District Governor

9465

2019/20

Wayne Milnes

Coming Events April to June 2020

Watch this space!!!

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 27

Apologies

Make-up

Attended

Honorary Member

LOA

Guests

Visitors

Partners

%

Facts & Figures

Raffle

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

Our first Bulletin for a while, we trialled a Zoom club meeting last Monday night

with an acceptable result for a first try, some 13 members managed to log-on, One thing we need to address is each member setting up their microphone audio levels

to an acceptable spot, some people one could hear quite plainly others hardly at all.

Looking forward to the next occasion we ‘Zoom In’

I really feel for the rest of the world, we in Western Australia are certainly living in

the lucky country, thanks to our Australian and State governments taking

progressively decisive action over the last 3 or 4 weeks, I believe we are winning

the battle although we have a way to go before life can ever return to any sort of

normality.

Sadly from where we sit on our balcony we have broad view over Churchill Park, It

disturbs me deeply at the numbers of people who blatantly disregard our isolation

and exercising rules, parents allowing children to play on swings etc, even adults

sitting on swings, very elderly seniors with walking frames walking around, sitting

on park benches, people in groups of up to four sitting at gazebo tables eating food,

then leaving and soon others sit down and replace them, they may as well be

shaking hands with strangers. One simple question: “What part of STAY HOME

don’t they understand. These comments don’t apply to the countless other local

residents exercising and moving around in an acceptable and conforming manner.

Please stay safe and make sure we all have a future to look forward to.

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 33 06th April 2020

Wendy Cooper

President’s Pen

06th April 2020

ZOOMing into the technological world we conducted our first e-meeting via ZOOM. 13 members logged on to this new experience. I thank Max for being instrumental in getting the concept up and running and preparing all the necessary steps.

Thank you to everyone for giving it a go. Three people apologised for their non-attendance. We would like to hear for anyone else that was unable to attend to see if you need help with the new way of having meetings. The meetings will be contained to 40 minutes as that is the stipulated time frame set by ZOOM before a payment is required. Those that attended moved to continue the weekly ZOOM meeting. Hopefully we will have more next week. Light hearted fun and some giggles along the way. There is a Board Meeting set for this Thursday, again on ZOOM. If you need anything to be discussed please don’t hesitate to phone or email your comments.

Stay safe and enjoy the break from the norm.

President 2020/21. PDG John Iriks

Club Service Report:

In accordance with the latest government advice we have taken the considered decision to suspend

attendance at our regular Rotary Meetings as from today Thursday 19th March 2020 until further notice.

Members received a personal phone call from PE John informing them of this unwelcome but necessary

decision.

Meeting schedules below will need to revised, when we have more advice.

Our Club Changeover scheduled to be Sat. July 4th at the Kwinana Bowling Club.

The following Office bearers were endorsed for their respective positions for the 2020/2021

Rotary Year:

President John Iriks

Vice President Wendy Cooper

President elect Bob Thompson

Secretary Diane Brown

Treasurer Steve Castelli

Project Director Michael Nella

Public Relations Director James Sharkey

Foundation Director Max Bird

Membership Director John Iriks

Membership Committee: Lee Davis, Bob Thompson and Eric Blogg

On-to-Conference: PP John Wallhead

Conference 2021 likely to be multi-district and at Optus Stadium

President Elect Training 18th -19th April 2020

Assembly. 17th May 2020

Birthdays and Anniversaries. April 2020

Our best wishes to all.

Stephen Castelli. April 6th

Cyril Bennett. April 10th

Ann Samut. April 2nd

Natalie Rowe. April 10th

Marge Williams. April 25th

Norm and Karen. April 1st

Cyril and Lynne. April 6th

Screen-shot from our first attempt at a Zoom Club Meeting with 13 members logging-on

Brian McCallum is missing from this shot, don’t know what happened to him, he was logged-on initially.

Zoom Video Communications.

Zoom Video Communications is an American remote conferencing services company headquartered in San Jose, California. It provides a remote conferencing service that combines video conferencing, online meetings, chat, and mobile collaboration.

Zoom's namesake software is among the most popular remote meeting solutions in many countries. It is noted for its reliability and ease of use, especially when compared to competitors. Zoom has faced significant controversy due to the revelation of a number of security vulnerabilities found in its software, as well as allegations during the recent coronavirus pandemic of poor privacy and security practices.

Zoom was founded in 2011 by Eric Yuan, a lead engineer from Cisco Systems and its collaboration business unit WebEx.

The service started in January 2013, and by May 2013 it claimed one million participants. During the first year of its release, Zoom established partnerships with B2B collaboration software providers, such as Redbooth (then Teambox), and also created a program named "Works with Zoom", which established partnerships with multiple hardware and software vendors such as Logitech, Vaddio,

and InFocus.

By June 2014, Zoom had 10 million users. In February 2015, the number of participants utilizing Zoom Video Communication's chief product, Zoom Meetings, reached 40 million individuals, with 65,000 organizations subscribed. The company had hosted a total of 1 billion meeting minutes since it was established.

In March 2019, Zoom filed to go public on the NASDAQ; on April 18, 2019, the company went public, with shares up more than 72%, with an Initial public offering of US$36 a share. The company was valued at just under US$16 billion by the end of its IPO

International Report. 16th March 2020

The international Committee (RPTLE) is carrying out the following.

1. Global grant GG 2095275 has been submitted to Foundation. we are now in the process of answering the questions from Foundation. Think with the present situation I may have to send an email asking for a situation report

2. Brother Adriana will start the modifications to one of the two sea containers we have waiting at Don Bosco in Dili after Easter or when the Technical Students return back to school, as it is the students that will be doing the work as a practical exercise, this is one as per Phillip Island & DAA request to be done outside of the Global Grant while we wait their approval for the other two.

3. Have arrange for Brother Adriana to use the RPTLE account with Vinod Patel (Hardware Store) for the purchasing of materials to carry out the work.

4. Ordered the tanks to be delivered from Timor Roofing to Brother Adriana in Dili for him to start work on the sea container when he is ready

5. Spoke to members of The Rotary club of Margaret River whilst down there on Thursday 26th March 2020 Re using RAWCS for their projects in Timor-Leste.

6. Help set up Zoom meetings for the Rotary Club of Kwinana

Max Bird

PP Bob Thompson

Vocational

PP. Max Bird

International

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.

Gentle Road premises now open for business, business steady.

Successful Garage Sale last weekend.

Our trip to Jakarta has been cancelled due to COVID-19

.

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 back to Rotary but still recovering from his recent health scare.

Plans to rekindle the Car Rally, on hold due to COVID-19

Community:

Helpers a little short for the Bread Project, please feel free to come along.

Anzac Day Breakfast, cancelled, COVID-19

Vocational:

PP Bob T has lodged a local grant application via Madeleine King MP

member for Brand. We applied for a grant to install a Defibrillator at Rotary Hall plus a club

First Aid Training Course. Moved on to second stage.

Also noted that our existing ‘First Aid Kit’ needs upgrading.

International:

Latest meeting minutes available to view on ClubRunner.

View a complete review of my recent trip to Timor on ClubRunner.

Youth:

Due to the COVID-19 situation, there will be no incoming youth exchange

students in July. Our outbound student, Cyrus Vince, has chosen to remain

in Switzerland with the approval of his family. He has recently changed

host families, and is very happy with current arrangements.

Exercise sessions at Banksia Park Retirement Village have had to be

suspended until further notice due to the COVID-19 situation.

• 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

Deputy Bill Rowe.

Wendy has a new car, a Toyota Corolla Hybrid, after taking delivery and prior to leaving

home on the first occasion next day, Wendy unlocks the car, (keyless entry) gets ready to

move off, what now Bob? Car making no sound, nothing happening, Bob “just press the

accelerator and away you go under electric power”, so no sound at all, how eerie thinks

Wendy.

During the difficult times we are in John Iriks had occasion to travel to Myaree to pick up a

computer, driving along thinking how nice it was to out and about during a legitimate drive,

got carried away on the freeway missed the turn off and ended up at Canning Highway, ok

back to Melville, heading home in just the same frame of mind driving along thinking how

nice it was, missed the Mortimer Road turn off ended up turning off at Mundijong Road.

What’s this ‘social distancing’ doing to me?

PP Genevieve Carr

Youth

People tell me I take mini-golf too seriously, but my caddy disagrees

I don't think it's going to be that hard to stay 6 feet away from my wife during the

outbreak...that's 94 feet closer than the restraining order says.

What do you call ten rabbits marching backwards? A receding hareline.

What did the Easter Egg say to the boiling water?

It's going to take a while to get me hard I just got layed by some chick!

source: http://www.jokes4us.com/holidayjokes/easterjokes/easteronelinersjokes.html

We celebrate Jesus brutally dying on the cross by getting a giant bunny rabbit to hide chocolate

eggs.

I can’t help but feel there is some crucial information missing somewhere.

Polio This Week 01st April 2020

Summary of new viruses this week (AFP cases and environmental

samples):

Afghanistan: one WPV1 case

Pakistan: four WPV1 cases, nine WPV1 positive

environmental samples and eight cVDPV2 cases

Benin: one cVDPV2 case

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) – two cVDPV2

cases

Ethiopia : five cVDPV2 cases

Ghana: five cVDPV2 cases and four cVDPV2 positive

environmental samples

Malaysia: 15 cVDPV1 positive environmental samples and

four cVDPV2 positive environmental samples

Togo: five cVDPV2 cases

Since living in Rockingham and enjoying broad views over Cockburn Sound and developing an interest

in shipping movements such as bulk cargo vessels, tankers, naval ship movements and lately cruise-ships.

There are free web-sites including ‘The Port of Fremantle’ where one can track the movement of shipping

not only in this vicinity but the world.

I might say that I was ‘blown-away’ by the sheer volume of craft sailing around our planet at this time.

The two screen-shots below were taken this week.

Generally I think the blue graphics are cruise or passenger ships, the red, tankers and the green, cargo

vessels

( I hope I haven’t infringed any copyright by showing these charts, if so I beg forgiveness)

One other query? MH370 came down in the Indian Ocean, how come no-one saw it?

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

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