by Jacinta Thomas | Mar 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
Sonni Kaiser – Exchange Student Sonni noted that Germany is within Europe, a continent of 740 million people in nearly 50 countries speaking 28 different languages. Germany, itself has 82 million people living in a country which would fit into Australia 20...
by Jacinta Thomas | Mar 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
Kara Gerritsen – The Risk of Heart Disease and Life after a heart attack The Heart Foundation strives to reduce heart attacks. There is one heart attack every 10 minutes in Australia and heart disease is the biggest single killer. The message of the Foundation...
by Jacinta Thomas | Feb 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
Judy Mugub – A brief history of Kenmore Judy is the foundation president of the Kenmore Historical Society which has produced a small book about the area. The Kenmore area, including Chapel Hill, Fig Tree Pocket and Pullenvale, really stared in about 1850 when...
by Jacinta Thomas | Jan 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
Megumi Ono – District Scholar Megumi Ono or Megoo comes from Hyogo which is relatively near Kyoto. She is hosted by the Rotary Club of Sunnybank Hills. Her counsellor is PDG Anne Brand. By comparison, Hyogo has more twice the population of Brisbane at 5.5m cf...
by Jacinta Thomas | Jan 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
Dianne Scotte – Rotary Leadership Institute The programme was held over three Sundays and covered a huge amount of information. At its basic, it is a grass roots multi-district level development programme designed to develop potential leaders within Rotary, i.e....
by Jacinta Thomas | Jan 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
Adele and Steve Stoneley – Sri Lankan Adventures A common theme from Fijian Indians is that India can be a dirty place so Stephen decided that Sri Lanka might be better place …and so it proved. Adele told us that she was agreeably impressed by...
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