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New member of Rotary Narrogin Club James Gibson,
member of the Narrogin Mental Health Unit,
getting his Rotary Pin attached by
acting Membership director Michael Beckwith.
We inducted our latest member John "Queen
Bee" Smaling into the club.
Congratulations Pam McGregor on receiving a Paul Harris medal!
Very well deserved!
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We are excited to announce that Damian Martin,
former Captain of the Perth Wildcats,
will be our keynote speaker at
One in a Million -
Night of Recognition
on March 25th
Richard Moore, long term stalwart and PP of Como Rotary Club,
proudly wearing his Rotary shirt on a business day, to support
the
116th birthday of Rotary International.
It was another busy night at the Rockingham Rotary Club
with District Governor Elect Pat Schraven
presenting Past President Beth Philipps with Boulder’s club banner.
Pat has been undertaking club visits prior to her year as District Governor
A special long table brunch celebrating the 80th birthday
of our beautiful charter member,
. An absolute pleasure to share this milestone with you.
You continue to inspire and motivate many of us! 
We had a wonderful social meeting at Sue Thai Kitchen, Woodlands
. Great food and very reasonably priced, recommended!
We also celebrated the birthday of our President as well as Vicki.
Congratulations
At this weeks Club meeting our Guest Speaker was Lachlan Boorn.
Rotary Youth
Leadership Awards - RYLA - District 9455
camp and gave an outstanding presentation on the experience.
Pictured with his grandparents,who have been long standing members of the Club,
were amazed at how much he has developed and grown from the RYLA camp
in such a short amount of time.
We thoroughly enjoyed the presentation and how the camp
has improved his leadership and personal skills.
to opportunities!
This years RYLA attendees from the Willetton Senior High School
giving us an update on their recent camp.
Head Veterinary Nurse Tania Wimmer
and Senior Veterinary Nurse Tara Jemmeson,
both of whom have been recognised by The Rotary club of Swan
and nominated by Dr Martin Robley for their outstanding work achievements.
They received the prestigious Rotary Vocational excellence award
and Rotary Pride of workmanship awards
Pride of Workmanship! Derek Hart, long-time
sales assistant at Woolworths Floreat
received a Pride of Workmanship Award on 24 February.
Well deserved Derek!
Floreat Woolworths
Guest Speaker Hildah Nyemba, who was born in Zimbabwe,
where she grew up and got educated, with a degree in accountancy,
migrated to New Zealand,
where she met her husband
. When he got a job offered in Australia, they migrated to here
and worked in Geraldton before coming to Narrogin.
Having experienced the difficulties of migration,
she wanted to help others in this situation and now runs
Migration Solutions in Narrogin for the Great Southern Region.
Our Rotary club is a great supporter of Cambodia Family Support,
an organisation committed to helping Cambodians out of poverty
by offering a hand up, not a hand out.
By way of an International Project, the Rotary Club of Subiaco
has for several years been providing assistance to several schools
on the island of Oriental Mindoro, Philippines.
On February 17, our friends at El Galleon Resort made a presentation
of school supplies on behalf of the Club to teachers from
three Mangyan schools.
The Mangyan are a tribal people living in the mountains
behind the resort town of Puerto Galera.
The presentation would normally take place at the schools
but because of the COVID pandemic the schools are closed so the teachers
were invited to El Galleon Resort to collected the assorted stationery, reading books,
writing pads, pens, pencils and crayons that the
Club had donated.
El Galleon provided food and drinks to the teachers and we are advised
it was a successful and enjoyable day and our thanks go Allan, Paul, Rhuby
and the staff of El Galleon for their valuable assistance.
Last night members went to the Rotary Club of Pinjarra
who had a fantastic guest speaker in Geoffrey Thomas,
foundation Editor in Chief Airlines Ratings.
His knowledge, factual evidence given plus of course some humour from
accross the years of working in the business was
amazing.
Geoffrey showed us some data showing the dramatic reduction
in air travel due to Covid 19.
Currently a lot of flights are flying empty of
passengers and full of freight.
The airlines business is losing a lot of money as
airtravel is down approx 40%.
Many planes are being stored in desert areas to avoid corrosion.
These planes need to be maintained weekly
"Hello Perth, this is Perth calling..."
Joint meeting with Rotary Club of Perth (Scotland).
Speaker Wednesday 24th February tied in very well with Rotary's birthday 23rd February
being World Understanding and Peace Day.
Robin McClellan, former US Consul General, in charge of counter terrorism in Asia,
stationed in Delhi, holding multitudinal positions and posts around the world,
gave a wonderful presentation on how she came to began on her path,
and
how positions and experiences unfolded for her.
Last night we held our Radio Auction Beneficaries
Night at the Tower Hotel.
Over 60 people attended including Sponsors, donors
,
guests and of course our beneficiaries.
Last years Radio Auction raised over $130,000 and supported over 23 groups
and projects in and around the Goldfields, including
Norseman this year.
Rowena Olsen, Nationals Candidate for Kalgoorloe
also attended and assisted with Presenting our Beneficaries cheques.
Bronwyn
Revisits February 2021
Rotary Peace Fellows are social change
leaders, who are chosen for their ability to have a significant, positive
impact on world peace throughout their careers. They are the next generation of
Peace Makers.
Through training, study, and practice,
Rotary Peace Fellows become leaders and catalysts for peace and conflict
resolution; many go on to careers in national governments, NGOs, the military,
law enforcement, and international organizations like the United Nations and
World Bank.
Each year, Rotary International selects
up to a hundred professionals from around the world to receive fellowships to
study at one of their peace centers. These fellowships cover tuition and
fees, room and board, round-trip transportation, and all internship and
field-study expense.
RC Karrinyup is currently sponsoring
Bronwyn Manley, who is studying a Masters in Education and Peace and
Conflict Resolution at at UNC (The University of North Carolina) and Duke
University (also in North Carolina). Bronwyn gave us a brief update since
her last visit to our club eighteen months ago. She is studying with nine
other Peace Fellows from various countries, including Mexico and Vietnam.
She spent one and a half semesters
studying in the USA before she returned to Australia due to COVID-19. She
is now completing her studies online, doing the 'night shift and working in US
time. She is focusing on refugee education needs and research in the hope of
improving the lives of some of the these people who are suffering extreme
levels of stress.
POP-UP MOBILE DONATION POINTS at this Sunday's Perth Makers Market.
Bring along your Containers For Change
and Type 1 and Type
2 plastics for recycling through the Greenbatch Foundation.
Rotarians & friends helping at the Smart2Ask event today in Bunbury.
Great attendance & welcoming vibe
. Congratulations
to organisers, supporters, exhibitors.
On our recent meeting the 10th of February we all paid a visit to the
"Wilkinson Homestead Gosnells Museum"
. A very interesting place to visit, we had a history lesson on the place
and discovered lots of interesting exhibits.
Thoroughly recommend a visit to the museum,
they
are open on Thursday's 9am to 1pm and Sundays 2am to 5pm.
This friendly group at Armadale shared their knowledge and inspiration
at our Community Connector workshop last night.
Can't
wait to hear how they bring neighbours together in their streets!
Dyrandra Woodland near Narrogin
is a valuable nature conservation area, and home to
's state fauna emblem, the numbat!
Located less than a 2-hour drive from Perth
makes this place the perfect weekend road trip destination
, where you can visit more than 100 species of birds
, 24 mammals and 41 reptiles as you take a walk through the woodland.
Watch for echidnas, woylies, possums, kangaroos,
and of course, the
numbat.
