Week 48 7th June 2016 (Jun 07, 2016)

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Meeting 7th June 2016

Meeting :48

Fellowship :Michael Eldridge

Reception: John Ferguson

Furniture: John Flynn

Guest Speaker : Vocational Visit ( AED Launch Rawlings Park )

Bulletin Editor : John Ferguson

Sergeant: John Flynn ( Not Required )

Member Profile : Nil

Next Market:Sprout and About 11th June

OIC: Col Duff , Tim Barter, Daniel Burns, Geoff Breust, David Foster, Andrew Irvine, Micheal Knight, John Mason, Rob Pearson, Josh Walsh, David Pyke, Jreemy Riethmuller, Jonty Shuter.

Club Rosters

Bulletin Editors

June 7,14,21 John Ferguson

Jun 28 Jul 5,12 Andy Irvine

Jul 19, 26 Aug 2 John Egan

Aug 9, 16,23 Peter MacKinnon

Aug 30,Sep 6, 13 Paul Murray

Sep 20,27,Oct 4 Doug Sutton

Sergeant's

7th June : John Flynn

14th June : Paul Milde

21st June : John Gray ( Laurie Blowes )

28th June : Changeover

Guest Speakers

7th June : Robyn Gillespie ( Vocational Visit AED Launch Rawlings Park )

14th June : Available

21st June : Club Assembly

Market Rosters

Saturday Markets setup for everyone at 6.30am

(Please arrange a swap if you are not
able to carry out your duties)

Sat 11th June 2016 OIC. Colin Duff, Tim Barter,Daniel Burns,Geoff Breust,David Foster,Andrew Irvine,Michael Knight,John Mason,Rob Pearson,Josh Walsh,David Pyke,Jeremy Riethmuller ,Jonty Shuter

Sat 9th July 2016. OIC Rob Nicholson,John Egan,Gerry Gerlack,John Gray,Mark Hillis,David Hodge,Wal Paton,Neil Pinto,Malcolm Robertson,John Smith,Doug Sutton,Ken Taylor,

Member Birthdays

Peter Green

June 3

Rob Fuller

June 5

J Gray Gray

June 6

John Hawkins

June 6

Paul Milde

June 20

Spouse Birthdays

Lynette McIntosh

June 2

Jenni Duff

June 7

Kaz

June 13

Margo

June 17

Margaret

June 19

Dawn Georgiou

June 22

Lou Shuter

June 22

Sarah Eldridge

June 24

Join Date

Darren Wallace

June 1, 2010

6 years

David Benn

June 1, 1986

30 years

David Byfield

June 2, 1979

37 years

Hugh Campbell

June 13, 2001

15 years

Peter Mackinnon

June 18, 2002

14 years

Timothy Macgillycuddy

June 19, 2012

4 years

John Ferguson
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Launch of Defib For Life

LAUNCH of DEFIB FOR LIFE.

Last Tuesday morning at a cold and damp Rawlings Park Defib For Life was launched. A hardy band of Wollundrians, representatives of Football Wagga Wagga and a packed media scrum supported Travis Downie as his eighteen months of hard work and dreams came to fruition.

Sue Buckman and Melissa Dunbar from Defib For Life and representatives from media consultants, Jam Media also supported the launch.

Congratulations Travis from a grateful club!

The Defib For Life Program will have an immediate impact on the Wagga and district community with its ability to save the life on any citizen who may unfortunately have a Sudden Cardiac Arrest.

Travis making the presentation of the Defib to Erwin Budd, President of Football Wagga Wagga.

Representatives of all Wagga Football clubs were present at the launch.

There was a full media presents at the launch. Jam Media provided an excellent program of media support.

Strong supporter of Wollundry, Phil Hoey (PHF) added his support to the media launch.

Strong support from members at the launch. Some even braved the cold conditions and "bared" the white shirts!!!

Guest Speaker Sue Buckman

Posted by John Ferguson on Jun 07, 2016

GUEST SPEAKER: Sue Buckman

Today's guest speaker, Sue Buckman from Defib For Life was introduced by Travers Downie.

