Rotary Club of Nunawading 13/04/2016 (Apr 10, 2016)

Gabby Knaepple
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Meeting Information

We meet Wednesdays at 6:30 PM
(Fellowship from 6:00 PM)

Bucatini Restaurant

454 Whitehorse Road,
Mitcham, Vic 3132

(03) 9873 0268

Map: https://goo.gl/maps/TcMny1eiyPo

Apr 06, 2016
Dr Philip Bachelor
Box Hill Cemetery - It's history and current operations

Apr 13, 2016
John Bradley & Sandra Green
The Compassionate Friends Victoria Inc.

Apr 20, 2016
Catherine Simcox
Building Age-friendly cities

Apr 27, 2016
Tayne Evans from Level Crossing Removal project.
Combined meeting with Forest Hill & Mitcham

May 04, 2016
John Harris
Field Naturalists Club of Victoria

May 11, 2016
Matthew Shanks
Equip4life

May 18, 2016
Russell Pearson
Brand Design and Digital Marketing

May 25, 2016
Jim Beggs
"Proud to be a Wharfie"

Jun 01, 2016
Tom Thorpe
The Gallipoli "Lone Pine" tree at Wattle Park

View entire list

Last Meeting wrap up

Posted by Gabby Knaepple

Roster for 13 April 2016
Chair	Russell Warmington
Host	James Tan
Cashier	Jim Robson
Recorder	Robert McQuade
Rotaract	John Lynch
	Phil Maxwell

Last Meeting wrap up

Welcomed Bruce A on crutches!
Special mention to Dick T who clocks up 48 years in Rotary on 10/04
Russell volunteered to replace Len as chair for next week (13/04)
Roger needs to know roughly how many people will attend on 27/04 as it is a combined meeting with RC of Forest Hill
Treasurer Phil advised the clubs first electronic transfer has been made - no more cheques!!
Charges for security at Parliament House will be shared by the clubs - this is for MUNA on the weekend 30/04 and 01/05
Judith advised she went for District Governor for 2018/2019 but was not successful - she thanked those who supported her.

Our speaker was Dr Philip Bachelor - CEO of Box Hill Cemetery.

Box Hill is a 30 acre B type cemetery that has been operating for 140 years. There are 200 funerals and 40,000 visits from mourners annually. The cemetery must maintain records and access to more than 30,000 graves.

There are many famous Australians buried at Box Hill. They include Sir William Angliss, C.J. Dennis, Sir Ian Clunies Ross, Sidney Myer and Dr Cyril Callister (he invented vegemite)

Most of the historical information Philip gave us can be found in the Box Hill Cemetery website below:

http://www.boxhillcemetery.com.au/

Philip told us that originally the last grave site was sold in 2005 and the Cemetery Trust was facing impending insolvency as they had no funding. Cemeteries are not for profit entities and use Crown land. In 2011 and cemetery manager was engaged. 1,200 unused grave sites were identified and in 2013 work commenced on reclaiming these sites.

Box Hill was the first cemetery to identify the need to have sustainability costs over the short and long term. They also established set fees. They are set at upwards of $14,500 per plot. This money is held in trust to be used for the ongoing running and maintenance costs for the cemetery.

The board was rejuvenated and now has a range of members who come from governance, finance and law backgrounds - there are a couple of board members in their 30's.

Philip had compiled a lot of interesting statistical information over the years. He did this by asking people to complete questionnaires when they visited cemeteries.

In 2015, 153,000 people died in Australia. About 3.8 million people lost a family member
There were 38 million visitors to 2,300 cemeteries across the country.
66% of people are cremated, 32% are buried and 2% are entombed
Relationship of the person visiting to deceased person: 38% visiting a parent, 30% visiting a spouse, 11% visiting a child, 6% visiting a Grandparent, 6% visiting a sibling, 7% visiting friends or other relations
people who follow catholic or orthodox religions are more likely to visit a cemetery and are more likely to visit once a week. They are also more likely to be buried
Most visits take place in the first year after death
females are more likely to visit than males
visitors are likely to be 60 or more years old
the most time spent on average is at a child grave (45 minutes per visit). A visit to parent/spouse grave is likely to be 20 to 30 minutes.

