ROTARY CLUB OF ORANGE DAYBREAK

CENTRAL WEST NSW,   AUSTRALIA

DISTRICT 9700

Meeting time: Every Wednesday 6.45am for a 7am start; finish by 8.15am

Sundowner Oriana Motel, 178-184 Woodward St, Orange 2800

ALL Welcome to join us for breakfast


Welcome

The Rotary Club of Orange Daybreak (RCOD) is going from strength to strength and has 45 Members (23 male and 22 female) and 18 Associates (7 male and 11 female). We welcome inquiries about Rotary and our club at any time. Just contact the President or Secretary (scroll down to details at the bottom of this page).


What's New

  • The NAB Daybreak Rotary Ball will be held on Saturday 18 May, 2013. Tickets are available through Orange Ex Services Club. Book online or phone 6362 2666 or call in.

    Dance the night away with Jelly Bean Jam who have played in Beijing, Singapore and Tokyo, and ... Orange, for the eighth time in a row due to popular demand. Funds are being raised through a raffle with an excellent $5000 prize from Centre One Cruising and auction items that include a Witsunday Island sailing trip and a dinner by Michael Manners and Kate Bracks.

    Profits from the Ball will go to ODEEP (Orange District Early Education Program). More than $250 000 has been donated from the proceeds of the past seven Balls organised by the Associates and the 2012 proceeds topped the lot with about $60 000 raised. The Ball has contributed to sponsoring the Hydrotherapy Group and the Blossoms Group, employing a full time Speech Pathologist and Special Educator, and sponsoring the Aquaplay Program and the Hanen Speech and Language Program.

  • Cheque for $25000 to Ronald McDonald House, Orange

    RCOD presented a cheque for $25,000 for Ronald McDonald house on 27 February, to local coordinator Joanne Lewis. In 2008 the club built a spec house which was sold and profits of $212,652 were donated at that time. The $25,000 represents the contingency amount of $20000 saved for building insurance plus interest and an additional donation by the club.

    The RCOD would like to acknowledge and thank the community of Orange for their support for our fund raising efforts over the last 6-7 years. The money for Ronald McDonald house was as the result of the generous efforts of the late Brendon Sturgeon and numerous trades people and suppliers in the local district.

  • Lunch with Gemma Sisia

    RCOD, in conjunction with Quota International of Orange, organised a lunch with Gemma Sisia who founded The School of St Jude in Tanzania 11 years ago. Gemma was a NSW finalist in the Australian of the Year Awards, 2013 and was nominated for her work in Africa. She was on an Australia wide promotional tour and visited Orange on Saturday 2 March at Kenna Hall.

    After lunch Gemma talked about the remarkable progress at the school, which she founded in 2002 with three fully sponsored children in year 1. In 2013 there are 1650 of the poorest and brightest children in Arusha being sponsored and gaining a free quality education. 1200 students get full board and over 400 Tanzanians are employed by the school. One boy and five girls were placed in the top 10 out of 32000 students sitting the equivalent of year 10 exams. The students are excelling in science and maths. There was a very moving moment when Gemma acknowledged the work being done by Rotary International to eradicate polio worldwide. She said she had witnessed many parents, but none of her students, who had suffered polio.

    Much more information about the school, and safari tours that include the school, can be found at its web site . There are many ways that people in Orange can help the school from buying books to donating money for vegetables or sponsoring a student or teacher.

    The Rotary Club of Orange Daybreak would like to thank the Catholic Parish of St Mary and St Joseph, Orange for providing Kenna Hall, the members of Quota International of Orange for making and serving the tasty casseroles, and Inkability for selling tickets to the lunch.

    Carolyn Russell from Hidden Talent very kindly donated a quilt that was raffled at the door and was won by Neisha Dean, one of our Rotary Associates. Over $400 was raised by the raffle.

    There were many Rotarians and women from Inner Wheel at the lunch with Gemma centre front.

