District Governor

9465

2018/19

Robin Yates

Coming Events May 2019 Youth Services Month

May 2019 Mon 27th Club Meeting 4pm visit to Hope Valley Fire Station. June 2019 Mon 3rd Club Meeting

Mon 10th Club Meeting Possible joint meeting with Palm Beach

Mon 17th Club Meeting

Mon 24th Club Meeting

Attendance Officer:

Greg Williams 0435 083 069

Apologies by Saturday pm please

Team 2018-19

President

Stephen Castelli

Secretary

Brian McCallum

Treasurer

Bob Cooper

Attendance this week

Total Members 26

Apologies

Make-up 7

Attended 20

Honorary Member

LOA 1

Guests 1

Visitors

Partners

100 %

Facts & Figures

Raffle

Diane B & John I

Heads & Tails

Bevan P Birthdays:

Anniversary:

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

John & Chris 20th

District Assembly was held last Sunday 19th, number of members from

Kwinana attended, all good everyone left knowing a bit more than when they

arrived.

Many thanks to the three crew’s that manned the Bunning’s Sausage Sizzle

last Saturday, great result all round.

Guest Speaker tonight, we had two, RYLA attendee Millie Evans told of her

experience at this year’s RYLA and our own PP Max Bird who finally got to

tell his own club about the progress made in providing clean water to remote

villages in East Timor.

Vocational visit next Monday 27th to the Hope Valley Fire Station, should be

an interesting look see.

Incoming District Governor Wayne Milne’s official club visit will now be

Mon October 18th instead of Mon July 1st as previously announced.

Congratulations John & Chris Iriks who celebrated their 47th wedding anniversary on May 20th

Bulletin

Rotary International President 2018/19

Barry Rassin

Rotary Club of East Nassau

President Stephen

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

No 39 20th May 2019

Stephen Castelli

President’s Pen

13th May 2019 President Report

President Stephen and PP Mike are still undertaking work in Jakarta and will return on

the 23rd May

President Stephen Castelli looking pretty pleased with his assistants

People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be

not what you nag them to be.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary

President 2020/21 PE Wendy Cooper

Welcome

Two guest speakers made for an interesting time last night.

The RYLA returnee came sharing her experience and offering thanks. (Sorry I missed her

name coming in late as I did)

Max Bird sharing his Timor-Leste travel experience and informing everyone on the details

on the success of this extensive project and the budgeting accumulation.

District Assembly

Thank you to all the members who gave up Sunday morning to join in yesterday

District Governor’s Visit

The DGE Wayne Milnes yesterday asked that we allow him to visit on the

28th October 2019 rather than the previous date of 1st July 2019. On your behalf I

accepted his request.

In coming Board Meeting 5pm

Club Meeting and Partner’s Invited 6pm-6:30 pm

Wendy’s Weekend Wanderings Rotary Club of Kwinana Changeover The time for this event has been set for 10am as a BREAKFAST/BRUNCH

Sunday 7th July

Golden Ponds, Mundijong Rd

More details to be confirmed as they come to hand but expect something different.

Start shining all you pins and PHF medallions and find the ribbons that go with them so

they will be ready for the day.

Oh and I’m thinking the appropriate dress attire may include your dressing gown!!!!

But that will not stop you from formal wear underneath.

Rotary Club of Palm Beach Combined Meeting Lindsay Hemy approached me while at the Bunnings BBQ and asked that we have a shared meeting. He has suggested the date of 10th June but this is not as yet confirmed. He also suggested that we go to “The Well” in the village. I am in the process of contacting. More information when a date and venue can be locked in.

It will be a member’s only night.

PP Brian McCallum

Inward Correspondence. Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren. Request for Support.

Operation Cleft. Request for Support.

District 9465 Rotary Foundation Committee. Invitation to Apply.

Vinnies Good Works. Request for Support.

Leukaemia & Cancer Research Foundation. May 2019 Foundation Update.

Rotary Club of Baldivis. Receipt for Contribution to Australian Rotary Health Indigenous

Health Scholarship Program.

Outward Correspondence.

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

PDG Bob Cooper

Bills paid, money in the bank.

The club Profit & Loss Statements are available for members to view on

ClubRunner. See Club Documents.

Members are requested to ensure they contact PP Greg Williams by Sunday am

with any apology for the next meeting. We are having to pay for meals ordered

for you and not used because of non-attendance.

