District Governor

9465

2015/16

Melodie Kevan

Team 2015-16

President

Max Bird Secretary

Brian McCallum Treasurer

Bob Cooper

Attendance this week

Total Members 24

Apologies 2

Make-up 5

Attended 16

Honorary Member

LOA 2

Guests 2

Visitors

Partners

91.%

Facts & Figures

Raffle

Lee D & Greg W Jr.

Heads & Tails

Club won

Birthdays:

Trish P 31st

Ann S 2nd

A

Anniversary: Greg & Marge 26

th

Norm & Karen 1st A

Club Anniversary:

If you had any we hope

you had a good day

Meets Monday

6 for 6.30pm

At Rotary Hall

Brownell Crescent, Medina

Visitors always welcome

President Max

The Rotary Club of Kwinana Inc. District 9465 Western Australia Chartered: 22 April 1971

Coming Events March 2016 Water & Sanitation Month

March 2016 Mon 28th No Meeting Easter Monday April 2016 Mon 4th Club Meeting Partners, Morgan Gillham

Playground Mon 11th Club Meeting Ross Adam Yarloop bush fires Mon 18th Club Meeting Dave Beard SES Kwn/Rock Mon 25th No Meeting Anzac day

Attendance Officer: Greg Williams 9419 5834

Apologies by Saturday pm please

Great weekend had by all that attended the 9465 District Conference held last

weekend at the Bunbury Entertainment Centre.

Congratulations to DG Melodie Kevan and her splendid team from the three

Bunbury Rotary clubs for their fine effort in ensuring everyone had such a good

time over the three days of the event. The program ran like clockwork, the MC

was excellent, key-note speakers generally were outstanding and the food could

not have been better. Looking forward to Fremantle next year.

12 members and partners stayed at the Discovery Caravan Park, 8 in their

caravans and 4 in 2 chalets, great fellowship was the order of the day.

We welcomed Jamie McKnee along as guest speaker tonight, Jamie is a Street

Chaplain covering Kwinana and Rockingham, he alerted us to the ever increasing

number of homeless people that sleep out in our own backyard and the help and

assistance he and other volunteers provide on a daily basis.

Congratulations to Greg and Marge Williams who will celebrate their Golden

Wedding Anniversary on Saturday March 26th

2016 We had Greg and Marg’s

son Gregory with us tonight who has made the trip from Cooma, NSW to help

celebrate this milestone, best wishes from all at the Rotary Club of Kwinana.

No 31 21st Mar. 2016

Bulletin

Rotary International President

K.R. (Ravi) Ravindran

Rotary Club of Colombo

Club President 2015/16 Max Bird

President’s Pen

21st March 2016

President Report

1. John Iriks and I had a meeting on 14th

March to discuss the City Markets, it is decided that

the City Markets will be discontinued.

2. It is time again for all the incoming Service Managers to submit their Budgets for the

rotary year 2016/17 to the Project Director, for Board approval and inclusion into the Club

2016/17 Budget

3. I will attending the Foundation Seminar whilst in Bunbury renewing the clubs ability to

apply for future foundation grants

4. The club is still looking for a volunteer to attend the district AGM at conference

representing our club, otherwise I will ask the secretary to send in a proxy vote

5. Items such as the recent mountain of verbal comments about electrical tagging please refer

them to the relevant person in charge of that area, in this case the Club Service Manager

and then work with them to resolve the matter

(Note one approved firm has since offered to do this work gratis, if this fails then three

quotes will be called for)

6. The money Spinner at Motorplex took $41.80 on Saturday night 12th

March 2016

International

The international Committee has carried out the following.

Our application for GG 1639026 has been authorized by the Dili Rotary club and our self’s

including both District Foundation Chairs authorizing their portions, now it’s up Foundation

and Rotary International

We have been hard at work Checking and Reimaging 170 -180 Apple MacBook computers

for Timor-Leste and now them ready for shipment, hopefully by the end of the month

A International committee meeting was held at my place on the12th march 2015 minutes of

this meeting will be posted into ClubRunner this week for all to see

To date Kwinana, Palm Beach, Albany Port and Mount Barker have committed funds to the

project

Max Bird

Secretary: PP Brian McCallum

Inward Correspondence.

