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R O T A R Y C L U B O F B E A U M A R I S W E E K L Y B U L L E T I N Number 4 22 July 2013
Next Meeting THURSDAY 25 JULY
SALLIE GEARY
NATIONAL YOUTH SCIENCE FORUM
CHAIR: GEOFF STOCKDALE
CASH; HEATHER CHISOLM & JOHN BEATY
HOST
; TRISH
SMYTH
AV; DAVID HONE
TUESDAY 30 JULY
AN EVENING WITH JONATHON
THURSDAY 1 AUGUST
NO MEETING
THURSDAY 8 AUGUST
SIMON MEENS & STEPHEN WITHEROW
SEA SCOUTS
CHAIR: RICHARD SHERMON CASH; KERRIE GEARD & ROGER FREWEN
HOST; ROY SEAGER
AV; MALCOLM PARKS
Presidents Report
Brian Negus the General Manager Public Policy for the
RACV provided plenty of interesting and disturbing facts
last week when he spoke about what the AAA are doing
during the lead-up to Federal Election (when-ever that
may be). The AAA (Australian Automobile Association)
whose members include the RACV, NRMA, RACQ etchave launched a program “Demand Better Roads” and
are urging the combined 7 million members to demand
better funding for land transport infrastructure from their
local politicians and want all Federal and State govern-
ments to implement major reforms.
According to the AAA the amount of funding required to
provide the priority road and land transport infrastruc-
ture across all states is in the vicinity of $99.3 billion, an-
nual Federal expenditure on land transport is approxi-mately $4.9 billion but the amount raised from Fuel ex-
cise per annum is around $15 billion. The AAA identifies
the significant gap between the growing need for the
infrastructure required and the existing funding methods.
They also claim that by improving the quality and safety
of our roads, the current cost to the Australian economy
of around $27 billion could be reduced.
Brian also spoke about the other issues that the AAA
want all political parties to address including; an in-creased focus on road safety, promoting consumer
awareness about safer vehicles and clear and accurate
fuel pricing (complicated by the involvement by the su-
permarkets and their shopper docket programs and du-
opoly). Brian mentioned a new website that allows con-
sumers to compare prices in their local area; http://
motormouth.com.au.
There was a lot of interesting questions for Brian which
indicates the quality of the presentation which was en-joyed by not only the members but by visitors David
Waldron (a friend of David Greenall) as well as Rewa
Contents
1 Presidents Report2/3 Notices3 This Week’s Speaker4 Club Structure / Sight of Week
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Jones and Shirley Frewen. A full report of Brian’s
presentation is included later in this bulletin.
As mentioned at the meeting last week, the Con-
course Traders Association met last Wednesday
evening to discuss their annual festival. They wereunanimous in deciding that the RCOB should take
over the planning and running of future festivals.
Our next step is to meet with a sub-group of traders
to pave the way for planning the next festival which
they have earmarked for Friday 29 November sub-
ject to that date not clashing with anything else in
the area or another festival day in Bayside.
It’s now only one week till the first major night of the
year. All is in readiness for An Evening with Jona-
than. Megan Glenwright has done an amazing job
of not only organising the attendance (160 people)
but also arranging the prizes, table settings, menu
and seating plan. All we need to do now is turn up
and enjoy, what should be, a fantastic night.
It is extremely encouraging to see how many mem-
bers read David’s wonderful newsletter thoroughly
as can be seen from the number of emails I received
last week picking up a major typographical error.The date for one of the most anticipated nights on
the annual calendar, the much loved AGM, is not
October 10 (that night is reserved for the DG’s visit)
but October 17.
While the Sergeant’s fine session is raising a healthy
level of fines, David may have to refine the time
frames for his “quiz homework”. For example, next
week’s subject is Famous Classic Literature Quotes,
great – only a thousand years or more to research.How about these; do they count? (See Ed comment)
The difference between literature and journalism is
that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.Oscar Wilde
Alcohol is my lawful wife and literature my mis-
tress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night
with the other. Anton Chekhov
A successful man is one who makes more money
than his wife can spend. A successful woman is
one who can find such a man. Lana Turner
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid
ones that need the advice. Bill Cosby
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and
loves to see us happy.Benjamin Franklin
Sallie Geary, a National Youth Science Forum at-
tendee is this week’s speaker with Geoff Stockdale
in the chair. An evening to look forward to.
See you there.
Robert Robert Robert Robert
ED; The topic is actually Famous Quotes from English
Literature ( I checked with the Sergeant as there was
some confusion) so technically even Oscar Fingal
O'Flahertie Wills Wilde may not count if you are
being pedantic!
Sergeant’s Session Topic
Sergeant David has introduced his own novelty, atopic on which he will ask a question; those who failto get the correct answer will be fined. This week’stopic is;
“Famous Quotes from English Literature”
I am sure you are all busy researching the myriadpossible questions which could spring from such a
Hocking Stuart Sandringham62-64 Station StreetTelephone: 03 9521 9800
Note; As part of our arrangement with Hocking
Stuart discounts on agents fees are available to
RCOB members.
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Bixby Bridge, Big Sur
Photograph by Douglas Croft
The Bixby Bridge has been anicon on the Big Sur coastline since1932. It is amazing that some-thing man-made could blend sowell into such an incredible envi-ronment.