Club Bulletin No23, Vol 22, February 7 2003 The Cam |
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| Reminders | February | 2nd Brian White's Birthday
2nd Lucie Ehrlich's Birthday 2nd Jeff Crofts Wedding Anniversary 2nd Chris Winn's Anniversary 9th Bob Fowler's Anniversary 10th Steve Baker's Anniversary 14th Brian White's Anniversary |
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Our meeting fees will increase to $25 from February. Jeroni's ordeal led to safety, better lights in PNG Villages |
Boxed Gift Pens Available Now $15.00 each.
Col has sold the car park!! Congratulations Col but we need ideas for the show. Members please bring them to the meeting. Our meeting fees will increase to $25 from February. Still great value of course. HI everyone OK - told you I would be on your backs. I collected most of the Friendly Awards paperwork back after the meeting - as a matter of fact the pamphlets on the first table were all still in their original piles - so I know that many of your didn't take the paperwork at all. This is a very easy idea - one which will recognise local businesses, local employees, encourages good service, community spirit and will generate funds for the Variety Club who help disadvantages sick and disabled children and it will generate income for what has become our major community service function - our Christmas Hampers. I have all the raffle tickets and paperwork - I just need you to encourage a business to become involved. Nick Dalton will be doing a write-up for us in the Sun - which will make our job very easy. Remember IT DOES NOT COST THE EMPLOYEE OR THE EMPLOYER ANYTHING TO ENTER! Yes - I said 'nothing to enter'! Each entrant has to raise a minimum $200 - through any form of fundraising event they choose - but to help - Variety Club will give them 2 books of raffle tickets - which when sold - give them the $200. The first prize is a week's accommodation on the Gold Coast - all expenses paid with spending money - and who doesn't need a holiday? All the prizes in these books are supplied by Variety - you can choose to do nothing else. Incentives are then given to that raise in excess of $1000. Each entrant who does this will receive a key which could unlock the Variety's Red Heart to win a car - and a key is given for every additional $1000 raised. Regional judging will be held in Cairns, Townsville, Mackay and Mount Isa - with regional winners winning travel and accommodation to the Gold Coast to compete in the State finals on the 28 and 29 June 2003. The Award of Excellence will be presented to the Friendly Awards Winner and Charity Winner. Both receiving $5000 cash and a trophy. It is a great opportunity to let your staff know how much you appreciate their skills plus be involved in a worthwhile community cause. Please encourage your staff to be involved - please get involved yourself, and forward this email on to as many other local businesses as you can to encourage them to also become involved. Cairns is a wonderful caring community - we have proven it over and over again - let's do it again. I am looking forward to hearing from you AND REMEMBER I WONT GO AWAY!!!!!! Sandy Brad and Sandy Astill Jeroni's ordeal led to safety, better lights in PNG Villages Jeroni Krusaka is a five year old girl who suffered near fatal burns to 70 percent of her body when a slush lamp exploded in her village in Papua New Guinea. A Slush lamp is a tin or container filled with kerosene which is then lit to provided light. As Jeroni and her family were living in a remote village of Yenkenai with no medical agencies, there was little hope that she would survive. Jeroni was carried to BHP's Oktedi Mine and treated by the resident Doctor Kan Eorage at the medical department. The department, however, had no facilities to assist Jeroni in the treatment she needed and the chance of a life saving skin graft looked bleak. Her family were hoping and praying for miracle. Their prayers were answered when Rotary Overseas Medical Aid of Children (ROMAC) became involved. Jeroni, her father Rocky and Doctor Kana Eorage were flown to Brisbane, Qld, and then to Dandenong District Hospital in Victoria where doctors commenced the first of a series of skin grafts. Jeroni was later taken to Monash Medical Center for Rehabilitation and physiotherapy and then transferred to the Children's Hospital in Carlton. During this time Rocky stayed with the reverend Lindsay Faulkiner and Professor Graham Jenkin, both members of the District 9820 ROMAC Committee and the Rotary Club of Dandenong. Rocky and Dr Eorage attended a meeting of the Rotary Club of Dandenong and during the evening Rotarioans learned that Jeroni's incident was an ongoing problem for people in remote villages without electricity. Dr Eroage mentioned that having hurricane lanterns would be much safer for people in such situations. Past President Ron Mundy, from the Rotary Club of Dandenong, organised provision of hurricane lamps after the project had been approved at District 9820 level. Twenty clubs from the District plus one from Tasmania raised sufficient funds to purchase 180 lanterns with some spare parts. The Rotary Club of Mount Hagen in Papua Niu Guinea was able to advise the best type of lamps to buy. They needed to be ones that