Bendigo Bank. Statement of A/C

Macular Disease Foundation. Macular Degeneration.

Australia Post. Receipt for Mail Box Payment.

Wellard & Districts Probus Club. Letter.

Bendigo Bank. Statement of A/C

Bendigo Bank. Statement of A/C

Bendigo Bank. Statement of A/C

Bendigo Bank. Statement of A/C

Leda Primary School. Request for Donation.

Outward Correspondence.

Bunnings Rockingham. Application to conduct Sausage Sizzles.

Would members please note that any correspondence received or posted by yourself, please ensure a copy is forwarded to your Secretary.

Treasurer: PDG Bob Cooper

Bills paid, money in the bank

Club Service: PP Mike Nella

Please consider helping out with the bread project.

Bread is continuing to be picked up and distributed around Kwinana, please help out

with this worthy project if are able, please see Mike or Lorraine to be placed on their

roster.

We need a Club Secretary commencing July 2017. Members please consider becoming

part of our executive team.

Rotaract Club to be ‘Incorporated’ going very well, 2 new members and continuing to

be involved in a number of community projects.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love; the poor know

that it is money.

Club Projects Director

PP Ian Critchley

PP Bob Thompson

Foundation Dir.

PP Genevieve Carr

Vocational

PDG John Iriks

Community

Project Director’s Report.

While Projects Director Ian C is away overseas, PDG John Iriks will

stand in and take over the role.

Guest Speaker Monday 4th April, Morgan Gillham will bring us up to

date on our $5 million Children’s Playground. This evening will be a

partners’ night.

Joint Peel District Meeting at Ocean Clipper Inn on Monday May 30th

Anzac Day breakfast, finalising details with RSL.

District 9465 Conference in Bunbury 18th to 20

th March

Great weekend had by all.

Next Sausage Sizzle at Bunnings on Thursday 25th March 2016

City Markets Saturday, in consultation with the City of Kwinana it is

decided to discontinue the City Markets.

Material has been sourced for the installation of a plaque to be placed on

the Wildflower Reserve Tower to recognise the contribution of our late

and respected member Rodger Hamilton.

The next Wellard Village Markets to be held on Sunday 10h April

RC Palm Beach are holding a Gala Dinner and Auction on Saturday 30th

April at the Ocean Clipper Inn. $75 pp see flyer below.

Lorraine & Mike still looking for assistance with the bread project,

anyone able to help please see either Lorraine or Mike.

Neighbourhood Day on the 3rd

April, Michael M has everything under

control.

Opportunities have become available to raise funds at the Motorplex by

having our money spinner there..

PP Ian C believes we should persevere with this opportunity.

Corporate Bowls Day at Kwinana Bowling Club on W/e 2nd

or 3rd

April

See Greg W for further info.

Visit your club webpage.

http://www.clubrunner.ca/Portal/Home.aspx?accountid=8106

or type Kwinana Rotary Club into ‘Google’

Pres. Max Bird

International

Lorraine Lucas

Youth

PP Matt White

Membership

PP James Sharkey

Public Relations Dir.

Fine Session Sergeant: PP Stephen Castelli

Ian C & Ed S: What was all of the banging in the kitchen all about?

Bob C: Spilt his beer!!!!

Ed S: Parked his car in the way, caterers couldn’t get in!!!

James S: Why are you wearing a ‘Dockers’ membership around your neck??

Mike N: Forgot to introduce Greg Williams Jnr. To the meeting.

James S: Two ‘Glaswegian’s who’s going to interpret.

Ed S: Sergeant fined Ed for kissing him.

Ed S: Hunting down the ‘Tiger Bread’ at dinner.

Chris O: Pen run out of ink!!!

Bevan P: Something about Dolly Parton and memories or was it mamories???

Greg W: 50 years on the 26th

or is that 2.5 life sentences.

James S: Only James could get lost in the Caravan park.

Max B: Fined for the saga of the uncooked pork.

Polio This Week 16th

March 2016

A new short film shown at the Ministerial Conference on Immunization in Africa, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, demonstrates the value of the polio infrastructure in serving broader health goals .

