Meeting Notes 14th October 2019 - Graham Peden - District Governor 9455 (Oct 15, 2019)

Meeting Notes 14th October 2019

Guest Speaker

Graham Peden - District Governor 9455

President John Bolto welcomed Rotarians and all joined for the Singing of the National Anthem.
John Thornton was present hence the singing was acceptable after he told a joke!

John Mentioned the recent wonderful visit to the Holmes a Court Gallery and Lesley Meeney exhibition.
It was thoroughly enjoyed by those who went and our thanks to Kevin Jackson for organising.

Mosman Cottesloe were supposed to be in attendance but did not eventuate because their Secretary has been absent.

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Visiting Rotarians and Guests:

Pres John warmly welcomed our guest speaker and other guests in attendance at our meeting;

Graham Peden - District 9455 Governor
Alison Kirby - Assistant DG
Mike Snell
Bill Charlton and his son John

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Apologies and LOA: 38 members and 5 guests were in attendance. 9 apologies & 9 LOAs, 1 late apology and 1 who apologised but came anyway!

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Question of the Week:

Q: Who was responsible (Project Manager) for building the Perth Entertainment Centre?

A: Michael Edgley - Answered by Michael Bisset correctly after Trevor Gorey tried TVW 7!

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Family & Friends Announcements:

Peter Webb ‘s partner Brenda has just had a Grandson.

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Birthdays & Anniversaries: Bob Davis

Bob announced the following birthdays and anniversaries:

Member’s Birthdays;

Kent Warburton - 17 Oct 77 years!

Partners Birthdays

None

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Members Attendance: 38 members at 64% attendance rate.

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Committee Reports and Announcements:

Charitable Trust (Russell Hawkins)

AGM at the end of Nov 2019

Russell has sourced some good Marg River wine at the right price. Get into it! From Wildberry Farm and Flying Fish Cove.

Secretary (Craig James)

Nil

Treasury (Leon Lorenzen)

Nothing to report

Club Service: (Anthony McGrath)

Nothing to report

Community Service: (Tim Humphry)

Coin Collection this Saturday - 4 collection points, 24 volunteers. UWA mentees are assisting and making new signs. Point of Sale machines will be used. Training of the use of these is offered after tonight’s meeting.

Vocational Service: (Michael Bisset)

Nothing to add.

Rotary Foundation & International Service: (Peter Webb)

Anita will report on the Cambodian Hospital on her return.

Peter is also looking at Wheelchairs for Kids charity - this may be of interest as an RCD project?

Public Image: (Kevin Jackson)

Holmes a Court collection visit was a great event. (ed: A big Thank You to Kevin - a job well done!)

The next Post promotion is likely to be the Cans for Xmas.

Youth Service: (Kim Smith)

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.

Next week there will be a Youth meeting at John MacKinnon’s house.

Our Outbound student will be addressing us at the next Rotary meeting.

Other Announcements

Nil.

President’s Report: President John Bolto.

Pres John noted the following:

Greenbatch collaboration partner opportunity, access to a portion of the $160m pa to be distributed to the community through the Container Deposit Scheme commencing in June 2020. Want to raise $150k by Nov with our contribution $3.5-4k on a per capita basis.

RI Director Nomination Rotarian Jessie H. Harman, a member of the Rotary Club of Wendouree Breakfast, as a RI director in 2021–23

Christmas Cocktail Party booked for the 9th Dec 2019 at the Weld Club.
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Sergeant: (Graeme Sansom)

Fines were as follows;

Wine Table - Michael Bisset and his bunch
Self-Funded Retirees (of which there were a number) - Being belted hence some more belting won’t make any difference!
Holmes Court attendees - because he could.
Peter Robertson - for NOT doing his duty! Obviously working too hard.
Owner of White Merc causing a nuisance in the carpark - Albert Deda!
Overseas Tax - John Martin & John Lindquist
John Bolto - Good score at Book Club Golf Day (ed: strange pairing?)
Nigel Johnson - for NOT wearing a Polo jumper!
Peter Panek & John Murdoch - for refusing to handle cash.
Win Jones - not buying the sergeant a drink!
John Thornton - not sticking to the script and telling a joke first off.
John Bolto & Peter Webb - producing Grandchildren
Kevin Jackson - for being the best PR person the Club has ever had.
Stuart McCoubrie - loving the chilli in the Thai Beef salad.

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Guest Speaker: Graham Peden - District Governor 9455

Graham was introduced by Pres John Bolto.

Graham started by acknowledging the traditional owners and thought this was an appropriate Rotary thing to do.

Graham recently attended San Diego RI Conference for DGs from all around the world. His talk was about what the current RI President Mark Maloney hope, wishes and challenges all Rotary club and Rotarians to consider and to put into place.

Mark Maloney’s vision statement includes;

Unite to make lasting change
Get back to TALKING within your local Communities.
To connect the World by acting on Rotaries 6 areas of Focus. The most important one being the END Polio Now campaign which is getting very close to completion.

On this last point, The Rotary Club of Dalkeith was awarded a certificate for its fantastic support for the End Polio Now campaign. Accepted on behalf of the Club by PP David Ellis. It was noted that we need to keep up this fight until the end!

Other Points by Mark Maloney were;

RI looking at making The Environment the 7^th area of Focus to attract younger members.
Noted that Presidential Citations are an annual health check for Rotary Clubs.
Ensure you register on the My Rotary website - Just do It!
Acknowledges that a Rotary membership is a commitment of time and this needs to be done with fitting a work/life balance.
Business Networking is still a great idea.
Enticing young people into Rotary is still difficult.
WA is quite successful in terms of % of population membership of Rotary.
Need to take risks
Willingness to embrace new ideas.

Graham then talked about the WA Districts supporting the Greenbach Foundation. Harness this project to get schools and kids interested. Clubs also need to consider working with other organisations such as SVDP, Salvos and St Barts for instance. Rotary needs to open up and tell their stories, let people know we enjoy our fun and fellowship.

Going forward the District’s Strategic Plan consists of the following;

People love fellowship
Sell the integrity of the organisation
Diversity is important
Areas of service, engage all people
Rotary gives leadership opportunities
Peace is important
Different Clubs can exist
Connect to the community
Social Media – ensure your accounts are updated 4 x per Month

Graham quoted Charles Darwin in that it’s NOT the survival of the fittest but the survival of what is most adaptable!

Pres John Bolto thanked the DG Graham Peden for bringing us up to date.

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Future Events: President John Bolto

October 21st – Jacqui Gilmour – St Jarrad’s School, Ethiopia
October 28th – Showgrounds Men’s Shed visit
November 4th – Jaap Poll

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THANK YOU

President John thanked;

NCG staff Denise & her team
On Par Caterers
Club Sponsors
Our guest speaker DG Graham Peden

Recognised 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 Salute the Flag.

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