The Phoenix April 5th 2024 (Apr 05, 2024)

The Phoenix 14th June 2024

From Your Presidents Desk………..

President Kim was inducted on 29th June at our Club Changeover held at Wentworthville Leagues Club as a precursor to District 9685 Changeover.

i would especially like to thank DGE Niranjan Deodar for sharing a glimpse of his vision which he presented in full at the district changeover.

thank you so

much to the members and partners who attended.

my theme this year is “Adventure in Service”.

I look forward to leading our club and working with you all.

Rotary Youth Exchange
This Week's Meeting

Posted by Dee Stewart

This Week's Meeting Is All About Rotary Youth Exchange

I don't know how much you know about Rotary Youth Exchange, but this meeting will be a great chance for you to find out. Personally, I have hosted students from France, Brazil, Chile, Switzerland and Italy. Five with Rotary Youth Exchange and two with AFS. It is a very rewarding experience and you make lifelong friendships with both the students and their families. You don't have to be a family to host, single people can do it too, so can grandparents - as long as you are prepared to think young.

This week, we are hoping that PDG Susan Wakefield will speak to us about Youth Exchange. However, as she has not been very well, she will be assisted by

Katie Graham, who is a past exchange student and a member of the Youth Exchange Committee. So get your questions ready, it will be a great opportunity to learn more about Youth Exchange.

Katie went on Rotary Youth Exchange in 2012 to Denmark sponsored by North Rocks Rotary Club.

After completeing a Bachelor of Communications, and beginning her career in marketing at a construction firm, she joined the Discrict 9685 Youth Exchange Committee five years ago as Marketing Officer and a Zone Coordinator for the North Shore and Beaches.

Form Our Environment Director Judy Charnaud, OAM

Bee Hotels, Eco Poles and Plastic

I recently attended a very worthwhile meeting of the Hall Rotary Club, a very active and vibrant group of Rotarians. The guest speaker was Emma Holliday, CEO Lids4Kids, (yes I have mentioned her to Tony Miller). Emma spoke about their project, the fact that many millions of plastic lids have been saved from landfill and the brightly coloured Buddy Benches which are made from the recycled plastic. They also make many other products such as clip boards, bench tops, keyrings, pencil cases and such like – sold through Office Works. Great initiative even though I have a few concerns about the grinding up of plastic lids and producing microplastics, which I am sure they will take into account given time and more research.

How does this fit in with Bee Hotels – Hall Rotary Club is the buzzing centre of all things Bees! Hall is a bee friendly village near Canberra. One of the Rotarians made me the newest design in Bee Hotels, see beside, very classy, his wife likes to add the decorative touches. The next step is to design the actual pole this hotel will sit on, the enviro-team, Ross, Doug, Lucy and yours truly are onto that at the moment. The Northern Beaches Council is very keen to help us with this project so we should have our first Eco Pole erected within the next few months. Once the first one is in place we can then expand to other locations!!!

More on Plastic – see my story on cleaning up plastic from the beach in Oecusse – the local kids loved the day out and I gave them pens, pencils and exercise books for their efforts!

World Clean up Day Oecusse Style – Getting Rid of Plastic!

Oecusse is a very isolated sub-district of Timor Leste, situated on the north coast of the Indonesian territory of West Timor. The region is home to approximately 70 thousand people, (total

population of Timor Leste ~1.4 million). Oecusse is actually an exclave of Timor Leste as it is surrounded by a foreign country, Indonesia, on three sides and has its northern border open to the sea, the Savu Sea.

Since 2001 I have been running an Environmental and Youth Program in Oecusse with a team of locals with whom I set up an NGO, GREEN TL. One of the events we try to hold regularly is Clean Up Oecusse Day. Last year I organised my neighbours to clean up the rubbish from the beach. As you can see in the photos we filled many bags with litter, as there is a general conception in Timor leste, and indeed here in Australia, that litter “goes away” somewhere when thrown on the ground. I guess they are culturally used to most of their rubbish being biodegradable and eaten by local dogs, pigs etc and have not really come to grips as yet with all the foreign introduced plastic, polystyrene and glass!!

Dumping all the rubbish in an old skip bin at the local tip.

A well earned swim in a muddy puddle on the way home.

HandUp Congo 19th Birthday

Models Wanted

If any club members or friends have kids/grandkids who would like to be in the fashion show, just let me know. Need ages, sex, sizes. We’ll have a pre-event rehearsal for them. Please phone Lucy on 0417 272 101 if they want to be involved.

News of Members

Lucian Keegel

Outside Aldi at Katoomba raising money for the Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal

At Katoomba Hospital raising much needed funds.

Barbara Parkin

Celebrating Mother's Day at in Kenya with her KINI kids.

We think our roads are bad, look what she puts up with more often than not.

2024 North Ryde eFun Run for Youth Mental Health

Registrations are now open for the 2024 North Ryde eFun Run for Youth Mental Health at:Rotary North Ryde eFun Run for Youth Mental Health 2024 (raisely.com)

The eFun Run will be held from Sunday 28 April until 5 May inclusive.

The North Ryde eFun Run for Youth Mental Health is organised by the Rotary Club of North Ryde. This year we are partnering with the Rotary Clubs of Ryde and Macquarie Park as well as Macquarie University Lifespan Health & Wellbeing Research centre (previously known as the Centre for Emotional Health).

The proceeds will go to Australian Rotary Health, for research into youth mental health and Macquarie University Lifespan Health & Wellbeing Research Centre's Cool Kids Program.

