Wednesday March 31, 2010

Our Club Website Address is http://www.clubrunner.ca/albertpark

This weeks guest speaker Neil Meyer Executive DirectorTeen Challenge Victoria. He will be talking about the residential treatment and training program for young men with life-controlling issues and addictions at a Training Centre on a 60 acre rural property in Kyabram Victoria. 

History

Teen Challenge began in 1958, when a young preacher, named David Wilkerson, was moved with compassion to reach out to young people on the streets of New York.  His story is retold in the best selling book, The Cross and the Switchblade, which has sold over 15 million copies worldwide.  Since then, Teen Challenge has spread to approximately 1000 centres in over 80 countries around the world.

Teen Challenge Victoria has been providing help for people caught up in drug and alcohol abuse, and other life-controlling problems for over 30 years.  We are an inter-denominational ministry and registered charity that is governed by a Board of directors, including the Executive Director.  As an established Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Service, Teen Challenge Victoria is registered with the Hospitals and Charities Board and the Health Commission of Victoria

GRAND OPENING

BOOK STORE

Saturday 10th APRIL,2010     10am to 2pm

Parish of St's Peter & Paul
(The Galilee School Building
Crn Dorcas & Montague Streets
South Melbourne

  ON SALE
ADULTS & CHILDREN'S
PRELOVED BOOKS

Presented by: The Rotary Club of Albert Park

Enquiries: Henry on 9681 7382

Click HERE to download flyer

To all members:
As you are already aware, the Club has been given the opportunity to use The (old) GalileeSchool building at the Parish of Sts Peter & Paul, Cnr Dorcas & Montague Streets, South Melbourne, for our second hand books.

Members of the book committee have been working tirelessly to set up the room with our books and have decided to trial opening the book store each Saturday from 10am - 2pm. Two people will be required each week and over the next couple of weeks, a roster will be organised, similar to Community Meals. No prior knowledge of the books is necessary, ALL books will be priced and you will just be required to take money for the sales and help people where needed.

To launch the book store, a Grand Opening is being held on Saturday 10^th April between 10am - 2pm, and your help is required to promote this as much as you can.

Please find ABOVE CLICK TO copy  flyer for the Book Store Grand Opening, it would be terrific if you could run off some copies and distribute around your local area, post in shop windows, places of work etc.
If you aren't able to print off copies or need A3 size, please contact Deb Renshaw-Jones and she can print them and bring to Rotary next week!

ALSO - for those interested in finding out more about the book store, a meeting is being held after our Rotary meeting next week (31 March)! All welcome to attend.

New Member Peter Holdsworth being inducted and welcomed to The Rotary Club of Albert Park by President Joan Robison.  Peter will be working with the Vocational Committee and his mentor is John Airey.

Insight Education Centre for the Blind & Vision Impaired   

Alan Lachman and Maria Franca took action when told their daughter Francesca's school was set to close.

This is a story about life. The life of children who are blind or vision impaired.  It is also the story of how we have established Insight to ensure these children reach their potential and lead fulfilled lives. 

Insight's mission is to educate, support and empower blind and vision impaired Victorian children and young people so that they may reach their potential, independence and self-worth. 

In December 2009, the RVIB (Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind), owned by Vision Australia closed.  With this closure, over 1,000 Victorian children and young people who are blind or live with severe vision impairment no longer have direct or adequate access to or the support of specialist school and life-management programs.

Currently, all blind and vision-impaired children have been integrated into the mainstream education system. This integration, whilst important for a child's sense of belonging into society provides the challenge in that mainstream schools are not well equipped or resourced to meet the unique holistic needs of students living with blindness.

A mainstream school not only needs to cope with the integration of these children, but also the integration of other children with unique needs as the trend towards the mainstreaming (inclusion) of students with any disability into regular classes becomes more widespread.

Blind children struggle to gain self-confidence, skills and self-esteem.  Within the mainstream education sector, these children can struggle to learn vital skills such as mobility and adaptive technology.  Additionally, many will struggle with the building blocks of education - numeracy and literacy due to their unique learning needs, such as Braille.  As such, over 69% of these children will be unemployed as adults. 

Insight was established in 2009 in response to the closure of RVIB, so that we can meet the special education requirements for young people - both in core curriculum education and expanded core curriculum, so that the blind children of Victoria  can reach their potential, independence and self-worth. 

