The Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay passionately supports the End Polio Now effort, particularly with our late member PRID Ken Collins having first hand experience with this awful disease. DG Ineke Oliver recently presented President Fiona Tremlett with our club’s Certificate of Appreciation for support of End Polio Now in…
The Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay has been delighted to present the following awards to primary school students at their end of year assemblies. Primary School Recipient Award Name Loreto Nedlands Gabriella Biddle Loreto Spirit Award Hollywood Charlotte Bakitc von Krusentern School Leadership Award Dalkeith Oceana Owens Citizenship Award North…
A number of Peace Pole ceremonies have been conducted throughout the first half of December to officially unveil the Peace Poles at their respective schools. Ronniet Orlando, Charter President Di Collins, Past President Simone Collins and President Fiona Tremlett have been attending the ceremonies, which will be repeated annually around…
The Canning Vale Primary School community have again very generously donated an enormous amount of food to be made into hampers for our club members in Moort Care to distribute this Christmas. Amongst the food is 11 bags donated by Granada Medical Practice in Maddington.
The Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay continues to prioritise assisting with important work of the End Polio Now campaign. We recently published a video of one our (now deceased) members discussing the importance of eradicating polio and why we must see this job through to the end. It’s lovely to…
At our meeting on 7th December 2022, Charter President Di Collins gave a presentation on the history and scope of our club’s signature project: Magnifying Microscopes. This project all started when, as a member of the Karrakatta Club, Di heard the WA Chief Scientist Prof. Lyn Beazley give one of…
The Post community newspaper printed an article about our 2022 Pride of Workmanship Award on 3 December 2022.
Thanks to the generous donations of club members, fundraising by our club, and work colleagues of our Christmas Stocking project coordinator, 121 Christmas stockings (worth $605) have been donated to be given out to children in foster care. Thank your to our project coordinator Stephanie Rainey-Smith for coordinating this again…
We are delighted to again be acknowledged with a Bronze ShelterBox Champion Award for the 2021/22 Rotary year.
With November designated as “Rotary Foundation month” we thought it would be appropriate to observe this with a presentation on Polio Plus by the doyen of this program, PRID Ken Collins, who was involved with the eradication of Polio from 1984 until his passing in August 2022.