Redcliffe City Rotary News Vol 60 Issue 25

Bruce's BLOG

Happy rainy day to you all, and thank you to everyone who came along to hear our inspiring speaker on Tuesday night.  And a special thank you to Joe and everyone in the cycle club.

Next week is the Vocational Visit to PCYC..another great night to bring your partners along.  The cost for the night is $20pp and will be catered by the "Friendly Grocer" as per our Xmas break-up.  Drinks will be available for purchase at "...genuine 1976 prices..and help yourself to the wheel of cheese" (from the classic Austrlian movie Crackerjack).  It will be held in the PCYC soccer club house (around the back and follow the path with the lights) and the guestspeaker will be the new police superintendant.  It will be a great chance to see all the changes that have happened at the PCYC since we were last there.

As you all know, Doreen is about the venture into the great beyond during Feburary and March.  While she is away, Mick Cullen has kindly offered to be the contact for meeting attendance.  So, from the 14th of February, can you please either SMS Mick on 0415 428 777 or email him on mick@cullen.net.au with your apologies.

Speaking of Mick Cullen...Mick has asked me to pass on a request for members to send  him photos of any Rotary activies you are involved in.  As he says...if we don't see the photos, did it really happen??  If you are involved with activies such as Donations in Kind, bikes for Honiara, painting, PCYC gardens, etc, please take a few moments to grab a couple of happy snaps and send them to Mick at mick@cullen.net.au.  He will put them on Facebook to help us be more visible to future members and to act as a course of club history.

Clean Up Australia Day is coming up again.  Mick Larter has setup the following account on their website so that those who wish to participate can register their intention.  Just click on the link below:

http://www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au/Rotary+Park+Redclife

Quote of the week is from Lewis Carrol: "If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there"

President Bruce

Date	31st Jan	Thur 9th Feb	14th Feb
Venue	PCYC 6:30 for 7:00pm	Catch Bus from PCYC Carpark 5:30pm	Belevedere 6:30 for 7:00pm
Loyal Toast	Sam Turner	This is instead of	Mike Mahon
International Toast	John Anderson	Tuesday 7th of Feb	Anne Martin
Meeting Theme/Guest Speaker	Vocational Visit Partner's Night	Inter-club Trivial Pursuit at Caloundra  Partner's Night	Valentines Dinner Partner's Night
Introduce Guest Speaker	Stuart Stieler		Wal Ruberry
Vote of Thanks	Fred Taylor		Steve Palmer
Equipment Set-Up & Take Registrations @ 6.15pm	Wal Ruberry Julie Anderson		Joe Martin Lawrence O'Keefe
Equipment Storage after Meeting	Ralph Ruiter Michael Beck		Robert Hadlow Steve Micah

Please advise Doreen on 3897 3080 OR attendance@rotaryredcliffecity.org regarding your attendance or apology by 11:00am Tuesday

If you are rostered for duty and unable to attend the meeting then you must arrange for another Rotarian to take your place.

• 24th Jan - Tuesday - "Break the Cycle" - Partner's night
• 31st Jan - Tuesday - Vocationa Visit to PCYC
• 6th Feb - Sunday - Youth Services Seminar
• 7th Feb - Tuesday - no meeting this night
• 9th Feb - Thursday - Trivial Pursuit night @ Caloundra - Partner's night
• 13th Feb - Monday - Board meeting 7pm @ 3W Margate
• 14th Feb - Tuesday - St Valentines Dinner - Partners night
• 21st Feb - Tuesday - "Build a Better Business by Building a Better You"
• 26th Feb - Sunday - Interact District Conference
• 28th Feb - Tuesday - Horizons & the Rex Elston Centre

The current plight of the Costa Concordia reminds me of a comment made by Sir Winston Churchill. After his retirement he was cruising the Mediterranean on an Italian cruise liner. Some Italian journalists asked why an ex British Prime Minister should chose an Italian ship.

“There are three things I like about being on an Italian cruise ship” said Churchill. “First their cuisine is unsurpassed. Second their service is superb. And then, in time of emergency, there is none of this nonsense about women and children first”.

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I was in the waiting room of my doctor's office the other day when the doctor started yelling, "Typhoid! Tetanus! Measles!" I went up to the nurse and asked her what was going on. She told me that the doctor liked to call the shots.

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A grandmother was telling her little granddaughter what her own childhood was like: "We used to skate outside on a pond. I had a swing made from a tire; it hung from a tree in our front yard. We rode our pony. We picked wild raspberries in the woods. "

The little girl was wide-eyed, taking this in. At last she said, "I sure wish I'd gotten to know you sooner! "

Rotary Redcliffe City is now on Flickr, so you can check out all the photos from the club in one place: http://www.flickr.com/photos/redclifferotary

See the latest photos from the Clubs activities...... print and share them with your friends.

New photos added every week!  Click on the link above to check them out!

Join in the fun and add your comments to our Flickr photo album!

If you have an article or announcement you would like to have included in the Redcliffe City Rotary News, email it to leesa.mills@3w.com.au by COB on a Thursday for inclusion that weeks newsletter.

Articles should be fully proofed and can be sent as either email OR Word document attachments. 

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Oh Lord and giver of all good

We thank Thee for our daily food

May Rotary friends and Rotary ways

Help us to serve Thee all our days

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