Page 1

THE COG – RCM Bulletin –10th Zoom 3 June 2020

President’s Report

Our guest speaker last week was Janette Etherington, Rotarian Coordinator for Interplast.

Janette is PP of the Rotary Club of Nunawading and could address us from Melbourne over Zoom. Zoom is opening

our meetings to more visitors, with AGD Katherine Davies, RC of Holdfast Bay, Tetsuya Yonezawa, RC of Usa Japan

and prospective member Yemi all joining in.

Rotary was a founding partner of Interplast, and Rotarians, Clubs and Districts across Australia and New Zealand still

play a significant role in supporting their work.

I thought I knew a lot about Interplast but was surprised at the scale of its operations.

Until the current travel bans, they were sending out a team every two weeks, covering 17 countries though Asia

Pacific. So far, they have performed 26,500 reconstructive surgeries and enabled 8120 training opportunities for

partner medical personnel since 1983. The teams only go where invited to work with locals so they can participate in

complex procedures and provide the essential follow up care. All the team members are volunteers but there are

significant logistics costs. This is another example where Rotary initiated and funded a partner project which lead to

further Government, Corporate and personal funding.

Currently they are supporting and training local medical teams via internet, until they can resume overseas visits.

We should consider how our club can raise funds to support Interplast in future.

Call a member:

This week it is time to call the member 3rd place below you on the list. Please support this initiative to keep our

friendships strong, while we cannot meet in person.

Peter Mayer

Rotary Club of Morialta Inc.

District 9520

P.O. Box 121 ATHELSTONE SA 5076

Secretary – Tim Mee

morialta@rotaryclub.org.au

www.morialta.rotaryclub.org.au

PRESIDENT’S NEWS

Page 2

Wednesday Meetings at 6.30pm

Peter Mayer is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting at 6:30 pm Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/549647622?pwd=NFo4aEFLaGFINHVaSzVzSWtiNDN6QT09 Meeting ID: 549 647 622 Password: 008071

ZOOM HINT If you leave yourself muted, you can hold down the spacebar to talk and release it to take you back to MUTE. Might be helpful. June 3rd

Roger Levi

Roger is Aged Care Director at the North Eastern Community Services and he will provide us with an update on the

recent renovations and plans.

June 10th

Tetsuya Yonezawa, Nobuko and Katsuyoshi of RC of Usa

Update from Usa and introductions by members who have been joining us over the last few weeks on Zoom.

David Koetsier Overview of the new strategic plan and the goals of each director

Saturday 27 June 2020 – Change Over –invitation below

MEETINGS

Page 3

President Peter Mayer and

President Elect David Koetsier

have much pleasure in inviting you to attend the Rotary Club of Morialta

CHANGE OVER 2020

Please join us as we celebrate the Rotary year

to

Farewell President Peter – 2019/20

and

Welcome Incoming President David- 2020/21

DATE: Saturday 27th June

TIME: 1pm – 2pm

VENUE: ZOOM

DRESS: Rotary regalia can be worn by members

Join Zoom Meeting

(Same link as our regular Wednesday meetings)

Meeting ID: 549 647 622

Password: 008071

RSVP by 22nd June 2020 to

Sabrina Koetsier 0424 593 737

or via sabrina.koetsier@bigpond.com

Page 4

HI everyone, As I have been the COG editor now for numerous years, I feel that I am

perhaps getting a little stale and SOME NEW BLOOD would be much appreciated.

I am willing to go on doing the COG until someone else is prepared to undertake the job.

Please give it some serious thought and advise Sabrina / David Koetsier of your interest

WEBSITE Our club website has several links on the front page which take you to a variety of Rotary Videos, see example below. www.morialta.org.au. The district 9510 Vimeo has a video about the District Conference to be held in Ballarat next year.

MEMBERS UPDATES

VOLUNTEER COG EDITOR

NEEDED

Page 5

RC Adelaide Guest Speaker Sir Peter Cosgrove. I logged into the address by Sir Peter Cosgrove who spoke as a Zoom speaker at the RC Adelaide meeting on 27 May. The meeting was recorded and the link to the address on You Tube is as follows: ...https://youtu.be/L-a1QXTAwA8 Also at the meeting, that I observed, were Dennis Heanes and Trevor Stirling and possibly other Morialta members and alumni. Sir Peter had as a theme “leadership in troubled times” and was able to relate incidents from his career and also to the current Covis pandemic and the current leadership but also the bushfires earlier this year and as a former governor general issues faced by Sir John Kerr in 1975. An interesting address and the power of Zoom as a medium that has given us the opportunity to be included. It runs for an hour and is worth watching.

Membership Item

First day of winter in Adelaide but hopefully warming up for the last few weeks of our Rotary year. Let’s

hope the next 6 months will be very different as our State starts to open up again.

The Morialta Rotary chat initiative is going so very well with members contacting each other and making

those connections even stronger for our Club. Well done all and please keep it up. Third name under you

on the list this week. Likewise, please have a look at the photo posted by Richard Hurn this week and send

in your entry to be eligible for an amazing prize donated by Richard. Who will he nominate to have the

mystery photo next week?

Fingers crossed we will be able to meet soon and maybe welcome new members and also new friends to

our Club.

Keep well.

Where is this??? 27/05/2020

From the Membership Committee – (Judi Brown, Sue Pullens, Rob Brennan).

Richard

> Congratulations once again you have

guessed it correctly within an hour of

> the COG being sent. That makes 2 in a row.

> Yes it was the Anstey Hill Quarry - the site

of the production of The

> Secret River in March 2017. This photo was

taken during our initial on

> site meeting regarding the car parking

exercise.

> Another drink of your liking??

Page 6

THIS Week where is this ?????03/06/2020

Due to Coronavirus issue, there are no Fellowship outings of RC of Morialta until further notice.

We can hopefully have the following when suitable times arrive.

If you have some ideas and suggestions, I will be happy to hear for future planning.

Emiko Mayer (Fellowship)

0417823873

i

Community Workshop Newsletters These can be seen on club website.

www.morialta.org.au - Workshop Page then Workshop Newsletters.

WHAT AM I? Alan received this from Murray, for the Community Workshop Newsletter, hope the members enjoy it too. “Sorting through my Grandfather’s photos the other day I came across a photo that might be of interest. It was taken about 1915-20? It might bring back some memories.”

FELLOWSHIP

S

WORKSHOP

S

Photo Supplied by Richard Hurn

Please phone Richard with your answers if

you want to participate

Page 7

Queues continue outside for people hoping for help from the Interplast team.

Example of a tumor that became huge because local help was not available for early intervention. The

Interplast team with local support, were able to remove the tumor and help her regain a normal life.

“Repairing bodies and rebuilding lives"

PHOTOS –

Page 8

Photographs taken from zoom screen during wed. meeting with Janette Etherington as Interplast guest speaker.

Page 9

Page 10

EXTRA INFORMATION

Page 11

KIOSK Kiosk Closure – Thorndon Park Members will be kept up to date with Developments. Just a reminder to members to read the COG newsletter each week to keep informed on Rotary matters.

APOLOGIES Djuro Rakic - 0415 889 980 or 8365 2758

If you have dates needing to go into the COG or Calendar please

email details to Katarina and Judy C.