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Rotarians,
You’re the Best Hat Day Supporters!
Rotary
Clubs in Australia continue to be the biggest supporters of Hat Day
,
contributing over $300,000 towards mental health research
through Australian
Rotary Health.
Hat Day is the national fundraising day where you wear a
hat
and make a donation to help shine a light on mental illness.
It’s here on
Friday October 10,
will your Club be getting involved?
Simply
register your Club for Hat Day
We encourage Clubs to be as
creative or as simple as you like!
Last year
the top fundraiser was a Great Gatsby Dinner-
Dance held by the Rotary Club of
Port Macquarie, NSW.
109 flappers and gangsters raised approximately $5,000 for
Hat Day,
with special celebrity guests and auction items.
A close
second was the Rotary Club of Adelaide South, SA
with their Celtic Hat Day Boat
Cruise raising $3,700
– this was actually their most successful club fundraiser
ever!
Eighty people dressed up as ship captains,
one-eyed pirates and pretty
wenches for a voyage
, including lunch and good company, down the River Torrens.
Newly to
2014
get their very own online event
page.
You can set a ‘Hat’s Off’ donation target and watch the progress,
and
people can make a donation anytime to this wonderful cause.
Will your
Club be our top fundraiser in 2014?
100% of the
money raised for Hat Day
goes to research into helping those affected by
depression, anxiety,
schizophrenia and many other illnesses
. Hat Day is the
largest national initiative of Australian Rotary Health.
Watch
out for your club’s Hat Day Info Pack in the mail,
or you can sign up to receive
the latest Hat Day news to your inbox.
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This picture taken in 2013 at the Rotary Club of Geraldton Greenough
shows the fun you can have at your club
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Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay
Welcome to newest member Chrissie Jordan.
with President Rajah Senathirajah
Chrissie holds the
classification of Nursing
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Rotary Club of Armadale
Delighted that Past District Governor, Phil Cordery
visited our club
tonight
and presented President Craig Alford
with the annual district
Australian Rotary Health trophy,
awarded to our club for the highest donations
per capita.
Our Annual Golf Day and the Ride to the Other Side
were major
contributors to this effort.
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Around the Clubs
The Students
Luke Davies and Daniel Hunt [standing]
Vinka, Gemma Johnston and Veronica Dolman
Rod Warnock Jan and Bill Milburn from the Rotary Club of Mundaring
with Veronica Dolman
Past District Governor Fred Marsh and Edna with Vinka
Fred is a former Director of Australian Rotary Health and is a Life Member of the fund
Ron Mildenhall and Roy Philbin from the Rotary Club of Kenwick
with Luke Davies
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Rotary Club of Southern Districts
Last Thursday 07 August 2014, Don King and John Simpson
attended the official opening of the Oats Street
newly completed residential
transition accommodation.
pictured with Prof. Lyn Beazley and Brightwater CEO, Dr Penny Flett.
The club
contributed monies towards establishing the Lyn Beazley PHD Scholarship
which
is to allow a PHD student to conduct research
at the Brightwater Care Group,
Oats Street, Acquired Brain Injury facility.
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Rotary Club of Byford and Districts
We nearly missed, our 16th birthday
. We're too busy organising for the
Mundijong Fair next Saturday.
The club is working in partnership with the SJ
Men's Shed and the SJ Seniors
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Rotary Club of Hannans Kalgoorlie
Bidding up a storm at the Boulder Rotary Club Cocktail Party
Rotarian April
Armstrong who had the winning bid
on the beautiful gold nugget necklace
at the
Boulder Rotary Club cocktail party
held to launch their community auction
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Rotary Club of Northam
President Jan Horsley with Students from the Northam Clontarf Academy
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Rotary Club of Applecross
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Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay
Rotarian Sheila Cheng from the Rotary
e-Club of Singapore,
the guest speaker on Wednesday 6 August,
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Rotary Club of Scarborough
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Rotary Club of Victoria Park
Manna Inc. has grown to become one of the largest providers of meals
for
disadvantaged people here in Perth.
President Wilf Hendriks presenting Bev Lowe with a cheque
from our Rotary club following a visit and tour of their premises.
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Rotary Club of Ascot
At our Rotary meeting on 12 August
we heard from Shona Zulsdorf.
Her
topic was "Women's Refuges".
A very interesting and informative
session.
Shona is pictured here with President Garry Jacobs
and Beth Walker (Shona's
colleague).
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Rotary Club of Perth
SAVANNAH AND ROTARY A BIG HIT IN CAMBODIA
While most girls her
age were enjoying the recent school holidays,
16-year-old Savannah Inouye was
busy banging nails into wooden floors
and helping fit steel cladding to walls
in a handful of houses
being built for homeless families in Cambodia.
Savannah and her
father, Gidgegannup businessman Stephen Inouye
were members of a Rotary Club
of Perth
team participating in a Tabitha Foundation Australia initiative
which
encourages volunteers to help construct
simple houses for desperate families in
the region.
Anyone interested in
learning more about Rotary,
or wishing to take part in future Cambodian home
building projects,
should contact the Rotary Club of Perth
on 9321 4356 or
visit the Tabitha Australia website.
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D9455 Outbounds for 2015
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Rotary Club of Willetton
From Hungary
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Rotary Club of Swan Valley
Rotary
Exchange student Silje with Gary and Eddie
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Rotary Club of Hillarys
Ornella our new Exchange
Student presented
President Alan Mansfield with a
Banner from Germany
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Rotary Club of Applecross
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Rotary Club of Busselton Geographe Bay
Our Youth
Exchange Student – Hayley Winchcombe – in France
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Rotary Club of Karrinyup
Fabulous to recently get an update from Mikko,
when he met with fellow West Australian Inbounds from his Exchange Year
in Berlin.
Inbounds 1992/93, RYE-Reunion in Berlin -
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Was just fabulous to have the family of our 2012/13 Inbound
Rotary Youth Exchange student, Christoph, visit
us
at our meeting last Wednesday.
They have been in Australia for a month,
arriving in Darwin and travelling down in a motor home,
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Rotary Club of Como
Rotary Club of Como members should remember
to invite our Rotary Youth
Exchange Student - Vitor Cohen
out when they are doing exciting pursuits or
outings.
Vitor is a young man from Brazil
who is keen, sporty and very keen on
photography
so keep him in mind for your next outing
as he is keen to
experience whatever Australia has to offer.
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Rotary Club of Cockburn
President Elect Natalie Blechynden thanked
Rotary Club of Cockburn
exchange students -
Ellen Brook ( incoming from Japan)
and Eliza Huck (
outgoing to Hungary)
for their presentations to members and guests.
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Rotary International at Large
Here is a great picture of Penny Offer,
Rotary Image/Public
Relations Coordinator for Rotary Zone 24.
Penny at the 50th parallel
in Campbell River British Colombia
Penny Offer (past district
governor for D5040, Vancouver BC)
ed...... received this from a Rotarian friend in D5050
thanks David T
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Club Promotions
Rotary Club of Quairading
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October
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To the Golfing Enthusiast,
How would you like to enjoy a great
day
and evening of golf, dining and entertainment
with your friends, clients,
staff and/or associates
and help Wheelchairs for Kids and others
You can do both, for a win-win
situation,
by participating in this very special occasion.
A hole-in-one competition will be run
for a magnificent Lexus IS 250 Luxury
(valued at over $60,000)
There are Gold and Silver
Sponsorship packages
for Teams of 4, which are available for your
consideration.
You
will be supporting ;
·
Wheelchairs
for Kids
whose volunteers have to date built
and donated 28,000 specialised
wheelchairs
to poor kids in 60 developing countries.
·
Passages
Resource Centre
– in 2013 alone, its staff assisted some 2,500 disadvantaged
and homeless young people in Perth and Mandurah
·
Future2
– provides targeted grants that make a lasting difference
in giving
disadvantaged Australian youth
a second chance to realise their potential.
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November
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2015
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District Conferences
World Convention
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Rotary Club
of Melville
August 24th 1959]
Rotary Club
of Northam
August 30th [1946]
Rotary Club
of Cannington
September 25th [1965]
Rotary Club
of Fremantle
September 26
th [1928]
Rotary Club
of Kununurra
September 26th [1986]
Rotary Club
of Katanning
September 26th [1957]
Rotary Club
of Moora
September 26th [1957]
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Meredith decided to throw a surprise birthday party for her good
friend,
Patty, who was turning 50 on Saturday.
Meredith wanted to make it
special,
so she decided she would have the birthday party
for Patty outside in
the back yard.
The day before,
she went shopping for everything she would need.
Her daughter, just having gotten home from school,
tagged along to help.
That evening,
Meredith started getting everything ready for the
party.
When it came time to bake the cake,
she was going to look up a cake
recipe on the Internet,
but in a sudden burst of creativity,
came up with her
own cake recipe.
She got out the ingredients and began to make it.
It took
until the wee hours of the morning
when she finally finished it but it was a
masterpiece.
The next morning, she got up and began to prepare for the party.
Her daughter brought along two friends
and the four of them together arranged
everything outside in the back yard.
The plan was that after everything was set
up,
Meredith would bring over neighbors and friends
and when Patty was brought
into the back yard,
they'd all yell "Surprise!"
Just as they were finishing, the sky,
which had been becoming
increasingly overcast,
began to sprinkle
. It then became a light rain.
Meredith looked up. It wasn't looking good.
"We'll have to have the party inside," she said
.
"Let's move everything in."
Just as the four of them were bringing in the last of the party,
it really started pouring.
"Just in time," Meredith thought to herself.
She looked
around at all the party remnants.
"Where's the cake?" she asked.
She looked outside.
"Oh, Nooooooooo!" she shrieked.
"Someone left the cake out in the rain!"
"I'll get it mommy," the daughter said
as she went to
the coat closet to retrieve an umbrella.
Meredith opened the back door and looked out.
"Never
mind," she sighed.
"It's ruined now. Look.
See all that sweet green
icing flowing down?"
She lowered her head,
put her hand on her forehead and sadly
remarked,
"I don't think that I can take it, 'cause it took so long to bake
it!"
She looked up and saw the computer across the room.
The screen
saver was wiggling across the monitor.
She walked over to it, moved the mouse
and breathed a sigh of relief when the cake recipe
displayed itself on the
screen.
She thought she could just bake another cake
and maybe have the
party tomorrow
. It's not like Patty knew the party was going on,
it being a
surprise and all.
Just as she was about to save the document,
there was a power
failure.
The lights went out and the computer screen went dark.
Meredith flopped herself onto the couch and moaned,
"And I'll
never have that recipe again!
your smart if you know which song this joke refers to!
Robin Williams Tribute
Quilting Anonymous Meeting
If you are a man and have secretly taken up the craft of quilting
it
might be time for you to attend a Quilting Anonymous meeting
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Western Australia
Marlgu Billabong
Parrys creek Wyndham
is slowly getting lower as we get further into the dry
season
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