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Vol.26 No. 8
Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 26th August, 6.00 for 6.30
Subject Fishing in Victoria Speaker Travis Lee Chairman Bob Smith
This is a new member sponsor night. It is recommended that every member should invite a potential new member. No hard sell, just an opportunity to show some friends or associates, or perhaps just an acquaintance, what Rotary is all about. You will have to register your guest with HANS. The Club will pay.
August is Membership and Extension Month.
Attend. Off. Heather Wallace Assist. Cash. & Thanker Marion Walton
Greeter & Assist. Sgt. Richard Trigg.
Birthdays & Anniversaries
26th Marg & Hamish Campbell 29th Hazel Ford
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A will is a dead giveaway. A boiled egg is hard to beat [There is absolutely no connection between the two]
Notable World Events in the week ahead [that was]
On 26th August, 1883, Mount Krakatoa [part of the East Indies, now Indonesia] erupted. Most of Krakaroa Island was destroyed, and the eruption generated the loudest noise reported in history. For five days after the cataclysm, atmospheric shock waves were felt as they reverberated around the world seven times.
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A family fun day and bike ride, Sunday 31st Aug. along the track by the train, Drysdale to Queenscliff
Family and friends can join in. Starts at the Drysdale station at 11AM, registrations from 10. The ride follows the train line all the way. It’s not a race, but there will be prizes! There will be a BBQ at the Queenscliff RS after the finish. Entry fee of $5 includes sausage and burger [with or without onions], drinks available. The train will take the riders back to Drysdale at 2.45, or they can bikeride the return journey – uphill. A few district Rotary Clubs [including Highton and Bayside] are organizing the day, and any non-riders can take the train both ways for $5. If you don’t want to ride on a bike or the train, you can drive straight to Queenscliff RS and wait for the riders from about 11.30. THIS SHOULD BE A FUN DAY BE THERE !!!
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Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 2nd September, 6.00 for 6.30
Speaker Sue Trickey Subject Changes in Kindergarten expectations, clientele, funding & programmes.
Chairman James Turnbull Attendance Officer Bill Walton
Assistant Cashier & Thanker Helen Trigg Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Bill Steains
Birthdays & Anniversaries
2nd Rod & Patsy Bush, James Turnbull 8th Martin & Anne Geerings
Notable World Events in the week ahead [that was]
On September 6th, 1936, Benjamin,the last Tasmanian Tiger, or Thylacinus cynocephalus, a large carnivorous marsupial, died in the Hobart zoo. While it looked like a tiger, with dark brown stripes down its side, and an enormous mouth with canine –sized teeth, it had more in common with kangaroos and koalas, with the female carrying her young in a pouch.
To this day, people claim to have seen a Tasmanian Tiger in the wild, but no-one has ever been able to prove it. And on this day in 1620, the Pilgrims set sail from Plymouth in the Mayflower.
Another tale from the Olympics
The New Zealand coxed eight rowing team were true amateur sportsmen. They had raised money for their trip to the Munich Games by holding bingo games and a raffle for a ‘dream kitchen’. The gold medal team was expected to emerge from the professional teams of either the USA, USSR or East Germany. It was the New Zealanders, however, who won.
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Marathon runners with bad shoes suffer from de feet
Some more Rotary Facts
Rotary first presented Significant Achievement Awards in 1969 to clubs with outstanding international or community service projects. My original club of Robinvale got one in 1977 for the Sarawak project!
Rotary’s first convention held in the Southern Hemisphere was in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1948.
Rotary’s first community service project took place in 1907 when Chicago Rotarians led a campaign to install a public ‘comfort station’ in the city hall. In other words, an indoor dunny!!
Rotary’s first appeal for aid to disaster victims was in 1913 when $25,000 was given for flood relief in Ohio and Indiana, USA.
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Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
Bloody stupid computers! My dear and long-departed sister used to call hers FRED [**** ing ridiculous electronic device]
If you get this before the weekend, it will be because my mate and former Rotarian Mark Donehue has driven from Leopold and worked electronic wonders in the dead of night!!
Cottage by the Sea
Tony Featherstone was our guest speaker tonight, a MBA, and CEO of the ‘Cottage’.at Queenscliff. He was a Rotarian at Bundaberg in 1991, and was a member of the GSE team to USA.
The ‘Cottage’ has been running for 117 years, incredibly, without any government funding, but catering for up to 1000 disadvantaged children each year.
The management committee, all unpaid volunteers, recently purchased a neighboring property, ‘Riptide’, by utilising the original building and selling off beachfront blocks to service the bank loan. A very smart move by both the Committee and the Bank!
Cathy Freeman is a Patron, but isn’t it typical of the Australian Government that the funding has to come from public and private donations and fundraising? I apologise for being so critical of our Government, but what a disgrace!!
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This Day Tonight
If you would like to participate in a UK ‘Friendship Exchange’, early to mid-June next year, phone Secy. Vic.
Don’t forget the Guest night next week, and remember to that you have to register with Hans.
The weekend of 25/26 October is the celebration of Ocean Grove’s Golden Anniversary. Richard Grimmett seeks support staff to liaise with various participating organizations for the street parade.
Our good friend and Rotarian colleague before transferring to Queenscliffe, Frank Mountford, is desperately unwell, and his mates in this club are urged to contact him.
James Turnbull described a needy New Guinea village on the north coast which requires assistance for the provision of a water supply system. Cost could be $12,500. Fellows at my table thought it is a candidate for a matching grant.
It’s still a drought!
29 Ocean Throughway has recorded 130mm of rain in the two months to date, with some rain on 23 out of the last 58 days. 5.2 inches sounds better to old-fashioned me.
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