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The views expressed in this Bulletin are those of the editor and the contributors. They

do not necessarily reflect the views of the Klerksdorp Rotary Club, of Rotary District

9320 or of Rotary International. Copyright reserved ©

BULLETIN EDITOR: Mariana Purnell 082 3368534 [email protected]

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PRESIDENT: Margie Constantinidis [email protected] PRESIDENT-ELECT: Nico Kritzinger [email protected] SECRETARY: Danie De Villiers [email protected]

REACH WITHIN TO EMBRACE HUMANITY

VOLUME 5, NO 35 2012-03-09

DISTRICT 9320

DISTRICT GOVERNOR: Kevin Dersley

MARCH Literacy Month

& World Rotaract Week

BIRTHDAYS

MARCH

17 Rein Lourens

23 Tom McGhee

25 Gay Des Fontaine

30 Janis Reichhardt

ANNIVERSARIES

MARCH

19 Mike & Marlene Waks

26 Jaco & Lisa Stander

28 Nico & Nadine Kritzinger

We celebrate World Rotaract Week from 8 to 14 March World Rotaract Week is a time for Rotaractors and Rotarians around the world to come together to celebrate the success and importance of the Rotaract program. This event is also an excellent opportunity to inform members of your community about the amazing work that Rotaract clubs do, and give them an opportunity to get involved.

Rotaract clubs and sponsor Rotary clubs that participate in 2012 World Rotaract Week activities 8 to 14 March 2011 now have a new way to recognize their achievements. They have the freedom to explore a variety of methods of participating in World Rotaract Week.

Rotaractors can decide the best way for their club to celebrate the Rotaract program – completing one, two or an entire week’s worth of

activities. After the club has completed its World Rotaract Week commemorative events, the sponsor Rotary club or district Rotaract chair can download a certificate of recognition for presentation to the Rotaract club.

WORLDWIDE ROTARACT

STATISTICS TOTALS

Rotaract Clubs 8,703

Rotary Sponsor Clubs 8,013

Districts 516

Countries / Geographic areas 171

Estimated membership 200,169

Growth Rate Overall 1,74%

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I will be overseas for the rest of March. During

that time, Koos Peters will kindly manage the Bulletin on my behalf.

Mariana Purnell





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The Four-Way Test

Of the things we think,

say or do

1. Is it the TRUTH

2. Is it FAIR to all concerned

3. Will it build GOODWILL &

BETTER FRIENDSHIPS

4. Will it be BENEFICIAL

to all concerned?

LUCKY DRAW

WINNER:

Nico Kritzinger

Make a difference!

Support the

Rota-Hear project

We need old, used,

and broken hearing

aids to refurbish for

the needy!

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CLUB PROGRAMME

ACTIVITY FRIDAY 9 March 2012

FRIDAY 16 March

2012

FRIDAY 23 March

2012

THURSDAY 29 March

2012 Koos Kombuis

Flag/Grace

Fines

4-Way Test

Liefie Day Theunis de Bruin Andreas Demetriou Danie de Villiers

Meeting Report John Cooke Liefie Day Theunis de Bruin Andreas Demetriou

Contribution Pierre Coetzee John Cooke Liefie Day Theunis de Bruin

Sergeant Gerry Calder Pierre Coetzee John Cooke Liefie Day

Front Desk Mike Bower Gerry Calder Pierre Coetzee John Cooke

Thank Speaker Sandy Botha Business Meeting Gerry Calder Pierre Coetzee

Speaker Vuyisile Welsh Mjekula - Tourism

Business Meeting Social Meeting Chris Hattingh – Sport Medicine

CLUB CALENDAR ... ...

And Other Dates To Keep In Mind

2012

Date Event Place

March Literacy Month

8-14 March World Rotaract Week World wide

11 March Hike on Clifton’s farm Farm TBA

23 - 25 March PETS Colesberg

27 March Bowls evening Bowls Club

29 March Can-Can evening meeting Rotapark

April Magazine Month

19 April Student exchange information evening Rotapark

May

31 May Head boy / Head Girl dinner Rotapark Deadlines March

10 March Clubs report officers through Member Access

15 March Club presidents submit completed Changemaker Award certification forms (including forms for qualifying Rotaract / Interact clubs they sponsor) to their DG

15 March District governors to submit Significant Achievement Award nominations

31 March Matching Grant requests of US$25,000 or less

31 March District Simplified Grant requests

31 March Submissions to The Rotarian’s annual photo contest

April

15 April Governors receive forms for the RI Recognition of Membership Development

15 April Governors report clubs qualifying for the Presidential Citation in Member

THIS WEEK’S

BRAIN TEASER Here's a number series with a difference: Instead of predicting which number should come next in the series, you need to decide which number in the following series shouldn't be there! 9, 7, 4, 6, 3, 5, 2, 4, 1, 3

Answer on last page





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ROTARY Bowls evening

Tuesday evening

27 March

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The latest Rotary news from here, there and everywhere

All photos by AG Tom McGhee unless mentioned otherwise

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A truly strange sighting in the Klerksdorp night skies and Rotary social scene ... ... not from around here, Petro, alias Mrs JC Nel, chats to Liefie Day and Ansie.

