Coolamon Rotary started the Men’s Shed here in Coolamon and are now looking for a new building or to build one. This one in Perth looks great:
Instead of the regular meeting of the RC of Freshwater Bay, the meeting this week was a Vocational Visit to the RC Mosman Park’s Men’s Shed. With a Lottery’s Commission Grant of almost $750,000 plus a contribution of over $90,000 from the RC Mosman Park, a huge and impressive building and project has been established. The benefits to all concerned, especially the men, young and not so young, who are members of the Men’s Shed and regularly attend, is significant. Uses for the building are extensive, not only does the RC Mosman Park have a permanent storage room and meeting room but various courses, including cooking, are run from the building. Well done RC Mosman Park! The City of Nedlands and the RCFB will talk about where to from here.Along with members of the RCFB, it was good to have in attendance for the Vocational visit, Hon. member Kay and Malcolm Mason, RF Alumni Prue Cowan and Graeme Hillier and Aaron Chinyimba along with RCMP Pres. Brett Pollock and other members of the Club, plus members of the Men’s Shed.
I have no words to say about this video. Watch yourself & feel. If this video touches or inspires you please recommend it to others & also extend your comments.
ABOUT the Video:
Narayanan Krishnan brings hot meals daily to India’s homeless and destitute. Since 2002, the chef has served more than 1.2 million meals through his non-profit organization, Akshaya Trust.
1. REMINDER that next Monday night we have our own Henk Hulsman as our guest speaker, please make the effort to bring your partner.
2. REMINDER that Easter Saturday is fast approaching and we need volunteers for the markets.
MONDAY MEETING
Tonight we had one of those meetings where we inducted a new member to our club, Wayne Lewis. Welcome Wayne and Helen to Rotary and we are sure that the years ahead will provide you with much friendship, laughter and to be able to serve our community.
Tonight we also inducted Sandra West as our first Friend of Rotary. President Paul Weston has written more below in his report.
We had 13 members in attendance including our newest member Wayne and FoR Sandra. Our guests included: Miffy Clarke from Ganmain, Alex Thompson our RYLA student, Gabby and Bill Thompson, Mathew Debronski, Ted Hutcheon, Neil West. The following partners also attended: Marylin Jennings, Christine Lorraine, Susan Glassford and Helen Lewis.
Guest Speaker: Sergeant Ross Sinclair, MSI, RAAF, Forest Hill,
Ross was the guest of Ian Durham. Ross gave a comprehensive presentation on his work past and present has a member of the RAAF. His love of the Caribou aircraft was evident and Ross told many stories of this air plane built by Hawker de Havilland. Ross lives in Coolamon and has a wife and two teenage daughters. Ross loves his work and making women and men into great team members who can respond to any situation. Ross concluded that age was no barrier in joining the RAAF. Neil Munro thanked Ross and presented Ross with a clever wallaby coin pouch.
Dubbed Wallaby Airlines after its call sign ‘Wallaby’ during the Vietnam war, 35 SQN’s Caribou aircraft carried around 677,000 passengers and 36 million kilograms of freight without fatality during that conflict.
PRESIDENT PAUL WESTON’S REPORT
President’s report
And the Rotary gear keeps rollin’ along. We had a fabulous meeting on Monday with a great rollout of Rotarians and partners. The meeting featured an introduction, two inductions, and an engaging talk by our guest speaker. After a tasty meal and dessert catered by Gilbert, Alex Thompson was introduced as our RYLA nominee and sent off with our good wishes for a successful time at RYLA, which will be held in mid April. We also inducted two new additions to our Rotary family, Wayne Lewis as our newest member and Sandra West as our first Friend of Rotary. Wayne has the classification of Transport and will be assisting Grahame with his Service Projects portfolio. Sandra has been an integral part of the markets run by our club over the past several years, and is formalising her relationship with Rotary through our innovative new program, Friends of Rotary.
Following the inductions, we were treated to a very interesting talk by Ross Sinclair, a Coolamon resident who works as a recruit trainer at the RAAF base in Wagga. Ross described his interesting history with the RAAF, including stays at bases around Australia and in Europe. It was extremely interesting to get a glimpse of life in the military from someone who has made a career of it.
