NOTES ON THE RUN

Great spring weather over the weekend, got some work done in the garden and a few runs in too. Next weekend is the virtual City2Surf...

We have a Board meeting this Wednesday, one of the main discussion points will be to go forward with one or more fundraising options for the club. Thank you to all for your guidance. Look forward to sharing on Thursday with the whole club.

The District has put together an Environment team who will be assigning an "Environmental Envoy" to clubs. This is to "Help the Rotary Family understand and implement the new Rotary Area of Focus – Protecting the Environment" This is being run by Past DG David Brawn. Looking forward to hearing more on this initiative.

The Helping Hands food deliveries have finished up with the end of lockdown. Thank you to the people who contributed time and monetarily. It was a great initiative that will hopefully continue in some form or another. It was a great opportunity to get out and meet some interesting characters as well as providing much-needed support.

Have a great week

President Warrick

COMMUNITY SERVICE NOTES

Peace Notes

We set out to see if we could have 100 poles donated, That target has been well and truly exceeded. We are continuing to receive requests for Peace Poles and I can confirm that we now have Rotary Peace Poles in every State and Territory. We have registered 205 Poles and it looks like 185 have been installed.

Michael Rabey

World Polio Day

 

THIS WEEK'S LUNCHEON MEETING (Oct. 21st via Zoom)

Guest speaker:

Hugh Watson, who is a friend of the Club and who has spoken to us before, will describe his second novel The Silo.

He says it is a thriller set in the brutal world of country politics. In The Silo, he draws on his country roots and political background to immerse readers in a story about corruption, blackmail, murder and shadowy international investment.

You are invited to attend this scheduled Zoom meeting:

Time: 12:15 Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9282741281

Meeting ID: 928 274 1281

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George Wilson

OCTOBER DUTY ROSTER

Date:	Oct. 21st	Oct. 28th
Venue:	ZOOM	ZOOM
Door:	.Ross Brown	.Ross Brown
Toast:	L. Wilkinson	R. Rabey
Sargeant:	L. Scrivener	S. Green
Acronym:	R. Dew	J. Little
Notes:	P. Davies	E. Carmody

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

LAST WEEK'S LUNCHEON MEETING NOTES (Oct. 7th)

The Toast: Monica G. made a toast to the Rotary Club of Paris Montmartre in expectation of being able to go to Paris to visit her daughter soon! It is the closest Rotary Club to where her daughter lives and she hopes to do some "make-ups" there.

Acronym of the Week: Olek G. presented us with RAOAF referring to the "Rotary Australia Overseas Aid Fund".

Guest speaker: Fred Smith. Topic: We welcomed back Fred who presented again an interesting talk on his experience in Afghanistan and we were able to congratulate him for being the winner of the "Chief Minister's Rotary Peace Prize" this year.

MEMBERSHIP NOTES

Attention Associate Members of our Rotary Club!

I bring your attention to the importance of taking out full membership.

If you have been an Associate Member of our Rotary club for a year or more, I suggest that it’s time for you to take out full membership. Here are the reasons for being a full member:

(1) It gives you voting rights.

(2) It gives you insurance cover.

(3) It provides equity with other club members.

(4) It gives you proper recognition as a Rotarian in any context.

(5) Associate membership, an innovation in our club, in its conception was meant to be temporary.

So, I call upon all Associate members who have been Associate members for a year or more, to please take the plunge and take steps to become full Rotary members, contacting me or Sharon Green to make the move.

Juris Jakovics

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL DAYS THIS WEEK

Oct 18 Azerbaijan Independence Day (from the Soviet Union, 1991)

Oct 24 Zambia Independence Day (from the United Kingdom in 1964, formerly Northern Rhodesia), Global Media and Information Day, World Development Information Day, Disarmament Week, UN Day

NOTABLE HISTORICAL EVENTS THIS WEEK

Oct 18 (1922) British Broadcasting Company(later Corporation) founded

Oct 19 (202 B.C.E.) Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage, during the 2nd Punic War

Oct 20 (1973) Sydney Opera House opened by Queen Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction

Oct 21 (1983) The metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second

Oct 22 (2013) The ACT becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalise same-sex marriage

Oct 23 (1958) Boris Pasternak wins the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Oct 24 (1975) In Iceland 90% of the women took part in a national strike refusing to work in protest of gender inequality.

ON THE LIGHTER SIDE:

A group of guys, all turning 40, discussed where they should meet for lunch and decided on the Commonwealth Club because the waitresses were very attentive to their customers.

Ten years later, at age 50 the friends once again discussed where they should meet, and once again decided on the Commonwealth Club because the waitresses were attractive.

Ten years later, at the age 60, the friends again discussed where they should meet and again decided on the Commonwealth Club because there was plenty of parking.

Ten years later, at age 70, the friends discussed where they should meet for this big occasion. The Commonwealth Club was chosen because the restaurant was wheelchair accessible.

Ten years later, at age 80, the friends discussed where they would gather for this special milestone. They all agreed to the Commonwealth Club because they had never been there before!