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Mar 4 Equine Therapy - Equine Therapy
Mar 5 ROMAC Trivia night - ROMAC Trivia fundraiser

Mar 9 Club Meeting - Rotary Club Business [Speaker Genevieve Irvine]

Mar 10 Board Meeting (Long)

Mar 11 Equine Therapy - Equine Therapy

Mar 16 Club Meeting - MixFM GM5 [Speaker Lucinda Morley ]

Mar 18 Equine Therapy - Equine Therapy

Mar 20 Bunnings BBQ - Bunnings BBQ

Mar 23 Club Meeting - CPR and Defibulator Training [Speaker Stephen Knight
Queensland Emergency Services Caloundra]

Mar 25 Equine Therapy - Equine Therapy

Mar 30 Club Meeting - Caloundra Arts Centre Backstage Tour [Speaker Vocational]

Apr 6 Club Meeting

Apr 13 Club Meeting - Visit Sunshine Coast Business Events [Speaker Ali Thompson]

Apr 14 Board Meeting (Short)

Apr 27 Club Meeting - Multicap [Speaker Camae Colnan]

May 11 Club Meeting - Bamboo Projects [Speaker Kristy Paterson Bamboo Projects]

May 12 Board Meeting (Long)

May 31 Coastguard Open Day - QF6 Open Day

Jun 9 Board Meeting (Combined)

Members' Communications

Birthdays

Dianne BELL(18/2 )

Jim MACREADY (18/2 )

Rotary Information

Rotary's alumni honouree works to transform mindsets in peacebuilding efforts

By Amy Hoak
As a child during Sri Lanka's 26-year civil war, Pushpi Weerakoon planned to become a
lawyer. "I was born into a civil conflict, walked minutes away from bomb blasts, and saw
parents of my schoolmates killed," Weerakoon said. "From a very early stage, I understood
the cost of conflict, and I knew I had to do something about it."

Weerakoon (studied law in England) but she was visiting Sri Lanka from England when, on
26 December 2004, an earthquake erupted beneath the Indian Ocean off the northwest coast
of Sumatra, an Indonesian island. The most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Asia and