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Nanaimo Golf Club
2800 Highland Blvd
Nanaimo, BC  V9S 3N8
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Upcoming Events
Celebration of life for Suzanne Benoit
Mosaic IT
Aug 21, 2016
2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
 
Sponsors
August 2, 2016.  Meeting
 
 Tonight's planned social evening at Riptide Lagoon Mini Golf in Parksville followed by dinner at the Black Goose Inn, 1051 Resort Drive was cancelled due to weather.
Instead, members gathered at the Old City Station Pub.
 
 
Symphony by the Sea, Saturday August 6.
 
Jim Turley needs more volunteers to collect donations and operate the popcorn machine from 5 - 8:30 PM
He said that volunteers can park in the lot at Turley's Florist.
Please contact him if you can spare some time.
 
 
Stories
Update on Sihlengeni High School
Bill Robinson first visited Zimbabwe in 2002 and was introduced to Head Master Jimmy Nioni of Sihlengeni School.
With $1,000 from our club and another $1,300 raised privately, he initiated a cooperative project with the school which ultimately invested $30,000 improving the facilities for its students.
 
 
This photo was published in the October 2002 issue of the District 5020 Governor's Newsletter.
 
Bill recently received a report from Jimmy with some pictures. 
Eight of the fourteen laptops that Bill took to Sihlengeni on a subsequent visit in 2005 are still being used although they have many newer ones as well.
Also the entire school is doing really, really well.
 
   The school entrance.
 
   Students with new computers.
 
    Students in science lab.
 
   Students watering the garden.
 
News
Sustainable development: a new kind of globalization
By Jeffrey Sachs  
 
Around the world, people are calling for a new kind of globalization. The current version, once called the Washington Consensus, has delivered economic growth but at enormous cost: rising inequalities of income, massive environmental destruction, and growing lawlessness. The search is on for a new approach, sometimes called sustainable development, to ensure that economic growth is also socially just and environmentally sustainable.
 
Click here to go to rest of story in the Boston Globe.
 
Jeffrey D. Sachs is director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and author of “The Age of Sustainable Development.”
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