Vol 25, Issue 21 Wed. 30th Nov, 2022

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It normally takes 12 months to have someone ready for flood or storm callouts.

Volunteers are expected to attend team sessions about three times a month – normally on a Wednesday night.

The SES is about community helping community. Our local unit has approximately one volunteer for every 1000 residents of our LGA. We’ve seen in recent natural disasters the stretch on SES resources. So, educating and engaging with the community on how to be disaster ready is a key focus. Being disaster prepared means not only are you positioned to look after yourself but potentially ready to look after neighbours, family and others.

Thanks to our local SES – they really are serving our community and making a difference.

As a gesture of thanks proceeds from our breakfast will be donated to SES Port Macquarie Unit.

By our special reporter

allison massey

Vocational visit to the Port Macquarie SES Unit

Our vocational visits get members out in the community seeing progress across many sectors.

Today (Friday november 25) we visited the Port Macquarie SES Unit on Central Road and were welcomed by Commander Michael, Elaine, Helen and Allison.

Did you know?:

All the team at the Port Macquarie Unit are volunteers. (Paid roles start at a zone level.)

When attending an incident SES, Fire, Ambulance all have defined roles. Who takes the lead when they are on a job? who cares for The casualty. (A great example of teamwork and customer focus.)

Volunteers or trained professionals? The SES are committed to training and team development.

As a Forbes girl and a family that hails from Eugowra & Tullamore, my heart is breaking for my home town communities, friends, family who have been so completely devastated by recent flooding events and loss of both lives and livelihood.

In particular, Eugowra has been left decimated by last week’s horrific flooding, with much of the NSW Central West town completely gutted by the ferocity and the volume of water that flowed down the Mandagery Creek.

Please consider assisting these communities through our Rotary Australia World Community Service (RAWCS) project https://directory.rawcs.com.au/32-2022-23. Remember the donations are tax deductible!

Funds raised to date have been directed through local Rotary Clubs to providing $500 Rotary Vouchers to those whose homes are uninhabitable and providing temporary accommodation. Support is also available to Rotary Clubs ‘on the ground’ for their projects for their communities.

Thank you for considering xx

Jenny

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Vale, Bruce Carpenter

Older Sunrise members will be saddened to learn that ex-member Bruce Carpenter died this morning.

Bruce was a member before he and his wife Cheryl took up a post in Jamaica.

They returned to Australia a couple of years ago and whenever Bruce was back in Port, he would try to get to our meeting.

He was hoping to rejoin us at Sunrise in 2023 as he & Cheryl had purchased their retirement home in Thrumster.

Chop n Chill (as above) was his favourite spot to enjoy a coffee in Port.

Bruce and Cheryl were active members of the Salvation Army. A memorial service will be held in lieu of a funeral service, details of which will be provided as soon as they become available.

a possibly true story!

A SPANISH Teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine. 'House' for instance, is feminine: 'la casa.' 'Pencil,' is masculine: el lapiz.'

A student asked, 'What gender is 'computer'?'

Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether 'computer' should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation.

The men's group decided that 'computer' should definitely be of the feminine gender ('la computadora'), because:

1 No one but their creator understands their internal logic;

2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else;

3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later retrieval; and

4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you

find yourself spending a fortune on accessories for it.

The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be masculine ('el computador'), because:

1. In order to do anything with them, you have

to turn them on;

2. They have a lot of data but still can't

think for themselves;

3. They are supposed to help you solve

problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and

4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize

that if you had waited a little longer, you could have

gotten a better model.

The women won.

Carols at Belle

Sue Jogever invites all members to her annual carols at Belle Real Estate, William St on Wednesday, 21 December 5pm to 7pm

More in formation on this link below: https://fb.me/e/2tL1dIvww

More McNeil Great Green Ideas!

If you're like most environmentally-aware Sunrisers, you probably have a large collection of black plastic garden pots sitting in your garage. Very soon, we hope to announce a great new initiate created by Malcolm McNeil that will see all black No. 5 pots recycled into useable materials! Stay tuned for more!

A word from Julie Garland

It has been another difficult year for communities across Australia. And as Christmas approaches – it is becoming increasingly clear that many Australians are going to struggle.

We all know Christmas is a time for joy. But for those doing it tough – it is often challenging, heartbreaking and isolating. Last Christmas, The Salvation Army provided around over 64,000 hampers as well as 26,000 gifts to individuals and families in need.

As cost-of-living increases continue to impact communities across the country, your support is more important now than ever. By donating food or gifts, you can help the Salvation Army make sure they leave no one in need this festive season.

We are collecting Christmas goodies to give to the Salvation Army for their annual Christmas Appeal. This is a project Sunrise has participated in over the past 15 years. In the next couple weeks leading up to Christmas, we are holding our meetings at various locations and it will be difficult to bring your goodies into one of our meetings. I am therefore asking you to deliver them to my address

Please consider items you would like to donate, add your name to the spreadsheet, return the email to let me know. I will send another email out next Monday with an updated spreadsheet so we don't get too many of the same items.

Buy your goodies, drop them off to me at 88 O’Briens Road (my home address) before Friday 9th December or earlier (please). The goodies will be gathered and delivered as a group donation to Salvation Army Port Macquarie.

Rotary Theme for December

December

Events

1st - Community service working bee 4pm & christmas party (6pm) at Tacking point lighthouse -

all welcome

2nd - service avenues meetings

3rd - sunrise bushwalkers 10 am at dunbogan - see vinny powers' email

9th - agm at the P.C.B.C 7:10 am

9th - last day for salvation army hamper donations.

9th - christmas wreath making 6pm - $85 includes all materials and drinks on arrival. book online at the link below

11th - dippers december outing - contact grant heaton if interested - sunday 8:30am - venue T.B.A.

16th - christmas meeting at the p.c.b.c - 7:10am

21st - carols at belle real estate: 5 - 7 pm

https:arthouseindustries.com.au/creative-classes-1#/private-workshoprotary-club-of-port-macquarie-sunrise/

DAVID

LAKIN

OTTO

PREMINGER

dECEMBER 5

• Bathtub Party Day
  
• INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER DAY FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
  
• Saint Nicholas Eve
  
• World Soil Day
  

lyndon bartholomew

peter sarstedt

dECEMBER 10

• Alfred Nobel Day (Sweden)
  
• Constitution Day (Thailand)
  
• international Human Rights day
  

allison massey

sophie monk

dECEMBER 14

• Martyred Intellectuals Day (Bangladesh)
  
• international Monkey Day
  

If you're a believer in astrology, sagittarian people are thought to be:

• Adventurous
  
• Adaptable
  
• Bold
  
• Curious
  
• Visionary
  

These qualities are counter-balanced by the following: a degree of flakiness or inconsistency. They're always looking for the next adventure, and that can mean abandoning whatever other plans they may have already made!

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Important news for our President, Neil Black?

president@sunrise-rotary.org.au

www.sunrise-rotary.org.au

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