Rotary Club of Boulder

September 2016 Basic Education and Literacy Month 6th Normal Meeting - Des Watts talks on Disaster Aid 8th Board Meeting 13th Normal Meeting 17th Christmas Raffle Selling – K Mart 18th Christmas Raffle Selling – Boulder Markets 20th Breakfast Meeting - Jim Flemings 6:30 for 7 25th Christmas Raffle Selling – K Mart 27th Normal Meeting October 2016 Economic and Community Development Month 1st Christmas Raffle Selling – K Mart 4th Normal Meeting – National Hat Day 8th Christmas Raffle Selling – K Mart 9th Christmas Raffle Selling – Spring Festival 11th Normal Meeting 13th Board Meeting 15th Christmas Raffle Selling – K Mart 16th Christmas Raffle Selling – Boulder Markets 18th Visit to the Court House 22nd Christmas Raffle Selling – K Mart 24th World Polio webinar 25th Combined Meeting for the District Governor’s Visit. 29th Christmas Raffle Selling – K Mart

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Great to welcome our newest member Stuart Fleming to the club last week and I know members will help Stuart get acquainted with club protocol and guidelines.

President

Official Directory

Recklinghausen? Simply turn to the Official Directory of Rotary International. The approximately 750-page annual online publication is filled with current information about

Rotarians and Rotary clubs. The meeting day, time and location of every one of the more

than 30,000 clubs is listed. From the Rotary Club of Aabenraa, Denmark, to Zwolle, Netherlands.

secretary, as well as the number of club members and charter date. The Official Directory also records a wealth of information about the more than 525 Rotary districts, as well as the composition and purpose of all official Rotary committees. Included are names and addresses of the current RI Board of Directors and all previous boards. There is a list of all past RI presidents with a review of their themes.

The Official Directory can be downloaded from the RI Website. It is a perfect guide for making Rotary contacts when you travel.
And, by the way, Toowoomba meets every Monday at 6:00 p.m., Pondicherry on

Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. and Recklinghausen on Mondays at 1:00 p.m. Now, that’s good to

know!