Strange things happen to some men when the cosmic crisis strikes; they give up smoking. But fortunately booze still keeps them sane

It sure looks painful to have just one horn, Mr Unicorn!

Louis Sounes speaks to inter-galactic visitor from Planet of the Grapes.

The invader from Bicornis “dubbelsteker”

Planet of the Blondes sent a blonde bombshell

Was it fright or shock? Read more about it on the last page ... ...

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Mastermind behind the riddles and rhymes of the day, Captain Jack Sparrow, alias Brian Smith

Eighty children, all Interactors from Unie Laerskool and the Methodist Primary School, were divided into four teams that competed in treasure hunting, ship building and plenty of fun and games. The children were brought to the venue by the Rotary sponsored school bus and a fleet of Rotarian vehicles – Nico, Horace, Joe, Johann, Tom and Mariana





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Sandy Botha Horace McBride Mike Bower

Danie de Villiers

Dave Van Rooyen

222000111222 Brian Smith Louis Sounes

Jaco Stander Mickael Waks John Cooke

Lennie Lion

Become a friend of

Lennie TheLion

our roaming ambassador

and follow him on

FACEBOOK

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Tebogo Sinyatsi (Orkney RC), Nico Kritzinger, Admiral Jolly Jack alias Johann Oberholzer, Denise Carstens, and Evil Harry, alias, aching Joe Visser. Terrible Tom was hiding behind the camera, taking all the photos as usual

The first shift of the braai team, Martin Joubert and Louis Sounes, arrived early and got the fire smoking hot while Sonja Joubert and Lynn Cohen buttered the breadrolls

Danie de Villiers handled the second shift, braaing more boerewors for the huge crowd

The ship- building demanded a lot of teamwork and innovation from the pirates

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R199.50

Ladies shirts (short sleeve)

R166.00

Order from Liefie Day

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AG Tom McGhee and AG Wally

Jacobs (standing second and third

from left) attended the Assistant

Governors’ training for Rotary District

9320. The AG training took place in

Colesberg from 24 to 26 of February.





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Let’s fill that jar

in the bar with

all your loose

change.

Let’s start ...

PETS 23 – 25 March

COLESBERG

DGE Dave Briggs

invites YOU to

attend PETS 2012

Training Program

1. Presidents-elect

2. All Anns & partners

3. All other attending

Rotarians

Later in the year a training session will

be held for Secretaries, Treasurers,

Membership and Foundation Chairs

Klerksdorp Rotary Club Meeting Report – 3 March 2012

by Bulletin Editor

Pres Margie, guest speaker Melissa from Rethabile

Childrens’ Home & Cheryl Katz

President Margie opened the meeting and Tom McGhee unfurled the flag and said grace in the absence of John Cooke. Pres Margie welcomed the guest speaker and guests: Melissa Matthysen, a social worker from Rethabile children’s home, three visiting Rotarians AG Wally Jacobs and Harold Berndt from Orkney Rotary Club and PDG Jaap Steyn from Viljoenskroon Rotary Club.

The Orkney members attended so that the two clubs could make an informed decision regarding the joint adoption of a Rethabile house.

Melissa explained that Rethabile accommodates 150 children in eight houses. Adopting a house could entail anything from renovating the building, providing furnishings, school and sports clothes for the children, toiletries, birthday gifts and cakes and sometimes clothes for special events such a a matric farewell. A joint Orkney-Klerksdorp committee will be responsible for taking this project forward.

Wally Jacobs (l) and Harold Berndt (middle) from Orkney Rotary Club came to hear more about Rethabile Childrens’ Home, and PDG Jaap Steyn (r) from Viljoenskroon Rotary Club did a make-up

Nadine Kritzinger and Wendy Calder, two Klerksdorp RC under-cover Anns, also attended the meeting

Everyone enjoyed lunch and left-over Rotary birthday cake. Even Koos Peters commented positively on the steak and potatoes with salad. Mike Bower was sergeant (again!). Mike Stocken had a young guest, Willem Putter from Klerksdorp High School, who is doing a project on Rotary and came to gather more information on Rotary’s activities.

