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New HorizonsThe Official Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay Inc.

From the PresidentFrom the Club President. Page 1

This Week’s MeetingFind out what is happening this week. Page 2

Quote of the MonthA piece of Rotary history is highlighted - Is it still applicable today?Page 4

Fundraising Ideas of the Fermented VarietyTasty fundraising ideas from around the globe!Page 2

Interact ClubWhere to from here for our new Interact Club.Page 2

Last Week’s MeetingDid you miss last week’s meeting? Find out what happenedPage 1

Volume 3, Issue 35 28th March - 3rd April 2011

PO Box 168, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6909 ! District 9455! ABN: 99 602 195 617

Letter from the PresidentMarcos and I were the only members from our club to attend the recent joint Districts 9455 & 9465 Conference. In my opinion, it was one of the better district conferences I have attended locally in some time, with k e y n o t e s p e a k e r s interspersed between presentations about Rotary programs and projects, which removed the usual issue of people attending for the non-Rotary speakers on Saturday and not showing up for the Rotary content on Sunday.

Past Rotary International President Bill Boyd from New Zealand was in attendance as the RI President's representative, and I think it is a shame that we didn't have more members present to hear Bill's speeches. I felt he did a wonderful job of putting the importance of the work we do as Rotarians into context, particularly on an international scale.

The one thing our district conferences and assemblies lack that I have found useful in Rotaract conferences and international meetings is workshops which allow more interactivity and more

members of the district to share what works. Aside from that, I think our local district conferences are definitely improving in terms of the value of the Rotary information presented.

The 2012 district conference will be held in Geraldton, and I sincerely urge you all to consider making the trip up to Geraldton for it. It will certainly broaden your experience of Rotary.

Yours in Rotary,Simone

Award Winners – Again!For the 2nd year in a row, the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay has won the Best Metropolitan Club Bulletin award, presented at the District Conference!

The Rotary Club of Geraldton was selected as the Best Regional Club Bulletin, and the Rotary Club of Corrigin were recognised for Best Attendance at the District Conference.

Since this is the first year as District 9455, all new perpetual trophies were created.

Congratulations to Daniel

Forsdyke, Simone Carot Collins and Di Collins, who each dedicate several hours each week to pulling the bulletin together.

More awards will be presented at the District Changeover at the end of this Rotary Year.

Last Week's MeetingJim Gould was officially welcomed back into Rotary, as the newest member of the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay. As a Past President with some 20+ years of Rotary

Photo: District 9455 Best Metropolitan Bulletin for 2010 - 11

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experience, Jim will be an extremely valuable mentor, and we thank him profusely for the help he has offered in that regard.

Our speaker, Michael Sheldrick, addressed a very small group of members about his involvement with the Global Poverty Project, a lobby group on global issues who work with organisations such as Rotary who have global projects, such as our PolioPlus program.

Three of the four polio endemic countries - Nigeria, Pakistan and India - are all Commonwealth countries, thus it is hoped that the Governments will support Rotary’s efforts to complete the job with Polio e r a d i c a t i o n . T h e Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) coming up in Perth in October coincides with World Polio Day, and the Global Poverty Project

p lans to p r o m o t e PolioPlus for 100 days leading up to CHOGM.

Polio-related a c t i v i t i e s p l a n n e d d u r i n g C H O G M include a m a j o r fundraising dinner on Monday 24th October, a concert in Fremantle on Friday 28th October, and a statewide Paint Your Pinky day. T h e A u s t r a l i a n Government w i l l b e

lobbied to financially support the final push to eradicate Polio as well.

This Week's MeetingTo finish Literacy month, we will be hearing from Marie Kormandy, the District 9455 Literacy Coordinator, who will be speaking about the local Computer-Assisted Literacy Solution (CALS) project.

CALS is:• A computer-based

p ro g r a m t h a t teaches foundation skills for reading and /or math.

• A method to give individualised help to children or adults who do not read well.

• A s e l f - p a c e d teaching program that will teach, assess and motivate the student.

• A program that was field-tested before being adopted by t h e R o t a r y I n t e r n a t i o n a l Literacy Resource Group.

InteractThe next meeting of our prospective Interact Club is this Thursday, 7pm, at Christchurch Grammar School. We intend to hold elections to create the club's board, so we can then completed the paperwork to charter them as an official club!

Five Fundraising Ideas of the

Fermented VarietyBy Kathy Holiday  The RotarianApril 2011

Since the grape was first fermented, wine has been part of social gatherings. In ancient Athens, historians say, the typical home boasted more vessels for drinking wine than all other dishes combined.

These days, Rotary clubs are finding many creative ways to appeal to wine lovers and raise funds for their projects.

