NEXT MEETING Thursday 18 January 2018 - 6.45am for 7.15am
T G Tan
Exo Planets Outside Our Solar System
Amateur astronomer TG Tan will talk about planets around distant stars and his backyard observatory's role in one of the most important recent discoveries - that of the super-Earth LHS 1140b. TG is a retired oil and gas engineer who built the plywood box known as the Perth Exoplanet Survey Telescope (PEST) Observatory in 2010 to see if it might be possible to detect exoplanets from the suburbs. Evidently it is, and TG has now co-discovered 31 planets. Originally from Malaysia, TG now calls Perth, with its better climate for both astronomy and golf, home.
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Meeting of 18th January
The meeting was opened by President Mike. Mike welcomed our Guest speaker Dr Anita Bourke and Sharon Doubikon. He also welcomed back Jim Joseph & Guy Lehmann.
Announcements
Funeral Arrangements for David Gaubert: Mike reported that David's funeral will be held at Pinnaroo on Thursday 25th Jan at 2pm. Mike asked if any members have photos of David, could they forward copies to him with a short description.
Raffle: Isabelle Chu /Bonaventure travel, donated a one night stay at the Crowne Towers which included 2 breakfast’s. The winner to be declared at a later date.
District Conference: Brian Newall encouraged all members to consider going to the District Conference to be held on Geralton. There is excellent accomodation available at the Mantra.
RYE : Jerry Pilcher reported:
Liza Kneebone, our outbound to Norway has settled in well.
Adele Chretien, our inbound from France in 2013/14 is arriving in Perth this afternoon for four weeks. She will be staying with Dave & Marieke Taylor. She will be looking forward to catching up with all. ( Adele's Aussie mobile: 0451 764 616)
Madi Smith, our outbound to Norway for 2017 will arrive home at 6:30pm this evening.
Membership: Hugh Frost then gave us a reminder of the need to push membership. Hugh reiterated the need for all members to ask people about joining Rotary. ASK ASK ASK.
SwapMart: Dave Taylor announced that the new SwapMart location went smoothly on Sunday, thanks to a total of twelve helpers and that 208 bays were sold and the buyers totalled1590. Takings amounted to $3668.00.
FLYNN: Our RYE Flynn reported that he was now staying with Dave Taggart. He is still on school holidays, has been to Mandurah & spent a considerable amount of time at the beach.
Sergeant Paul Levi then brought is down to earth for the pen ultimate time
Our Guest Speaker:
Dr Anita Bourke was introduced by PP David Taggart to present her talk on the Nokor Tep Hospital in Cambodia. Anita reported that the hospital was in Phnom Penh. It was built close to the garment factories & 'sweat shops' so that women would not have to miss work to attend the clinics. The hospital has 220 beds and sees 300 patients per day. It is totally a 'Womens' hospital but does not undertake obstetrics. David Taggart proposed the vote of thanks.
President Mike then closed the meeting thanking Anita for very informative talk. The meeting ended in the usual way with the singing of "Advance Australia Fair".
ATTENDANCE APOLOGIES:Due to the unavailability of Greg Nolan, please let Rob Thompson know if you are unable to attend meetings.
Rob Thompson : parmelia@iinet.net.au 0408 912 778
Scribe : Dave Taylor
Chase the Ace:The winner of the bottle of wine was Isabelle Chu with the jack of hearts....the ace is still intact.....
Quote of the Week:
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference - Winston Churchill
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Guest Speaker Dr Anita Bourke
Sgt Paul Levi
Chairman David Taggart
Scarborough Members
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Madi Smith is welcomed home by family & Scarborough Rotarians
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Airport arrivals Madi Smith (left) and Adele Chretien (right)
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Jerry Pilcher
January 1
Ollie Pickett
January 2
Joe Angi
January 7
Hugh Kopsen
January 16
Di Allen
January 20
Peter Simpson
January 25
Spouse Birthdays
Bruna Angi-Guistiniano
January 6
Hugh Kopsen
January 16
Join Date
Mike McAuliffe
January 1, 1984
34 years
Isabelle Chu
January 3, 2008
10 years
Peter Hoo
January 30, 1997
21 years
DUTY ROSTER - CONTACT: Club Service Director Bill Nuttall
DATE
Thurs 25 Jan 2018
Thurs 1 Feb 2018
Tues 6 Feb 2018
SPEAKER/TOPIC
T G Tan
Exo Planets Outside Our Solar System
Club Committee Meetings &
Pride of Workmanship Presentations
2016 Young Western Australian of the year
Vanessa Vlajkovic
RECEPTION
Jerry Pilcher
Brian Richards
Please see message below from Pres Mike regarding change of meeting time, day & venue
ATTENDANCE
Rob Thompson
Brian Richards
Rob Thompson
VOTE OF THANKS
Dave Taylor
CHASE THE ACE
Di Allen
Joe Angi
BULLETIN SCRIBE
Isabelle Chu
Geoff Ivanac
RESERVE
Theresa Porritt
Jan Roberts
CHANGE OF MEETING TIME, DATE & VENUE
Dear Scarborough Rotary Club Member,
You will recall that our Club along with the Osborne Park Rotary Club helped support the 2016 Young Western Australian of the year Vanessa Vlajkovic. Vanessa is an inspiring young lady – being both deaf and blind – she presented at an International Conference in Denmark – talking about ways to help other young people in her situation. Vanessa is an inspiring speaker.
