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Rotary Club of Glenorchy Inc.—District 9830
Rotary Year 2014-2015
No. 24 of 29th January 2015
MINDING THEIR OWN
BUSINESS
This photo has been altered
Last week three Rotarians were asked
to tell us about their business and how
they got started.
Terry West, Laurie Gray and Beres
Taylor have completely different
vocational backgrounds and their stories proved very enjoyable.
On leaving school Terry West joined the
firm of Tibballs Nursery and nearly 50 years
later has just retired
from the same business. In early years the
firm grew seedlings
(vegetables & flowers) for IXL (now
defunct) and others.
In that time Terry has seen
many changes in the nursery
business. Once it was all manual labour, but gradually machinery has been introduced
and the number of employees has been
reduced.
For a number of years Terry was in
charge of plant hire. Many offices would
hire plants to beautify their facilities and
Terry would provide and maintain the
plants. (You would often see him watering and replacing plants on a regular
basis). Plant hire has ceased now.
Terry and his wife, Doreen, are looking
forward to an enjoyable and fruitful retirement—mind you Terry will have a
big task as President of the Rotary Club
of Glenorchy from July 2015 till June
2016.
Kerry Bowerman reminded us that Tibball’s was set up by Maurie and Bruce
Tibballs, both Rotarians. In fact Bruce,
PRE-SEEDED (err preceded) Kerry as
President of our club.
Laurie Gray left school and took up an
apprenticeship with the then Housing
Department from 1968-1983. This gave
him an excellent grounding in the building industry.
He then took a voluntary redundancy and
spent two years at the Cadbury factory at
Claremont. Laurie then spent the next 10
years running a furniture making business, and was involved in L & J Builders
and D’Well Homes.
It was then in 2008 Laurie
and his wife, Helen, decided that they wanted to
run their own building
business and so began
LHG Homes. Laurie did the building part
and Helen ran the office
and finance. Laurie admits the building regulations are tough and costs
are escalating. (He gave
an example of the cost of
scaffolding. Today for a
medium house it could cost up to
$25,000.) As well there are traps for the
unwary, “So read the fine print.” says
Laurie.
Beres Taylor has followed an interesting
vocational path since leaving school. In
1991 he was a full time teacher, but his
creative skills took a U turn in 2005 when
he created a ceramic pottery business at
his home in Collinsvale. This went well
until Adriana, Beres’s wife, asked him to
make a table for her. He had to admit he
didn’t know how, so another turn in his
life was to follow. For the next couple of
years Beres took on a woodworking
course at TAFE at Claremont College.
Following the completion of the course
Beres found a great love of Huon Pine
and began a new business called ‘The
Huon Pine Guy’. Since then he has made
that table for Adriana, as well as coffee
tables, stools, cabinets, office desks and
other items of furniture.
All his timber comes from an outlet at
Queenstown and Beres feels that Huon
Pine may be almost impossible to source
in ten years, so where will Beres’s vocational path lead to next?
(Left) a
unique set of
drawers
made by
Beres (see
his web site
for more
information)
Rotary Grace
For good food, good fellowship and the opportunity to serve, we thank you, O Lord.
President Cheryl’s Corner.
Welcome back to the
start of 2015 in earnest.
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Special welcome to Elizabeth tonight.
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Honorary
member Pio
great to see
you here tonight
We have a some catch up information for
the weeks from Christmas into the New
Year.
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Received a Christmas card from
DG Ken and Lois.
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Visited 5 schools prior to Christmas to attend their End of Year
presentation of Awards. Each
school was most appreciative of
our support for their school. In
particular it was great to be able
to present the Jack Eaton Memorial Literacy Honour Board and
prizes to two students at Herdsmans Cove Primary.
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Our Christmas function at Salamanca Inn was a great success
with 60 people attending with
great food and tremendous fellowship on the night. It was a pleasure to have Louise and Parker
with us on the night. Raffle prizes
were won by Arnold Markham,
John Berry, Michael Wilson,
Elisabeth Louden, Peter Floyd
and Jenny Maltman.
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Thank you to PP Arnold for delivering a Christmas Hamper to a
humanitarian entrant family in
need on behalf of the Club just
before Christmas. A request from
the International Committee Director, PP Kerry, for $250 was
approved by the Board and Arnold was very pleased when the
proprietor of the Hill St Store
decided to make up the hamper to
the value of $300. A certificate of
appreciation has been sent .
Date
29/1/2015
5/2/2015
12/2/15
Registration
President Cheryl’s Corner Cont.
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Sydney Hobart Yacht Race Luggage –
117 yachts for the 70th Race. What a
wonderful turn out of members and
friends for the unloading of the huge
TasFreight semi trailer of luggage. I
would like to say thank you to the 17
members and friends who worked
tirelessly to get the job done. We even
had the wife of the navigator of
‘Comanche’ helping with unloading.
A big thank you to Scott Walker who
operated the forklift , making the job a
lot easier and to John Radcliffe for
supplying the forklift. A certificate of
appreciation has been sent to John.
A huge thank you to both Jenny and
Ken who every year go about the task
of organising us all to get the huge
task done. Jenny’s mammoth work
behind the scenes goes relatively unnoticed and Ken is always there as the
backup.
We have received letters
of thanks from the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia and the Royal
Yacht Club of Tasmania.
Both letters contain an
invitation to support the
event again in 2015.
EVENTS IN THE FUTURE
5th February– Board Meeting
20th—22nd March 2015– the
District Conference at the Burnie Civic
Centre
15 th to 20 th March 2015
Australian Fellowship of Golfing
Rotarians- 37th Annual Championship Launceston
(Rotary Club of South Launceston)
28th March 2015– Rotary Day
‘Lantern’ celebrations at Montrose
Bay, Glenorchy.
Meeting of 22/1/15
Members : 18
Guests present: Elizabeth
Lauden (Right)
Apologies : 4
Raffle : Jenny Briggs (again) - a pack of liquid amber.
Birthdays: nil
Anniversaries: Phillip Chandler
( 31/1/2008—7 years.
Sick List: nil
Other: (Below) President Cheryl presents
an award and bottle of wine to Jenny and
Ken Briggs for their work on the Sydney/
Hobart Yacht Race Luggage project.
Rotary Information for 2014-2015
President: Cheryl Oborne
Secretary: Rosie Marine
DG: Ken Moore
P.O. Box 9, Glenorchy.TAS. 7010
Web site: Is being developed
Bulletin Editor: PP Mike Quinn Email:
[email protected]
The Club meets at the Glenorchy R.S.L Club,
320 Main Rd., Glenorchy on Thursdays 6pm
for 6.30pm
Apologies are to be made direct to Rosie on
0418 398 079 by 3.00 pm on Thursdays
“Visitors are most welcome”
February’s theme is
World Understanding Month
Toast to RI
Chair
Guest Speaker
Esko
Kumpenan
Topic
Rhonda Walker &
Michael Wilson
John Berry
Mike Quinn &
Maurie Oborne
Paul Berry
Rosie Marine
Benjamin Price
(pending at this
stage)
“Sax Appeal”
Arnold Markham &
Rosie Marine
Peter Berry
Beres Taylor
Judi Adams
Breast Cancer Pink Day
Well done Rosie Batty–
President Cheryl
Duty Roster
Former RI Exchange
Student
Many thanks to 4ONE4 for printing our weekly bulletin