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May is Australian Rotary Health Month
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This is an Invitation to attend this event
please contact PDG Phil Cordery for reservations
Numbers are limited
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NEW MEMBERS
Rotary Club of Southern Districts
Welcomes new members Simon Dutt and Carlton D'Souza
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Polio eradication shifts
into emergency mode
Rotary International News -- 25 May 2012
Despite
the dramatic drop in polio cases in the last year, the threat of continued
transmission due to funding and immunization gaps has driven the Global Polio
Eradication Initiative (GPEI) to launch the Global
Polio Emergency Action Plan 2012-13.
The plan
aims to boost vaccination coverage in the three remaining polio-endemic
countries -- Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan -- to levels needed to stop
polio transmission. Health ministers meeting at the World Health Assembly in
Geneva adopted a resolution on 25 May that declared “the completion of polio
eradication to be a programmatic emergency for global public health.”
Polio
eradication activities have resulted in several landmark successes since 2010.
India, long regarded as the nation facing the greatest challenges to
eradication, was removed from the list of polio-endemic countries by the World
Health Organization (WHO) in February. Outbreaks in previously polio-free
countries were nearly all stopped.
During
that same time span, however, polio outbreaks in China and West Africa due to
importation from Pakistan and Nigeria, respectively, have highlighted the
continued threat of resurgence. Failure to eradicate the disease could lead
within a decade to paralysis of as many as 200,000 children per year worldwide.
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Hat Day
Rotary Club of Belmont
also seen at the meeting
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Rotary Club of Southern Districts
PDG Ron Sloan 2012 Scholarship awards night
The students
are selected by their respective schools on the basis of academic achievement
and community/school spirit. The scholarship covers their school fee
requirements
for the next 12 months and is paid to the school.
some of the recipients
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Rotary Club of Geraldton -Greenough
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Rotary Club of Hannans
Annual Book Sale
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Rotary Club of Kalgoorlie
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Rotary Club of Como
Como Rotary supports
the Motor Neurone Disease Association
. Club President John greets MND Assoc
Executive officer Matthew Brown
during its Walk t'Defeat MND fundraiser and
sausage sizzle.
Como did the sausage sizzle
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Rotary Club of Kwinana
unamed Master Chef's !!!!
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Rotary Club of Hillarys
Outbound student 2011/2012 Yuri Snell
was guest speaker at a recent meeting
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Rotary Club of Heirisson
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Rotary Club of Cockburn
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Rotary Club of South Bunbury
sausage sizzle at Machinery Auction in Picton
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Rotary Club of Bunbury Leschenault
at the opening of the Mens Shed
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Rotary Club of Cannington
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ROTARY CLUB BIRTHDAYS
Rotary Club
of Hannans Kalgoorlie
May 28th [1993
Rotary Club
of Albany Port
May 29th [1979]
Rotary Club
of Applecross
June 3RD [1971]
Rotary Club
of Swan Valley
June 9th [1993]
Rotary Club
of East Perth
June 9th [1969]
Rotary Club
of Esperance
June 12th [1962]
Rotary Club
of Midland
June 14th [1985]
Rotary Club
of Wongan Hills
June 15th [1965]
Rotary Club
of Booragoon
June 21st [1983]
Rotary Club
of Cockburn
June 18th [1969]
Rotary Club
of Bunbury
June 19th [1939]
Rotary Club
of South Bunbury
June 23rd [1967]
Rotary Club
of Willetton
June 28th [1982]
Rotary Club
of Mandurah
June
27th [1961]
Rotary Club
of Kalamunda
June 27th [1962]
Rotary Club
of Subiaco
June 28th [1949]
Rotary Club
of West Perth
June 28th [1954]
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Some images on this blog are taken ftom Rotary Club Facebook pages
in D9455 and D9465.
if you wish to have them removed
or request they not be used
please contact PDG Phil Cordery
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On a lighter note
MAGIC
A well-off
bloke decided to go into business for himself. He fancied owning a pub, so he
searched until he found one for sale in a small village.
Unfortunately,
the pub was very old and the foundation was crooked. It would cost too much to
fix. So the new owner decided to knock it down and build a new one.
He hired a
bulldozer and cleared all the debris. Then he spent a lot of time hauling in
dirt, building it up and leveling it for the new foundation.
Some
village folks were out watching him work. "What is that bloke doing?"
asked a passerby. A villager replied,
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The new word for 2012
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According to the Knight-Ridder News Service, the inscription on the metal bands used by the U.S. Department of the Interior to tag migratory birds has been changed.
The bands used to bear the address of the Washington Biological Survey, abbreviated, "Wash. Biol. Surv." until the agency received the following letter from an Arkansas camper:
"Dear Sirs: While camping last week I shot one of your birds. I think it was a crow. I followed the cooking instructions on the leg tag and I want to tell you it was horrible."
