Dave Morris, Tanya Harford and a Mantra.

Tanya Harford was a marvelous speaker last week as she spelled out precisely what had to be done to organise our proposed Sophiatown Marathon. It is going to involve an enormous amount of time and longterm planning to make it a possibility......most likely two years. Thanks to Allan Beuthin it seems that it could be a real possibility particularly as Tanya will help us.

Our speaker this week is Dave Morris, Head of Safety and Sustainable Development, Anglo Base Metals. I can't show you what he looks like. I did find a picture on the web but I could not copy it.

Lucille Blumberg represented the Club at the Rotary Club of Northcliffe's Wheel Chair Commemoration Dinner at the Rand Club on Saturday night...thanks Lucille.

I attended the Northcliffe Rotary Club's banquet on Saturday 20th March to celebrate the arrival in South Africa of wheelchair number 20 000 from the Rushmoor Rotary Club, their project partner in Farnborough, UK.

It was a formal black tie/long dress dinner at the very elegant and beautifully restored Rand Club in downtown Johannesburg.

About 150 people attended, including the president and 6 members of the Rushmoor club, members of various Rotary Clubs around the country who had helped distribute wheelechairs, major sponsors, the head of Health in Gauteng and the National Minister for Youth, Children and People with Disabilities, Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya, who addressed the gathering.

We enjoyed a very good dinner and excellent wines and a wonderful performance by the winners of the Absa choir competition. There were quite a lot of speeches and toasts and gifts to the major sponsors and a short video was shown by Rushmoor on how the wheelchairs are collected, stored and dispatched .

It is a truly remarkable project that has been running for 18 years, very visionary and inspiring and an excellent example of how,major projects can be put together and unite local Rotary Clubs with a the driving force (Northcliffe) , major and very committed sponsors and an overseas partner.

Thank you to New Dawn for this opportunity for me to be part of this wonderful evening.

Lucille
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Ian Widdop attended the Farewell Presentation & Party for the N India GSE Team at the Rotary Club of Randburg last Friday.

Our next meeting is an Evening Meeting plus partners and anyone else you would like to invite.

When: 19,00 for 19,30 Wed 31st March

Place: Mantra Mumbai Restaurant, 4th Ave Parktown North

Cost: R135 inc gratuity.

Book with Joan Donet not later than Monday 29th March.

Here's an interesting Rotary Project in Australia:

Rotary Cartoon Awards

The Rotary Cartoon Awards competition is designed to recognise the best of Australian and international cartoons with prizes totalling over $10,000.

The Rotary Cartoon Awards are sponsored by the Rotary Club of Coffs Harbour City to raise funds for various Rotary charities and to promote cartooning through the Bunker Cartoon Gallery. All entries will be donated to the Rotary Club of Coffs Harbour City for exhibitions at the Bunker Cartoon Gallery and other galleries in Australia.

2009 Rotary Cartoon Awards

In 2009, the 21st Rotary Cartoon Awards exhibition ran during November.

Here's the winner:

I hope you saw the notice for our sponsored lecture in "Snippets". Please invite as many people as possible to attend this lecture. If it really is a success it could become an annual event.

The Inaugural Rotary Club of Johannesburg New Dawn Public Lecture
in association with The Centre for the Study of Democracy
(a joint project of the University of Johannesburg & Rhodes University, Grahamstown)
"Demons & Democracy"
Mobility & the Limits of Citizenship in Contemporary South Africa
Professor Loren Landau, Director of the Forced Migration
Studies Programme at the University of the Witwatersrand
Thursday 15 April 2010
18:00
University of Johannesburg Council Chamber
Kingsway Campus.
All are Welcome. Admission Free.
Many incoming Rotary Ambassadorial Scholars have studied under Professor Loren Landau so it is very appropriate that he will give the Inaugural Lecture. We hope that many Rotarians, Ambassadorial Scholars, Exchange Students and Friends will attend.
Cell: 082 899 7080
peter@pjsfood.co.za: President Peter James-Smith