The Rotary Club of Boradwater Southport Weekly Bulletin, Edition #1

Meeting: Southport Yacht Club 7:15 for 7:30 1 McArthur Parade Southport

District: 9640 Chartered 30^th June, 1980 01 Aug 2025

Club No: 9792 info@broadwatersouthportrotary.org Volume No. 01-02

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Welcome to our second Club Bulletin. Our editor, Vince, has called for suggestions as to the name of our bulletin. The name should have relevance to the Club’s location and our values. Please forward all suggestions to Vince.

We are going into a very busy Rotary period. This Thursday and Friday we will host the remarkable Nova Peris. Nova has an outstanding life story and is our special guest at this year’s Kokoda Memorial Service at Cascade Gardens. We are also honored to host a dinner for Nova on Thursday night, and she is our guest speaker this Friday.

George and his team should be enormously proud of the amazing work they have done to bring the Service together. I urge all members and their guests to attend the Service this Friday.

Baz and his Peace Pole team are putting in an enormous effort to ensure the success of the Peace Pole dedication. Together with the Kokoda Memorial Service, the Peace Pole dedication event will be a highlight of our Rotary year.

I wish to congratulate Jenny on behalf of the Club. Over the past two weeks Jenny has:

< >Assisted in securing a mobility scooter for a deserving member of our community. Dawn Crichlow, our very supportive honorary member, and Elite Mobility Scooters were the driving forces behind the provision of the scooter; andSecured the services of the “The Blenders” a community choir for the Peace Pole dedication on World Peace Day.Our last Club meeting at 3 Sixty Restaurant in Labrador was a success. Thank you to all those who assisted in arranging the alternative venue. Special thanks to Andrew who covered the cost of the chili egg bandits. Restitution coffees are in order.

Ms. Nova Peris OAM OLY MAICD

< >1996 – Gold Medal, Women's Hockey, Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics1997 – Medal of the Order of Australia2001 – Victorian Honour Roll of Women2013 - First Indigenous woman elected to federal parliament2019 – "Lifetime Achievement" Dreamtime Awards2023 – Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee

GUESTSPEAKERS & CALENDAR 2025/26

Partners are welcome at all meetings and vocational visits.

Date	Speaker/Topic
August 7	Dinner at Fratello Restaurant, Unit 4/79 Central St, Labrador QLD 4215 at 6.30pm with Ms. Nova Peris OAM OLY MAICD: Kokoda Memorial
August 8	Ms. Nova Peris OAM OLY MAICD: Kokoda Memorial
August 8	Kokoda Memorial Service, Cascade Gardens at 10.00am for 10.30am
August 15	No meeting
August 22	David Kenny PH, Zone 8 Regional Council membership team
August 29	Sophia Goldschmied, YEP student via ZOOM Meeting at Level 14 Sky Broadwater, 23 Norman Street Southport
Sept 5	Overview on visiting PNG: Andrew Duff, Dianna Richards and Ian Swan.
Sept 12	Lily Grub : Little Grubbs Orchard, Southport
Sept 19	No meeting
Sept 21	Reveal of the Peace Pole at Cascade Gardens, Surfers Paradise.
Sept 26	Rick Palmer, member behind the badge

President Laurie and Rotarian George Friend OAM cordially invite you to join them for dinner to welcome our guest, Ms Nova Peris OAM OLY MAICD, at Fratello's Italian Restaurant, Unit 4/79 Central St, Labrador Thursday 07 August 2025 at 6.30 PM Order meals and pay individually - cash bar.

BYO wine only

RSVP - Ray McCabbin (ASAP would be appreciated for booking purposes)

Oh, we missed James and Elaine’s anniversary last Friday

TREASURER’S REPORT – 1^st August 2025

Fines: NIL Year to date: $278.00

Howard Manning / Dave Reynolds

Treasurer / Assistant

BIRTHDAYS ANNIVERSARIES

Ian Swan 26 August James & Elaine Kennett 01 Aug 1987

Dennis & Debora O’Brien 19 Aug 1989

ROTARY INDUCTION SPOUSE BIRTHDAY

Spouse

Peter O’Brien 5yrs 11mths 2 Aug 2019 Franco de Lima Letitia de Lima 13 Aug

Douglas Geekie 51yrs 11mths 9 Aug 1973 Ian Sharples Jan-Marie Nicolai 23 Aug

Andrew Duff 6yrs 11mths 10 Aug 2018

ATTENDANCE

Members: 16 Partners: 1 Visitors: NIL Guests: 1

Make Ups: Other Clubs: NIL

Guests: Didac Mastre, RCBS Youth Exchange Student

A wonderful true story from Jenny:

It’s all about the “connections” …. Recently I was contacted in my role as a Rotarian, by a local family in Labrador “did I know if there was somewhere an elderly disabled man, who’d recently come home from rehab at GC Uni Hospital, could access a mobility scooter?”.

Fortunately, one of our Club contacts is retired GC Councillor, Dawn Crichlow OAM, who in her retirement, has become a collector of scooters, wheelchairs, wheely walkers etc for the community. Her only criteria is that the recipients be genuine pensioners. Dawn put me in touch with Ian Watt of “Elite Mobility Scooters” in Southport where she had a scooter in storage.

Today, after some planning, I met Andre Tandjung at Elite, to formalise the handover of the scooter. Ian was wonderful in patiently and diligently explaining the operation of the scooter and battery. Andre did a “test drive” in the Elite car park . Ian is arranging delivery of the scooter and paperwork for the registration to take place next Monday.

I thought a big red bow was in order for the occasion !! This set of wheels for Andre will give him freedom and accessibility that will transform his world - from the smile on his face it may as well have been a Ferrari !!!

It’s so good being able to make the “connections” in our community to help add some joy to peoples’ lives. Very big thank you to Dawn, Ian and the Rotary Club of Broadwater Southport.

Jenny

Great story – thanks Jenny