Bob commented that it was an honour to represent our Rotary District 9465 at

the recent Conference on Legislation held from April 14th to 18th in Chicago

USA, and he has learned so much more about the organisation that is Rotary.

You never know what lies ahead if you keep on looking back

The message that goes into the ear comes out in your life

A diamond is a chunk of coal made good under pressure.

PP Bob Thompson

Vocational

PP. Max Bird

International

PP Genevieve Carr

Youth

PP Ian Critchley

Foundation Dir.

Rtn. Michael Metcalf

Community

PP Edd Samut

Membership Dir. PP James Sharkey

Public Relations Dir.

Club Projects Director

PDG John Iriks

Project Director’s Report.

Andy Valk house, my sincere thanks to everyone who has

helped in the task of updating the Valk residence, great job.

Finishing touches being applied, ready for a new tenant.

Updated Club Constitution, ratified at the 13th May meeting.

Public Relations:

We continue to receive exposure on Rotary Out West.

Please continue to advise James of any stories or activities within our

club which may be submitted to the local media.

Membership:

Ed following up a couple of prospects.

Community:

Saturday 18th May 2019, Bunnings Sausage Sizzle, many thanks to

everyone who put their hand up to help, great day, good result.

Vocational:

Bob T has arranged a ‘Vocational visit’ to the Hope Valley Fire

Station, Monday 27th May at 4pm.

Certificate of Thanks forwarded to the Egg Farm that provides the

eggs for Australia Day and Anzac Day.

International: See below

Youth: Interact at Gilmore, ongoing.

RYLA attendee spoke to us at the 20th May meeting.

• • Visit your club webpage.

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

or type Kwinana Rotary Club into ‘Search’

Fine Session: Sgt. Norm Mulcahy

Chris, Bill, Cyril & Bevan: All very engrossed in talking politics.

Genevieve, Lee & Diane: All the ladies sitting together.

James S: Mentioned the ‘Round Tables’ again.

John I: Phone went off.

Eric B: Got the helper numbers wrong when talking to Norm.

Bevan P; WOW!! What a Tie.

Bob C: You don’t need to tell us that most of us are over 70.

James: James couldn’t find some keys in the car, Norm was sitting on

them.

Chris O: Had the ‘Do not Disturb’ sign up Saturday, glued to the TV

watching the election count.

Greg, Bevan, Cyril and Brian, sitting having morning tea with their respective wives when

Colleen was heard to say to Brian, “You’re the only one with

Hair”

Cyril B: Nursing a “Sore Thumb”

Wendy wanted everyone to know that 20 years had passed since she first met Bob.

Polio This Week: 15th May 2019 • On 9 May 2019, the World Health Organization received notification

of the detection of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) from an

environmental sample, collected on 20 April, in Seestan and Balochistan

province, Iran. The virus collected is an environmental sample only, and

no associated cases of paralysis have been detected. Genetic sequencing

confirmed it is linked to WPV1 circulating in Karachi, Pakistan.

• On 21 May 2019, taking advantage of the presence of major Global

Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) stakeholders attending the World

Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, the GPEI is hosting an informal

reception marking the launch of its new Polio Endgame Strategy 2019-

2023: To Succeed by 2023 – Reaching Every Last Child for a Polio-

Free World. Delegates who will be in Geneva are invited

• Summary of new viruses this week:

Pakistan—four wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases and four WPV1-

positive environmental samples;

Iran—one WPV1-positive environmental sample.

International Report. Max Bird

Monday 20th May 2019

The international Committee (RPTLE) is carrying out the following.

DANZ are meeting today 13th May and they will be discussing the Quelicai project and deciding if they

will pick it up as a standalone project, or partner with RPTLE

1. Attended District Assembly on the 19th May

2. Then will be at South Bunbury Rotary club on the 22nd May 2019 as the guest speaker

3. A Rotary shop front meeting for Timor-Leste maybe held in Perth with the DG of district 9550, it

has been suggested for the 29th May

4. Will be the Guest Speaker for the Rotary Club of Rockingham 17th June

5. Also, the guest speaker for the Rotary Club of Booragoon on the 18th June

6. GG 1639026 & GG 1640204 final reports have been submitted to foundation and we now wait

for their approvals to come thru

GG 1872605 progress report will be submitted shortly as it is 70% completed.

