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NO MEETING NEXT WEDNESDAY.. Meet in the vicinity of the RSL Pall Mall. Exact location not yet decided...Look Around, you will see Kev.
 
ANZAC DAY 2018 Club will meet outside RSL Pall Mall at 6am and cook & serve Sausages for the dawn service. Kevin needs a couple of
cooks to start at 5am, with the rest starting at 6am for serving duties.
 
Groovin the Moo Sausage Sizzle is again being held at the Bendigo Railway Station between 7pm and Midnight on
Saturday 5th May. Kevin Reade has been tapping members on the shoulder and compiling a roster. He will send out  a copy before May 5th.
 
 

Kevin Reade has organized this year’s  Rotary Weekend Away at Barham Caravan Park.

Friday 27th Saturday 28th to Sunday 29th April 2018.

Time is running out to book Caravan sites and onsite cabins.

For Bookings 54532553 and say you are with RCOBS for the booking.

 

Industry Visit Bendigo Art Gallery
 
Wednesday May 30th
 
7.00am for 7.30am Start
 
Our meeting of Wednesday May 30th will be an Industry Visit to The Bendigo Art Gallery.
We will meet over breakfast at the Basement Café, 50 View Street Bendigo.
Members are welcome to invite interested friends and family. At about 7.50AM
some of the Gallery volunteer guides will meet us in the restaurant and take us on a tour
of the permanent collection. This meeting will be at our regular meeting time.
 
Breakfast will be a continental style with cereal, toast, coffee etc. at a cost of $20.
There is plenty of parking in View Street and the QEO.
Parking restrictions don’t come into play until 9.00 AM.
This is a wonderful opportunity to have the Gallery to ourselves and to invite others
with an interest in the Gallery and Art generally to join us.
 
Jim Rolfe
0407554263
Guest Speaker
This week we received an excellent appraisal off a Foster Child.
 
Lachie Lyon gave us a picture of the lived experience of a foster child. Kerang to Koondrook, backwards more than forward on many occasions. His description of life for himself and his 
older sister was at times quite harrowing.
 
As a result Lachie is studying as a child support worker at Bendigo Tafe and workling in Swan Hill. 
 
Under questioning he agreed that the average child worker lasted 6 months due to the working conditions, but he is still focused on making it his career.
 
He is working towards escorting a group of at risk teenagers on the Kokoda Track.
ROSTER
Week
25-Apr
2-May
9-May
16-May
Location
ANZAC
Bridge Hotel
Bridge Hotel
Bridge Hotel
 
Day
07:00 for 07:30
07:00 for 07:30
07:00 for 07:30
Chair
 
Gerard House
Doug Lougoon
Stan Hendy
Welcome
No
John Pacher
Pat Sheehan
Maurice Woodburn
Set up
Meeting
Rob Rosaia
Adrian Schoo
John Cannon
Set up
 
Martin Ruffell
Mark Weragoda
Toni Carrington
 
George on his way to East Timor?
Football season is off again at California Gully
 
Upcoming matches Wednesday 12 midday... 13th June, 11th July and 25th July.
 
This is a great community service and much appreciated by the players.
 
 
Upcoming Events
4 F's evening
May 31, 2018
 
Speakers
Apr 25, 2018
Serving Food at the Gunfire Breakfast for Anzac Day
May 02, 2018
Member Presentation
May 09, 2018
People's Pantry
May 16, 2018
Curator-Soldiers Memorial Institute Military Museum
May 23, 2018
Proactive Policing Unit
May 30, 2018
Bendigo Art Gallery
Jun 06, 2018
Editor of the Bendigo Advertiser
Jun 13, 2018
Member Presentation
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Notices
Upcoming events
 
 
is having an evening of fellowship at the
 
home of the Rotary Club of Rochester
the Former Court House
23 Moore Street, Rochester
(opposite Graeme Nelson Motors)
 
President Bryan Griffiths and members
invite
 
President, members and partners of your Club
 
to join them in fellowship
for the
 
PIE AND PORT NIGHT
 
Saturday 5th May 2018
at
6:30pm for 7:00pm
 
$30 per person
 
RSVP Friday 30th April (for catering purposes, thank you)
 
Please enclose payment with your snail mail reply or
use electronic banking   633 108 1321 85521 and please label Pie & Port and your name and email the names of attendees to:
 
Secretary Heather Watson (Pie & Port)
PO Box 74
Rochester    3561
ph: 0439 842 177
 
 
 
 
 
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Attendance return for PIE and PORT
 
Number of persons attending at $25 per person ……….
 
Names:  …………………………………………………………………
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Jokes
This old man was feared by all his neighbours because they believe he practiced black magic and was responsible for missing cats and dogs and strange sounds at all hours. Every time he had a confrontation with his wife, screams and yelling could be heard deep into the night along with the same statement. “When I die I will dig my way up and out of the grave to come back and haunt you for the rest of your life!” Well he died abruptly under strange circumstances and the funeral had a closed casket. After the burial, the wife went straight to the local bar and began to party as if there was no tomorrow. The cheerfulness of her actions was becoming extreme while her neighbours approached in a group to ask these questions: are you not afraid? Worried? Concerned? That this man who practiced black magic and stated when he died he would dig his way up and out of the grave to come back and haunt you for the rest of your life? The wife put down her drink and said, “Let the jerk dig. I had him buried upside down.”
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A tourist in Vienna goes through a graveyard and all of a sudden he hears some music. No one is around, so he starts searching for the source.

He finally locates the origin and finds it is coming from a grave with a headstone that reads: "Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827."

Then he realizes that the music is the Ninth Symphony, and it is being played backward! Puzzled, he leaves the graveyard and persuades a friend to return with him. By the time they arrive back at the grave, the music has changed. This time it is the Seventh Symphony, but like the previous piece, it is being played backward. Curious, the men agree to consult a music scholar.

When they return with the expert, the Fifth Symphony is playing, again backward. The expert notices that the symphonies are being played in the reverse order in which they were composed, the 9th, then the 7th, then the 5th.

By the next day the word has spread and a throng has gathered around the grave. They are all listening to the Second Symphony being played backward.

Just then the graveyard's caretaker ambles up to the group. Someone in the group asks him if he has an explanation for the music.

"Don't you get it?" the caretaker says incredulously. "He's decomposing."

 
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Club meetings
BENDIGO
BENDIGO 
SOUTH
BENDIGO 
STRATH.
EAGLEHAWK
K/FLAT
Tues 12.45
for 1 pm
Bendigo 
Club
Thurs 6 for 6.30 pm
Stirling Room, Foundry
Tues 6.15 for
6.45 pm
Latrobe Uni 
Nancy Long Dining Hall
Wed 6.15 for
6.30 pm
Cal Gully 
Mechanics 
Institute
Monday
6 for 6.30 pm
Rotary
Gateway
Park 
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