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1 Volume 77 Issue 35 Tuesday 10 th April 2012 President : Stephen Roe. Chief Editor : Richard Lawrence Our Speaker This week : Connie Maina Museums are Connie s passion With vast experience in the operations and management of Museums Connie gave us her insights into the world of the National Museum of Kenya. As an experienced Director of The National Museum of Kenya, Connie has some wonderful knowledge into some of the oldest and most precious artifacts in Kenya. The NMK comprises over 25 regional museums and over 100 sites around Kenya including four World Heritage sites. Sites include beaches, deserts, sacred forests, grasslands, lakes and old Portugese colonial relics from the 1500 s. Connie informed us about how the Cradle of Humankind was located in Kenya and that one of the oldest human fossils was found named Turkana Boy and that he has been dated to be over 1.2 million years old. She also shared the fact that we humans are cousins to the Chimpanzee which didn t come as a surprise to some Rotary members! Connie presented us with further information about the cultural diversity of Kenya which was both a good thing and at times (particularly political ) a difficult issue for the country to deal with. Also Connie mentioned that Tourism has been increasing in Kenya although wildlife hunting had been greatly reduced as losses of some wildlife numbers had become a problem. Next Weeks Speaker : No Rotary meeting on Tuesday we have the Rotary Presents on Friday 20 th April at Moonee Valley Race Course with Jobe Watson and David Evans from Essendon Football Club.

2 Postman Pat Back in the 1940 s Pat O Connell started his career with what was then the Government conglomerate known as the PMG or Post Master General. In those early days it cost 2 ½ pence to post a letter anywhere in Australia and each Post Office had the telephone exchange attached to it with an operator pulling and pushing cables in and out of sockets! Pat says there was many delays with phone calls in those days! Hey what s changed! The sending of telegrams were all done by morse code and it cost 6 pence to send 14 words! In the 1960 s Co-axial cable was installed which made telephoning much easier and then in the 1970 s electronic letter sorting arrived to speed things up in the mail dept. Now Pat says we have really arrived with ipads, internet, facebook and s. Thanks Pat that was a great 3 minute trip down memory lane. Pat always got the mail through. Entertainment Book If you missed out last year then nows the time to get your Entertainment Book for the coming year Receive up to 50% off dinners and lots of 2-for 1 offers. Over $15,000 worth of valuable offers you can t get anywhere else. For only $65 you get deals galore : It pays for itself after only one use! Deals all over Melbourne. If you want yours just contact : Jan Thomas or ema or Ph

3 RC ESSENDON ROTARY PRESENTS Lunch with Bombers! Jobe Watson-Captain EFC David Evans Chairman EFC Bookings thru : Sam Tartaglia Office Phone When FRIDAY APRIL 20 th Time 12 for pm Where Moonee Valley R/C Cost - $80 per head Have a nice long lunch you deserve it.

4 Don t Miss Out on This One! Comedy Theatre Sunday September 9 th at 3 pm Tickets are very limited $85 p/p This Agatha Christie favorite has been playing for 60 years at the West End in London and finally comes to Melbourne for only 6 weeks so don t miss out! For Tickets ring Michael Pepi michaelpepi@bigpond.com First in Best dressed Payment must be in by June 12 th 2012.

5 Today s Attendance MEMBERS 29 GUESTS - Kerry Roe - Julie Owens Birthdays April 12 Anne Rogers April14 Janet Knee April 14 Josie Wood April 15 Neil Henderson Anniversaries April 15 Peter Halaseh (2008) Effective Public Speaking Course? RC Brimbank Central When : Sun 3rd June 2012 Where : East Keilor RSL Hoffmans Rd Essendon. Jean Abbey has left The Epworth Hospital, She has full speech functions and is recuperating at home. She is getting Physio treatment. Next Year s District Conference will be in Albury dates to come. RCE Presidents night will be on June 30 th and cost is subsidized by the club. Your cost is $70. Happy Birthday Traffic School 50 years of service to the children of Essendon Well Done! Another RCE project. Time : 9am to 4-45 pm Cost - $60 incl catering Bookings : David Bennett

6 New GSE Team Heading to UK in October District are calling for nominations for a potential GSE team member and/or team leader for the GSE trip to the UK for approximately 4 weeks in October/November If you have any year old full time employed family members, friends or work colleagues etc that would benefit from the fantastic experience of an overseas group study exchange then please talk to Grant Sheldon or Barbara Wyatt or check the website In the Rotary year we will be exchanging Teams with D1080 in the UK which is in the vicinity of the Cambridge-Norwich area. District 1080 will be holding their District Conference in October Therefore, to enable our Outbound Team to fully prepare for the study tour we will need to select our Outbound Team in this Rotary year. The Outbound Team will leave on or about the 6th October 2012 and return on or about the 3rd November Applications for both the Team Leader and Team Members are now listed on the District web site - if you click on the orange window top right corner marked GSE, this will give you access to the application forms for Team Leader and Team Member, and if you click on the link, Group Study you will get information on the study tour to District Weekly Raffle : Paul McDonald Jackpot now over $300 Gets the bottle of vino DON T CALL REGISTER Getting lots of calls from India and The Philipines lately? Don t really want that special deal they are offering! Ever wondered how you have been selected for that Time Share you never wanted! Well this may stop it happening. Call the Don t Call Register on It lasts for 5 years! For the diary

7 Tues 10 /4/12 Tues 17/4/12 DATE EVENT VENUE Community Committee Meeting 7-30pm O/Sullivan Sibeen Irish Hotel Club Service/ Fellowship Meeting 7-30 pm O/Sullivan Sibeen Irish Hotel Tues 17/4/12 International Committee Tim Anderson house Tues 17/4/12 No meeting No meeting Fri 20/4/12 Yes Friday!! Rotary Presents Jobe Watson and David Evans Ess Footy Club Bring some friends!! Moonee Valley Racing Club 12 for 12-30pm Tues 24/4/12 Tues 01/05/12 Tues 08/05/12 SGT Adam o Donnell (ex SAS) Trouble shooting in Bosnia with SAS Barry Michael IBF World Champ Super Featherweight Title Holder Catherine Scerri Fredricks Fredricks Fredricks Tues 15/05/12 TBA Tues 22/5/12 Charter Night (no lunch time mtg) Ascot House Tues 29/5/12 Tues 05/06/12 Tues 12.06/12 Tues 19/06/12 Tues 26/6/12 Dennis Delaney Property Manager Red Rooster Chickens ITALIAN DAY at ROTARY - Franca Smarrelli Dept Director of Ochestra Victoria. TBA TBA No meeting Fredricks FREDRICKO ITALIANO! No meeting for Pres Night. Sat 30/6/12 Presidents Night Overnewton Castle Tues 3/7/12, 1pm President Changeover Fredricks Thanks to our wonderful sponsors

8 UB Celebrat Help yourself and help the Club by banking with Strathmore Community Bank. Take out a home loan and the club will received up to $500, take out a 3 month fixed term deposit and the club will receive up to $50 etc. For more details drop into the branch at 337 Napier St or call branch Manager Philip Stewart on