Dick closed out the meeting with a hard-hitting fine session, sparing no one in the process (including our guests!). It was gratifying to see a great rollout and fellowship that continued well past the closing gong. Be sure to come to our next meeting, when our own Henk Hulsman will relate his life story, which is bound to be intriguing!
Yours in Rotary,
Paul
DIARY REMINDERS
Friday 22nd March RYDA (Rotary Youth Driver Awareness) Wagga Wagga ALL DAY with Coolamon Central School, John Glassford and Ian Jennings.
*Monday 25th March Club Member Night Henk Hulsman. Club catering.
Saturday 30th March Rotary Community Easter Markets in the Up-to-Date-Store, complemented by ‘Grand Designs Coolamon Style’ & a main street full of 100 or so Hot Rod Cars.
Monday April 1st NO Meeting Easter Monday.
*Monday 8th April Max Chapman Europe on a Shoe String.
Monday 8th -Friday 13th April RYLA Rotary Youth Leadership Awards. Alex Thompson is our club’s sponsored student this year at Camp Kurrajong, Oura Road, Wagga Wagga. RYLA web Site.
Thursday April 11th Rotary Bingo: Rostered on are: Leslie Weston, Paul Weston, Ian Jennings, Garth Perkin
***New Event: Friday April 12th TRIVIA NIGHT in aid of the Ganmain/ Coolamon Hospital Auxiliary. Coolamon Sport and Recreation Club 7.00pm. $10/head, best bet make up a table, contact Maree Jennings on 6927 3074 for further details.
Monday 15th April Business and Board Meeting Club catering
June 23-26 2013 Rotary International Convention in Lisbon. RI Convention Lisbon.
*Monday July 1st our 42nd Change Over Night.
*Partners and Guests Night.
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT SAKUJI TANAKA
While here in Mumbai I wish to congratulate the members of the Rotaract Club of the Caduceus, Mumbai, for being chosen as the international winner of the Rotaract Outstanding Project Awards. Because of their hard work thousands of local schoolchildren have received comprehensive eye care. Please take a few moments to read about all the winning projects.
During the wedding rehearsal, the groom approached the pastor with an unusual offer: “Look, I’ll give you $100 if you’ll change the wedding vows. When you get to the part where I’m supposed to promise to ‘love, honor and obey’ and ‘be faithful to her forever,’ I’d appreciate it if you’d just leave that out.” He passed the minister a $100 bill and walked away satisfied.
On the day of the wedding, when it came time for the groom’s vows, the pastor looked the young man in the eye and said: “Will you promise to prostrate yourself before her, obey her every command and wish, serve her breakfast in bed every morning of your life, and swear eternally before God and your lovely wife that you will not ever even look at another woman, as long as you both shall live? ”The groom gulped and looked around, and said in a tiny voice, “Yes,” then leaned toward the pastor and hissed: “I thought we had a deal.” The pastor put a $100 bill into the groom’s hand and whispered: “She made me a better offer.”
Honeymoon.
A young couple got married and went on their honeymoon. When they got back, the bride immediately called her mother. “Well…” said her mother, “How was the honeymoon?” “Oh, mamma!” she replied, “The honeymoon was wonderful! So romantic…” Suddenly she burst out in tears. “But mamma, as soon as we returned, Tom started using the most horrible language – things I’d never heard before! I mean, all these awful four letter words! You have got to take me home… PLEASE MAMMA!” “Sarah, Sarah…” her mother said, “Calm down! You need to stay with your husband and work this out.
Now tell me, what could be so awful? What four letter words did he say?” “Please don’t make me tell you, Mamma!” wept the daughter, “I’m so embarrassed they’re just too awful! COME GET ME, PLEASE!” “Darling, baby, you have to tell your mother these horrible four letter words.” Still sobbing, the bride said, “Oh, Mamma … he used words like: dust, wash, iron, cook…”
“I’ll pick you up in twenty minutes.” said the mother.
Maternity Ward.
Four men are in the hospital waiting room because their wives are having babies. A nurse goes up to the first guy and says, “Congratulations! You’re the father of twins.” “That’s odd,” answers the man. “I work for the Minnesota Twins!” A nurse says to the second guy, “Congratulations! You’re the father of triplets!”
