Just to let you know that Alison will be focusing on her health needs for the next few weeks, so please direct any sms messages or phone calls through Paul Jupp to pass on your best wishes. Paul Ensor will also be undergoing surgery and will need to rest for many weeks afterwards. Don is home and recovering slowly but surely from an eye injury. We continue to wish them all well.
Last Thursday night our delightful guest speaker was Patricia Rios from the Hispanic Women’s Association of SA accompanied by Estrella Avila who is HWASA’s Office Manager. The organisation - founded in July 2019 by 10 women from diverse cultural backgrounds – focuses on women, their families and their needs, and empowers women by providing information and referral services to improve their social and professional development. Their office, located at 113 Gilbert St, Adelaide, opens every Friday from 9am-5pm and has an Op Shop with cultural clothes and a library. Their website promotes monthly events such as well-being/yoga classes for people living with a disability, learning about CarersSA, understanding LGBTIQA+ in your community, Centrelink, dementia, NDIS, health etc. This non-profit organisation seeks grants to hold events for the Latino community, plus Patricia often talks on the Zona Latino 5EBI (103.1FM) radio station. Foodbank vouchers are often provided for people in need, and several of our Cuppa Conversation attendees have contacted Patricia and Estrella when they learn about the organisation to secure housing or to solve other problems when they first arrive in South Australia. It is interesting to note that ABS statistics (2021) show we had 13,574 people with Spanish-speaking ancestry in SA and, of those, 7,373 speak Spanish at home.
I look forward to seeing you at Coffee Conversations at the White Picket Café on Thursday morning.
Best wishes and have a wonderful week. Yvette, President.
Complementing our recent Clare Riesling, we’re pleased to offer an excellent McLaren Vale Grenache that’s half price at just $150.00 per case ($12.50/bottle).
Grenache is now available in half a dozen at the price of $75.00.
Give your fiends and family an excellent deal, while helping to fund our local and overseas Rotary service work. among other things, we’re building water supplies in Timor Lesté, rescuing Afghans fleeing the Taliban and making recent Oz migrants quickly feel welcome.
The wine is ready for collection, so please contact me or Rob by email or phone below to order it.
For the benefit of members, we will aim to give the Duty Roster a few weeks ahead - see below.
Responsibility
1 February 2024 - 9.30am
8 February 2024 - 7am South Tce. Croquet Club
15 February 2024 - 9.30am
Chairperson
Coffee Conversation
Yvette Reade
Coffee Conversation
Attendance
Di Lane
White Picket Café
White Picket Café
Furniture/Hosting
Bottles/ cans
Di Lane
Dean Sullivan
Fred Field
Bread run
TBA
TBA
TBA
Rotaract meeting
Nil
TBA
TBA
Chairman: Meet/greet speaker for the meeting; introduce and thank speaker. Preparation:- find details about the speaker prior to the meeting. Attendance: Set up reception table (attendance sheet; members list – re -payments; guest welcome sheet; money); register member payments/ apologies/ guests. Hosting: Welcome all at the door; ensure speaker and guests are introduced to appropriatepersons. Furniture: Flags; banner display; Rotary theme banner; gong and hammer; lectern position before and returned after the meeting. Computerset up – Connect to projector. Switch on. Hold function key & press F5 twice. Bottles/cans: Collect bags of bottles/cans at meeting and take to recycle centre for refund, pass refund to Bruce McDonald and empty bags to the next duty member, at the next meeting. Rotaract: Meets 2nd and 4th Mondays at 6pm (for a 630pm start) at the Astor Hotel, 437 Pulteney St. Adelaide. Bread Run: Sundays, meet outside Romeo's, North Adelaide at 4:55pm
Members rostered for Thursday morning duty are asked to be in attendance by 6.45am
United in the spirit of Service we value truth, fairness and friendship; and we welcome the opportunity that Rotary gives us to contribute our talents and resources in support of others.
Rotary Club of Adelaide Light Mission Statement
To have fun and engage interest from new members and friends as we use our strengths for a better world here and abroad - a welcoming, flexible group having fun doing hands-on activities for positive impact.
IN CASE YOU DIDN'T ALREADY KNOW THIS LITTLE TIDBIT OF WONDERFUL TRIVIA..............
IN JULY 20, 1969, AS COMMANDER OF THE APOLLO 11 LUNAR MODULE, NEIL ARMSTRONG WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO SET FOOT ON THE MOON.
HIS FIRST WORDS AFTER STEPPING ON THE MOON, "THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND," WERE TELEVISED TO EARTH AND HEARD BY MILLIONS.
BUT, JUST BEFORE HE RE-ENTERED THE LANDER, HE MADE THE ENIGMATIC REMARK "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY."
MANY PEOPLE AT NASA THOUGHT IT WAS A CASUAL REMARK CONCERNING SOME RIVAL SOVIET COSMONAUT.
HOWEVER, UPON CHECKING, THERE WAS NO GORSKY IN EITHER THE RUSSIAN OR AMERICAN SPACE PROGRAMS ..
OVER THE YEARS, MANY PEOPLE QUESTIONED ARMSTRONG AS TO WHAT THE 'GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY' STATEMENT MEANT, BUT ARMSTRONG ALWAYS JUST SMILED.
ON JULY 5, 1995, IN TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA, WHILE ANSWERING QUESTIONS FOLLOWING A SPEECH, A REPORTER BROUGHT UP THE 26-YEAR-OLD QUESTION ABOUT MR. GORSKY TO ARMSTRONG.
THIS TIME HE FINALLY RESPONDED BECAUSE HIS MR. GORSKY HAD JUST DIED, SO NEIL ARMSTRONG FELT HE COULD NOW ANSWER THE QUESTION. HERE IS THE ANSWER TO "WHO WAS MR. GORSKY":
IN 1938, WHEN HE WAS A KID IN A SMALL MID-WESTERN TOWN , HE WAS PLAYING BASEBALL WITH A FRIEND IN THE BACKYARD.
HIS FRIEND HIT THE BALL, WHICH LANDED IN HIS NEIGHBOR'S YARD BY THEIR BEDROOM WINDOW. HIS NEIGHBORS WERE MR. AND MRS. GORSKY.
AS HE LEANED DOWN TO PICK UP THE BALL, YOUNG ARMSTRONG HEARD MRS. GORSKY SHOUTING AT MR. GORSKY, "SEX! YOU WANT SEX?! YOU'LL GET SEX WHEN THE KID NEXT DOOR WALKS ON THE MOON!"
It broke the place up.
NEIL ARMSTRONG'S FAMILY CONFIRMED THAT THIS IS A TRUE STORY.
