Country music legend Dolly Parton says reading to a preschooler is the best way to prepare for the day when that child first heads off to school. Parton was a speaker at the 2010 RI Convention in Montréal, Québec, Canada, in June, where she received Paul Harris Fellow Recognition and shared her appreciation for Rotary’s [...]
Past President Grahame Miles was the main force behind our Rotary Community Day this year. Grahame also drove the monster raffle and as a result we as a club were able to provide a total of $6,767 to most of our local schools in the Coolamon Shire. Here we see Grahame presenting a cheque for [...]
Shelterbox Shelterbox, a Cornish charity that helps people all over the world.
Sakuji Tanaka, a member of the Rotary Club of Yashio, Saitama, Japan, is the selection of the Nominating Committee for President of Rotary International in 2012-13. Tanaka will become the president-nominee on 1 October if there are no challenging candidates. Tanaka said he would like to see Rotary “continue its vital work as the force [...]
Our guest speker this week was Terry Jones from Bathurst: Terry is currently Editor of the Bathurst Newspaper, the Western Advocate. In the 1970s he was Editor of the Griffith Area News and has a wealth of knowledge of the events before and after Donald Mackay’s disappearance. On the evening of July 15, 1977, Donald [...]
ShelterBox tents are now up and providing immediate shelter to around 1,000 families displaced by the recent flooding in Pakistan. The flooding is the worst in 80 years and has caused wide-spread devastation, particularly in District Mianwali, Bhakkar & Khushab and Punjab Province. SHELTERBOX WEB SITE
PP Grahame Miles advised the meeting of the visit of Terry Jones on Monday 9th August. We were all asked to make an effort to get as many people along to hear Terry a brilliant raconteur and has many wonderful tales of his time in Griffith as a reporter. Terry will be speaking on “Rotarian [...]
Bill Gates says he is impressed with the progress Nigeria has made against polio and urges partners in the fight to eradicate the disease not to let up. Gates, cochair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, shared personal observations from his June trip to Nigeria on his blog, Gates Notes. The post, along with [...]
A community development project takes root beneath the forest canopy in Guatemala. I n 1991, Steve Dudenhoefer sold his successful landscaping business and abandoned his comfortable surroundings in southern Florida, USA, to dedicate his life to alleviating the plight of an indigenous community in the rain forests of eastern Guatemala. Dudenhoefer says about 60,000 indigenous [...]
The bulletin this week is available on the newsletter link: Newsletter Items of interest: GSE Team Nominations Monday August 9th Guest Speaker Terry Jones on the Donald MacKay saga in Griffith during the late 70s. ROSTERS: Bingo Thursday August 12th: Ray Foley; Ian Durham; Dick Jennings; Marg Perkin. Caravan Park 23rd July Ray Foley & [...]
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