Spring greetings from us all at the Rotary Club of Great Harwood and Rishton. ROTARY YOUTH LEADERSHIP AWARD (RYLA) RYLA is Rotary’s training programme for young leaders, designed to develop leadership, citizenship and personal growth. The scheme was adopted by Rotary in 1971 and remains one of the organisation’s fastest growing projects throughout the world. Each year our club selects and sponsors a young person to attend a 6 day residential course at a Lake District venue with professionally qualified staff specialising in youth training. The aims are to: • Provide an effective training experience for selected youth. • Encourage leadership of youth by youth. • Enable young people to render service to their communities. The programme includes indoor and outdoor exercises, includ- ing an overnight expedition, which draw out qualities of initiative, inventiveness, determination, lateral thinking, teamwork and leadership. On successful completion the young person is awarded a certificate, the details of which can be a valuable item to include in any future CV. The criteria for selection for the course are that the young person must have reached their 16th birthday before the start date and have been identified as displaying potential leadership skills. The 2011 RYLA Course for this area will take place from Sunday July 10th to Friday 15th at Castlehead, Grange-over-Sands. There is no cost to the young person and transport to and from the venue will be provided, if required. In previous years we have sponsored young people via colleges, industry, youth groups and uniformed organisations. This year YOU can help us find a candidate for the course. Tell us of any young person in our two townships who fit the criteria and you feel would benefit from the training. Please pass names and contact details to Secretary Graham Charnley on 01254 235142 or e-mail rotaryinghr@aol.com by no later than Tuesday 12th April so that selection interviews can be arranged. The Rotary Club meets each Tuesday evening at the Sparth House Hotel, Whalley Road, Clayton-le-Moors


Spike Milligan Born: Apr. 16, 1918 Died: Feb. 27, 2002 Terence Alan Patrick Seán "Spike" Mi l l igan KBE was a poet , comedian, wri ter, musician, playwright, soldier, & actor. Milligan's early life was spent in India, where he was born, but the majority of his working life was spent in the U.K. He became an Irish citizen in 1962 after the British government declared him stateless. He was the co-creator, main writer and a principal cast member of The Goon Show, performing a range of roles including the popular Eccles. Milligan wrote and edited many books, including Puckoon and his seven-volume autobiographical account of his time serving during the Second World War, beginning with Adolf Hitler: My part in his downfall. He is also noted as a popular writer of comical verse, much of his poetry was written for children, including Silly Verse for Kids (1959). After success with the ground-breaking British radio programme, The Goon Show, Milligan translated this success to television with Q5, a surreal sketch show which is credited as a major influence on the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus On the Ning Nang Nong, Where the Cows go Bong! and the monkeys all say BOO! There's a Nong Nang Ning, Where the trees go Ping! And the tea pots jibber jabber joo. On the Nong Ning Nang, All the mice go Clang And you just can't catch 'em when they do! So its Ning Nang Nong, Cows go Bong! Nong Nang Ning, Trees go ping Nong Ning Nang, The mice go Clang What a noisy place to belong, is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!!


Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee, What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B?


I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; I left my shoes and socks there - I wonder if they're dry?


'What is a Bongaloo, Daddy?' 'A Bongaloo, Son,' said I, 'Is a tall bag of cheese, plus a Chinaman's knees, And the leg of a nanny goat's eye.' 'How strange is a Bongaloo, Daddy?' 'As strange as strange,' I replied. 'When the sun's in the West, it appears in a vest, Sailing out with the noonday tide.' 'What shape is a Bongaloo, Daddy?' 'The shape, my Son, I'll explain: It's tall round the nose, which continually grows, In the general direction of Spain.' 'Are you sure there's a Bongaloo, Daddy?' 'Am I sure, my Son?' said I. 'Why, I've seen it, not quite, on a dark sunny night, Do you think that I'd tell you a lie?


Down the stream the swans all glide; It's quite the cheapest way to ride. Their legs get wet, their tummies wetter: I think after all, the bus is better.


I saw a little elephant standing in my garden, I said 'You don't belong in here', he said 'I beg your pardon?', I said 'This place is England, what are you doing here?', He said 'Ah, then I must be lost' and then 'Oh dear, oh dear'.


'I should be back in Africa, on Saranghetti's Plain', 'Pray, where is the nearest station where I can catch a train?'. He caught the bus to Finchley and then to Mincing lane, And over the Embankment, where he got lost, again.


“I’m not looking to get involved with one particular guy right now.” “Well your in luck because I’m not exactly known for being particular.”


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“How’s the marriage going?” “Oh it’s great.” She replies. “He paints and I cook. Then we try to work out what he’s painted and what I’ve cooked.


The police they put him in a cell, but it was far too small, So they tied him to a lampost and he slept against the wall. But as the policemen lay sleeping by the twinkling light of dawn, the lampost and the wall were there, but the elephant was gone!


So if you see an elephant, in a Jumbo Jet, You can be sure that Africa's the place he's trying to get!


A little girl was diligently pounding away on her grandfather's word processor... She told him she was writing a story. "What's it about?" he asked.


"I don't know," she replied. "I can't read."


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