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Stawellight – Rotary Stawell Newsletter – 20th Jan 2015

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Rotary Club of Stawell Newsletter :

International Pres: K.R. Ravindran – District Pres: Jane Cox

Club Pres: Pauline Shirrefs – Club Sec: PE Kaye Harris

June 9 2016

 

Our first activity of 2015 was a night out when a small group of us travelled to Ararat and had dinner at the RSL followed by a night at the cinema where we took in the Russell Crowe movie The Water Diviner. A well made Aussie film depicting the journey of an Australian farmer cum water diviner seeking to discover the fate of his 3 sons who were lost at Gallipoli.

 

 

Last Tuesday 13th January was our first meeting for this year. Again only a small number were present with President Vaughan in the chair, but at least the year is up and going. However our need to recruit new members is evident. We are an active club which has contributed well to the community in proportion to our numbers, but new members to build the Club’s efforts are definitely needed. So we need to put our thinking caps on. PP Val has made a suggestion that we should consider urgently, “A Thank You Night” to all businesses that have assisted Rotary.

 

Reports and other items from meeting:

  • Sec Pauline : Rotary end of year presentations to local schools. A “Thank You” letter received from Stawell Secondary College.
  • A reminder from AG Douglas Ball re copies of newsletter have to be sent to District in the persons DG Jeff; DGE Jane Cox; and DGN
  • District advises that they intend bringing the President, Secretary, and Service Director of the Rotary Club of Tacloban (Philippines) as guests of the District. Tacloban was right at the heart of the Typhoon Haiyun disaster that hit the Philippines causing thousands of deaths and wreaking so much havoc to the communities of Leyte. This is to occur in the second half of March.You may remember our Club did set out to raise funds to help reconstruction but our efforts were sidelined when the Grampians experienced a big fire along with the blaze in the Black Range which damaged local communities.          District are inviting clubs to have our Filipino associates address club meetings – perhaps we should seek to make our a meeting a public meeting and invite the local community and try to once again establish a   PP Kimcommunity there – to – a community here link.
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  • AG Douglas also advises of a Group 8 Film Nite to see “Best Exotic Marigold” Cinema 1 Regent. Ballarat -Thursday 26 Feb 6.30 for 7.00pm.

 

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  • RAWCS – Rtn Robin International Director has $2 stickers for sale. See him at meeting.

 

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  • PP Kim advises that her father wants full use of his freezers so we need to transfer our sausages – any one with some freezer space?

 

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  • PP Kim also reminds members that the Car Raffle tickets/butts need to be returned by this coming Tuesday 27 January

 

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    • PP Kim : sellers for Raffle Tickets at Trotting Track this Sunday 9-1 required. PP John L is available 11.30 to 1.00.
  • Halls Gap Jazz Weekend Sunday 15 Feb – from 8.00am – need all available hands on deck. PP Kim will organise supplies but is unable to be there on that date.

 

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    • Sec Pauline : we have received our VicRoads accreditation for Adopt-a-Highway – PP John L to prepare OHS PPT Presentation on what is required of volunteers..
  • Sec Pauline advised that DG Jeff has notified us of the RI 2016 Theme: “Gift to the World.”

 

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  • Reminder it was Raquel’s birthday on Jan 10. Party called off because of weather. Any alternative yet?
  • Also Carly experienced her birthday last week. Happy birthday Carly.          NEXT MEETING TUESDAY 27th at usual venue. Please advise if you will be    attending and partaking in a meal – Pauline 53581389   or email  (courtesy of our Googling Sec)

 

The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and a new definition. Here are the winners: 1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time. 2. Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole. 3. Intaxicaton: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. 4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly. 5. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future. 6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid 7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. 8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it. 9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. 10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.) 11. Karmageddon: It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s like, a serious bummer. 12. Decafalon (n): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you. 13. Glibido: All talk and no action. 14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. 15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web. 16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out. 17. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you’re eating. The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. And the winners are: 1. Coffee, n. The person upon whom one coughs. 2. Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained. 3. Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach. 4. Esplanade, v. To attempt an explanation while drunk. 5. Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent. 6. Negligent, adj. Absent mindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown. 7. Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp. 8. Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavored mouthwash. 9. Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller. 10. Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline. 11. Testicle, n. A humorous question on an exam. 12. Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists. 13. Pokemon, n. A Rastafarian proctologist. 14. Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms. 15. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there. 16. Circumvent, n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

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