ALL YEAR Dinner Out 1st Tuesday of each month 7pm at a restaurant
Meetings Friday 12.00 noon - 2pm @ Millennium Hotel in Jungceylon
Rat-U-Thit Road Patong Beach
November – April 2nd 3rd & 4th Friday - May – October 2nd & 4th Friday only
Dress code - Smart-Casual
(long pants and shirts with collars for men, women: smart-casual)
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Visitors Welcome
registration mandatory
Dear Rotarians and Friends of Rotary,
August is Rotary's membership month. So I have two questions for you:
Why are you a Rotarian?
A really important question! Without understanding why you are a Rotarian you won't be able to answer the second question --
Who do you know that you should invite to be a member of our club? Clearly, you can't invite someone to become a Rotarian if you don't understand why you are one.
So please contemplate these questions and be ready to talk about your answers when we meet this month.
I also need your attention a little longer, while you read my goals for leading the club this year. You'll see they are quite focused, and I strongly believe that if we can achieve these, we will be a much stronger club in June 2019:
Members have highlighted that they are enjoying the more fellowship, less speaker- oriented meetings. They would like more events that are family oriented so members can get together without Rotary business. They would like more hands on projects that bring them together and where they can see the direct results of their efforts. They’d like to ensure that projects reflect the needs of the community.
Outlined below are some plans on how to make this happen.
Outline
1. Build membership, build engagement, build mutual support
a. Identify “Why are you a Rotary club Member?”
b. Do a review with members whom they think could be members
c. Improve overall understanding of what Rotary is and means through RI tools as well as participation in District events
d. Highlight roles to all members – so they know what they can do
e. Fill in gaps with those not participating
f. Increase fellowship events to at least 1 every 2 months in addition to regular schedule
g. Improve communication among members
(when someone isn’t showing up – who’s keeping in touch?)
h. Celebrate birthdays each month
i. Identify small CSP projects that are hands on
2. Community review to identify focus for upcoming projects
a. Have a community based perspective on what future projects should be .Use RI template to get in touch with schools, local government, local police, environment and other charities including other Rotary clubs on the island.
Start planning how 2017/18 donations will be best used in 3 years
3. Become more active with the Phuket Rotary Community
4. Review and Update strategic plan and goals.
This year we will start by looking inward towards the club to define who we are and how to build the foundation for a strong future and then look outwards to work with the community to ensure our efforts are impactful and sustainable.
Our goal, at year’s end is that we are a kinder club and every member should feel that they are the “Inspiration”!
Please note a few items for your information:
The attendance requirement as voted by the club is 40% of meetings. Make-ups are Rotary events outside meetings and dinners out. They include committee meetings, fellowship meetings where all the members are invited, attending a meeting of another club, other meetings where there is at least 30 minutes of Rotary work
(training for example.) It is the member's responsibility to inform the Secretary of makeups (including the date and reason.) You can do this by email or through Club Runner (Members section on the website.) Chairs of events are responsible for letting the Secretary know of multiple makeups.
You can also check that the makeup is there by checking your attendance on the member section of the website. We are planning a meeting to review the ByLaws again prior to the next Club Assembly, where any changes can be voted upon.
We had our board meeting on the 20th of July. All minutes will be uploaded onto Club Runner once they are approved. These can also be found on the member section of the website.
We are planning to hold some of our board meetings after our Friday lunches so members who are interested can participate.
Members are welcome to all board meetings regardless.
Have a good week!
YIR, Karen
Karen Eidsvik Moody
President, Rotary Club of Patong Beach
2018-2019
Dinner Out - Friday 10th August 2018
The August dinner out is actually a lunch out.
The Boathouse in Kata has a special during the green season of a great 3 course lunch with free flow good grape nectars for a very special price of
1,000 THB / person. It is only available on Fridays though, so we have shifted this month. We don't plan to make this a regular feature, or price, but thought we should take advantage of this opportunity while we can.
Please register when you receive the invitation through Club Runner.
August
Gary Eidsvik-Moody 15th
Mark Pendlebury 22nd
Friday 20th July
20 July 2018
12:22 lunch was called by SA Gary
12:58 Meeting called by SA Gary
Intro of the Guests:
Sumi of the Phuket Hotel Association:
Guest Rotarian from Australia, Nelson Bay,
Robert and Judy Mitchel
Guest Rotarian, Bertie Jacobs, Rotary Club of South Africa, Potchefstroom
Club Business by P. Karen:
Board meeting at 2:00 P.M. after this meeting
Tutorial on Club Runner on registering for meetings
Under P. Karen’s presidency she hopes to organize more fellowship among members
Spoke about Water Safety program headed up by Larry A. : Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays @ 3:00, Volunteers needed and WELCOME
Report on BanYa Education Center: A very successful Program to help Myanmar Children in Work camps; originally 20 kids, now 220 kids. Global Grant is under review by David and Sam. Grant for teacher training and Computer. Grant money is almost exhausted so program will have to seek other funding (beyond RCOPB commitments).
