Rotary Club of Ashmore
Club Bulletin
18th September 2026
 

Free Movie Night on 31st Oct – Progress Report

At our Wednesday meeting I gave a quick overview of this project.

a)      We now have a full complement of sponsors for the Raffle, Best Dressed Competition. These include Ashmore Pools, Stewart Estate Agents, Sporty’s Warehouse, Coles, Bunnings, Rob Molhoek, with the main grant from the Gold Coast City Council.

b)     How to volunteer – contact one of the team captains, Brian (sausage sizzle) and Elaine (raffle). At this stage Brad (MC and Best Dressed) will also have other volunteers, probably from QAHS.

c)      Movie: Minions and Monsters. To attract young families.

d)     Ashmore State School is happy to help promote to their community.

e)      Promotional Plan via Social Media and Ashmore State School.

Bunnings BBQ – October 5th.

We have a King’s Birthday Monday holiday BBQ on October 5th.  Bunnings BBQs are one of our key fundraising activities and a public holiday before it gets too warm, is likely to be a busy day. Contact Brian to volunteer.

Sep 16th Meeting at Ashmore Tavern.

It was a great turnout to the Ashmore Tavern for our meeting on September 16th to hear from our Youth Exchange student Reike talk about her background and her experience so far in Australia. It was also good to see her next host mother Sheridan, District YEP director Kath Koch and assistant Natalie.

Christmas Raffle.

Ready to volunteer for the biggest fundraiser of the year? Elaine and the raffle team are almost ready for our stints at the Q centre and Ashmore City

President Owen Caterer

Rotary meeting on 16th September 2026

A very comprehensive address was provided by our exchange student Reike Orzelek to club members at Ashmore Tavern.

From a small village of Sudhagen (population 2,500) in the Paderborn region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with a history of 1250 years and surrounded by rolling fields and lush pastures of this rural area.

Highly celebrated for preserving its rich artisan bakery tradition and beautifully restored 16th – 18th century timber framed farmhouses. The historic bakery dates back to 1680 producing classic dark rye and regional sourdoughs using century old recipes.

Her sponsoring Rotary Club : RC of Paderborn-Stadt und Land coordinates a major annual charity raffle at a international equestrian event nearby – the Paderborn Challenge. During this four day showjumping event club members walk the grounds selling thousands of raffle tickets and custom collector pins with over 1,700 prizes on offer raising thousands  of euros for their community support projects.

Reike lives with her parents and two sisters.

The nearby centre of Paderborn (population 160,000) is renowned as a centre for IT and has had a university since 1614.  The largest city some two hours drive east is Cologne (population 1 million).

We can imagine the difference it is for Reike to come to the Gold Coast ( 740,000) with its beaches and surfing tradition. Attending Benowa SHS she has fully embraced these challenges and is involving herself fully in all that school life here offers along with twenty other exchange students at that school.

Many thanks to the Goldschmied family for being her first host family here on the Gold Coast.

Our club had the honour of inducting Anita Wimpey – a Gold Coast assistant librarian into our Ashmore RC. President Owen Caterer performed the ceremony

Rotarian Ken Cowan

PDG Ian Yarker, Presidenr Owen Caterer, PDG Heather Yarker and YEP student Rieke Orzelek

Our meeting at the Ashmore Tavern

New member Anita Wimpey with President Owen Cterer

Sent from Thanks to Bunnings for inviting Ashmore Rotary to their Fathers Day event on Thursday evening.

This coincided with the launch of our Nepal disaster appeal.

Nepal flooding disaster is personal for Ashmore Rotary.

A club member, Dilli, moved from Nepal just a couple of years ago.

His family is safe but he has several close friends that are missing, after 9 days. 

Nepal needs our help. It needs disaster funds but also money to rebuild. The good news is that with the exchange rate, even $10 donation can help 

Our club has already raised more than $1,200 to send to the Rotary club closest to the flooding disaster. DM for the Rotary Club bank details. Galaxy

Our recent social evening at the Kampung Malay restaurant.

Our KIVA statistics

  • 238 lives touched
  • $4,295 in loans funded
  • 33 countries lent to

This month we lent money to:

  • Munia - Indonesia - water purifier
  • Asena - Tonga - stock for business
  • Ky - Vietnam - Breeding cattle
  • Petter - Philippines - fishing gear
  • Ola - Tonga - stock for business

Balance $200 left to lend out.

Well done Ashmore - and thanks to Rotarian Pat Fleming for her work with KIVA.

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Coming up soon.  Please help out where you can.

Wednesday 7th October - Green team - Cr Brooke Paterson - catered at Centre

Wednesday 21st October - Red team - John Walters and Eddy Saroff “A history of Broadbeach” - Ashmore Tavern

Wednesday 4th November - Gold team - Casey Evans “Scams, screens and investigations. Lessons from a digital spy” - catered at Centre

Wednesday 18th November - Green team - Rotary All rounders - Ashmore Tavern.

Wednesday 2nd December - Red team - Joanna, Julie and Anita “Behind the badge” - Catered at Centre.
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