Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Ocean Grove Inc.
Winner of the Holmes Trophy for the best attendance by a Club at the 2006 District Conference
Volume 24 No. 40
Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, on Tuesday April 18th, 6.00 for 6.30.
Speaker Peter Hawthorne Subject ‘The Hawthornes of Kerang’
Chairman Trevor McArdle Assistant Cashier & Thanker Tony Haines
Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Richard Grimmett
Birthdays & Anniversaries Bob Smith 18th, Geoff & Hazel Ford 18th , John & Nan Calnin 23rd.
The week after, 25th April, Anzac Day
Same place, but it is set down for a partners’ night, so the timing is 6.30 for 7. Registration is assumed, so ,advise Hans if you are not bringing your partner
Speaker Mrs Parsons, Retired WW2 Flying Officer [Physiotherapist, attached to the Medical Corps]
Chairman John Calnin Assistant Cashier & Thanker Wal Kelly
Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Leigh Holloway
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And, on the subject of Anzac Day
John Calnin and his Anzac Day breakfast team urge Rotarians and their partners [and other family members] to attend the Dawn Service at the Ocean Grove Cenotaph at 6.15 am.
JC reckons he has adequate support for the breakfast project, but pop into the neighbourhood centre on your way in case re-inforcements are required.
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More from Keith Nixon at Southampton, Canada
Keith, [keithisaway@yahoo.ca] – note the lower case ‘k’, suggested, in an E-mail of 4th April that they could plan a trip to us in January or February 2007. I have replied proposing March. Keith has suggested we visit them in their summer of 2007, which I presume to be July/August.
Keith has also offered to provide web sites for various locations and to field questions regarding any particular queries we may have.
Keith closed his letter thus- “My wife, Judy and I have just returned from a week in Cuba. No opportunities for a Rotary ‘make-up’ as there are no Rotary clubs in Cuba. However, they have 19 Masonic Lodges, which seems strange to me. [Ed. note: To me,,too, as I believe Cuba is predominantly RC!] The weather was great and we stayed at an all inclusive, all the food and drink you wanted. No wonder most people go for just one week!”
[More Ed. note]- That’s where we Aussies must differ from Canadians .With an all inclusive deal for all the food and grog you can consume, we would probably stay for a month!]
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I think this must be a misprint.
The District Governor’s newsletter for March reports that for the month of January, we had 5 members and had lost 46 ??? Leaving off that editorial hiccup, the District did lose 36 members [1.6%] in January, which is grim. Admittedly, that number included 19 from the RC of Beaufort, which appears to have ‘folded’.
To put it midly, but I believe, accurately, our club appears to be doing nothing to arrest an alarming fall in membership. The DG, in his January newsletter, reckons we have 46 members. I believe it’s probably 44, or less! Our membership committee for 2004/05 advised, in our annual report, that we had 54 at 30/6/05!!
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A few more benefits of growing old
• There’s nothing left to learn the hard way.
• Things you buy now don’t wear out
• You can eat dinner at 4.00 pm.
• You can live without sex but not without glasses.
• You enjoy hearing about other people’s operations.
• You can get into a heated argument about pension plans.
• You have a party and the neighbours don’t even realize it.
And there’s even more next week.
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Roster for the Easter Monday Market
Main Gate 8.30 to 10.30 –Martin Geerings 10.30 to 12.30 –Bill Walton
Car Park 7.30 to 9. Tony Haines. 8.30 to 10.30 Haines, Tyrrell, McArdle and Cooke
10.30 to 12.30 Steains, Wynn, Turnbull and A Brown
Signs Birrell, and/or Elliott, Franken and Tyrrell.
Raffle 8.45 to 10.30 Alison George and John Fox 10.30 to 12.30 Geoff Ford and Alison George
Cray Spins [actually, it will probably be meat trays] Tim Kemp, Charles Dawborn and Marion Walton. Publicity Waltons Site Prep Leigh Holloway Bookings/ Man’t Two Greers, a Turnbull & a Grimmett.
Phone Judy Greer if, at the last moment, you can’t do your duty as above.
Bits and Pieces
The first aid course will run weekly for about 8 weeks from Wednesday 26th April at the fire station. Cost $95 pp, 7.30 start.
18th April is the deadline for nominations in the Pride of Workmanship awards. Forms from Charles D
The transplant games will involve us on Thursday 21st September at Geelong Grammar. Contact Peter H
Last night’s guest speaker
Peter Linaker, B.Sc.[Melb] has been a student of fluoridation, and a passionate opponent, for about 15 years. His arguments appeared to be thoroughly researched, and his presentation, lucid and convincing, [to some of his audience, but not all]. Perhaps his most forceful point was that all of Europe has now abandoned fluoridation!
He admitted there were two sides to the question, but your editor believes we only heard one from Peter.
His claims included ‘Fluoridation is a sham’, ‘It is medically unsafe’, ‘Claims of benefits are false’, ‘There is an intent to deceive’, ‘Supporters of fluoridation turn their backs on detractors’.
Tim Kemp asked the question, “If there are problems, why do the authorities go to the expense of adding fluoride to the water supply? “. I don’t think we got an answer to that question.
Geoff Brentnall wanted to know what motivates dentists to support fluoridation. [After all, the profession makes a lot of money out of crook teeth!. I am not sure that ‘Public Health Pressures’ was a convincing explanation].
Peter’s parting claim was that fluoridation inhibits the development of emerging teeth in the very young. Ed. note—If that is true, then we have cause for great concern .My son, his wife, and her sister, are all dentists, and coincidently, Jan and I are dining with all three tomorrow night. I wonder what they will think of my tape recording of Peter’s address?
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A bloke woke up in a bush hospital and asked why the room was so dark. “Well’, said the nurse, “there’s a bushfire outside, and we didn’t want you to wake up and think the operation had been a failure.”
