Here are a few of the bulletins that we receive each week from other clubs enjoy:
Bay Breezes March 6
John J Glassford
He profits most who serves best
He profits most who serves best
Arthur Frederick Sheldon, the Rotarian whose convention speech inspired Rotary’s secondary motto, One Profits Most Who Serves Best.
“I believe – –
That we are living in a scientific age, one in which all lines of useful effort are rapidly becoming reduced to a scientific basis.
That we are living in an age of the survival of the fittest.
That it means more to be fit today than it did ten years ago.
That it will mean more to be fit ten years from now than it does today.
That we are living in a commercial age, and that commerce or business is a science.
That a science is simply classified common sense based upon proper seeing, grasping, comparing and recording of facts,
That a profession is a Science practiced.
That the science of business is the science of service, he profits most who serves best.”
Rotarian Arthur Sheldon at the Chicago Convention in 1910.
Thank you to Past RI Director Dan Moores and Rtn Norm Winterbottom for the history. Dan and Norm are members of ROTI or Rotarians On The Internet.
Ganmain Floods
The week we had 300mm of rain or 12″
Ganmain was flooded and a lot of damage done to several buildings internally including the Senior Citizens centre, the Ganmain Historical Society, The Ganmain Men’s Shed, The Red Cross Hall, Warren’s Butchery. If anyone wants to help with the clean up please contact me on 6927 6027.
The Boggy Creek bridge has been damaged but one lane is open.
The rain has gone now and we are having beautiful sunny days to aid in the clean up.
One in a Million: The People Who Made India Polio-Free
THIS IS WHAT IT TAKES OT RID THE WORLD OF POLIO.
Message from Tom Telfer a member of ROTI or Rotarians On The Internet
Just completed the first National Immunisation Day of 2012 on February 19, 2012
India in the Andhra Pradesh region.
Did you know what it involved? Here are just some basic facts ……
* 800,000 vaccination booths
* 2.3 Million vaccinators
* 1.2 Million vaccination teams
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155,000 supervisors, with 155,000 vehicles ( cars, motorcycles, mopeds,
bicycles, boats, elephants, camels or whatever it takes )
* 220 Million doses of Polio Vaccine, carried around the country in 2.0 Million vaccine carrier bags
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6.3 Million ice packs to keep all those doses of polio vaccine in the
2.0 Million vaccine carries bags to maintaine the cold chain.
* 91 Million homes visited
* 170 Million children immunized during each NID – of these, 10 crore children immunized in just one day at booths. 1 crore equals 10 million, so 10 crore would be 100 million!
No Polio Case was reported this week.
P.P. Tom Telfer, B.A.
P.H.F.
Past Chair of Rotary Editors & Publishers
Charter member of Rotarians on the Internet
Member Rotary Rolodex
Member ICUFR
AMAZING WORK
Working Together for Small Farmers by BILL GATES
If you care about poor people, you need to care about agriculture.
The stakes could not be higher. The world’s ability to help small farmers be more sustainably productive will determine whether or not they remain in poverty or whether the hard work results in self-sufficiency for hundreds of millions of people.
By Bill Gates read the full story below:
Working Together for Small Farmers
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
We had the best time at the Roxy Cinema in Leeton yesterday afternoon. Great film great location and excellent fellowship. We also raised around $700 for Polio Plus.
If you did not go you missed a special day in our Rotary calender. Thanks Leeton and Narrandera Rotary Clubs for all the work.
Rotary Bangkok Convention May 6-9 Thailand
2012 RI Convention, VDO Promotion from Rotary Thailand on Vimeo.
Click on the convention logo!
The House of Friendship for this coming 2012 Rotary International Convention will be an utmost impressive atmosphere you ever experienced. You will be in the midst of blossom flower garden where we neatly decorate in exquisite style. A wide variety of well-known restaurants in Bangkok have been carefully selected to serve you with a mouth-watering food.
Dazzling to your eyes with Thai cultural performances throughout the day. Additionally, we also open for our fellow Rotarians to fully enjoy. Never missed your communication because we will prepare a hundred computers for you at the Internet Café, or you can bring your own communication device for a free WiFi here.
Enjoy your time with friends, exchange and share the experience of your social contribution in Project Exhibition booth.
Last but not least, don’t forget to enjoy shopping around House of Friendship where we gather the signature products from all around Thailand here.
Where is the House of Friendship?
The House of Friendship will be located at IMPACT Challenger Hall 3. It is interconnected hall with the main IMPACT Exhibition Centre.
International Service Competition Please Join In
Would you all have a vote for this competition for a Rotary Club in the USA please? Go to the following web site and follow the instructions below. You can vote every hour, however one vote cast right now will help them over the line. The competition closes on the 9th March. Let us show them the power of Rotary on the Internet! You do not have to be in Rotary to vote.
Vote for the “1st ADA Accessible Swing Set in County” which is 2nd row, far right. After you click on green “Vote” button, a CAPTCHA screen comes up and you enter a code, then “Vote” again, then a little window pops up saying “you only get one vote, you’re sure this is correct?” Click “Yes” or whatever and you’re done.
You can vote once per hour – per machine and per browser. I’ve taken to voting from I.E., Firefox, and Chrome, then my Droid phone – as often as I can remember. So, I get 4 votes in 2-3 minutes.
Thanks
Todd
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Todd Lindley DDS FAGD
Rotary Foundation Alumni Coordinator, Zone 31
Past District Governor, District 6060, 2010-2011
9553 Lackland Road, Suite 4
Overland MO 63114-3640
“Hopefully this contest can help us finish raising the funds needed to build the 1st Handicap Accessible Swing Set in St. Francois County. The footage of the mouse race came from last years race.” St Francois County Rotary Club.
Rotary Lights Up the World
In what has become a Rotary anniversary tradition, Rotary clubs around the world are illuminating iconic structures with the End Polio Now message.
Happy Birthday Rotary International 107 Years Old
Thursday 23rd February 1905
On 23 February 1905, Paul P. Harris, Gustavus Loehr, Silvester Schiele, and Hiram E. Shorey gathered in Loehr’s office for what would become known as the first Rotary club meeting.
Harris’s desire for camaraderie among business associates brought together these four men and eventually led to an international organization of service and fellowship.
Full story here: 107 Today
23 February 1905: Rotary Club of Chicago the First of the Sixteen Clubs prior to the formation of the National Association of Rotary Clubs. First gathering, on Thursday evening, 23 February 1905 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. by attorney Paul P. Harris. Young Harris, fresh from a wild five years as a reporter, actor, cowboy, seaman, granite salesman, fruit picker and hotel clerk, five years building a successful law practice, then had an idea. It was regarding observations of success and respect which could come from organizing professional acquaintances. More years past. He had given this much thought by the time he and Silvester Schiele walked over to Gus Loehr’s office, in Room 711 that cold winter night in 1905, almost 9 years from his arrival in Chicago. Several weeks later, Schiele was elected the first president of Rotary when the meeting was held in his office. Harris suggested several names, one of them being “Rotary.”
Thanks to Ron Nethercutt from the Rotary Club of Mabalacat D 3790
Angeles City, Philippines, for the story above. Ron is also a member of ROTI or Rotarians On The Internet. Ron also plays the trombone and is known as the Jazz Professor.