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Our final advertorial in the "Leader"

30/9/2015

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This image is from the Rotary Club of Crawley (ROC) in WA
We budgeted for a series of advertortials in local print media for a year. The 
Leader" is a monthly publication of over 40,000 which is free.  This is our final publication, a "double-bunger" as we combined the penultimate and final advert into one. Each month we had a boxed "call to action" advert and an image relevant to the story.
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Enterprisers take simple actions with powerful outcomes
Mighty Max (MM) is the multi-function purpose-built trailer the Club owns after successfully applying for a  NSW State Government Community Building Partnerships grant. Mighty Max has been built, fitted out and equipped with tools, marquees, generator, painting equipment and a BBQ and can be reconfigured for many community service projects.
One of MMs jobs is to remove graffiti tags in the Mayfield area, a project in collaboration with the Mayfield Business Association to achieve the Rotary Club’s ambition to “Make Mayfield More Beautiful”.  Tags are like selfies with paint and don’t inspire a sense of community ownership like a piece of seriously good street art can. It would be marvellous to have more quality street art in Mayfield and other neighbouring suburbs.  
On Sunday October 18th Mighty Max will be very busy with the annual Rotary Down Under Graffiti Removal Day 2015. Anyone can volunteer on the website www.graffitiremovalday.org.au to help with that day. 
Enterprisers have been serving the community since 1948. In that time they have always had a strong focus on projects which help young people to learn, to grow healthy physically and mentally and to make wide social connections locally and internationally.   It is easy to tell young people that anything is possible, but a hand up is often necessary to make possibilities into realities.  The weekend Rotary Youth Program of Enrichment (RYPEN) in the company of other young people learning public speaking and talking with community leaders can boost the confidence of  somebody 14-15 years of age who is struggling at school.  Rotary Youth Driver Awareness (RYDA) is a day for students in Year 10 and introduces them to experiences and knowledge which can help them make better choices when they get a drivers  licence. A simple action which can save injuries and lives. 
Simple actions can have powerful outcomes.  A simple action like giving the Mayfield Scouts a hand by serving on a fund-raising BBQ can help raise just a few more dollars to get scouts to a Jamboree – a significant experience for any Scout.  Giving the Kooragang Volunteers  who work consistently most days of the week to plant and protect our important natural heritage places right here in the estuary of the Hunter River a hand running a BBQ at the Welcome Shorebirds event in November at Stockton Bridge is a simple action which provides lunch for visitors – many of them from overseas because Newcastle is a Hot Spot for migratory shorebirds. 
For years the Club has presented the World Festival of Magic show each year. Local businesses are contacted and buy tickets to a world class magic show.  The tickets are then donated to disadvantaged people who could not usually afford to see a top class stage show. That simple gesture of generosity by businesses, with the help of the Rotarians, gives many people in Newcastle and Maitland enormous pleasure. We know because they tell us.
The Rotary Club of Newcastle Enterprise welcomes anyone who wants to know how they can be part of taking simple actions with powerful outcomes.   
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Launching our trailer

25/9/2015

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Tim Crakenthorp MP, Member for Newcastle, with Damien "Trailer Daddy" Keegan - and spraygun.
Back of the trailer carries the names of people and companies which made the whole project possible
Tim with Rita Dixan, Mayfield Buisness Association Coordinator and her son Ewan next to Howard Bridgman
Bob Aus assembling the BBQ and Damien bringing in supplies - with Max as "helper"
Tim's assistant Niciole was very busy behind the camera and taking notes and names.
On the left is Roger Norman of Rotary Club TurraMurra. He and John Edwards (who was the initiator of the Rotary graffiti removal project) drove up that morning with their trailer.
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Modest John Edwards on the right has created a WONDERFULL calendar for 2016 of his Cape to Cape (inside the Antarctic circle) trip for sale at $20 , all profits go to PolioPlus to finally rid the world of this dread disease
http://digitaledition.rotarydownunder.com.au/default.aspx?iid=120562&startpage=page0000059#folio=14
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Rita donated some of her fabulous Turkish Delight for us to share - Yum Plus!
Our new trailer came from a wish to have a truly flexible and multi-function piece of equipment for graffiti removal and other Club projects. The funds came from a NSW Community Building Partnership grant.
Tim Crakenthorp MP, Member for  Newcastle, had a significant place in making the final choice of the competitive applications and which ones are funded.  He was very pleased to come and preside over the launch of the trailer. During our chatting we found out he was a Rotary Youth Exchange  Program (YEP) student and spent a life-changing year in Johannesburg  South Africa in the late years of the Apartheid era. Seeing the effects of repression and racial division fired him up with a desire to make changes for good in the world.  He and his assistant Nicole spent quite some time with us and we are sure they went away with a much expanded knowledge of Rotary, Mayfield and  Rotary Down Under Graffiti Removal Day 2015.
Rita Dixon, Coordinator of the Mayfield Business Association came with son Ewan and contributed some boxes of her artisan-made (by her) Turkish Delight - unctuous and sweet and delicious and packaged in very beautifully designed boxes. Is this a plug to buy some from her - you bet!!
The weather was going to rain on our parade so we switched from  Webb Park for the launch to the covered carpark area at France Funerals. Thanks Ian Cowling for letting us use it at as right on cue at 10am the  predicted rain started and the wind blew but we were safe under a marquee. BBQ  and a few coffee runs later we packed up our tent and stole off into mist. 

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Get a Grip or Grasping at Straws

12/9/2015

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Discovery Day runs for five days at Kahibah PS. It is a  version of the Science and Engineering Challenge  modified for Years 5-6. Bits of balsa, miles of sticky tape, elastic bands, straws and wire were used to create a power supply grid, earthquake-proof towers, bridges weighing about 50 grams to hopefully hold 9 Kgms, and the science behind a catapult. This year 9 schools a days discovered science including the very complex one of building a bionic hand. 

Strings and straws are snipped and as many working "fingers" as possible are fitted onto a "wrist" and into a latex glove. The test is - can it be manipulated to pick up one straws, a bundle of straws from a a box, hold a foam ball or a juggling ball for five seconds.  As one of our members - a former teacher - said "It's wonderful when you see the moment the penny drops and they get it!" !  The student teams couldn't be assisted except by asking things like - "Will that fit into the glove, have you got enough string to make all of the fingers, look at your own hand, can you see how many joints are in one finger?" and so on. 
The challenge gets students thinking about the very real aim of creating a functional hand - an expensive and slow process in the real word, no less complex in a one and a half hour table top session.
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