigrant went to the DMV to apply for a driver's license. First, of course, he had to take an eye sight test. The optician showed him a card with the letters: 'C Z W I X N O S T A C Z.' "Can you read this?" the optician asked. "Read it?" The Polish guy replied, "I know the guy.". The Rotary Club of The Entrance Page 4

5 Spin and Win at Bateau Bay Square Day Date Time Slots Resource Task Saturday 13-Oct-18 09:30 to 12:30 Peter Lethbridge Event Manager 10:00 to 12:30 David Waterhouse Helper 10:00 to 12:30 Diane Waterhouse Helper Saturday 27-Oct-18 10:00 to 12:30 Peter Lethbridge Event Manager 10:00 to 12:30 Robin Hearder Helper Saturday 10-Nov-18 09:30 to 12:30 Event Manager Friday 23-Nov-18 09:30 to 12:30 Event Manager Saturday 1-Dec-18 09:30 to 12:30 Event Manager Saturday 8-Dec-18 09:30 to 12:30 Event Manager CLUB PROGRAM Date Day Function Location SEPTEMBER 25th Tuesday Community Raffle Ticket Distribution Mingara 28th Friday Spin & Win Bateau Bay October 2nd Tuesday Guest Speaker from Wyong Historical Society Mingara 9th Tuesday 13 th Saturday Spin & Win Bateau Bay 16th 23rd Tuesday Tuesday 27th Saturday Spin & Win Bateau Bay 30th Tuesday The Rotary Club of The Entrance Page 5

6 Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Central Coast Rotaract Newsletter! The Rotaract Club of Central Coast NSW had celebrated their past years successes during their Changeover at Breakers Country Club in mid July. Congratulations to all our Central Coast Rotaractors this past year for their invaluable contributions to the club and to the new Central Coast Rotaract Club Board for 2018/19: Chris Blunt (president), Mark Giese (vice president), Jessica Taylor (secretary) pictured and Tim Ward (treasurer). We would like to thank all Rotarians, friends, family and guests of the Rotaractors for celebrating this event in great fun and spirit. Steptember 4 th - Oct 1: Our fellow Rotaractors Chris, Ben, Jess & Sally will altogether walk 10,000 steps per day over 28 days in September to raise funds for kids with Cerebral Palsy in association with the Cerebral Palsy Alliance. We encourage all friends of Rotaract to sponsor us this Steptember for kids with Cerebral Palsy, you can do so online through the website: click Donate, search: Central Coast Rotaract then click Chris, Jessica, Sally or Ben to pledge a donation supporting the fantastic work of the Cerebral Palsy Alliance. October 13-14: Mingara Relay for Life: Central Coast Rotaract will be supporting the Cancer Council to walk laps around the Mingara Athletics Field to raise funds for Cancer Research, we encourage anyone to join our team on this great event ahead to support the invaluable work of the Cancer Council supporting Cancer Research and ongoing support of people fighting Cancer, go to: to register in our team or to pledge a donation to The Cancer Council Rotary Golf Day Poster.pdf DOUBLE CLICK ON THE LINK ROTARY GOLF DAY Mujibar was trying to get a job in India. The Personnel Manager said, "Mujibar, you have passed all the tests, except one. Unless you pass it you cannot qualify for this job.". Mujibar said, "I am ready.". The manager said, "Make a sentence using the words Yellow, Pink and Green.". Mujibar thought for a few minutes and said, "Mister manager, I am ready.". The manager said, "Go ahead.". Mujibar said, "The telephone goes green, green, and I pink it up, and say, 'Yellow, this is Mujibar.'". Mujibar now works as a technician at a call center for computer problem Wyong Cron. Theatre story Sept 2018.pdf THEATRE in SEPT DOUBLE CLICK ON THE LINK The Rotary Club of The Entrance Page 6

7 We still have about 30 Seasons Greetings theatre tickets to sell so please get active The Rotary Club of The Entrance Page 7

