Acting President John Bolto opened the meeting at 6.30 pm on 26^th October 2020 by inviting John Thornton OAM to lead us all in a rousing singing of Advance Australia Fair. The Club performed well and was awarded 8/10.

 

The meeting is still being streamed on Zoom so that you may engage in that manner.

 

Past Pres John welcomed our guest speaker Mr David Archibald, who will speak to us about the Anticancer Garden.

 

Welcome to visiting Rotarian Pushpa  Pushpapalingham.

Welcome to our guests Margaret Jones and Song Ng.

 

Apologies and LOAs at 23, with 1 guest hence we are expecting around 40 people tonight.

 

 

Any Rotarian who has news they would like to share regarding Family or Friends?

Trevor Gorey informed the Club that he had been voted onto the WA Mens Shed Board. Congratulations Trevor.

John Bolto advised that he recently celebrated a 120^th Birthday, which was in reality 2 birthdays to celebrate 60years each.

 

No member’s birthdays to celebrate this week.

 

Beth MacKinnon 26 Oct 20

Deborah Marfleet 27 Oct 20

Michelle Wilson 28 Oct 20

Robyn Chien 31 Oct 20

 

Steve & Debbie Halbert 27 Oct 20 41 years

Michael & Vicki Snell 30 Oct 20 10 years

 

Past President John confirmed that Barbara is joining Community Services and Stephanie is joining the Youth Committee.

 

Secretary - No report.

 

Treasurer – requested that payment for Business Lunch be received by  Nov 6^th into the project account.

 

Charitable Trust - No report.

 

Club Services – Peter Panek advised that we are still 3 volunteers short for meeting our obligations for the upcoming Bike Count on 8^th November. Peter also informed all members of our new fundraising activity of scented candles. These make a great Xmas present and order forms are available on the tables and samples of the candles are placed on each table.

Peter also informed the club of the stellar performance in the Giro de Italia of 2 west Australians, Tai Hindley, who has completed the entire race in 2^nd place overall, and Ben O’Connor who won one stage and came a close second on another stage.

 

Community Services – Tim Humphries – Committee Meeting this Wed 28^th @ Little Way, intro Barbara and organise Cans for Christmas.

 

International – No report.

 

Public Image – Kevin Jackson reminded members of the opportunity to visit the wonderful exhibit at the Curtin Art gallery and he passed a board around to register names.

 

Membership – No report.

 

Vocational - No report.

 

Youth - No report.

 

On behalf of David Miller – Golf Day is on this Friday.

 

John Bolto – Business Lunch numbers have been restricted and members have been issued an email with full details.

 

 

All members celebrating their partners birthdays, the list includes;

Plus those celebrating wedding anniversaries, which includes

Wine Table for enjoying the fruits of Bob Davis’s robust answer.

Trevor Gorey – for his obvious bragging rights over the production of his work of art table which will be auctioned at the Business Lunch.

Kevin Jackson- for bragging about his golf prowess at today’s golf game.

All AFL supporters, except Richmond supporters for backing the losing teams.

NRL  Supporters.

 

Mr Archibald’s address is titled “Anticancer Garden”. He was introduced by Kevin Jackson

David advised that his talk will be broken down into these elements

 

First Planets – 1.547 Billion Years leads to Animals – 1.538 Million Years leads to Fungi

Cellular mechanisms to deal with mutation were fully developed when the animals split from the plants because both use the same pathways.

Animals have the receptors to use plant molecules.

 

To see the rest of the presentation and graphics Click here.

 

 

 

 

David has generously offered a free book prize.

Rotarians were asked to look under your seat if you have the cover to David book you have just won a prize donated by David to the club. Please come forward to collect your prize.

 

Acting President John thanked David for his interesting talk.