Last Week Ron Adams a representative of the Australian Rotary Health attended our meeting and presented our President with an award. This award was owing to the fact that -   

Over the years our tally towards Australian Rotary Health has built up to a Contribution of $50 per member hence we have been "rendered significant and meritorious service to Australian Rotary Health" via our Certificate of Appreciation.

Ron also acklowledged our contribution of running the BBQ how greatful the riders were for the food provided at the completion of the Great Australian Bike Ride.

Want know about Australian Rotary Health click the following -http://www.australianrotaryhealth.org.au/

Last week one of our members Greig McEwan gave a talk on email guide lines and internet security.

Greig went over, know when to write or reply to e-mail, don't write unnecessary messages, do not reply in haste or anger,  using BCC box instead of the TO box and the email guidelines for Albert Park Rotarians.  Greig also went through having your identy stolen on the interent and the problems of identy theft.

Greig also made available print outs on RCAP Guidelines and Etiquette for Using Email should you require one of these please feel free to contact Greig and he will arrange for you to receive one. Greig McEwan at  carnival@gyles.id.au or 0417 055 953.

We would like to Greig very much for his most interesting and information presentation.  Well Done Greig.

Origins, dates and days of Easter

The date on which Easter falls varies from year to year. Easter falls on the Sunday after the ecclesiastical Full Moon that falls on or after March 21. Easter is therefore observed between late March and late April and can extend to early May in the Eastern Christian churches.

A system for calculating the dates for Easter was begun around 532 AD when a Scythian monk named Dionysius Exiguus reconciled the Eastern and Western church calendars with the Julian calendar, established by Julius Caesar. Dionysius Exiguus established the date of Christ's circumcision at 1 January, 1 AD, or Anno Domini, translated as 'the year of our Lord'. While this calendar was adopted by the Church, the old Julian calendar remained in civil use for another thousand years. Eventually, these were reconciled with the current Gregorian calendar, adopted in 1582.

More ... http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/easter/

Last week I had the pleasure of doing a presentation on our web page and bulletin by Clubrunner.  The members were shown how to access details via using their login and password.  How to find club directories (addresses phone and email addresses), How to view member profiles, how to send emails via the clubrunner system, how to look up attendence records, links connected direct to Rotary and other sites that run current at all times. How to access the web live and the bulletin through the internet.  Our sponsors and how they have a direct link to their web, our news, speakers  and events area plus lots more.

From the amount of members who have spoken to me since this presentation it apprears it was of great interest.  Should any one require assistance on the program please do not hesitate to contact me on  lmichaelsen@bigpond.com  or 9681 7382 as I would be only to happy to assist. 

http://relayforlife.org.au/

Relay for Life   -  1st and 2nd of May.

We are looking for club participation this year and are keen to enter a Team.  Registration is only $15.00 to each member wishing to participate. This is to be paid within the next 2 weeks. Liz De Nittis has registration forms and can offer tax receipts are per usual.  (Members are then asked to wear their club t-shirt and they will receive a souvenior long sleeve shirt to keep from CCV).

Should you have any queries please contact Liz on lizdenittis@ozemail.com.au  0407321200

March 2010
Liz De Nittis, Kerry Kornhauser, Chris Lovett, Del Lovett

April 2010
Brian Beaumont, Yvonne Flanders, Helen Harris, Andrew Lilley, Greig McEwan

May 2010
Ken Hall, Tessa McGuigan, Ray Pape, Jeremy Paton

If you are unable to fulfil your door duty, please speak to another member and organise a replacement for yourself.

For all other queries about the door roster please contact Paul Sullivan 0412 818144  email  psullivan@wtpartnership.com.au

Want community Meals Instructions. Please login, go to My ClubRunner Box, Click on View Club Documents, then click on Community Meals Instructions. 

If you have any issues or changes please contact Paul Flakus by Tuesday each week if you  are unavailable OR that they have made alternative changes on 0417 567 747  Phone: 03 9589 1722    Fax: 03 9589 2799 or flakadog@optusnet.com.au

2009/2010 Joan Robison

Bulletin Feb 17, 2010 Click HERE        Bulletin Feb 24, 2010 Click HERE
Bulletin Mar 3, 2010 Click HERE         Bulletin Mar 10, 2010 Click HERE
Bulletin Mar 17, 2010 Click HERE        Bulletin Mar 24, 2010 Click HERE

That's all for this week. Have a great break if your going away drive careful and enjoy.

Happy Easter 2010