Nico Kritzinger won the whiskey draw. The fourway test was conducted by Tom McGhee after which the meeting adjourned.

Mike Stocken and KHS

learner Willem Putter

World Rotaract statistics

Countries

Number of

Rotaract Clubs

Nigeria 279

Uganda 58

Egypt 46

South Africa 44

Kenya 29

Morocco 25

Ghana 19

Ethiopia 15

Côte d'Ivoire 13

Congo, DemocraticRepublic of the 10

Algeria, Zimbabwe 9

Burkina Faso 7

Cameroon, Guyana, Zambia 6

Mali 5

Swaziland 4

Malawi, Mozambique, Togo 3

Botswana, Gabon, Niger, Senegal 2

Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Lesotho, Rwanda

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WinterWinterWinterWinter

The harsh cold of winter is

around the corner.

Remember those less

fortunate when you clear

out your cupboards.

CAUGHT On CAMERA

My goodness, what is

becoming of Rotary ?

In addition to boasting

five broken ribs, Joe

Visser recently bared his

butt to illustrate his

bravery against the

dangers of the bipedal

high ways and by-ways.

Such exhibitionism ... ... Sies!

Ag shame, Joe!

CLUB BANKING DETAIL Klerksdorp Rotary Club, Nedbank Cheque account

at Klerksdorp Account No: 1741 227 879 Branch No: 174 138

HHHooowww dddiiivvveeerrrssseee iiisss yyyooouuurrr cccllluuubbb??? Make sure your club reflects your community

Ten years ago, the Rotary Club of Cupertino, California, USA, had about 100 members — nearly all of them white men. Today, it boasts a growing membership that better reflects its predominantly Asian community. How did the club do it?

“We made ourselves relevant to the community we serve,” says Past District Governor Don Allen, a member of the Cupertino club. The club’s membership, which has doubled, is now 27 percent Asian, 34 percent female, and 20 percent under age 50.

The club drew on its community leaders' classification to attract Asian nonprofit executives in the area. “We also forged a relationship with the Shin Shin Educational Foundation and helped raise funds to refurbish rural schools in China,” Allen says. The club also worked with the Sankara Eye Foundation to provide eye surgeries in India, “and we became relevant to that community.”

Promoting member diversity is one of Rotary’s strategic goals, and is emphasized in the RI Statement on Diversity in the Rotary Code of Policies, which encourages clubs to reflect their community in professional and business classification, gender, age, religion, and ethnicity.

In Brazil, the Rotary Club of Resende-Campos Eliseos, Rio de Janeiro, has gained more female members by inviting couples to join. “It keeps our club balanced, plus members are already familiar with each other and Rotary,” says club president Renata Santos, a 30-year-old Afro-Brazilian.

In Australia and New Zealand, an initiative is underway to increase female club membership to 40 percent by 2015. Strategies include highlighting prominent female Rotarians, creating satellite clubs, and encouraging female members to recruit their friends, relatives, and colleagues.

Another approach is launching culturally based clubs. Don Kremer, a past governor of District 5230 (California) who helped start the Rotary clubs of Fresno Latino and Monterey Korean, notes: “We have a great opportunity to develop new members while helping our communities.”

PoPoPoPo T T T Taters ....aters ....aters ....aters .... all around the world all around the world all around the world all around the world Contribution by Gerry Calder

Some people never seem motivated to participate, but are just content to watch while others do

the work They are called “Spec Taters”.

Some people never do anything to help, but are gifted at finding fault with the way others do the

work. They are called “Comment Taters”.

Some people are very bossy and like to tell others what to do, but don’t want to soil their own

hands. They are called “Dick Taters”.

Some people are always looking to cause problems by asking others to agree with them. It is too

hot or too cold, too sour or too sweet. They are called “Agie Taters”.

There are those who say they will help, but somehow just never get around to actually doing the

promised help. They are called “Hezzie Taters”.

Some people can put up a front and pretend to be someone they are not. They are called “Immy

Taters”.

Then there are those who love others and do what they say they will. They are always prepared

to stop whatever they are doing and lend a helping hand. They bring real sunshine into the lives

of others. They are called “Sweet Po Taters”.

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TO THE BRAIN TEASER Just to be a little sneaky, the odd number out is actually the very first one. After

that, the repeating series is (n-3), (n+2), (n-3), (n+2).... and so on.

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