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Amazing raffle prizes

Amazing Raffle prizes

The Solstice Swim has a couple of other things going on that you need to know about. Next week you'll hear of a special display that the club is organising, but this week has been dominated by some amazing prize donations that you will want to win. 
This prize has been donated by clinical hypnotherapist and all round good guy and ocean swimmer Bob Lane. Bob has donated one free session of hypnotherapy. Bob's clients have had some stunning results in 2 areas that plague the community. (i) Giving up smoking and (ii) weight loss. The hypnotherapy produces some amazing results relying on changing behaviour rather than chemical solutions. 
 
Tamara has thrown in Your Mates Larry beer, $100 Winter pack from SalTy’s, a brand new fishing rod and for the photogenic a $500 contribution to a photo shoot with Andever Collective. Check them out for some amazing photography. 

Alcohol Hamper

The Alex Rotary club is offering a very large alcoholic hamper as third prize. (not entirely sure where Val and Charmaine got the idea that this would be popular?)
 
We're putting a few dozen bottles together now, with lots of goodies from our mate Dan M and there's a good selection to suit all tastes. Rumour has it that a certain scribe has donated a single malt that actually smells like the beaches of Islay with a French influence from his country of birth that will be highly coveted. 
 
 
 
 
Last orders from Sponsors

Last Orders from Sponsors

Just a remind that this is the last week for members to drum up sponsors as we'll have to go to printers shortly.
Many thanks to those who have passed potential sponsor details through to the secretaries email. 
 
..and a big shout out to Gary Schulz and Mooloolaba Yacht club for the loan of their super sized buoys that will make the Solstice Swim so much safer for all the swimmers. laugh
We're walking for Polio
How did that happen?
 
Tony has captured a lot going on here at the breakfast ordering table.
You would think that with all this brainpower from Bob, Phillip and Val at the table that nothing possibly could go wrong. But think again. 
So we'd like to offer $50 to the first reader who can explain the relationship between this activity and the quantity of breakfasts that were delivered from our mates at the Kiosk on a busy Friday morning. You can collect your $50 tomorrow.smiley
What's happening at the beach?

"Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it"

Well these surfers were not at all bothered by the weather on Friday morning, as captured by Tony. Can't see any Rotarians there though. 
Change Over Dinner Details
Motivational speaker Kevin Rabeling comes to club

Kevin Rabeling talks about self development and looking after your mental health

On Friday 
Local lad Kevin who grew up in Mooloolaba, and went to school with Grant Kenny at Maroochydore high gave the club a look into his life and how he came to write his best selling book "Alive"..

Kevin Rabeling is a corporate trainer, business owner, success advisor, and author who is passionate about helping people and businesses unleash their hidden potential. Kevin is no stranger to adversity as a highly regarded corporate crisis leader and major emergency preparedness and risk management leader. He learnt early in life the need to seek opportunity in crisis and keep marching forwards despite challenge or naysayer. After a life-changing crossroad in his early 20’s, Kevin committed the rest of his life researching why some people enjoyed the good things in life while others seemed destined to suffer their entire life. He set out to identify the essence of living a purposeful, harmonious and balanced life by choice. Along this journey, he discovered and applied the ancient naturals laws and science behind success, abundance, harmony and growth.

Kevin's new book is called "Alive"  Mastery of the Perfect Life is an intensely inspirational book for all of us who want to achieve success but are not sure of the right way to do it. In this book, Kevin introduces and puts forward the principle of ALIVE, which can act as a guide to the roadway to a successful and purposeful life. When we implement the steps as suggested in this book, we will surely achieve what we really want. If we have set a particular goal or purpose in our lives and have the willpower to achieve it, nothing can stop us from doing so. But treading on the path to achieving it will need guidance and proper steps that must be taken to accomplish what we want, in less time, without digressing from the path.

Thanks Kevin, and good luck with the book and tour. 
 
Urban Angels visit

Visit to Urban Angels

 
 
 
The club was delighted to be able to catch up again with Brigit and the team at Urban Angels in Marcoochydore since they moved to their new premises.
 
Unfortunately Brigit was unable to be there, but we had a great time and were a bit spoilt by an amazing breakfast and looked after by Lee and the amazing volunteers. Brigit sent through this note to the club...
 
"I am so disappointed to have missed the breakfast this morning. Your support means a lot to me and I was so looking forward to catching up with you and your colleagues. My husband and  I think we had a virus of some sort…not Covid! Whilst I am feeling much better today, I thought it was prudent not to risk spreading something about the place.
 
