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Sorry for not having this meeting activated until late on Club Runner.  For attendance, guests and apologies one can always phone, email, text or whatever, me.

Trevor Gorey noted that next week’s meeting will be held at the Men’s Shed at the Show Grounds.
A map will be emailed out.   We will need numbers by Friday!   Also, need some volunteers for helping with the catering etc.  Let AMcG know if you can assist.

John Murdoch has a car full of Fruit cakes in Richard Ranshaw’s absence.   Board going around.

 

Coin Collection on Saturday for Polio was a great success. About $2,500 was raised with about $500 from the card machine.  22 members volunteered as well as some of the Mentees.   Thanks to those that helped.

 

Mahes’ membership is going through.  She will be inducted when badges come through.
Bill Charlton is transferring from Perth.

Another person is going through the normal process.

 

Peter is looking for 22 volunteers for the Sunday bike count.  Not too hard and earns easy money for the club.    Please do this and don’t just let someone else do it.

 

No report

 

Peter will be attending the Rotary Foundation Showcase on behalf of RCD.

Noted that Anita is holding a Stall in the Claremont Quarter on 14 & 15 Dec 2019in aid of the Nokor Tep Woman’s Hospital.   She needs, people, to help setting-up on 10 Dec, donations of jams preserves or other good stuff and volunteers to help over the Stall days.

Also, Anita noted she is going to Cambodia on 17 Nov 2019 all are welcome to come along and visit the Hospital as well as going other great things in Cambodia.  Please contact Anita.  She noted that the medical equipment sent from Perth has arrived and being utilized to great effect.  Very good!

 

Kevin will see who wishes to attend the new Ballet- “Alice in Wonderland” It’s on 12 Dec 2019.  It will be a wonderful event!

 

Applications have opened for RYLA for the month of Oct 2019.   Let Kim know if you have any queries or interested persons 18-25 years old.  They have one applicant.  Room for one more!  Please consider.

Our next outbound student addresses us briefly. Daniel Laurence is a Scotch boy.  Next year he will go to Norway for 12 months. He is looking forward to the challenge particularly the different language and culture.  Thank you to the Rotary Club of Dalkeith for this immense opportunity.

 

 At next week’s meeting (Showgrounds NOT NGC) John MacKinnon will be selling the left-over wine from the Business Lunch - $120 / case.  He noted that the Business Lunch netted around $12,500 which was pretty good.  Members agreed. 

 

President’s Report:   President   John Bolto.

Pres John noted the following:

Greenbatch collaboration partner opportunity, Board passed a motion to donate $2,500 to Greenbatch and support a team to pursue this project into the future. Looking for a champion to take this on, I have committed to support this cause after I complete my year as president.

Rotary Bendigo Bank Draught Fund the Rotary Clubs of Australia has partnered with Channel 9, Great Northern Brewing Co. and Bendigo Bank to raise funds and in-kind donations for the drought affected communities across Australia.

The appeal is administered by Bendigo Bank’s charitable arm, Community Enterprise Foundation. Went live last Friday. Please support and publicize. KJ??

World Polio Day, Wed 24th Oct. Pls publicize

 

John Murdoch introduced Jacqui.  Noting that their children attended the same school in North Cott Primary.  She is a lady with great compassion.

Jacqui originally travelled extensively through Africa as a young woman in 1978.  She spent a lot of time in Ethiopia even though there was a civil war going on.  She noted that they were very far behind the rest of Africa especially since there was also a famine at that stage.

She thought she could do things better and assist particularly with AIDS education.

The biggest thing that they say they need is access to quality education.  As such, she has started St Yared’s School.  It educates children from very poor families. Currently around 300 children.  They are getting remarkable results.  Recently benchmarked in the National Exams her students are in the top 1%.  They put a lot of work into educating the Teachers.  Her other reason for the success is that they are 100% supported by their local strong community.

In the near future, she has a meeting with the Ethiopian President.  Looking to get some land for a 1000 student school.  The President is a good person and keen to get a good education for his people.

Jacqui showed a video of the current school and its children.

 

Pres John Bolto thanked Jacqui for her talk and her inspirational work with the St Yared’s School.