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1 THE COMMON Volume 64 No July 2018 LINK Rotary Grace O Lord and giver of all good We thank Thee for our daily food. May Rotary friends and Rotary ways Help us to serve Thee, all our days.

2 Page 2 APOLOGIES and ATTENDANCE Wednesday 4 th July 2018 Snr Constable Mitchell rounded up 30 of the wanted 40 members, giving him a success rate of 75% in Operation Fellowship. Apologies were received from Messrs. Munsey, Kennedy (A), Gale (B), Grange, Blaauw, Dykers & Brill. Messrs. Hauser, Baldry & Tolson provided alibies that they had Leaves of Absence. Members please note all details of apologies and guests are required by 9.00am Wednesday. Ring Clare or Theresa on or admin@reelmen.com.au In accordance with board recommendations, no-shows and late apologies will be asked to pay for meals as booked. Thank you. Trivia: In what year was the first British Open golf held? Bonus if you know where the 2018 Open will be played. Last week s trivia answers were Clementine and Glenrowan.and the quickest winner was Norm Gale. the raffle jackpot will start at $989 prior to the next raffle on 11 th July

3 The Rotary Club of Windsor Inc. Weekly Meeting 4 th July 2018 The weekly meeting was chaired by President Col Mitchell. Page 3

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5 International Director Paul Fraser demonstrates the mozzie net bound for West Papua.. Page 5

6 Page 6 PP Graham Price won the wine, but the joker was hiding.so the jackpot keeps building up

7 Page 7 PP Norm Gale and a couple of new recruits in Windsor. Reg Lans a member of Windsor Rotary from 1979 to 1988

8 Page 8 More photos from the Windsor Rotary Changeover dinner.

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12 Page 12 A Seniors' "Lament" Checking out at the supermarket, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologised and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing back in my earlier days." The young cashier responded, "That's our problem today - your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." She was right our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in its day. Back then, we returned milk bottles, lemonade bottles and beer bottles to the shop. The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilised and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Grocery shops bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we re-used for numerous things, most memorable besides household bags for rubbish, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property was not defaced by our scribbling. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then. We walked up stairs, because we didn't have a lift in every supermarket, shop and office building. We walked to the local shop and didn't climb into a 300 horsepower machine every time we had to go half a mile. But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day. Back then, we washed the baby's cloth nappies because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 3 kilowatts.. wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids had hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.

13 Page 13 Back then, we had one radio or TV in the house - not a TV in every room and the TV had a small screen the size of a big handkerchief, not a screen the size of Scotland In the kitchen. We blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We pushed the mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then. We drank from a tap when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the "green thing" back then. Back then, people took the bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their Mums into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $30,000 people carrier which cost the same as a whole house did before the "green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances and we didn't need a computerised gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pub! But isn't it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then? It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey wine and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon.

14 Page 14 Blast from the past.name these Rotarians..and the occasions

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16 Page 16 More photos from the Cancer Council charity golf day at Stonecutters Message from our Website Administrator For those members yet to set up their details on our new website, please use the link below to go to our new web site registration page, enter the password that you received by on 5 th July 2018 and then complete the registration form and click submit. You will then receive a confirmation with username and password. Many thanks from PP Brian Speechley

17 Page 17 Next week s guest speaker??? In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts... So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them 'Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down.' It's where we get the phrase 'mind your P's and Q's'

18 Page 18 Meetings, Events & Service Calendar Thursday 12 th July Sunday 15 th July Wed July 18 th NAIDOC week BBQ Sam Lane Community Complex Lane St Riverstone 10am- 2pm Hawkesbury races BBQ Usual shifts required Emily Kadinski Friday 27 th July Wed August 1 st Fri 3 rd to Sunday 5 th August Race Day Thank You Dinner Details tba The PCYC Initiative Hawkesbury Race Club All Holden Weekend All hands on deck Saturday 4 th August Rotary Leadership Institute Course part 1

19 Meetings, Events & Service Calendar Wed August 8 th Cherelyn Suzuki Romac Page 19 Saturday 1 st September 18 th to 20 th September Hawkesbury races BBQ Usual shifts required RYPEN camp Timor-Leste Friday to 7 th Sunday 9 th September Hawkesbury Caravan Camping 4WD Fish & Boat Show All hands on deck Monday 10 th September Cystic Fibrosis Car Rally Breakfast BBQ APV Tuesday 9 th October 20 th to 27 th October Parramatta Diocesan Golf Day Richmond GC Invictus Games Sydney

20 Page 20 Can t make our Wednesday meeting? Do a make-up here. MONDAY Richmond 6.30pm Richmond Golf Club Bourke Street East Richmond. Springwood 6.30pm Springwood Sports Club Macquarie Road Springwood. TUESDAY Kurrajong Nth Richmond 6.30pm Four Beans Cafe Bells Line of Road North Richmond. THURSDAY Rouse Hill 7.15pm 1 st & 3 rd Club Meetings Rouse Hill Anglican Centre Cnr Windsor & Mile End Roads Rouse Hill SUNDAY The Ponds 4.00pm 1st, 3rd & 5th Coffee Club Michel's Patisserie, The Ponds Shopping Centre The Ponds ANYTIME eclub One and click on the Makeups tab July Birthdays: Mal Roughley 1 st Richard Clark 9 th Lyn Blaauw 19 th Peter Ellmer 22nd Robert Sparrow Finch 8 th Wally Gator Fullerton-Smith 9 th July Anniversaries: Jan & John Gollan 10 th Janet & Greg Hoile 19 th Christine & Col Mitchell 21 st Trish & Harry Grange 26 th Sandra & Peter Tolson 29 th Quotes of the week by Oscar Wilde: Be yourself; everyone else is already taken I can resist everything except temptation. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. I have nothing to declare except my genius. True friends stab you in the front. Women are made to be loved, not understood. The Four-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?