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Vol.26 No. 9
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.
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Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 9th September, 6.00 for 6.30
Speaker Jemima Lock Subject Working with Children in Mombasa
Chairman Peter Hawthorne Attendance Officer Rod Birrell
Assistant Cashier & Thanker Ken Fleay Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Bruce Gilbert
Birthdays & Anniversaries 11th Charles & Lois Dawborn 12th Fred Andrews 13th Noel Emselle.
Notable World Events in the week ahead [that was]
On September 11, 2001, the world was shocked when two planes hijacked by terrorists flew into the World Trade Centre buildings in New York City. A third plane flew into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, damaging the building, and a fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.. Around 3,000 people died in the four well-planned attacks and thousands more were injured.
It took almost nine months to clear the rubble at Ground Zero where the WTC buildings had stood, but today, the U.S. is building an even higher structure on the site.
The attacks were linked to al-Qaeda, an Islamic militant group led by Osama bin Laden, who has been relentlessly pursued by international military forces for seven years, without success.
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My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God and I didn’t.
Ed. My fund of one-liners has been greatly enlarged by Rotarians Phil Edwards and Keith Nixon, and I am grateful to them both for a total of about 50 beauties, the first of which appears above.
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New to the RI catalogue
Membership Development Resource Guide. US$3
Membership Video Set. US$10
New Member Information Kit. US$5.50
Prospective Member Information Kit. US$3.25
Rotary Basics. US$0.75
Youth Exchange Handbook. US$2
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Rotary By The Numbers As at 31 March 2008
1,225,046 Rotarians worldwide. 532 Rotary districts. 32,907 Rotary clubs. 7,105 Rotaract clubs.
163,415 Rotaract members. 11,255 Interact clubs. 258,865 interact members.
6,143 Rotary Community Corps. 141,289 RCC members. And a parttridge in a pear tree.
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The Positive side of Change
Rotarians have greatly expanded their service efforts during the past 25 years, thanks in large part to The Rotary Foundation, which has enabled us to pool our funds and direct them to where they are most needed. Of course, our Foundation has grown and changed. New programmes have been developed, and some revamped or eliminated, but the way the Foundation disperses funds and the kinds of projects it supports has remained essentially the same.
In recent years, many Rotarians have questioned the efficiency of our system and processes. Others contend that Rotary’s humanitarian work is not getting the public attention that it deserves. The Rotary Foundation Future Vision Plan offers us a way to address such issues by streamlining our processes and focusing our efforts on those areas where we can make the greatest impact.
Like all visionary endeavors, this plan requires change – change in the focus of our projects, change in the way we distribute funds and, most important, change in our overall culture. I think we can all agree that transforming our culture presents a greater challenge than making cosmetic changes to our programmes and processes. But an organization that refuses to change and fails to grow and develop becomes not a thriving force for the future, but a footnote in history. Ed Futa, RI General secretary.
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Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
This Day Tonight
This was our Guest night. President John asked us all to bring a guest. Eight of us did.
J C also asked us to support the joint Rotary fun day next Sunday, Drysdale to Queenscliff by bike or train.. Tickets can still be bought for $10 per head from..
Secretary Vic urges us to register our personal details with the district so that the DG’s newsletter can be e-mailed.
Rod Birrell is asking for volunteers to sort books for our DIK project at Osborne House next Wednesday.
Tony Haines, Youth Committee, invites applications from local 18-25 y.o.’s to attend a weekend leadership development course at our club’s expense.
Phil Edwards is about to launch the market information cards for distribution.
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Only in America do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while the healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front. Aussie pharmacies don’t sell cigarettes.
Our foreshore is fragile
Travis Lee, a marine biologist and tonight’s guest speaker, spoke convincingly and eloquently about coastal dunes rehabilitation, and the effect of the combined impact of sand, waves, wind and vegetation on our coastal fringe. We also learnt that the indigenous mountain ash, the world’s tallest flowering tree, indicates its age by the number and type of the rings in its diameter, and that the age of a shark is measured in very much the same way through an examination of its vertebrae.
When Travis and his partner go to a restaurant for a fish dinner, Travis admits to being more interested in the physiology of the fish rather than the taste!
But he provides an invaluable skill to our seaside environment, helped by 1,100 students from 16 schools.
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