“That’s weird,” answers the second man. “I work for the 3M company!” A nurse tells the third man, “Congratulations! You’re the father of quadruplets!” “That’s strange,” he answers. “I work for the Four Seasons hotel!” The last man is groaning and banging his head against the wall. “What’s wrong?” the others ask.
“I work for 7 Up!”
ROTARY INFORMATION
Your Opportunity to Volunteer in Kenya
RAWCS Rotary Australia World Community Service
RAWCS (Project No. 51/2011-12) (District 9570) is organising a team to travel to Diani Beach/ Ukunda, Kenya to erect a perimeter coral brick and mesh fence on 17 acre property – future home of Umoja Orphanage.
No further building can proceed without the security this fence will provide.
The Team will consist of eight members and requires men and women who are capable and /or experienced in wire fencing and cement/coral block laying and related tasks.
Volunteering is the experience of a lifetime. As usual, Volunteers will enjoy the ambience, the culture, mateship, and the experience, yet know they are contributing in a project to improve the lives of Kenyan orphan children.
Rotarian Austin from Australia with an orphan at Umoja.
Dates: The team will leave September 16 and return to Australia on October 3
Includes a 4 day Wildlife Safari, Volunteer experience at Kikambala Children’s feeding station, Guided tour of our Mentoring Orphanage’ in Kilifi, North of Mombasa, free days to explore your chosen adventure and of course erecting perimeter fence for the Orphanage.
Be Passport ready.
For more details contact:
PDG Terry Daley (e) [email protected] and (m) 0447 361 631 RSVP Expressions of Interest by April 20 at latest and a RAWCS Application form will be sent for completion..
BUCKET LIST
Diani Beach Kenya
This is what you will be able to enjoy if you volunteer to go to the Umoja orphanage at Diani Beach.
Rotary Club of Diani Beach meets at 12.30 pm every Tuesday at the Jadini Beach Hotel.
Don’t forget to regularly check our club web site for current information such as bingo rosters and various newsletters from the District Governor, the School of St. Jude’s, the monthly membership on the move newsletter as well as several other club bulletins.
Group Study Exchange District 5690 Team Kansas visit to D9700 upcoming March 25th onwards to the District Conference in Leeton.
D5690 GSE Team
This will be the last GSE Team to visit us under the old Foundation. You can meet them at Leeton at the DISCON or go make up at one of the meetings they will be hosted at in our district.
Steve Johnson – Team Leader – Lawyer – general practice: Estate planning, Business, Criminal defense, domestic & civil litigation, oil & gas
Matthew Hosey – GIS (Oil & Gas) – Degree in Geography – Expert with GIS Systems (Geographic Information Systems) – worked on mapping BP oil spills in the Gulf – Currently negotiating oil and gas leases.
Charity Davis – Finance (Stocks) – Works for Wells Fargo Advisors, Stock brokerage firm – a registered Client Associate – working towards getting her license to sell securities – stocks, bonds, marketable securities.
Hope Swartz – Mortgage lending – Mortgage Loan Assistant – Services existing loans on real estate and home loans, customer service, and document preparation for new loans.
Larry Altis – Retail farm/hardware – Manager of large farm supply store. Retail business. Works with several stores for an owner – but manages one of the stores too.
Melissa Shippy – Case Manager – Big Brothers Big Sisters – provides mentors for disadvantaged youth, manages case load, support and guidance of “matches” in their relationship development.
Programme
25/3/13 Arrive Orange Host Club: Orange RC
5.30pm Orange RC – D9700 Official Welcome
Wed 27/3/13 7am Orange Daybreak RC
Fri 29/3/13 Transfer to Host Club: Bathurst East RC
Wed 3/4/13 6.30pm Bathurst East RC
Thurs 4/4/13 Host Club: Cowra RC 6pm Cowra RC
Mon 8/4/13 Transfer to Host Club: Murrumburrah-Harden 6.30pm Murrumburrah-Harden RC
Tues 9/4/13 6.30pm Young RC
Thur 11/4/13 Transfer to Host Club: South Wagga Wagga RC
Mon 15/4/13 6.30pm South Wagga RC
Tues 16/4/13 7am Wagga Wagga Sunrise RC
6.30pm Henty RC
Wed 17/4/13 Transfer to Host Club: Griffith East RC
6.30pm Griffith East
Sat 20/4/13 D9700 Conference – Leeton
11.30am D9700 GSE Team presentation on exchange to D5690
Thursday, 14th March at 7.30 pm: Rotary BINGO – rostered on are – Henk Hulsman, John Burns, Grahame Miles and John Glassford. (Reminder to Garth Perkin and Rod Jarrett you are both rostered on as a swap).
