Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Ocean Grove Inc.
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Volume 25 No 38
Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 17th April, 6.00 for 6.30
Speaker Alan McKenzie Subject Water down the Drain
Chairman Alex Magee
Assistant Cashier & Thanker John Wynn Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Bill Walton
Birthdays & Anniversaries 18th Geoff & Hazel Ford, Bob Smith. 21st Dennis & Elaine Sanders
23rd John & Nan Calnin
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Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 24th April, 6.00 for 6.30
Speaker Paul Featherby Subject Walking the Kokoda Trail
Chairman Margaret Campbell
Assistant Cashier & Thanker Bob Smith Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Tony Haines
Birthdays & Anniversaries 25th Anne Tyrrell 30th Richard & Heather Grimmett
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April is Rotary Magazine Month
The official magazine of Rotary International, ‘The Rotarian’, has been published continuously since 1911. Thus, the Rotary world press, of which our regional magazine Rotary Down Under is a part, is celebrating 96 years of service to Rotary.
Rotary Down Under is 42 years old this month – a great achievement.
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Nursery Rhymes, [not necessarily for little kids!]
Mary had a little pig,
She kept it fat and plastered;
And when the price of pork went up,
She shot the little bastard.
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Of Markets
Judy Greer reports that our Easter Monday Market [and the last for this season] was a huge success, with 109 stalls, umpteen, [700+] cars and excellent weather. Stallholders were still there at 1.00, and the Greers had to kick out the last of them at 3.00!
We tend to take the running of the market as a routine effort, which is hardly surprising when we reflect on it being our main fund-raiser for the past 20 years, but a huge effort is required from the market manager for it to run smoothly, and it is timely for us to extend very warm congratulations to Judy and her team for a job well done.
Jan and I attended the Salamanca Place market in Hobart last Saturday morning. It is easily the biggest Saturday event in Hobart, [population 129,000] every Saturday of the year. 600 metres in three rows of stalls, absolutely packed with shoppers and sightsee-ers. For me, the feature was the many musical groups and soloists, from a Latin American combo from Chile to a brilliant guitarist. One guy played two didgeridoos, an electric keyboard, a saxophone, clarinet and drums, mainly at the same time. I have to qualify that statement as it is a bit difficult to play two didgeridoos in unison. One kid of about 7, with a little body but big cheeks, played a full size ‘didg’ with great skill. An even smaller kid collected the donations. Tassie is a great holiday destination.
Extracts from the 2005-06 Annual Report of Rotary International All amounts in US$ [millions]
Net assets total 112.9 [previous year 104.1] Cash & investments 93.6
Club and other debtors 5.0
Property & equipment 37.2
Other 2.3 138.1
Less Creditors and accruals 19.8
Deferred Revenue 5.4 25.2
Unrestricted net assets 112.9
The total revenue was 79.1, and expenses 72.3. Next week, I will present a brief run-down on what RI spends our US$43 per member on.
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If you don’t pay your exorcist you can get repossessed
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Your Editor goes overseas for just two weeks and they stuffed up the rostered programme !!
Before the Brentnell proggy fella shot through to the canals of the auld country, I had it firmly established that tonight’s programme was the three tenors. What we got was an Aussie soprano from Brazil. Actually, it was a better idea, and Jan Howard clearly demonstrated that the Exchange Programme would be a great success, provided the Australian selection system was used exclusively!!
Jan’s host town of Tupa, [pop. 70,000] provided several host families, but none of them were Rotarians. The RC of Tupa is a male dominated club, which provided little tangible support for Jan, but that didn’t stop her from enjoying the exchange to the utmost. 65 in her class, would have caused apoplexy in the Australian education system, but it seemed to work in Brazil. She had some fantastic trips and has treasured memories. Jan expressed her sincere thanks to our club for sponsoring her on a memorable year’s experience.
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This day tonight
• We had several visitors, including Jan’s mother and grandparents, and Howard Dean of the local ANZ bank.
• Our contribution last Easter Thursday and Friday to the Queenscliff seafood fest would have made Jesus very proud, with a mass of flathead tails offered to the multitude. [Little was said about the bread!]. !0 of our members and three wives contributed 114 man hours, according to disciple Trevor.
• The district assembly for 2007 will be held at Stawell on Sunday 20th May.
• The ladies International cycling race centered on Queenscliff in Feb., staffed by several of our mob, raised $800 for our club.
• Peter Hawthorne’s press secretary reports some recalcitrents who have not handed in their RC dough.
• PP Helen Trigg expressed her appreciation for our unanimous support for her nomination for DG.
• Ben Israel reported on his marathon swim in WA recently, and has opted to marry Suzie on first June instead of December, before he gets really buggered! Fair dinkum!.
• Alison George won the inaugural footy tipping competition with a score of 7/8. Nobody, including Alison has any idea how she did that.
• Bill Steains runs a hole-in-one comp at his caravan park every Easter, without any fuss. This year, he raised $2000 for the children’s hospital.
An interesting, insightful, moving talk not to be missed
Dr. John Oswold will be the speaker at next Monday night’s meeting of the RC of Queenscliffe. 6.30 for 7. $20 per person. Support for Tongan People at the Vaiola hospital in Nuku’alofa. Register with Kevin on 5258 2923 for dinner at the Lonsdale GC.
