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Rotary: Making a Difference Page 1
What’s happening at Ascot:
SOCIAL MEETING – TUESDAY 30 January: No morning meeting but come instead to the first of our social meetings for
2018 and it’s an opportunity to invite friends and prospective members. The Profit Lebanese Café at 907 Albany Highway, East Victoria Park 6:15pm for 6:30pm start Banquet at $30 head - BYO
Please let Peter know if you and your guests are coming along.
BRICKTOBER – will again be held this year and all members are asked to keep October free so that everyone is available to assist and spread the workload at this, our main fundraising and community project. Many Hands Make Light Work! In the meantime, Mr Brick and some friends have been busy promoting Bricktober 2018 with a 4 day mini event at Kelmscott Plaza with free building, drive a train and competitions to win tickets to this year’s show. See photos Page
BOARD MEMBERS 2017-18 President: Ron Alexander Vice Pres.: Mike Bermann Pres. Elect: Aidan Wood Secretary: Roma Gehringer Treasurer: Joanna Kendall Foundation: Hugh Langridge Exec Secretary: Hugh Langridge Membership: Michael Evans Club Service: Peter Richardson International: Mike Bermann Youth: Marg Fraser Vocational: Max Morrell Community: Stephen Kendall Public Relations: Christine Goss Attendance: Gren Courtland
WEB LINKS:
Club website: www.ascotrotary.org.au Club Facebook page: www.facebook.com/AscotRotary Bricktober website: www.bricktober.info Bricktober Facebook: www.facebook.com/Bricktober.Perth District 9465: http://rotary9465.org.au Rotary International: https://www.rotary.org
Chartered 26 February 1969 District 9465
We meet at Belmont Tavern 174 Wright Street, Cloverdale, Western Australia, 6105
On Tuesday’s at 7:00 am for 7:30 am start and finished by 8:30 am.
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Our Timor Leste Water Project
The Rotary Club of Ascot has just released further funds, about US$5,000, to help with the purchase and installation of more water pipes and tanks to be installed in the village of Lete Foho at and near the local high school where the parents of students are busy building more classrooms and some dormitories for their children to stay in during the school week so the kids don’t have to walk 2 or 3 hours each day to school.
Torrential rain has been falling and severe flooding has washed away sections of the road between Ermera and Lete Foho but despite the conditions, parents from surrounding villages and hamlets have themselves trekked for hours along mountain tracks, bringing along al their own food, to then spend the day lugging materials and soil required to build a better life for their children.
Eddie De Pina, who coordinates our Water project and others like it including these building works, was warmed and heartened when he asked those who had come along to help why they had volunteered and was told that they did it for their children’s future and of their hope for a better life for them. Eddie says he loves his work and meeting people with such dignity.
Eddie doesn’t sit around waiting for things to happen either. He’s a “Can Do” man! Battling the wet conditions, he has just been up to the mountain springs to check the flow and pressure and ensure that the quality of water flowing through the pipes we have previously funded is maintained. Great work Eddie!
With our additional financial help, more pipes, water tanks and tap stands will be installed at the dormitories being built at Fr Natlino and the Nun’s houses as they do not currently have water. So far we’ve helped many villages in the hills of Timor Leste to have fresh clean drinking water so this is a project that we can be very proud of.
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Please note the following dates and advise Christine Goss of details of your Guest Speaker and Topic
or advise promptly if the dates are unsuitable.
Date Welcoming Informer Host Chair Speaker and Topic
30 January 2018 NO BREAKFAST MEETING
SOCIAL EVENT at 7:00 PM
The Profit Café 907 Albany Hwy
13 February 2018 Peter Richardson Bev Poor
Michael Evans Tbc
20 February 2018
CLUB BIRTHDAY
SOCIAL MEETING Club Birthday
TBA
27 February 2018
Colin Peacock Mike Bermann
Hugh Langridge Membership Development
13 March 2018
Christine Goss Stephen Kendall
Dianne Reed Tbc
20 March 2018 Michael Metcalf Aidan Wood
SOCIAL MEETING VENUE TBA
27 March 2018
Hugh Langridge Michelle Kendall
Stephen Kendall
10 April 2018
Dianne Reed Ros McLernon
Glenys Godfrey
17 April 2018
Michael Evans Joanna Kendall
SOCIAL MEETING TBA
Happy happy
26 January 2018 Australia Day - Great Aussie Breakfast – Rotary Club of Como at Sir James Mitchell Park
31 January 2018 Last day for “early bird” AGFR Golf Tournament Murray Bridge
23 February 2018 “Wear your Rotary Club Shirt” Day
3 March 2018 50th Anniversary Rotaract WA - Tomkins on Swan, Alfred Cove
16 - 18 March 2018 2017/2018 District Conference - Quality Inn, Margaret River
24-27 June 2018 Rotary International Convention, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
MEMBERS IN FOCUS BIRTHDAYS: Di Reed 14 January Brian Poole 16 January Gwen Evans 27 January ROTARY ANNIVERSARIES: Fred Rae 36 years 1 January 1982 Christine Goss 28 Years 1 January 1990
DISTRICT 9465 2018 CONFERENCE
Margaret River 16 - 18 March 2018
Bookings are available at:
http://e.mybookingmanager.com/E21321182362790
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BE THE INSPIRATION
2018-19 RI President Barry Rassin wants Rotary members to Be the Inspiration.
Rassin, a member of the Rotary Club of East Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas, unveiled the 2018-19 presidential theme, Be the Inspiration, to incoming district governors at Rotary’s International Assembly in San Diego, California, USA.
“I want you to inspire in your clubs, your Rotarians, that desire for something greater. The drive to do more, to be more, to create something that will live beyond each of us.”
Wear your ROTARY SHIRT DAY Friday 23 February 2018
The inaugural Wear a Rotary Shirt Day will be
held on 23 February 2018. The purpose of the
day is a no cost marketing activity to create
more awareness of Rotary. Each Rotarian is
asked to wear a Rotary shirt all day to create
conversation and get people to ask
“What is Rotary?”
This is an initiative
from our District
that is now Australia
wide and possibly
world-wide in the future.
Bricktober promo
at Kelmscott Plaza