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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 41 23rd - 29th May 2011
From the President Last Week’s Meeting This Week’s Meeting GSE Team for Fiji 2011 RI Convention In The News
From the Club Catch up on what Important club forum Hosts are required to Get the latest Club activities make it
President. was covered last this week - come along! assist with hosting of information on the RI into the newspaper
Page 1 week? Page 2 the GSE team. Convention in New Page 3
Page 1 Page 2 Orleans
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to give serious thought
Letter from the to what you would like
to do in our club, what
President role you would like to
play. At our monthly
We are now in the final club forums, starting this
stretch for the 2010-11 Rotary week, please let us know
year. The second half of this what you are willing to
Rotary has seen a bit of take on. It is imperative
upheaval, with a number of that we have a strong
the 2011-12 Board already attendance at these
having stepped up to fill gaps forums so that you can
on the current board. pick and choose which
projects or activities you
There are still vacancies on would like to be
the board. We really need involved with, or to put
more people to be willing to forward ideas, contacts,
step up and take on and so on.
responsibilities for the club to
function properly. If we don't Yours in Rotary,
have roles filled, we either Simone
have the other board
members take up the slack
and burn out, or things don't Last Week's
get done, which impacts
heavily on our effectveness. Meeting
We have overhauled the Garry Ellender, CEO of
framework for how our club Access Housing
works, in an endeavour to Australia, spoke to us
make it easier for more about his not for profit
people to take on organization housing
responsibility for a project or provider which provides
an avenue of service. The affordable housing for
idea is to support you in your people in the
role in the club with clear metropolitan and south
expectations of what is west regions of WA on
required and a clear low to moderate Photo: Garry Ellender
communication and incomes.
reporting mechanism. disabilities, refugees, seniors, partnered with a number of
One of the things they women and families escaping support agencies to refer
The board can't do it all, and provide is supported housing domestic violence, and so on. people to.
it is not the board's role to do for tenants with persistent While they don't provide any
everything that needs to be mental illness, autism, other services to these people Garry suggested that one
done in the club. I urge you intellectual or physical beyond housing, they have area where Rotary may be
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able to assist is with helping however, due to their very
to get residents into the heavy schedules with other Toys for Microscope
workforce, as that is an area commitments, they were
where they don't have a unable to commit. Cambodia Project
partnership in place.
Three bags of toys were The new system of
For more information about GSE from Fiji picked up from Margaret requesting pre-payment for
Access Housing Australia Brawley, who spends many the microscopes is working
see: The return Group Study hours knitting the beautiful wonderfully. Some clubs
http:// Exchange Team from Fiji, toys. They will go to the who will not even receive
www.accesshousing.org.au/ primarily going to Wiluna, Awareness Cambodia units until the next order
will arrive in Perth in early orphanages which are run by (mid to late June) have paid
September. It will comprise Gary and Kim Hewett. Kim for their microscopes. Only
This Week's four team members plus a reported that the toys bring one club, Hobart, has not
Rotary Team Leader. great comfort to the children paid from the last shipment
Meeting and are often the only toy and they were not billed in
Our club has been assigned that they have. advance but at the time the
This week we have a club to host and transport the units were mailed.
forum scheduled. Team whilst in Perth for the A huge thank you to
first five days and again for a Margaret and her friends Feedback from the Science
Club forums during our couple of days prior to their who knit and provide all the Teacher from the Goulburn
regular meeting tend to departure. wool. Primary School in Hobart is
attract a low attendance. For as follows: “Thanks so much
our new framework to be Hosts families and drivers for organising and delivering
effective, we need members are required so please give Angel the microscopes. The kids
to make a special effort to serious consideration to (year2) loved them. We started
attend the monthly club hosting one or more of the Academy activities with them on Friday
forums so we can get YOUR Team, acting as a driver or and they are still getting into it
feedback about what you both. We need members of Debbie Cash reports that the in their own time. They are
would like YOUR club to do. the Club to volunteer for water purifier which Warren doing some work on different
these commitments as soon Milner generously donated types of soil and what soil is
as possible so please let PRID to the Angel Academy School made of.”
Welcome New Ken know if you are willing in Nepal has been installed.
to assist. Debbie has photos which she Lyn Beazley has been in
Members! will organise for the club to Albany and has addressed
receive. the two Rotary Clubs there
We are delighted to welcome with the result that
2 new members, who will be information has been
formally inducted in coming forwarded and the project
weeks when their badges will very likely take off in
arrive.
They are husband and wife
Prof. Alistair Brown
(classification: Accounting
Research) and Dr Mignon
Shardlow (classification:
Journalism/Editorial).
Mignon is a former Rotary
Exchange Student to Sweden
and a friend of our former
member Andrea Hayward
who is now working in
Canberra.
RYPEN
The Rotary Program of
Enrichment (RYPEN) Camp,
to be held at the end of the
month, will be attended by
one of our Interactors,
Martha Forrest.
A few of the other Interactors
showed interest in attending,
and we had approved
sponsoring up to 4 students, Photo: Knitted toys for Cambodia
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3. Thursday, May 26. Nedlands res
Perth Wellness Centre offers both chiropractic and phys- (Daniel Ke
N E W H iotherapy services. N
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ories in the near future.
Albany
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the book
Advice has gone out to all Rotary International News Jol
members of the Club informing 22 May 2011 sch
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them of the Special General
writers. on
Meeting to alter a few of the
includes Rotarians celebrated past Su
long-list- for the RCFB Charity Fund
rules accomplishments and A
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Inc. future friendships during be
rald Best
the opening plenary dr
urne All members have Proxy Forms
will session of the 2011 RI als
ch, Glen are requested, if you have
and Convention in New T
Whalley already done so, to complete
not Orleans, Louisiana, USA, The young president of the Interact Club of Freshwater Bay, Truman For- bo
s Writers’ return them to Secretary Di,
and rest, accepts the new club’s certificate from Rotary district governor Ian wi
ecinct, on
on 22 May.
Hutton and Simone Carot Collins from the Freshwater Bay club. P
ets. whether nor not you intend to be “p
t essential meeting on June 8th.
at the
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“Let’s celebrate Rotary this
week while we are here Rotarians start in their teens fro
as
together in this special Students from four local col- bers from St Hilda’s, Christ wo
In the News place,” said RI President leges have set up a Rotary Club Church Grammar School, MLC T
Ray Klinginsmith. for teenagers called the Interactand Scotch College. ce
The Post Newspaper printed two Club of Freshwater Parade. They are enjoying fundrais- wh
items from our club in this During the traditional flag Rotary’s district governor Ian ing for local and international proj- so
to
week’s edition, publicising our ceremony, South Central Hutton and Simone Carot Collins, ects.
The club meets at Christ Church N
Interact Club and promoting Rotary Youth Exchange president of the Rotary Club of Grammar School at 7pm every sec- an
Freshwater Bay, presented the of-
Justin’s outstanding achievement students presented flags ficial certification and regalia to ond Thursday and all young peo- an
with the Chinese Bridge from the more than 200 Truman Forrest, president of ple are welcome to join. J
competition countries and geographical the new club. If you are interested, email F
Western suburbs medallists in Sunday’s fun run were, from left, Hannah Castle (4th in the 10km), Susannah Stockwell (3rd in the
areas in the Rotary world. The club started with 21 mem- hamish.mackie@optusnet.com.au. 433
3km), Felicity Sheedy-Ryan (1st in the 10km) and Gina Grayson- Casey (2nd in the 10km). Photo: Dash Photography
Well Wishes
Hundreds take up the challenge
The g r o u p ’ s singer Simon Estes, an honorary
YOUR CHILDREN
A speedy recovery is wished to
p a r t i c i p a t i o n member of the Rotary Club of
h i g h l i g h t e d Des Moines, Iowa, performed the
Rotary’s fifth and national anthem. Rotarians Steve
Ken Collins who is in St. John of
More than 500 people
God Hospital, Subiaco, having
turned out for the 21st
had back surgery last Monday. Run
10km race was Roberto Busi,
a University of W staffer and
A
last year’s WA Marathon
ARE AMAZING
and junior Christopher Dale Jareb was third.
third.
newest Avenue of Selvick and Jerry Mills, who
Service, New Marc See song “Come Join Us,”
wrote the who set the
Local triathlete and 2012 record for the 3.1km race
kly
Brooks Challenge Fun
Rotarians
at Challenge Stadium in
Mt Claremont last Sunday.
Club champion, in 31 minutes
and 10 seconds – a rate of 3:11
minutes per kilometre.
ALREADY.
Olympic hopeful Felicity n lastperformed again in a Youth
Generatio s year, won with the
Sheedy-Ryan won the time of 9 minutes 16 sec-
Service. Exchange students.
women’s 10km race in 35 onds. The female winner of
Cool conditions attracted
Celebrate
a quality field, including
many Challenge Stadium lo-
This was just over a minute
outside the course record
set by Ray Boyd in 1993 and
WE JUST
minutes 9 seconds, just 4
Attendees
seconds outside the course
the 3.1 race was junior
were Country music star Lucy Dalton
treated tooffvariety received an Niekerk in 11
record. She is heading a to Angelique Van enthusiastic response
cals, to compete for the $750 Roberto said he struggled compete in Europe during the minutesa song she wrote about
22 seconds.
me?
Opening of the prize money for the first fe-
male and male in the 10km
event.
with an injury and “motiva-
tional problems” from a
small party the night before.
HELP THEM of entertainment for
northern summer. t u r e s . Full results"This Close" public
f e a Rotary's are available
Second was past winner at www.wamc.org.au and pho-
I n t e r n aino36a l l tographs are available at polio
Gina Grayson-Casey ti n y awareness campaign for
who
m
The winner of the men’s Thomas Bruins was second
PROVE IT.
minutes 53 seconds. Nera www.dashphotography.com.au singer-
renowned opera eradication. And
e
sion.
Justin heads for From Pre-primary to Year 10, NumberWorks’nW
stardom in China
school tuition brings out the best in Aussie stu
r house,
• tailoring lessons according to each individual
n
• setting achievable goals and monitoring thei
Justin Hewett will travel to to study Chinese law at • developing our own programmes using only
ajor China in early July to appear Tsinghua University in Beijing. Maths and English experts
on Hunan TV in the inter- He won the scholarship last
g the October from a highly com-
national final of a Mandarin
he back speaking competition broad- petitive field.
Between 700 and 800
cast to an audience of tens of Ambassadorial Scholars tra-
rnet at millions. verse the globe annually to
Justin graduated in law from study where they serve as un-
UWA last year and last Friday official ambassadors of good-
was runner-up in the Australian will.
final of the 10th annual Currently, Lisa Guppy is
au Chinese Bridge Mandarin com- studying water scarcity at
petition. University College London
e your In August, as the recipient and other notable locals who
of a Rotary Foundation were recipients are retired
Ambassadorial Scholarship Federal Court Judge Bob Justin Hewett,sponsored by the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay for his
valued at $US26,000, Justin Nicholson and former politi- scholarship to China, is pictured with Lisa Guppy, an Ambassadorial
will again go to China for a year cian Bill Hassell. Scholar sponsored by the Rotary Club of Dalkeith.
s.com.au June 26, 2010
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songwriter Michael Martin member of the Slidell North
Murphey performed “The best days of Rotary are Rebuild Safety Shore club, who headed the
“Cowboy Logic,” a song still ahead,” he said. effort.
about the common-sense Net
solutions for everything. Rotary International News Among the agencies the clubs
Klinginsmith has used it as 2011 RI 18 May 2011 helped through the three-
the theme song for his year project were a local Boys
presidency. Convention In the aftermath of Hurricane & Girls club, Habitat for
Katrina, Rotarians in Slidell, Humanity chapter, day care
Klinginsmith urged Rotarians Speeches and Louisiana, USA, faced a center, food pantry/soup
to use the convention as an crisis. The city, located about kitchen/mobile meals
opportunity to visit the Reports 30 miles across Lake program, senior center,
House of Friendship, meet Rotary International News Pontchartrain from New women’s shelter, and adult
new people, and learn about 23 May 2011 Orleans, had taken a direct day care center for the
service projects from other hit from the 2005 storm. developmentally challenged.
Rotarians. Download reports from the
2011 RI Convention “Katrina literally destroyed For many club members, the
“Greet everyone and talk 1 General Secretary's more than half of our city,” project did more than help
with as many people as you Report to the RI recalls Mayor Freddy mend the city’s safety net; it
can," he said. "You do not Convention Drennan, a member of the mended their spirits too.
need an introduction to talk 2 Treasurer's Report to Rotary Club of Slidell North
with other people here. You the RI Convention Shore. “The most memorable thing
are free to converse with I’ve had in my life was those
anyone and everyone. And Read speeches from the 2011 His club and the Rotary Club three years,” recalls Jay Rose,
regardless of where you are Convention speakers of Slidell collaborated on a a member of the Slidell club
from, you will eventually 1 RI President Ray service project to help rebuild who managed several of the
meet someone who can help Klinginsmith's and reopen more than a rebuilding initiatives.
you with a project or who welcome address dozen nonprofit agencies that
knows someone you know.” serve low- to middle-income Order the After
residents. Katrina:Rotary Stories from
Klinginsmith also Clubs Near the Gulf Coast DVD
encouraged Rotarians to Most of the organizations
attend some
convention's
of the
m a n y
New Orleans didn’t have insurance, and
many would have left town if
workshops to learn how to they managed to survive at
make their clubs bigger, all, says Don O’Bryan, a
better, and bolder.
Program for May/
June Board Club Details
Rotary Year 2010-11
Simone Carot Collins — President Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay Inc.
Date Details
president@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au PO Box 168,
Nedlands,
25th May Club Forum Western Australia, 6909
Daniel Forsdyke — Secretary
1st June David Barnes - secretary@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Meetings
President, MS Society Wednesday 5:45pm to 6:45pm
of WA 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
25th May TBA 08 9385 0471
presidentelect@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
Fax
1st 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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