Vol. 9 No. 20 - 16 December 2009

* President Patricia:

- warmly welcomed Members, Visiting Rotarians and Visitors.

- noted apologies from Rtns. Xavier, Cathryn, Ivan, Ray, Robert E., PAG Kamal, PP Sarita, PE Robert K., IPP Urs, Johannes, Helen, Silvie, Agnes, Alex, Udo, Virginie, Gareth and Muriel.

- THANKED the following members for inviting some Guests to our meeting two weeks ago:

CP Patrick for inviting Paula Gillham & Odyle Knight.
Rtn. Marcantonio for inviting David Gaveau, Carl Ottersen, & Dyah Widiandini.
Rtn. Raphaël for inviting Dominique Bouchari.

- invited Rtn. Marcantonio to read the FOUR WAY TEST.

- invited former member Rtn. Judy Goldie to read " Why be a Rotarian " by Rtn. Garry Krischock of the RC of Runaway Bay Queensland, Australia .

- thanked Rtn. Detlev for raising yet another Rp. 1,200,000 from his now VERY famous Sunday luncheons for our Cleft Lip/Palate Project. Total collected to date - Rp. 56,444,000 !!!   What ROTARIAN SPIRIT . ........

- reminded the members that the AGM / Christmas Dinner will  be held on Wednesday, 16 Dec. 2009 at the Anantara - starting at 19:00 .  A Thai Buffet will be served on the front lawn of the Anantara (weather permitting) or inside at the Wild Orchid.  The price per person will be Rp. 390,000. Rtn. Ivan kindly requested that members please pay in advance . So far we have the following Raffle Prizes:

Two Garuda Airline Tickets   DPS-UPG-DPS and DPS-AMI-DPS)        VP Handy

Spa voucher for Discovery Kartika Plaza Hotel IPP Urs

Five Golf Umbrellas from the Discovery Kartika Plaza Hotel     

" One bottle of wine                                                   "

Spa voucher from Anantara Rtn. Ivan Dinner voucher from Anantara"

Two bottles of Tunjung Champagne                                Rtn. Andrew

Spa voucher for Murano SPA                 

"Dinner voucher for two at the Discovery Kartika Plaza Hotel"

Two tour vouchers from Bali Teak Farms (BTF) Rtn. Marcantonio

- requested that all members bring a small donation towards a Christmas Hamper.

- informed the members that an Official Ballot to elect the 2010 - 2011 Board Members will be distributed to them at the AGM / Christmas Dinner on 16 December at the Anantara Resort . Absentee Ballots will be sent to members after 10 Dec . These completed Ballots will need to be returned to P Patricia on or before 15 December , so that they may be counted at the AGM.  If a member is NOT able to attend the AGM, please inform P Patricia - so that a Ballot can be sent to you.

- invited Rtn. Chris to speak:

Rtn. Chris thanked the club for putting his name forward as Club Treasurer next year. Whilst he was more than honored, he felt that as he was "the new kid on the block" having less than one year of being a Rotarian under his belt. He felt that as we have 40 + members, there really should have been some more people putting their names forward to run for the Board.

- reminded members there would NOT be any meetings on 16, 23 and 30 December. The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, 6 January 2010 which will be a CLUB ASSEMBLY.

* Rtn. Marcantonio announced to the members that he had brought some wonderful Christmas gifts from the Bali Teak Farm (BTF) to the meeting. He also said that he would be donating 15% of the sales to the RCBS. For more information about Rtn. Marcantonio's ENVIRONMENTAL work, please visit his website at: http://www.baliteakfarms.com/

* Rtn. Peter L. asked that the following Email he received from Rtn. Mireille Pernot of the RC of Nice, France be shared with the members.  Rtn. Peter is exploring the IDEA of organizing a Sister Club with them in the near future.

15 September 2009

Cher Monsieur,
Sorry to answer you late, but I have had a lot of work. Here are our future plans.

October 18: We organized a garage sale, getting money from lending the spaces for exhibitors, selling drinks, coffee and food. The profit is going to our charities . 

November 18: We organize a cheese-party. Just eating cheese (of course you have to like it), we are around one hundred, and the money goes to two handicapped children and this year we added some money for the social center of the little city which welcomes us for this meal. We have done this for 18 years already.

November 18: All the members go to a Disney movie and the money goes to a Fund for brain operations.

November 29: We have a gathering in the cathedral of Nice, watch photos about water and listen to performance by a clarinet player. The profits of this event will go to a FUND named "WATER WITHOUT FRONTIER" (which was created by Rotary). The funds will be used to dig a well in Africa.

In December, we collect toys (new or good secondhand ones) which we shall give to children of poor families and shall participate to the afternoon snack offered to them.

During the past several years, we also sell roses to buy guide-dogs for blind people . So far, we have purchased 14 of them.

So I think with this information, you will be able to give a report to your members about your visit to the RC of Nice, France.

Sentiments les meilleurs.
Mireille PERNOT

Secrétaire administrative

David Gaveau was the Club's Guest Speaker on Wednesday, 9 December 2009 and spoke to the members about Tropical Deforestation in Sumatra.

David holds two Master of Science degrees - one in Applied Optics from the Imperial College of London, UK and the other one in Remote Sensing of the Environmen t from the Florence University, Italy. His Ph.D. is in Biodiversity Management from the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent, UK.

David currently works as Senior Research Scientist for the Woods Institute of the Environment at Stanford University, CA, USA researching deforestation on Borneo and Sumatra, Indonesia.

David is also a scientific partner at the REDDmaps Co. REDDmaps was born out of a partnership of experts with backgrounds in forestry, remote sensing, finance and development cooperation and provides monitoring, verification and brokerage services to banks that are involved (or want to become involved) in REDD-type projects.

When he is not traveling to the forests, David is based in Canggu, Bali with his wife and son.

TOTAL: Rp. 685,000 (Raffle: 665,000, Fines: Rp. 20,000 , Misc: Rp. 0)

The Raffle Prize, a SOL Poetry Book , was won by Visiting Rotarian Judy Goldie and donated by the RCBS.