Peter Hall has also asked me to pass on his appreciation for your support of Urban Angels. He would have liked to attend this morning’s event as well but he unfortunately has Covid.
 
Had I been there this morning, one of the things I would have shared with you, is Peter’s future plan for the Service Street space.
 
You would be aware of Peter’s engineering, design and project management background. This along with his endless capacity to think ahead as well as consider the  needs of our team and the overall goals we seek to fulfil, have seen him come up with a plan for building a food safe area on the mezzanine.  Peter has designed a space where we can do all the packaging and labelling of our food. The plans include a dumbwaiter  which will be installed downstairs in the foyer to transport the cooked food upstairs for packing. We currently do both the prep and the packaging downstairs and we can only do one of these tasks at a time. The new space will enable us to produce more food  and improve our efficiency. Down the track, we hope to mechanise some of our packaging processes and create a saleable range of meals…the new space upstairs will be invaluable for that. We used to run a social enterprise catering business which came to an  end due to Covid (no more big functions!) and have since been thinking of alternative ways to create a new revenue source. We are currently researching starting up a subscription meal delivery service which would require us to mechanise our packaging somewhat.  There are already several people who receive our meals because they are delicious, nutritious, convenient etc. and in return, they provide us with donations. We are unable to “sell” our meals as the packaging is not tamper proof and our labels require Nutrition  Information Panels which involves an onerous process. Given that our product is already valued in this way, we thought it was a good place to start looking at building a new business. You see therefore, how Peter is always thinking ahead!"
 
..and finally if you happen to have a rather luxuriant moustache...here's the recommended PPE. 
 
The Smith Family Programs 

Smith Family Programs

On Friday Tony and John followed up on how the club may be able to help with The Smith Family and their youth programs. So in ZOOM meeting (what else?) with Marlo we found out that there are two programs where we may be able to help. The first one is "Straight Talk" which is much along the lines of the mock interviews and WorkLife programs where adults and kids sit down and have chats about work and work experiences, opportunities, difficulties and "things you really need to know about work". 
 
 
We've given a list of 12 Rotarians who have about 400 years of work experience behind them to The Smith Family and are willing to help out with this program of coaching kids on the work environment. 
 
The other program John spoke about is the WorkInspiration and Reach Out program (WIRO) and we found out more about this in the ZOOM meeting. It involves selected kids jumping on a bus and going around a few industries / workplaces and seeing what goes on "behind the scenes" and all sorts of jobs that perhaps the kids were not aware of. On the Sunshine Coast this involves visits to Structural engineers, Logistics organisations, Electrical supply organisations, Insurers, and Property developers. 
 
The club is perhaps not so geared for this, but now that we know what its all about, keep an eye open for any businesses who are community minded and who would be happy (With Smith Family and Rotary help) to organise a 2 hour visit from a selected 10 - 20 kids who would benefit from some exposure to different workplaces - it may change someone's life. 
A garden for young and old

Intergenerational Garden anyone?

The club heard from Mag at Shepperton South on how they had taken to heart the BBC program about mixing kindergarten kids and old folks.
 
They asked the kindergarten kids what they liked about visiting their grandparents at the local old folks home. Answer? "Nothing". So they decided to do something about that and set about building a play area for young and old. 
 
At recent board meeting the club decided to investigate it further, and will look to take it up as a project in this year, subject to more research and planning. 
 
So here's some pics of how the Shepperton Rotary approached the task and what they achieved. 
 
Brilliant. Stay tuned for more developments.
 
 
Click on image to go to the links

Next time you are out consider the service staff...

I waved the waitress over to our table.

I said, “Could you get the bill for us?”

She said, “Absolutely.”

I said, “Thanks. We’re kind of broke.”

 

The waitress came over to see if we were ready to order by saying, “Are we good to go here?”

I said, “No, actually we’d like to stay and eat.”

 

I was at a restaurant with my wife when a waitress suddenly screamed, “Does anyone know CPR??”

I shouted, “Even better, I know the whole alphabet!”

Everyone laughed.

Well, everyone except this one guy.

 

Not to brag, but I’ve satisfied every waitress that has ever served me.

With just the tip.

 

The waitress saw me and my girlfriend were wrapping up our meals

She said, “Y’all wanna box for your leftovers?”

I said, “I’m not much of a boxer, but I’ll wrestle you for them.”

 

“Waitress, can I ask you something about the menu please?”

Waitress: (slaps me across the face) “The men I please are none of your business!

 

 

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