What happened at Giant Monopoly!!

Posted by Gabby Knaepple

Giant Monopoly fundraiser on Friday 8th April at Box Hill Town Hall

Judith, Sue W, Russell and Gabby along with 3 friends of Russell and Sue attended the Giant Monopoly fundraiser on Friday night.

Firstly congratulations to Whitehorse Rotaract who ran a really good and fun event. All money raised will go to Art Building Childrens Dreams (ABCD) which is an international project of the RC of Templestowe - to date the project has raised around $400,000 - Rotaract have run four Giant Monopoly nights so far to contribute to this very fine total.

There were 11 teams - we were the "cannon" team.

As the photos below show - there is a giant size monopoly board with giant pieces and a couple of big blow up dice. The aim of course is to collect as many properties as you can so you collect lots of rent. There were a number of challenges to sort out which team got the rights to buy a property if more than one team landed on on the same square. One of these included wrapping a team mate in toilet paper!

All up there were 12 rounds - of the 12 rounds we managed to go to jail 3 times and we never got to pass "Go" to collect an extra $200 because we kept going to jail!!!. But we did not let this deter us - once in jail we discovered collectively we had a multitude of talents that allowed us to be released from jail most expediently! To get out of jail we had to complete challenges - these included doing the "nutbush" , yodeling, bouncing a ping pong ball on bat for 30 seconds, balancing a ping pong ball on a bat etc.

The 3rd and final time we went to jail, the mayor and the jailer felt we were so noisy and badly behaved they made us do 3 challenges before letting us go!!

Despite our 3 incarcerations we still managed to buy 4 railway stations and were able to collect lots of rent when we weren't in jail!. We came a very respectable 3rd. 1st place went to the team from RC of Mont Albert and Surrey Hills. 2nd place not sure.

Highly recommended if you want to have a lot of fun and raise money for a worthwhile cause.

And finally a cartoon sent through especially because District Governor David was there on the night but didn't win!

Thanks to Sue W for photos

challenge for free property - jumping on balloons another challenge

The Giant board with giant dice

off we go again after being in Jail!! the 3rd visit to Jail!!

RC of Rowville Business Breakfast 15 April 2016

Posted by Gabby Knaepple

The Rotary Club of Rowville – Lysterfield is having another one of its very popular business breakfasts

The guest speaker is David Galbally AM QC

speaking on “Odd encounters of the defence advocate”

As well as having a very enjoyable morning, you’ll be supporting

two very worthwhile causes.’

See you at the Waverley Golf Club in Bergin’s Road, Rowville

It is on FRIDAY the 15^th April.

Why don’t you get a table of friends together – Looking forward to seeing you there.

Click Here to Book http://www.trybooking.com/KNYJ

Lunch on Monday 9 May 2016

Posted by Gabby Knaepple

From the Acting COCC

Hi All

The COCC Kevin Thomas has given me his blessing to arrange a lunch in his absence.

So I have booked the Dorset Gardens Hotel Dorset Rd, Croydon for lunch 12.30 Monday 9th May

We have been given their Private dining room which holds up to 36 people

The meals are VERY good!

I was there on a fact finding mission with Mike and Glenda Sunday night.

Mike had Lamb Shank said it was the Best Shank he had ever eaten Cost was approx $26.00

They have a 2 course seniors meal for approx $15.00 (good size servings )

I need to know numbers by Friday 6th May

Please send me an email at ilsymons@bigpond.net.au

Regards Ian Symons 0428 357741

Article in "Rotary Down Under"

Posted by Gabby Knaepple

In the April 2016 edition of "Rotary Down Under" an article about the contributions RC of Nunawading have made to the Blackburn Lake area was run.

Lunch for Ian & Juliet Riseley 19/06/2016

Posted by Gabby Knaepple

Visit to Walter & Eliza Hall Institute - July 2016

Posted by Roger Wilson

Club visit to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

The visit has been arranged for 27 July commencing at 6pm and lasting about 60-70 minutes after which we will adjourn to a restaurant for dinner.

