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Have you registered for the Joint District Conference?

Hear from a range of inspiring speakers, including Phil Britten.

Phil is a multi-award-winning international speaker, best-selling author,

entrepreneur and professional martial artists, who is dedicating his life

to helping others, reach their very own unique hidden potential.

in both their personal and professional lives.

Register on your district website or via

https://linktr.ee/rotarywesternaustralia

Applications for Rotary’s Peace Fellowship are now open!

Each year, Rotary awards fully funded fellowships

to peace and development leaders from around the world

to study at one of our Centres.

Learn more and share this opportunity for the 2024-25 academic year.

with peacebuilders in your community:

https://on.rotary.org/3kUYAKv

Como Rotary are proud sponsors of the

Australian Rotary Health Indigenous Health Scholarship program,

which makes a real difference in supporting indigenous students.

complete their medical related university course.

We have approved to continue our sponsorship in 2023.

Sheila, a former member of a Club in Singapore, was welcomed into the club,

and Lau was officially inducted.

we welcome two new members to our Rotary club,

Maria, and Marwa.

Our Club recently presented a Paul Harris Fellowship

to Eryck Matusik of Matusik Jewellers in Mt Lawley

in appreciation of his support of Rotary.

Eryck is a former Club member and has been a great supporter.

of the Rotary Club of Mt Lawley

. We thank him for his generous support. #RotaryMtLawley

Gearing up to stop polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2023:

In October 2022,

the Technical Advisory Group (TAG)

for Afghanistan and Pakistan met in Muscat, Oman,

to conduct a thorough review of ongoing

polio eradication efforts

in the remaining polio endemic countries.

During the 6-day meeting they also provided

strategic technical guidance

on steering efforts towards successful interruption

of the poliovirus in both countries in 2023

I would like to draw your attention to this article,

'One man’s driving adventure for the Gift of Life',

in the Transplant World Journal

https://wtgf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/TransplantWorld-2-2022.pdf

Transplant Australia WA can arrange speakers.

to talk to Rotary groups at any stage,

promoting organ and tissue donation

and there are many inspiring stories to tell.

. We can also talk about the World Transplant Games to be held.

in Perth from 15-21 April 2023.

Volunteers at the World Transplant Games should register here.

https://worldtransplantgames.rosterfy.com.au/register

Following on from our successful journey back

to the Pacific in November 2022,

Interplast are thrilled to announce we are sending

a team of volunteer surgeons, nurses.

and an anaesthetist to the Solomon Islands in late February.

This is Interplast’s 49th visit to the Solomon Islands since 1984

and is the just the start of a busy 2023 of in-country surgical visits.

Thanks to the assistance of

Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

#ANCP, Rotary District 9930 Central North Island New Zealand

and @rotary9455,

Interplast can attend to the significant caseload of patients.

who have been awaiting treatment from our team of plastic

and reconstructive surgeons.

#40yearsofinterplast #repairingbodies #rebuildinglives

Olga, from Ukraine is seeking to gain local experience.

She has three university degrees in Law,

Accounting and Audit, Public Administration,

which have been assessed as equivalent to an

Australian Bachelor’s or master’s degree accordingly.

or 10 years, she worked as a compliance officer at the

Ministry of Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine.

She was responsible for ensuring that this organisation followed.

anti-corruption policies, procedures, and programs

worked as a manager at the National Agency on Corruption Prevention for two years.

On January 30, she began training at North Metropolitan TAFE

for a Certificate IV in Work Health and Safety.

Please help Olga find an opportunity to gain local experience.

e (part-time, casual job or volunteering)

in the field of compliance, OHS or other related fields.

. Please contact Trish Lynch directly or email Karrinyup Rotary

if you think you can help.

The Rotary Club of Wanneroo

were pleased to hear from their Member Ning Meesuk

visiting family in Thailand,

who was able to participate with the Rotary Club of Chiang Mai

in a distribution of winter clothing to villagers in Chiang Mai.

SAIL INTO LIFE IS ON THIS WEDNESDAY

If you've never tried sailing or love it but don't own your own yacht,

here's your chance to enjoy a thrilling sail in the safety

of the Port Geographe harbour

. $5 will get you onto our small unsinkable yachts for

a thrilling ride around the harbour,

while being captained by an experienced yachtsman.

Sailings from 9.00am

Volunteers most welcome from 8.30am

Raffle Tickets If you wish to buy a ticket in our Rotary Raffle,

please contact a local Rotarian,

there are only 1,000 tickets available & they sell fast.

International Dinner 25 March Tickets are $75 each, tables of 8 or 10,

Rotarians please organise your table and contact a Rotarian,

if you would like to be on their table.

Decorations Our theme this year is Thailand.

Thank you again to Ray & Julie Ford for their expertise in creating.

wonderful scenes for our dinners.

We are looking for old tarpaulins, beach umbrellas,

umbrellas, palm fronds and bamboo, any that we may borrow,

please contact Ray Ford.

