Our guest speaker tonight was Grant Herring who is employed by the Salvation Army to run programs associated with the justice system.  The Salvos have a strong sense of responsibility to guide those with addictions such as drugs, alcohol and gambling.  Risdon Prison’s “Breaking the Cycle” campaign is ambitious as it is a 10 year plan [...]

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Tonight’s guest speaker was our District Governor Peter Murfett. He spoke about Kalyan Banerjee who is our International President and the Rotary Theme for 2011/12 is “reach within to embrace humanity” including three principles: Family, Continuity and Change. He emphasised Rotary Foundation and how we in Tasmania benefit from our contributions to it. Peter Murfett [...]

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Tonight’s guest speaker were Anjie Penneyston and Angela Woodward from BlueLine Employment. They specialise in supporting people with disabilities to gain and maintain employment. They help people gain the skills and the confidence needed to gain and keep employment. They are constantly looking for employers who are willing to take on someone with a disability.

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Tonight’s guest speaker was Carmen Jenkinson from Diabetes Tasmania. She spoke on what diabetes is, what are the risks, how to reduce your risk factors, and how to better protect yourself from the damage it causes.

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Lola Cowle from the Tasmanian Community Fund spoke about the grants they offer. $55.5 million has been given to 1600 projects since 2000. Types of projects/organisations that receive grants are Rotary, Rotaract, Lions, Lionesses, Apex, Salvation Army, Lifeline, Mission Australia, Literacy programs for women’s shelters, PCYC, Scouts, Guides, Churches, Diabetes Tasmania and many more. The [...]

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Tonight’s guest speaker was Robert McCafferty from the Ron Barwick Minimum Security Prison at Risdon. In an effort to reduce the prisoner recidivism rates that around 40% the prison is developing programs with the community to help the prisoners find meaningful skills and outlook on life when they are released. He mentioned quiet a few [...]

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Tonight’s guest speaker was Ben Wood who spoke of combating malaria in South Western Uganda. He is helping raise funds to implement basic preventative measures against malaria. Currently there are not enough malaria medications or treated nets to go around. Consequently the number of children and pregnant women becoming infected is very high. He is [...]

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Tonight’s guest speaker was Tiziana Botti from Southern Water. She gave us the facts of the water meter roll-out for the greater Hobart area. She told us how water meters will help people find water leaks, and will in the long run save money for Southern Water.

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Tonight’s guest speaker was Jenny Kerrison (also a Rotarian from the Rotary Club of North Hobart).  She spoke of her recent experience of nursing in Bangladesh.  She did a study of nursing care involving the Kumudini Hospital in the city of Mirzapur (North west of Dhaka).  Jenny talked about the country of Bangladesh and of [...]

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Tonight’s guest speaker was Alina Schertenleib, a Rotary exchange student from Switzerland. She gave us a presentation of her time in Tasmania. She stayed with several host families during her time, including Anita Orchard who hosted her for 2 months. She has grown quite remarkably in her time in Tasmania and she shows a maturing [...]

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Tonight’s guest speaker was Stephanie Cheung who we sponsored to go into the National Youth Science Forum in March. She went in the physics group (there were others such as engineering and chemistry). Stephanie enthusiastically told us about the many projects, talks, tours and the scientists she met. They all received coaching on public speaking [...]

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