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Last Thursday was our last lunchtime meeting at the Commonwealth Club for this Rotary year. Our excellent guest speaker and fellow Rotarian Chris Edwards gave us a rundown on the Aussie Rotary Peace Walk that was held in March and how it was planned to make the event bigger and better next year. Our Club will again be expected to play a major role in the running of the event.
Next Thursday is a ZOOM meeting when our guest will be Tammy Shepherd who will inform us on a group called Mercy Ships and how they operate throughout the Third World.
Any member who is not a Centurion and would still like to join this elite group this Rotary year can still do so by donating $100 to the Rotary Foundation via Ross Brown before the end of June.
All members should have an invitation by now to our Change-over Dinner at the Royal Canberra Golf Club, and we ask that the cost o $60 per head be paid to Ross well in advance of the 1st July.
President Eric
THE PEACE PROJECT
 Would you like to consider becoming a guide for tours to the Canberra Rotary Peace Bell? We are planning another training day for new guides or for those that just wish to know more about what is happening. Please let me know of your interest and once we know who wishes to be involved we will set a date on a Saturday morning.
Michael Rabey
CLUB PLANNING DAY
Many thanks to the thirteen members who participated in our highly successful planning day yesterday. The results, which are currently being compiled, will chart the course of the Club for the coming year. and will be disseminated soon.
Warrick Howieson
DUTY ROSTER (CC= Commonwealth Club)
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June 24th
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via Zoom
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Speaker/ Topic
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Mercy Ships:
A Story of
Hope & Healing
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Door
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Toast
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Michael Rabey
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Sergeant
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True/False
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Notes
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Bill Andrews
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If unable to attend on a day you are rostered, please organise a replacement.
UPCOMING CLUB EVENTS
• 1st July (Thursday), 6 for 6.30 pm: Change-over Dinner at the Royal Canberra Golf Club
LANGUAGE NOTES (ITALIAN)
Given that we have so much international contact with ambassadors, overseas Rotary, local non-English etc. it behoves us to learn some foreign phrases. When we have Italian-speaking visitors:
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Hello Andrea
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Ciao Andrea
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How are you?
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Come va?
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My name is Andrea
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Mi chiamo Andrea
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Please
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Per favore
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Thank you
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Grazie
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You're welcome
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Prego
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Goodbye
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Arrivederci
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(Thanks to Andrea)
WORLD, NATIONAL AND OTHER CURRENT EVENTS THIS WEEK
Winter Solstice in S. Hemisphere (21 June)
World Rainforest Day (22 June)
Luxemburg National Day: Archduke's Official Birthday (23 June)
Croatia Independence Day (25 June)
Slovenia Statehood Day (25 June)
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (26 June)
International Day of Micro-Small-Medium Enterprises (27 June)
NOTABLE EVENTS IN HISTORY THIS WEEK
21 June- Mountbatten resigns as G-G of India: the last Viceroy (1948); and U.S. Constitution comes into effect (1788)
22 June- Galileo Galilei forced by Pope to recant his view that Earth orbits the Sun (1633). In 1992 Vatican admits it was wrong.
23 June- First contraceptive pill made available for purchase in the U.S. (1960); and U.K. votes to leave E.U.(2016)
24 June- First widely-reported UFO sighting (1947)
25 June- U.S. 7th Cavalry under George Armstrong Custer wiped out at Battle of the Little Big Horn by warriors under Sioux Chief Sitting Bull and Cheyenne Chief Crazy Horse(1876).
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