Intro of Guest Speaker by SAA Gary:
Guest Speaker: Marissa Jablongski, PHD
USAID Science & Technology Policy Fellow
“Engineers for People”
Topic of Presentation: Single Use of Plastic:
Notes from a very informative talk:
Photo of Lake Michigan and Marissa’s childhood next to the
biggest source of Fresh Water on the planet….this childhood got Marissa thinking/valuing about clean water and clean beaches—
Nowadays plastic is ruining the beaches. Plastic Pollution-on-beaches is everywhere. How do the worlds children see the plastic on the beaches? They have become adjusted/normalized to seeing the beaches with plastic.
Micro plastics are very dangerous to the birds and fish of the marine environment. The animals eat the small bits of plastic and feel full but die of malnutrition.
Speaker Marissa has visited 20 Phuket hotels in the last few weeks and has investigated the kitchens, the spas, and the trash bins.
She is searching and has found sources of the plastic pollution is all: She interviewed the staff of the Hotels and generated common, salient questions raised:
How does my recycled plastic get into the ocean?
If we burn plastic, doesn’t that pollute the air?
I don’t throw plastic into the ocean and I don’t know anyone who does, so how does all that debris get into the ocean?
Background facts:
Plastic comes from OIL….crude to refinery to chemicals…
#7 plastics are NOT recycleable
1,000,000 plastic bottles every MINUTE are generated
1,000,000 plastic bags every MINUTE are generated
Intention of Plastic may have been noble (clean, light, sterile packaging), but we have lost the good intent in over-production…
We all Need a personal Connection to the Death by Plastic,
In Phuket only 20% of Plastics are recycled.
One “Can mine plastic from land fills, so no need to produce any more plastic for recycling”
Discussing Solutions:
Plant/Bio Plastics were once thought as the end to polluting plastics. However, they require high temps and microbes to be effective, i.e.
High heat…is not present in the ocean
Bacteria….does not live in the sea water
Will take 90 days minimum…in heated land fill
“REFUSE PLASTIC” is the new Mantra – the only hope of reducing plastic pollution – just live without plastic.
Intention of the service industry, is to please its guests – however, guests have to be pleased without plastic or they are part of the problem.
We all are part of the “bad” and the “Good”
It’s a big deal, we have to change at a deep level
Change your self; then, your colleagues; then, your company; then, change regionally; then, maybe change the world
COMMON PLASTICS FOUND IN HOTEL INDUSTRY:
Water Bottle: issues with weight, storage, recycling, trucking
Plastic Straws: must go to paper in spite of cost
Containers: notion containers, issues with branding, and sanitation
Import items coming into Hotel: not bags, but cloth, not bags but bins
Trash Bags: other ways of transport and conveyance; plastic bags in kitchen is a hard one to solve;
PARAMETERS OF CHANGE FOR ALL OF US:
All of these changes away from plastic are not easy, but they are all required:
There are always issues with switching all of these plastic out to other containers.
Leveraging from local SOLUTIONS to world-wide SOLUTIONS
Personal Challenge FOR ALL IS to give up some plastic everyday, every week, every year:
“MUST HAVE A NEW NORMAL”
(Speaker was well appreciated, thanked and graciously answered lots of questions….more supportive comments than questions.)
Reporter: PP O.B. Wetzell Photos: Gary Eidsvik-Moody
- Thank you ed Denis
URGENTLY WANTED
We are urgently looking for members with average computer skills for ClubRunner administration support. You will be assigned and trained on certain modules, e.g. how to publish an event, creating volunteers list, etc.
The goal is to share all the CR administration work for this Rotary Club among more members. The beauty is, these works can be done anywhere and anytime, whenever you are free.
Members interested please contact club secretary PP Walter
Gary Eidsvik-Moody attended the swimming program - please call in & see the kids in action - having FUN & learning swimming survival.
(Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday-call Larry Amsden for details)
I attended the safe swimming lesson yesterday and the theme was learning, buoyancy and rescue, so I thought I would send a few photos of the day's event.
The kids used water bottles to learn to float. The great thing about this is they jumped into the pool backwards, and had to float for 20 seconds on their backs, no fear was felt by the kids to let themselves let go.
Then they were taught to rescue someone in trouble in the water, in this case, were the instructors.
The various methods were throwing afloat, using a pole and throwing a line with a float attached, the most important aspect was not to stand, as you can also be pulled in, but to kneel and pull the swimmer to the side.
A man is stranded on a desert island for 10 years.
One day a beautiful girl swims to shore in a wetsuit.
Man: "Hi! I am so happy to see you."
Girl: "Hi! It seems like you've been here a long time. How long has it been since you've had a cigarette?"
Man: "It's been 10 years!"
With this information the girl unzips a slot on the arm of her wet suit and gives the man a cigarette.
Man: "Thank you so much!"
Girl: "So tell me how long has it been since you had a drink?"
Man: "It's been 10 years!"
The girl unzips another pocket on her wet suit and comes out with a flask of 12 year old malt whisky and gives the man a drink.
Man: "Thank you so much. You are like a miracle!"
Girl (starting to unzip the front of her wet suit):
"So tell me then, how long has it been since you played around?"
Man: "Oh, my God, don't tell me you've got a set of golf clubs in there, too...!"