Last Wednesday, 20^th September ,  we held our second working bee at the gardens.  Whilst waiting for Tim and his tractor, the team cleared paths in preparation for spreading new crusher dust and removed an enormous amount of invasive vegetation and fallen branches from site.

Christmas is only 3 months away - and we are now launching our annual Christmas Lottery. We need your support! Books of tickets will be available at the meeting on Tuesday night, or from Shirley at any time. Once more the odds are excellent - 300 tickets at $100 each. Order your tickets using this form Christmas_Lottery_Order_Form.docx

We will once more be supporting the local charities who help the homeless, victims of domestic violence and youth in crisis. The Lottery will be drawn on stage at Christmas by Starlight on Saturday December 16th, Cleveland Showgrounds. Wouldn't it be great to start Christmas off with a bonus for the hoilidays!!!

An excellent night last night - fun, fellowship, good food & drink and an important message about TIARCS - This Is A Conversation Starter. There will be a link shortly to the talk that Tracey gave us, as some could not hear her properly. Mental Health amongst tradies is a real issue - we can all just take the time to have a chat, start a conversation...and the shirts are a way to bridge that first gap and start the conversation, but more to come from Tracey.  Click heere to read a copy of Tracey's speech. Rotary-TradeMutt_1.pdf

Thank you Anna for the photos showing members of our club with others folding, rolling, packing linen and stretchers ready to go into the container of medical equipment heading to Fiji. Above Cynthia & Robin Archer, Anna Bray, David Field, Camilla Barker (both Nomads), below, Tony Ooi & Mary Kamols packing stretchers. Your help was very much appreciated at such short notice - the linen arrived on Thursday, Sonia Hendy & Shirley Mahon helped then instead of sorting books, then the others answered the call for help on a very busy weekend in the Redlands. We also had members helping at the Museum with the Caravan & Camping show. Well done Cleveland Rotarians and partners!

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What an amazing group of students! For many years Cleveland Rotary Club has presented scholarships to selected students to help them in their studies in the senior years. The recipients for the 2022-2023 year visited us on Tuesday evening, telling us about themselves and their studies and plans for their future careers. Congratulations to them all - so impressive to hear. From Carmel College we had Lucy Knight & Alex Zimunhu. From Cleveland District State High School Emily Gibson and Malakai Keen. The future of our world is in great hands with young people like these.

At the Bayview State School Tucker Truck Thursday BBQ held on Thursday 7^th September, Grant, Clive, Tim and Ross cooked up snags raising $200 for the school student programme.

With some 650 students, parents and staff passing through the gates, this is an excellent opportunity for us to promote Rotary and our club and raise much needed school assistance. The next event will the end of year function held on the oval on Thursday 30^th November.   This annually attracts in excess of 1,200 with carols, lots of activities  and outdoor movies the star attraction for all attending. 

Please mark up your diary as we will be looking for a team of 8 that night.

International student at CDSHS Vanessa Feng recently organised for Peace Fellow Tunde Ogunyale to speak to students, teachers and ourselves regarding peace and the art of listening. Well done Vanessa for providing a very interesting session.

On September 14th we have the Peace Fellows Dinner at Capalaba Sporting club, oreganised by AG David Field. See the Event below and book to attend - it will be a good night.

Now we also need to step up and offer to be counsellors for two new Peace Fellows, due to arrive in February 2024. Check your emails for information and contact David Field if you can assist. Having been a counsellor in the past, I can recommend it to you - these are amazing young people and it is a pleasure to help them settle in to Brisbane to further their studies.

Some of you may wonder what we do at the new RARE (Rotary Australia Repurposing Equipment) site at Alexandra Hills, and what has been done over the years at the old Donations in Kind (DIK). Take a look at the attached document – some amazing figures of the statistics of work completed since 1990 over the 4 (or is it 5?) different sites we have had over the years. I personally have worked on 4 of the sites since 2006 and am pleased to now be looking after the book section here at Alex Hills.

RARE_NR_Figures_A4.pdf

Once more I would like to thank Steve Bravey for the tremendous work he did on the plumbing here, and Clive Shepherd and his mate Paul Prior who are still working on the electricity – a complicated business getting it ready for Energex. Anna Bray is still busy painting – the work never stops.

 Other volunteers are always welcome – Thursday mornings 8.30-12.30 and currently Saturday mornings until we are completely set up, then specific packing days once a month. Just come along, sign in and you will be assigned a task!

Daniel Hobbs prepping food with the Rotary Club of Cleveland at the new Redland Bay Satellite Hospital. "We are surrounded by the local members and councillors" - PE Clive Shepherd

"Great turn out at the NEW Weinam Creek Hospital Open Day, Redland Bay (Talwalpin Milbil). Magnigicent facility. Official Opening on Monday" - Cr Lance Hewlett. 

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On Thursday night we celebrated our 21 year association with the Redland Bay Golf Club where the club has staged its annual golf day. Over the years the club has generated an equivalent of some $600,000 (in today’s money) which has been donated to many local charities and to Rotary specific programmes.

Our next Golf day is planned for Friday 3^rd November.   Golf club President Steve Cairns gave a very interesting history of the golf club in its journey over the last 103 years and to some now famous and prominent world golfers who have coached and played at the course.

Player_Registration_2023_fillable.pdf

Sponsorship_Registration_2023.pdf

Members volunteer each Thursday morning and regular Saturday mornings to sort, pack and ship containers of repurposed medical and educational equipment and supplies.