President's Report

Leadership WA - is a group of CEO's and business leaders who attend development courses, provide mentoring and investigate where they could apply their skills. The group will be coming to Collie for two days. Rotary has been asked by Glyn Yates to facilitate a meeting on Thursday 17th September. There are 41 in the group, and not all are expected on the night. It will be a good opportunity for networking and for them to find out about Collie.

Friends of Rotary - is a getting people who don';t necessarily want to become members to help out with community projects. Some may even join afeter a volunteer experience with the club. This was discussed at PETS as more clubs are experiencing a downturn in attracting members. This is a way to continue doing good work in the community with assistance from friends of the club.

Tourist Mine Review by Doug - found the mine needed a few facts and figures to put the development of the coalfields in perspective for visitors. The underground stories are good and we need a few items for context, such as maps of the deep mines, number of horses, number of miners, tonnes per year, total tonnes produced, number of those who died at work, length of tunnels. Geoff Blackford volunteered to assist in sourcing information.