1. Cheers to artThe Rotary Club of Paarl, South Africa, auctions off wine, art, and jewelry each September at an area vineyard; club members in top hat and tails assist with the bidding. In the Bahamas, the Rotary Club of South-East Nassau presents its Evening of Jazz, Art, and Wine every fall, and in May, the Rotary Club of Mariposa, California, USA, serves up its Fine Art and Wine Festival  on the lawn of the M a r i p o s a C o u n t y Courthouse.

2. Vintage festsSome fundraisers get better every year. November marked the 21st Fraser Valley Wine Tasting Festival, organized by the Rotary Club of Langley Central, British Columbia, Canada. Over the years, the event has raised more than C$700,000 for charity. The Rotary Club of Abbotsford-Matsqui, British Columbia, will hold   its 17th annual wine tasting and silent auction   in May. And for 21 years, the Rotary Club of Fortuna, California, has paired wine with art, music, and local specialties for Art and Wine in the Park.

3. Brews tooSome clubs like their wine fest with a beer chaser. The Rotary Club of Bonsall, California, holds its Wine, Brews , and Blues Festival   every May. The

Photo (L-R): Jim Gould and Ken Collins

Photo: District 9455 Best Metropolitan Bulletin for 2010 - 11

Photo: Michael Sheldrick from Global Poverty Project

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Rotary clubs of Gillette and Gillette-Energy, Wyoming, get into the spirit every March with their Wine and Microbrew Festival.

4. Ideal pairingsThe Rotary Club of Hood River, Oregon., USA, has decided that wine pairs best with pears. Next month it will hold its first Columbia Gorge Wine and Pear Fest to celebrate the bounty of local produce. The Rotary Club of Eugene Southtowne, Oregon, lets you drink like a fish at its Wine and Salmon Festival, while the Rotary Club of Riverbank, California, pulls together a classic combo with its Riverbank Cheese and Wine Exposition, featuring vintages from more than two dozen wineries as well as cheese-tasting sessions. The Steveston Seafood and Wine Festival, held by the Rotary club in Steveston, British Columbia, offers fresh oysters alongside specialties prepared by local restaurants.

5. Top chefsFor 12 years, the Rotary Club of Paso Robles, California, has invited vintners to showcase their culinary skills along with their wines at its Winemakers’ Cookoff, raising more than US$230,000 for scholarships in the process. The Rotary Club of Picton, Ontario, Canada, brings in top local chefs to create a five-course feast for its Wine Festival Dinner.

Does your club hold a creative wine fundraiser? Share it in the comments section below.

Adapted from the April edition of The Rotarian .

Rotarians Respond to Japan Earthquake, TsunamiBy Ryan Hyland and Dan Nixon  Rotary International News 25 March 2011 

Rotarians have been finding a number of ways to help victims of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan that killed thousands and left hundreds of thousands more homeless.

In response to the disasters, The Rotary Foundation established the Rotary Japan Disaster Recovery Fund , which will support long-term recovery projects in the affected areas. More than US$500,000 has been donated since the fund opened on 11 March.

“It is encouraging to know that our overseas Rotary friends care about us,” says Yuzaburo Mogi, president of the Rotary Club of Tokyo. “I am confident that the people of Japan will overcome this great disaster, and we are hopeful that we can get over the various difficulties soon.”

District governors in Japan are running a fundraising campaign to send money to the governors in affected areas. Mogi says that Rotarians who wish to help Japan should contribute to the Foundation's recovery fund. (Rotarians and non-Rotarians can donate online)

The first Matching Grant project to receive support from the fund was approved a week after the disaster. Clubs in districts 3350 (Cambodia and Thailand) and 2820 (Japan) are using a total of $65,650 to help provide food and drinking water for 15,000 people at an evacuation center in Ibaraki.

Other responses have included:1 Three Rotary districts in

Japan are using district funds to help. District 2610 (Ishikawa and Toyama) has developed an emergency relief project to provide public housing for up to 500

families evacuated from the disaster areas. District 2840 (Gunma) shortened its presidents-elect training seminars from two days to half a day and donated the remaining funds earmarked for the seminars to relief efforts. And District 2680 (Hyogo) set up a contribution box during its district conference, raising about $7,500 for recovery efforts. 

2 The Rotaract Club of Tokyo launched the Cheer Tohoku project to rally the support of Rotaractors around the world, asking them to use Twitter to send messages of support to survivors in northeast Japan. The club is also using Twitter to post photos of Rotaractors holding up short messages they’ve written. "We thought we could make use of the worldwide Rotaract network to show people in the stricken area that we care," says club president Ai Takahashi. 

