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GIANT GARAGE SALE 12th April 2003
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Boxed Gift Pens Available Now $15.00 each. No message this week. In lieu of a meeting (counted as a makeup) All members are asked to attend Dawn Service (4 am) at the Esplanade Cenotaph followed by a BBQ breakfast at the lagoon after the service. With our troops in the Gulf - we would like to show our support for their efforts by being a part of Anzac Day. Please let Sandy or Gina (The BBQ Queens) know if you are attending the breakfast. Brad and Sandy Astill
ph: 40452072 GIANT GARAGE SALE 12th April 2003 Many of our members and partners have asked for more information in regards to the Giant Garage Sale. The Giant Garage Sale is a project for Rotary International and in particular, PolioPlus. All the Rotary clubs in Cairns are working together to make this a success. It is a great project and we seldom get the opportunity to work with other Rotary club members. What we are asking our members to do is to speak with work colleagues, families, neighbours etc. and ask them to have a clean out of their unwanted items and donate them to a "good cause". Rotarians will even collect them from your door or they can be delivered to the Mitre 10 store in Scott Street either between 5pm - 7 pm Thursday or between 9am - 11am Saturday. We have all threatened to have a garage sale ourselves, but never get around to it. This is a way of doing it without the hassles and you also will be helping to save lives. All of us have a friend or family member who have been touched by this dreadful disease - help Rotary to eradicate the poliovirus. In 1952, 558,000 people contacted polio, leaving thousands permanently afflicted. In 1985, Rotary International made a promise to eradicate polio by 2005 and started immunising children in developing countries. PolioPlus is the first and largest international coordinated private-sector support of a public health initiative. In 2002, at the beginning of the year, only ten countries remain polio endemic, the European region is polio free. Sometimes we forget what a wonderful organisation we belong to. So fellow Rotarians and partners we need your help. 102.7 radio is advertising it (Although I am yet to hear it) and we hope to have a live broadcast on the day of the garage sale. Channel 9 is to start advertising this week. It has been in the Cairns Sun last week and this week there is to be a two-page spread. How can you help you ask - Firstly have your clean out, we can't have a sale without goods to sell. Secondly if you have a ute or small truck to collect the goods, we also need a couple of extra people to help load these goods. That is on Saturday (5th) 9am, meet at the Mitre 10 store in Scott Street. Also for people to help arrange to put the goods in place for sale and we do need to price them on that day too. On the day of the sale(12.04.03 starting at 8am), we need people to take the money help serve, maybe help carry the goods to their cars etc. We are also having food and drink on sale. As you can see it is not a large commitment of time for any one member. The other clubs are certainly getting involved. This project is planned to be an annual event, so please help make the first one really worthwhile. Remember we are Rotarians and this is for Rotary. Rotary is always helping the community, this is an opportunity for the community to help Rotary. The response has been good so far. Please email me at denisemitchell@austarnet.com.au if you have not yet said when you are available. Or ring 40518849, Brian and Julie Fowler are generously giving of their time to answer the phone calls and arrange the pickups. Regards Denise IT'S REASSURING to know just what a firm grip on technology some people have. According to the Computer Fraud and Security Bulletin, a supermarket tabloid reports that two people were killed by a virus-infected computer in Valparaiso, Chile. The virus is said to have created a horned demon which decapitated one worker; the other died from a heart attack. Anyone coming within 3 metres of the computer blacked out or started deranged babbling. The computer was exorcised. (1 February 1992) ASHTRAYS MAY soon be turning against smokers. Wan Chung of Taiwan has filed a British patent application (2 251 542) for an ashtray which has a slot at the side for a box of matches. When a smoker picks up the matches, the ashtray makes a coughing sound and warns against smoking. Underneath the box of matches there is a photosensitive chip. When the smoker lifts the matches, light reaching the chip changes its resistance. This triggers a circuit which sends sound stored in a microchip to a small loudspeaker. New Scientist (19/26 December 1992) Rotary is a vocationally based service organisation and it is always pleasing to see Rotarians being honoured by various industry organisations. District 9680 Past Governor Neville Chambers, of the Rotary Club of Terry Hills N.S.W., is receiving congratulations on his addition to the Honour Roll of the Australian Music Association. PDG Neville was honoured at the organisation's 25th anniversary dinner in Surfers Paradise last year. PDG Neville is founder and chief executive of Ensemble Musical Instruments in Northbridge, N.S.W. and has a lifetime of experience in the music industry. Guests at the presentation dinner were told on Neville's outstanding Rotary service and his continuing efforts to enrich the lives of young people through Rotary Music Camps and an international music exchange program through Rotary in 1987. Last January, 162 students form around the world gathered in Australia to be part of this Rotary music exchange. More recently, in cooperation with Australis Music, he organised the donation of violins and guitars to a community group in east Timor to be used in an Australian program to help traumatized young people. A Kite Festival, conducted by the Rotary Club of Nedlands, W.W. attracted 10.000 people from throughout the Perth metropolitan area. A one dy community event, the Rotary Club of Nedlands has conducted the festival for three years on the Nedlands Foreshore. The large crowd showed that Perth has kite-flying enthusiasts in many suburbs who embrace the festival as a tremendous community day. Many families took picnics to the Nedlands Foreshore to enjoy a free fun day out and get a taste for kite flying. Kite enthusiasts are on hand to teach flying skills Community groups and charities operate stalls (mostly to sell food) for fund raising. Amusement rides give a carnival atmosphere to the day. Entertainment for the 2002 Nedlands Kite Festival was provided all day by children and youth groups singing and dancing. Ballroom dancing, artworks, music and a performing pony were also on the program. Kite professionals brought large and spectacular kites which could be seen flying in the sky from many kilometers away. The objectives of the Kite Festival to provide free family entertainment, to showcase skills and to provide fund raising opportunities have all been met in this successful project. Rotary Down Under March 2003 |