*Monday 18th March Guest Speaker Ross Sinclair RAAF Forest Hill RAAF base speaking on the modern day Air Force. Gilbert catering.
Friday 22nd March RYDA (Rotary Youth Driver Awareness) Wagga Wagga ALL DAY with Coolamon Central School.
*Monday 25th March Club Member Night Henk Hulsman. Club catering.
Saturday 30th March Rotary Community Easter Markets in the Up-to-Date-Store, complemented by ‘Grand Designs Coolamon Style’ & a main street full of 100 or so Hot Rod Cars.
Monday April 1st NO Meeting Easter Monday.
*Monday 8th April Max Chapman Europe on a Shoe String.
Thursday April 11th Rotary Bingo: Rostered on are: Leslie Weston, Paul Weston, Ian Jennings, Garth Perkin
Monday 15th April Business and Board Meeting Club catering
June 23-26 2013 Rotary International Convention in Lisbon. RI Convention Lisbon.
*Monday July 1st our 42nd Change Over Night.
*Partners and Guests Night.
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT SAKUJI TANAKA
When we focus on young people, we are focusing on building the future of Rotary and a more peaceful world. When we serve youth, we help to bring Rotary to a new generation.
Rotary programs, such as Youth Exchange, play an essential part in Rotary’s global mission of building peace by helping to build, one exchange at a time, good relationships between nations.
Read more in my March message at http://ow.ly/iohxo.
A girl came skipping home from school one day.
“Mummy, Mummy,” she yelled,
“we were counting today, and all the other kids could only count to four, but I counted to 10. See? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!”
“Very good,” said her mother.
“Is it because I’m blonde, Mommy?”
“Yes, it’s because you’re blonde,” her mother replied.
The next day, the girl came skipping home from school.
“Mommy, Mommy,” she yelled,
“we were saying the alphabet today, and all the other kids could only say it to D, but I said it to G. See? A, B, C, D, E, F, G!” “Very good,” said her mother.
“Is it because I’m blonde, Mommy?”
“Yes, pumpkin, it’s because you’re blonde.”
The next day the girl came skipping home from school. “Mummy, Mummy,” she yelled,
“we were in gym class today, and when we showered, all the other girls had flat chests, but I have these!”
And she lifted her tank top to reveal a pair of 36Cs.
“Very good,” said her embarrassed mother.
“Is it because I’m blonde, mommy?”
“No, it’s because you’re 25.”
Blonde Joke 2
A blonde woman was having financial troubles so she decided to kidnap a dog and demand a ransom. She went to a local park, grabbed a little dog, took it behind a tree and wrote this note. “I have kidnapped your dog. I am sorry to do this but I need the money. Leave $10,000 in a plain brown bag behind the big oak tree in the park at 7 AM.” Signed, “The Blonde”. She pinned the note inside the little dog’s collar and told the dog to go straight home. The next morning, she returned to the park to find the $10,000 in a brown bag behind the big oak tree, just as she had instructed. Inside the bag was the following note. “Here is your money. I cannot believe that one blonde would do this to another.”
Pay Back
A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs.
When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbour. Before she says a word, Bob says, “I’ll give you $800 to drop that towel.” After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob. A…fter a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 and leaves.
The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs. When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks, “Who was that?”
“It was Bob the next door neighbor,” she replies.
“Great!” the husband says, “did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?”
ROTARY INFORMATION
ROTARY CLUB OF WAGGA WAGGA SUNRISE
On Saturday 9th March the Rotary Club of Wagga Wagga Sunrise held a day for the local community. The Great Lakeside Expo. Coolamon Rotary was there with RFFA Australia and PDG Fred Loneragan and John Glassford on the stand. There were many stands all representing what is available in the Wagga Wagga area for volunteers. Demonstrations of medieval sword fighting these men in full armour, that they make themselves, and they were serious hits!.