Auction Items Every year we run a very successful auction,

if you have a talent for painting or sculpture or something

you have brought back from overseas or interstate,

we are willing to pay for the item or if you wish to donate it,

that would be wonderful.

Our major beneficiary this year is the Multiple Sclerosis Society of WA

APRIL 2015

Rotary Club of Kununurra

#Mentalhealth #research

helps us understand how we influence our children’s

#wellbeing

Donate to the Australian Rotary Health

here - https://buff.ly/2w9iEPc

#LiftTheLidOnMentalIllness

The Rotary Club of Mundaring is hosting an information night.

in conjunction with Baptistcare WA

. This is open to any interested party, not just members.

The public is welcome to join us for a meal at 6:15pm at a cost of $30.00pp

to be paid at time of booking or come along for the talk only at 8pm.

Bar facilities available.

Dietary requirements catered for with prior booking.

To all our members, amazing volunteers,

the Ballajura community, and beautiful friends,

I hope you all had a safe and happy holiday break!

We are looking forward to getting stuck into life again and catching up

with you over the coming weeks down at the Ballajura Community Garden.

Pop in, join in and have some fun with the crew while working

with some amazing young people.

Due to the hot weather we've had to put a few things on hold.

but commencing Saturday the 11th of Feb 2023

we'll be commencing our 'Busy Bees.'

0415 829 511 rachel.koo@bricks4kidz.com

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The Blackwood Tour is on again in 2023.

The annual Rotary Tour of the Blackwood will be held again on

Saturday, 18th March 2023

with three courses running through the picturesque hills of

Bridgetown, Greenbushes, Balingup, and Nannup.

Described as one of the toughest rides in WA,

the Full Tour is a challenging 134km road ride with several Category 4 climbs,

there is also the 'Half & Best' 65km ride while the shortest course

the `Not so Cosy’ 30km lives up to its title.

If you are not that energetic, we also allow eBikes !

All funds raised go toward Youth Mental Health,

the main beneficiary being Blackwood Youth Action a local Charity,

to provide mental health services to young people

across the Warren Blackwood region.

Rotary Tour of the Blackwood Ride Jerseys have been designed.

and are available for purchase during registration.

Non-Registered people can order them or a MTB version

through the Pedal Mafia portal using

This Link Password - BLACKWOOD23

Hurry time is running out.

Check out the Rotary Tour of the Blackwood website

or find us on Facebook or just REGISTER via Race Roster now.

You can still donate to BYA even if you are not riding this year

DONATE

Come along for a great ride!

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Australia Day this year was very different.

- we were able to benefit from the City of Stirling Citizenship ceremony

and their AUSPIRE awards.

We hosted most of the award winners - plus the mayor and

all the City Councillors and two freemen of the city.

This added a lot to our event, and I would like to thank the mayor - Mark Irwin

and his executive assistant, Kathryn Redden for all their help and support.

We had about 180 people attend, and the caterers coped as well as they could.

We have a few ideas for next year to make things more efficient.

Our speakers were - President Chris who welcomed us to Scarborough Rotary,

Councillor Felicity Farrelly who welcomed us to Scarborough

and Madi Smith (past Rotary exchange student) who read the Australia Day poem.

Elder Len Yarran gave us a very meaningful Welcome to Country.

Stuart Aubrey MLA, mayor Mark Irwin, & Len Yarran spoke
to the Australia Day theme –

Reflect – Respect – Celebrate,
all of them made us think about this special day.

Andriy & Larissa Tatsiy from the Ukrainian Community

told about the experiences of that Community after arriving in Australia.

We also had 10 local community groups and organisations represented.

as well as 15 members of the local Ukrainian Community

. It was also great to catch up with many of our Honorary members.

To all our members who were able to attend
- thank you for making it a great event.

My personal thanks go to Mitch Whalan & Rob Paparde

for help with the PA, to Alan & Tookta Bennett,

Hugh & Jean Frost, Peter Hoo, Rob & Dianne Collins,
Brian & Penny Richards,

Guy Lehmann - who helped out in many ways during the morning.

Alex Hickman & Jean Frost kindly took many photos

- and Kerry gave all the attendees their badges.
Thank you ALL.

Midwest Seniors were once again treated to a fine Afternoon Tea

and entertainment on Australia Day,

courtesy of the Rotary Club of Greater Geraldton.

Staged in the QEII Centre, nearly 100 Seniors were treated to tea, coffee, cakes,

and sandwiches while listening to the City of Geraldton Brass Band

and the talented singing of Warren and Karen Nathan.

Rotary President Jo Clarke said.

“this event is a fantastic way to reward our Seniors,

providing them the chance to mingle,

chat, toe tap and even dance, and it is a very much loved one too.