Sue commenced by stating that she is excited with the partnership with Wollundry. She sees the ideal of both organisations, "Service For Life" as complementary and in alignment.

Defib For Life commenced only 6 years ago with the goals of raising the awareness and educating the community to assist people who have a cardiac arrest. The organisation strives to overcome some of the negative attitudes and fear of public liability that exists in some quarters of the community. Sue confirmed that the first responder is covered by the Good Samaritans Act for their
actions. She added that nothing will restart the heart other than defibrillator shock – it is the only definitive treatment of Sudden Cardiac Arrest.

Sue gave an intensely personal and highly motivational account of her involvement with Defib For Life. It began in 2010 when a young AFL player on completing a training session suffered a sudden cardiac arrest. Although medical assistance was given the young player died. This young person was Sue's 19 year old son, Stephen! Sue and her family had no idea that Stephen had a heart condition. On the advice of the family doctor both Sue's other children were tested. Her younger son was fine but her daughter was found to have a heart condition. Her daughter was given a small defib implant. Since the implant was made the device has twice saved Sue's daughter's life!

Sue presented the following essential facts

1 in 500 people are walking around with a heart condition that is unknown to them
Over 30,000 out of hospital Sudden Cardiac Arrests (SCA) occur in the community each year
85% of those who have a SCA outside of hospital do not survive
Less than 6% of those that have a SCA outside of hospital make it past one year after their incident
Defib For Life has placed over 3500 AED units in to communities throughout Australia since its inception in 2010
Defib For Life knows of 9 lives that have been saved directly from one of their units
After a Sudden Cardiac Arrest, as every minute goes by there is less than 10% chance of the patient surviving

Australian Cricket Coach, Darren Lehmann and AFL great, Chris Judd are both ambassadors for the program.

If you would like more information go to the website - www.defibforlife.org.au

A vote of thanks was given to Sue by Peter Crozier.

Sue with Melissa Dunbar from Big Fish Events

President's Report

Posted by Geoffrey Hamilton on Jun 08, 2016

President’s Report

Today we launched the AED "Defib for Life, Wagga" project. Thankyou to those members who turned up in bleak conditions for this event. Travis Downie and his committee have worked closely with Jam Media to get this project up and away. Have a look at our Website for more details. As everyone knows we have approved $23,000 for this project, primarily to help clubs and community organisations purchase and AED. Congratulations to Travis and his team on a great job.

Our Changeover dinner is looming and Treasurer David Pyke would like members to pay by EFT as he won't collect money on the night. The Club is subsidising the dinner reducing the cost to just $30 per person. Please encourage your partner to come along as it is a great social night.

We will have a Club Assembly on June 21st to pass next year's budget. The budget committee consisting of David, James Hamilton, PE Geoff Breust and myself have discussed this in detail and I need to warn members that the Club fund raising for the Community account is under significant pressure due to the drop off of income from our traditional markets. We will have made donations of more than $140,000 by the end of this month however David is concerned we may not be able to sustain this next year. Our Club fees will most likely be kept at the same level as this year, despite the fact that we will enjoy a $50 refund this year. Come along on the 21st for your say!

Geoff Hamilton

OUR MEETING

Posted by John Ferguson on Jun 08, 2016

OUR MEETING-7th June

President Geoff welcomed 42 members and guests to our meeting held at the Wagga RSL Club. He began the meeting with traditional Rotary Grace.

We welcomed:

Travis with his wife Kim

Cathy, Ben & Darren Wallace

Guest Speaker,Sue Buckman & Melissa Dunbar

Mark Rapley, Kym Hampton, Alex Dawson (Jam Media)

SERGEANTS SESSION

President Geoff handed the Sergeant's Session over to David Pyke for an "impromptu" session. Impromptu now has a new meaning as the club treasurer proceeded to "milk" not only the members but also the guests! Keep it going Pykie. Great job on reducing club membership fees!