The State Emergency Service and other volunteers were also present. The Dragons Abreast team were very colourful in their bright shirts and took newbies as passenger paddlers on Lake Albert. The young ladies form the dancing troupe in Wagga danced in the heat and showed us some real talent. Bagpipers in full kilts, the choir and plenty to eat and drink. Congratulations to Wagga Wagga Sunrise for an excellent day and I am sure that it will grow.
Coolamon Rotarians will recognise PP Max Chapman hard at work as always for Rotary.
Don’t forget to regularly check our club web site for current information such as bingo rosters and various newsletters from the District Governor, the School of St. Jude’s, the monthly membership on the move newsletter as well as several other club bulletins.
We had 9 members and the following guests attend tonight. Sandra West, Wayne Lewis, Susan Wingate-Pearse, Christine Lorraine.
Visiting Rotarian was PP Roger Quine PHF +1 from Junee.
Guest speaker Dr. David Jenkins from Ganmain.
Dr. David Jenkins from Charles Sturt University Wagga Wagga.
David kept us all amused with his passion worms! David is a senior Research Fellow from the School of Animal and Veterinary Science at the Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga. We had all just settled down from dinner and then David showed some excellent slides with some very interesting and “moving” descriptions of three main types of worms that David has been researching. His tales of his work in the North Western province of Kenya left us all enthralled and it was just as well that we had finished our dinner!
Tapeworms are David’s specialty including the beef tapeworm Taenia Saginata which David studied in Kenya. David had a great time in Kenya and showed us photos of this tape worm 4 metres long! David went onto talk about the pork tapeworm (Taenia Solium) as well as hydatids (Echinococcus Granulosus). Hydatids have been known to kill humans. All in all a wonderful talk and one that left us all wanting more. Any clubs who are looking for a great night invite David along.
We concluded the evening with a bit of fun with our S@A Garth Perkins, Garth made a special effort to be there tonight travelling from Gundagai to be with us, thanks Garth. Leslie Weston proposed a vote of thanks to David and presented him with a well sterilised kangaroo leather money pouch.
Garth Perkin had us all in stitches even Dick Jennings was seen under the table!
PRESIDENT PAUL WESTON’S REPORT
President’s report
It was great to see another very good rollout for our meeting on Monday. We were treated to a rather different type of talk after dinner, and I reckon it’s one that people won’t soon forget. Our guest speaker was David Jenkins, a parasitologist who conducts research and teaches at CSU and lives in Ganmain. David works primarily with parasitic worms that inhabit a rather unsavoury place in the body of mammals, namely the digestive tract. The worms that David studies alternate between livestock hosts (e.g. sheep or cattle) and dogs or people. Although the parasites are mainly a concern in developing nations, some of them are very real threats in Australia (e.g. sheep measles, which is actually an encysted parasite that forms hardened lumps in the muscles of sheep). It’s a good thing David’s talk was AFTER dinner because some of the photos he showed were rather graphic. I, for one, will never think lightly again about a fly visiting food during a cookout knowing now what it might have previously visited, complete with reproductive stages of some nasty little creatures!
Dick announced that Wayne Lewis, who has been a guest at several recent meetings, will be joining us as a member, so stay tuned for information on his induction. Please remember our commitment to invite other potential new members to our meetings. Sandra West and Merrin Glasgow will be joining us as Friends of Rotary, so we’ll have a formal induction for them as well.
Our next meeting will be a board meeting at the Sport and Rec Club (11 March), but all are welcome to attend. Don’t forget to let Dick know if you’re planning to attend.
Yours in Rotary,
Paul
DIARY REMINDERS
Monday 11th March Business and Board Meeting Club catering.
Thursday, 14th March at 7.30 pm: Rotary BINGO – rostered on are – Henk Hulsman, John Burns, Grahame Miles and John Glassford. (Reminder to Garth Perkin and Rod Jarrett you are both rostered on as a swap).
*Monday 18th March Guest Speaker Ross Sinclair RAAF Forest Hill RAAF base speaking on the modern day Air Force. Gilbert catering.
*Monday 25th March Club Member Night Henk Hulsman. Club catering.
