The Rotary Club of Murray Bridge focused on the Local Job Market this week with Rotarian Jack Reddin interviewing Job facilitator Rotarian Christine Willersdorf with questions and answers from the floor making a very stimulating discussion. Christine is currently an employment facilitator whose role is to train employees and to see that they get looked after by the employers. Its a job seekers market at the moment if they have the right attitude in place and this is the focus of the training. This includes learning to be punctual, tidy, participate in group settings, and becoming job ready. Look at the Utube production of the Murray Bridge Local Jobs Program and take particular notice of the testimonials of some of the participants and make your own judgment. Some of these people had been long term unemployed whilst others just lacked the opportunities. Rural Development Australia Riverland and Murraylands and TAFE have also played an important role in Jobs Needs Analysis and to develop planning.
John Scarvelis
Hello Alexandra Rose
Rotary Peace Scholarships are offered annually through 8 leading Universities around the world.
These scholarships have the prime purpose of developing an international network of peace builders who are highly skilled and dedicated to preventing and resolving conflicts.
Alexandra Rose came to the attention of our Rotary District through then President of RC of Adelaide, Heidi Unferdorben. Alex is already a highly credentialled Graduate of the University of Queensland, experienced working in a number of different cultures, and fluent in several languages. We are now very pleased to announce that Alexandra Rose, has been offered a fully funded Master’s Degree Course at Duke University, North Carolina USA. These Peace Scholarships are always very highly sought by students from around the world, so Alexandra’s achievement is very special for our D9510.
In due course of time, Alex will join an International network of people, working through a diversity of organisations,
· to reduce the intensity of existing conflicts,
· to assist those caught up in conflicts
· and contribute to the education of people to avoid causing conflict situations.
Congratulations Alex, we wish you well in your endeavours to help others.
Story and photo; Rotarian Sam Cozens, Scholarships Officer.
Badging The Bridge
In the background of your Club there had been a small group addressing how we can “Badge the Bridge” from a Rotary perspective, when serendipitously a District Grant offer appeared offering the District Clubs monies that were surplus to requirements.
The guidelines were in brief: -
Show how your project will promote the Rotary brand within the Community
How your project will collaborate with other Rotary Clubs and/or other organisations
Supports one or more areas of Rotary’s areas of focus
The “Badge the Bridge” committee (which included reps from the Mobilong Club), morphed in to a group dedicated to developing a plan or project to garnishee this money from the District coffers ($5k plus one third of our own ie $6.6k total per Club or double if combined with Mobilong).
Our recently appointed Club Marketer in Steve Walker was challenged with putting together a presentation to this small group with a view to finding a project that would give us a very real chance of scoring some lazy dollars from District.
Keeping in mind that time is of the essence (the Grant has to be submitted on 31st of March 2022 and finalised by November 2022).
Monday night Steve regaled us with all sorts of ideas and signs and badging which in the end he distilled down to a project which was: -
Badging all the recycling wheelie bins in Murray Bridge with a large sticker which says “Rotary supports recycling” and the badge might contain the Rotary Clubs Logo, it might contain the Rotary website landing page, it might contain in small print the business that printed the stickers etc.
Steve will follow up on the costs, and present that detail together with an abridged version of his presentation to fellow Rotarians tonight with a further outline in two weeks time. This will give you all an idea of where this small committee is heading thus far.
Here’s the rub. We need you, fellow Rotarians, to give us some feedback on what you think of the idea. PLUS if you have a project that might better fill the bill then this will be the time to stand up and give us your idea. Indeed any project that you think might be worthwhile will be considered, if not for this Grant then perhaps later in the year.
Projects are the life blood of Service Clubs like ours.
CALENDAR WINNERS 1st MARCH 2022
$100
712
Kylie Hutchings
Klemzig
$30
651
Sue Jaensch
Murray Bridge
$20
249
J & G Scannell
Murray Bridge
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.
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.
What's happening on our Facebook page
John Scarvelis has been posting up a storm with some great content.
Rotary Peace Scholarships are offered annually through 8 leading Universities around the world.
