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Volume 25 No 36
Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 27th March, 6.30 for 7.00
A PARTNER”S NIGHT. You are therefore assumed to be attending, with your partner. If not, phone Hans before noon Monday 26th March
Speaker A representative from Guide Dogs Victoria This will be a blind person, and, as advised by programme chair Geoff Brentnell, accompanied by a dog, plus driver, as the dog hasn’t yet learned to drive.
[Very droll, Geoffrey!]. Chairman Trevor McArdle
Assistant Cashier & Thanker Tim Kemp Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Martin Geerings
Birthday 30th March Coral Barker
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Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 3rd April, 6.00 for 6.30
Speaker Marie Kuchenmeister Subject Employing the disabled using the ‘Dal’ method
Chairman Alison George
Assistant Cashier & Thanker John Dodgshun Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Suzy Mann
Birthdays 8th April Martin Geerings 9th John Calnin, Vic Harnath.
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Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder [ A.A.A.D.D.]
If you didn’t get this today, you probably will tomorrow. This is what happened; I was going to send you an e-mail;
“Dear old friend.
Your name is on the tip of my tongue, and I am sure I will remember it before I finish this.
First, I decided to wash my car. As I started towards the garage, I noticed that there was mail on the hall table. I decided to go through the mail before I washed the car, so I put the car keys down on the table, threw the junk mail in the wpb, and noticed that the wpb was full. So I decided to put the bills and other mail back on the table and take out the wpb first. But then I think that since I will be close to the mail box when I take out the rubbish, I may as well pay the bills first.
I take my cheque book out of the top drawer and notice that there is only one cheque left. I know that the extra cheque book is in my study, and when I get there, I find the bottle of soda water that I took out of the fridge about an hour ago. I was going to look for my cheque book, but thought that it would be best if I set the soda water to one side in case I accidently knocked it over. I then found that it was getting warm, so decided to put it back in the fridge. As I headed towards the kitchen, a vase of flowers caught my eye, and clearly, it needed to be watered. So I put the bottle down on the ledge and found my reading glasses which I had been looking for all morning.
I decided to put the glasses back on my desk, but first, I am going to water the flowers. I fill a container with water and spot the TV remote, which some silly bugger left in the kitchen. I decided to put it by the TV, but was determined to water the bloody flowers, and in doing so, spilt a fair bit of it on the floor. So I put the friggin TV remote on the table while I got towels to mop up the water, and afterwards, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do in the first place.
At the end of the day, the car isn’t washed, the bills aren’t paid, there is a warm bottle of soda water on the ledge, there is still only one cheque left in the book, I can’t find the TV remote or my glasses and I don’t remember what I did with my car keys. Anyway, I know I’ve been very busy, but I don’t remember achieving much. I can’t remember who I was going to send this to, so you have all got it.!!
Adapted from an original idea submitted by Alison. [Her surname is on the tip of my tongue].
Did you read the article on page 6 of the ‘Age’ last Monday on the subject of ‘The Drought’?
Productivity Commissioner Neil Byron is quoted as saying that “two or three large irrigators, such as dairy or cotton farms would use, in a couple of days, the water the entire city of Melbourne could save in a year.”
Earlier this month, Victorian Water Minister John Thwaites praised Melburnians for their water saving efforts over summer. The city of Melbourne, [3.7 million people], had saved, on average, 209,000,000
litres of water every day. By comparison, Australia’s largest irrigator, Queensland’s Cubbie Station, has a water allocation in excess of 400,000,000,000 litres a year. It has on-farm storages bigger than Sydney Harbour. The 19,000 megalitres [a megalitre is one million litres] of water saved by Melburnians over the three months of summer would be used by Cubbie Station alone in about 2.5 weeks.
So why do we let this happen? We don’t. Politicians do!
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Helen Trigg for District Governor
There is many a slip twixt the lip and the cup, [as the saying goes], but it was announced tonight that PP Helen has agreed to be nominated for DG in year 2011/12. She has the unanimous support of the club members present at tonight’s meeting, which also commits all of us to staging the District Conference in Ocean Grove, in March 2012. We did it for Henry Hudson in 1996, and that was the best conference! 2012 will be even better.Of course, she still needs to be elected, but if all goes according to plan, she will be District Governor nominee in 2009/10, DG Elect in 2010/11, and inducted as district 9780’s District Governor for 2011/12.
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There are just a few recalsitrants for the Red Cross Calling project
We need to wind up this project- already achieving more than $3000 in collections- and Peter Hawthorne is looking for collections from Fred Andrews, Geoff Ford, Richard Grimmett and Marion Walton.
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News in Brief
• Mike and Andrea Leblanc have expressed thanks for their time here, and hope we will reciprocate with our visit to Canada in 2008.
• Paul Gleeson was a guest tonight, and likely to become our 7th new member this Rotary year.
• Pres. Elect. Alison attended the PETS weekend and was high in her praise of the planning and execution.
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The end of the contributed funnies
I ask all contributors of non-Rotary material by e-mail to please stop. I have many on-liners who don’t want to receive that type of material, and it does tend to clog the inbox. I will be away for two weeks shortly, and am fearful that 10-15 ‘fuunies’ etc each week will clog my in-box, and continue to irritate the recipients who only want Rotary stuff from me. So I am going to delete unopened, all non Rotary stuff as from tonight. I thank you all for your contributions, but it has all become too much.
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A précis of the assembly
• Future programmes will include a vocational service visit to Davidsons Restaurant on 15th May.
• You are urged to participate in footy tipping on-line. $44 for the season, but there is a weekly prize.
• PP Wal Kelly was outstanding in his promotion of the PAD project at the District Conference.
• Marion Walton’s Comm. Service Committee has done so much this year that she missed some.
• Tim Kemp has planned a water purification project with RC Southampton in Central America.
• Tony Haines reported on several past and planned Youth projects, including 3 youths to Rypen.
• Vocational and Admin. Committees reported at length, which is something I have run out of.