Saturday 30th March Rotary Community Easter Markets in the Up-to-Date-Store, complemented by ‘Grand Designs Coolamon Style’ & a main street full of 100 or so Hot Rod Cars.
Monday April 1st NO Meeting Easter Monday.
*Monday 8th April Max Chapman Europe on a Shoe String.
Monday 15th April Business and Board Meeting Club catering
June 23-26 2013 Rotary International Convention in Lisbon. RI Convention Lisbon.
*Monday July 1st our 42nd Change Over Night.
*Partners and Guests Night.
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT SAKUJI TANAKA
During a Rotary Peace Forum in São Paulo, Brazil a group of children entertained us with Japanese “taiko” drum music. Their performance put a smile on everyone’s face, including RI Director José Antonio F. Antiório and Past RI Director José Alfredo Pretoni. I’m extremely pleased with the progress we’ve made this year promoting Peace Through Service.
A woman accompanied her husband to the doctor’s office. After his checkup, the doctor called the wife into his office alone. He said, “Your husband is suffering from a very severe stress disorder. If you don’t do the following, your husband will surely die.” “Each morning, fix him a healthy breakfast. Be pleasant at all times. For lunch make him a nutritious meal. For dinner prepare an especially nice meal for him. Don’t burden him with chores. Don’t discuss your problems with him, it will only make his stress worse. No nagging. And most importantly, make love with your husband several times a week. If you can do this for the next 10 months to a year, I think your husband will regain his health completely.” On the way home, the husband asked his wife. “What did the doctor say?” He said you’re going to die,” she replied.
The Patient
A patient awakened after a serious operation only to find herself in a room with all the blinds drawn. Why are all the blinds closed?” she asked her doctor. Well, the surgeon responded, “They’re fighting a huge fire across the street, and we didn’t want you to wake up and think the operation had failed.”
50 Shades of Grey
Four guys have been going to the same fishing trip for many years.
Two days before the group is to leave, Kevin’s wife puts her foot down and tells him he isn’t going.
Kevin’s mates are very upset that he can’t go, but what can they do.
Two days later the three mates get to the camping site only to find Kevin sitting there with a tent set up, firewood gathered, and dinner cooking on the fire.
“Shit ,Kevin how long you been here? How did you talk your missus into letting you go ?”
“Well, I’ve been here since last night. After dinner at home yesterday evening, I was sitting in my chair and my wife came up behind me and put her hands over my eyes and said, ‘Guess who ?'”
I pulled her hands off, and she was wearing sexy brand new lingerie. She said had been reading ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ and she had a devilish look in her eyes!!!
She took my hand and led me to our bedroom. The room had candles and rose petals all over.
On the bed she had handcuffs, and ropes !
She told me to tie her up and cuff her to the bed, so I did.
Mayor Bloomberg said, “We’re at a critical juncture in the global effort to end polio. If we’re going to achieve a polio-free world, we must act quickly and commit now to providing the resources needed.”
Learn how you can join the mayor and others in ending polio at: www.endpolio.org.
Jon Deisher from Alaska in India last week on the latest NID National Immunisation Days.
The Rotary Club of Bombay is one of the pioneers in India of the Rotary movement, devoted to the ideal of Fellowship through service. It was founded on March 19, 1929. The Club meets every Tuesday at 1.15 p.m. at the Taj Mahal Hotel, the very place where the founders had their first get-together…
CAUSES WORTH SUPPORTING
ROTARY LITERACY MONTH
ONE LAP TOP PER CHILD
We aim to provide each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop. To this end, we have designed hardware, content and software for collaborative, joyful, and self-empowered learning. With access to this type of tool, children are engaged in their own education, and learn, share, and create together. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future.
Nepal
These young boys on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal work together at home. They spend as much time with their XOs there as they do at school, and parents embrace the change.
Don’t forget to regularly check our club web site for current information such as bingo rosters and various newsletters from the District Governor, the School of St. Jude’s, the monthly membership on the move newsletter as well as several other club bulletins.
We had a total of 22 attend the meeting on Monday night including Bernadette Milne and Miffy Clarke from Ganmain who are looking at being invited to join our club. Other guests were Enrico and Marco from Italy guests of Susan and myself, Maureen Hulsman, Sharon Miles, Susan Wingate-Pearse, Ted Hutcheon, Christine Lorraine and Sandra West.
