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DISTICT BULLETIN DECEMBER 2018

 It is difficult for me to believe that the first half of our Rotary year has nearly ended!

With 44 club visits completed, the first thing I need to say is ‘Thank you!’ to all those clubs who have welcomed Mike and I so warmly and who have shared plans, goals, projects, anniversaries, inductions and PHFs with us. Rotary in District 9940 is a giant family of wonderful people supporting each other and achieving amazing things in our communities.

As we look at taking a break from our club meetings and projects for a few weeks over the holiday period, many of us will be playing with the grandkids in the pool, boating on the lake maybe, or just admiring the view of the river down the valley. As we take a well-earned rest, let’s think about those who do not live in a green land like we do where there is so much water that we tend to take it for granted and we complain bitterly if rain spoils our plans for the day. Millions of people across the globe don’t have access to clean safe water, the most basic necessity of life; their water supply is an unreliable, contaminated source of the world’s most dangerous diseases but they have no choice but to use whatever they can get. Imagine how heartbreaking it must be to have to give your child this water to drink and watch him sicken and die, because you simply had no other choice( read more)