22nd June was the Dumpling Festival in Singapore. Our Freshwater Bay Rotarian in Singapore, Sheila Cheng, again volunteered at the Anglican Care Centre Simei, running another hands-on workshop, this time on wrapping glutinous rice into dumplings. Sheila showed a short video so that they had a visual understanding of the…
On 21st June 2023, Freshwater Bay Rotarian Prof Hamid Sohrabi gave a fascinating update on his Alzherimer’s research. Prof Hamid R. Sohrabi is the Director of the Centre for Healthy Ageing and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the School of Psychology, Murdoch University. He has two Honorary affiliations as Associate Professor…
On Saturday 17th June 2023, a dinner was held at the University Club to celebrate not just the end of the Rotary year but the end of Rotary District 9455. Four members of our club were in attendance: PP Di Collins, PP Simone Collins, President Fiona Tremlett, and Rtn Ralph…
On 14th June we had a surprise international guest speaker! Mario diGesu from the Rotary Club of Truth or Consequences in District 5520, New Mexico, has been travelling after attending the Rotary International Convention in Melbourne, and contacted us to attend our meeting while he was in town. With no other…
PP John Bosco Agaba of the Rotary Club of Kabale, Uganda has sent an update on the status of this project that we have provided funding for. We have been experiencing destructive torrential rains in our area for the whole month if May. This led us to halt the fencing…
On 7th June 2003 we had an international guest as our speaker: PP Buff Wright from the Rotary Club of Claremont, California. Buff spoke on what got her into Rotary, and how in the lead up to her year as club project she decided to reach out to other Rotary Clubs in…
We are delighted to welcome Sam Bandara as a member of the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay, who holds the classification of Alzheimer’s Research. Sam was inducted at out meeting on 7th June 2023 by his sponsor Prof Ralph Martins.
Unfortunately our End of Rotary Year Celebration scheduled for 24th June 2023 has been cancelled due to insufficient numbers.