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Contents.

One day, long, long ago, there lived a woman who did not whine, nag or bitch.

But that was a long time ago, and it was just that one day.

Costco Offer.

Costco was founded in an old hangar in San Diego in the USA in 1976. It started life as the "Price Club"  and offered items to small businesses at a reduced price. It soon found by including non-business customers, its clientele increased greatly which meant it could buy more and buying more meant buying for less which meant it could sell for less which made it more attractive to buyers who bought more which meant buying more etc etc.

Its operating philosophy has been simple. Keep costs down and pass the savings on to its members. Since becoming Costco in 1997, the company has grown worldwide with total sales in recent fiscal years exceeding $64 billion.

Its warehouses carry about 4,000 SKUs (stock keeping units) compared to the 30,000 found at most supermarkets. By carefully choosing products based on quality, price, brand and features, the company can offer the best value to members.

Costco opened its first Australian store in Melbourne in 2009 and now has 12 stores through all states of Australia, except for Tasmania and the NT.

Costco is very conscious of the hardship and dedication of the Australian service men and women and recently put a deal together for the benefit of members of the Radschool Association.

Go HERE for the deal.

Opinion

Sign language.  Why is that during a news bulletin or when presenting a public announcement, politicians and other public officials insist on having some person stand beside them waving their hands and arms around repeating in sign language what the polly or public servant is saying. Who does this benefit? Is it just to make the politician or the public servant or perhaps the TV channel feel good and important?  As far as I'm concerned it's a gigantic put off, I feel like switching channels when ever I see it.

Of course you have to feel sorry for a person with any loss of hearing, or sight or with the loss of any other sense and of course you have to give all of them as much help as you can but what's the sense in having someone on screen waving his/her hands and arms.  A TV news bulletin usually runs for at least 30 mins, some now go for an hour. The public announcement lasts for no more than 30 secs. Does the deaf person just in front of a mute TV hoping there will be a public announcement of does he or she get a text message saying, turn on your TV 22 mins, 23 secs into the Ch7 news as there will be a public announcement with sign language. It's a bloody joke!

If politicians and public servants and TV channels think it's so important to help the deaf by mimicking their announcements with sign language, why not do it for the whole bulletin, surely there's other important stuff in there - why not do it for whatever is shown on TV 24/7.  Do they think a deaf person sits in front of a TV and just watches the pictures? I know years ago we used to sit and watch test patterns - but really? It's a complete waste of resources, there is, after all, such a thing as teletext!!

Personally, I hate it!   That's what I think - what do you think?   tb

Charity Classification.

RAM thought for the day.

Worrying won't stop the bad stuff from happening, it just stops you from enjoying the good.

Buying a new car?

If you’re contemplating buying a new car, we could save you thousands. The Radschool Association has done a deal with Australia’s biggest car brokers whereby you can purchase a car (your choice of make, colour, specs etc) at fleet discount prices.

One of our blokes made use of this facility recently and bought a Toyota Rav4 and saved thousands. You can too!

To see further details, go to the Radschool Assoc home page (HERE) then click on “New Car Purchase”.

Discounts.

Current financial members can now receive a 12% discount on the base rate of the day when hiring a car from Thrifty. If you’re thinking of hiring a car or an SUV or a people mover, this could save you heaps. If you’re a member, send us an email HERE and we’ll send you the promo code.

Membership.

We hope to sign off on paid membership by the 30 June 2021 so you can now join for free, Free membership is available.  If you wish you can still make a donation when joining, though it is voluntary.

To join, fill in the form below.

BSB: 124-021       Account number: 1048 7401      Title:  RAAF Radschool Association.

Bank:  Bank of Queensland.

and include your name in the "Remarks" window on the deposit.

AND!!  If you work for or know of a firm that would be kind and generous enough to sponsor the Radschool Association, please get in touch.

Errors

Our aim is to have this site error free – but that’s probably impossible. But with your help I reckon we can get pretty close. If you see any errors, be they punctuation, spelling, links that don’t work, facts wrong etc, (no matter how small) please let us know so we can fix them.

Thankfully, Ken Morris, who lives over in the West, proof reads our print before it goes public and points out our many errors, not a lot escapes him I can tell you!   

Thanks Ken.

You can download the full magazine in PDF format HERE.

It is a very large file, contains 259pages and will take a while to download.

The margins have been set so you can print on both sides of the page.

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