Acting President Craig James welcomed Rotarians and guests to the meeting.
The national anthem was sung in a reasonable manner because John Thornton kept everyone together.
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Visiting Rotarians and Guests:
Act Pres Craig warmly welcomed our guest speakers from The Leeuwin Ocean Adventure Foundation.
- Anna Sudlow - Chair
- Carol Shannon - CEO
Other Guests in attendance;
- Jason van Straalen
- Mike Snell
- Barbara (Leon’s Mentee)
- Bill & Beverly Charlton (last time as guests)
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Apologies and LOA: 39 members and 7 guests were in attendance.
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Question of the Week:
Q: When and where is the RI Convention 2020 to be held and when?
A: Honolulu, Oahu. Sat, 6 Jun 2020 – Wed, 10 Jun 2020. Correctly answered by Mike Snell with some help from Ant McGrath!
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Family & Friends Announcements:
Neil Wilkie will attend the Year 6 Graduation of the Dalkeith Primary School as our representative. Neil has been doing this for a number of years.
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Birthdays & Anniversaries: (Bob Davis)
Bob announced the following birthdays and anniversaries:
Member’s Birthdays;
- Bruce Fiegert - 80 Years 26/11
Partners Birthdays
Anniversaries
- Ken & Helen Ilett - 54 years
- Kent & Mary Warburton - 54 years
- John & Cherry Martin - 50 years 29/11
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Members Attendance: 39 members at 66% attendance rate.
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Induction of Bill Charlton:
Peter Panek inducted Bill Charlton as a member of our Club. He was ably assisted by Peter Marfleet who knew Bill at his time in the Melbourne Club. Bill has previously been a member of the Melbourne and Perth Rotary Clubs. His Classification will be Chartered Accountant (Retired). His wife is Beverley.
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Committee Reports and Announcements:
Charitable Trust (Russell Hawkins)
A good AGM was held this evening.
Russell will be away in the near future hence wine board being passed around is the last before Xmas.
Secretary (Craig James)
A new constitution will be put at the AGM for adoption. If you need information please talk to Craig.
Treasury (Leon Lorenzen)
Please pay your Xmas function and /or Ballet invoices asap. Thanks.
Club Service: (Anthony McGrath)
Nothing to report
Community Service: (Nigel Johnson)
Nigel gave a demonstration as to how to fold the bag and flyer for the Cans for Xmas. Please distribute on Wednesday week and NOT before otherwise, you will clash with the junk mail.
Membership: (Peter Panek)
Come down to the Men’s Shed tomorrow from 1 pm to sort out all your phone and Computer problems!
Vocational Service: (Michael Bisset)
Lunch tomorrow checking out a venue. They are looking at Pride in Workmanship and other vocational awards.
Rotary Foundation & International Service: (Anita Bourke)
Anita rolled out her sign for the Claremont Quarter Xmas stall 14/15 Dec 2019. She needs more helpers, please speak to Anita. Last week she was in Cambodia at the hospital teaching. She did the first breast operations and screenings. Currently, it is running as a specialist out-patient hospital as it can’t have in-patients yet.
Public Image: (Kevin Jackson)
No report.
Youth Service: (Kim Smith)
Youth Meeting tonight.
RYLA close applications in a week.
Richard Gorham spoke about the Science & Engineering Challenge. They already have 48 schools registered. Hence looking at getting more and running for 6 days. Michael Bisset has got great sponsorship in place. Richard has all the volunteers in place. Runs from Monday 30 March to 6 April 2020. Great job!
Other Announcements
John Murdoch will have 14 cartons of cakes to sell from next week. Please consider.
President’s Report: Acting President Craig
Greenbatch collaboration partner opportunity, Update from Cluster meeting, negotiations with Greenbatch in progress, may slip past 30th Nov. I expect data from District this week as to how to confirm our commitment.
Rotary Bendigo Bank Drought Fund.
Rotary Means Business annual Christmas Event at Wembley Hotel, 3rd Dec, book through trybooking.com.
RAC Arena Golden Ticket Raffle, Perth Rotary is running the Golden Ticket Raffle to support the work of The Salvation Army in Western Australia. The winner of the Golden Ticket gets a double pass to each event at the RAC Arena for the whole 12 months of 2020. Events range from the ATP Cup, Wildcats, Michael Bublé… to Disney on Ice. $10 per ticket, closes 30th Nov.
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Sergeant: Sergeant (Graeme Sansom)
Graeme fined the following;
- Wine Table - John Thornton and his cohort
- Bruce Fiegert - Birthday
- Ken, Kent & John Martin for their anniversaries
- Geoff Cahif - Post Newspaper
- Westpac Share Owners - about 20 people
- Neil Wilkie - Driving his new jaguar and forcing Graeme off the road!
- Bob Davis - Buying a repossessed yacht from Geraldton??
- John Thornton - for NOT paying the sergeant when he played with JT’s Band.
- John Saleeba & Pek Goh for their green -lawn comp!
- Peter Panek - for allocating a Bike survey intersection outside the known world – Rockingham!
- Lindsay Dry - Good day at Golf
- Russell Hawkins - record time Trust AGM
- All members with a waistline > 36in - Got a few!
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Guest Speakers: Anna Sudlow (Chair) & Carol Shannon (CEO) Leeuwin Ocean Adventure Foundation
Anna was introduced by Graeme Sansom
The Leeuwin Ocean Adventure Foundation has trained over 40,000 people since 1986.
Anna spoke on the challenges, progress & opportunities.
The foundation obviously needs to have financial sustainability. Their revenue stream meets their operational expenses but not their likely capital and maintenance costs as the ship ages. This may also mean the full replacement cost of a new ship sometime in the future. Also new and changed regulations add more compliance costs.
Funding is being met by doing the following;
- Some from the State Govt
- Links with the education curriculum
- Increasing corporate engagement
- Greater product diversification
- Build geographic diversity
- Sell as a ‘low tech’ youth capability!
Opportunities;
- Funding specific equipment
- Youth sponsorship
- Donations
- Voyage sponsorship with different groups
Carol then spoke on the Ship, Benefits and funding structure.
She started on the Ship 30 years ago and is now their CEO. It was a very ambitious project by Dr Mal Hay and Rory Argyle. Launched in 1986 as STS Leeuwin II. In 33 years, they have trained 40,000 youth. A sail training voyage lasts 5 -7 days and its aim is to build teamwork and resilience.
The Leeuwin is a steel-hulled 3 masted Barquintine 810m2 sail, 55m long and 9.1 m beam. It accommodates 55 pax. 5 crew 10 Volunteers and 40 trainees. It changes lives and builds resilience so that they make better decisions in life.
Two key challenges;
- Going to the top of the mast
- Seasickness which is part of the journey
In 2020 they need to install a new marine geographic information system. This will cost around $100k.
The cost to each youth or their sponsors is $2,350 per person. They all have amazing outcomes with the youth that sail with her.
Act Pres Craig thanked Carol & Anna. It was very interesting to hear all about it. It is of great benefit to the Youth of WA.
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Future Events: Act President Craig James
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December 2nd – Dr Jennie Connaughton – CINI Australia
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December 9th – Weld Club – Christmas Cocktail Party – dress code, jacket and not tie + cocktail for ladies.
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December 16th – Christmas Message – Peter Smith plus AGM
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THANK YOU
Act President Craig 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 and to Acknowledge the Flag.
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