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Team 2017-2018

President

Michael Nella

Secretary

Cheryl D’Souza

Treasurer

Bob Cooper

Attendance this week

Total Members 30

Apologies 2

Make-up 3

Attended 23

Honorary Member 1

LOA 2

Guests 11

Visitors 2

Partners

86.7 % Attendance

Facts & Figures

Raffle Trish Piper, Steve Castelli

Heads & Tails Diane Bird

Rennis

Birthdays None this week

Anniversary None this week

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 Michael

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

Coming Events

October – Economic and Community Development Month

Mon 23 Oct Club Meeting – “Soup Saver Night”

Partners Night

Mon 30 Oct Club Meeting

November – Foundation Month

Mon 6 Nov Restaurant Meeting; Partners Night

Mon 13 Nov Club Meeting

Attendance Officer: Greg Williams 0435 083 069

Apologies by Saturday pm please

Greetings to all,

This week’s “soup saver” meeting held as a fundraiser for End Polio Now was a

huge success. The range of several different types of delicious homemade soup,

together with fresh crusty bread rolls, made for a very satisfying meal with great

fellowship. And in our own special way we managed to combine two significant

Rotary activities by combining the meal with Hat Day for Mental Health. The variety

of hats worn by members and partners at this annual activity never ceases to amaze

me.

Sadly we heard the news of the passing of Gail Critchley on Tuesday morning.

Gail has been very actively involved in club events throughout Ian’s time in Rotary,

and was a great friend to everyone. Personally, one of my fondest memories of Gail

was of the first Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? meal I attended as a club member,

that was hosted by Ian and Gail. Gail had prepared a wonderful three-course meal,

and the dinner and follow-up lasted until at least 1am! Our deepest sympathies to Ian

and his family at this time.

On another sad note, John Iriks and his family had another loss with the passing of

his sister Christine on Monday morning. Despite battling ill health, Christine had

managed to farewell her mother the previous week together with the rest of her

family. Our condolences to the entire Iriks family.

My parting words for this week: cherish your loved ones, and make the most of

your time with them.

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2017-2018

RI President

Ian Riseley

Rotary Club of

Sandringham (Vic)

District 9810

2017-2018 DG

Bruce Lynch

Rotary Club of

South Bunbury

District 9465

Club President 2017 – 2018 Michael Nella

President’s Pen President’s Report

1. Welcome to all. Great o see so many partners attending tonight’s special meeting. A special

welcome to visiting Rotarian Rennis Lodewikus and his wife Maria who are currently

holidaying in Perth. Rennis is a member of the Rotary Club of Mobilong in South Australia

(near Murray Bridge).

2. Welcome back to PP Max Bird and Diane, who are home after all their travels.

3. The first Interact meeting was held at Gilmore College last week. In all there were 25

students present. The second meeting will be held Tuesday 24 October. Certification will be

sent into DG Bruce Lynch.

4. Thoughts are with PDG John Iriks who has had another death in his family following the

passing of his mother. John’s sister Christine passed away on Sunday 22 October.

5. Post Script: Very sad to report that Gail Critchley passed away on Tuesday 24 October.

Secretary: Cheryl D’Souza

Inward Correspondence

1. Calista Primary School – Invitation for Graduation Ceremony on 13th Dec and request for

donation of $50.

2. Bertram Primary school – Invitation for Youth Exchange on 8th Dec.

Outward Correspondence

1. Letter to Bunnings with the 2018 BBQ allocation dates on Saturday for the Club

2. Email sent to below schools requesting their BSB numbers required for the annual

graduation donation:

- St Vincent’s Primary School

- Medina Primary School

- Orelia Primary School

- Calista Primary School

- North Pamelia Primary School

- Bertram Primary School

Treasurer: PDG Bob Cooper

Total of $550.00 raised for End Polio Now through this week’s “Soup Saver” meal.

PP Edd Samut

Membership

PP James Sharkey

Public Relations

PP Ian Critchley

Foundation

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Club Service: Stephen Castelli

Our Food and Wine tour on Saturday 21 October was a huge success. Many thanks to Eric Blogg for acting as bus driver for the day, and safely bringing us to each venue. All went

accordingly with pick-up and drop-off.

“Soup Saver” night has run very smoothly, with all proceeds raised through meal costs and

raffles going to End Polio Now in recognition of World Polio Day (October 24). Special

thanks to the following people for providing homemade soup for this evening: Eric and

Gladys, James and Cathy, Brian and Colleen, Mike Metcalf, Bob and Wendy, Greg and

Marge.

Mon 6 November: Edd Samut previously offered his home as a venue for a BBQ meeting; this plan has been reviewed and amended in light of Ann Samut’s current health status. We

will have a restaurant meeting instead. This will be a partners night.

Christmas party to be held on Sunday 10 December from 9am to 12 noon at the Kwinana Adventure Park. Members are encouraged to bring along their children and grandchildren.

We will be inviting 8-10 disadvantaged families, to be selected by Victory for Life church.

Planning to put together some food hampers for these disadvantaged families; the Spud Shed

has agreed to donate food for these hampers.

Membership

No report

Public Relations

471 “likes” on our Facebook page!

Have applied for the second BBQ of each month over the next 12 months.

Foundation

World Polio Day is 24 October. In recognition of this, “Soup Saver Night” here at Rotary Hall to as a fundraiser for End Polio Now has

been a great success. Thanks to members and partners for supporting

this event. The event has been registered as a participant of World’s

Greatest Meal to end polio.

The END POLIO MOVIE NIGHT - Murder on the Orient Express is on Wednesday 8 November 2017 at 7pm.

It's at Hoyts Carousel Cinemas 1382 Albany Highway Cannington at

$20 per ticket (all proceeds go to Rotary's effort towards the global

eradication of Polio)

Seats are limited - tickets available online

at: https://www.trybooking.com/318674

Yours in Rotary Service

Pushpa Pushpalingham

District Polio Plus Chair

Food and Wine Trip

Saturday 21 October 2017

PDG John Iriks

Club Projects Director

PDG John Iriks

PP In Crithley

Foundation Dir.

PP Genevieve Carr

Vocational

Michael Metcalf

Community

Project Director’s Report

Community

Currently trying to make contact with the web designers for the

Show and Shine car show.

Vocational

Vocational Visit: The Punjabi Sports and Multicultural Festival

previously scheduled for Sunday 24 September has now been

rescheduled for Sunday 12 November.

Thanks to members and partners for wearing a hat to this week’s

meeting as “Hat Day for Mental Health”.

International

No report for this week

Youth

No report for this week

Conference Report (Wendy Cooper)

The District conference will be held on 16-18 March 2018 at

Margaret River. The hotel where the conference is being held is

already booked out for accommodation. Would encourage members

planning to attend conference to organize alternative

accommodation as quickly as possible.

Costs are as follows:

- “Early Bird” special: $275 *closes Sunday 31 December

- $295 for payment in 2018

There are 10 options for payment; some options add up to $365.

Visit your club webpage.

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

or type Kwinana Rotary Club into “Google”

PP Max Bird

International

Lorraine Lucas

Youth

Fine Session

Sergeant Norm was present and in fine form. Some notable fines included:

Steve: Was last Saturday supposed to be a wine or a beer bus trip? (We only visited 1 winery!)

Eric: Where is Matt’s vest???

Greg: Couldn’t find the raffle box (he needs new glasses!)

Eric & Steve: As bus driver and navigator on Saturday, anything could have happened!

Norm: Constantly asking, ‘Are we there yet?’

Mike Nella: Didn’t introduce Dr Harry Cooper (alias Eric!)

James: Left his hat on the bus

Marge: Yawned during the AGM!

Cyril: Buying the winning ticket

Eagles supporters: blowing their horn a tad early!

Raffle winners, Heads & Tails

Personality of the Week Gail Critchley

During April this year Gail took a turn as “Personality of the Week”. This week we will re-visit her

profile as a tribute.

Name: Margaret Gail Critchley (nee Rogerson)

Place of Birth: Annan, Scotland

Favourite food: Italian, Fruit

Favourite movie/tv program: Outlanders

Hobbies: Any craftwork

Who you admire: Paul Keating, Chris Iriks

Best present ever received: My dogs

What you dislike most in life: Hypocrites, especially religious ones

Most exciting/memorable day of life: When I had my girls

What you know now that you wish you knew at 16: I am not indestructible

A wonderful wife, mother and friend

Guest Speaker

Soup Saver Night – Celebration of World Polio Day

A night of great fellowship – acknowledging both World Polio Day and Mental Health

Visitors Rennis and Maria from SA

World Polio Day was established by Rotary International over a decade ago to commemorate the birth of

Jonas Salk, who led the first team to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis. Use of this inactivated

poliovirus vaccine and subsequent widespread use of the oral poliovirus, developed by Albert Sabin, led to the establishment of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in 1988. As of 2013, GPEI had reduced polio

worldwide by 99%.

Polio is a crippling and potentially fatal infectious disease. There is no cure, but there are safe and effective

vaccines. Polio can be prevented through immunization. Polio vaccine, given multiple times, almost always

protects a child for life. The strategy to eradicate polio is therefore based on preventing infection by

immunizing every child until transmission stops and the world is polio-free.

- World Health Organization

Makeup opportunities

Rockingham: Monday 6pm for 6.30 Rockingham RSL Club

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

Rotary Club of Kwinana Inc Contributions welcome: gendam@bigpond.net.au