8 To lose old styles of reading is to lose a part of ourselves Doug Belshaw (Thought Shrapnel) Sometimes I think we re living in the end times: Out for dinner with another writer, I said, I think I ve forgotten how to read. Yes! he replied, pointing his knife. Everybody has. No, really, I said. I mean I actually can t do it any more. He nodded: Nobody can read like they used to. But nobody wants to talk about it. I wrote my doctoral thesis on digital literacies. There was a real sense in the 1990s that reading on screen was very different to reading on paper. We ve kind of lost that sense of difference, and I think perhaps we need to regain it: There was a real sense in the 1990s that reading on screen was very different to reading on paper. We ve kind of lost that sense of difference, and I think perhaps we need to regain it: For most of modern life, printed matter was, as the media critic Neil Postman put it, the model, the metaphor, and the measure of all discourse. The resonance of printed books their lineal structure, the demands they make on our attention touches every corner of the world we ve inherited. But online life makes me into a different kind of reader a cynical one. I scrounge, now, for the useful fact; I zero in on the shareable link. My attention and thus my experience fractures. Online reading is about clicks, and comments, and points. When I take that mindset and try to apply it to a beaten-up paperback, my mind bucks. We don t really talk about hypertext any more, as it s almost the default type of text that we read. As such, reading on paper doesn t really prepare us for it: For a long time, I convinced myself that a childhood spent immersed in old-fashioned books would insulate me somehow from our new media climate that I could keep on reading and writing in the old way because my mind was formed in pre-internet days. But the mind is plastic and I have changed. I m not the reader I was. Me too. I train myself to read longer articles through mechanisms such as writing Thought Shrapnel posts and newsletters each week. But I don t read like I used to; I read for utility rather than pleasure and just for the sake of it. The Rotary Club of The Entrance Page 8

9 The suggestion that, in a few generations, our experience of media will be reinvented shouldn t surprise us. We should, instead, marvel at the fact we ever read books at all. Great researchers such as Maryanne Wolf and Alison Gopnik remind us that the human brain was never designed to read. Rather, elements of the visual cortex which evolved for other purposes were hijacked in order to pull off the trick. The deep reading that a novel demands doesn t come easy and it was never natural. Our default state is, if anything, one of distractedness. The gaze shifts, the attention flits; we scour the we scour the environment for clues. (Otherwise, that predator in the shadows might eat us.) How primed are we for distraction? One famous study found humans would rather give themselves electric shocks than sit alone with their thoughts for 10 minutes. We disobey those instincts every time we get lost in a book. It s funny. We ve such a connection with books, but for most of human history we ve done without them: Literacy has only been common (outside the elite) since the 19th century. And it s hardly been crystallized since then. Our habits of reading could easily become antiquated. The writer Clay Shirky even suggests that we ve lately been emptily praising Tolstoy and Proust. Those old, solitary experiences with literature were just a side-effect of living in an environment of impoverished access. In our online world, we can move on. And our brains only temporarily hijacked by books will now be hijacked by whatever comes next. There s several theses in all of this around fake news, the role of reading in a democracy, and how information spreads. For now, I continue to be amazed at the power of the web on the fabric of societies. Source: The Globe and Mail Two tourists were driving through Brisbane. As they passed a sign announcing they were in the suburb of Indooroopilly, they started arguing about the pronunciation of the name. They argued back and forth until they stopped for lunch. As they stood at the counter, one tourist asked the employee, "Before we order, could you please settle an argument for us? Would you please pronounce where we are... very slowly?" The blonde girl leaned over the counter and said, "Maaaaaac...Donnnn...aaallld...sssss...". The Rotary Club of The Entrance Page 9

10 An elderly couple, who were both widowed, had been going out with each other for a long time. Urged on by their friends, they decided it was finally time to get married. Before the wedding, they went out to dinner and had a long conversation regarding how their marriage might work. They discussed finances, living arrangements and so on. Finally, the old gentleman decided it was time to broach the subject of their physical sexual relationship. 'How do you feel about sex?' he asked, rather tentatively. 'I would like it infrequently' she replied. The old gentleman sat quietly for a moment, leaned over towards her and whispered - 'Is that one word or two?' THE FOUR WAY TEST Of the things we think, say or do: Is it the TRUTH? Is it FAIR to all concerned? Will it build GOODWILL and better FRIENDSHIPS? Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned? We thank our Sponsors The Rotary Club of The Entrance Page 10