Please save the motel soaps or similar size for the 'Days for Girls' program which is a program for sending sanitation products in a wash bag for teenage girls overseas. Give them to Judith. Sandra and the RC Monash think our club is wonderful for saving all the soaps!!
Save used stamps with a good deal of the envelope! They pay by weight!
Foreign coins are being collected in a container at the desk. Ron Brooks RC Forest Hill has collected many kgs!
The annual Portsea Camp working bee is on the weekend on 10 and 11 October 2015 - Please let Wayne W if you want to attend.
Here is an excerpt from the letter Stephen Eastop (CEO) sent to the Presidents
"The dormitory wing to the left of the drive is desperately in need of a coat or three of paint. The shower block within the wing has recently been refurbished and the interior of the dorms has been spruced up. With a bit of effort the whole area will lift.
Gardening and landscaping is a task that we struggle with, given other maintenance necessities. It’s a big site but the working bee effort allows us to keep on top of things for the rest of the year.
Gutters; I suppose we have a few kilometers of them. It would be fabulous if a team or two put some effort into cleaning them out and fitting gutter guard where needed.
Connelly Hall is showing its age. It’s solidly used by adult leaders but its walls are bowing and are badly damaged. This is one for the skilled builder rather than the handy person so if its up your alley please let me know and we’ll order in lining boards etc.
I can’t wait to catch up again. The improvements to the camp over the past year are pretty obvious – asphalt, shower and toilet partitions, sound systems, abseiling wall, painting, re-roofing, epoxy floors – lots.
I’ve attached registration forms. If these can be returned to me as soon as possible. They can always be updated closer to the time but it is always good to have an indication as to numbers.
Some photos follow -"
What needs doing:
Gutter cleaning
Gardening and weed removal
There are many weed species in the ‘Fort’ area of the camp that need to be removed. Some small, some larger so someone with experience handling a chain saw will be much valued.
Painting Connelly Hall
Double coating the building requires approximately 400 litres of paint!
The plan at this stage is that we will do some of the prep work to enable people to get started, that only those confident of their cutting in ability will do edges, others will be on rollers or scraping clean window frames.
Steps reconstruction – the Fort
Steps to the fort are in a sorry state. They could be replaced and treated pine steps installed with crushed rock as the base. It’s a task for a builder or someone with good handyman skills to lead the work.
Connelly Hall
This is very much a task for builders and, if one happens to turn up, a plasterer. We intend to clad walls in regency lining board to dado height, and plaster above. The existing fibre sheet has absorbed moisture over the years and is bowing everywhere. We will also cover the unsightly end wall. Following this work we’ll look to laying carpet squares throughout.
Police in Los Angeles had good luck with a robbery suspect
who just couldn't control himself during a lineup. When
detectives asked each man in the lineup to repeat the words:
'Give me all your money or I'll shoot', the man shouted,
'that's not what I said!'
"THE GETAWAY!*
A man walked into a Topeka, Kansas Kwik Stop and asked
for all the money in the cash drawer. Apparently, the take
was too small, so he tied up the store clerk and worked the
counter himself for three hours until police showed up and
grabbed him.
