NEW location for weekly Club meetings.

After about 35 years, some 1,400 weekly meetings and around 50,000 individual meals at the Burnie Civic Centre (a.k.a. Burnie Arts & Function Centre), we were advised to move our meeting location. As of 5 September, 2016, we have been meeting at the clubhouse of the Burnie Bowls Club (a.k.a. "The Burnie Greens") in Cooee. The meeting time remains the same (6:00 pm for 6:20 pm on Mondays).

To contact the Club

WRITE TO:
Rotary Club of Burnie
P.O. Box 185
Burnie
Tas. 7320
Australia

Or Email our Secretary at: [admin "at" burnierotary "dot" org "dot" au]

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Home and Garden Show is BACK

Make-a-Wish in Burnie will stage a NEW Home and Garden Show on October 29-30. To find out more, click here.

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The Power of Rotary

The PolioPlus Story

1979

Sir Clem Renouf thinks of himself as an ordinary bloke who, thanks to a life-long liaison with Rotary, got to do an extraordinary thing. In 1979, Clem Renouf of Rotary Club of Nambour, Queensland, and then current Rotary International President, noted that smallpox had been eradicated for a little more than the cost of the two Australian naval vessels he had seen near Manila the day before. Renouf wondered if Rotary’s new grants scheme could be used to tackle another disease with similar success. For more, click here.

1984-86

In 1984, immunisation projects were underway in 15 countries. For more, click here.

1988

In 1988, there were over 125 endemic countries where the wild poliovirus was naturally present and there were 350,000 polio cases in the world. The campaign was taken up by the United Nations. For more, click here.

2002

The Rotary Foundation received the Gates Award for Global Health (from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) in recognition of its PolioPlus campaign. For more, click here.

2016

In 2016, Polio remains endemic in just two countries – Afghanistan and Pakistan. For more, click here.

The Future

Rotary and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative – the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), UNICEF, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – have set up environmental sampling in the areas that are most susceptible to the disease. Fifteen to 20 countries are still at high risk despite having eradicated the illness. For more, click here.

And, to think this whole story was the outcome of an idea by “an ordinary bloke” in 1979.

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The local ROTARACT CLUB

Are you in the age range 18-30 and live in NW Tasmania? Then check out Central Coast Rotaract Club on Facebook.

or visit the Rotaract Club of Central Coast Website.

or Email to Central Coast Rotaract

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Club members are boosters for Burnie. Why? Click on the thumbnails below for some views. Fernglade is a beautiful picnic spot on the Emu River, just two km from the City Centre, and is a favourite haunt of the Platypus: We can often see them foraging in the river at dusk. The Rotary Club holds a barbecue meeting there in January. Burnie is also home to countless families of penguins and we can look into some burrows. Below these thumbnails are links to the latest Burnie weather and to the Burnie City Council's website.