The last bulletin for 2009
This Day Tonight
- There is no meeting on Tuesday 29th December. The next is at the pub after the CP raffle ticket sales on 5th January. See later in this bulletin for a full roster, information which will be repeated by direct e-mail on 27th December and again on 3rd January.
- There will be an International dinner at a bistro in Moorabool St on 2 Feb, $50 PH, details later.
- 104 stalls are booked for the 3 Jan market. Check below for your duties.
- Chiara Passerini What a wonderful way to round off an excellent selection of guest speakers for 2009! Concert pianiste, teacher of piano, vivacious, talented, young, blonde, beautiful, vibrant, divides her time between here, [for the last seven years] and the world stage, formerly of Gallarate, Italy. Chiara now specialises in duet performances with a clarinettist, but also rides a motorbike at 45-55 kph to pace her pro. husband /cyclist on training runs. I have no difficulty in understanding why her husband married her! Gallarate is a village [?] of about 50,000 in Northern Italy, near Como and Milan. Beautiful!!!
Car Raffle Sales Duties
Wed 23/12 Leopold Geoff & Wal
Sun 27/12 Portarlington Market Wal Kelly & John Fox
Sun 3/1 Our market Robin Edwards, Vic Harnath, Wal Kelly
Sun 3/1 Apco SS at B/Heads. AM Richard Trigg PM Bob Osbourne
One for the Ladies – ‘Three men on a hike.’
Three men were hiking through a forest when they came upon a large, raging, violent river. Needing to get to the other side, the first man prayed, “God, please give me the strength to cross the river”. Poof!!, God gave him big arms and strong legs and he was able to swim across in about two hours, having almost drowned twice.
After witnessing that, the second man prayed, “God, give me strength and the means to cross the river.”
Poof!! God gave him a rowboat and strong arms and legs and he was able to row across the river in about an hour after almost capsizing once.
Seeing what happened to the first two men, the third man prayed: “God, give me the strength, the tools and the intelligence to cross the river.” Poof!!, he was turned into a woman. She checked the map, hiked two hundred metres upstream, and walked across the bridge.
I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
Landmarks and turning points in Rotary’s history
- 1957 Paul Harris Fellow Recognitian proposed to fund Foundation projects.
- 1962 First Interact club formed in Melbourne, Florida, USA.
- 1963 Matched Club and District Program provides impetus for World Community Service, Matching Grants, Group Study Exchange and Rotary Fellowships. Extracted from ‘A Century of Service’
Market Roster, Sunday, 3rd January
OC Phil Edwards 2IC Rod Bush Car Counters 8.30-11.00 Norm Elliott 11.00-1.00 Noel Emselle
Traffic Control 8.30-11.00 Mick Cummins 11.00- 1.00 Peter Cullen. Donations Bin 1st Geoff Eglin
2nd Rod Birrell Car Parking 7.30 Colin Brown 8.30 Trevor McArdle, Fred Andrews, Ian Downing
- David Tyrrell, Geoff Chandler, Hans Franken. Signs & Equipment Ian Bent, Peter Cullen.
Raffles 8.30-10.30 Margaret Campbell, Robin Edwards 10.30-12.00 David Cooke, Charles Dawborn
For those of us fellows who are in our seventies
An old man was sitting on the curb outside the pub, sobbing helplessly. A policeman asked him what was wrong. “I’m 75 years old,” he cried, “and I’ve got a 25 year old wife at home who’s beautiful, amorous, and madly in love with me.” So what’s the problem?” Asked the copper…………”I can’t remember my address.”
Some amazing stories of Polio, perhaps, some of the final ones!
- 24th April 1960 was declared ‘Sabine Sunday’, when the first test of the oral vaccine was held in Cincinnati, Ohio. The next year, the vaccine was approved for use in the U.S.A.
- By 1964, only 122 cases of polio were recorded in the United States. The W.H.O. certified the Americas polio-free in 1994, the Western Pacific in 2000 and Europe in 2002. 4 large equatorial countries are left.
- Sabin, an honorary Rotarian, personally administered the first drops of vaccine to launch Rotary’s PolioPlus initiative in 1985. By 2008, Rotarians had contributed more than US$700m to immunize 2 billion children in 122 countries. The Microsoft founder has built that up to well over US$1bn.
Notice for the meeting at the Calnins, Tuesday, 5th January, about 7.00 P.M., following the caravan parks sales of raffle tickets Detailed lists & instructions will be e-mailed to you on 27/12 & 3/1
Chairman President Rod. Subject Adventures in local Caravan Parks Speakers Us
Assistant Cashiers Gerry Spencer’s selection.
Birthdays & Anniversaries 8th John & Judy Eyles. 9th Colin & Jan Brown, Alex & Ann Magee
CP raffle ticket rosters. Wear Rotary shirts, caps and name badges. Leaders & [meeting] in bold type.
Riverside CP –[Office] - Wal Kelly, Barker, Chandler, Cullen, Dodgshun, Elliott, Brentnall, Cummins [3].
Wynn’s CP – [Office in Baker St.] – Noel Emselle, Wynn, both Triggs, Tyrrell, Downing.
River Camping Park – [Potato Van] – Trev. McArdle, Brown, Gilbert, Grimmett, Haines, Osbourne, Fox.
OG Holiday Park – [Wallington Rd. Office] - Rod Greer, J Greer, Andrews, Geerings, Magee.
Collendina CP – [main gate] – Phil. Edwards, Steains, Clay, Franken, Harnath, Hawthorne, Bent, Waltons
BH CP – [Office] – Geoff Ford, Birrell, Bush, Campbell, Cooke, Dawborn, Spencer, Smith, Paton, Richini IF YOU PLAN TO BE DECEASED, SICK, INCAPACITATED OR OTHERWISE ABSENT ON THE NIGHT, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LEADER
ROTARY AT WORK 2004 tsunami tragedy leads to educational triumph in Sri Lanka
In Sri Lanka, a five-year endeavor that began in tragedy is ending in triumph. The Schools Reawaken project, started by District 3220 [Sri Lanka] shortly after the 2004 tsunami that killed 40,000 residents of the island nation, has dedicated its 22nd new school. Today, more than 11,000 students are enrolled in schools built through the project. The US$12m project received about $1.82m donated by Rotarians and Rotary clubs to the ‘Solidarity in South Asia’ Fund, by the Rotary Foundation in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami.
Three fascinating, but otherwise quite useless pieces of information
1 The term ‘berserk’ means ‘Bare Shirt’ in Norse, the Viking language. The Vikings were fearless warriors who went into battle bare-chested – whatever the weather. Fair dinkum
2 The world’s first printed book was the Diamond Sutra, produced in China in ad868. That’s 580 years before printing began in Europe. Likewise
3 The first paper money was issued in ad960, also in China, as travelling merchants were weighed down by all the coins they had to carry. Europe did not start to use paper currency until 1660. The same!
Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does! But have a merry Christmas and a happy and healthy 2010.
John Fox, 2110, 22/12/2009
