With over 5,500 children in foster and residential care / group homes in Western Australia, there are some kids that may go without this Christmas. Our club is again hosting a donation drive for Care Bags. If you would like to donate a stocking (182g $5.00 ea) or unwrapped gift,…
Our meeting on June 23rd was the final meeting at Moerlina for this Rotary year, as we celebrate Changeover on 26th June at the Holiday Inn City Centre in lieu of meeting on Wednesday 30th June. Our Honorary Member Graeme Prior was officially welcomed back into the Rotary Club of…
The first launch of “Dancing with Memories” – a book to introduce 5-8year olds to people living with dementia – took place on 2nd June 2021 at Moerlina Primary. Held in lieu of our weekly meeting, this event was attended by the 60 students in the school, parents, grandparents, members…
At our meeting on Wednesday 5th May 2021, our speakers were the ConocoPhillips Science Experience students from Newman College who had been sponsored by the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay. The students were accompanied by their Science Master Krystal Skelin and their parents. Emily Costley attended Edith Cowan University from…
Dancing with Memories is a book for 5-8 year olds which has been written by Sally Yule, in conjunction with Professor Ralph Martins and Maggie Beer, to introduce young people to family and people living with dementia. We have taken on distributing this book to primary schools as a club…
At our weekly meeting on 7th April, 2021 we heard from two students who we have sponsored to attend the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF). Olivia Lucano was sponsored to attend the 2021 National Youth Science Forum Dylan O’Donoghue attended the 2020 NYSF at Queensland University and returned as a…
Speakers at our first regular meeting for the year on Wednesday 20th January 2021 were our RYLA attendees Beth Redwood and Olivia Ferguson. They were full of enthusiasm about the week they spent at the camp. Yads Ellegala returned to tell yet again of his experiences from his perspective as…
We are so proud of our youth who represented the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay at the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) camp last week. Beth Redwood and Liv Ferguson were sponsored to the camp by Freshwater Bay and acted as MCs at the wrap up function Saturday 9th January.…
At our first regular meeting for 2020, we had two speakers who had just returned from the District 9455 Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) which ran from the 12th – 18th January. Yads Ellegala was a leader for the second year running, and being his usual bubbly self, Yads spoke…
Each year the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay provides various awards to 8 local primary schools at their end of year assemblies. Congratulations to all of this year’s recipients!