District Governor

9465

2019/20

Wayne Milnes

Coming Events July 2019

July 2019

Mon 15th Club Meeting No guest speaker, informal general discussion.

Mon 22nd Club Meeting

Mon 29th Club Meeting

Attendance Officer:

Greg Williams 0435 083 069

Apologies by Saturday pm please

Team 2019-20

President

Wendy Cooper

Secretary

Diane Brown

Treasurer

Bob Cooper

Attendance this week

Total Members 26

Apologies

Make-up

Attended

Honorary Member

LOA 1

Guests

Visitors

Partners

%

Facts & Figures

Raffle

Wendy & Diane

Heads & Tails

Birthdays:

Anniversary:

Club Anniversary:

If you had any we hope

you had a good day

Meets Monday

6 for 6.30pm

At Rotary Hall

Brownell Crescent, Medina

Visitors always welcome

Your Bulletin this week is a little different because I wasn’t present at the meeting so

had no notes to refer to. Last February I announced that Gladys and I now resided in a ‘match Box by the sea‘

The reason for missing last Monday’s meeting was because we attended our first

‘Strata’ meeting for the Azure apartment complex in which we now live.

Very enlightening to now learn a little about how the ‘nuts and bolts’ of being

involved and living within that environment, fortunately we have the services of a very

experienced Strata Manager who will guide us through the maze.

Rotary brings together the kind of people who step forward to take on important

issues for local communities worldwide. Rotary members hail from a range of

professional backgrounds; doctors, artists, small business owners, teachers and

executives all call themselves Rotarians. Rotary connects these unique perspectives,

and helps leverage its members’ expertise to improve lives everywhere.

From Haiti and Greenland to Nigeria and Singapore, Rotary unites a truly diverse set

of leaders from across the world. Currently, the largest number of clubs comes from

the United States, India, Japan and Brazil.

The fastest growing Rotary regions include Southeast Asia and Africa.

Each year, Rotary members invest more than $200 million and 16 million volunteer

hours to promote peace, fight disease, provide clean water, save mothers and children,

support education, and grow local economies.

Bulletin

Rotary International President 2019/20

Mark Daniel Maloney

Rotary Club of East Nassau

President Wendy

The Rotary Club of Kwinana Inc. District 9465 Western Australia Chartered: 22 April 1971

No 3. 15th July 2019

Wendy Cooper

President’s Pen

15th July 2019 President Report

In keeping with my goals of having no guest speakers at every meeting

tonight was a “Talkfest”. The idea is to allow us to get to know each other

more and to discuss issues affecting the club or meetings.

Included in the first night at the helm was an opportunity to place a dot on

a map of the world indicating where each of us was born.

Of those that went dotty, 7 were born overseas and 7 claiming Australian

heritage.

The most unusual location was between north and south America but who

that was is a mystery as there is no name next to the dot. Will we discover

who it is? More next week.

Topics tonight ranged from attendance at meetings, guest speaker

bookings, bumper sticker slogans, ideas for future meetings,

RIDE participation or not, DRAFT Board Minutes and dessert!!

Our Secretary and

President divvying up

the raffle spoils.

(alarm bells ringing)

A Judicial Enquiry at

least, if not a Royal

Commission should

be demanded.

(Only joking)

President 2020/21 PE John Iriks

Board meeting 11th July 2019

Club Service report. John Iriks

1 Working with PP Eric Blogg on a Club Members Matrix

2 Will introduce Club Service Committee meetings inviting Membership Chair Ed Samut to

consider our social calendar for outings such as Car rally, guess who’s coming to dinner,

progressive dinner, Christmas in the park or alternative function and other social functions

primarily designed to get us and guests together, rather than raise funds.

3 Working on Club administration to plan Annual General Meeting for date in December

now that constitution has changed to allow both the AGM for acceptance of financial

report and General meeting for the ratification of Board positions to be held at the same

meeting before 31st December.

