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PRESIDENTS
MESSAGE
We have a meeting at the Hilton this Friday, back
to our regular meetings.
Our District Conference is on the long weekend
in May 01-02 2004 in Darwin
Our Directors meeting is on Tuesday 9th March
5pm at the Hilton Boardrooms for all the Directors.
President Robyn
Sophie Goldmann and Joop Hoefnagels
Hi all,
The working Bee is confirmed for Sunday the
7th March at 9am. It's a garden tidy up and paving.
Wheelbarrows, shovels and mattocks are required.
Also someone to work the BBQ.
The address is 66 Lake Placid Road, Lake Placid.
Ron
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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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Our
Paul Harris Fellows
Rotarians
Sandy Astill, Max Bryant, Graham Cossins,
David Court, Jeff Crofts, Rupert Crossland, Herman Ehrlich, Bob
Fowler, Col Koppen, Bernie Mullins, Jim Watson, Denise Mitchell,
David Kirchner,
Honorary
Members
Ted Elliot OAM, Brian Fowler, Beres
McKeown, Bernie Mullins, Les Trevenan
Past Club
Members
Geoff Canton
Non
Rotarians
Christine FairbrotherMargaret Jarvis
Geoff GuestLou Piccone Lionel Williamson
95th
R.I. Convention in Osaka, Japan, from May 23 to 26, 2004
Commemorating
peace during the convention
In Japan gardens abound as places of
serenity and peace.
The 95th R.I. Convention in Osaka,
Japan, from May 23 to 26, 2004, promises to be one of the largest
in Rotary history. Rotarians still have time to register by March
15 to receive a discount and avoid on-site registration lines.
Japanese Rotarians have demonstrated
a special commitment to promoting international peace efforts, as
illustrated by their outstanding support of The Rotary Foundation
of R.I In 2002-03, they donated more than $US17 million, the second-highest
amount from any country that year. They are also proud that Tokyo
is the site of one of the seven Rotary Centres for  International
Studies.
The Rotary Centre at International
Christian University hosts up to 10 Rotary World Peace Scholars
each year. Devastated by two atomic bombs in 1945, Japan is one
of the few nations with a constitution renouncing war. Rotarians
with an interest in peace issues should consider a side trip to
the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and Park, the largest tourist
attraction in Hiroshima.
Each year, more than 1.1 million people
visit the museum and the park's 30 memorials, cenotaphs and monuments.
The park is the site of the A-Bomb Dome, formerly the Industrial
Promotion Hall but now only a skeleton of a building, left as a
visual reminder of the bomb's destruction on August 6, 1945.
Rotarians can see memorials to various
groups and organisations that perished in the blast, including hundreds
of school students, employees of a post office located at the bomb's
hypocentre, and 20,000 Korean victims. The Cenotaph for the A-Bomb
Victims, shaped like a figurine clay saddle found in ancient tombs,
contains a registry of those who died. This is a list of more than
226,000 names.
Nearby is the peace flame, which will
continue to burn until all atomic weapons are banned. The museum’s
graphic exhibits depict the victims and landscape and examine the
reasons Hiroshima was targeted, citing its history as Japan’s military
command centre and supply base. Other displays focus on Hiroshima’s
current dedication to the abolition of nuclear weapons. Nagasaki
suffered a similar fate on August 9, 1945, when an atomic bomb destroyed
about a third of the city, killing an estimated 74,000 people.
Rotarians can visit the Peace Park,
with a black pillar marking the hypocentre of the blast and a black
casket entombing the names of the bomb’s victims. About 750,000
people visit the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum each year. The facility
documents the city before and after the blast and traces Nagasaki's
subsequent rise in the peace movement.
Those who stay in Osaka should check
out the Osaka International Peace Centre, located at the southern
edge of Osaka Castle Park. The centre, founded in the belief that
global peace can be achieved only if war victims describe their
experiences and educate future generations, offers testimonials
of Osakan air raid survivors, as well as displays on Hiroshima,
Nagasaki, and the World War II concentration camp at Auschwitz.
While a sobering experience, it will renew Rotarians' commitment
to peace and promoting world understanding. – Beth Reiber. From
Rotary Down Under
CENTENNIAL
COUNTDOWN
New Zealand and Fiji agog with projects
for centenary
Centennial projects under way with
District 9920 clubs cover diverse community needs in New Zealand
and Fiji. Newmarket, Alfriston, Auckland City Sunset, Parnell and
Manukau are expanding and upgrading the Motutapu Island walkway
network in association with the Motutapu Restoration Trust and the
Department of Conservation.
Auckland East is developing the Roberta
Reserve Walkway as well as providing much-needed equipment for the
Eastern Bays Hospice. A joint effort between Auckland Harbourside
and Taveuni Island, Fiji, will see an Early Childhood Education
Centre built on Taveuni Island. Auckland club will use some of the
proceeds from the renowned Ellerslie Flower Show for its Centennial
project. Drury will create a Rotary Park complete with plantings,
lighting, picnic areas and toilet block that will be a tremendous
community recreational asset. Pakuranga, East Tamaki, Half Moon
Bay and Howick have combined to develop another valuable recreational
facility, the Lloyd Elsmore walkway and band rotunda. Ellerslie
Sunrise is improving Christ Church Park.
Rotary’s
centennial in 2005 provides clubs
with a unique opportunity to promote Rotary awareness and the organisation’s
ideal of service. To commemorate this milestone, R.I. has asked
clubs to implement a Centennial Community Project that benefits
their local community and involves the active participation of members.
By November 2003, more than 5,000 Rotary
clubs had registered their Centennial Community Projects with R.I.
The Rotarians of York, Pa., U.S.A., knew it would be a difficult
decision. They began with 30 ideas.
“We wanted a project that would help
the community and its youth,’’ said Past President Mike Summers,
of the Rotary Club of York. “It had to be a project that without
our club’s involvement might not get done. It seemed only fitting
that the club do a $100,000 project to honour Rotary’s 100 years
of service.’’
Several club members had pointed out
that the community’s youth were unable to play in Little League
games because the city lacked baseball fields that conformed to
Little League specifications. The club decided to work in partnership
with the City of York, the YMCA and the Little League Baseball organisation
to co-ordinate efforts. Members agreed to raise $US100,000 of the
$500,000 needed to renovate four baseball fields.
The YMCA and the City of York had been
talking about bringing Little League to the city for a while, but
it wasn’t until the Rotary club pledged $100,000 that people realised
it could become a reality. The City of York plans to apply to the
Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for
a grant match, which would bring the total to $200,000.
The four baseball fields will be renamed
to identify them as part of the York club’s Rotary Centennial Community
Project. The effort is scheduled for completion in late 2004 and
will help fund scoreboards, bleachers and lights.
5800
Australians die of lung cancer every year.
90% of these deaths are caused by lung
cancer.
Most of the casualties are men.
Gayle
Plunkett
is president of Saints Soccer Club. Check out the web site at www.saintssoccercairns.com.au
Boys
and girls in Australia
Literacy at age 15 (Highest Band
Scores)
Males 4.2%, Females 21.6%
Finish year 12
Males 70%, Females 80%
Youth suicide (15 to 24 years in
2002)
Males 19 per 100,000
Females 4.3% per 100,000
I’ve
been through some terrible things in my life.
Some of which really happened.
Mark Twain
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