This week, I lose the audio clip of the previous week's speaker and attempt to cover for that.

John Bindon is the YMCA's official historian and works in conjunction with the AWM to recover and catalogue documents which detail the volunteers who supported Australian troops during their wartime efforts.

Here's a link to a piece of YMCA's history on the AWM's site : https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RELAWM05467.001

And a link to the YMCA's own site: https://ymca.org.au/who_we_are/Pages/History.aspx

As always:

www.foresthillrotary.com

And the poem by RCFH's own Bob Williams:

It all started with a phone call to Bill from our local City of Whitehorse,

Would we help an elderly lady with a fallen tree and Bill replied, of course.

Bill sought volunteers for this outside work at her nearby Forest Hill home site,

So four of us ventured out to heed this damsel in distress’s needy plight,

Bill, John, Ron and Bob with combined ages you need a calculator to compute,

Sallied forth with saws and digging tools but not one of us had a tradies ute,

Ron brought his chain saw and started sawing the tree with meaningful blows,

The rest of us gave him space as we valued keeping all our fingers and toes,

Bill sawed up each branch Ron cut, small enough to handle and all with a grin,

While John and Bob bent to bundle them up, that is until their backs gave in,

They had some trouble tying them with knots undoing, causing comment about,

Unkind remarks were heard such as “I bet neither of you were ever a boy scout”,

Finally, all the tree was cut up, bundled up and backyard tidied nice and neat,

Barbara the grateful resident then provided afternoon tea and cake as a treat,

We yarned with this charming eighty five year old widow now living on her own,

It was good doing some hands- on work although our knees all gave a groan,

We four thought better of starting up business as the “Geriatric Gardeners” though,

With oxygen bottles, massages, bandages and liniment costing too much dough.

Episode nine in an ongoing series.

Dr Joanne Watson works in the field of inclusion and autonomy within the disability sector. Her Deakin University profile is here : http://tinyurl.com/jqfddhk

And this is a Vimeo link to a speech she did for Scope several years ago: https://vimeo.com/23019913

There are always disasters, and always a need for the work done by DisasterAid. Find out how to donate, get involved, and spread the word here: http://www.disasteraidaustralia.org.au/

As always, contact me at [email protected]

The Club of Forest Hill is reachable at [email protected]

And our website at www.foresthillrotary.com

Get excited. Our Facebook page is ready for a relaunch soon.

This week, Leadership and Fun.

As always, [email protected] to get in touch with me.

RCFH website at foresthillrotary.com and email at [email protected]

Learn about what the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards are for, and how they prepare young people for leadership roles in their community and their lives here: http://www.9810rotary.org.au/get-involved/ryla/

And watch a TV ad for Crazy Eddie's from the eighties: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rer9W58-qQQ

Repaired Track Now Available

Forest Hill's Website at www.foresthillrotary.com

Email at [email protected]

My own email at [email protected]

Information on Prison Ministry at https://www.prisonfellowship.org/

Hope Katolo Nursery School's Facebook page here https://www.facebook.com/hopekatolo/.

Link to details for the fundraising night screening of The Girl on the Train (Balwyn Cinemas, Friday October 14th) here https://www.facebook.com/events/1704042633249404/.

As always, [email protected],

foresthillrotary.com, direct email to the club at [email protected].

Episode Five in a continuing series about Rotary Club of Forest Hill and the greater Rotary organisation.

As always, [email protected] to get in touch with me.

RCFH website at foresthillrotary.com.

Learn more about the organisation that was involved in social enterprise before it was cool, at rotary.org.

Link to Rotary's polio effort here: http://www.endpolio.org/take-action

Link to Days for Girls (Australia) here: http://www.daysforgirls.org/australia

Forest Hill Club's page, as always is here: http://www.foresthillrotary.com/

And any complaints, ideas, or congratulations to me, Mike Finke, at [email protected]

This podcast not officially endorsed by RC Forest Hill or the greater Rotary organisations.

This week's podcast examines ideas around member recruitment.

As always, email at [email protected] for Mike.

Website for Forest HIll Club at http://www.foresthillrotary.com/.

Direct email to our club at [email protected].

This Week's Podcast, please follow this link to a pic from 2013 when the Larry the Lorikeet project started: http://boxhillhs.vic.edu.au/articles/212

My email at [email protected].

Forest Hill Club's website at http://www.foresthillrotary.com/

My email at [email protected].

Forest Hill Club's website at www.foresthillrotary.com/