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Kym displays her check
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| Whack that packer Col! |
Bev, Wendy and Robyn |
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Ron Whips the lawn into shape |
| Building a patio for Kym. The patio allwos
her access around her house. The pool is for hydrotherapy.
She has a recently developed spinal disease and six children. |
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| Guest Peter Martin |
Phil Dempster and D.G. Mike Rennie (standing) |
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Last
Week
Our Guests were Kym Hunter, Peter
Martin and Joanne Shirvington.
Our Guest Speakers were D.G. Mike Rennie and Phil Dempster
Phil Dempster spoke on The Rotary Foundation.
$65,000 has been provided from our District towards the Polio Eradication
Fund. “In January this year there were no new cases of Polio (in
India)—the first month ever.”
Ron spoke again about how much the
Rotarians enjoyed working on Kym and Terry’s house a few weeks ago
and presented $2,000 to Kym from the Club.
Mention was made of our commitment
to the Duck Race in conjunction with The Festival Of Cairns.
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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
CAIRNS-MULGRAVE
ROTARY CLUB HISTORY
IN THE BEGINNING-----
Rotary clubs were traditionally organised
on a territorial basis, drawing members only from within the boundaries
of their designated area. Up to 1977 the area between Buchans Point
and Gordonvale was parcelled out between four clubs but in 1978
the rules governing territories were revoked and all clubs could
now recruit members from the whole Cairns-Mulgrave area.
At this time Past President Beres McKeown
of the Cairns Club was appointed as the District Governor’s special
representative to explore the possibility of forming a fifth club.
Unfortunately, the concept of a shared territory and the possibilities
inherent there-in for wider membership had not yet been fully grasped
by the clubs and there was considerable opposition to the idea of
another club, particularly expressed in the fear of losing members,
and the new club project was abandoned.
Historically, the first club to benefit
from the changed rules was Cairns-Earlville. This club had been
struggling for years to maintain a reasonable membership from an
impractical territory consisting of the then lightly populated Earlville
and Edmonton suburbs, but now had an unlimited choice of classifications
for recruitment. And yet the push for a new club, particularly meeting
for lunch, never died down.
The first suggestion was to convert
Cairns Club into a luncheon club when it appeared certain that Thursday
night shopping was firmly established, but this proposal was just
as firmly rejected by the majority of the members. Undeterred by
this setback and believing there was a definite opening for Rotary
to expand, in early 1983 District Governor John Francis, finally
receiving approval from the four clubs, appointed another past president
of Cairns Club, Les Trevenen, to commence interest meetings for
a Friday lunchtime club.
The initial meetings were held at PDG
Jack Woodward’s house with the object of forming a nucleus of experienced
Rotarians prepared to join the new club. The response was poor with
only John Neven, David Court and Graham Cossins, all of the Cairns
Club finally committing themselves to transfer to the new project,
to help Les Trevenen and his co-opted fellow, Beres McKeown, find
the twenty members necessary to form a provisional club.
A new Rotary year had started before
sufficient “provos” were recruited to commence regular lunch meetings
at Hides Hotel. Two important decisions were fixed early in the
search for members. Firstly, selection of younger persons under
40 years was desirable, and secondly, women should be actively encouraged
to join now that Rotary International had finally opened membership
to them.
Further delays were encountered in
the definition of some candidates’ classifications which were going
to be scrutinised carefully by Rotary International, so that the
application for membership with twenty-two members, originally filed
on the 7th of October 1983, was held over until further recruiting
to the 28th of November produced an unarguable 31 members.
Meanwhile arguments had raged over
a name for the new creation as will be shown clearly when the review
of the first ten club bulletins is discussed. With the disappearance
of the old club boundaries, territorial descriptive names like Cairns
West were no longer appropriate, the only distinguishing feature
of a club now being the day or time of its meeting. The obviously
logical names would be either Cairns-Friday or Cairns-Lunchtime,
but these two suggestions were soundly rejected by popular vote
in favour of Cairns-Mulgrave.
Nobody then could imagine the amalgamation
of the shire into Cairns City and so it is by happy co-incidence
that the name of Mulgrave lives on after the shire is no more. Some
eight of the provisional members (now back to 30) were active Rotarians
but the about-to-be-initiated twenty-two’s talents were unknown
factors when choosing the first group of directors. With
the decision to form an executive consisting of a mixture of the
old and new, the club was gambling on those hidden qualities.
In the event, an apparent random selection
of the newcomers paid off handsomely and the mixture worked harmoniously
from the start. Regular weekly meetings of the provisional club
continued while awaiting RI approval of the application for membership.
Finally, on 13th of December 1983 the club officially shared the
honour with the Rotary club of Hsinchu South, Taiwan of being the
newest members of Rotary International.
The club celebrated this event with
a special dinner on the 4th of February1984 when the Charter was
presented by DG Wal Kieseker, signalling The End Of The Beginning.
More in the next Bulletin
A
Letter from The Tablelands Advertiser.
Wednesday March 10, 2004.
Sir,
I notice Rotary International is advertising
the Rotary Bowel Test Kits for $6.00 and available at most chemists.
These kits are aimed at early detection of bowel cancer.
I purchased one locally two years ago
and, as a result of following the procedure, I was referred to my
GP then to a specialist for a colonoscopy, which resulted in the
removal of a polyp. The tests showed the polyp was about to change
and the specialist believed I would have had bowel cancer within
12 months.
It is with great appreciation and
relief that I am writing this letter instead of my final will.
M Johnson.
Yungaburra
The
TerrEstrial Complex
Also From the Tablelands Advertiser
Among the many tourist attractions
in the Far North, Georgetown’s TerrEstrial complex deserves special
mention.
Ethridge Shire Council has created
a world-class mineral and gemstone collection that would do credit
to any museum or mineral/gem collection anywhere in the world and,
in doing so, it has built a complex that is not only a museum of
tremendous local significance but also a vivid display of Far Northern
History.
This is also a long-term investment
in a town of less than 400 people
A
shepherd was herding his flock in
a remote pasture when suddenly a brand new BMW advanced out of a
dust cloud towards him.
The driver a young man in a Prada
suit, Gucci shoes, Dior sunglasses and designer tie, leans out the
window and asks the Shepard; “ If I tell you exactly how many sheep
you have in your flock, will you give me one?”
The Shepard looks at the man, obviously
a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing flock and calmly
answers; “ Sure. Why not?”
The yuppie parks his car, whips out
his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his AT&T cell phone,
surfs to a NASA page in the internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite
navigation system to get an exact fix ion his location which he
then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution
photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop
and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the
image has been processed and the data stored.
He than accesses a MS-SQL database
through tan ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with hundreds of complex
formulae. He updates all of his data via an email on his Blackberry
and, after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints
out a full colour, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturised
HP LaserJet printer, turns to the Shepard and says; ‘ You have exactly
1,531 sheep’.
“That’s right. Well I guess you can
take one of my sheep.” Says the shepard.
He watches the young man select one
of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs into
the boot of his car.
Then the Shepard says to the young
man: “ Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will
you give me back my sheep?” The young man thinks about it for a
second and then he says; “Okay, why not?”
“You’re a consultant.” Says the shepherd
“ Wow! That’s correct.” Says the Yuppie. “ But how did you guess
that?”
“No, guessing required.,” answers the
shepherd. “You showed up here even tough nobody called you, you
want to get paid for an answer I already knew to a question I never
asked, and you know stuff all about my business.”
“Now give me back my DOG.”
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