  • Launch of a Newsletter

    Rotary Club of Orange Daybreak President Murray Paterson recently launched an important tool for awareness about Rotary and the work of Rotarians. Called the Nepal Friendship Project Community Development and Training Project Newsletter , it contains stories about the Nepal Project and other projects undertaken by the Daybreak members. Click here to download the newsletter

  • Harley Davidson Motorcycle raffle - Update

    The raffle was drawn on February 9th 2013 at Capital Motorcycles, Peisley Street Orange at 2pm. It was won by Sherri Soncin with winning ticket 66. Sherri is a Past President of the Rotary Club of Mareeba in the Atherton tablelands, Qld. Thank you to Garry and Louise Bradstreet of Capital Harley.

    For those of you who didn't hear about it - in association with the 2013 Orange Daybreak Rotary Ball, a Harley Davidson Dyna Street Bob Motorcycle, value $22500 ride away, was raffled. Tickets were $100 each with a limit of 400 sold. Proceeds will go to Orange & District Early Education Program (ODEEP) - provider of early childhood intervention services to young children with disabilities and developmental delays, and their families.

  • A total of $100000 for Western Care Lodge

    The Rotary Club of Orange Daybreak will have another room at Western Care Lodge, Orange, named in its honour after the club donated a second amount of $50000. RCOD was the first service club to donate $50000 for a room in the first stage of the Lodge. The club has also been providing regular BBQs at the Lodge, which has been much appreciated by the people staying there.

  • Money collected for Coonabarabran Bushfire Appeal

    RCOD and the Rotary Club of Orange collected money at very short notice for the Rotary Club of Coonabarabran Bushfire Appeal. Shaking buckets at the Orange North shopping centre on one Saturday they raised over $13000. Thank you to the generous Orange community.


Successes in 2012-13

  • Christmas breakfast

    RCOD celebrated its last meeting at the Country Comfort Motel on December 19.Christmas breakfast was a colourful affair complete with outlandish clothes and accompanying music. Paul Rowland went to a great deal of effort to provide Christmas Awards to all members.

  • Foodies trip to Cabramatta

    Several members of the club visted Cabramatta recently to taste test food from different cultures. A collage of different photos can be downloaded here.

  • Art Dako

    September was Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. RCOD organised an exhibition on the 14 and 15 September at Orange Function Centre, designed to increase community awareness of issues around male-only cancers, specifically testicular and prostate cancer. The exhibition had both creative and educational components involving community groups and individuals. The creative component consisted of displays and the sale of visual arts items; the educational component was provided by relevant groups such as Orange Prostate Support Group and Cancer Care West. Net proceeds from Art Dako will be donated to Western Care Lodge .

    Creative works involved a theme related to men’s underwear or male anatomy. Exhibits were often humorous and conveyed a message to raise awareness and educate the community on male-only cancers. You can follow the progress of Art Dako on the blog.

    Philip Salmon of Colour City Creatives provided plenty of photos of the exhibition here and Rotarian Ric Cother took many photos including his own Cranky Pants , Dave the Dentist , and Rotarian Lynette Bullen under a clothesline of undies made by Orange Public School.

    In association with Art Dako, RCOD held an ebay auction of some Sly underwear signed by Justice Crew and framed along with the cover of their CD Boom Boom

    Not Suitable for Children , with a plot that related to a young man who discovers he has testicular cancer, was shown on 30 August at the Odeon Cinema Orange as a fund raiser for Art Dako

  • Orange Region Farmers' Market

    One of the reasons RCOD was named 2012 Australia Day Community Group of the Year was for its monthly running of the Farmers' Market. It is held come rain or snow on the second saturday of every month. In July 2012 we saw one of our supporters Kate Bracks and her family, as well as the hardy Rotarians huddled around a "fire app" on the mobile trying to cope with the frosty weather.

