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PRESIDENTS
MESSAGE
This week we are having a joint
meeting at the Hilton with Cairns Earlville Club. The President
of Cairns Earlville is Colin Messervy. This meeting will be a joint
meeting, shared by the two Presidents, and also Sergeants as well.
Remember our progressive dinner
at the end of the month, at the beaches the following week we have
our Xmas party at Fettas in the city.
Cairns South is having a Rotary
information evening on November 20th. It starts at 6pm and is
at Mt. Sheridan Plaza. All rotarians are invited to attend and be
on hand to help with questions etc.
The District Governor elect for
2005/2006 is Mr. Peter Kaye. He is from Townsville and is The
District Insurance Officer at present.
I still have Xmas cards to sell at
the bargain price of $12 per packet.
We welcome Mr. Max Crittenden
back to our club after his illness.
President Robyn
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Rotary 4-Way Test
1.
Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
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Progressive
Dinner
29th November 2003
Theme ‘P’ Party Come dressed as anything starting with ‘P’
entrée Robyn Goodwin’s home
40 Kewarra St Kewarra beach
main Robin Logan’s home
18 Cyprea cl Trinity Beach
dessert Peter Martin’s home
8 Trinity Circle Trinity Beach (entrance 7 Tari Pl)
Coffee Brian White’s home
21 Trinity Cirle Trinity Beach (entrance 7 Tari Pl)
Remember!!
This is a function for our exchange
students – so if you can please cook german or dutch dishes. Ask
the student for ideas and recipes.
Please add your names to the list
along with the dish you will be bringing. If you can – drop the
dish off at the house during the day to make it easier for the host.
Byo drinks and chairs too…
Cost – free!!!
Christmas
Party
Saturday December 5th
‘Fetta’s’ Abbott Street Cairns
6 for 6.30pm
Great Food Great Fun Great Company!!!
Greek Buffet, Greek Wine, Zorba Dancing, Plate Smashing
Buffet is approx $30 per person.
Seats are limited – so please let me know numbers ASAP.
Sandy
Wide
Bay Rotary Clubs Centenary Project
Reporter: Donald Johannessen:
From ABC Radio National Wednesday, 1 October 2003
Rotary celebrates 100 years next year
and the Wide Bay Rotary clubs have a joined forces for a unique
project. The Rotary Clubs of Bundaberg, Bundaberg East, West, Sunrise,
Daybreak, Bargara, and Childers got hold of a block of land at McCarthy
Street and Chancellor Drive in the suburb of Avenell Heights.
As part of Rotary's Centenary year
the Club's will build a house on the block and then sell the house.
The proceeds from the sale of the house will then be divided amongst
the clubs and then forwarded to Rotary's Polio Eradication program
and Rotary Overseas Medical Aid for Children (ROMAC).
Rotary project Chairman, Lindsay Ford
agrees that this project is worthy and relevant for the 100 years
of Rotary. "The idea started at a Rotary Presidents meeting about
12 months ago," said Lindsay. "Initially everyone agreed that this
would be a great idea and we could get it built for nothing," he
said.
Lindsay is in the building game and
was surprised about the response from the community and building
suppliers in the Wide Bay area who were more than happy to help
out with the Rotary House project.
"Everyone wants to be apart of something
that's going to change the lives of so many people when you talk
about Polio and when you talk about ROMAC and what it does for children,"
he said. "And visitors can have a look at the construction at Chancellor
Street, but due to Health and Safety the general public can't access
the site," said Lindsay.
ABC Wide Bay will continue to follow
the progress of the Rotary project and will get regular updates
from Lindsay Ford.
Rotarian
Covers War As An Embedded Journalist
Readers of the 16 Murphy McGinnis
Media newspapers in Minnesota and Wisconsin, USA, read firsthand
accounts of the war in Iraq last April when Truman P. Reed Jr.,
a member of the Rotary Club of Walker, Minn., spent time as an embedded
journalist with the U.S. Navy in Kuwait and Iraq.
Reed retired three years ago from a
40-year career renovating and managing theaters. From 1958 to 1961,
however, he worked as a freelance writer and photographer. Following
his retirement, he returned to journalism and began writing for
a local newspaper.
Reed wrote a regular community column
and later began submitting series of articles on topics that interested
him, including the local ambulance service in Walker and his trip
to New York City following the attack on the World Trade Center
in 2001.
His niece, Meg Reed, a Navy reservist,
had been called up last November to do public affairs work with
journalists in Kuwait and Iraq. Reed liked the idea of reporting
from Iraq, so he contacted his niece to inquire about joining the
ranks of the embedded journalists.
"I guess it comes down to who you know,"
says Reed, who received quick approval. He left for the Middle East
on 12 April and, after hours of layovers, arrived at Camp Commando
in Kuwait. There he met with his niece and received training and
military attire for the desert.
"It was quite an experience for me,"
says Reed, who was embedded with the U.S. Navy Seabees, who specialize
in construction and other engineering work. Reed flew with the Navy
into Baghdad, where the Seabees rebuilt two destroyed bridges and
surveyed a palace for possible use as a base.
Having witnessed extreme poverty while
working on a club project in Honduras, Reed is familiar with conditions
in developing nations. He says the situation in Iraq is similar
in many ways and was readily visible. "There were kids standing
on the road begging for food," he says.Reed took more than 400 photos
during his trip.
While in Kuwait he also interviewed
service personnel from the upper Midwest, writing stories about
them and taking pictures, which he sent to their families after
his return home on 24 April.
An untold story from the war, Reed
says, is that of the citizens of Iraq who chose to defy orders and
not set oil wells on fire or destroy infrastructure, which would
have exacerbated the already bleak economic conditions. Reed hopes
to return to Iraq someday and document their stories.
"I want to see what kind of people
those are who help their country, put their country in front of
their own life," he says. "I want to see what kind of heroes they
are."
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