June is?  

Rotary Fellowship Month, of course!

Being part of a fellowship is a fun way to make friends around the world, explore a hobby or profession, and enhance your Rotary experience.

Watch this video to learn more: https://rotaryserviceblog.org/2021/06/09/8960/

Next Academic Year

The Babylon Bee compiled the following list of new subjects public schools are almost certain to be offering next year. We hope you are all prepared. 

1. How Captain Cook was Literally Hitler: Though this has been taught as part of history classes for decades, it will now officially have its own separate subject.
2. How to Make Life-Changing Decisions Without Telling Your Parents: From abortions to changing genders, this class will make it happen without Mom and Dad ever having a clue.
3. Climate Alarmism: despite coral cover being the highest it had been in its 36 years of monitoring, ‘unless fossil-fuel emissions are drastically cut, the reef remains in danger from rising temperatures and more mass-bleaching events’.
4. Antiracist Maths: Don't believe thousands of years of white colonial lies. 2+2 can be whatever you want it to be.
5. Home Economics (Boys Only): You can't teach girls how to cook or sew anymore. That would be sexist.
6. Advanced Peaceful Protesting: Masks, bricks, and Molotov cocktails will be provided.
7. Social Media 101: Preparing your kids with enough Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the only job they will ever be qualified for.
8. Tucking 101: No matter what part of your anatomy you're pretending to not have, you can learn to hide it.
9. Transgender PE: In this class, the boys will just mercilessly destroy the girls at everything, preparing them for higher-level athletics.
10. Anatomy, but just the weird sex stuff: Whew!

Our children and grandchildren are sure to have lots of fun with this. It will prepare them for University, where they may achieve success with degrees such as a Ph.D. in Snappy Answers, or M.A. with Honours in Stating the Bleeding Obvious, or even a Doctorate of Nanotechnology (knowing a lot about very little)

What’s it all about?

TORONTO — Despite staggering intellect and deep study of God's Word, psychologist/professor/author/speaker/room-cleaning enthusiast Dr. Jordan B. Peterson has resolved to stubbornly consider every possible tangential meaning of Bible stories except for the notion that it actually just means what it's actually saying.

At publishing time, God was reportedly having someone work done on a giant, flashing neon light version of the Bible to further get Peterson's attention.

Deadly Diseases

Are you ready for a disease “even deadlier” than Covid? Even deadlier than 0.2% fatality rate? Goodness. Fortunately, we have the WHO to lock us in our homes till the vaccines are ready. The Mail has the story.

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus  the head of the World Health Organisation said: “We cannot kick this can down the road. When the next pandemic comes knocking – and it will – we must be ready to answer decisively, collectively and equitably.”

Have you a Pash for Ogden Nash?

Victoria Cross winner Ben Roberts -Smith has been in the news for all the wrong reasons.

But it gives us an excuse to add a quote from our favourite poet:

Have you noticed that the name of Smith,

Is the one most often hyphenated-with?

- Ogden Nash

The Good News and the Bad

You may be suspicious of e-mails you receive requesting money.

Did you receive one from ClubRunner last week, with an invoice for your Hawthorn Rotary Annual Subscription?

You can relax: it is not a scam. Your subs are indeed due. 

The good news is that Treasurer Doug McLean has kept them at the same level as before.

Visit to Sackville Grange 

Come and explore Sackville Grange Retirement Village on Tuesday 13 June 

Life is filled with leisure at Sackville Grange, a thriving retirement community just minutes to transport, great restaurants, shopping and entertainment in Kew, Balwyn and Camberwell. 

The Sackville Grange experience takes a sense of ‘community’ to a new level. An uplifting blueprint for how the retirement lifestyle is designed around care and good company, it’s full of the joys of life, the tranquillity of home, and enriched with beautiful landscaped gardens. This vibrant community regularly engages in day-to-day activities in and outside the village.

The tour will commence at 11am and will be followed by a light lunch. 

We are looking forward to welcoming you to this vocational visit.

Book with Terry Kitchen ASAP: terrykitchen57@icloud.com or 0419 508 821

Did you know?

You can’t get down off an elephant.

(It comes from geese)

TTFN