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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.

Welcome to our newest member

Bass Tadros

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

February 23

Tom Hoyer

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,

Annie Wearne

. 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.

He recently attended the

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.

Rotary programs like RYLA opens doors 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!

Rotary in Western Australia

Floreat Woolworths

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.