THE ROTARY CLUB OF ESSENDON D9800 President 2014-15 : Lisa Lowcock ABN 91036600532 P.O Box 161 Essendon 3040 Australia www.rcessendon.com.au Contact us secretary@rce.org.au and follow us on facebook Editor Sunil Perera Volume 80, Issue 18 28 October 2014 This week s speaker was Rob Slade Slade Bloodstock Pty Ltd Rob Slade gave up an accounting career in the 1990 s to pursue his interest in horse racing. He is now Managing Director of Slade Bloodstock, one of Australia s leading racehorse syndicators. Some of the most successful horses he has syndicated include Alinghi who won over $3.4m in prize money and Moment of Change who is still racing with prize money to date in excess of $1.6m. Rob was born and raised in the Essendon area and in his younger days played cricket for Essendon and football for Brunswick. Grant Sheldon introduced the speaker and a question and answer session followed with Grant as the questioner, one of the first questions from Grant to Rob Slade was, who in his view would win the Melbourne cup! Rob stated he will be backing the Japanese horse Admire Ratki, his winners during the week, Hi World Group 3 Carbine club stakes Derby day, Enquare Group 1 Myer Classic Derby day, Game of Fame Group 1 VRC Oaks day, Moment of change Group 1 Darley Classic Emirates stakes day Grant asked Rob about his cricketing days with Simon Cookson and Rob stated that he remembered those days well as Simon was not a good player at all! (what the writer heard, difficult to hear as everyone was clapping) Rob also stated that he represented Australia in the under 16 cricket team. Rob Slade also stated that qualifying initially as an Accountant gave him the business skills necessary in later years when he started his business. In answer to a question about his work he explained what Race Horse Syndication means, he also explained the important things he looks for in a horse and the Gold Coast Sales process. Rob Slade related amusing anecdotes of racing personalities.
The best dressed lady was Jenny Foster with the flashing lights Light up Rotary on her hat and a distant second (or first) in the men s was Dr Peter Baker with his $2 hat (he told me the price he paid) and received a disproportionately expensive bottle of Champagne! Roger Leask missed out again even though he tried hard with a bet each way (a lady/man) as you can see from the photo. Other News Anne Rogers and Judy Pepi were grazing their way around the Cradle Coast produce market in Tassie last week, and came across a Rotary Club of Ulverstone BBQ - with a difference. Not a snag in sight. Instead they were cooking slabs of magnificent (donated) Tassie salmon and selling it for a gold coin donation!!! They do this every Sunday 8.30 till 12.30. Only in Tassie. Wine night at the Valley Cellar Door please see events calendar 26 th Nov 2014
Rotarians, Partners, Friends, Husbands, Wives! We need your Help! As most of you know we currently have no funds available for the any of the projects that we urgently want to undertake. This is not the Rotary Club of Essendon way! So we have a Major Major Monster Trolley Dash Raffle to be held over 7 weeks and we need YOUR HELP!! We start on Nov 6th and finish on Dec 17th See the flyer attached for details raffle details You will be seated while selling the tickets. We have total exclusive selling at La Manna Supermarket Essendon Airport. We need you to fill the Roster times with friends, wives, and relatives! Please, Please, help, as funds are raised from the Community for the local Community! THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST FUNDRAISING EVENT THE RC Essendon HAS DONE FOR 10 years! But we can t do it without your help. So here s what you have to do. Look at the Rosters Pick as many times as you can fill Email me back with your Roster times (don t send the Rosters back) I will update the Rosters and send it out (to confirm times) on Sunday Oct 30th I am looking forward to hearing from you all as we need your Help!
THE BIG ROTARY RAFFLE Newsletter of the Rotary Club of Essendon Inc. GREAT PRIZES: LaManna DIRECT SUPERMARKET TROLLEY DASH Proudly sponsored by LaManna Direct 1 ST PRIZE: 5 MINUTE SUPERMARKET TROLLEY DASH OR WHEN THE TROLLEY IS FULL FRUIT & VEGETABLES & DRY GROCERIES ONLY*# 2 ND PRIZE: 60 SECOND DASH FRUIT AND VEGETABLES ONLY* Five Draws to be held on: Draw 1 - Wednesday, November 19 Draw 2 Wednesday, November 26 Draw 3 Wednesday, December 3 Draw 4 Wednesday, December 10 Draw 5 Wednesday, December 17 DRAW WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE LaManna DIRECT CAFÉ AT 2pm ON THE WEDNESDAYS NOMINATED^ TICKETS: $5 FOR ONE TICKET IN ONE DRAW $10 FOR THREE TICKETS IN ONE DRAW $20 ONE TICKET IN ALL 5 DRAWS INSURANCE: $5 Authorising a nominated Rotary Club of Essendon Inc representative to undertake the Supermarket Trolley Dash on your behalf. ^ YOU or YOUR REPRESENTATIVE MUST BE PRESENT WITH THE WINNING TICKET ON THE DAY TO COLLECT THE PRIZE OR HAVE TAKEN OUT NOMINATED INSURANCE *TERMS AND CONDITIONS: Trolley dash will start at the front of the store and participant cannot double back. Winners must follow directions from LaManna staff at all times during the dash. *For health and safety meat, fish, chicken, deli and Chef In A Box are all excluded from the dash. Health & Beauty and liquor departments are also excluded. #Only one item of each product is to be placed in the trolley no multiples. 100% OF FUNDS RAISED WILL GO TO SUPPORT THE STRATHMORE MEN S SHED AND THE ROTARY CLUB OF ESSENDON INC COMMUNITY PROJECTS. RESULTS WILL BE PUBLISHED ON ROTARY CLUB OF ESSENDON INC WEBSITE: www.rcessendon.com.au
