President: Norm de Grussa 2013 - 2014

Rotary club of

WANNEROO

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XMAS DINNER

16th December 2013

At CAFÉ ELIXIR

Wanneroo Rotary Club Committee 2013—2014

President: Norm deGrussa

Secretary: Graeme Smith

Treasurer: Andrew Kininmonth Youth Services: Owen Douglas

International Service: Debbie Singh

Club Service: Phil Cousins

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: Bill Kell

NEW WEBSITE: www.rotarywanneroo.org

Apologies: If unable to attend meeting, an apology is to be lodged with Jacob Etoka before 12 noon Monday.

Contact details for Jacob email: mmungaetjab@yahoo.fr or mobile 0413104989

DISTRICT 9455

P.O.Box 47, WANNEROO 6946

GUEST SPEAKER 6th JANUARY CAFÉ ELIXIR

January 2014 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 1 2 3 4 5

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To Be Announced

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13 BOARD MEETING

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20 Meeting moved to the 22nd

Joint Meeting Mindarie at Quinns Sport Club

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DWW CLEANING

Chairman Laurie Duffy

Duty officer Andrew Kininmonth

Duty officer Debbie Singh

Vote of thanks Andy Anderson

Reserve Neil Cook

Reserve Owen Douglas

Fellowship Clive Bain

Guest speaker TBA

Topic TBA

Duty Roster 6th January 2014

President Norm introduced our informal Christmas Meeting held at Café Elixir. Norm thanked

everyone for coming along and welcomed our guests, Our Assistant Governor Patricia

Canning, President of Inner Wheel Jan Duffy, Don and Elaine Slater, I introduced my wife Viv,

my daughter Janelle and her partner Goran and their three daughters Hayley, Sarah and

Ashlee, Andrew introduced his wife and sons Benjamin, Alex and James. Andy introduced his

brother-in-law and his wife, Owen introduced our exchange students Akin from Turkey, Anson

from Taiwan and Amber Kirkup our next Outbound Exchange Student going to Denmark. Also

present working at Elixir is our former outbound exchange student Laura Douglas who had

also gone to Denmark.

President Norm mentioned that Debbie had been working on the Christmas Hampers and

thanked her for her good work. These have since been delivered to St Anthony’s Church.

Everyone waited in anticipation for the xmas dinner and all were suitably impressed with what

was served. Much talking and laughing took place during the meal.

Akin provided us with a couple of his own songs accompanied with his guitar. He proved that

he is quite a capable songwriter. They were sung in the Turkish language so I asked Akin

what the translation was into English. He explained that it is very hard to give an exact trans-

lation but that they were mainly about Love. Boys will be boys :)

Anson found a new use for playing cards

3 Wise Happy Men

MARY CHRISTMAS PAID US A VISIT TO HAND OUT GIFTS TO THE CHILDREN AND PARTNERS WIVES

Sargeants Session: Phil Cousins

Everyone not wearing a xmas hat had to contribute and Grumpy

Owen is now known as Old Owen as he turned 60.

Tweedle Dumb (Colin) and Tweedle Dee (Peter) did a great job.

They were also find for having the two bottles of wine on their table lol.

Phil dobbed in his wife Kerry for swimming with her mobile phone. School teachers had to

chip in for being on holiday. Robyn Anderson had broken her arm and really should have

been let off. Andy was dobbed in by Kevin for not giving Robyn a hand.

Debbie was congratulated for spending time at the Wheelchairs for Kids and was asked to

donate if she felt it. Janelle being the President of the Hocking School Board was responsible

for young James getting a hole in his head at the Hocking School playground.

Tom Drinkwater had a few words to say about him either being fined as a Pom or an Aussie

depending on who was winning at the cricket. Also being he can’t drink all other members

drinking the wine donated by the club should pay up $2.00 each. No other fines were made

as we couldn’t afford any more. Debbie mentioned in defense of the Poms that Liverpool

defeated Tottenham Hotspur 5 - 0.

Owen Douglas presented our future outbound student Amber Kirkup with her Green Jacket

to use when in Denmark. The Jacket will weigh a lot more on the way back due to all of the

pins she will collect in her travels. Amber aquited herself very well through the selection

process. Amber gave as a few words expressing her appreciation.

Taylor from Café Elixir explained about the two

dessert choices available.

They were delicious.

Lifetime Honorary Membership Clive Bain presented this award to Don Slater for his years of service with the Rotary Club of Wanneroo

as he joined in 1973, served as secretary for a couple of years and was President in 1978 and 1979 and

was in the club for about 10 years. Clive presented the certificate to Don and thanked him for his service.

Don responded by thanking the club for the award.

A Big Rotary Wanneroo Thank You to Taylor and the staff at

Café Elixir for a great evening.

Laurie Duffy made a sad announcement about the passing of Norman Cockman who was a Charter

Member in the 70’s and 80’s and he was the instigator of having the Rotary Sign installed in Rotary Park.

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President Norm thanked everyone for attending our xmas meeting and we played a Xmas song from the

Muppets “We Wish You A Merry Xmas” to close the meeting. No singers came forward to join in, perhaps

next year.

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Debbie delivered the Xmas Hampers ready to be delivered to St Anthony’s Church for St Vincent DePaul

to distribute to the needy around Wanneroo. Great Work Debbie.

MEMBERS BIRTHDAYS JANUARY

CLIVE 1st

SUE KELL 7th

PETER 11th

NORM 17th

JACOB 30th

MEMBERS ANNIVERSARYS JANUARY

COLIN & ALINA 9th

PHIL & KERRY 15th

DOLPHIN WISHING WELL—CLEANING ROSTER 2014

1ST FEBRUARY 2014

Anderson, Andy 0412 923 210

Bain, Clive (Supervisor) 0412 006 087

Bradshaw Ian 0434545970

Cook, Neil 0417 979 506