The Institute has advised as follows:-

“Please let me know if there is a particular area of research that you would like to hear about during the tour. The areas of research at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute include cancer, including breast, lung, ovarian, prostate, colon and blood cancers; immune disorders such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and celiac disease; and infectious diseases such as malaria, hepatitis B and HIV. As part of the tour you can meet with a scientist that researches in your area of interest, hear about their research and tour through their laboratory. The tours usually run for approximately one hour, and also include an overview of the history and other research areas at the institute.”

The institute is located at 1G Royal Parade, Parkville (behind the Royal Melbourne Private Hospital). There is limited car parking on their forecourt, and more parking available in the Royal Melbourne Hospital car park beside the institute.

In April I will seek the members views on what areas they have an interest in being covered during the visit.

Roger Wilson

Program

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Posted by Russell Warmington

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Important Club Dates

Posted by Gabby knaepple

Dates for your diaries

April 2016

Saturday 30 April 2016 - Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA) weekend -

May 2016

Sunday 1st May 2016 - Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA) weekend

Tuesday 4th May 2016 - International Respect for Chickens Day

Monday 9th May 2016 - Club lunch

June 2016

Sunday June 19^th, 2016. multi-district luncheon for Ian and Juliet Riseley

Week beginning 25 June , 2016 - club change over dinner

Birthdays & anniversaries

Posted by Gabby Knaepple

no member or partner birthdays this week

Janette Etherington joined Rotary 2 years ago on 16 April

Roving Rotarians

Posted by Gabby Knaepple

Anyone going away, been away - send photos

Aloha from Harvey and Margaret!

Greetings from the Big Island.
Photos from Hilton Waikoloa.
Margs conference venue. 62 acre resort with train and boat rides between venues.Volcanic island with dormant larval flows everywhere and active ones on the east coast. Photos of complex from outer headland Marg conferencing from her hammock and 6 pool areas with waterfalls and slides. Lots visiting Americans and Japanese. The golf is good but expensive.
Cheers for now. Marg & Harvey

bits and pieces

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.
Save used stamps with a good deal of the envelope! They pay by weight! - proceeds go to ROMAC

DISTRICT STAMP FUND

Your DSF is under huge pressure to continue raising valuable funds from Philatelic Garbology.

Why not visit your City Council/Hospital/ School or big business and request their envelopes?

$100k is our aim and with $94,000.00 already achieved we haven't far to go.

Please try -it WON'T COST YOU ONE CENT but WILL DO A LOT FOR THOSE LESS FORTUNATE.

Don't forget to save your foreign coins and notes - there is a jar to put them in at the weekly meetings

Joke of the Week

Ever wonder what happened to Dennis the Menace when he got older?

Courtesy of RC Box Hill

Whitehorse Farmers Market

Posted by Judith Eadon

Whitehorse Farmers’ Market Roster
	Sunday 9th May 2016
7:00 am - 9:00 am	Jim Robson
9:00 am -11:00 am	Wayne Willoughby
11:00 am -1:00 pm	Gabby Knaepple
Office 6:00 am - 1:00 pm	Judith Eadon/John Vickers collecting Brian Dunkley - office

Results of April market

Stall holders $4,230.00

Donations $1,693.40

Egg & Bacon $ 419.20

Total $6,342.60

Rosters

Posted by Judith Eadon

	13/04/2016	20/04/2016	27/04/2016
Chair	Russell W	Lesley Arnolda	TBA
Host	James T	Colin T	TBA
Cashier	Jim R	Mike P	TBA
Recorder	Robert McQ	Harvey L	TBA
Rotaract	John L
Rotaract	Phil M

Quote of the Week

Although they can be very healthy I believe the current focus on gluten-free lifestyles is a little misplaced. I see an awful lot of people who would benefit much more from a glutton-free lifestyle.

Wordplay genius and all-around great guy, Tim Irwin, 2012

Deadline

Posted by Judith Eadon

Thanks Rotarians! We really appreciate all your contributions!

Deadline for articles is Monday at 6:00pm.

Email: Gabby gabbyk@bigpond.com