Scribe report 23-6-15

 

 

 

Rotary meeting 16/6/15

 

President Tom opened the meeting, mingling amongst us before asking President-Elect Jenny May to introduce the guests. They were Kameron Karayan from Finks Cafe and Swapna Prasad our District AG for next year.

 

PP Bob Cartwright further Introduced Kameron, his guest, who runs Fink (chocolate) cafe. Kameron is known to Mingle with clients and is returning to the habit of serving free chocolate with each cup of coffee.

Returning Travellers include Martin Silink and Chris Curtis

 

 

Jenny May

Reported that she achieved 200 likes this week following posting the photos from the cheese making night. Outstanding. RDU has released a calendar for Polio Plus as a fundraiser.

PP Dick Dawes stood up to give the returning Chris Curtis Hearty welcome from his intrepid adventures in INDONESIA and Timor. Enjoy the rest of your Rotary Year.

Tom invited Chris to relate his triumphant tale later.

Adrienne

Weeding of Blackmans Park is organised for the last Sunday in June. All welcome. The timing is 9 am to12

 

VP Lindsay May

Please pay dues. Put names in the reference section if paying through the internet.

 

Club caterers need him to place orders on Sunday. So please accept in time. Please send an Email if you can't make the technology work. You can book through the website instead but much simpler to book through the email you receive each week. And book book book.

PP Tom

Changeover is at Chatswood on July 7^th

 

 

Sergeant John Cronly

Lindsay - tireless rotary action

Ann for becoming O'Shannassy - officially

Chris Curtis for too much adulation for the Indonesian trip

Tom Tait. Losing weight while John putting on weight.

Roger Wescombe for socialist leaning with red jumper

John Palmer: enthusiasm for banners seems to wane.

PP Phil for being absent while in high Dudgeon

Tom welcomed Chris for being back on board.

 

Boast

PP Dick Dawes, at Blue Mountains. So was Dalai Llama. Spoke to parents and children at school. Ran a function for Nepal. Rotary in regional centres doing well. Features on front page of antique fair. Locals say Rotary is well known.

PP Martin Silink. Chairs District global grants scholarship committee. Got a scholar - terrific young man. Got $30,000 US to study overseas.

PPE Jenny May. Sister works at Birdswood casino and looked after the Dalai Lama. Sister's joke of the year: Why does the Dalai Lama come to Birdswood? "To bet".

Lindsay . Bantered with John Palmer over the banners whereabouts. John keen to house the old ones for sentiment's sake.

 

Jenny introduced the Assistant Governor-elect: Swapna Prasad.From the RC Crows Nest ... Changed from banker to education

Looks forward to the coming official visit.

 

 

PP Chris Curtis

Travelled with three ladies from other clubs. North Sydney, Wagga Wagga, Woolgoolga.

Met up with them upon arrived at destination, Splashed out on the accommodation at $30 a night including breakfast.

Manager indicated the three ladies and wanted to know 'which one' he wanted tonight. Chris had trouble explaining that each had to own room. Further to the events of the night one of the ladies lost her credit card in the EFPST machine. Cab driver got her credit card back by bringing in the bank manager on his day off - Sunday. Amazing.

The trip

Started in Bali, explaining carefully that it was on an Island in the Indonesian archipelago, for those who were hazy on their geography. From there, they spent 3 days in Flores. Then on to Ku Pang. Then an off shore island, Sunnah. This was very flat. No motorcycles - gave them trucks because of age, not realising that PP Chris was also PP of the Rotary Motorcyclist club. Romantic little lanes that trucks can't traverse. [Scribe: We note that he chose that adjective with three ladies on boar]. So they rode on the back of small motorcycles.

Flew to Ku pang. Visas didn't follow them so had to pull out the Big One ... The letter of introduction from none other than the Ambassador himself. The official merely yawned and ignored him. Finally got that sorted out. Then on to Timor Leste. Visas in place. Letters of introduction. Before they were released, the issue was the wrong letterhead. "Chris: call your boss". "Can't, Boss in Dili 10 hours away". Solution: scan each page. They will email reply to convert visas. Problem: nobody had a scanner. Rotary to the rescue. A Ku pang Rotarian lent him a scanner. Long story. Frustrating. [scribe: good thing that Chris took the trouble to learn Indonesian].

Dili interesting. Spend half a day there, no worries.

Flew to Darwin. Gob smacked at sophistication. Real city in the North now ... not a shanty town any more. Similar to Darwin's transformation. Returned on the red eye express.

 

Questions

Asylum seekers offer disruption to local culture.

Caught up with Christine Carberry. Happy as can be in the service. Enjoyed Dinner with her.

Visa problem? Can't get one if arrive by road - only by air or sea.

 

PP Martin Silink updated us on his adventures.

Returned from Boston ADA conference.

18000 diabetes specialists. No dramatic changes. Incremental. Inhaled insulin on sale in the US. Short acting for meals. Like an Ecigarette. 4 units or 8 units - enough to cover a good meal. They Use nanotechnology in these. All absorbed in 2 secs

Huge trade exhibit, football field size.

Different meters for glucose monitoring. Insulin Now 300 IU /ml. Less volume to inject, so more convenient. New drugs coming.

Banting award lecture ... fat cells produce hormones. Medications may be designed around this. Obesity advances.

President Tom; Please give PP Martin thanks by Acclamation.

President Tom ... Thank you to upcoming Assistant Governor Swapna. As well as Kameron. Next weeks speaker: John Flint OAM

 

As produced by PP Phil Wade.

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