We have an unique opportunity to hear her speak and join with the Osborne Park Club – on Tuesday 6th February at Central Park, St. George’s Terrace in the City – 5.30 for 6.00pm. This is not far from the William Street train station, and parking is available at central park at reasonable costs. The cost of the evening is only $ 20 per head – including drinks and nibbles.
This meeting will take the place of our Thursday meeting at Karrinyup that has been cancelled by the Golf Club.
We need to provide Osborne Park Rotary Club with numbers by Sunday 4th February – please consider coming to hear a remarkable story from an inspiring young lady.
Michael McAuliffe
President
RC of Scarborough WA Inc
Leave of Absence
Mike Sultanowsky July 1 to Jan 31, 2018
Jim Joseph Oct 1 to Feb 28, 2018
Joe Angi July 1 to Feb 28, 2018
Brian Newall Jan 19 to Feb 19, 2018
Greg Nolan Dec 9 to Feb 9, 2018
Joy Fong Mar 26 to Apr 9, 2018
Andrew Fisher Mar 23 to May 5, 2018
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ROTARY CLUB OF SCARBOROUGH WA (INC)
Summary of Minutes of Board Meeting
Thursday 28th Jan 2018
Minutes of the meeting on 21st November 2017 accepted
Treasurer – Guy Lehman
Current balances: not available. Guy will be having a hand over from Paul Levi
Club Service- Bill Nuttall
Resignations of members- Terry Hunter and Neil Hunt
Venue for the Breakfast meeting on the 3rd week of Feb needed to be organized as present venue will be occupied. Bill Nuttall will organize
The future budget for Committees will be ascertain before the next committee meeting
Community Service - Jim Joseph for Geoff Ivanac
Clean up Australia- Geoff to call the Life Saving Surf Club re this event
Autisim Awareness, date selected for this, 8th May 2018
Approval for $200 for Holter monitor for Corrigin, Board approved of this
International Service – Neil Darch
No issues to raise. Neil is not present
Youth Service- Jerry Pilcher
Youth Exchange- approval for payment of RYLA invoice $795, the amount should be $845 instead of $785. Board approved of the new amount
Vocational Service Peter Simpson
North Metro TAFe Rotary scholarship will be the presentation date
Charity Golf Day- $21,879. Already presented to WFK.this event will run again this year. This time the funds will be presented to Rotary Club of Scarborough instead of directly to WFK. Board may decide what to do with the funds then.
New Generation Chris Schooling
No issues
General Business:
Board accepted Leave of Absence requests: Brian Newall- 19th Jan to 19th Feb 2018; Greg Nolan-9th Dec. 2017 to 22nd Jan 2018, Joy Fong- 26th March to 9th April 2018; Andrew Fisher from 23rd Jan to 5th May
Board accepted Terry Hunter’s and Neil Hunt’s resignations.
Other business:
Left over business from AGM
Need to convene another special meeting in order to recind the special resolution made at the November 2017 AGM concerning the Constitution. Will then accept the new constitution created by Rotary District at the special meeting, 8th March 2018.
Not received complete nomination form for Treasurer from Guy Lehman as yet. Joy will send another nomination form to Guy to sign in order to complete matters for office bearers’ election process.
Di Allen’s request to downgrade her payment for weekly meeting breakfast due to her diet restrictions. Board approved of Diane paying $5.00 instead for her seat only if she is not included in the numbers for catering.
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Airport arrivals Madi Smith (left) and Adele Chretien (right)