 3 The Rotary Club of Akashi,

Hyogo, sent a private airplane carrying a load of medical supplies to the Rotary Club of Sukagawa, Fukushima, which delivered them to a hospital near Fukushima Airport. The governor of District 2640 (Wakayama and parts of Osaka) and six Rotarians also brought 1,000 blankets to Rotarians in the Fukushima region. 

Rotary Foundation alumni respond

Alumni of Rotary Foundation programs are also supporting Japan’s recovery efforts:1 Rotarians and friends of

Rotary in District 3330 (Thailand), an area extensively damaged by the 2004 tsunami, are among those who have felt especially moved to respond. The district’s Rotary F o u n d a t i o n a l u m n i association worked with local Rotary clubs to raise $15,000 in contributions.  

2 A Group Study Exchange (GSE) team from District 6450

(Illinois, USA) was in Tokyo when the earthquake struck on 11 March. Japanese Rotarians “provided our team with unbelievable kindness and generosity” throughout the exchange, says team leader Bob Blackburn. He adds that they “cared for our well-being during and after the earthquake,” including ensuring that the team didn’t miss its flight home to Chicago. “My wife and I offered the Westmont Rotary club [Illinois] an opportunity to match our $500 contribution to District 2750 [part of Tokyo and Pacific Islands] for disaster relief efforts, and they responded with an additional $4,500. Plus, our GSE team members have pledged an additional $425, for a total of $5,425. Rotarians always come to the aid of others in an emergency. Please help our friends in Japan any way that you can.”  

3 Former GSE team members and others in District 5450 (Colorado, USA) are also mobilizing support. “We were involved with the outbound and inbound teams to Japan’s Sendai area last year and have been heartbroken to learn about the tragedies experienced by their friends,” says Past District Governor Mike Oldham. 

4 Miho Fukuhara, a former Rotary Peace Fellow from Japan, is temporarily leaving her post as a United Nations and intergovernmental affairs officer at UNICEF headquarters in New York City to join the Japan Committee for UNICEF for five weeks. “I never thought of myself being sent to Japan for emergency response work,” says Fukuhara, who managed and coordinated reconstruction programs in Iraq for Peace Winds Japan earlier in her career. “It is really sad to see the situation, but I will do my best.”

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BoardRotary Year 2010-11Simone Carot Collins — Presidentpresident@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au

Di Collins — Secretary / Vice Presidentsecretary@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.auvicepresident@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au

TBA — Club Administration Directorclubadmin@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au

Toni James — Treasurertreasurer@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au

TBA — President Elect / Projects Directorprojects@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au

Claire Forsdyke — International Directorfoundation@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au

Ken Collins — Membership Directormembership@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au

TBA — New Generations Directornewgenerations@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au

Club DetailsRotary Club of Freshwater Bay Inc.PO Box 168, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6909

MeetingsWednesday 5:45pm to 6:45pmCafe, Bethesda HospitalQueenslea DriveClaremont

Email president@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.auPhone 08 9385 0471Fax 08 9385 0472

Website www.rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au

Facebook http://www.facebook.com/freshwaterbayrotary

Chartered 19 December 2008

Bulletin ContributionsContributions for the weekly bulletin are sought from members of the club.

Why not use the bulletin to update the club on the projects your committee is working on or promote the clubs next fundraising event.

Please forward articles and photos to daniel.forsdyke@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au

Date Name

30th March Rob Pearce

6th April Max Hipkins

13th April Paddy Ramanathan

20th April Jenny Gill

Welcoming Roster

Program for March/AprilDate Details

30th March Marie Kormandy - Computer Assisted Literacy

6th April Calum Foulner - RYLA and The Communities Moving Forward project

13th April Ideas Forum 1

Date Name

30th March Wilma McBain

6th April TBA

13th April Simone Carot Collins

20th April Simone Carot Collins

Host - Introduction & Thank You

New Horizons: Winner of the District 9450 Bulletin Award for 2009/10

New Free Rotary Club Locator iPhone App AvailableRotary International News 28 March 2011 

You can now search for a Rotary club with RI's free iPhone app. In the Apple app store it's called the Rotary Club Locator from Rotary International. The app also

will soon be offered for Android phones. 

If you have questions or feedback, please let RI know by e-mailing the Contact Center at:contact.center@rotary.org.

Quote of the Month: Moving onwardRotary International News23 March 2011

Each month, we highlight a piece of Rotary history and share an inspirational quote from past Rotary leaders. March’s quote:

"Just as Rotary itself can never keep its place unless it is constantly growing, so each individual Rotary Club cannot afford to stand still while the stream of life moves onward."

— Armando de Arruda Pereira, 1940-41 RI president, in The Rotarian, February 1941

New Horizons: Winner of the District 9455 Bulletin Award for 2010/11