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Two Events
Lifeline's Passion For Life Fashion Event
Sunday June 6th at 3pm
Brothers Leagues Club
An amazing parade with comedian 'Effie' from Greeks on the
Roof and Acropolis Now as MC.
A great fun afternoon - with heaps of giveaways
Tickets are $40 and all proceeds are donated to Lifeline for
services in our local area.
Passion For Life Gala Pink and Black Ball and Charity Auction
Saturday June 26th
Hilton Cairns
Fabulous food, interstate band Abbey Road,
Dance Agency floorshow and auction with Peter Roggenkamp.
Tickets are $90 and all proceeds are also donated to Lifeline
for servivce in our local area.
Tables of 10 are available.
Would like to get a Rotary table at each event - or maybe
2!
Please let Sandy know ASAP as tickets are already selling.
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Last Week.
Last Week. We were addressed by Nick Trompf from The Cairns
Post. He told us a little about The Cairns Post. It is the
longest continually running business in Cairns, for more than
120 years.
It employs over 240 staff and has just finished its most
profitable year ever, following on from the year before which
was then the most profitable ever. The business makes its
money from job, car and real estate adds and is therefore
a good indication on how well Cairns is going.
Nick feels that Cairns is in “the early stages of the most
sustainable growth period ever.” We are in controlled growth
period, not an unsustainable boom, with a labour shortage,
a housing shortage and an influx of skilled people from the
bigger cities looking for a quieter lifestyle.
“There is not a lot of fat or excess in business in Cairns.”
The only notable threat would be terrorism. “Any sort of a
bomb in Australia would be a big problem.”
Guests were Nick Trompf, Dennis Morgan and Bruce Kidd (on
crutches!!!).
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Rotary 4-Way Test
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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 Fairbrother
Harold Falge
Margaret Jarvis
Geoff Guest
Lou Piccone
Lionel Williamson
You
have two choices
Jerry is the manager of a restaurant.
He is always in a good mood. When someone would ask him how he was
doing, he would always reply, "If I were any better, I would be
twins!"
Many of the waiters at his restaurant
quit their jobs when he changed jobs, so they could follow him around
from restaurant to restaurant Why? Because Jerry was a natural motivator.
If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was always there, telling
the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.
Seeing this style really made me curious,
so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him: "I don't get it! No
one can be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"
Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, I have
two choices today. I can choose to be in a good mood or I can choose
to be in a bad mood. I always choose to be in a good mood. Each
time something bad happens, I can choose to be victim or I can choose
to learn from it. I always choose to learn from it.
Every time someone comes to me complaining,
I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the
positive side of life. I always choose the positive side of life."
"But it's not always that easy," I protested. "Yes it is," Jerry
said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk
every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations.
You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in
a good mood or bad mood. It's your choice how you live your life."
Several years later, I heard that
Jerry accidentally did something you are never supposed to do in
the restaurant business. He left the back door of his restaurant
open And then ??? In the morning, he was robbed by three armed men.
While Jerry trying to open the safe box, his hand, shaking from
nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and
shot him.
Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and
rushed to the hospital. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive
care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the
bullets still in his body.. I saw Jerry about six months after the
accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any
better, I'd be twins. Want to see my scars?" I declined to see his
wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery
took place. "The first thing that went through my mind was that
I should have locked the back door,"
Jerry replied. "Then, after they shot
me, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices:
I could choose to live or could choose to die. I chose to live."
"Weren't you scared" I asked? Jerry continued, "The paramedics were
great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they
wheeled me into the Emergency Room and I saw the expression on the
faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes,
I read 'He's a dead man.' I knew I needed to take action."
"What did you do?" I asked. "Well,
there was a big nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry. "She
asked if I was allergic to anything." 'Yes,' I replied. The doctors
and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a
deep breath and yelled, 'Bullets!' Over their laughter, I told them,
'I am choosing to live. Please operate on me as if I am alive, not
dead'.
"Jerry lived thanks to the skill of
his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned
from him that every day you have the choice to either enjoy your
life or to hate it. The only thing that is truly yours -- that no
one can control or take from you - is your attitude, so if you can
take care of that, everything else in life becomes much easier.
Odd
Spots
Tuesday May 11, 2004
An Indian man is campaigning for the national elections by holding
a live rat in his mouth to highlight the plight of starving farmers.
Jai Shankar said farmers in remote areas had survived by eating
rats.
Monday May 10, 2004
A Paris policeman, pulled over after a car chase, was wearing only
a pair of fishnet tights. He faces a trial for drink-driving and
prosecutors say he has admitted being a part-time prostitute.
Saturday May 8, 2004
A new Irish stamp issued to mark EU enlargement has Cyprus in place
of Crete. "What appears to be Crete is in fact Cyprus," the Irish
Post said. "Cyprus did not fit into the perspective, so we had to
move it."
Friday May 7, 2004
Health workers are mad at a US entrepreneur who charges angry people
$1.99 a minute to listen to them blow off steam over the telephone.
They say "Vent-Line" leaves people more agitated.
Thursday May 6, 2004
A woman paid £2131 for the entire stock of Mars bars at a London
shop in a "five for 1" offer. The shop manager said: "She may have
been going abroad where Mars are difficult to get."
Wednesday May 5, 2004
A German Government plan to slug companies with fines if they fail
to train apprentices will extend to legal brothels after the Education
Department ruled that an exemption would cause "considerable difficulties".
Tuesday May 4, 2004
More than half of British adults have had sex in a public place,
a survey has found. Sex therapist Denise Knowles commented: "The
idea of getting caught out has always been in the fantasy books."
Monday May 3, 2004
A survey in a German car magazine has found that male BMW drivers
have sex more often than owners of any other car - 2.2 times a week.
Porsche owners have sex the least - 1.4 times.
Saturday May 1, 2004
More than 600 Nigerian motorists have been tested for insanity after
they were caught driving against the flow of traffic on city streets.
The transport chief said one person was found to be insane
Thursday April 29, 2004
A quarter of British couples interviewed about their big day said
they did not have sex on the wedding night. Some put the lack of
action down to alcohol, others blamed staying up too late.
Wednesday April 28, 2004
A mother has saved a goldfish with the kiss of life after it was
found by her sons in a dried-up stream in Swindon, England. Maria
Venghaus blew hard into its mouth and then dropped it into water.
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