The much needed clinic for Val Orr-Smith’s work with burns victims in the Phillipines is underway and she is over the moon to know that the Goodeve Foundation through Honorary Member Tony Munday, has donated A$10,000 plus a member of her Church in Queensland has recently donated a further $10,000.…
A very warm welcome to Dianne and Richard Harper, inducted into the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay on 23rd October 2019! Dianne holds the classification of Teaching Special Needs. She was Principal of the Education Support Centre at Canning Vale Primary, and has recently retired. She will join the Youth…
With Rotary Foundation Peace Fellow Natasha Venables back in Perth until the end of October, we invited her to our meeting on 23rd October 2019 to talk about her time at the Rotary Center for International Studies at the International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo, Japan. Tash graduated with honours in…
Our Club is sponsoring 5 students to attend the ConocoPhillips Science Experience this summer – 4 from Newman College and one from Perth Modern. Attending the 3 day program at UWA from 14-16 January 2020 are: Joshua Downes Jacob Innantuon Jackson Kallawk Zack Loong Elissa Campbell will be attending the…
Our Annual Pride of Workmanship Awards were presented to two very worthy recipients at our weekly club meeting on 16th October 2019. Donna Snow – Principal at Wembley Primary Donna Snow commenced her connection with our Rotary Club as Principal at Dalkeith Primary, and this continued on to Churchlands Primary…
Welcome to new member Jack Gregor, inducted during our meeting on 16th October 2019! Jack is a retired judge and will be commencing his Rotary journey on the Vocational/Community Committee. We are delighted to have you as a member of the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay, and thank you to…
This week’s meeting saw the return of Dr. Janice Malcolm, a Rotary Foundation Global Grants Scholar to McGill University in Montreal. Janice initially undertook a Master’s degree, but was persuaded to stay on to obtain her PhD in Neuroscience, with her area of study being Alzheimer’s Disease. Janice’s presentation was…
RI President Mark Maloney has as his theme “Rotary Connects the World” and one of his major focuses with this is connecting families with Rotary. “We must foster a culture where Rotary does not compete with family, but compliments it. We should never expect our members to choose between the…