President John Bolto welcomed Rotarians and guests to the meeting.
The national anthem was sung in a reasonable manner because John Thornton OAM kept everyone together.
A special welcome to our members John Thornton OAM who was rightly recognised in the Australia Day honours list.
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Visiting Rotarians and Guests:
Pres John warmly welcomed our guest speaker Jennifer Turner and her assistant Kelly Keall both from Anglicare to speak on Foyer Oxford.
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Apologies and LOA: 0 LOA & 12 Apologies and Hon. 2 late apologies, 48 members and 4 guests were in attendance.
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Question of the Week:
Q: Who can you blame for introducing singing to Rotary Club meetings and what was his profession?
A: The tradition of singing at Rotary club meetings began in 1905 with Rotarian Harry L. Ruggles, of the Rotary Club of Chicago. New Rotary clubs formed, and the practice of singing at club meetings caught on. He was a publisher.
Correctly answered by Peter Panek who had done his research. Prior to this, there were a few false starts by people who did NOT do their research.
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Family & Friends Announcements:
Anita mentioned that within the next few weeks two of her boys will be getting married. Also, there is the likelihood of another grandchild within this same timeframe. Busy times in the Bourke household!
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Other Announcements:
John Lindquist noted that the Men’s Shed has kindly provided a cabinet within the Shed to enable storage of all historical information concerning our club. You are always welcome to attend and look at all this information at your leisure when the Shed is open.
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Birthdays & Anniversaries: Bob Davis
Bob announced the following birthdays and anniversaries:
Member’s Birthdays;
Partners Birthdays
Anniversaries
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Members Attendance: 48 members at 76% attendance rate. Hence all members were treated with a glass of fine wine.
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Committee Reports and Announcements:
Charitable Trust (Russell Hawkins)
Russell will do a document for members indicating how members may donate to Bushfire Relief charities. Otherwise please discuss with him. Donations can always be made through the trust.
Still some wine available at good quality and price but please be quick.
Secretary (Craig James)
Board meeting next Monday evening at Kim Smith’s place.
Craig has formed a sub-committee looking at Bushfire Relief charities and the best way to go. Anyone who his interested in joining him on this committee please contact him.
Treasury (Leon Lorenzen)
No report
Club Service: (Anthony McGrath)
No report
Community Service: (David Miller)
David noted that our Club Golf Day is on 22 March 2020 with a similar format to previous years. He has 10 group acceptances and looking for another 6 groups. Please contact him quickly to get a guernsey.
Vocational Service: ( Michael Bisset)
International Dinner at Prego Restaurant on 25 Feb 2020, $70 pp and we need 70 people to make it feasible. A board is doing the rounds tonight please let him know if you wish to attend.
Rotary Foundation & International Service: (Peter Webb)
No Report
Public Image: (Kevin Jackson)
Outbound student meeting with the Norwegian Consul prior to his departure was covered by The Post newspaper. Unfortunately, Kevin wasn’t included in any photos!
The Official Men’s Shed Opening will be covered as The Premier will be officiating.
Kevin mentioned an OIMA Men’s Health Dinner at UWA being organised by Jaap Pol. See Kevin for more information as required.
Membership: ( Peter Panek)
Two potential new members are in the pipeline.
The Men’s Shed official Opening will happen 27th Feb 2020 at 3 pm by The Premier of WA, Hon Mark McGowan MLA.
Youth Service: (Kim Smith)
Kim thanked Kevin Jackson for organising the meeting between the Norwegian Consul and our outbound student.
We sponsored two candidates to the recent RYLA camp. Both reported that it was a life-changing event. Kim will get them to speak at our club in the near future.
Youth committee meeting is being held at Richard Gorham’s place tonight.
President’s Report: Pres John Bolto
- Bushfire Appeal – Notice from Charitable Trust
- Rotaract Perth – Brazilian Carnival Charity Ball – June 13th
- Rotary Club of Elizabeth Quay – Catwalk for a Cause – 20th March
- Project Survey coming out tomorrow.
