President Hugh Stowell opened the meeting at 6.30 pm.

Welcome to our speaker, Nell Glover, and guests Alex Tibbitt and Sam Chemuduri from the Australian Wildlife Conservancy and Rajah Senathirajah from the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay. 

The meeting was opened by singing the National Anthem, to the accompaniment of Ann Bray’s violin. 

QUESTION OF THE WEEK:

After what is the Western Australian town Cervantes named, and what, in turn, does that have to do with a novel?

Answer:  Cervantes is named after a shipwrecked near the town’s location, which was named after the author of Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes.

Correctly answered by Nigel Johnson, who also gave us his extra knowledge of the town and the book. 

FAMILY AND FRIENDS: 

Something French - Philippe is the owner of both Café des Delices and Something French and he has come to talk to Rotary in the past and was given a Pride in Workmanship award from our Club, which is on display at Café des Delices. Philippe has offered to members of the Rotary Club of Dalkeith a ten per cent discount for dinner at Something French on Broadway. The bistro is open for dinner with a set menu that changes each week from 6pm to 8:30pm from Wednesday to Saturday. Please mention to Philippe before paying that you are a member of the Club. Bookings are essential for dinner on somethingfrench.com.au  Rotary Club of Sintra – John Hopkins has been doing make-up meetings in exotic locations! Sintra is in Portugal.

BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES: The following anniversary was announced by Susie Rich:

Anniversary: Anthony and Shelley McGrath 35 years on 16 June 2025.

CLUB AND COMMITTEES:

Lift the Lid walk - All members are asked to consider joining an inaugural walk this Sunday, 22 June, at Scarborough to raise funds for mental health or to donate to the cause if they cannot attend. To the sub-editor's knowledge, at least five members of the Club will be attending the walk. 

Invoices for 2025 – 2026 – Leon Lorenzen will be away for much of July, and the Club invoices will be sent out by the Club accountant in his absence. If there is an issue please wait until Leon is back at the end of July as the accountant will not be able to resolve problems. 

ROTARY MOMENTS: 

Vitality Café - Rajah Senathirajah from the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay spoke of the Vitality Café for older adults this Thursday, 19 June 2025, at 11:30 am to 1:30 pm, a free event at John Leckie Pavilion, College Park. Bookings are essential before the event on WWW.TRYBOOKING.COM/DBUOJ 

SERGEANT SESSION: The following members were fined by the Sergeant:

• All Eagles supporters, just because;
• President Hugh for his Rolls Royce parking place in his Bentley;
• All arrivals and departures;
• The wine table;
• Ken Ilett for living it up at Café des Delices. 

GUEST SPEAKER: Nell Glover – introduced by David Miller 

Nell has been an intern with Australian Wildlife Conservancy for the past six months.  AWC leads in gold standards for conserving animals, species management and in ecology health monitoring all over Australia. It is developing programmes to stop the reproduction of feral animals which are the largest threats to mammals.  Nell has participated in trapping mammals and processing them, she conducted surveys and went spotlighting.  Nell went to Faure Island which is a wildlife sanctuary. It is feral free and is a unique dominion for helping increase the number of animals.  As a result of her internship, Nell has been offered a job at Mt Gibson. She is very thankful to the Charitable Trust for the opportunity to be an intern at AWC.

REMINDER OF NEXT ROSTER:

Monday 23 June 2025 

Graeme Sansom    Welcoming members and guests 

Susie Rich               Table duty 

Richard Ranshaw   Registrar 1  

Peter Panek            Registrar 2 

John Murdoch        Introduction of guest speaker 

Bruce Fiegert          Pass the microphone

REMINDER OF COMING EVENTS: 

Monday 23 June 2025 – Jonas Edner, Incoming President Life Talk

Monday 30 June 2025 – Handover dinner

Monday 7 July 2025 – Jason Froud, Battery Storage in the South West electricity system

THANKS:

Thanks to the Nedlands Golf Club staff, Joel and Essie, for their service tonight and Chef Zamry for dinner.

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