This annual event was first held in 1995 and on the day,

it is hands on deck by all, always with an early

and lengthy queue waiting for the doors to open.
When the day is complete, the warm smiles and happy faces say it all”

Special thanks to the City of Greater Geraldton,

Geraldton City Band, Warren & Karen Nathan, Woolworths,

The Luscombe Syndicate

, and Laian Restaurant for their excellent support of this da

A wonderful day today at the markets celebrating Chinese New Year.

Our gourmet bacon and egg burgers were a hit as usual.

and despite it being very warm,

we appreciate everybody coming out to support us.

Last night we had the pleasure of hosting several other Perth Rotary Clubs

to a very informative session about a Telehealth service providing crisis care

for those in the Ukraine and around the world.

Thanks to Wes from Perth Rotary - Western Australia

for organising the event

and Rob Hicken from GPNow for his very heartfelt presentation

Fantastic event on Sunday morning at Bunnings Mindarie
to promote the wonderful initiative
of Paint Wanneroo REaD.

This week meeting we gave our Rotary cooks the night off

and headed back to the Drovers Inn.

As always we were served with cold drinks and amazing meals

Thank you to our guest speaker Isla Harris

for coming along and telling us all about her trip to Birmingham

and Edinburgh. Isla represented Australia.

in two international squash tournaments

Amazing achievement!!

First meeting for February (Wednesday 1st) the speaker at the RCFB

was Journalist Patrick Cornish who writes Obituaries?

for the West Australian Newspaper

plus is a freelance writer doing books on commission.

Patrick's topic was Fifty Shades of Truth and his full presentation.

which was both informative and entertaining?

Sheila Cheng and LAU Eng Seng and their three adult children

travelled to Perth from Singapore

to spend Chinese New Year with their family.

They have been distance members of the RCFB for over a year,

carrying out a number of excellent projects in the

Club's name in Singapore, including great PR.

They attended the Summer Gala Soiree last Thursday and as Wednesday

was the first meeting of the Club they have been able to attend

since becoming members,

A huge thank you to Sheila, LAU and all members.

for their contributions to the RCFB.

Southern Ports generously donated $3000 to finance these trolleys .

They were purpose built by Naturaliste Chandlery to transport the SIl Into Lifeboats.

from the water to the shed.

Southern Ports provide sponsorship to many organisations.

and are a great support to community projects.

Pictured are Volunteers Dave Fischer and Christine Cameron

with our wonderful coordinator Bjorn Chorley

      Photos from 440 clean up today

      A few stats:

      3/4 wheelie bin of trash, 1/2 a small dumpster of weeds pulled.



      AND 2 members clocked 3 km on their fitness app.

      Sunday morning workout for a cause.

      First 1,070 sandwiches for Eat Up Australia are out the door

      what a team effort!

      Thank you to all those volunteers from the Geraldton community,

      Ngala Midwest & Gascoyne, Rotary Club of Batavia Coast and Apex Geraldton

      You guys rock for giving up an hour to come help feed local students,

      ready for Term 1, 2023

      Want to come help at our next session on Wednesday 22 February

      @6:30am then send the Child and Parent Centre

      - Rangeway an email rangeway@ngala.com.au

      OR call 9921 6814 for more info

Such a friendly group of Rotarians
enjoying some social gatherings over summer.

Kay Durrant introduced our returned guest speaker,

Anne Donaldson from Dress for Success (DFS),

a registered charity that is part of a global movement of change,

empowering women to obtain economic independence.

. The Perth team strives to make a difference in the WA Community

by creating opportunities for women in need.

Anne described how DFS assists vulnerable women dress.

and present themselves.

for job interviews in order to achieve financial independence.

DFS assists women with life experiences that.

have broken their confidence and self-esteem.

This may be due to family and domestic violence, disability, indigenous.

or other culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds

. DFS Perth welcomes all women, trans,

and non-binary people, to offer a non-judgemental.

, empathetic and professional service,

that seeks to empower them and help them reclaim their confidence.

The team provides more than just clothing.

Supportive and professional volunteer mentors provide.

career support workshops

to build a range of corporate and personal skills,

and can provide advice and guidance on resumes,

cover letters and job interviews.

They also offer coaching for interviews.

and other tips to assist clients to get ready for work.

The Perth branch is operated by a small part time staff.

and a team of volunteers.

DFS is part of a global movement based in the USA.

it operates in 152 cities in 28 countries.

and has empowered 1.2 million women globally.

Without recurring government funding,

DFS relies on the generosity of the community and corporations.

DFS also has a positive environmental impact by diverting clothes.

from landfill and recycling clothes as much as possible.

In 2022, DFS and its 70 passionate volunteers empowered 884 women,

delivered 60 workshops and donated/recycled 4594 items of clothing.

During the evening Anne and key members discussed

connecting with other Karrinyup Rotary program

Back to work! David and Jeremy with Dr Sue Girak at CBPS.

Pic by Ollie.

City Beach Primary School

Playtime! Rotary Cambridge members socialise.

A start to the calendar year.