John J Glassford

Wagga Wagga Rotary Meeting

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Thursday night 16th February Wagga Wagga Rotary Club held a Mountains of the Moon evening with PDG Fred Loneragan and John Glassford as guest speakers for the night.  It was a most enjoyable evening of fellowship and fun.   Coolamon Rotary was well received along side our projects for RFFA in Africa.

Their Sargent at Arms was in fine form and we laughed a lot and he raised a bit of cash at the same time.

The presentation went very well and Fred and John gave a good account of the adventure in Uganda.  The Nonceba Project was the emphasis so that the members of  Wagga Wagga would consider supporting Hout Bay Rotary and this amazing project on a long term basis.  The evening ended with a rousing Advance Australia Fair the Wagga Wagga Rotarians have some fine voices.

The MoM Team

Left to Right: John Glassford, Susan Wingate-Pearse, Helen Maxwell, Rae Loneragan, Mark Janetzki, PDG Fred Loneragan, Mary Henley-Collopy and Wagga Wagga President Barry Francis.

The cheque $5,109

Thank you Wagga Wagga Rotary and your donation is most generous at 1 $ per metre climbed or $5,109.

Group Study Exchange Team from D 1010 Scotland

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The Scots are coming to Coolamon.  The Group Study Exchange team from District 1010 in Scotland are due to pay us a visit on Sunday 25th March and will be with us for three days and nights.  We look forward to hosting them and showing them around our Shire.

 

1010 to 9700

 

The 1010 GSE Team
Left to Right Mark Bryce, Anne Sutherland, DG Iain MacDonald, Amanda Ingram, Team Leader Peter Farr and Jamie Harrison.

 

Eilean Donan Castle

“District 1010 Scotland North covers some of the most beautiful and famous landmarks in the world such as Eilean Donan, the most photographed Castle in the world.  We therefore hope that by navigating through this site you may be able to find a little bit about our District, our Rotarians and the work we do locally, nationally and internationally literally every day of the year.”

District 1010 Web Site

Team details can be found here:

Team Leader Peter Farr’s Blog Spot

GSE 1010 Team on Facebook

Tennessee club wins Interact video contest grand-prize

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The Interact Club of Episcopal School of Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, is the grand-prize winner of the 2011 Interact video contest with its entry, “Change 4 Change.”

The video tells the story of how students at the Episcopal School of Knoxville collaborated to produce an illustrated children’s book about the worldwide effort to eradicate polio. Managed by eighth-grade Interactors and club advisers Laurie Coburn and Susan Lancaster, the book aims to raise funds and build awareness for Rotary’s End Polio Now campaign.

Rotarians Reach the $200 million goal!

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Jeff Raikes, chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Rotary International has succeeded in meeting the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s US$200 million match in funding for polio eradication, raising more than $202.6 million as of 17 January.

“In recognition of Rotary’s great work, and to inspire Rotarians in the future, the [Gates] foundation is committing an additional $50 million to extend our partnership,” said Jeff Raikes, chief executive officer of the Gates Foundation. “Rotary started the global fight against polio, and continues to set the tone for private fundraising, grassroots engagement, and maintaining polio at the top of the agenda with key policymakers.” Raikes also addressed Rotary leaders at the International Assembly.

The new $50 million grant from the Gates Foundation is not a challenge grant.

$200 million Reached by Rotary

 

RI President Elect Sakuji Tanaka

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2012-13 Theme Address from Rotary International on Vimeo.

RIPE Sakuji Tanaka and Kyoko Tanaka

“Peace, in all of the ways that we can understand it, is a real goal and a realistic goal for Rotary,” he said. “Peace is not something that can only be achieved through agreements, by governments, or through heroic struggles. It is something that we can find and that we can achieve, every day and in many simple ways.”

Peace has different meanings for different people, Tanaka said.

Peace Through Service

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