Thank you to John Iriks for his invaluable help, and to the entire RPLE team

7. I going back to work I need a Holiday

Max Bird

RYLA 2019 participant Millie Evans with PP Genevieve Carr and PP Bevan Piper

Water Projects in East Timor.

People in our society rightly take for granted that

they can turn on a tap and receive fresh water,

however this is not the case for many outlying

villages in East Timor where people usually

children have to carry water for up to and

sometimes in excess of 5 klm every day.

And even when they arrive back at the village

with the water it has to be boiled because of the

poor quality.

Max gave us a insight into the current and the proposed work

which is ongoing in East Timor. Max and his team have the

support of Rotarians from a number of Rotary Clubs not only

in WA but from around Australia.

A group from the Rotary Phillip Island and San Remo

together with Disaster Australia have just completed a water

Project in East Timor. They were able to carry out this

successful project with the help and experience passed on

by Max and his team.

The team are preparing for their next project in July where

they will lay a 40ml polly-pipe from a spring more than

4 klm to provide water to three villages along the way.

Vehicles can only go so far and then the materials have to

carried by hand the rest of the way.

The villagers are invited and encouraged to be totally involved

and to take ownership of the finished product and to maintain

the equipment long after the team have left.

Our club nominee for

RYLA 2019 was

Millie Evans.

Millie came along tonight

to tell us a little of her

experience and what

she gained from her week at RYLA 2019

Millie obviously had a great time, she

spoke of the camaraderie she enjoyed

with the other young people in attendance,

and how during some of the tasks how she

had to totally rely on others to complete

the exercise. It was a great experience.

Millie wished to thank our Rotary Club

for making it all possible

Guest Speaker: PP Max Bird

Please find attached the flyer that is about the play presented by Rockingham Theatre Company called Old Actors Never Die. It’s always a fun filled night out when attending the Rockingham Theatre! This is a fund raising event for the Rotary Club of Baldivis and here is how the fund raising works. When a ticket is purchased using the code: rotary a donation is applied to our club of $10 per ticket purchase. In order to receive a donation a minimum of 20 tickets must be sold. This only applies to bookings on opening night - Friday 7th June. Please support this fund raiser and share this news with family and friends. We are also very proud that our club members Sue Lawson and Jacki Gahan are both involved with this play. Don't miss out on tickets to this wonderfully put together play in our local community.

PE Wendy suggested that this press release from the City of Kwinana was worthy of inclusion

Zone

The Bike Rescue program at Kwinana’s Zone Youth Space came to the rescue of

local volunteer Adil Afzaal by donating a bike to him, when his was recently

stolen from Wellard Train Station.

Adil Afzaal is a Kwinana Youth Advisory Council (KYAC) member and used his bike to

volunteer. Around the time Adil’s bike was stolen, he was donating his time to mentor

a young person on how to ride their bike safely to their local train station, lock up their

bike and how to catch the train.

In late 2018, the Bike Rescue program - coordinated by Dismantle Inc. at the Zone

Youth Space - helped ten of Kwinana’s young people restore ten bikes.

These bikes were then donated to charities or to young people who are making a

difference and the community and are in need of a bike themselves.

Mayor Carol Adams said that she was proud of the City’s youth for helping out a fellow

young person in his time of need.

“Adil is so generous with his time at The Zone and it seemed fitting to help him out in

his time of need,” Mayor Adams said.

“The Bike Rescue program is terrific, as it has helped young people in Kwinana

develop new skills and enabled them to give back to their local community at the same

time,” she said.

Lawson Smith from Dismantle Inc. said he has loved seeing the community come

together to support Adil and for him to be benefitting from the work of his peers at the

Zone.

“I was incredibly grateful when the Zone and Dismantle called to say they were

donating a bike to me,” said Adil.

Media Release For further information please contact Marketing and Communications on 08 9439 0435

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the

auto industry and stated,

"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00

cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."

In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating:

If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with

the following characteristics:

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash........ Twice a day.

2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.

3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of

the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could

continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.

4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse

to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice

as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads.

6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be

replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.

7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.

8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until

you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.

9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again

because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.

Makeup opportunities

Rockingham Monday 6pm for 6.30 Rockingham RSL Club

Palm beach Wednesday 6pm for 6.30 Ocean Clipper Inn

Baldivis 1st & 3rd Mon 6.30pm for 7.00 Peel Manor House

Cockburn Thursday 7.15am for 7.30 Cockburn Seniors Centre

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

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