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Rotary Meeting Time: Nov 30, 2021 06:00 PM Adelaide Every week on Tue, 7 occurrence(s) Nov 30, 2021 06:00 PM Dec 7, 2021 06:00 PM Jan 11, 2022 06:00 PM Jan 18, 2022 06:00 PM Jan 25, 2022 06:00 PM Feb 1, 2022 06:00 PM
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MEETING REPORT 3433
Dr Elyse Marx from Murray Bridge Clinic was our after dinner Speaker at this weeks Rotary Club of Murray Bridge meeting. Her story is of a Murray Bridge girl who has become a high achiever and contributes to her local community. Chairperson Rotarian Jenny Alexander Walters introduced her as her piano student and then let her tell her story. She was born in the Murray Bridge Soldiers Memorial Hospital went to Murray Bridge North Primary School, then Murray Bridge High School, worked at the Swimming Pool, joined the Murray Bridge Concert Band, and went on a student exchange to Germany. She worked after school as a volunteer with the Ambulance Service and went on to do Medicine at Flinders University and came to Bridge Clinic as a student in third Year as a placement. She has completed her Specialist GP training and is now at Bridge Clinic and in addition enrolled at the University of Tasmania in a further Degree in remote medicine and extreme environments as further training. It was great to come home to Murray Bridge, to be able to catch up with family, and be part of this community again. She fully engaged her audience with her enthusiastic approach to future options. Student exchange has been a big influence in her experience, and stimulated travel and understanding of overseas cultures. Rural medicine incorporates a lot of extra demands, is highly rewarding, has great linkages with local hospitals and community connection. A memorable quote was "Do what you love and love what you do". Her proud parents Dayle and Rodney Waltravitz were in the audience.
By John Scarvelis
MEETING REPORT
Yesterdays Rotary Vocational Visit to the new building at Murray Bridge High School for year 7 & 8 students to be ready for next years intake. The school will then have 1300 students. Principal Ruth Mussger, once a student at the school, and recent awardee of Principal of the Year in SA, passionately spoke about the school programs, its dedicated staff, and led the Rotary Club of Murray Bridge members through the new building to view progress with the Schools Business Manager Bryce Gillett. Assistant Principal Rotarian Roxanne Rowland put the Year 11 Hospitality students through their paces in an assessed meal presentation of an alternate drop main course and sweets with a Mocktail. The new Inclusive Education Centre caters for special education, mainsteam, and aboriginal students, has a yarning circle, and technical studies facilities. Workspaces are designed to develop communication and facilitate skills. with support to develop jobs that currently don't exist. There are 16 classrooms upstairs divided into neighbourhoods with a Ngarrindjeri totem. The Lazer Printer Project will be developing Totems for the Neighbourhoods. Total project cost is $20 million.
By John Scarvelis
Bunnings End Poilo Fund Raiser
Todays Rotary Club of Murray Bridge BBQ at Bunnings in Murray Bridge in partnership with the Murray Bridge High School INTERACT club and the Rotary Foundation is also supported on a $ for $ basis by the Gates Foundation. Proceeds will go towards Polio eradication world wide which has been a Rotary project for 35 years. We are Sooo Close to eradication with wild Polio only present now in two countries Afghanistan and Pakistan. Rotary International has protected, by vaccination, nearly 3 billion children since 1985 in 122 countries from this paralizing disease. Countless volunteer hours and Rotary's advocacy efforts have played a role in decisions by governments to contribute more than $10 billion to the effort. Its not JUST a BBQ please support us if you can.
By John Scarvelis
CHRISTMAS PAGEANT FOR POLIO
The Rotary Polio Plus Program through the Polio Ute with Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Murray Bridge participated in the Murray Bridge Christmas Parade and Festival at the Sturt Reserve Riverfront yesterday. The Ute has been the focus of the Murray Bridge High School Interact Club along with Rotarians enlightening student leaders at three Murray Bridge schools, Tyndale, Unity and MBHS about the Polio pandemic in the early previous century, peaking in the 1950's, the lessons learnt, its current status, how virus is spread, and relevance to the covid. The weather for the parade at 4pm was perfect and stayed that way for the rest of the day and evening which the large crowd enjoyed. Congratulations should go for the Covid planning and execution to the Rural City of Murray Bridge, Business Murray Bridge and AOK Events enabling everyone to participate and enjoy the Event. Also the new sponsors of the Event including the Bridgeport Hotel, Kookaburra Homes and Spry Engineering. You could feel the excitement of the crowd at the Parade, during the Festival particularly around the rides and the live music presented by the Station, and then at the fireworks at 9am. Well Done Murray Bridge. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
By John Scarvelis
Object of Rotary
The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:
FIRST: The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
SECOND: High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
THIRD: The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life;
FOURTH: The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
CALENDAR WINNERS 23rd November 2021
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Murdoch Ballantyne
Mypolonga
Sold by Mypo P.S.
$100
239
Amelia Moore
Murray Bridge
Sold by S. Cozens
30
509
Catherine Laughlin
Toora
Sold by S. Walker
20
End Polio Now
In 1985 Rotary launched PolioPlus to immunize every child in the world against polio. Working with our partners and members of the global health community, together we will end polio.
Through the science of vaccines, Rotary & partners have saved nearly 19 million children from becoming paralyzed by polio. Learn more about our work to End Polio Now and how you can get involved: https://on.rotary.org/3eqtrrr
Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 35 years, and we’ve made incredible progress in the fight to rid the world of it forever.
It’s crucial to eradicate polio from the last two countries where it remains endemic and to keep other countries polio-free.
If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children each year.
What is polio?
Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a paralyzing and potentially deadly infectious disease that most commonly affects children under the age of 5. The virus spreads from person to person, typically through contaminated water. It can then attack the nervous system.
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