Give Peace a Chance
In the year 2000, The Rotary Peace Communities International Conference in Wagga Wagga, NSW opened to grey skies and rain. The speakers and their subjects ranged from the military as peacekeepers to domestic violence, from the dangers facing aid workers to finding one’s inner peace, from offenders meeting their victims and facing the consequences of their crimes to communities helping young parents.
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(A recommended programme seeking the support of members and friends of PoLEPFoR) Los Angeles was declared the eleventh `Rotary Peace City' and conducted the first `Rotary Peace City' Conference June last under the Chairmanship of Past President Paul Warner of the RC of East Los Angeles. Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Photograph (Left) was taken on the occasion of the declaration of the County and City of Los Angeles, California, June, 1996, as the world's eleventh `ROTARY PEACE CITY'. Note the presence of members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. At rear left is Past President Angela Warner - Rotary Club of East Los Angeles D5300 (Past President Angela is the wife of Special Ambassador Past President Paul Warner, Chairman for the Rotary Peace City Conference and prime mover of the Los Angeles Rotary Peace City initiative). Wearing distinguished beard and standing left of Past President Angela then 1995/96 President of the Rotary Club of East Los Angeles, Rotarian David Beltran. Past President David is a distinguished Los Angeles Vetinarian and valued Rotary colleague In the foreground are Japanese Rotarian Special Ambassadors Motonobu (Moto) Nishimura and Hirofumi (Hiro) Ohnishi of ECC Foreign Institute, Osaka, Japan Standing on the far right is President of the East Los Angeles Community College Ernest H.Moreno. Almost centre foreground (with beard) is `father' of the Peace City Project, Past President Tony Quinlivan of the Rotary Club of WaggaWagga-Kooringal D9700, Australia. Standing rear under the `E' in sunglasses is Mayor Peter Dale of Wagga Wagga Peace City. Four Conference `Peace Ambassador Awards' were presented to the recipients pictured with another ten awarded at an evening presentation dinner held during the Conference. Among the very distinguished recipients were the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Polepfor Chairman `The Smiling Policeman' is about to have his official Police `Akubra' hat flung into the Pacific Ocean by an exuberant fellow Rotarian (thanks pal).
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The Smiling Policeman's Rotary Based and Vocationally driven programmes include establishing Rotary Peace Cities/Towns and Municipalities' around the world, along with accompanying programmes (Peace Conferences, Conflict Resolution Programmes etc.,).
Pictured presenting the `Los Angeles Rotary Peace City Peace Ambassador Award' to Sheriff Sherman Block, County of Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, on the occasion of a Sheriff's Deputies Graduation at S.T.A.R. Centre. Standing by Sheriff Block is Chief G.Steve Simonian of Montebello Police Department, Los Angeles.