Thursday, June 17, 2010

Re: Committee members please review your time slots for Saturday draft and rsv

Just to clear up the mystery of the Agenda:

Beer hour 6:00 - 7:00  
Chow 7:00 - 7:45
7:45 -7:50 Bryan Crawford - Introductions
7:50 - 7:55 Alice 
7:55 - 8:15 
Jim Halverson - Paul Harris Fellow Awards
8:15 - 8:30 
Rob Long - Year in Review
8:30 - 8:35 Reggie time
8:35 - 9:00 The passing of the baton to the new and glorious leader 
Get the heck out a here.


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– Georges Bernanos, French novelist (1888-1948)

On Jun 17, 2010, at 7:32 PM, attadjshop <attadjshop@aol.com> wrote:

John, May I just have a few seconds after Bryan? Thank you, Al
 
 
 
In a message dated 06/17/10 17:30:36 Pacific Daylight Time, JLKenyon writes:
Just to clear up the mystery of the Agenda:

Beer hour 6:00 - 7:00 
Chow 7:00 - 7:45
7:45 -7:50 Bryan Crawford - Introductions
7:50 - 8:10
Jim Halverson - Paul Harris Fellow Awards
8:10 - 8:25
Rob Long - Year in Review
8:25 - 8:30 Reggie time
8:30 - 9:00 The passing of the baton to the new and glorious leader
Get the heck out a here.

If this needs adjustments please give me a reply and it will be done.

Gracias


John Kenyon

Cell and text # 805 798 0886
Fax 720 406 3515  


 

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Andrea Barkan's photo of me

I make it a practice of always asking if I can take a picture and then showing my subjects the picture I have just taken.  I have found in some very poor areas people have never seen photos of themselves and in some cases don't even have mirrors to see themselves in.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Jim and Kevin both went out and enjoyed the surf with the local surf club. This is the beach right off of the town of Cox Bazar and can be easily reached from the downtown. Jim and the lads and lassies all took to the rickshaws for transportation to and from the beach, but a surf side hotel can easily be had here. The beaches were clean, broad and very, very long, something like 26 miles long. There were horses to rent on the beach as well as food to be purchased at beach side cafes. The nonsurfers among us, rented covered wooden chaise lounges to relax on and in my case shot the dudes and dudettes in the water.


Another snap of the surf club including Honorary Member Jim Bailey. Jafar Alam is second from the left and please note the young girl surfers as well. The girls in particular are fighting an uphill battle, not only are women adults surfers nonexistent as role models but the society frowns upon adult women swimming in public. Additionally all of these heroic young surfers have come from and are still in very very poor home situations, so putting food on the table is an everyday chore. There are no days off in this life style.

We hoped that our presence might escalate the status of the club and it's members. We talked with the Rotary Clubs as well as local officials about the economic value of having a group of young people who could help to develop the area as a Bangladesh surf spot. We feel that Cox Bazar has all the ingredients it needs to take off. Young skilled surfers, surf equipment, good waves, a beautiful beach and Cox Bazar is a well known and easily accessed beach vacation area for Bangladeshies.

Cox Bazar Surf Club

The first of a movement. Surfers in Bangladesh. If anyone ever doubted that there could be surfing in Bangladesh just ask these young surfers or if anyone ever wanted a surf lessons, just ask Jafar.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

We were out and about and I took this photo out the car window. People stay up and out late into the evening and it does not become quiet until after 11:30 at night.