THE SHADOW KNOWS

What has The Shadow got to report this week?

A Working Bee at DIK, Noel Halford’s Wednesday Group, and an update from District 9800 about the speakers at the District Conference in March.

No Tears from Tony Thomas on the death of former IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri and an extract from the Royal Soap Opera:  see below!

 

Last week @ DIK we had a Working Bee, with a squad of nurses packing goods for The New Hebrides.   Ian Macfarlane and Noel Halford came along to lend a hand, and their help in opening mysterious boxes of goods and chucking out “out-of-date” equipment was a  real bonus.  (Unfortunately much of the goods we receive is near or beyond its expiry date, and questions of sterility arise, especially with bits and pieces to be inserted into the human body.) When all the rubbish skips were full-up, we adjourned for a coffee and a chat. Thanks, Ian and Noel, your help is really appreciated. 

Please note there will be a Donations-in-Kind Open Day on Saturday 22nd February.  The store will be open to the public: volunteers will be showing people around, and providing a barbecue. Some minor speechmaking is promised at 12.30 pm. This is a good chance to see the store if you haven’t been before. 

Shed 39, 400 Somerville Road, West Footscray. 

 

 

Noel Halford advises us that the Monthly Wednesday Evening Group is on Wednesday 19th February. 

As previously advised this meeting will be a social event to enable those supporters of our Rotary club and members who have been unable to attend our weekly day meetings, to enjoy an informal meeting.

There are a number of projects our Wednesday Group will consider which are as follows.

  • Reintroduce support for BOAB Health Service FootCare Progam which was so successful in our first year.
  • Involvement and support for the BOAB Indigenous Children Art  Program in the Kimberley
  • We understand that volunteers are being sought for the replanting of trees in Gippsland that were destroyed by the fires. The aim is to quickly help restore the bush and help the recovery of native wildlife. Should you, or ar anyone you know be willing to travel to Bairnsdale in the coming weeks to support this project please discuss either Wednesday evening or contact me.

We will also discuss effective and painless ways of raising funds to meet our objectives and any suggestions you have will only be limited by your imagination.

I would like you to be part of this Rotary Team that can achieve so much and make a real difference in the lives of so many.

These are just a few of the items we will address but most importantly we need you to attend to help make the evening a huge success.

 

 

We have been advised about the List of guest speakers at the D9800 District Conference. Have you booked in with David Pisterman?

Professor Mary Galea: physiotherapist and neuroscientist (right)

Tony Walker, CEO Ambulance Victoria 

Tim Cope, Adventurer, Author, & Filmmaker 

Andrew Crisp, Emergency Management Commissioner,  Emergency Management Victoria 

Ro Allen, Victorian Commissioner for Gender and Sexuality 

Gihan Perera, Futurist 

Zoe Daniel, ABC Washington Bureau Chief 

Michelle Scott Tucker, Author & Motivator 

See all the details:

https://rotarydistrict9800.org.au/sitepage/conference2020/guest-speakers  

 

 

Waste No Tears on the IPCC’s Rajendra Pachauri

The Shadow’s old mate, Tony Thomas of Central Melbourne RC writes again in “Quadrant”:

It’s a worthy saying, “Do not speak ill of the dead”, but I’ll make an exception for Dr Rajendra Pachauri. The chair of the IPCC for 13 years, to 2015, died at 79 last Thursday, January 13, of heart problems.

Apart from taking sexual advantage of his top-dog status at TERI and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Pachauri was a perjurer, an habitual liar and fantasist about the IPCC, a hypocrite, corrupt, and a non-scientist prepared to defame real scientists to cover his own and the IPCC’s gross bumbling. All round, he was an exemplar of the carpet-baggers aboard the catastrophic-warming bandwagon, currently on a roll involving $US1.5 trillion global spending a year.

 

See Rajendra Pachauri with Former PM Kevin Rudd, right.

Don’t hold back Tony: tell it as it is!

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2020/02/shed-no-tears-for-rajendra-pachauri/ 

 

Especially for lovers of "Soapies"

Soap Opera lovers have enjoyed “Blue Hills”, “Peyton Place”, and “Days of our Lives” over the decades, but none of the soapies are in the same class as real-life “Buckingham Place”. 

This week The Bulletin includes an article to show how the Suss Ex-Royals are well informed on politics and environmentalism. 

 

 

 

On the topic of Royals, The Shadow has always been a fan of the King in  “The Wizard of Id” cartoon strip by Brant Parker and Johnny Hart.

This week it seems appropriate to give the King the last word: