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New Horizons
The Official Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay Inc.
PO Box 168, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6909 ! District 9455! ABN: 99 602 195 617
Volume 3, Issue 43 6th - 12th June 2011
From the President Last Week’s Meeting This Week’s Meeting Paint Your Pinky RYDA Burundi Peace Choir
From the Club Catch up on what Important club forum News from Paint Your The latest update on Catch up on the latest
President. was covered last this week - come along! Pinky on June 3rd. this important news from the Burundi
Page 1 week? Page 1 Page 2 program. Peace Choir.
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Letter from the
President
There are only a few weeks
left until the new Rotary year
and the change over to
Bryant Stokes as President.
Please support Bryant at our
Club Changeover Night
coming up on June 30th.
Our next 2 club meetings will
be regular meetings with
external guest speakers. The
following meeting will be a
club forum, and that will be
our final Wednesday meeting
for this Rotary year, as our
Changeover Night the week
after will replace our
Wednesday club meeting.
Thank you to those who have
recently taken on a
coordination role in the club.
We now have a few things
underway, and we look Photo: Alistair Brown with President Simone Carot Collins
forward to hearing back from
those members about those the middle East and Asia. be from Ian Fletcher, from Currently, all but three have
projects and activities. Public Affairs at BHP Billiton. retuned completed proxies
David provided interesting hence, there will be the
Yours in Rotary, information regarding We will also be conducting a required 75% of membership
Simone various types of abrasives, short special general meeting covered.
plus information on the for our club foundation to
factories in the various change some of the Rules of
Last Week’s countries. Association.All members New Members
have been advised in writing
Meeting and members have been Inducted
This Week's requested to complete and
return Proxy forms so that if A big ‘official’ welcome to
David Barnes, President of
the Multiple Sclerosis Society
Meeting not present on 8th there will Mignon Shardlow and
be the required number to Alistair Brown – we are
of WA, addressed the Club
This week's presentation will progress this change. delighted to have you both as
on his work with abrasives in
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and transparency of NGOs on the day for the Gates
such as Rotary and how PolioPlus Challenge. A huge
money is spent, the amount thank you to Principal
syphoned off in overheads Wayne Press, Vice Principal
etc. Alistair too is a Professor Darralyn Dawson, teachers
at Curtin University. and students.
Paint Your GSE Team
Pinky From Fiji to
The ‘Paint Your Pinky’ event Wiluna
on the morning of Friday 3rd
June at North Cottesloe It is anticipated that the GSE
Primary was a resounding Team from Fiji to Wiluna will
success. be in the care of our club
from 6th - 10th September
At the 9:00am School and again 6th - 8th October
Assembly, Ken Collins spoke 2011. The Team will be at our
on Rotary’s Polio Program, meeting on 8th September.
after which students painted
‘pinkies’ pink or purple, The Team will be comprised
while other students of four Team members plus a
collected coins to immunise Rotarian Team Leader.
children in the endemic
countries. Members are required to
‘host’ the GSE Team plus
Headmaster Wayne Press, drivers are needed to drive
teachers and students all got the five to various activities
into the spirit of the day with which will be arranged by
‘free dress’ mainly in pink or PDG Hugh Lavery. Please let
purple. Signs made by Ken know if you are willing
students on the significance to host, drive or both.
Photo: Guest speaker David Barnes of the activity were displayed
inside and outside Please participate as our
members. Alistair’s classification is classrooms throughout the club has been assigned
Accounting Research and it school. these roles due to the fact
Mignon and Alistair met was interesting to learn that
that the Uni Focus GSE
when they were both he is involved with statistics A total of $512.25 was raised
volunteers with Volunteers
Abroad in Fiji in the 1990s.
In recent years they have
taken on supporting students
at a school at which Mignon
volunteered and currently it
is being listed as a Rotary
Australia World Community
Service Project (RAWCS ).
Mignon and Alistair will
oversee this project.
PDG Hugh Lavery who was
GSE Team Leader to Fiji has
been taken to see the school
Mignon and Alistair support
and a Rotary Club in Fiji has
undertaken to work with
Mignon and Alistair with
their Koro Scholarship Fund.
Mignon was a Rotary
Exchange Student to Sweden,
is a friend of Andrea
Hayward, our former
member who is now in
Canberra and is a Journalist
who lectures at Curtin
University.
Photo: Ken Collins with student at North Cottesloe Primary for Paint Your Pinky
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microscopes.
Young Cooks
This project is doing more to
raise Rotary’s profile in the Fundraiser
community and work with
other organisations than any Jenny Gill is now freed up from
other in many years her heavy work schedule and
able to head up her fundraising
initiative. PE Bryant Stokes has
Changeover undertaken to make an approach
to Wesfarmers for sponsorship,
Night which is the next step with
advancing this fundraiser.
Please put 30th June in your
diary for the Club Changeover
Dinner. All members, spouses, Member Update
family, friends, Friends of the
Club and potential members A speedy recovery is sent to
are encouraged to attend to Claire Forsdyke who has recently
make the function a success. undergone a surgical procedure.
It was great to see Ken Collins at
District Governor Elect Liz Rotary last Wednesday after his
and Ian Westoby will be guests recent surgery.
of the club as will our
outbound Ambassadorial Paddy Ramanathan is being laid
Scholar Justin Hewett and his low with an old medical
partner Yoko. Justin will be problem. We hope you recover
heading off to China a few quickly and are back with us
days later so it will be an soon.
opportunity for us to farewell
Justin before his departure.
Tax Deductible
Venue: Nedlands Golf Club,
Photo: Poster for Paint Your Pinky
Melvista Ave, Nedlands Gifts
Time: 6:30pm for 7.00pm
Cost: $50.00 per person for As we are now heading towards
was arranged with the Rotary who are prepared to assist on
a 3 course meal with bar the end of the Financial Year, if
Foundation by Ken as a direct 16th August should ensure
service available. any members would like to
request for assistance from our they make an application now
member Alan Stewart to take a for a card if they do not reduce the amount of tax they
Please RSVP to club Secretary pay to the ATO, there are two
team of indigenous leaders already have one.
Daniel Forsdyke. excellent areas in which Tax
and health workers from
Wiluna to Fiji to teach them Deductible gifts can be made.
‘village life’ and how better to Magnifying To minimise transactions on
the night payment is sought in
organise their community. Firstly, there is the newly set up
Microscopes advance by either paying at a
weekly meeting or by deposit
RCFB Charitable Foundation.
Funds are required in the
RYDA Chief Scientists Lyn Beazley
into the Club Westpac
Operating Account BSB 036034
Charity account before projects
continues to promote the can be funded.
Account No 304015. Please
Members are asked to let Magnifying Microscope make sure you put your name Secondly, the Rotary Foundation
Hamish Mackie know if you Project as she travels the state. as the reference so that we of Rotary International is the arm
are able to assist with the
know who the money is from! of Rotary which funds our match
Rotary Youth Driver Dr Kerry Trayler, Principal
Awareness on 16th August. Scientist with the Swan River for Matching Grants, Group
Here is your opportunity to be
Trust has communicated with The Four Way Study Exchange Teams,
Ambassadorial Scholars, Peace
John Clarke (CEO of the
Scholars and PolioPlus. Our
a part of one of the many
outstanding youth projects
Science Teachers Association
of WA) and our club. The
Speaking Contest Club has already benefited
Rotary is involved with. Trust has a ‘Ribbons of Blue’ significantly in a number of these
Donna Bicknell and Jenny Gill areas. Please contact Ken if you
coordinator and are looking at
Members can go along on 23rd are working on the Four Way are interested in financially
putting information on the
June to a RYDA which is being Speaking Contest with the supporting the Rotary
microscope project on their
arranged by the Rotary Club four local Colleges and Foundation.
website. John Clarke is also
of Matilda Bay to see what the possibly Ellenbrook Secondary
looking at putting information
project is about and what is College. Remember, every dollar
on their website on, and is
involved. hopeful of following up the contributed goes to projects as all
activities booklet put out by administration costs involved
Working with Children Cards Watercorp with some more with Rotary come from our dues,
are a requirement so members sophisticated uses of the not money contributed to
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projects. $1000.00 per member; of Rotary is this combination.
