PACER
Annual Banquet Another Great Success -Again the event raise over $10,000 from the auction. -The number of auction items were about 120 this year. -Rene Vreisema (outbound exchange student) received the Don Brooker Award. -Gary Carrol received the Paul Harris Fellowship Award. -A donation of $2000 was presented to the Dresden Food Bank. -A donation of $500 was given to the Canadian Cancer Society in Harold Pankrac's (our guest speaker) name. -250 ticket were sold with about 230 in attendance. Thanks to all volunteers and patrons who participated.
Children's Safety Village Our own Stuart Kiar presented a cheque of $75,000 to the Children's Safety Village on behalf of the participating Chatham-Kent Rotary Clubs.
Mexico Bus Project Underway
Looks like things are moving ahead on our Bus project. Ewan is
collecting medical equipment and Paul M. is working on the purchase of a
used bus/busses and insurance.
www.dresdenrotary.com domain name will remain ours though 2013.
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A Little Boys first
experience with taxes
A little boy
wanted $100 badly and prayed for two weeks but nothing
happened.
Then he decided to
write God a letter requesting the $100.
When the postal authorities received the letter addressed to God,
Canada, they decided to send it to Prime Minister Martin. The Prime
Minister was so impressed, touched, and amused that he instructed
his
secretary to send the little boy a $5.00 bill. Prime Minister
Martin
thought this would appear to be a lot of money to a little boy.
The little boy was delighted with the $5.00 and sat down to write a
thank you note to God, which read:
Dear God, Thank you very much for sending the money, however, I noticed that for some reason you had to send it through Ottawa and, as usual, those buggers deducted $95.00.
The following statements about the Bible were written by children and have not been edited or corrected (i.e., bad spelling has been left in):
1. In the first book of the Bible, Guinessis, God got tired of creating the world, so he took the Sabbath off. 2. Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. 3. Noah built an ark, which the animals come on to in pears. Noah's wife was called Joan of Ark. 4. The Jews were a proud people and throughout history they had trouble with the unsympathetic Genitals. 5. Samson was a strongman who let himself be led astray by a Jezebel like Delilah. He slayed the Philistines with the axe of the Apostles. 6. Moses led the Hebrews to the Red Sea where they made unleavened bread, which is bread without any ingredients. 7. The Egyptians were all drowned in the dessert. Afterwards, Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten ammendments. 8. The first commandment was when Eve told Adam to eat the apple. 9. The seventh commandment is thou shalt not admit adultery. 10. The greatest miracle in the Bible is when Joshua told his son to stand still and he obeyed him. 11. David was a Hebrew king skilled at playing the liar. He fought with the Finklesteins, a race of people who lived in Biblical times. 12. Solomon, one of David's sons, had 300 wives and 700 porcupines. 13. When Mary heard that she was the mother of Jesus, she sang the Magna Carta. 14. When the three wise guys from the east side arrived, they found Jesus in the manager. 15. Jesus was born because Mary had an immaculate contraption. 16. St. John, the blacksmith, dumped water on his head. 17. Jesus enunciated the Golden Rule, which says to do one to others before they do one to you. 18. He also explained, "a man doth not live by sweat alone." 19. It was a miracle when Jesus rose from the dead and managed to get the tombstone off the entrance. 20. The people who followed the Lord were called the 12 decibels. 21. The epistles were the wives of the apostles. 22. One of the opossums was St. Matthew who was also a taximan. 23. St. Paul cavorted to Christianity. He preached holy acrimony, which is another name for marriage. 24. A Christian should have only one spouse. This is called monotony.