There is one month to go until the globally synchronized switch from the trivalent to bivalent oral polio vaccine

This Week in History

1665: The great German composer and organist, Johann Sebastian Bach, is born.

1802: Matthew Flinders names Kangaroo island in South Australia for the fresh food it provides his

crew.

1812: An earthquake devastates Caracas, Venezuela, killing 20,000.

1838: George Grey discovers evidence to suggest other Europeans had explored Australia's northwest

hinterland prior to white settlement.

1874: American escapologist Harry Houdini is born.

1897: Edmund Barton heads a conference to discuss the proposed constitution for the Commonwealth

of Australia.

1903: The earliest version of the board game 'Monopoly' is developed.

1934: The Flying Doctor Service announces that it will expand from Queensland into Western

Australia.

1937: Spinach growers in Crystal City, Texas, erect a statue of Popeye in gratitude to him for saving

their dying industry.

1942: Nine Japanese aircraft bomb the town of Katherine in Australia's Northern Territory.

1942: Japanese aircraft bomb Port Moresby.

1957: The European Economic Community, or Common Market, is formed.

1973: Women are allowed on the trading floor of the London Stock Exchange for the first time.

1975: King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is assassinated.

1977: 583 are killed as two jumbo jets collide on a runway in Tenerife, the Canary Islands.

1979: The world's first space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F Kennedy Space

Centre to prepare for launch.

1980: 123 oil rig workers are killed after a North Sea accommodation platform collapses.

1980: The USA announces its intention to boycott the Moscow Olympics due to the Soviet invasion of

Afghanistan.

1984: Australia introduces the $100 note.

1987: A barge carrying 3,200 tons of rubbish leaves New York Harbor in search of a dumping ground,

only to return months later, still carrying the rubbish.

1989: The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs aground, creating an oil slick disaster in Alaska.

Below are a collection of photos from the District 9465 Conference held in Bunbury March 2016

Guest Speaker: Street Chaplain Pastor Jamie McKnee.

Jamie originally from Glasgow, Scotland

Introduced by Rtn Lorraine Lucas.

It is disturbing that there are so many homeless people in the Rockingham/Kwinana area, they

sleep out in parks, in the sand dunes on the beach front. Many are young from 12 upwards to

middle aged, to pensioners, mainly from disjointed families who have either left home or been

kicked out and are ‘on the street’.

Tuesday night’s the volunteers cook food and take it to the people, they provide support, comfort

and befriend them in order to gain their confidence and respect.

Rockingham and Kwinana councils have both recently done surveys on the homeless in their

respective districts, results are becoming available right now.

We try to give kids hope and encouragement. The Street Chaplains are highly visible as they

walk around the areas where these homeless people congregate.

We work with School Chaplains to identify kids at risk.

We need to put pressure onto government to recognise the need and provide the necessary

funding so very much needed.

Street Chaplains are dynamic team-oriented

volunteers from a wide range of Christian

churches, who are living out the call to

‘love your neighbour as yourself’

(Matt 22:39) and be a ‘good Samaritan’.

Street Chaplains work in the WA night club

scene and have a proven record in providing

crisis pastoral care in a mission setting.

The Chaplains offer compassion, practical

help and pastoral care to all who need and

want it.

Street Chaplains work in teams of at least two into the early hours of the morning (4am!) over

Friday and Saturday nights.

The Vision of the Street Chaplaincy Program is to provide a safe environment for patrons to

enjoy a night out and not be harmed.

The aim is to be ’Good Samaritans’ to those in need and not to preach at people, but simply to

care, protect, and ensure patrons get home safely.

The simple agenda is to love and care.

Street Chaplains respect the range of cultural traditions, affiliations and religious views in the

community and are approachable by people of all beliefs.

Thanks provided by PP Chris Oughton

Makeup opportunities

Rockingham: Monday 6pm for 6.30 Ocean Clipper Inn

Palm beach: Wednesday 6pm for 6.30 Ocean Clipper Inn

Cockburn Thursday 7.15am for 7.30 Cockburn Seniors Centre

Fremantle Wednesday 6pm for 6.30 Villa Roma 12 High Street Fremantle

Byford & Districts Monday 6.15pm for 6.45 Byford Tavern, South W Hwy

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