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 21
Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 28th November, 6.00 for 6.30.
Speaker John Mazloum Subject “A newcomer to Ocean Grove” Chairman Ben Israel
Assistant Cashier & Thanker Alex Magee Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Dennis Sanders
Birthdays & Anniversaries 1st Dec Bill Steains 3rd Heather Franken 4th Annette Cullen
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Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 5th December, 6.00 for 6.30 [The Senior Cits. Night] Marion would appreciate volunteers for drivers/pick-up duties.
Chairman President Richard Maitre D Marion Walton Assistant Cashier Fred Andrews
Greeters [At the front door from 5.55pm please] Helen Trigg and John Wynn.
Birthdays & Anniversaries 6th Dec Judy Greer 9th James & Pam Turnbull
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Some pieces of fascinating, but otherwise useless information
• Despite the fact that Hans and Heather Franken celebrate their wedding anniversary every day, [that is—dayversary] it was not intended that two of those days should have appeared in last weeks bulletin. The first date was right, the second was actually Heather’s birthday! [See above]
• The foregoing, and any other 25/20 issue errors, was caused by my proof reader being sound asleep when your editor got home from the Board meeting.
• Up to 16th Nov, the rain gauge at 29 Ocean Throughway has recorded 310 mm for this calendar year, compared with 550 to 16/11/05. The last 8 calendar years have yielded 614[2005], 645 [2004], 500[2003], 392[2002], 721[2001], 624[2000], 567[1999], and 610[1998], an average of 584, [23.36 inches]. We are up to 12.4 inches this year.
• Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I’ll show you A-flat miner.
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Rotary Foundation’s outreach relies on your continued support
The Rotary Foundation’s record is impressive, as are its behind-the-scenes facts and figures. For example, on an average working day, our Foundation’s 157 staff handle 10,000 e-mails, 4,000 telephone calls, and 1000 pieces of correspondence, paper reports, and applications weighing more than a tonne. In addition, donations amounting to approximately $US500,000 are received and 20 new Paul Harris Fellows are recognized. That is the official, statistical and administrative side of our Foundation.
At the same time, we see the work of Rotarians and Foundation program participants: a volunteer working from dawn to dusk in a remote African village, an Ambassadorial Scholar at a university far from home, 40-50 Group Study Exchange teams visiting different parts of the world, or hundreds of people committed to polio eradication, immunizing children around the globe.
This is the more important side of our Foundation-- the hands-on work, the opportunities, and the benefits that millions receive from its programs. As we observe Rotary Foundation Month in November, we are all invited to continue supporting the Foundation with our time and financial resources. Both are equally valuable, but the latter allows us, thanks to our generosity, to offer educational and humanitarian service that touches people and offers them opportunities to improve their lives.
From the pages of the Melbourne ‘Age’, 17th October, 1854.
Advertisements for liquor
Sherry In a ‘butt’ of 108 gallons, 24 pounds- 491 litres, 74 cents per bottle [750 mls]
Port In a ‘pipe’ of 115 gallons, 36 pounds – 519 litres, $1.04 per bottle.
Hock [Riesling would be the nearest modern equivalent], 20 shillings [$2] per dozen.
Hennessy Brandy Nine shillings and fourpence per gallon. That’s 95 cents for 4.546 litres.
Claret 20 shillings per quart, 10 shillings per pint or litre, = 75c per bottle.
Now then, those prices are bloody dear!! In the same publication, Tucker’s Funeral Establishment of 27 Stephen St Melbourne advertises children’s coffins for $2.50 and adult’s for $6. If a middle-of-the-range coffin costs $1000 today, that’s a growth of quite a lot, and if the same rate was applied to the claret, the above bottle would now be $125. At that rate, the Ocean Grove Cellars specials are real special. And that is where you should be buying your booze, because they are strong supporters of this club.
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Notes from the AGM We approved the minutes previous meeting, the rules and the resolutions.
Some comparative extracts from the Financial Statements 2005/06 2004/05
$ $
Total funds on hand, end of the financial year 21,756 19,855
Administration or ‘club’ activities for the year, surplus [deficit] [1,693] [1,243]
Meals surplus [deficit] [1,182] 646
Subscriptions and joining fees received 7,131 8,798
Raffles and fines received 4,303 3,960
Compulsory dues [RI, district and magazine] 6,995 7,603
Charities account activities for the year, surplus 3,594 2,159
Market gross 17,416 16,462
Market net 14,017 13,389
Car raffle net 9,018 4,874
Club officers for 2007/08
President Alison George President nominee [2008/09] TBA Secretary Rod Greer
Vice president Geoff Chandler Treasurer Fred Andrews R Found’n Helen Trigg
Club Service Richard Grimmett Membership Devel. Trevor McArdle Public Relations John Fox
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This day tonight
• Geoff Ford reported a car raffle ticket sale every 40 secs. at the Drysdale market.
• Marion Walton is still looking for ‘pick-up’ people for the elderly cits. Dinner.
• Anyone with books to spare for the GIK project can deliver them to Tim Kemp at Rotary.
• Judy Greer, James Turnbull, John Calnin, Colin Brown, John Wynn, Fred Andrews, Bob Osbourne, Suzy Mann, Alison George, John Dodgshun, Bill Walton, and Wal Kelly are all on duty at the market, Sunday week, 3rd December.
• Nigel Lane was an excellent speaker and a brilliant entertainer. The biggest faux pas with your teenagers is to proclaim, “when I was your age,,,,,,”. We were persuaded that teenagers are new ???, but so is divorce. Drugs are new, but truth is old. Hot tar is sticky, and always has been, but litigation is new, and so are credit cards, [or should it be ‘debt cards?] There is a certain obsession with ‘rights’, which is certainly new to me.
Alex Magee and I had a bit of a chat in the carpark before we went home, and we both thought that the two things he didn’t touch on were discipline and love. I must be getting old.
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Why did Kamikase pilots wear helmuts?