Dinner was provided by the club catering team and was excellent.
This was a member’s night and it was the turn of John Glassford (seen laughing above), to give a presentation on his life. As I am preparing this bulletin I will leave it up to others to comment. What I will do is to add some photos from the presentation here, just a few of many, click on the thumb nails to get a larger photo.:
The talk included the slave trade, the colonisation of Kenya, George Glassford at Gallipoli (Father), growing coffee, the Mau Mau, football and rally driving African style, school in England, wild life and Kenya as it is today. The talk finished up with a quick look at what is proposed for ANZAC Day 2015 by climbing Mount Kenya.
PRESIDENT PAUL WESTON’S REPORT
President’s report
Monday’s meeting saw another great rollout of members and guests, many of whom were there to hear John Glassford’s life story. After an excellent dinner of lamb cutlets and dessert of apple pie à la mode, we were treated to an extraordinary tale of a life beginning with riches and privilege and a dramatic change of fortune following the political upheaval of the 1960s in Kenya and much of Africa. John’s upbringing is so far removed from what most of us have experienced, it was a bit hard to comprehend a life growing up on a coffee plantation with servants, Rolls Royces, racehorses at Ascot, etc., but the photographs and John’s narrative made it come to life. The sorrow and fear that followed as native Kenyans worked to oust the British colonists layered more hard-to-comprehend life experiences on an already unreal existence. John managed to escape all the turmoil, a few dollars poorer, but somehow landed on his feet and started a new life for himself. I find it amazing that, despite the loss of wealth and privilege, John forged ahead with his life and has done so much for the needy in Africa and elsewhere. I think it’s safe to say that all in attendance were awestruck and impressed by what they heard and saw, and came away with a new appreciation of our John Glassford.
We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting.
Yours in Rotary,
Paul
DIARY REMINDERS
*Monday March 4th David Jenkins from Charles Sturt University Veterinary Department Guest Speaker. Gilbert catering.
Monday 11th March Business and Board Meeting Club catering.
Thursday, 14th March at 7.30 pm: Rotary BINGO – rostered on are – Henk Hulsman, John Burns, Grahame Miles and John Glassford. (Reminder to Garth Perkin and Rod Jarrett you are both rostered on as a swap).
*Monday 18th March Guest Speaker Ross Sinclair RAAF Forest Hill RAAF base speaking on the modern day Air Force. Gilbert catering.
*Monday 25th March Club Member Night Henk Hulsman. Club catering.
Saturday 30th March Rotary Community Easter Markets in the Up-to-Date-Store, complemented by ‘Grand Designs Coolamon Style’ & a main street full of 100 or so Hot Rod Cars.
Monday April 1st NO Meeting Easter Monday.
*Monday 8th April Max Chapman Europe on a Shoe String.
Monday 15th April Business and Board Meeting Club catering
I wish to thank RI Director José Antonio F. Antiório and Rotarians in District 4430 in Brazil for organizing the São Paulo Rotary Peace Forum, which I attended the morning of Rotary’s 108th anniversary. In the evening I attended a highly successful Interdistrict Meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Accompanying me on a visit to the Paul Harris statue in Buenos Aires are (from left) District Governor-elect Juan Carlos Rey (D-4890), District Governor-elect Gustavo Verta (D-4855), Past RI President Luis Vicente Giay, Director-elect Celia Cruz de Giay, and District Governor-elect Carlos Pristipino (D-4940).
ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
Parrot Part 2
Jerry received a parrot for his birthday.
The parrot was fully-grown with a bad attitude and worse vocabulary. Every other word was an expletive. Those that weren’t expletives were, to say the least very rude.
Jerry tried hard to change the bird’s attitude and was constantly saying polite words, playing soft music, anything he could think of to try and set a good example. Nothing worked.
He yelled at the bird and the bird yelled back. He shook the bird and the bird just got angrier and became even more rude. Finally in a moment of desperation. Jerry put the parrot in the FREEZER.
For a few moments he heard the bird squawk and kick and scream. Then suddenly, there was a quiet—–
-Not a sound for half a minute. Jerry was frightened that he might have hurt the bird and quickly opened the freezer door.
