ROTARY CLUB OF HILLARYS

BULLETIN # 1 for the Rotary year 2017-2018

1 August, 2017

President Peter welcomed District Governor, Lindsay Dry and his wife Helen and all Rotarians, Guests and Friends to the Annual Changeover Dinner. He then reflected on the past year and how well the Club has now developed in friendship and unity.

Welcome to Rotary Club of Hillarys celebrating the new Rotary International year 2017/18 & New Member Induction – Alan Hon

President Peter then inducted PP Greg Hopson as President for the 2017/2018 year and wished him well for his year.

August is Rotary Membership and Extension Month

August is Rotary Membership and Extension Month

President Greg then had the pleasurable task of inducting our new member Alan Hon. We welcome Alan and look forward to his contribution to our Club. Alan’s classification is ‘Control Systems Engineering’ and he will initially be on the Community Service Directorate.

CLUB PROJECTS UPDATE

Vincent’s Homeless Project Just to let you all know, the final count for 2017

was 1720. Extra bags were made up on Thursday

night and they went to Spiers centre, Women’s

Refuge, Salvation Army, Good Samaritans.

Thank you all again so much, HRC members,

Angela, and Rotaractors x 7, who gave their time

and help with everything. Special thanks from

Vincent & Pina.

Regards Linda

Thanks to Linda’s dogged determination and hard

work a presentation to the Padbury Primary

School of the defibrillator was wonderful and

gratefully received.

Linda also made a show case presentation about the Rotary Club of Hillarys to Duncraig

Senior High School which was very well received and well worth the effort. Great

promotion for our Club.

ROTARACT CLUB OF HILLARYS

Activities report:

We first started working on small projects in 2016

where we helped out with:

- Pink Ribbon/Daffodil Day stalls at Whitfords

Shopping Centre

- A Christmas Lunch for Grandparents Raising

Grandchildren

- Replacing the worn down carpet at the home

of a man with Cerebral Palsy

- Helping out at free Mothers and Fathers Day

sausage sizzles

We then had our Charter Dinner on the 7th March

2017 at Hans Cafe, where we were lucky enough to

be joined by the past, present, and incoming District

Governors for the 9455 Rotary District. Since then we

have been involved with a few small projects

Including:

- Collecting foreign coins as part of a RAM

fundraiser

- Collecting can lids to be used for making

prosthetics in disadvantaged countries

- Co organising a musical soiree fundraiser for

the Containers for East Timor Project

- Volunteering at the Rotary/Rotaract Stall at

the Duncraig SHS Showcase Day

- We were involved with the organising of the

Rotaract Joint District Changeover

- We supported the South Perth Rotaract Club

in their Rotaract’s Got Talent Event

- Volunteering at the packing day for Vincent’s

Project for the Homeless

- Volunteering at the Hillarys Rotary Fair

Both the Interact and Rotaract Clubs have been such fantastic quiet achievers with their projects. PRID Dr Ken Collin was so impressed with what the Interact Club had set up for his Polio Plus presentation at St Stephens school and that they have taken on Polio Plus as one of their projects.

NATIONAL STROKE WEEK

Joondalup Health Campus have kindly offered

for our Club to have a display and information

stall in their main foyer during National Stroke

Week, 4 – 10 September. Members are asked

to give some time to looking after the stall and

speaking to people about Rotary. Jacquie Har-

ry is co-ordinating this so please let her know

your availabilities.

ARRIVAL OF OUR NEW EXCHANGE

STUDENT – Lindford Van Lerberghe from

Belgium arrived on Saturday 22 July and was

greeted by some Club members and Claire and

Kirsty Stocks (his first host family).

At Lindford’s first meeting President Greg

introduced him to the members and gave him

his first job – passing round the bed pan!

CHANGEOVER NIGHT— District Governor Lindsay Dry had great pleasure in presenting a very

surprised and delighted Jacqui Harry with a Paul Harris Fellow for her work on District projects.

Jacquie and Jeff Harry Jacquie with Jane Wake

Maureen McKenzie with Pres Greg and Jane Sam Hopson with Brandon Lombard

Unfortunately the photos from Changeover Night have not turned out well enough to reproduce here.

The first meeting after Changeover was a Forum Night where all Committees met and discussed their

future plans.

We also had a visit from Rotarian, President Jen Jenkyn and his wife Georgena from the

Esperance Club. Ken, PP Peter McKenzie were early members along with Jeff Trudgian who was a

Charter member of one of our antecedent Clubs, the Rotary Club of Sorrento and always makes a

point of visiting us whenever he’s in Perth.

Sad news from Rotary International

Vale Rotary International President-Elect Sam F. Owori

Sadly died unexpectedly on 13 July due to complications from surgery. Sam was a member of the Rotary

Club Kampala, Uganda, for 38 years.

“Rotary has become a way of life for me – with the intrinsic value and core belief in mutual

responsibility and concern for one another as a cornerstone,” Sam said when he was nominated last year.

“I feel immense satisfaction knowing that through Rotary, I’ve helped someone live better.”

Sam's term as Rotary’s 108th president would have begun on 1 July 2018.

“Please remember Sam as the outstanding, hardworking Rotarian he was,” said Rotary International Pres-

ident Ian Riseley. “In this difficult time, I ask you to keep his wife, Norah, the Owori family, and Sam’s

millions of friends around the world in your thoughts.”

Under Sam's leadership, the number of clubs in Uganda swelled from nine to 89 over the course of 29

years.

Sam saw in Rotary members "an incredible passion to make a difference," and wanted to "harness that

enthusiasm and pride so that every project becomes the engine of peace and prosperity."

The Gadabout Members

David and Angela – 18 July to 5 Aug

26 Aug to 4 Sept

Peter and Maureen – 18 July to 20 Aug

Martin – 26 July to 10 Sept

Jenni – 11 Aug to 16 Aug

18 Aug to 1 Sept

9 Oct to 25 Oct

Andreas – 10 Sept to 21 Sept

Heather and Ray – 1 Aug to 7 Aug

13 Oct to 23 Nov

Anil and Saundra – 25 Sept to 4 Oct

Dawn and Jeff – 27 Nov to 12 Dec

THE BOARD

President Greg Hopson (0426 189 183) greg@psg.com.au

Immediate Past President Peter McKenzie (0404 453 922) peter.mckenzie4@bigpond.com

Club Service Giles McCaw (0438 216 936) gmccaw@euroz.com.au

Secretary Jenni Wilke (0403 167 982) jenni.wilke@yahoo.com.au

President Elect Stuart Hyde (0429 773 310) shyde@arach.net.au

Treasurer Mark Kitson (0412 869 831) mkitson8@optusnet.com.au

Membership David Siddall (0420 789 664) davidsiddall2@gmail.com

Community Service Stuart Hyde (0429 773 310) shyde@arach.net.au

International Service Peter Henson (0418 942 046) peter.henson16@bigpond.com

Youth Service Jane Wake (0432 743 644) jliz57@hotmail.com

Meeting Program

Aug 7 - James Tadros and lawyer from HHG Legal

Wills and deceased estate

Aug 11- Rock’n’Roll Party

Cambridge Bowling Club

Aug 14- NO MEETING

Aug 21 - Chris Smoje - DIME Customer Service

Aug 28 - TBA

Sept 4- Forum

Sept 11 - TBA

Sept 18 - Melissa Sparta-Dawes - Radio Lollipop