TRIVIA FROM NEIL HENDERSON Recently I did a makeup at Port Lincoln and sat next to a member whose classification was Natural Resource Management. What he actually did was "Aquaculture". His business venture is breeding and growing Kingfish in pens in Spencer Gulf. The fish are bred from eggs 1mm in size in inland pools until they are 20 grams in size - similar to large sardines - and then transferred to caged pens in the gulf to grow to the desired size of around 6-7 kgs. This week they are moving 100 tonnes of hatchlings via helicopter into the pens. These take about 4 years to grow to desired market size. 80% of their harvest is sold in Australia, predominantly through the Sydney fish market to the up market restaurants. Remainder is exported predominantly for sushumi. From a fish that was not that popular, difficult to catch in the wild and worth little per kg they can now realise $17/kg wholesale, due to consistency of quality and supply. It takes 12 years before Kingfish are mature enough to breed and some of their breeding stock weigh up to 150kgs each! These are held inland in huge swimming pools. They have learnt most of this themselves as little was previously known about Kingfish. In comparison Blue Fin Tuna is still caught in the wild and subject to quotas. The tuna is transferred into pens after it is caught and then grown to desired market size. Knowledge of tuna breeding is still insufficient to be able to farm them from scratch. And so ends Neil Henderson's trivia for this week. Isn't Rotary amazing? ROTARY DISTRICT 9800 CONFERENCE 2015 12-15 March 2015 - Hobart www.rotary9800conference.org.au HELP REQUIRED AT CLUB MEETINGS The Club Services Committee needs people to help pack up the room after each meeting. Please help if you are able to stay after the conclusion of the meeting.
TRIVIA NIGHT BONANZA -KANGAN SCOOPS THE POOL Newsletter of the Rotary Club of Essendon Inc. Friday night saw 170 people enjoy our own Trivia master Boris Struk deliver some really difficult questions. The winning table was from Kangan Institute. Simon Cookson our MC and auctioneer was able to extract $3,000 from the major auction items and keep everyone entertained. A total of $11,500 was raised to support Bahay Tuluyan. A special thank you to all of our donors, sponsors and supporters and our long term partner Kangan Institute. Boris and Simon are a wonderful duo a big thank you to you both. Cathy and Shirley Winning table
ROTARY MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION NIGHT The Rotary Gateway Clusters of East and West invite all Rotarians to invite friends to the major membership drive event of the year. On Wednesday 5 th November 2014 right in the middle of the Spring Racing Carnival we have the CEO of Racing Victoria, Mr Bernard Saundry as guest speaker. He is a terrific speaker and has been involved in the racing industry for many years. We are indeed privileged to have Mr Saundry take time out of this incredibly busy week to assist us in attracting new members to Rotary. Also speaking will be Dr Jonathon Kolieb, Rotary World Peace Fellow 2004-06 and a great presentation from the local exchange students including our own beautiful Ellen. The event is at 6pm-8.30pm at St Bernards College Auditorium, Beryl St, West Essendon. Finger Food and Beverages provided. This is an opportunity to invite all potential Rotarians to a high quality event to showcase Rotary and listen to a very topical guest speaker. Contact Pres. Lisa to register your attendance numbers.
EVENTS CALENDAR Newsletter of the Rotary Club of Essendon Inc. DATE SPEAKER/EVENT VENUE 04/11/14 NO MEETING 5/11/14 Cluster membership function St Bernard s College Auditorium 6-8:30pm 11/11/14 AGM The Anglers Tavern 1-2pm 18/11/14 John Wigley Rotary Foundation Evening Meeting 25/11/14 Golf Day and Dinner / Major Fund raiser followed by Dinner incorporating evening meeting The Anglers Tavern 6.30pm for 7-8pm Northern Golf Club 26/11/2014 Wine night Valley Cellar Door 28/01/15 04/02/15 Bahay-Tuluyan Delegation Philippines 07/03/15 13/03/15 Myanmar Delegation Myanmar 12/03/15 14/03/15 D9800 83rd District Conference Hobart 06/06/15 09/06/15 Rotary s 106th International Convention. For more details see www.riconvention.org Sao Paulo, Brazil
Help yourself and help the Club by banking with Strathmore Community Bank. For example, take out a home loan and the club will receive up to $500. Take out a 3 month fixed term deposit and the club will receive up to $50. For more details drop into the branch at 337 Napier St or call branch Manager Philip Stewart on 9374-2607. John L Gregory Certified Practising Accountant 272 Keilor Road, North Essendon, VIC 3041 jgregory@netspace.net.au Telephone: 03-9379 1705