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President John Bolto welcomed Rotarians and guests to the meeting.
Special mention to Nigel in the paper again, in fact, 2 mentions for cans 4 Xmas, those who went to the ballet and Anita for her stall at Claremont Quarter.
The national anthem was sung in a reasonable manner because John Thornton kept everyone together.
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Visting Rotarians and Guests:
Pres John warmly welcomed our speaker, Rev Peter Smith
Other Guests in attendance;
- Jason van Straalen
- Song
- Pushba Pushpalingam
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Club AGM: Pres John Bolto
Members were asked to adopt the Financial Accounts for the year 2019 and the Auditors report. Passed unanimously. The Secretary (Craig James ) had published a new constitution based on the new State Laws regarding associations. This was put to the members for adoption and passed unanimously. Office Bearers will be elected in March 2020. That being the business of the AGM the meeting was closed.
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Apologies and LOA: 40 members and 3 guests were in attendance.
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Q: With the US Antarctic expedition of 1928-29, Commander Richard E Byrd, a Rotarian, flew what Rotary Club’s Flag over the South Pole?
A: Wellington, NZ – Since the people doing the table setting had done a terrible job and failed to deploy any cards it was difficult. Anyway on the strength of that, Albert’s birthday and being Christmas, Pres John and Albert bought all tables a bottle of wine. Thank you!
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Family & Friends Announcements:
No new announcements.
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Birthdays & Anniversaries: (Bob Davis)
Bob announced the following birthdays and anniversaries:
Member’s Birthdays;
- Albert Deda 32 years
- Tony Chien 70 years
- Bruce Jeanes 80 years
- Russell Hawkins 73 years on Xmas Day
- Kim Smith 61 years
Partners Birthdays
Anniversaries
- Bruce & Sue Jeanes 19 years
- Richard & Barbara Ranshaw 42 years
- John & MJ Lindquist 9 years
- Ivor & Judith Roberts 39 years
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Members Attendance: 40 members at 70% attendance rate.
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Committee Reports and Announcements:
Charitable Trust (Russell Hawkins)
Nothing
Secretary (Craig James)
Nothing
Treasury (Leon Lorenzen)
Nothing
Club Service: (Anthony McGrath)
No official meeting on 6 Jan 2020 - an informal get together at Steve’s Hotel starting at 6 pm
The first meeting of the year on 13 January 2020
Family BBQ 20 January 2020 downstairs at the Golf Club.
Community Service: (Nigel Johnson)
Cans for Xmas was a great success. 6 Rotary Clubs were involved. Results of food collected were;
- Cambridge 686kg
- Crawley 600kg
- Nedlands 900kg
- Matilda Bay 989kg
- Dalkeith 2229kg
- Mosman Park 1024kg
In total, 6428kg of food was collected. Foodbank were very happy and most appreciative. Thanks to Nigel and his helpers for such a great effort.!
Membership: ( Peter Panek)
We received $1,840 from the Bicycle Network for our survey. Well done for all participants.
Vocational Service: ( Michael Bisset)
Nothing.
Rotary Foundation & International Service: (Anita Bourke)
Anita ran her stall to raise money for the Nokor Tep hospital. In total, she raised around $6,000.
She thanked everyone who helped her raised such a significant amount. Fantastic result, Christmas blessings to everyone.
Public Image: (Kevin Jackson)
Ballet was a great success with the WA Ballet Company being very good hosts.
Kevin is organising our Outbound student to meet with the Norwegian Consul prior to his departure.
Channel Nine have agreed to provide coverage of the next Science & Engineering Challenge!
Youth Service: (Kim Smith)
RYLA only had one person apply from our club. However, we have agreed to sponsor a further 3 students from other areas.
RCD and Nedlands are jointly dealing with Shenton College
New Member Induction
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Peter Panek inducted Mahes Pushpalingam as a member of the Rotary Club of Dalkeith. Mahes will serve on the Youth Committee as this is her passion. She will have the classification of Teacher.
Welcome to the Club Mahes - The World’s newest Rotary Member!
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President’s Report: Pres John Bolto
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.
Social Night at Steve’s. On 6 Jan 2020 at 6 pm come down to Steve’s for a drink and/or a meal. Very informal, no need to rsvp or respond just do it as a post-Xmas reviver!
Rotary Bendigo Bank Drought Fund - see their website for info.
Family BBQ - 20 Jan 2020.
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Sergeant: Sergeant (Trevor Gorey)
Trevor fined the following;
- Kevin Jackson spoke first and sought re-dress from Jon Steward for defamation. Jon previously said that Kevin would do anything to get media attention! (ed: Anything was a little far – but not much!)
- Birthdays, Albert & Bruce Jeanes
- Anniversaries, Bruce, John Lindquist and Win Jones.
- Club Joining anniversaries, John Bolto, Hugh Stowell
- Peter Panek for his first aid course.
- John Bolto for his very short speech at the Weld Club Xmas Party & destroying the Honour Board!
- Table set-up - No cards
- Hugh Stowell’s noisy table! Hugh accepted full responsibility.
- All the people who failed to collect from their allocated street - about 30 or so!
- Wine Table - Everyone!
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Guest Speaker: Rev Peter Smith
Peter delivered his traditional Xmas message.
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He started with a Brexit joke - A Scot, an Irishman and an Englishman all went to a bar. The Englishman wanted to leave so they all went!
Salient points from Rev Peter’s message included; Xmas has shaped the Western World for the past 2000 years. We need to work hard to preserve this message, culture and tradition. The Xmas story is a True Story. It is NOT a myth. The New Testament writers recorded the historical fact in their own styles. This historical fact has had profound significance.
Tim Winton - God created the world, The world gets lost and then God comes to the World to save us and shows that the calamity will end. It is a story of rescue, for caring for the lowly and most vulnerable. Rotary has a similar culture.
Christmas is a message of The lost – Found.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance!
Peter the finished with “Hark the Herald Angel”
Merry Xmas!
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Future Events: President John Bolto
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January 6th – Social Event
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January 13th – Life Talk – Experienced Member
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January 20th – Family BBQ
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January 27th – Public Holiday
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THANK YOU
President John thanked;
NGC staff Denise & James
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", wished everyone a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year and to Acknowledge the Flag.