The event is open to the local and broader community, other Rotary clubs, university and school students.

Entrants nominate a distance they will challenge themselves to cover during the week. They can walk, run, jog or ride a bike in their own time, at their own pace, individually or in a team.

Each entrant or team can seek sponsorship for their challenge from their families, friends and colleagues through the eFun Run website: Rotary North Ryde eFun Run for Youth Mental Health 2024 (raisely.com)

We greatly appreciate the generous support from our members and friends in the past and ask you to encourage your members, friends, family and colleagues to register, participate in this event and help raise funds for this very worthy cause.

I have attached a "how to register/donate" information sheet that may be helpful. We will be holding 3 walking events throughout the week of the eFun Run that you can join in with other members of our club for fellowship, fun and to add kms to your tally. More information will be on the website soon.

Can’t participate this year? You can spread the word and donate to the campaign or sponsor one of our members.

Simply go to the website Rotary North Ryde eFun Run for Youth Mental Health 2024 (raisely.com) and click on sponsor a friend/donate (instructions attached).

Please see the attached flyer for more details and for distribution to your members, friends, family, colleagues and contacts.

For more information please contact eFun Run Coordinator, Pam Wood mobile 0400803417, email woodmal50@hotmail.com or President Bernie Mason mobile 0411134530 email: bib.59@hotmail.com

Meeting Invitation

Invitation to join the meeting of the Rotary eClub Middle Kingdom One, China.

Arnd Tuschinski sent us an invitation to inviting interested members and friends to their next meeting on April 18th - 18:30 China Time. (9:30 pm Eastern Australian Time

Prof. Eduard Heindl (Rotary Club Furtwangen-Triberg in Germany) is going to lecture on The path to Artificial General Intelligence

This is the meeting link to access. https://teams.live.com/meet/9458989173504?p=Ic2lED4Fg5PpCTdP

If you want to contact Arnd, do so on arnd.tuschinski@gmail.com

Regionalisation Pilot In Zone 8

Rotary Community Leader

Election for eClub RCG Rotary Community Groups and Leaders are at the heart of the pilot, so we greatly appreciate your partnership in this critical establishment phase. Please note the following Guidelines for completing this Ballot:

1. Expressions of Interest closed 5pm Tuesday 2 April 2024, and where an election is required, the Rotary and Rotaract Clubs in that Group will lodge preferential votes for the position of Rotary Community Leader of the Group. Ballots will be issued to clubs by Monday 8 April 2024.

2. Rotary International has important rules that prevent the promotion of candidates standing for election to Rotary positions and any campaigning either for or against any candidate. These rules will apply in relation to any election for the position of Rotary Community Leader.

3. Clubs in each Rotary Community Group will have one vote for the position of Rotary Community Leader of that Group. As noted above, preferential voting will be implemented, with Clubs having the opportunity to vote for candidates in their order of preference. Voting closes Thursday 25 April 2024.

4. Successful candidates for the position of Rotary Community Leader for each Rotary Community Group will be announced on Monday 29 April 2024.

5. Provision will be made for objections to the outcome of the election. Objections will need to be lodged by 9 May 2024, and any objections will be assessed and dealt with by an Elections Review Panel.

6. The result of elections for the position of Rotary Community Leader for which there has been no objection will be announced on 10 May 2024. The result for any RCL election for which an objection has been lodged may be delayed for up to 2 weeks whilst the objection process is followed.

PDG Kalma McLellan 8/4/2024

Clubs in eClub RCG

D9510 online

E-Club of District 9650

E-Club of Latitude 38 E-Club of Melbourne

E-Club of WASH, D9980

Social Impact Network

E-Club of Greater Sydney

E-Club Serving Humanity

Candidates standing for Election:

Amanda Barnes - Social Impact Network

John Boag - E-Club of District 9650

Kian Safaei - E-Club of Greater Sydney

Each Club has one vote, and voting is preferential. Each Candidates statement will be forward to members so that you can have an informed vote before President Tony submits our Club vote.

Focus on Rotary International

How long since you’ve taken a look at Rotary International website?

https://www.rotary.org/en or login to My Rotary

Rotary is a global network of 1.4 million neighbours, friends and leaders volunteer their skills and resources to solve issues and address community needs.

Rotary International Convention 2024

Rotary International Convention 25-29 May 2024 in Singapore

Rotary International Convention https://convention.rotary.org/en-us

Are you ready to pack your bag? Singapore Sounds Good!

Focus on District 9865

The Rotary E-Club of Greater Sydney is a member of Rotary District 9685. In our geographical area there are 66 dynamic Rotary Clubs and 1,564 Rotarians with wonderful programs similar to our club. Rotary world membership is estimated to be around 1.2 million. We share a vision of what can be achieved when we work together – and that synergy is powerfully effective.

Rotary District 9685 Website and Facebook pages are worth visiting

Be sure to check out our District social media pages:

District website: https://www.rotarydistrict9685.org.au

District Facebook: https://http://www.facebook.com/RotaryDstrict9685

Rotary Matters on Triple H 100.1 http://www.rotarymatters.org

Ian Stuart from Turramurra Rotary Club is the presenter of Rotary Matters on community radio station Triple H 101.1 every Friday at 3.00pm. Podcasts of each week’s program can be found on the Rotary Matters Australia Facebook page soon after the program goes to air. Ian reminds us to be in touch with him if our club has any interesting stories to share on Rotary Matters. The latest broadcast from Ian is: Stream Lessons For Life From RYLA. Thowshi Dimantha by Rotary Matters | Listen online for free on SoundCloud.