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SMILES rotary directory Pride of Workmanship A Vocational Service program which provides - - involvement with your local community; - membership development opportunities; - great public relations opportunity; Australasia's most popular Vocational Service program for over 30 years. Check out our website at www.pride-of-workmanship.com or contact the Rotary Club of Pennant Hills - District 9680 Phone 61 2 9484 4889 or Fax 61 2 9484 5241 (We are an official licencee of Rotary International) HAT DAY BOOK THIS SPACE Friday 11th October 2013 www.hatday.com.au Ph: +61 2 9674 6855 CONTACT SAM OR GAY advertising@rotarydownunder.com.au or phone 02 9633 4888 NZ Callers: 0800 738 695 www.rdushop.com.au Take your subscription ONLINE Become a valued digital subscriber of Rotary Down Under magazine and free up your letterbox. You can now receive each new edition in a portable format available to read on your desktop, mobile or iPad. Just contact us to have your subscription transferred from print to digital. If your whole club signs up, we’ll even send you 10 free hard copies of the magazine for promotional use each month! Email: subscriptions@rotarydownunder.org or phone: 02 9633 4888 38 Issue 552. July 2013
SMILES THE CHURCH DINNER A group of friends from the Cottonwood Church wanted to get together on a regular basis to socialise and play games. The lady of the house was to prepare the meal. When it came time for Alan and Elsie to be the hosts, Elsie wanted to outdo all the others. She decided to have mushroom-smothered steak, but mushrooms are expensive. She told her husband, “No mushrooms, they are too dear.” “Why don’t you go down in the pasture and pick some of those mushrooms There are plenty in the creek bed.” “No, some wild mushrooms are poisonous,” she said. “Elsie, I see varmints eating them and they’re OK,” he said. So Elsie decided to give it a try. She picked a bunch, washed, sliced and diced them for her smothered steak. Then she went out on the back porch and gave ol’ Spot (the dog) a double handful. Ol’ Spot ate every bite and all morning long, Elsie watched him. The wild mushrooms didn’t seem to affect him, so she decided to use them. The meal was a great success and Elsie even hired a maid from town to help her serve. After everyone had finished, they relaxed, socialised and played bridge and dominoes. About then, the maid came in and whispered in Elsie’s ear. “Mrs. Yeadon, ol’ Spot is dead,” she said. Elsie went into hysterics. After she finally calmed down, she called the doctor and told him what had happened. The doctor said, “That’s bad, but I think we can take care of it. I will call for an ambulance and I will be there as quickly as possible. We’ll give everyone enemas and we will pump out everyone’s stomach. Everything will be fine. Just keep them calm.” Soon they could hear the siren as the ambulance was coming down the road. The paramedics and the doctor had their bags, syringes and a stomach pump. One by one, they took each person into the bathroom, gave them an enema and pumped out their stomach. After the last one was finished, the doctor came out and said, “I think everything will be fine now,” and left. They were all looking pretty weak sitting around the living room. About this time the maid came in and whispered to Elsie, “You know, that driver never even stopped after running over ol’ Spot.” Rotary Club of Gawler, SA CAUGHT OUT Jim had an awful day fishing on the lake, sitting in the blazing sun all day without catching a single fish. On his way home, he stopped at the supermarket and ordered four catfish. He told the salesman, “Pick four large ones out and throw them at me, will you” “Why do you want me to throw them at you” “Because I want to tell my wife that I caught them.” “Okay, but I suggest that you take the orange roughy.” “But why” “Because your wife came in earlier today and said that if you came by, I should tell you to take orange roughy. She prefers that for supper tonight.” Rotary Club of Port Macquarie, NSW OBJECT OF ROTARY The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster: 1 The 2 3 The 4 development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service; High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society; application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business and community life; The advancement of international understanding, goodwill and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service. www.rotarydownunder.org 39 www.rotarydownunder.org 39
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