The Parrot calmly stepped out onto Jerry’s extended arm and said: “I believe I may have offended you with my rude language and actions. I will endeavor at once to correct my behavior. I really am truly sorry and beg your forgiveness.”
Jerry was astonished at the bird’s change in attitude and was about to ask what had made the difference and caused such a dramatic change when the parrot continued: “May I ask what the chicken did???”
In the Genes
A man and his wife were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. The wife says to her husband, “For our anniversary this year, you can ask me one question, any question you want to. I will answer it truthfully.”
The husband replies, “Okay, this has been bothering me for a long time, but I haven’t had the courage to ask before…but I have noticed that all of our eight children look similar to one another except one. I can’t figure out how he got to look so different. Did he have a different father than the rest?”
The wife stops. She is unable to look her husband in the eyes. Slowly she replies, “yes. Yes he did have a different father.” Her husband was taken aback. “Oh! Okay…I must know. Please tell me. Who was that child’s father?” Again she cannot look her husband in the eyes. She is very distressed, and after a long silence she slowly said, “YOU.”
ROTARY INFORMATION
The Council on Legislation, Rotary’s “parliament,” meets every three years to deliberate and act upon all proposed enactments and resolutions submitted by clubs, district conferences, the General Council and Conference of Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland, and the RI Board. The Council itself also makes proposals.
The Council on Legislation is an important part of Rotary’s governance process. While the Board of Directors sets policies for Rotary International, the Council is where Rotary clubs have their say in the governance of the association. Every three years, each district sends a representative to the Council, which reviews proposed legislation. Every club and district is entitled to submit legislation to the Council, and some of Rotary’s most important work has resulted from Council action. Women were admitted into Rotary because of the action of the 1989 Council on Legislation, and PolioPlus was born as the result of the 1986 Council.
The Council comprises more than 500 representatives from every part of the Rotary world. Voting members include one elected representative of the clubs of each Rotary district. Some non voting members include the chair and vice chair of the Council, the RI president, members of the RI Board, and past RI presidents.
2013 Council
The next Council on Legislation will be in April 2013 in Chicago. District 9700 has PDG John Egan as our representative.If you ever need to change something in Rotary here is where it happens. First of all you have to get the club to agree to a motion to change the RI Constitution and By-laws then have the district approve it and then lodge the motion . Something like that. Your next chance comes in 3 years time the 2016 COL. Whatever changes are made this 2013 COL will be sent to us and we then have to update our constitution and by-laws to reflect the changes. We then vote on these changes and submit the new club constitution and club by-laws to the NSW Department of Fair Trade. If we do not do so then we are in breach and our club is no longer incorporated.
Photos below from the 2010 Council On Legislation in Chicago.
Below is a link to the whole proposed items up for discussion in April:
To provide that clubs shall meet at least twice per month
Proposed by the Rotary Club of Lancaster-Depew, New York, USA and the Rotary Club of St. Catharines Sunrise, ON, Canada and the Rotary Club of Waterdown, ON, Canada
Endorsed by the Conference of District 7090, Niagara Falls, New York, USA October 2011
IT IS ENACTED by Rotary International that the STANDARD ROTARY CLUB CONSTITUTION be and hereby is amended as follows (page 244 MOP)
(a) Day and Time. This club shall hold a regular meeting once each week regular meetings at least twice per calendar month on the days and at the time(s) provided in the bylaws.
It will not get up!
BUCKET LIST
The Masai Mara in Kenya one of the wonders of the world and do it in a balloon.
“We don’t want a Highway traversing our land. We don’t want soda ash mining on Lake Natron. Please, help us to make our voice heard.” This message was given to a member of our team by a Maasai when he visited Lake Natron two weeks ago.Spread the word and invite your friends to join us.
Don’t forget to regularly check our club web site for current information such as bingo rosters and various newsletters from the District Governor, the School of St. Jude’s, the monthly membership on the move newsletter as well as several other club bulletins.
We are going back to Kenya in 2015 to climb Mount Kenya fro 4 beneficiaries including Legacy, RSA New Zealand, Mathare orphans and Coolamon House in Cape Town. See:
