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President: Norm de Grussa 2013 - 2014
Rotary club of
WANNEROO 1 6 T H S E P T E M B E R B U L L E T I N N O : 1 2
MEETING WANNEROO TAVERN
GUEST SPEAKER Rob Lyons
Rotarians Against Malaria
16th September 2013
Wanneroo Rotary Club Committee 2013—2014
President: Norm deGrussa
Secretary: Graeme Smith
Treasurer: Andrew Kininmonth
Youth Services: Owen Douglas International Service: Debbie Singh
Vocational Service: Neil Cook
Membership: All Members
Sergeant: Phil Cousins Attendance: Jacob Etoka
Belgrade Village: Colin Griffiths
Program: Peter Miskelly Bulletin, Publicity
& Photography: Ray Perkins
President Elect: Andy Anderson
Apologies: If unable to attend meeting, an apology is to be lodged with Jacob Etoka before 12 noon Monday.
Contact details for Jacob email: [email protected] or mobile 0413104989
DISTRICT 9455
P.O.Box 47, WANNEROO 6946
September 2013
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
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2 GUEST SPEAKER STEPHANIE LOWNDES
Retiring into Activity
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9 Forum: Directors Board Meeting 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 Guest Speaker Rob Lyons
Rotarians Against Malaria
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23 Vocational Night Paul Conti Winery 24 25 26 27 28 DWW
ROSTER
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Chairman
Duty officer Tom Drinkwater
Duty officer Andrew Kininmonth
Vote of thanks
Reserve
Reserve
Fellowship
Guest speaker PAUL CONTI
Topic
Duty Roster 23rd September 2013
Meeting Wanneroo Tavern
President Norm: welcomed all members, Kaye Douglas, exchange students Anson
and Akin, and our Guest Speaker for this evening Past District Governor Rob Lyons
who will give his presentation on Rotarians Against Malaria or RAM for short.
International: Debbie Singh; Debbie is going up to Burma in 3 week’s time and she
has been collecting things to take up there including some funds for the renovations
and she is holding a fund raising event at her house on the 6th October Sunday
afternoon with a Thai Buffet and some drinks plus some costume jewellery for the
cost of $25.00 and all proceeds would be going to their fund. She was aiming to
raise $15,000 but has had to be more realistic as she is working full time so her
target is $10,000. The club has been asked to come forward with some funds for
this cause.
The swap meet has been on hold waiting for Clive Bain to come back from his
holiday as they were both involved in the discussions. They would be aiming for a
fortnightly event starting in November and the Edmund Rice volunteers have been
organised.
Youth Director: Owen; RYLA is coming up this year and the Geraldton Clubs are
showing some interest as they have had a great success in the past plus an
enquiry from the Kimberley’s also made contact. Owen has not approached the
Wanneroo High School as yet especially as they are our link school to see what
programs we can get involved in there.
Anson gave his talk on what he has been doing for the last week. He has been in
Australia for 2 months and 3 weeks. Last week he said it was terrible weather and
said that he had helped Jan Duffy to cook many potatoes. Many many potatoes. He
couldn't understand why they were cooking so many. He found out that they were
for the homeless people. He explained that Laurie at dinner time had come up from
the garden where it was very cold and wet and he was very cold. Anson realised
that Laurie must love his plants very much.
Akin said good evening to everyone and said he has been in Australia for 1
month. He wants to watch the Dockers play on Saturday. He went for Turkish
meal at a hotel last Saturday night and then went to his friend’s party for Rotary
Club. He hopes to play football next week and said he is very happy.
Owen explained that next week is farm week so we will check on how President
Norm is after the week.
President Norm made mention that both exchange students are now giving talks
without any written notes.
Very good effort by both of them.
President Norm explained that the Turkish meal at the hotel was; lovely soup, lovely
main course and lovely desert but words could not describe the foul coffee.
Vocational: Neil Cook; Next week we are at Paul's Winery so if anyone has any
guests that they want to invite please let Neil know so that he can organise the
catering for the evening. All chairs are o.k. but also advise Jacob about numbers.
Dolphin Wishing Well: Clive Bain; he has been away but the takings have been
very good over the current period. We have installed a storage box for all of the
cleaning materials.
The Hillarys club poured the cement base for it and we are going to mount it. Clive mentioned that we have also received the 2 District Grants, one for the
Kingsway Football club and the other for Banksia United for uniforms etc. President Norm mentioned that Banksia United and the Kingsway Football club can be incorporated into the 4
th week meeting.
Debbie Singh mentioned that the Banksia United are going to have a formal awards night on the 6th of November so everyone will receive a formal Invitation from the coaches and it will be held in the Carramar Community Centre.
Raffle: We had a false start as the duty officers did not organise the raffle
butts to be available.
