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
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Volume 25 No 13
Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 3rd October 6.00 for 6.30.
Speaker Kristine James & Cheryl Bellman Subject Rotaract Chairman Tony Haines
Assistant Cashier & Thanker Rod Bush Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Margaret Campbell
Anniversaries 5th Fred & Wilma Andrews, Bill & Marion Walton
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Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 10th October 6.00 for 6.30.
Speaker Janet Dean Subject Climate change Chairman Rod Bush
Assistant Cashier & Thanker Charles Dawborn Greeter & Assistant Sergeant John Dodgshun
Birthday 11th Patsy Bush
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Why is it so?
• If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?
• Why are you IN a movie, but you’re ON TV?
• Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
• Why do doctors leave the room while you change? They’re going to see you naked anyway.
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Political Vision in China. A sequel to the article printed in bulletin no.11.
The seven individuals who make up the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China are effectively responsible for the design and delivery of China’s five year strategic plan- 2006-2010, which has set the following broad agenda:
• Maintaining an annual GDP growth rate of 7.5% for China’s economy,
• Increasing the disposable income of urban and rural residents by 5% per annum,
• Creating 45 million new jobs in urban areas, thus maintaining the unemployment rate in urban areas below 5%,
• And reducing energy consumption by 20% and water consumption by 30%.
China is run like a company of 1.3bn employees, with the control, actions and decision-making held by a relatively small executive team. Whilst this creates a risk of corruption, negligence and poor decisions at the top, China’s track record over the last 30 years suggests that the vision and goals set in the five year plan becomes a unifying force, empowering China’s population to strive for a better life, maintaining economic and social stability and allowing the Government to react swiftly to correct areas of stress or imbalance.
Rotary is already in China, but on a very small scale. WATCH IT GROW!!
NEXT SUNDAY IS MARKET DAY. CHECK YOUR ROSTER
One hundred years ago
Carlton [15. 4. 94] beat Fitzroy [6. 9. 45] before a record crowd of 44,437 in the 1906 VFL Grand Final at the MCG.
The Western Victorian town of Casterton was completely inundated with floodwater on 4th October. Five men were drowned while trying to rescue stock from floods after heavy rain in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. Three of the five drowned near Orange, NSW, when a rider and his horse were swept away and two friends tried [unsuccessfully] to find them in a torrent 100 yards wide. Another man drowned near Yea in Victoria, and the fifth near Launceston, Tas. The flooding in parts was the worst for 20 years and the Murray/ Darling river system experienced flood levels up to 34 feet.
In Rotary, the No. 1 club of Chicago remained the only RC for 3 years, until San Francisco was chartered in 1908. After a few meetings, in early 1906, the Chicagoans began to talk about an appropriate emblem. One member submitted a design of a locomotive driving wheel, with counterbalance, and the words “Rotary Club” on the connecting rod. Another member brought in a design of a buggy wheel, and this was adopted, [temporarily]. He afterwoods added ‘dust’ in order to give the idea of motion, but he made the error of putting the dust both before and after the wheel, so that it looked as if the wheel was in clouds!
They stuffed around with these experiments until 1908, when the current Rotary emblem was adopted. So, our familiar badge has remained unchanged for 98 years!
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How confident a public speaker were you at age 18?
Not as good as Hannah Irvin, I suspect, but neither was I. Hannah’s delivery was a bit too rapid for me, but me mate Georgie Girl took notes on the back of a raffle ticket, for which I am extremely grateful. Real people with real problems, the Snowy Hydro scheme, quantum physics, distinguished guest speakers, federal politics, relaxation [how the hell did she fit that in?], and practice in public speaking. An 18 year old year 12 Sacred Heart College enthusiast, Hannah was one of 288 students at the National Youth Science Summer Forum at Canberra and was a credit to her school and her parents.
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And now, the news at nine
• The transplant games were a great success, and a worthwhile project for several members of this club. So saith Geoff Chandler, Rod Greer and Peter Hawthorne.
• Tim Kemp’s mob will be around again for your ‘donations-in-kind in about 4 weeks. Mainly books and clothes this time.
• The Surf Coast Times of Torquay has been added to your bulletin’s e-mailing list, [at their request, I hasten to assure you].
• If you can spare the time at 2.30 pm this Thursday, please attend our ‘shop’ at Market Square to help evacuate those temporary premises!
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A bit more wicked wisdom
Hangover When the brew of the night meets the dark of the day.
Heredity What sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
Hero Someone who’s braver for five minutes longer than anyone else.
Highbrow A person educated beyond his intelligence.
