Our guest speaker, Jodie, updates the club on the Hospital Rebrand
Information Shelter-  The work on the information Shelter has begun! The concrete floor is down and soil and rocks have been delivered and placed for the beginnings of the landscaping.
Santa came to Casterton to visit in 2022
Bahgallah Hall Centenary and Remembrance Day Ceremony 2022
The Impact Of Rotary
"When I least expected it...
For over 2 years, from even before the lockdowns, the grass around my dam grew thick and tall. Several gardeners tried and failed, miserably, to clear the growth and I was afraid of harboring snakes, frogs and other dangerous critters!
I even got a special gardening crew from Hamilton to clear the mess, but the grass kept growing faster than the talk they talked, on how to cut this grass!
So, I gave up on the acre of overgrown grass hoping that, by some miracle, the problem would go away. If only the summer could dry it out!
I mentioned all this to Charlie and thought no more of it.
Today, Wally and Charlie came home with a huge mower and line trimmers. They cleared the tall grass, and I was able to walk on areas that I hadn't walked on for over 2 years!
I am lost for words! I haven't seen such determination to help and generosity, in recent times! This, to me, is the very essence of care.
Today I cried tears of joy and tears of appreciation because two gentlemen took time out to solve my big problem.
Thanks so very much Wally and Charlie. "
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Casterton CFA visit
75th Anniversary and Handover 2022
On the 21st July the Casterton Rotary Club celebrated its 75th Anniversary and conducted its annual Handover Meeting passing the baton to President Chris. Click on the button for a slideshow of the event. Download the Annual Report HERE.
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District Handover 2022 with DG Kathy Rivett


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Assistant Governor Darren Brown
District Trainer Tonie Thiel
Wood Raffle 2022
Don't forget about Chook Lotto everyone! Get EGGcited to tell your friends! Chick at Casterton Central & The Casterton Supermarket for your EGGStraordinary chance to become part of something EGGcelent! 😁 🐔🐤
Casterton Rotary Art Show Downloads
The members of our club went above and beyond on zoom for the Rotary Lift the Lid mental health initiative, raising $500!

 

100% of the money raised during this year’s Hat Day campaign goes directly to research helping the one in five Australians affected by depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and many other illnesses.

Visit: https://hatday.com.au/ for more information

RotarArt

Thank you to the 6 clubs that participated in our inaugural RotarArt show that was meant to be a part of our Casterton Kelpie Muster Art Show over the long weekend in June. Unfortunately due to Covid 19 we had to cancel the Art Show but as I had 9 entries I decided to go ahead with my show. I had it judged by renowned artist Pam McIntyre that was to judge the main art show and we were blown away by the quality and creativity of the art work from the clubs. In saying that I decided to award more prizes not just a first prize.
 
Equal first prize went to Bordertown, Artist Rose Milton ($250), second prize to Pt Fairy Artist Mllee Cox ($100) and equal third to Portland Bay Artist Marg Wagner ($50) and Casterton Artist Paul Talay ($50).
Thank you again to the artists that sent in art work. Hopefully next year we can get a few more entries and make it bigger and better.
 
Leanne Richardson
Casterton Rotary Club
 
Be sure to have a look at our amazing artists work below!
First Prize Story
Title "A Special Day
By Rose Milton
 
This painting depicts a group of girls who received Days for Girls washable
hygiene kits from members of our club. In 2016, 3 members of the
Bordertown Days for Girls group travelled to Glasgow School in the poor
Tamil Hills area of SRI LANKA to distribute 150 kits to the girls. The club and
members provided sewing machines to assist us in teaching the girls sewing
techniques. This trip and distribution was organised for us by a Tamil refugee
who was living in Bordertown and wanted us to help the students in his old
school.
First Prize Story
Title "The Official Handover of the Key"
By Rose Milton
 
In June 2019, I was one of 4 Rotarians from Bordertown Rotary who returned
to the school for the official handover of the two new classrooms supplied by
our Club. Since our decision to help in 2017, we had fundraised a big budget
of $30,000 whilst enjoying the generous support of members of our district.
We had opted to raise the money entirely ourselves and this proved to be
the most cost efficient and time efficient way of achieving our goal. (With
Covid lurking, it probably would still be waiting to happen!)
 
The project was handled in a very practical way. Our refugee friend (by now a
Rotarian) did the organising from Australia, (we could not speak Tamil!) and
a trusted man at the site checked progress and quality control and reported
daily. Photographic evidence was sent to us, to show constant visual up dates
of what was happening at the building site. The local men who built the
rooms kept working through the worrying times of the suicide bomb
detonations in Sri Lanka. Six weeks later, we were delighted to be part of the
unique 4 hour opening ceremony.
1st Prize
"The Official Handover of the Key"
By Rose Milton
RC Bordertown
Theme: New Classrooms for Tamil School
1st Prize
"A Special Day"
By Rose Milton
RC Bordertown
Theme: Washable Hygiene Kits for Girls
2nd Prize
"The original Uber eats"
By Mllee Cox
RC Pt Fairy
Theme: Meals on Wheels
3rd Prize
"Caring with coffee"
Marg Wagner
RC Portland Bay
Theme: Coffee Van Catering
3rd Prize
"Vegetable Garden and Irrigation"
Paul Talay
RC Casterton
Theme: Irrigation for Klibur Domin community
"Think outside the box"
Steven and Debbie Haines
RC Kardinia
Theme: Production of Locally Sourced Hampers during Covid 19

 
"Back to the future"
By Ian Esmore
RC Casterton
Theme: Rotary flight Peace 2071
"Headlight Testing & Caricatures 1"
By Jack McGorm
RC Naracoorte
Theme: Headlight testing
"Headlight Testing & Caricatures 2"
By Jack McGorm
RC Naracoorte
Theme: Headlight testing
Clean Water for Timorese People
 
Since independence from Indonesia, aged care home "Klibur Domin" survived largely intact the terrible events that followed the referendum. Klibur Domin was incorporated into Ryder Cheshire Foundation Australia with the aim of providing relief for some of the thousands of sick and disabled Timorese people who suffered terribly in the murder, arson, and pillage.  In August 1999 Ryder Cheshire Foundation assumed control and in 2000 with the aid of some Victorian Rotary clubs provided a team of nine volunteers who set about repairing the buildings, and restoring what could be used to house inpatients.
 
Volunteers have been assisting regularly ever since with the aim of providing expertise which is not available locally. After Casterton Rotary visited in 2017 to establish vegetable gardens and fruit trees on site, Casterton Rotary pledged to provide water filtration utilising  bore water which was only used for gardens, as well as supplying a fully functional drip irrigation system for the vegetables and fruit.
 
With donations from Casterton Farm Supplies and Puretec water filtration, the recently completed water filtration unit was installed and water from site is now usable for all patients, kitchens, and dental clinic, saving over US$1200/annum buying bottled water.
Vegetables and fruit are now in abundance, saving weekly trips to the local market to buy for the kitchens, and Netafim Australia has donated a complete irrigation system, which is to be installed when international travel resumes post  COVID-19.
 
Paul and Shirley Talay as well as Tony Mewburn, were the original volunteers from Casterton. Tony and Marianne have been back since along with a number of volunteers from local District 9870 clubs, under the auspices of Mt Gambier Ryder Cheshire. Volunteers face particular challenges while working at Klibur Domin, however the appreciation from the locals make it very worthwhile. Many thanks go to Casterton Farm Supplies, Puretec Water Filtration and Netafim for their donations, without these this worthwhile project would not happen.
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