First Prize: Kaye Douglas Second Prize: Bill Kell
Attendance: Bill didn't have the sheet but Phil guessed it to be about 85%
Sergeants Session: Duty Officers, Raffle Winners, Bill was fined for his old
cafe of 12 years ago, charging $5.10 for a coffee, Andy was absent, Claremont
supporters, Phil had to fine himself due to borrowing money for the evening
and also for not returning something to Clive. Clive for being on holiday, Neil
paid last week so he was let off except for leaving his change at the bar, the
late Andrew for being late. Paul admitted that he too had to borrow so he
contributed. Owen explained how he pushed the envelope by going onto the
roof to replace some broken tiles. Unfortunately the rain started again so he
had to stay put until it stopped. Colin admitted he is a closet Dockers supporter
now they are close to the finals.
Chairman: Laurie Duffy; Laurie explained it was his great pleasure to
introduce Rob Lyons a current Rotary member at the Kalamunda Club and
also a past District Governor and is married with 3 sons and a daughter. He is
going to talk to us tonight about Malaria and what we can do about it.
Guest Speaker: Rob Lyons talk started with looking at the rubber gloves that he
had placed on the tables for all members to remind members that even if they are
Post Prostate to pass the message onto the younger members of the population
about the awareness and to
get checked. In regards to Malaria he had a lamp that blinked every 30 seconds
and that represent a child under 5 will die of malaria somewhere in the world. At
the conference about malaria it was discussed that a couple of things need to be
done.
We have to develop a vaccine as there is none available presently that lasts more
than 1 month. The target is by 2015 to have one that would give a 50% protec-
tion to last longer than one year and then by 2025 to have one that will have an
80% cover and to last longer than 4 years.
The other thing is the Rotary organisation has agreed to purchase $100,000 worth
of mosquito nets to distribute.
The mosquitos have the malaria in the blood and they are most attracted to people with
smelly sox.
It is only the female of the species that bites. The female needs the blood to supply their
eggs. The males only suck the juices of plants etc so is not the problem.
The World Health Organization provide mosquito nets that are impregnated with
insecticide. The mosquito nets cost about $10.00 each.
It is the acknowledged fact that when Polio has been eliminated the main thrust will be
to attack the malaria problem. Rotarians Against Malaria R.A.M. has an Adopt a Village
Program which is a sensible, affordable and attractive initiative for clubs to make an
impact on village health by helping to prevent families from being bitten by mosquitos.
It is easy to participate and our club would receive acknowledgement with details and
statistics of the village we adopt and will be displayed on the Adopt a Village Website.
Nets are available in single, double and family sizes.
There is an established infrastructure on the ground to survey village needs, receive
and distribute nets and to supervise the follow up re-dipping. Funds are controlled and
distribution is done effectively through the Rotary Network.
There are many other things to be done to keep the mosquitos away from humans by
reducing the pools of water, streams and water containers where the mosquitos breed.
Rob became involved in the RAM project initially by going to the Solomon Islands to
build a home for the microscopy people working there on malaria. This house is still
standing today.
Rob closed his speech by asking if we could adopt a village. It is a massive project that
needs to be supported with this great humanitarian program.
During question time Tom Drinkwater mentioned that during the 11 years in Malaya we
lost as many national servicemen as bomber Command did in the Second World War.
186,000 died of dysentery and malaria. A very sobering thought……
Vote of Thanks: Neil Cook; Neil remembered as a boy that someone that returned from
New Guinea after fighting in the war suffered from malaria and every now and then he
would be bed ridden and he was never able to overcome the disease until the day he
died. The treatment used to be and I believe still is with Quinine.
Neil expressed the hope that our club can contribute in some way in the future for this
great project.
Neil presented to Rob our engraved glass in our appreciation for his talk this evening.
President Norm complimented our hard working waitress Chanel on the great meals of
crumbed lamb cutlets and chicken dishes and to pass on our appreciation to the chefs.
17th November is the next Rotary Leaders Institute and is hoping we can have
some members attend this. Also Andy Anderson is not going to be President Elect
via Ian Hutton for next year and for members to consider who could be put forward.
President Norm closed the meeting thanking all members and guests with the singing
of our National Anthem.
ASSISTANCE REQUIRED FROM MEMBERS and/or FAMILY
Suggestion: Purchase a Pull Up Banner that we could, with Wanneroo Taverns permission have this on display inside tavern.
DOLPHIN WISHING WELL—CLEANING ROSTER 2013
28th SEPTEMBER CLEANING ROSTER
Colin Parker (Away at Present) 0406039138
Ray Perkins 0419905836
Clive Bain (Supervisor) BOD 0412006087
MEMBERS BIRTHDAYS
NEIL COOK 11TH SEPTEMBER
ANDY ANDERSON 15TH SEPTEMBER
(PARTNER) TRIPHINE ETOKA 3RD SEPTEMBER
(PARTNER) PENNY DeGRUSSA 6TH SEPTEMBER
(PARTNER) ANNE CONTI 10TH SEPTEMBER
ANNIVERSARYS
GRAEME & SUE SMITH 12TH SEPTEMBER
PAUL & ANNE CONTI 22ND SEPTEMBER