President: Norm de Grussa 2013 - 2014

Rotary club of

WANNEROO 2 N D S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 3 B U L L E T I N N O : 1 0

MEETING WANNEROO TAVERN

Guest Speaker: Stephanie Lowndes

BEEHIVE INDUSTRIES

2nd September 2013

Wanneroo Rotary Club Committee 2013—2014

President: Norm deGrussa

Secretary: Graeme Smith

Treasurer: Andrew Kininmonth

Youth Services: Owen Douglas International Service: Debbie Singh

Vocational Service: Neil Cook

Membership: All Members

Sergeant: Phil Cousins Attendance: Jacob Etoka

Belgrade Village: Colin Griffiths

Program: Peter Miskelly Bulletin, Publicity

& Photography: Ray Perkins

President Elect: Andy Anderson

Apologies: If unable to attend meeting, an apology is to be lodged with Jacob Etoka before 12 noon Monday.

Contact details for Jacob email: mmungaetjab@yahoo.fr or mobile 0413104989

DISTRICT 9455

P.O.Box 47, WANNEROO 6946

September 2013

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2 GUEST SPEAKER STEPHANIE LOWNDES

Retiring into Activity

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9 Forum: Directors Board Meeting 10 11 12 13 14 15

16 Guest Speaker 17 18 19 20 21 22

23 Vocational Night Paul Conti Winery 24 25 26 27 28 DWW

ROSTER

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Chairman President Norm

Duty officer Bill Kell

Duty officer Rebecca Williams

Vote of thanks

Reserve Paul Conti

Reserve Peter Miskelly

Fellowship

Guest speaker NIL

Topic FORUM

Duty Roster 9th September 2013

Meeting Held at Wanneroo Tavern 2nd Sept 2013

President Norm: welcomed all members and guests, Patricia Canning is a member of the Rotary group in Malaga and is our assistant Governor, our guest speaker from and also Kyundai plus our 2 exchange students Akin and Anson.

Youth Services: Owen Douglas: we put a call out last week for someone that may have a pushbike to loan Akin during his stay in Bullsbrook. Someone has kindly donated this for his use. We had Akin place his countries flag onto our flag stand for his duration with us over the next year.

Akin from Turkey said a few words about his past weeks activities. Akin said hello to every-one and said that everything is going well. He explained that President Norm was teaching him to play the Bagpipes. He also thanked everyone for the bicycle for him to use. He has made a vast improvement in his English speaking already in the short time he has been here.

Anson from Taiwan was invited to talk and said that he has been here already 2 months. He spent some time with President Norm over the weekend to learn how to catch the train. An-son went to Perth City with Akin to have a look around and they bought some items. Anson bought a gift for Laurie for Fathers Day. He also went to Lauries Grandchilds house because his Grandson Mathew had his birthday and is 1 year old. He said he was very cute. He again expressed he was very happy.

Owen explained that we had received an email from Madds that was our exchange student from Denmark and he informed us that he and his family is going to visit Australia in February while on holiday.

President Norm requested that the Director of Youth Services be fined in some way due to the fact that when he returned home on Friday night he found that on his TV there was a Chinese movie playing with Turkish Sub Titles lots of laughs. Norm was really chuffed.

Secretary: Graeme Smith; reported on the various mail items regarding fundraising. One of them is Ocsober to withdraw from drinking alcohol for the month of October. 2 Raffle Ticket books from the Rotary Club of Mosman Park. Tickets are $10.00 each with prizes totaling $10,000 and have to be purchased before the 29th October. Proceeds go to WA Time for a Smile. Flyer attached in the bulletin. City of Wanneroo has sent out an application form for Nominations for Australia Day Awards 2014. Letters have been sent to The Gift of Happiness Foundation and the ECU for their Honor Roll. Neil Cooks Pride of Workplace plaques have been ordered.

We have a Nomination for Madeleine to join our club by President Norm and Graeme Smith has seconded that motion and has put the nomination to the members to consider in due course.

Next week there will be a special general meeting to pass the amendments to Rotary Interna-tional Constitution. Approval is required by 75% of members attending the meeting.

Assistant Governor: Patricia Canning;

Patricia explained that she was here tonight to oversee what objectives have been implemented since the changeover and said she loved the bulletin and offered congratulations as it is quite comprehensive and very informative.

She wanted to remind us of a couple of things.

In October it is World Polio Day and would like to see us displaying the banners and perhaps shaking some cans to collect money for the Polio Program.

There is a Presidents meeting on the 19th

October so she would like to see our President and the President Elect attend the meeting. Numbers are required very soon.

An important activity coming up is the Camp Opportunity which is a week long camp for 18 to 35 year old individuals both able bodied and disabled. There is a cost of $750.00 to nominate a person to attend. This is a great opportunity for somebody. Information has been in a past edition of the bulletin but another will be included.

International: Debbie Singh; Debbie said she spent some time with Jackie Wheelan who is a volunteer with the Children Medical Fund who is currently back in Perth.

Debbie went with Jackie to the Wheelchairs for Kids factory in Wangara. Debbie recently took a wheelchair up to Thailand and Brother Olly has generously given a further 10 units to go to Thailand.

Debbie has another proposal for the club which she will submit at the next meeting for anoth-er project that is ongoing.

Banksia United played a game on Saturday against Ballajura United and won 6 to 2.

Great result and a Formal Awards night on the 4th October for the coaches and is going to be organised at a venue to be arranged in Wanneroo.

There is another game in Balga on Saturday so if any members want to attend give Debbie a call. Kick off is 10.30am.

Vocational Service: Neil is away so we will be updated.

Dolphin Wishing Well: Bill Kell;

Bill reminded all members to pay attention to the Bulletin to check who is on roster. This is high-lighted on the calendar and also further in the bulletin. If you can’t make it please make the alter-native arrangements.

The supervisor should ring everyone to ensure members are attending but it is down to us to do our part.

Dolphins are clean and water issue has been resolved. Money income was slightly down but still doing reasonably well.

President Norm also reminded members to check the duty roster for each week as this has been getting ignored. Other members are having to step in to fill these spots.

Raffle: 1st Prize Laurie Duffy 2nd Prize Ray Perkins

Sergeants session:

Raffle winners contributed and also all birthday and anniversary members contributed. 3 members went on an undisclosed fishing trip. All AFL followers contributed. Owen was fined for the losing winning ticket drawn last week. Bill Kell was fined for having too many holidays. President Norm was fined for bringing Owen forward in speaking and also for allowing foreign movies on his TV. Laurie was fined for forcing Anson into buying a Fathers Day present. President Norm was fined for teaching our Turkish exchange student the Bagpipes. Tom paid a fine as he was handed an Ocsober Flyer. He took exception to this being he has not had a drink for the past 25 years.

Colin was thanked for the previous weeks Vocational Night with a great meal and demonstration of the wood splitters.

Chairman: Owen Douglas introduced our guest speaker.

Guest Speaker: Stephanie Lowndes;

Stephanie works for the Beehive Industries here in Perth and has been there for the past 9 years and is the Director of Operations and her talk for the night was “Retiring into Activity”.

Stephanie is a very good speaker and explained that the organisation was started about 40 years ago. This was set up for people that were recently retired but found they had nothing to do. Instead of sitting at home all day doing nothing or finding that some didn't even get out of their pyjamas these people realised that they needed some other activity to keep themselves occupied. This organisation gives them the opportunity to keep their minds occupied and keeping their bodies active.

There are 2 goals for this organisation: 1; to have somewhere for people that have retired to go 2; to have people doing some work skills

This has expanded to take on people with slight disabilities to assist with rehabilitation etc. They have also taken on Students from the Education Support Unit to assist with children with learning difficulties to get work experience. They do work alongside the other people. They also take on work for the dole and also people required to do community service. There is no set work demand on these people so they come and go as they please. Some may not turn up for a few days and then fit back in. There is a core office staff of 4 that co ordinates the projects with about 70 people on the books and usually operate at about 25 to 30 per day. The work that is done is very varied from putting stickers on wine bottles and Jars, placing text corrections in books and also window locks for sliding windows, filling show bags etc. All varied to keep the people occupied. Stephanie mentioned that 5 years ago their bookkeeper retired (really retired) as she was 93 years old. It was then they changed to a computerised bookkeeping system. They Family President on the Board of the organisation retired 4 years ago at 97 years of age after making sure another good person could fill his shoes. There is a wealth of knowledge with some of the people that work there and make it interesting. They have a saying in their workplace that they are "Limited only by our imagination". They don't receive any government funding so they are totally self funded relying on the payments form the work that they do for their clients. They are the only independant organisa-tion in the country doing what they do. Stephanie explained that with some of the language difficul-ties with either nationality or disability they have formulated their own sign language that seems to be working very well. No one is paid a wage but a small subsidy is paid for travel expenses so that they are not out of pocket.

Vote of Thanks: Colin Griffiths presented Stephanie with our engraved tumbler in our appreciation for her talk this evening on the good work that the Beehive Industries are doing.

President Norm thanked Stephanie and invited her to come to our next vocational visit.

Also President Norm thanked Patricia Canning for being our guest and also thanked our ex-change students.

Our next meeting is a Forum Directors Board Meeting at the usual time.

The meeting was closed after singing the National Anthem.

Suggestion: Purchase a Pull Up Banner that we could, with Wanneroo Taverns permission have this on display inside tavern.

DOLPHIN WISHING WELL—CLEANING ROSTER 2013

28th SEPTEMBER CLEANING ROSTER

Colin Parker (Away at Present) 0406039138

Ray Perkins 0419905836

Clive Bain (Supervisor) MIA 0412006087

MEMBERS BIRTHDAYS

NEIL COOK 11TH SEPTEMBER

ANDY ANDERSON 15TH SEPTEMBER

(PARTNER) TRIPHINE ETOKA 3RD SEPTEMBER

(PARTNER) PENNY DeGRUSSA 6TH SEPTEMBER

(PARTNER) ANNE CONTI 10TH SEPTEMBER

ANNIVERSARYS

GRAEME & SUE SMITH 12TH SEPTEMBER

PAUL & ANNE CONTI 22ND SEPTEMBER