4 Investigate the use of Google Calendars as an alternative to the club calendar.

5 Attadale Club, 30 years Women in Rotary, Thompsons, Iriks and Sharkey’s attending.

Cyrus Vince, accompanied by his parents Kylie and Matt, joined us to learn more about Rotary

and Youth Exchange. They were a lot of fun and grateful of the opportunity given to Cyrus.

Rtn Diane Brown

Inward Correspondence.

Outward Correspondence.

Would members please note that any correspondence received or posted by yourself, please ensure a copy is forwarded to your Secretary.

PDG Bob Cooper

Bills paid, money in the bank.

The club Profit & Loss Statements are available for members to view on

ClubRunner. See Club Documents.

Members are requested to ensure they contact PP Greg Williams by Sunday am

with any apology for the next meeting. We are having to pay for meals ordered

for you and not used because of non-attendance.

Entrance of the large machinery plant: Warning to young ladies: If you wear loose clothes, beware of the machinery. If you wear tight clothes, beware of the machinist. Gym: Merry Fitness and a Happy New Rear! In a department store: Bargain Basement Upstairs. In a farmer's field: The farmer allows walkers to cross the field for free, but be aware that the bull charges. In a health food shop window: Closed due to illness.

PP Bob Thompson

Vocational

PP. Max Bird

International

PP Genevieve Carr

Youth

PP Max Bird

Foundation Dir.

Rtn. Norm Mulcahy

Community

PP Edd Samut

Membership Dir. PP James Sharkey

Public Relations Dir.

Projects Director

PP Mike Nella

Project Director’s Report.

Golf Match confirmed for /11/2019

50th Anniversary of Inaugural Kwinana Industries Cup.

Gentle Road premises enjoyed a ‘clean-up’ thank to all concerned.

Premises now open for business, early results very encouraging.

Public Relations:

We continue to receive exposure on Rotary Out West.

Please continue to advise James of any stories or activities within our

club which may be submitted to the local media.

Membership:

Ed following up a couple of prospects.

Community:

Vocational:

Bob T is arranging a Vocational Visit to CBH Kwinana Terminal,

probably September 2019

Letters sent to all Kwinana Schools eligible to take part in the 4 Way

Test Speech Comp, negative responses.

International:

Youth: Youth Exchange, we have an outgoing contender keen to take part,

we would then need to host an in-bound student, are we prepared

to commit ?

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• Visit your club webpage.

http://www.clubrunner.ca/Portal/Home.aspx?accountid=8106

or type Kwinana Rotary Club into ‘Search’

Fine Session: Sgt. Cyril Bennett

Sorry no notes taken.

In a Maine restaurant: Open seven days a week and weekends.

In a New York medical building: Mental Health Prevention Center.

In a New York restaurant: Customers who find our waitresses rude ought to see the manager.

Maternity clothes shop: We are open on Labor Day. On a butcher's window: Let me meat your needs.

Mother Superior called all the nuns together and said to them, 'I must tell you all something. We have a case of gonorrhea in the convent.'

'Thank God,' said an elderly nun at the back. 'I'm so tired of Chardonnay.

A Polish immigrant went to the DMV to apply for a driver's license. First, of course, he had to take an eye sight test. The optician showed him a card with the letters

'C Z W I X N O S T A C Z.' 'Can you read this?' the optician asked.

'Read it?' the Polish guy replied, 'I know the guy.'

A Man Utd fan dies on match day and goes to heaven in his Man Utd shirt. He knocks on the old pearly

gates and out walks St. Peter in a Leeds scarf.

"Hello mate," says St. Peter, "I'm sorry, no Man Utd fans in heaven."

"What?" Exclaims the man, astonished.

"You heard, no Man Utd fans."

"But, but, but, I've been a good man," replies the Man Utd supporter.

"Oh really," says St. Peter. "What have you done, then?"

"Well," said the guy, "Three weeks before I died, I gave 10 pounds to the starving children in Africa."

"Oh," says St. Peter. "Anything else?"

"Well, two weeks before I died I also gave 10 pounds to the homeless."