- CINI in India
- St Jarrad’s School in Ethiopia
- Backpacker Medics
- Greenbatch
- No More Homelessness
- Foyer Oxford
- Bushfire Appeal
- Continuing Projects
- Nokor Tep
- Science and Engineering Challenge
- Overseas Student Mentoring
- Earlyact, Interact and School Link
- Cans for Christmas to District
- Esther Foundation (support not funds)
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Sergeant:
Trevor Gorey conducted the first Sergeant’s session for a while. The Fines included;
- Birthdays, Kim Smith, Kevin Jackson, Richard Ranshaw, John Martin, Hugh Stowell and Ivor Roberts.
- John MacKinnon - 32-year Rotary anniversary!
- Craig James - 14 year Rotary anniversary.
- Wine Table - All members!
- John Thornton - for his OAM gong!
- All those who celebrated New Year’s Eve on Sydney Time!!
- The naughtier Table - Jon Steward et al.
- Departures - Peter Webb, Richard Gorham and Hugh Stowell.
- Russell Hawkins - Parking in the Golf President’s Spot ( apparently it was NOT him).
- Kevin Jackson - Meadow Springs Golf Winner
- Trevor Gorey - Drove to cycling and cycled home leaving the car!
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Recognition of John Thornton OAM
Peter Panek (who nominated John Thornton) mentioned the reasons for John being awarded this honour. John has dedicated his life to the Arts. In more recent times John was partly responsible for the Regal Theatre being entrusted to the people of WA. John has served on this Trust since 1986.
John Thornton gave a typically humorous and humble speech. He mentioned that his first foray into the entertainment industry was as a very young boy entertaining the troops before they deployed to the D-Day Landings in June 1944.
(ed: A well-deserved honour)
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Guest Speaker: Jennifer Turner - Anglicare Foyer Oxford
Jennifer was introduced by club members Peter Webb.
Jennifer spoke about Anglicare’s Homelessness program, Foyer Oxford. Salient points from her presentation are below;
- Anglicare is a pretty large and complex organisation. One part is Foyer Oxford which is their homelessness helping arm.
- In WA 9,000 people are classed as homeless on a nightly basis.
- A quarter of this number are young people. Hence Anglicare concentrate on helping this segment of younger than 25 years old.
- To this end, they have a purpose-built facility in Oxford Street which provides accommodation to young people. It is transitional housing with assistance to get people enough skills to get into employment and live independently. It can be for periods of up to 2 years although the average stay is 13 months.
- The stay involves a commitment to either be employed, in education or training.
- The facility caters for around 90 people. They have stable accommodation and are provided with a caseworker who assists them to become independent. The idea is to provide training for Real Life.
- The facility is next door to North Metro TAFE which is very handy.
- Funding is half Govt and half philanthropic. They are always looking for more funding!
- Anglicare provides a range of wrap-around services to assist.
- Young homelessness is usually a result of family breakdown. Typically this involves a degree of family violence.
- Foyer Oxford successes; Past 5 years 660 people have been supported. 91% have moved into positive long term independent living. 83% of young people are employed or training.
- Hence it is a very worthwhile and successful program.
Pres John thanked Jennifer for letting us know about the great work her team are doing. A real credit to them and Anglicare.
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Future Events: President John Bolto
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February 10th – Club Forum – Discuss future projects
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February 17th – Life Talk Bill Charlton
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February 25th – Fellowship Dinner – Prego in Floreat Note not 24th
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March 3rd – Public Holiday
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THANK YOU
President John thanked;
NGC staff Denise & Staff
On Par Caterers.
Recognise our very generous Sponsors;
- Lizzy Bee-supplier of flowers
- Butler Settineri – Hon Club Auditors
- Paragon Consultants -Our Foundation’s Auditors
- PSZ Accounting for providing Xero Accounting software and Sharesight Portfolio reporting software to the Charitable Trust.
He called on members to recognise RI President Mark Maloney’s Presidential theme for the year, Rotary Connects The World, wished everyone a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year and to Acknowledge the Flag.