$139,000.00 to vaccinate over Auditions took place in May
The Rotary Foundation one million children. I was with two applicants being
recognises gifts of US$1,000 the National Coordinator for Burundi Peace selected for six weeks of free
and more with Paul Harris Polio-plus so worked closely tuition classes that will help
Fellowships, multi PHFs, with Paul. Choir hone their artistic talent and
Major Donor crystals etc all product. Congratulations to
as a form of appreciation for With Paul, I think of the too Kulcha Camp is a fantastic Burundi Peace Choir and
monies given. many times that I did not mentorship program of Together As One.
take the time to have tea with professional development
Paul and his wonderful wife, tuition for emerging artists
Friendship, Elima. We do get tied up in taught by practising industry
our own little knots and professionals. The aim of the
Fellowship and think that what we are doing project is to assist new,
is so important, but it is the culturally diverse acts into
Service friendships we make that are professional opportunities
the most important of all. I with the arts industry.
Following on from the suppose that I will always
message in last week’s struggle to find the proper
bulletin by the Rotary balance; but I will always
Foundation Chairman, Past treasure the tea that I drank
with Paul and Elima. I
RC Freshwater Bay
Rotary International
President Carl-Wilhelm supplied the cookies and
Elima supplied the tea. She
Changeover Dinner
S t e n h a m m a r, Bill
Cadwallader, a Past Director was from an English family
from Fiji. Paul supplied the The Changeover Dinner of the Rotary Club of
friend of Ken and Di’s from Freshwater Bay.
Homer, New York State in the overflowing love.”
When: Thursday 30th June, 2011.
USA has written: Venue: Nedlands Golf Club, Melvista Ave,
We are encouraged to
remember that members of Nedlands 6009.
“Yesterday my good friend, Time: 6:30pm for 7:00pm.
Dr. Paul Higgins, a Rotary are members of the
family of Rotary. Bill’s Cost: $50pp
wonderful Rotarian, died at Note: Please advise of any special dietary
age 95. He was the chairman message is another reminder
of the fact that Rotary was requirements
of our Polio-plus campaign
when our club raised founded on Fellowship and
Service and that the success
Program for June
Date Details
Board Club Details
Rotary Year 2010-11
Simone Carot Collins — President Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay Inc.
8th June Ian Fletcher - BHP PO Box 168,
Public Affairs president@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
Nedlands,
Daniel Forsdyke — Secretary Western Australia, 6909
15th June Hon. Gavin Fielding
secretary@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Meetings
22nd June Club Forum Wednesday 5:45pm to 6:45pm
TBA — Club Administration Director Cafe, Bethesda Hospital
clubadmin@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Queenslea Drive
Welcoming Roster Claremont
Toni James — Treasurer
Email
Date Name treasurer@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
president@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
Phone
Bryant Stokes — President Elect
8th June TBA 08 9385 0471
presidentelect@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
Fax
15th June TBA 08 9385 0472
Claire Forsdyke — International Director
foundation@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Website
www.rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
New Horizons: Winner of the District 9455 Ken Collins — Membership Director
Bulletin Award for 2010/11 Facebook
membership@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
http://www.facebook.com/
freshwaterbayrotary
Wilma McBain — Projects Director
New Horizons: Winner of the District 9450
projects@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Chartered 19 December 2008
Bulletin Award for 2009/10
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