did not rust in rainforest conditions. As Australian suppliers did not have 180 of the lamps required some had to be imported. Getting the lanterns to Papua Niu Guinea had its problems, mainly ones of communication. However the lanterns were delivered within six months of Jeroni's accident. Shipment was organised by Strang International and the lamps were transported by BHP to a mine 200 kms upstream of the Fly River and then another 60 kms to Jeroni's village. They were welcomed by appreciative villagers. "The majority of the villagers said that they had been, or were using, modified lamps. They had tin cans where a small amount of kerosene was poured and lit to provide light in the night in their houses. Such a lamp caused the burns to Jeroni," Ron Mundy said. "The lanterns will no doubt make a difference in the lives of many in the village of Yenkanai, providing safe light in the night." He hopes other projects to remote Papua Niu Guinean villages will follow. The purchase of another 200 hurricane lanterns for other remote villages is in the pipeline. Jeroni, thanks to dedicated and generous health professionals and ROMAC is home again and recovered. Here is the roster for the next 6 months. Please swap with someone else if your date does not suit you. Cheers Gina February 7, John L. 14 Denise
M. 21 Bob F, 28 Ron C. Soviet Virgin Lands Short of Goal Again British Left waffles on Falkland Islands Lung Cancer in Women Mushrooms Eye Drops off Shelf Teacher Strikes Idle Kids Reagan Wins on Budget, But More Lies Ahead Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim In the event of war, how many Iraqi civilians will die? And how many will starve, or be displaced? A "strictly confidential" UN document, written to assist with UN contingency planning in the vent of war with Iraq, predicts that about 500,000 people could require medical treatment, an extension of the existing nutritional crisis, and "the outbreak of diseases in epidemic if not pandemic proportions." The existence of the draft document, entitled "likely Humanitarian scenarios" and dated 10th December 2002, was only recently made publicly accessible. It is available on the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq (CASI) website at ww.casi.org.uk/info/undocs/war/021210.html (A summary of the document and a 4 page booklet about it are also available). The document focuses on the likely humanitarian consequences of a range of anticipated military scenarios. It estimates that: "as many as 500,000 People could require treatment to a greater or lesser degree as a result of direct or indirect injuries", based upon World Health Organisation estimates of 100.000 direct and 400.000 indirect casualties (Para 23). It indicates existing shortages of some medical items, "rendering the existing stocks inadequate" for war-increased demand (Para 22), and exacerbated by the "likely absence of a functioning primary health care system in a post-conflict situation" (Para 24). Damage to the electricity network will reduce "water and sanitation as well as health {sectors}. In the short term "39% of the population will need to be provided with potable water" (Para 28). The high number of indirect casualties may be because "the outbreak of diseases in epidemic if not pandemic proportions is very likely (Para 25). "It is estimated that the nutritional status of some 3.03 people countrywide will be dire and that they will require therapeutic feeding (according to UNICEF estimates). This consists of 2.03m severely and moderately malnourished children under 5 and one million pregnant women" (Para 27). "It is estimated that there will eventually be some 900,000 Iraqi refugees requiring assistance, of which 100,000 will be in need of immediate assistance, (according to UNHCR)" (Para 35). An estimated 2 million people will require some assistance with shelter (Para 33). For 130,000 existing refugees in Iraq "it is probable that UNHCR will initially be unable to provide the support required" (Para 36). The document also rejects comparisons with humanitarian outcomes of both the 2001 Afghanistan and 1991 Gulf conflicts, since the existing sanctions-induced humanitarian situation in Iraq has produced a population in which 16 million (60%) "have no other means with which to provide for other essential requirements" other than monthly government food rations (Para 2,4,11). Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver." ---Jack Handy--- "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." ---Frank Sinatra--- "The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober." ---William Butler Yeats--- "Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time". --Catherine Zandonella--- "Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol." ---Anonymous--- "A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her." ---W.C. Fields--- Actual Analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. She had a deep throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it. She grew on him like she was a colony of E.coli and he was room temperature Canadian Beef. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge free ATM. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball didn't. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze. |