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Rotaract Club of Subiaco
21 hours ago
Helping Subiaco voice of youth at the relaunched skate park!
— with Danielle Rose Hay, Choy Lin Lee
and Melissa Pilkington.
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Rotaract Club of City of Gosnells
5 September
Secretary Jim, President Bryn and Sergeant Aaron
doing an amazing job starting
our meeting!
· 15 September
Thanks for coming Adam, Jon and Matt. Great to have you with us
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InterPlast Video
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Rotary Club of West Perth
20 September
Geoff overseeing Pres Steve welcoming David and
Anthony as the club's newest members. —
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Around the Clubs
Rotary Club of Scarborough
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Rotary Club of Mosman Park
16 September
Our President Chris and our exchange student Vitor exchanging gifts -
Chris'
birthday was 07/09 and Vitor's birthday was 15/09 —
with Chris Cutler
and Vitor Bovo
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Rotary Club of Kalgoorlie
· 20 September
Working hard at Streets are Paved with Gold!! — with Michael Young
and Edward Brennan.
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Rotary Club of CockBurn
Sausage Sizzle
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Rotary Club of Karrinyup
19 September
At last night's club meeting, Heather our club's Vocational and Membership
Director
had the honour of presenting the Nurse of the Year Award
to Morag
Nelson.
Morag has given many years of outstanding service to Osborne Park
Hospital
and is thoroughly deserving of this award.
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Rotary Club of Hillarys
17 September
Past President Heather exchanging banners with President, David Wheeler
from
Bognor Regis Rotary Club, District 1250
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Rotary Club of Manjimup
President
Jackie presented a cheque
to Barbara Hunter for her World Youth International
Project Trip
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Rotary Club of Mill Point
Mark
Horwood and his Ramble team
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Rotary Club of Geraldton Greenough
15 September
This week's guest speaker was Curtis White,
our
delegate for this year's Rotary Adventures in Citizenship in Canberra.
Curtis
gave us an excellent idea of what a fabulous program this is.
Each year around
45 Year 11 students (delegates)
have been sponsored and hosted by their local
Rotary clubs.
Some other guests this morning included, from
left,
Caroline Mason, Sonia Davies & Shendelle Oliver.
Caroline &
Shendelle are part of Camp Quality.
Sonia is the manager of the local Jetts
Fitness and has plans to compete
in the Tour de Afrique, commencing in January
2014.
The ride will take her from Cairo to Cape Town!
In 2013, only 12 of the
50 riders completed the Tour.
Since the inception of the program approx 10,000
cycles
have been donated to local health workers.
Sonia has nominated Camp
Quality as the group she is hoping to raise money for.
We would like to thank
the girls for taking time out to visit our Club
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Rotary Club of West Perth
Brett getting the lowdown from john and Bill,
the other wise men!!!
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Funny Picture
Seen at the recent
Rotary Club of Cunderdin
Tree Planting Day
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Club Flyers
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Rotary Club of Como
Como Rotary Car Show Registrations
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Rita HayWorth .....Stayin Alive
A
poor Australian sheep farmer migrated to Texas.
Nearly bankrupt, more
misfortune befell
when several of his lambs tumbled into large vats of
vegetable dyes
reserved for the local Navajo weavers.
Fortunately for him, a
wealthy woman
who was passing by in her Cadillac was enthralled by the sight
of
the colorful lambs cavorting about and ordered a dozen for pets.
Word soon
spread of her find and the Aussie could hardly keep up
with the demand for
these unique "status symbols."
He soon became known as the biggest
lamb dyer in all of Texas!
Ever had a dream like this??
Back in the roaring twenties raccoon
coats were the rage,
especially among the college set in the ivy league
schools.
Just any raccoon coat wouldn't do.
It had to be a full length duster
almost reaching the floor
to really be in style.
John, a young man with a very
rich but miserly father
who was entering his freshman year at Harvard
was
surprised to learn when he moved into the dorm
that he just couldn't fit in
without a raccoon coat.
He pleaded with his father that he just had to have a
raccoon coat
or would never make it at school.
After several letters back and
forth his father agreed
to purchase a beautiful coat on one condition.
The
condition was that the coat must not be damaged
in any way during the next four
years.
If there was any damage to the coat at all after four years
the John
would be disinherited and have to go find a job on his own.
He would not be
allowed to join the father in his very prosperous business.
John quickly agreed to the
conditions without thinking of the implications.
The father bought the best
raccoon coat money could buy,
then had several members of his staff count the
number of hairs on the coat.
They found there were exactly 1,524,203 hairs.
A
second group of staff members recounted
and confirmed there were 1,524,203 hairs.
The coat was then carefully sealed in a package
and sent off to Harvard with a
note informing the John of the hair count.
When John received the coat he was
overjoyed
that his ostracism by his fellow students was soon to end.
Then he
read the enclosed letter.
He showed the coat to all his friends
but was afraid
to wear it under any circumstances
for fear of damaging it in some manner.
After everyone had seen the coat he resealed it in its box
and placed it on the
shelf in his closet.
He often showed the coat to new friends
but could never
work up the courage
to wear it until his senior year.
Harvard was playing Yale for the
conference championship in football.
He bought nine tickets to the game,
three
seats behind his,
the seats to either side,
and the three seats in front.
He
was going to be damned sure no one spilled drink
or mustard on his beloved
coat.
He didn't enjoy the game at all because of his concern for his coat
.
Immediately after the game he returned
the coat to the closet where it had been
for three years
after carefully spending several hours recounting the hairs.
All 1,524,203 were intact but after
such a tedious job he made a mistake.
He
didn't reseal the bag in which he had been
storing the coat these many
years.
During the night a campus moth
crawled under the door of the closet,
fluttered up onto the box and crawled
inside.
He had a feast but being a small moth
one hair was all his tiny stomach
could hold.
He emerged from the box,
fluttered from the closet and flew up onto
the light fixture
to get warm and have a nap.
The next day the hapless student
decided to recheck the hair-count.
It took him hours but when finished he knew
he was in trouble.
There were only 1,524,202 hairs.
He wailed in despair at the
top of his lungs.
All his fraternity brothers came running into the room
expecting the worst.
ohn recounted the whole story about his fathers
conditions and his impending fate.
In all the commotion the little moth
asleep
on the light fixture awakened.
He listened to the story in amazement.
As
the whole story unfolded the moth became terribly sad.
Have you ever seen a moth bawl?
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