"Hmmm. Anything else?"

"Yeah. A week before I died I gave 10 pounds to the Albanian orphans."

"Okay," said St. Peter, "You wait here a minute while I have a word with the governor."

Ten minutes pass before St. Peter returns. He looks the bloke in the eye and says, "I've had a word with

God and he agrees with me. Here's your thirty quid back, now sod off."

Polio This Week 10th July 2019

A circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2)

has been confirmed in China.

It is genetically linked to a VDPV2 isolated from an

environmental sample from Xinjiang province, collected on

18 April 2018.

WHO is continuing to evaluate the situation and stands ready

to support the ongoing investigation and risk assessment by

national authorities.

Summary of new viruses this week:

Pakistan— nine wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases and 3

WPV1-positive environmental samples.

Angola— one circulating vaccine-derived

poliovirus (cVDPV2) case.

China – one cVDPV2 case.

A man owned a small farm in the Southwest. Fair Work WA claimed he was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an inspector out to interview him.

"I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them," demanded the inspector. "Well," replied the farmer, "there's my farm hand who's been with me for 3 years.

I pay him $1200 a week plus free room and board. The cook has been here for 18 months, and I pay her $1000 per week plus free room and board.

Then there's the half-wit who works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of all the work around here. He makes about $100 per week, pays his own room and board, and I buy him a

bottle of scotch most Saturday night’s. He also sleeps with my wife occasionally."

"That's the guy I want to talk to...the half-wit," said the inspector. "That would be me," replied the farmer.

The human mind, once stretched by a new idea,

never returns to it’s original state.

Makeup opportunities

Rockingham Monday 6pm for 6.30 Rockingham RSL Club

Palm beach Wednesday 6pm for 6.30 Ocean Clipper Inn

Baldivis 1st & 3rd Mon 6.30pm for 7.00 Peel Manor House

Cockburn Thursday 7.15am for 7.30 Cockburn Seniors Centre

Byford & Districts Monday 6.15pm for 6.45 Byford Tavern, South W Hwy

Rotary Club of Kwinana Inc

Contributions welcome: eblogg@bigpond.com

Tomato is world’s most popular fruit

The tomato is the world’s most popular fruit. And yes, just like the brinjal and the pumpkin,

botanically speaking it is a fruit, not a vegetable.

More than 60 million tons of tomatoes are produced per year, 16 million tons more than the second

most popular fruit, the banana. Apples are the third most popular (36 million tons), then oranges (34

million tons) and watermelons (22 million tons).

Tomatoes were first cultivated in 700 AD by Aztecs and Incas. Explorers returning from Mexico

introduced the tomato into Europe, where it was first mentioned in 1556.

The French called it “the apple of love,” the Germans “the apple of paradise.”

Can openers invented 48 years after cans

Cans were opened with a hammer and chisel before the advent of can openers.

The tin canister, or can, was invented in 1810 by a Londoner, Peter Durand.

The year before, French confectioner, Nicolas Appert, had introduced the method of canning food (as

it became known) by sealing the food tightly inside a glass bottle or jar and then heating it.

He could not explain why the food stayed fresh but his bright idea won him the 12,000-francs prize

that Napoleon offered in 1795 for preserving food.

Durand supplied the Royal Navy with canned heat-preserved food while Appert would help

Napoleon’s army march on its stomach.

Tin canning was not widely adopted until 1846, when a method was invented to increase can

production from 6 in an hour to 60. Still, there were no can openers yet and the products labels would

read: “cut around on the top near to outer edge with a chisel and hammer.”

Can opener

The can opener was invented in 1858 by American Ezra Warnet. There also is a claim that Englishman

Robert Yeates invented the can opener in 1855. But the can opener did not become popular until, ten

years later, it was given away for free with canned beef.

(Canned pet food was introduced by James Spratt in 1865.)

The well-known wheel-style opener was invented in 1925.

Beer in a can was launched in 1935.

The easy-open can lid was invented by Ermal Cleon Fraze in 1959.