BULLETIN of the ROTARY CLUB of OCEAN GROVE INC.
Volume 24
Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, on 11th October 2005 – 6.00 for 6.30.
The Club’s Annual Meeting, which will be chaired by ADG Tim Kemp, with David Tyrrell
as cashier and thanker, and Bob Smith as greeter and ass’t Sgt.
The business will include the adoption of the audited annual financial statements for the year ended 31st May 2005, and election of senior office bearers for Richard Grimmett’s year as president.
Patsy Bush celebrates a birthday at this meeting, and your Bull. Ed. apologises for failing to recognise the wedding anniversaries of Fred and Wilma Andrews and Bill and Marion Walton, who were married on 5th October, and should have got due recognition last week.
NOW THEN, for this and all future meetings, PLEASE ATTEND OR APOLOGISE
Last Night
It was a very successful meeting at SES Bellarine. It was not a great attendance, but the absentees missed a treat. A brief but comprehensive tour of the control centre, two very sophisticated trucks, [each worth about $150,000] and a boat. A goodly portion of their 25 members were our hosts for a first rate meal.
They had 240 ‘ops’ last year. Their range extends from the Heads to the Moolap Station Rd.and the river.
If you have an emergency, call 000, and for storm or flood damage, 132500. DG Wayne Barratt was impressed and enjoyed a rather unique official visit. He gave us 1/61st of a jigsaw puzzle to persuade us all to attend the Portland Conference from 3 to 5 March.
The Charter night of the Queenscliffe RC. [From our roving reporter Al G]
The attendance was 180 in a capacity house of 140, of which 20 were our mob. The meal was described as ‘nouvelle cuisine’,[small, but naice], the speeches predicably numerous, but notable for the obvious pride PDG Cathy Roth took in the creation of ‘her baby’. DG Wayne presented the Charter, which Pres Henry Hudson gladly accepted, and numerous gifts were offered, including the Chain of Office from OG.
Secretary Frank Mountford acknowledged these gifts with a reference to teamwork, grasping the opportunity to use the analogy of the effort of the Sydney Swans on 24th Sept.
Serial no. 1 – Chocolate v. Sex- 13 to 16 of 20
13. With chocolate, there is no need to fake it.
14. Chocolate doesn’t make you pregnant
15. You can have chocolate at any time of the month.
16. Good chocolate is easy to find
Market Day, 2nd October
62 stalls and 760 cars was a very good score for our first market of the new season, and some new stall-holders were warm in their praise.
Just a bit of a skite!!
Your bull-ed got an email from Rod and Judy Greer last week, stating that they were having a real good time in the ‘Olde Country’, having read their bulletin in Devon! WOW- We are now international!
Pres. Helen arrived home from Rotary last Tuesday, to be greeted at her front door by hubby Richard with a copy of that night’s bulletin.
Actually, she was less than gruntled as she wanted a stop press inserted. We of the media fraternity do have our deadlines, you know, Helen.. Anyway, why was she so late getting home?
First Aid Defibrillator. A 2005 project for our Club.
This defibrillator is a small, light, easy to use device designed for use by minimally trained individuals. It is a battery-powered device for the heart that may help save the life of someone experiencing a Sudden Cardiac Arrest.
Sudden Cardiac Arrest can happen to anyone, at any time. There may be no warning signs or symptoms.
SCA is usually caused by fibrillation, [ a chaotic quivering of the heart muscle that prevents it from pumping blood ]. Using a defibrillator, an electric shock can be delivered. CPR alone, will not start the heart.
Unless effective treatment is available within minutes, the patient will probably die. For every minute after collapse, the chances of successful defibrillation drops by about 10%.
As soon as the defibrillator is turned on, it starts talking, taking the operator through the procedure, step by step. When the unit’s pads are correctly applied, the defibrillator immediately begins to analyse the victim’s heart rhythm, using a sophisticated computer program.
The unit will instruct the operator what to do. To deliver a shock or not. If the voice instruction requires you to commence CPR instead, the unit can deliver the appropriate instructions.
Defibrillation cannot guarantee survival, no matter how timely and rapid the treatment. The underlying problem may be too severe, but it’s better to have the equipment available than not at all.
Contact pp Wal Kelly for further details. The board is looking into this project.
More Rotary Firsts
• Rotary became bi-lingual in 1916 when the first club was organized in a non-English speaking country- Havana, Cuba.
• Rotary established the “Endowment Fund’ in 1917, which became the forerunner of the Rotary Foundation.
• Rotary first adopted the name “Rotary International” in 1922 when the name was changed from ‘the International Association of Rotary Clubs’.
• Rotary first established the Paul Harris Fellows recognition in 1957 for contributions of $1000US to the Rotary Foundation.
• The Rotary emblem was printed on a commemorative stamp for the first time in 1931 to mark the birth of your bulletin editor. [Ed note; That’s not quite right .It was something to do with the Vienna Convention!]
• The first Rotary banner to orbit the moon was carried by astronaut Frank Borman, a member of the Rotary Club of Houston, [where the Space Centre is]. Fair dinkum.
So you think Mt. Everest is High??
It is the world’s highest mountain, at 8846 metres, but there are eight deep sea trenches that beat it for height, [or depth, depending on whether you are looking up or down]. They are all in the Pacific Ocean, with the Marianas trench near the Philippines the deepest, at 10924 metres, but all eight are deeper than 9600 metres.
Incidently, Lake Geneva will be filled in by sediment from the River Rhone and disappear in approximately 40,000 years, so the time to visit Switzerland is NOW.
Student Exchange
It is two weeks since I raised this question.
John Calnin is my only respondee to date. Surely you can’t all be apathetic, or don’t read the bulletin anyway! Come on you lot. How about expressing your views on the subject?
End Bit.
Reporters interviewing a 104-year-old woman: “ And what do you think is the best thing about being 104?”,the reporter asked. She simply replied, “ No peer pressure”.
