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Vol.26 No.40
March 31, 2009
Notice for the Meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 7th April, 6.00 for 6.30
Subject Wine appreciation & Food Speaker Peter Fryar Chairman Charles Dawborn
Attendance Officer Peter Hawthorne Assistant Cashier & Thanker Norm Elliott
Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Martin Geerings Birthdays & Anniversaries 8th Martin Geerings
9th John Calnin, Vic Harnath 10th Peter & Jo Hawthorne 11th Pam Turnbull.
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Fascinating, but otherwise useless information! One person in 20 has an extra pair of ribs.
Notice of the duty roster for the Seafoodfest at Queenscliff on Good Friday, 10th April
Notice of the duty roster for our Easter Monday Market, 13th April 2009
O/C Phil Edwards 2 I/C James Turnbull Car counter [0830 to 1300] Heather Wallace
Car Parking [0730] Colin Brown [0830 Trevor McArdle, Fred Andrews and Dick Clay
[1000 to 1230] David Tyrrell, Noel Emselle and Peter Cullen
Site Preparation Phil Edwards Signs & Equipment Ken Fleay and Geoffrey Cummins
Raffles [0830 to 1030] Alison George & Geoffrey Cummins [0930 to 1130] Ingrid Cummins
[1030 to 1230] Margaret Campbell
Traffic Control [0830 to 1030] Rod Birrell [0900 to 1130] Rod Greer [1030 to 1230] Bruce Gilbert
Public Relations Richard Grimmett & Charles Dawborn
The Stella Awards – Third place
Third place goes to Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennslvania because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor – Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 20 seconds earlier during an argument! Whatever happened to people being responsible for their own actions?
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You know you’re Australian…………..
When you get choked up with emotion by the first verse of the national anthem and then have trouble remembering the second.
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Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday, 14th April, 6.00 for 6.30
Subject Road Trauma Unit Speaker Annette Hunter Chairman Helen Trigg
Attendance Officer Judy Greer Assistant Cashier & Thanker Rod Greer
Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Wal Kelly
Birthdays & Anniversaries 15th John Dodgshun 18th Geoff & Hazel Ford, Bob Smith
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The lining of your stomach completely replaces itself every three days. Particularly after eating one of our Rotary meals.
The Rotary Flag
Our flag has remained basically unchanged since 1915. Admiral Richard Byrd [a Rotarian], took it to the North Pole in 1926, and flew with it over the South Pole in 1929. In 1932, Professor Auguste Picard carried one with him on his balloon ascent to 55,577 feet, and the Rotary club of Houghton, Michigan, took one down to 6250 feet below the surface for a lunch meeting in the Quincy Copper mine in 1933.
Recorded in a children’s science exam
The body is consisted into three parts – the brainium, the borax and the abdominal cavity. The brainium contains the brain, the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abdominal cavity contains the five bowels A, E, I, O and U.
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Fingernails grow four times more quickly than toenails.
The Rural Recession A couple of weeks ago, I explained the Government Economic Package. Emboldened by that coup, I now pass on a reflection by an old-time farmer about the rural recession.
“It all started back in 1966 when we changed from pounds to dollars – that doubled me bloody overdraft!
Then they brought in kilograms instead of pounds – me bloody wool clip dropped by half.
After that they changed rain to millimeters and we haven’t had an inch of rain since.
If that wasn’t enough, they brought in Celsius, and it rarely gets over 40 degrees. No wonder me bloody wheat won’t grow!
Then they changed acres to hectares, and I end up with only half the land I had.
By this time I’d had enough and decided to sell out. I put the property in the agent’s hands and then they changed miles to kilometers. Now I’m too far out of town for anybody to buy the bloody place.
Fair dinkum, it’s enough to give yer the shits.” I bet that won’t get past Brownies censor
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Promotion of the Easter Monday Market
This will be the last market of the 2008/09 season, and with Phil Edwards and his team already achieving a net profit of $17,000 to date, this is our opportunity to make a really big impact on our charity raisings for the year. A roster of four Rotarians will hand out promotional brochures at Safeways on Easter Saturday in hourly shifts from 0900, starting with John Fox, then Geoff ford, Wal Kelly, and finishing with either of the Cummins.
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Polio Plus is easily the biggest thing ever tackled by Rotary!
The prefix ‘PDG’ [Past District Governor] conjures up visions, at least for me, similar to the image I have of former Prime Ministers expounding on matters national and international, which they should have abandoned, at the very least, when they vacated office. Eddie Loughnan is probably seen in that unfavourable light, as he served our District as Governor eight years ago, but any member who thinks Eddie is past his ‘used by date’ is way off the mark.
Tonight’s excellent power point presentation on the current scene with Rotary’s No. 1 project was a very professional, succinct, lucid and highly informative verbal ‘newsreel’ on a huge endeavour over the past 24 years, which has so far soaked up about $US800M, but has provided immunizasion for 2 billion children worldwide and saved at least 5million because of it.
Misinformation, mobility and infrastruction problems, coupled with conflicts and plain bloody ignorance, means that the struggle is far from over. The Bill Gates Foundation’s $US355M is a fantastic contribution to the cause of final and complete eradication, but we all have to play our part in matching [at least in part] that massive injection of funds. Like $1000 per club for the next six years!! . If you weren’t there tonight, you missed a treat! Eddie was great.
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Bits ‘n Pieces
We learned tonight that our PP Helen Trigg did not gain selection for DG in 2010/11.
The annual night out for our club at Davidsons restaurant in Geelong, set down for Tueday 12th May, is the highlight of our social year. Heather Wallace is taking advance bookings and we need about 50 firm bookings for exclusiveness. It is not an expensive night, but always a gourmets delight. Book now!
Dick Clay won the first of the weekly footy tipping comps. with a score of 7/8. Rumor has it that he unwisely picked Richmond
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. Groucho Marx
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