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President's Message

Concert Guitarist

How To Survive A Heart Attack

Actual Analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. Continued

Literacy Aid Came From New Zealand, Australia, and USA.

Cranbourne Helps The Alfred

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PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

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Concert Guitarist

Hi folks

On Saturday, 8 March at 7pm, Paradise Palms Karin, one of the most outstanding young guitarists on the international scene is performing. See the current edition of Cairns City Life for further details or call the number below.

At $30 per person, it would cost a lot more to hear her play in a major city.

Bookings should be made by phoning 4093 9018 - Credit cards not accepted. Proceeds go to the Cairns Earlville Rotary Club.

Hoping to see you there. Collin Messervy
Club Service Director - Cairns Earlville Rotary Club

How To Survive A Heart Attack

If everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people you can bet that we'll save at least one life.

Let's say it's 6.15pm and you're driving home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day working. You're really tired, upset and frustrated.

Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into you jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far. What can your do?

You've been trained in CPR but the guy that taught the course neglected to tell you how to perform it on yourself.

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this article seemed to be in order. Without help, the person whose heart stops beating properly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.

However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough. The cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum form deep inside the chest. And a cough must be repeated about every 2 seconds with out let up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps I regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to hospital.

Contributed by Ted Elliot.

Literacy Aid Came From New Zealand, Australia, and USA.

Two years ago, while holidaying on Efete, one of the islands of Vanuatu, New Zealand Rotarian Sandra Bartlam made an eye-opening tour of some schools. Many were under funded and unable to afford basic materials.

In discussions with rotary Club of Port Vila members, Sandra Bartlam agreed to ask her Rotary Club, Hut Valley, to co-sponsor a project to assist the schools. "My dream was to provide about 30 boxes of school stationery for 30 pupils for a year," she said. "I was able to sell the idea to my club, which budgeted $US1, 000 for the project."

Then, Sandra Bartlam enlisted help from friends in the Rotary Club of Ayr, Qld., whom she had met at a District 9550 conference in 1997. Ayr members had played wonderful hosts to the visitors from Hutt Valley. At fairly short notice, the core sponsors raised $US7, 825 through a quintessentially Rotarian network of clubs and Districts.

Several past governors in Districts 9550, 9640, 5510 (Florida, U.S.A.) and 9940 worked together in a multinational effort. With the support of a Matching Grant contribution from The Rotary Foundation, the project purchased 136 boxes of stationery that were shipped to Vanuatu from Auckland, N.Z. and distributed in local schools by members of the Rotary Club of Port Vila.

Since November more than 4,000 students have been helped. Rotary Club of Port Vila president Sanjappa P. Sanajapa said: "For a developing country such as Vanuatu, the need for basic necessities, especially to children, is so vital for their future. Being able to assist with the literacy project gives me such great satisfaction."

Port Vila Rotarian Robert Bohn, an initiative coordinator, thinks that it will have an even stronger impact in the future, saying: "There is substantial proof coming from the developing world that by raising the standard of education alone, all other possibilities have a chance to become a reality."

For Ayr Rotarian Robert Antoniazzi, who co-orinated the effort in Australia, taking part in a Matching Grant project for the first time was an invaluable experience for his club.

Cranbourne Helps The Alfred

The adage "what goes around come around" has proved to be true for the Head of The Alfred Hospital's Neurosurgery Department, Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld.

Fourteen years ago Professor Rosenfeld, a world renowned neurosurgeon, save the life of Jared Dunscombe, then a seven year old boy from Cranbourne, Vic. He had suffered a brain hemorrhage after being struck by a car.

Jared is now 21 and leading the life of an active young adult. Jared's father, John Dunscombe, is a past president of the Rotary Club of Cranbourne and as a gesture of thanks the club is building a house to be auctioned, with proceeds going to The Alftred Hospital's Neurosurgery Department.

Rotary club of Cranbourne President Marcel Hendriksen said the Rotary House Project provided the club with an opportunity to thank Professor Rosenfeld for lives he had saved while helping The Alfred save more lives through the purchase of neuro-medical equipment.

"The work of Professor Rosenfeld and The Alfred is world renowned, and thorough the sale of the house and land package we are expecting to raise around $A100, 000," he said. "we will be building a four bedroom, federation brick veneer residence in Hillsmeade, one of the rapidly developing residential neighbourhoods of Cranbourne.

Building materials and labour have been either donated or supplied at reduced prices." The Rotary House Project will be completed early in 2003. Professor Rosenfeld said he was very grateful to be part of this innovative community partnership.

From Rotary Down Under February 2003

Worst analogies ever written in a high school essay:

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Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

· He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.

· Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man."

· 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.