President, Jill Elias, opened the meeting at 6.30 pm.
Welcome to our guest speaker, Gary Griffiths from Sailability.
Craig James led the meeting in singing the National Anthem which was rated as 4/10.
QUESTION OF THE WEEK:
When did the fifth mass extinction occur which resulted in the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs and what is the name of the period?
Answer: The fifth period of extinction happened around 66 million years ago and is known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction.
Correctly answered by John Bolto.
FAMILY AND FRIENDS: Nothing to report.
BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES: Susan Watson announced this week’s birthdays:
Member’s birthday:
Martanki Mathew 14 October 2023.
Partners’ birthdays:
John Chandler 10 October 2023.
Jomay Verrier 11 October 2023.
Anniversaries:
Peter and Deborah Marfleet 52 years on 10 October 2023.
CLUB AND COMMITTEE REPORTS:
- The Rotary Club of Perth’s PolioPlus dinner will be held on World Polio Day, Tuesday 24 October, at the Parmelia Hilton, the cost is $90. Please click or cut and paste the Trybooking link here https://www.trybooking.com/CLASV There is no meeting on Monday 23 October, please consider attending this dinner instead.
- The Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner event will be held on Saturday 28 October. There are enough hosts who have offered their houses and now more guests are needed. Please contact Hugh Stowell to express interest.
- Anthony McGrath advised that planning for Cans for Christmas has commenced. The collection will be held on Sunday 3 December this year.
- John Bolto let the meeting know that when donating bottles into the Dalkeith Primary School collection bin no special number is needed, the bottles are automatically counted towards the Club’s account.
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- Golf Day – City Rotary is organising the inaugural Rotary WA Golf Team Challenge at Gosnells on Friday 20 October. Teams of four, Ambrose rules, $2,000 prize money for first place. Please refer to the email sent to all Club members on 2 October with details or the latest District newsletter.
- BlueSky tour to Kakadu – Kevin Jackson let the meeting know about the Rotary Club of Crawley fundraising trip to Kakadu from 17 to 20 May 2024. The cost of $1,999 per head includes all meals, airfares to and from Darwin, coach transport to Kakadu and a cruise on Yellow Waters. He encourages anyone interested to book quickly as the trip will sell out.
- Rotary Peace Pole – The Post has an article about the Peace Pole ceremony at Dalkeith Primary School on 21 September featuring Neil Wilkie.
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SERGEANT SESSION: Jason van Straalen (It would be a shorter list of who was not fined…)
- Anybody who has not dobbed in their mates to the Sergeant;
- Russell Hawkins for having a dented chassis;
- President Jill for not wearing the presidential chains;
- Michael Bisset for multiple offences, he had to hand over his wallet;
- Everybody else who hadn’t paid a fine so far.
GUEST SPEAKER: Gary Griffiths, Sailability – introduced by Bob Davis
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- Gary is the current President of Sailability WA and is a past Commodore of Royal Perth Yacht Club from 2000 to 2002. He was instrumental in starting the Sailability programme at RPYC in 2000.
- The theme of Sailability is ‘Freedom on the water regardless of ability’. Gary recounted many stories of people with various levels of ability becoming different people when given the opportunity to sail.
- The types of boats used are Hansa 303, Hansa Liberties and Keelboats. Sailability will start at Geraldton soon.
- Funding comes from grants (government and private), donations and fundraising events. Each August there is the Finding Freedom lunch to raise funds for Sailability at which the last lunch raised $94,000.
- Major international regattas have been held out of RPYC and Gary has been the Chair of the organising committee for them.
- The amount of work required for the programme is incredible, but the volunteers find it worthwhile.
- With the help of the Rotary Club of Dalkeith, a paid part-time coordinator manages the programme.
- Many thanks to Gary for his wonderful and inspirational work which is creating hope in the world.
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REMINDER OF NEXT ROSTER:
Monday 16 October 2023
Win Jones Welcoming members and guests.
Kevin Jackson Table duty.
Nigel Johnson Registrar 1.
Bruce Jeanes Registrar 2.
Ken Ilett Introduction of guest speaker.
Neil Wilkie Pass the microphone
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REMINDER OF COMING EVENTS:
- Monday 16 October Marlize Pretorius, YouthCare.
- Monday 23 October No meeting.
- Tuesday 24 October World Polio Day, dinner at Parmelia Hilton.
- Saturday 28 October Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.
- Monday 30 October Hilary Wallace, Nepal Project.
THANKS:
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Thank you to the Staff of the Nedlands Golf Club, Bridie and Luca for their service and Chef Zamry for dinner.
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RECOGNISE OUR VERY GENEROUS SPONSORS:
- Lizzi Bee - supplier of flowers.
- Dry Kirkness Chartered Accountants (Butler Settineri) – Hon Club Auditors.
- Accura Accounting & Advisory Services for providing Xero Accounting software and
Sharesight Portfolio reporting software to the Charitable Trust.
- Dirk van der Struyf from Hartley’s.
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