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 33
Notice for all marshals at the Barwon Heads Circuit Course, this Thursday, 1st March
You are all required to sign in at 9.30am at the start/finish line, a short distance from the pub along the Ewing Blyth Rd. Barwon Heads. You must be in your designated position by 10.00am. We are getting paid for your duty, so don’t let the race organizers and our club down. Please note that John Calnin is away, and I will NOT, under any circumstances , arrange for your replacement. If, for any reason, you can’t be there, you must arrange your own replacement, and clearly, it cannot be any other marshall listed below.
The marshals, and their designated locations, are as follows;
1 Start/finish line Bill Steains 2 13th Beach Rd & Bluff Road Noel Emselle
3 !3th Beach Rd & Bell St. Charles Dawborn 4 13th Beach Rd & Bridge Rd Geoff Brentnell
5 Bridge Rd & Golightly St Martin Geerings 6 Bridge Rd & Grandview Pde Norm Elliott
7 Bridge Rd & Hitchcock Ave John Dodgshun 8 Bridge Rd & Henley St Geoff Chandler
9 Bridge Rd & Grove St Bob Osbourne 10 Bridge Rd. & Reid St Bill Walton
11 Bridge Rd & Golf Links Rd Marion Walton 12 Golf Links Rd & Clifford Pde Richard Grimmett
13 Golf Links Rd & Thompson Drive David Cooke 14 Golf Links Rd & Hogan Drive Judy Greer
15 Golf Links Rd & Ozone Rd Rod Greer 16 Golf Links Rd & Punt Rd Wal Kelly
17 Golf Links Rd & Thorn St Trevor McArdle 18 Golf Links Rd & Noble St Wilma Andrews
19 Golf Links Rd & Geelong Rd Fred Andrews 20 Barwon Heads Rd & Bluestone Sch Rd John Fox
21 Bluestone Sch Rd & Blackrock Rd Ken Fleay 22 Blackrock Rd & 13th Beach Rd Alison George
23 13th Beach Rd & Life Saving Club Tony Haines.
Regardless of when the race passes you, you must not attempt to sign off until 12.55pm. The pub will be open.
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Notice for the District Conference, Warrnambool, Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th March
If you have any queries about the Conference, phone the Conf. Sec. on 0407 010 956.
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Market Roster, Sunday 4th March
Managers Rod Bush & James Turnbull. Main Gate Geoff Brentnell
Car Parking 7.30 Colin Brown 8.30 Trevor McArdle 10.00 Alex Magee & Bob Osbourne
Site Preparation Leigh Holloway Signs Rod Greer
Raffle 8.30-10.30 Geoff Chandler, Peter Hawthorne & David Tyrrell 10.30 to 12.30 Geoff Chandler & John Dodgshun
Cray spins Tim Kemp, Charles Dawborn, Vic Harnath & David Cornwell.
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Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 6th March, 6.00 for 6.30.
Program Annual Red Cross Calling walkabout, then return to the Hotel for dinner and a brief report on the District Conference. Offer of the Organ donorship brochures is recommended. Only 500,000 registrations out of 5m are current, because of recent legislation.
Anniversary 9th March Helen and Richard Trigg
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Out of the Mouths of Babes
That preacher said he wanted us brought up in a Christian home, but I wanted to stay with you guys.
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Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 13th March, 6.00 for 6.30
Speaker Paul Northey, a returned G.S.E team member to New York Chairman Colin Brown
Assistant Cashier & Thanker Ben Israel Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Wal Kelly
Birthday 16th March Alison George
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A case of bureaucratic idiocy
Just a few hours into our contribution to ‘Organ Donor Sponsorship week’, we were forced to remove our manned card table of brochures from outside Brentnell’s pharmacy by a C.O.G.G. bye-laws officer who claimed that we were potentially obstructing the free passage of vision-impaired pedestrians!! Fair dinkum!
I reckon there would be about twenty obstructions regularly along that one block of the Terrace. Clothes racks, tables and chairs, hardware, magazines, advertising sandwich boards etc. But a service club promoting a worthy community effort has to move on? We were reduced to standing on the pavement like the ningnongs flogging merchandise brochures outside Market Square in Geelong! A strike rate, on a good day, of perhaps 1 in 100. The said B-L-O probably went home gleefully claiming that he had done a great service to the community. But he was clearly lacking in adult capabilities with which we are all equipped – common sense and initiative. We should recommend him for an OAM; [Ordinary, Absolute Moron].
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Despite little set-backs like that, Rotary is is a hugely successful charitable organization
Contributions to the Rotary Foundation in 2005/06 totalled US$111.9 million, bringing the cumulative total to US$1.792 billion. Included in that total is the polio plus accumulation, of US$374million. There are now 1,011,551 Paul Harris Fellows.
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This Day Tonight
• Guests included Anton Van Doornik [Geelong RC], John & Val Hutchings [Wodonga RC], Geoff Wills, visitor OG, formerly Streatham, and Vic Harnath, ex Charlton RC Past President but inducted into our mob tonight.
• President Richard referred to several letters of thanks, and made mention of tonight’s launch of the PAD project brochures to be displayed and promoted at the Warrnambool conference under the leadership of PP Wal Kelly.
• Speaking of the conference, we hope to have a supply of Ocean Grove Surf Lifesaving Club uniforms in which to desport ourselves at the Saturday night ‘bash’. We are not known for our introvertiveness!!
• There are already three replacements needed for the bike race marshall- bodies. I wish them well!.
Tonight’s Guest Speaker – Rotarian Anton Van Doornik, RC Geelong.
Is this one of the best projects of recent years? Huge supplies stored at the DIK storage at Nth. Geelong. Value at least $300 per cubic metre. Hundreds of pairs of spectacles [expertly sorted], six sets of crockery & cutlery per box, clothing, computers, thousands of books, an ambulance, bicycles, [incl. 400 from one house!!!], a 4 cylinder diesel generator, all expertly packed into 20’ or 40’ containers and shipped, at $3000 to $5000 per container to needy third-world countries. If every club in our district put in an average $1000, we could pay the cost.