DISTRICT 9465 CONFERENCE - We Are Open for Business!!
District Governor Linda and Greg are returning to Linda’s childhood holidays by inviting you to join them in Fremantle on 31st March to 2nd April 2017 for the Annual District Conference. Hosted by the Rotary Club of Fremantle with assistance from surrounding clubs we are planning an interesting and thought provoking weekend with the theme Nurturing Humanity. Covering areas from Nurturing at Home, Nurturing Abroad, Nurturing the Mind, the Spirit and the Planet we hope to interest, fascinate and provoke you into more Rotary Action to Serve Humanity.
The venue will be the Fremantle Sailing Club in Marine Terrace Fremantle with its beautifully enlarged conference facilities. Situated on the Indian Ocean waterfront and five minutes away from the Fremantle CBD it has ample free parking, is adjacent to excellent bike paths and is also served by the free CAT bus. A port city, Fremantle is known for its maritime history, Victorian architecture and remnants from Australia's days as a British penal colony. With numerous opportunities for dining, entertainment and enjoying the ocean environment Fremantle offers the chance for a mini break holiday.
Pick Up your Buckets and Spades and join us at 6.00 pm for the Friday evening opening Sundowner for a light supper (including fish and chips) and refreshments. The Governor's Gala Dinner Saturday Enjoy a night of Fun, Food and Fellowship in the “Wardroom” with magnificent sunset views over harbour and ocean. Commencing with a pre-dinner drink, the theme is a “Purple” splash – No Prizes for guessing Linda’s favourite colour – and it’s only incidentally Dockers.
No formal partners programme will be arranged this year. There is so much to see and do in Fremantle we do not wish to restrict your choices!! Brochures and special opportunities will be arranged and available from the registration desk. So Tell Us About it – Rotary Soapbox will be part of the programme this year and we invite Clubs with interesting, new, or outlandish projects and programmes to Tell Us About It for 5 mins during the conference. Please contact the Conference Coordinator for details: conference@rotary9465.org.au
District Governor	Linda McLerie	Marketing	Jodie Sparks
Coordinator	Jean Tait	PR, Media, Promotion	Lorraine Horsley
Secretary	Wendy Cooper	Sponsorship	George Booth
Treasurer	Kim Passmore	Showcase Displays	Stephen Lee
Registration	Paul Chorlton	Youth Liaison	Gail Armstrong
Sergeant/Volunteers	Bob Coventry	Programme	Jean Tait
Registrations go to: http://www.fremantlerotary.org/9465districtconf2017/ Registration Queries: conferenceregistrations@rotary9465.org.au District Website: www.rotary9465.org.au Southern comfort (part 2) Having experienced the downtown, you might want to grab a rental car and make the short trip to one of my favorite spots in all of Georgia: Stone Mountain. A 1,700-foot-high quartz monzonite monadnock, the mountain looms gray, bald, and slightly forbidding. In this instance, the “big” boast—that it is the world’s largest piece of exposed granite—is not quite true. Granite is among its materials, but merely one of many. The mountain’s signature carving, the largest bas-relief in the world, features Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis. (If it recalls the smaller carving on Mount Rushmore, it’s no surprise. That more famous relief was created after this one and by the same sculptor.) But all I knew as a child was how fun it was to hike to the summit, barren as a lunar landscape, via the sloping west side, and the frightening sensation of walking down and peering over the sheer face. On my last visit, I took the aerial tram instead, the no-less dramatic vista scrolling past in a blur of gray history. Speaking of which, there is history in Atlanta, despite its young age (not even 200 years old). It’s what brought me to one of Atlanta’s most worthwhile, if not best-known, attractions: the Atlanta History Center. The 33-acre grounds feature several historic structures, including Swan House, Tullie Smith Farm, and Wood Family Cabin. Its jewel, however, is its Civil War collection. It includes general items – sabers, rifles, frock coats in blue and gray – and the heartbreakingly personal: letters home composed by quill on a battered desk; a pair of round wire-frame glasses, the left frame squashed into a squinting rectangle; a canteen, scratched and dented; and of course relics from Union Gen. William Sherman’s March to the Sea, the most heart-rending moment of which he burned Atlanta to the ground. Walk across the hall and you’ll find the Atlanta in 50 Objects display, which includes Martin Luther King Jr.’s handwritten 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, a 1915 Coca-Cola bottle mold, the bat that baseball legend Hank Aaron used to hit his 600th home run, and a movie poster for Gone with the Wind (from the book by Margaret Mitchell, whose house, operated by the history center, still stands at Peachtree and 10th streets). Among the 50 objects was one that, for me, truly captures Atlanta: Rich’s Pink Pig. A Christmas favorite at Atlanta’s long-defunct Rich’s department store, the Pink Pig was an oinker-shaped monorail ride. My sister and I rode in that silly thing every year, and it remains one of my favorite memories in this city – a place where you’ll be served iced tea sweet as syrup unless you ask otherwise and slice into the best peaches anywhere; where Mary Mac’s serves some of the best Southern fried chicken; and where natives speak in rounded vowels. The people in Atlanta are friendly, open, and quick to smile, laugh, and help you if you’re lost. Depending on whom you meet, you may even be invited to dinner on Sunday. Celebrate 100 Years of Doing Good Explore The Rotary Foundation's history, watch our progress toward raising $300 million, and find ideas for planning your own centennial event. Visit centennial.rotary.org . Past President Jim Fleming inducts his son Stuart into the Rotary Club of Boulder Last week we had a breakfast meeting for “Race Round” here are some of the members and visitors enjoying themselves.

Joking of Course

The Last Word

An Accountant meets Monty Python

An accountant goes into a pet shop to buy a parrot. The shop owner shows him three parrots on a perch and says, “The parrot on the left costs $500.”

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