Sandra Batistich has made a significant Mental Health initiative in founding Moving Ahead a NGO funded by community grants. She has had 15 years work experience in the field and is proactive with the key objective of early intervention in mental health. Chuckle & Knuckle is a 12 week Fun Course she has developed using humour to help reduce the barriers in seeking help for Mental Health. The courses are FREE and teach participants how to interupt their negative thought processes and reduces the feeling of helplessness.She takes referals from GP's and unemployment centres or self referals. Suicide prevention is on the agenda as ie Cognative Behaviour Therapy. Isolation is a major problem and males have the highest rate of depression. The age demographics is from 18years to 75 years with 35 to 65 being the main group which may surprise some. Rotarian Sue Foster introduced her as having a BA Degree, have worked in Headspace, having been involved in the Australia and NZ Rural Health Symposium. The Black Dog Institute quotes that one in five(20%) of Australians aged 16 to 85 years experience a mental health illness in any one year. Almost half 45% of Australians will experience a mental illness in their lifetime. These are new alarming ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics 2009 figures from a National Survey. Rotarians wore Hats and donated to the Rotary Foundation Mental Health Program.

 

  

Murray Bridge Rotarian John Scarvelis delivered greetings from his Rotary Friendship Exchange to India to Rotary Club of Murray Bridge President Lesley Murray and Members at the Melbourne Cup Rotary Mental Health Hat Day Dinner on Tuesday, The Day a Race Stopped the Nation ! He brought greetings from members of the Rotary Clubs of Indore North,RC of Indore United and the RC of Indore Young Professionals, three of the 24 Rotary Clubs in the City of Indore, after a very successful and enjoyable Rotary Friendship Exchange, Personal Greetings were also passed on from Assistant District Governor District 3040 Ashat Gupta ( a member of Young Professionals), Anish Malik Executive District 3040 Secretary, Jaresh Modi Charter President RC of Indore United, Dr Arvind Kumar Shrimali President Elect RC of Indore United, Viral Vadnere Rotary Club of Indore North Team leader of the previous Indian Rotary Friendship Exchange to Australia, Prabudda Kothari RC of Indore Young Professionals, Manoj and Archana Chandack, Seema Malok, Manoj and Sonal Kothari and Kiran Modi from United. The City of Indore has a population of 3.7 million. They have recently celebrated 100 years of Rotary in India, and the Rotary Club of Indore United was the first Rotary club in the second 100 years in the world being chartered on the 19th of July 2019. There are plenty of opportunities for joint projects between Indian and Australian Clubs and Rotary Friendship Exchange is alive and well. It will be great to continue to develop the fellowship.

 

  

Current wine stock is getting low but good news, we have now secured another pallet of the same vintage! Our Club is able to offer the exceptional Lake Breeze 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon for the unbelievably low investment of $120 per dozen.
To purchase simply pay in advance via EFTPOS or cash at a regular meeting and then arrange collection with Rotarian Ian Elston

Just a couple of Protocol reminders -

 

If you are unable to attend a meeting please contact the Murray Bridge Golf Club before 1pm on 85311388.

If it is last minute please still contact the Golf Club and also contact either Gordon 85324563 or Gary 0418813474.

If your going to be away for any length of time please let either Gordon or Gary know plus Jenny Alexander-Walters.