NOTES ON THE RUN

Hi Everyone,

Things are rolling rapidly towards the end of the Rotary year. but there are many new challenges on the horizon. Keep your minds open and fixed on the horizon.

The netball team went down over the weekend, however, I was away with Thomas to attend the NIDA Open Day.  Certainly a very interesting school. A quite different curriculum to what would be offered in a more traditional setting.

We are going to have a mini-stomp meeting on Wednesday, 6th of July at 6:00 PM at the Yacht Club. Anyone interested in a casual get-together to get some ideas flowing please join us there.

• Venue

• Catering

• Marketing 

• Dance Clubs

• Etc

These will all be on the casual agenda. We are after ideas rather than solutions at this point.

We have also received thanks from Beryl Women's Shelter and Heart Support Australia for recent donations that we have made.

Have a great week. 

See you on Thursday,

President Warrick

THIS WEEK'S MEETING (23rd of June, 12.15 for 12.30 pm, Commonwealth Club)

This week we will be hearing from Wendy Enerton of the Nusa Tenggara Association who will give us a presentation and an update on the activities of the organisation which we have been supporting for several years.

DUTY ROSTER: June 2022

DATE:	June 23rd	June 30th
VENUE	Commonwealth Club	Changeover Dinner (CC)
DOOR:	Ross B.	Ross B.
TOAST:	Andrea C.	N/A
THANK SPEAKER & NOTES:	Juris J.	Graeme H.
SERGEANT:	Linda W.	Olek G.

If Unable To Attend On A Day You Are Rostered, Please Organise A Replacement.

The Notes should summarise the speaker's main points, and be used in commenting on the speech. Thanks.

LAST WEEK'S MEETING (16th of June)

President-elect Andrea Conti gave us an overview of the priorities for our Club in the coming year of 2022-2023. These priorities will not differ significantly from this year and will align with the overall focus of Rotary International.

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL DAYS THIS WEEK

June 20: World Refugee Day

June 21: International Day of Yoga; International Day of the Celebration of the Solstice

June 23: Luxembourg National Day and Official Birthday of HRH the Grand Duke; UN Public Service Day; International Widows Day

June 25: Mozambique Independence Day; Slovenia National Day; Day of the Seafarer

June 26: Madagascar National Day; International Day Against Drug Use and Illicit Trafficking; UN Day in Support of Victims of Torture

NOTABLE HISTORICAL EVENTS THIS WEEK

June 20 (2020) Highest-ever temperature recorded in the Arctic Circle- 38 degrees in Verkhoyansk, Siberia

June 21 (1834) American inventor Cyrus McCormick patented the reaping machine

 

June 22 (1847) First ring doughnut was created by Hanson Gregory from Rockport, Maine

 

June 23 (930) World's oldest parliament, the Icelandic Alpingi, was established

June 24 (1374) Sudden outburst of St.John's Dance in Aachen, Germany, causing people to experience hallucinations and jump and twitch uncontrollably until collapsing from exhaustion

 

June 25 (1678) Elena Cornaro Piscopia of Venice became the first woman to receive a PhD (awarded by the U. of Padua)

 

June 26 (1284) According to the Luneburg manuscript, a piper led 130 children of Hamelin away on that day

 

ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

For those who are bored with the current restrictions:

1. Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child's name? 

2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?  

3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?  

4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?  

5. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly?  6. Billy was born on June 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?  

7. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?  

8. What was the Prime Minister’s Name in 1975?  

9. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?  

10. Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"?  

11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field,  how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field?  

Here are the Answers: (No peeking!)  

1. Johnny’s mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child's name?  Answer: Johnny, of course.  

2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?  

Answer: Meat.  

3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?  

Answer: Mt. Everest; it just wasn't discovered yet. [You’re not very good at  this are you?]  

4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?  

Answer: There is no dirt in a hole.  

5. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly?  Answer: Incorrectly  

6. Billy was born on 28 June, yet his birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible? 

Answer: Billy lives in the Northern Hemisphere.  

7. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?  

Answer: You can't take pictures with a wooden leg. You need a camera to take pictures.  

8. What was the Prime Minister's Name in 1975? 

Answer: Same as is it now - Anthony Albanese [Oh, come on.] 

9. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?  

Answer: You would be in 2nd. Well, you passed the person in second place,  not first.  

10. Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"?  

Answer: Neither the yolk of the egg is yellow [Duh]  

11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field,  how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field? 

Answer: One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big one.  

 

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