WEDNESDAY 15TH JUNE 2016
THIS WEEK'S MEETING
Maleny Hotel at 6:30 for 7:00pm with Guest Speaker Graeme Brittenden on Its about....Time. As this is a special presentation - see precis below - Partners are invited.
APOLOGIES
Apologies plus details of any Partners to Jim on 5494 3064 or jimako4@bigpond.com before noon on Tuesday.
DUTY ROSTERS
15 June 6th July 20th July
Duty Officer John W Alan W
Assist DO Keith R Phillip S
Registration Lionel T Sherryl G Bill H
Fellowship Ric T Andy S
SAUSAGE SIZZLE ROSTER
18th June
Jim Atkinson (Leader) Rick Vickers John Whan
25th June
Replacing TS Centaur - roster TBA.
2nd July
Chris Brooker (Leader) Bill Hankinson Phillip Stark
THIS WEEK'S GUEST SPEAKER PREVIEW
In December 2010, the Chamber of Commerce & Industry Queensland, (CCIQ) reported that our clocks being 'out of synch’ with the rest of the eastern seaboard osts the state economy about $1,000,000 per hour or $4.37 BILLION per annum. This has been going on now for 41 of the past 45 summers.
The total sum so far - $179 BILLION!
Four years ago, I set myself a challenge – how do we synchronise our clocks within the eastern states:
• thereby stopping this haemorrhaging of our economy?
• without introducing ‘Summer Time’ to Queensland?
There is a practical solution and it satisfies the challenge that I set myself. It makes ‘Summer Time’ redundant along the eastern seaboard and removes – PERMANENTLY – all those chaotic and confusing situations that occur at the Qld/NSW border during ‘Summer Time’.
Clocks need never be changed again after this proposal is enacted. My presentation outlines how this anomaly occurred in the first place. There was an opportunity to correct the problem back in 1898/99 which was badly missed.
It’s About…Time we fixed it – FOREVER.
MEETING OF 1ST JUNE
As President Jeff was away overseas, Past President Ric chaired the first Dinner meeting of the month and welcomed 15 members and three partners. As there was a football match on later that night which incidentally was once again won by Qld with the help of totally incompetent and biased Referees!!! (Maybe the Scribe is feeling blue - Ed).
Director’s reports were kept to a minimum. Lionel reported that sales of Bowelscan kits were down this year not only in our area but on the Coast as well.
Bernice thanked all those who had helped at the Show, particularly the members of the Maleny State High School Interact Club and all those that made soup. She said that Pizza sales were slightly down on last year.
Jim reported that gross takings for the Show Stall were slightly down on last year but despite this still expected that the Club would make a good profit. Jim also thanked those that worked on the Show Gate on the Friday of the Show and supported Bernice in thanking the members of the Interact Club.
As usual Chris managed to fine all present.
The Guest Speaker for the night was our own Rick Vickers, ably assisted by Cilla. Rick and Cilla, with the help of a Power Point presentation, spoke of a recent wedding the attended in Japan. The traditional Shinto wedding was held at a Shinto Shrine in the middle of Tokyo.
The wedding ceremony itself was restricted to family members, while the reception that followed was attended by family and friends of the Bride & Groom.
An hour before the wedding was due to take place a rehearsal ceremony was held where the bride and groom, in full traditional Shinto wedding dress(the Bride’s wedding dress weighed 7kg’s), were introduced to each other’s family.
The wedding party procession, including family members and the ever present wedding planner, then walked through the public area of the Shrine to the wedding venue. Sake is the core of a Shinto wedding. The Bride and Groom share three cups of sake as part of the wedding ceremony, and each family member at the wedding have cups of Sake and plates of fruit in front of them.
After the ceremony the traditional wedding photos were taken, which Rick said took “forever”! The wedding procession then walked to the reception area where sake again took centre stage. A traditional barrel of sake was “cracked” with a wooden hammer by the Bride & Groom before being distributed to guests.
The reception itself is a very serious affair with none of the traditional jokes or telegrams that is typical of a western wedding. Part way through the reception the Father of the Bride eescorted her out of the room and later Mother of the Groom led her son away. Soon after the Bride & Groom returned in western wedding dress, the Bride in a traditional white wedding gown and the Groom in a Morning Suit. According to Shinto tradition Mother of the Groom now becomes head of the family.
For Rick & Cilla to see a traditional Shinto wedding was indeed a unique and moving experience.
Jim thanked Rick & Cilla on behalf of the Club for giving those present an insight into a traditional Shinto wedding.
Ric then closed the meeting where those present probably went home to watch a totally forgettable football game !!!
FUTURE MEETINGS & EVENTS
15th June
Maleny Hotel at 6:30 for 7:00pm with Guest Speaker
22nd June
Masonic Hall at 5:50 for 6:00pm for Club Assembly with cheese and biscuits.
29th June
Vocational visit TBC.
6th July
Change Over at The Old Bank Cafe at 6:30 for 7:00pm. Partners Night.
13th July
Board Meeting at the Masonic Hall.
BIRTHDAY FOR JUNE
21st Peter Wilkinson
WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES FOR JUNE
1st Chris and Judi Ross-Smith 16th Alan and Mary Wilson
NOW FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT
AN OLD FAVOURITE UPDATED: clancy@theoverflow.
WHAT BANJO MIGHT WRITE TODAY!
I had written him a text
Which I'd sent, hoping the next
Time he came in mobile coverage
He'd have time to say hello.
But I'd heard he'd lost his iPhone,
So I emailed him from my smart phone,
Just addressed, on spec, as follows:
clancy@theoverflow
And the answer redirected
Wasn't quite what I'd expected
And it wasn't from the shearing mate
Who'd answered once before.
His ISP provider wrote it
And verbatim I will quote it:
'This account has been suspended:
You won't hear from him any more.'
In my wild erratic fancy
Visions come to me of Clancy:
Out of reach of mobile coverage
Where the Western rivers flow.
Instead of tapping on the small screen,
He'd be camping by the tall green
River gums, a pleasure
That the town folk may never ever know.
Well, the bush has friends to meet him
But the rest of us can't greet him:
Out there, even Telstra's network
Doesn't give you any bars.
He can't blog the vision splendid
Of the sunlit plains extended
Or tweet the wondrous glory
Of the everlasting stars.
I am sitting at the keyboard,
I'm too stressed out to be bored
As I answer all the emails
By the deadlines they contain.
While my screen fills with promotions
For 'Viagra' and strange potions
And announcements of the million-dollar
Prizes I can claim.
But the looming deadlines haunt me
And their harassing senders taunt me
That they need response this evening
For tomorrow is too late!
But their texts, too quickly ended,
Often can't be comprehended
For their writers have no time to think
They have no time to wait.
And I sometimes rather fancy
That I'd like to trade with Clancy:
Just set up an email bouncer
Saying 'Sorry, had to go.'
While he faced an inbox jamming
Up with deadlines and with spamming
As he signed off every message:
clancy@theoverflow.
One thing that was great about the Los angeles wedding venues (and that allowed us to plan it in a short timeframe without losing our minds) was that food, alcohol and rentals are all in house so no extra vendors to deal with. Also the view was amazing!
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