March 2023
Happy Women's Day! Celebrating International Women's Day on March 8 grew out of the labor movement to become a recognized annual event.
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MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR
Viki Thomason
- Feb 5
- 1 min
February 2023
Happy Chinese New Year! The Year of the Water Rabbit officially began on January 22, 2023.
Viki Thomason
- Dec 31, 2022
- 1 min
January 2023
Dear Reader, it is with great sadness that I have to inform you that Nancy Long Lindley, our beloved Bulletin Editor passed away last month.
Nancy Lindley
- Nov 4, 2022
- 1 min
November 2022
The weather here in Chiang Mai is cooling and we're seeing tourists from overseas - mostly young people.
Nancy Lindley
- Aug 1, 2022
- 2 min
August 2022
I've largely been living life tethered to my sofa/heating pad or in the physical therapy department of a local hospital the past month.
Nancy Lindley
- Jul 8, 2022
- 1 min
July 2022
Slowly, slowly Thailand is returning to normal, although the economy of Chiang Mai hasn't returned to pre-Covid robustness.
Nancy Lindley
- Jun 6, 2022
- 1 min
June 2022
Ah June in Chiang Mai! The rains have started early, but they're brief and come late in the day, clearing the skies for the next day.
Nancy Lindley
- May 3, 2022
- 1 min
May 2022
It's Hot In Thailand... And it looks like our service projects are going to heat up soon.
CMI Rotary
- Apr 4, 2022
- 1 min
April 2022
As one of our contributors writes this month, there does appear to be light at the end of the tunnel in Chiang Mai. Municipal education...
Nancy Lindley
- Feb 28, 2022
- 1 min
March 2022
Welcome to Smoky Season! It's been late getting started this year, with pleasant temperatures and occasional rain showers lasting longer.
Nancy Lindley
- Feb 1, 2022
- 1 min
February 2022
February opens with the Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year.
Nancy Lindley
- Jan 4, 2022
- 1 min
January 2022
December was a busy month for the club, with procurement, packing and deliveries of winter clothing, teddy bears and food to the needy.
Nancy Lindley
- Dec 8, 2021
- 1 min
December 2021
"Winter" such as it is in Thailand, has arrived in Chiang Mai. Most mornings there is frost atop Doi Inthanon, the highest peak in Thailand
Nancy Lindley
- Nov 2, 2021
- 1 min
November 2021
Sadly, the optimism of last month's CMIRC Bulletin, published in late September when cases were under control, has been dashed.
Nancy Lindley
- Oct 8, 2021
- 1 min
October 2021
The return to a "new normalcy" may be in sight. More and more vaccines are coming into Thailand.
Nancy Lindley
- Sep 4, 2021
- 1 min
September 2021
Some light at the end of the tunnel. During August some of our CMIRC members returned from their overseas vaccination trips with more coming
Nancy Lindley
- Aug 3, 2021
- 1 min
August 2021
As you'll see from the length of this month's bulletin, everything has pretty much been in suspension during the month of July.
Nancy Lindley
- Jul 10, 2021
- 2 min
July 2021
So sorry to be a week late with the July bulletin for Chiang Mai International Rotary Club, but the last two weeks have been wild.
Nancy Lindley
- May 31, 2021
- 2 min
June 2021
School reopening is delayed. Private schools are online. Chiangmai is in a type of lockdown. The effect on the local economy is devastating
Nancy Lindley
- May 6, 2021
- 2 min
May 2021
The third Covid-19 wave hit Thailand and Chiang Mai province with a vengeance in early April.
Nancy Lindley
- Apr 18, 2021
- 2 min
April 2021
We read media reports that quarantine requirements for those wishing to enter Thailand may be loosened for those who have been vaccinated...
Nancy Lindley
- Mar 6, 2021
- 1 min
March 2021
Smokey Season is underway in Chiang Mai, just like normal, despite little else being "normal" in Thailand because of Covid-19.
Nancy Lindley
- Feb 5, 2021
- 1 min
Happy(?) Chinese New Year 2021
It was a year ago that the first cases of Covid-19 outside of China were found in Thailand, initially with Chinese tourists...
Nancy Lindley
- Jan 7, 2021
- 2 min
January 2021
December 2020 was quite the busy month for Chiang Mai International Rotary Club (CMIRC) as we completed our School Vision Screen Project...
Nancy Lindley
- Dec 3, 2020
- 2 min
December 2020
We've just been treading water here, to use an analogy from our Children's Water Safety & Drowning Prevention Program.
Nancy Lindley
- Nov 5, 2020
- 1 min
November 2020
This past weekend was both Halloween and Loy Krathong here in Thailand.
Nancy Lindley
- Oct 6, 2020
- 1 min
October 2020
October 1st was the end of what is called "Buddhist lent", which is the rainy season in Thailand when the monks must remain in their temples
Nancy Lindley
- Sep 10, 2020
- 1 min
September 2020
And so it goes. Each day we look at the internet sites to see if there are any new locally-transmitted cases of Covid-19 in Thailand...
Nancy Lindley
- Aug 7, 2020
- 1 min
August 2020
Welcome to the "New Normal". It's been over ten weeks since Thailand has experienced its last local transmission of Covid-19...
Nancy Lindley
- Aug 1, 2020
- 1 min
August 2019
Monday, 12 August, the birthday of Thailand's Queen Mother is Thailand's Mother's Day.
Nancy Lindley
- Jul 1, 2020
- 1 min
July 2020
Rainy season has started, with brief, but heavy showers nearly every day and clear skies for weeks on end.
Nancy Lindley
- Jun 1, 2020
- 1 min
June 2020
May 2020 has been an "interesting" month in Chiang Mai. We've had just one new Covid-19 case in the province this month...
Nancy Lindley
- May 5, 2020
- 1 min
May 2020
Blue skies and clear air have returned to Chiang Mai wit the summer rains, and the province has gone nearly a month without any new cases...
Nancy Lindley
- Apr 14, 2020
- 1 min
April 2020
March 2020 will be remembered as the month where everything changed. Well, not quite everything.
Nancy Lindley
- Mar 15, 2020
- 2 min
March 2020
It's Smoky Season in Chiang Mai, the time of year when farmers burn their fields to eliminate the waste from the previous season's crop.
Nancy Lindley
- Dec 29, 2019
- 1 min
January 2020
Happy New Year! It's high season in Chiang Mai with the streets, malls and restaurants bustling with seasonal visitors.
Nancy Lindley
- Dec 8, 2019
- 1 min
December 2019
It's the Holiday Season in Thailand. The Thai people love the secular aspects of Christmas and New Year's Eve is a big holiday.
Nancy Lindley
- Nov 1, 2019
- 1 min
November 2019
November is the start of the cool season in Chiang Mai and our collection boxes for the Children's Winter Clothing Appeal are filling up.
Nancy Lindley
- Sep 1, 2019
- 1 min
September 2019
Surprisingly, there are no holidays in Thailand during the month of September. Odd, for a people who love their celebrations.