Rotarlight 2024/25 #12 (Jan 24, 2025)

ROTARY INFORMATION

Rotary Club of Tauranga 80th Anniversary

Our 80^th Anniversary has been confirmed for the weekend of April 5-6 2025, with a welcome meal on Friday night April 4^th.

An Anniversary Dinner will be held on the Saturday night at the Armitage Hotel, where we now hold our Club meetings.

This is close to the down- town area, and where we suggest our visitors stay.

Our members may be able to host a few boarders, but we will not know any numbers until closer to the date.

We will have some sight- seeing organised for during the day, and if any attendees are golfers, we will probably organise a mini-international tournament.

It would be useful if we could have an estimate of the number of attendees from Broadbeach by say, 31 December.

Regards

Don

(Neil Jones has indicated his attendance, are there any other members interested in attending?)

Unfortunately, we will be away in our caravan – returning from the Melbourne International Garden and Flower Show.

President Neil

Some interesting facts about Rotary

The most remote Club is Papeete, Tahiti, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

The southernmost Club is Base Marambio, Antartida, in Antarctica.

The northernmost Club is Barrow, Alaska, above the Arctic Circle.

The highest Club is El Aguilar, Argentina, 4,880 meters above sea level.

The lowest Club is El Centro, California, USA,12.2 meters below sea level.

There are over 33,000 Rotarians in Rotary Zone 8, which is situated in the South Pacific.

It includes the following countries: Australia, New Zealand, American Samoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Kiribati, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Timor Leste, Tonga and Vanuatu.

King Charles 3^rd is an honorary member of the Banchory-Ternan Rotary near Aberdeen Scotland – about 30 miles from the Balmoral Estate.

Some famous Rotarians include:

John F. Kennedy President, USA
Walt Disney Animation filmmaker
Pope Francis the Pope
Sir Donald Bradman - Australian Cricketer
Luciano Pavarotti
Neil Armstrong As Astronaut he was the first to walk om the Moon

MEEIING 21st JANUARY 2025

WEEKLY LAUGHS

Mark Twain Quotes

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?'

Interesting Trivia

A group of bunnies is called a "fluffle."