  • Jeff Hort of Jeff Hort Engineering was one of three recipients of a District Vocational Excellence Award, announced at the District 9700 conference in Young. Jeff is passionate about supporting and training apprentices. He advised that nationally there is the lowest take up of apprenticeships in 20 years, down 30% from its peak. This is not good for the future, especially when you combine this with the fact that only 44% of apprentices complete their apprenticeship. Jeff is proud that 87% of his apprentices finish as qualified tradesmen and the fact that 47 out of his 107 staff are apprentices.

  • RCOD hosted a Group Study Exchange (GSE) team from District 5770 Oklahoma in early March 2012. Leslie, Amber, Leanne, Jennifer, and Linn were a lively and entertaining team and RCOD thoroughly enjoyed their time here. Follow their travels on their excellent blog.

    Pictured are the team at the welcome BBQ hosted by President Russ.

  • One of the major projects for RCOD for 2012 and into the future is the Nepal Friendship Project , with the main components of the project being in Kathmandu. This is a Rotary Australia World Community Service Ltd (RAWCS) project. RAWCS assists Rotary Clubs develop and manage world community service projects. A team organised through Orange Daybreak left on 30th March 2012 in order to carry out maintenance work and train their teachers.

    Pictured is Mary Brell enhancing the teaching skills of Nepalese teachers.


Club's Vision

To improve the quality of life in local and global communities

Club Board 2012-2013 Associate Program
District 9700  Rotary International
Farmers' Market The Club's first ten years

Donations

Club donations for 2011-2012 were Sailability $1,250; Polio Plus $5,520; ODEEP (Ball May 2011) $19,871; Anson St School $4,415; Rotary Foundation $3,400; Shelter Box Australia $2,000; NYSF $4,620; Nepal Project $6,760; Rotary Indigenous Health Scholarship $2,500; RYPEN $210; RYLA $550; Orange Regional Conservatorium $2,000; Dream cricket $200; Riding for the Disabled $3,074; Orange Eisteddfod $200; Western Care Lodge BBQ project $352

Total for the financial year to June 2012 was $56 922 plus a $25,000 cheque for Western Care Lodge was given at the Changeover lunch. $60 000 was raised for ODEEP at the NAB Associates Ball which will be distributed in the 2013 financial year.

In 2010-2011 RCOD donated to Sailability $1,000; Delta Dogs $500; Interplast $2,000; Orphan Rescue Kit $600; Polio Plus $2,000; ODEEP (Ball May 2010) $20,000; Science Experience Program $440; Literacy Project $450; Brendon Sturgeon Scholarship $1,000; D7900 Flood Relief $2,000; Anson St Special School $200; Donation – Rotary Foundation $2,000; Agriculture Scholarship $1,000; PCYC $10,000; 7 Shelter Boxes $5,600; Music Scholarship ORC $1,000; Rotary Foundation – Centurion Program $2,000; NYSF Molong Students $300; GSE Candidate $195; Sambhav Nepal Foundation $300; Indigenous Scholarship $2,500; Science & Engineering Challenge $1,000; RYPEN $270; Molong School Vietnam Volunteers $1,000; RYLA Leader to International Peace Seminar $500; Cancer CareWest lodge $300; Australian Rotary Health $200

The total for the financial year to June 2011 was $57,355

In 2009-2010 donations were made, both locally and internationally, totalling nearly $85,000. This included the finalisation of the commitment of $50,000 to Care West Lodge in Orange.

Click here for information about activities and fund raising undertaken by the Club during the 2008-2009 year; including $212,652 for the Orange Ronald McDonald House project.

PRESIDENT: Murray Paterson
Phone: 6361 2222
SECRETARY: Margaret Thomson
Phone: 6362 7236

ADDRESS: P.O BOX 2425, Orange NSW 2800, Australia
e-mail: orangedaybreak@rotarnet.com.au

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This page was last updated in May  2013.  It is published by the Rotary Club of Orange Daybreak.