Bulletins

Rotary Bangkok Convention May 6-9 Thailand

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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

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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 HERE

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.

Hout Bay Bay Breezes Great Read

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Don Peters President Hout Bay RC and Trustee of Nonceba.

An excerpt from this weeks Bay Breezes the weekly bulletin of our twin club Hout Bay Rotary Club.

Watching the cricket reminded me of the importance of being in a team. Each individual, and we all are individuals, play a part.In cricket you have batsmen, bowlers and fielders together with a Captain, Vice Captain, Coach etc;  in Rotary its a little simpler,yes we have a team and a Board with a President. Where we fundamentally differ is that in cricket most of the roles played arethose played by individuals whereas in Rotary we really are a team, Yes of course we have “averages’ and frequently we getmoved up the “batting” order and have a magnificent “innings” but its the team that is the winner always.

We were very fortunate to have a team visit us from Australia and what amazing averages they all had, some were great batsmen and achieved great “heights” ( apology to the climbers) others magnificent fielders (further apology to those unsuccessfulclimbers) with one handicapped but able to achieve a memorable innings (thanks Mary). Our visiting Australians were actually more than amazing when you consider the very substantial personal sacrifices made by each of them to travel to Africa. This was a team of greats, it was a team of Rotarians who were just perfect team members and the amazing part of this whole story is that unlike cricket, where a team playing against a fantastic Australian bunch as we had would lose, Hout Bay Rotary WON.

This Weeks Bay Breezes

Don Peters President Hout Bay Rotary Club and trustee Nonceba.

My response is to say the feeling is very mutual and we will never forget the hospitality that these wonderful Rotarians showed us in Hout Bay in December.  We look forward to returning the favour one day Hout Bay.   You do remarkable work and epitomise what Rotary is all about; GOOD ON YOU.

 

Made it!

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Team member Fred Maddeen of Bathurst (right) atop Mt. Margherita with guide Moses Kashumba, the only climbers to complete the Mountains of the Moon climb.  Look for a full account from John Glassford later…

Good Publicity

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Pink THE Colour

The Rock a place to meet and great the media.  Yesterday we had a meeting with the Prime 7 TV crew and the Daily Wagga Wagga Advertiser.  A good day for Rotary:

Thanks Advertiser

The Daily Advertiser

 

Henty Rotary Visit Coolamon

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Message from President Noelene Bedggood from the RC of Henty who visited our club last Monday and presented a cheque for $5,200 for the Mountains of the Moon project.

Bon Voyage to Mark Janetzki, PDG Fred Loneregan and John Glassford, who are about to embark on a major adventure to Africa with the Mountains of the Moon project. Thank you to Noelene for her contribution on with regard to the team’s farewell, we will all be thinking of you and look forward to your return with much to share.

PP Mark Janetzki presents a cheque to President  Marg Perkin & PDG Fred Loneragan .  Also in photo: Rae Loneragan & Noelene Bedggood

Dubai Fountain

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Water-jets can reach up to 50 stories in height, plus the fountain measures longer than two football fields at over 275 meters in length. It is so impressive when it is on a clear day.

Coolamon House in Hout Bay

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Dear John,

I hope you are keeping well, good friend, and you will be pleased to hear
that Coolamon House is looking good and working well with patients streaming through.

I see our district PR used Facebook for the story in today’s Hout Bay paper
and various have made comments already. It was posted at:

Coolamon House on facebook

Patrick McLaughlin
Immediate past president
Rotary Club of Hout Bay
Chair, Operation Medical Hope
Hout Bay, Cape Town South Africa