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Vol.26 No.33
February 10, 2009
Meet the Canadian GSE team on Sunday, 15 February
This is an opportunity for the Rotary clubs of Ocean Grove and Queenscliffe to meet the incoming team for a purely social day, and Marion will provide more details next Tuesday, 10th Feb.
In summary, the team will take in the sights of both towns after breakfast, and members of both our clubs will be invited to join in.
In the evening, we can join them for ‘Music in the Geelong Botanical Gardens’ commencing at 5.00PM. Finish 7.30. Bring food, drink and chairs. Music provided by a swing/ Jazz combo.
Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use, the bubbles are always white?
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Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 17th Feb., 6.00 for 6.30
Subject Surf Life Saving Speaker Darryl Thomas Chairman Noel Emselle
Attendance Officer John Eyles Assistant Cashier & Thanker Rod Birrell
Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Ian Dowling Birthday 21st Jan Chandler
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Notice for the meeting at ‘The Wave’, Lake Avenue on Tuesday, 24th February, 6.30 for 7.00.
This public meeting on mental health will take the place of our regular meeting, and, as a consequence, our regular meeting at the hotel has been cancelled.
No evening meal will be served at The Wave, but supper will be provided.
This is a nation-wide community project sponsored by Rotary clubs, the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care and beyondblue. Admission is free, and our duties will be to act as joint hosts with Barwon Health. Further details will be provided next week.
Keynote speakers will include Dr. Anne Ward, psychiatrist, Peter Brocklehurst – the ‘singing cobbler’, and Pamela McIntosh, a carer and educator with Barwon Health – Mental Health, Drug and Alcohol Services. Rotary’s involvement is through the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund.
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“The law is a ass, a idiot”; so saith Mr Bumble in Charles Dickens’ ‘Oliver Twist’.
For those unfamiliar with the ‘Stella Rewards’, they are named after the 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonalds in New Mexico where she purchased the coffee. She took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving.
How could any reasonable person expect such a lawsuit to succeed ? But it did, and so did at least seven other outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S. [where else?] in the space of just one year! They became known as the ‘Stella Awards’, and the top seven for 2007 will be printed in this bulletin over the next seven editions
I am indebted to my colleague Geoff Neilson for providing me with this information.
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Great Truths about Growing Old
* Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. * Forget the health food. We need all the preservatives we can get. * When one falls down, you wonder what else you can do while you’re down there.
Rotary by the Numbers
As at 30th September – the date of the most reliable current figures, there were 1,206,089 Rotarians worldwide, in 33,114 clubs spread over 534 Rotary districts. There were 169,855 Rotaracters in 7,385 Rotaract clubs and 268,985 Interacters in 11,695 Interact clubs.
You probably knew that honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil, but did you know that 111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321?
If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be by rereading and editing. ……………..And always be sure to finish what
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A Rocky Pathway to Health [from the pages of ‘The Rotary-No-Tomo , Japan] ‘Rotary Club of Okegawa’
‘Our town’s two elementary schools were recently merged to form the new Okegawa Elementary School, which began classes in April 2007. To mark this event, the Rotary Club of Okegawa asked the school’s 883 students to join them in construction of a pathway of stones embedded in mortar which, when walked upon without shoes, would stimulate the pressure points on the soles of the feet, which in turn stimulates the internal organs, thus contributing to better general health and well-being.
Students first of all inscribed their names or designs on the stones, which they then imbedded in mortar. Each class was responsible for its own section of the pathway which was one metre wide and 15 metres long in a U shape. The club installed a well and wooden benches.
The dedication ceremony was held last February to which was invited the mayor and members of the local senior citizens club and had them try out the new pathway in their stockinged feet. The event was reported in the local press and crowds of people came on the school’s open day to try out the new ‘pathway to health’.
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AFTER TEA BREAK STAFF SHOULD EMPTY THE TEAPOT AND STAND UPSIDE DOWN ON THE DRAINING BOARD. *************
This Day Tonight
The Board meets with the visiting GSE team this Sunday, and we are all encouraged to attend the concert in the Geelong Bot. Gardens for a swing/ Jazz evening, commencing 5 pm. Bring $5, chairs, food and drink.
The program tonight was devoted to an information evening for the specific benefit of our newer members. I find it impossible to detail all of the activities which our club is engaged in or proposes for the rest of this Rotary year, but as each activity comes to fruition, you will be advised in detail. Sufficient to say that the following committee chairmen or their deputies briefly touched on the following features of Rotary. Administration [Vic Harnath], Vocational Service [Heather Wallace], International Service [Coral Barker], Membership [Noel Emselle], Rotary Foundation [Geoff Brentnall], Publicity [Richard Grimmett], Youth [ Judy Greer], Red Cross calling and Organ Donorship [John Fox, representing Peter Hawthorne, Our club’s formal structure [Tony Haines] and planned ‘hands-on’ projects Rod Greer]. These ‘power point’ likely or possible future projects include signage, information boards, and other practical ideas for keeping our club active and visible.
Richard Grimmett is the nucleus of a local committee to promote a Young Professionals Group for this community.
A sub-committee has been formed to plan a Craft Exhibition, open to the public, at the Surfside Primary School Hall, on Sunday, 7th June. Please pass on this info. to relatives, friends, colleagues, or anyone else who might like to exhibit craft of quality. No paintings – there are many art shows already in existence on the Peninsular.
The bushfire horrors of Saturday, 7th February
None of us will live long enough to ever see a repetition of the dreadful tragedy so dramatically portrayed in the media over the last few days. Let us all fervently hope that we can all live to learn the many lessons that the horror and pain of that terrible day will present us with. The OG CFA brigade performed with honor.
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