Rotary Club of Western Endeavour Newsletter

The Rotary Club of Western Endeavour

What are our plans for 2021?

1. Fund two international projects - one in Kenya and one in Cambodia.

2. Raise funds from the Motorplex to support cancer research and its sufferers through the Harry Perkins Research Institute.

3. Raise funds for and managed a project to provide caps, laundry and shoe bags to nurses during the COVID 19 pandemic.

4. Support the Aboriginal Reference Group with emphasis on a FASD (Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders) program in Leonora.

5. Sponsor students from the Balga Senior High School to be awarded a Stan Peron Medal and $500 award.

6. The annual Western Endeavour Award with $250 prize to be awarded to year 8 student at Bob Hawke College who excels in community service.

7. Continued to sponsor an early act club at Rosalie Primary School

8. Plant trees at Quairading on National Tree Day to rehabilitate salt affected land.

9. Invite excellent speakers to our club meetings.

10. Continue to socialise and have fun.

Tony Parker stands for the seat of Cottesloe

One of our club stalwarts, Tony Parker, will be standing for WA state parliament on 13 March, 2021. Tony, a former lawyer, has a long history of helping the community in Perth. He has been a Rotary club president twice over the past two decades, the most recently with the Rotary Club of Western Endeavour in 2018-2019. Tony is currently our director for Community Service and the Rotary Foundation

For enquiries about developing friendships, helping people in need, looking after the environment, and business networking, call President Elect Peter Batskos on 0418491431 for a chat.

Counting the contributions from our collection at the Motorplex on 21 January, 2021

Our Rotary Club collected $1696.71 from the Motorplex on Saturday night, 09 January 2021.

This brings the amount collected since November 1990 (more than thirty years) to a total of $215,640. All collected funds go directly to fund melanoma research or support the Scott Kirkbride Melanoma Advisory Service. In 2020, the club donated $3000 to support melanoma research and $4000 to the KMAS.

Our next and last collection for the 2020/2021 season will be on 27 March. Enthusiastic collectors are welcome to join.

Lucky winner, Jessica Nesbitt opens her bottle of 1994 vintage Penfolds Grange.

The winner of the Rotary Club of Western Endeavour Penfolds 2020 annual Grange raffle shared her bottle with family and friends in February, 2021. Jessica agreed that the 1994 vintage lived up to its reputation of being a "very powerful wine concentrated with blackberry/dark chocolate/mocha flavours and rich granular tannins"

Jessica said she will definitely buy tickets in the 2021 raffle due to go on sale in August of this year.

This raffle raised $4,100 which went towards supporting a much needed water and sanitation project in Cambodia and the Aboriginal Reference Group.

The bottle of Grange was donated by a club member.

Tony Parker, our club representative and Don Mazzucchelli from the Rotary Club of Perth commenced the R100 Baton run at the joint WA Rotary district conference 5-7 March, 2021. The relay course included baton changes over the Matagarup Bridge around Optus stadium and into the conference. The relay celebrated 100 years of Rotary in Australia.

Meeting Rosters
Date	Host	Thanks & Cleanup	3 minute bio	Setup	Writer
16 Mar, 21	Laurie Glossop	Laurie Glossop		Marcus Harris	Marcus Harris
30 Mar, 21					Jenny Mott
06 Apr, 21	Donna Thornton	Laurie Dender	Laurie Dender	Curt McDonald	Judy Dinnison

Newsletter for the Rotary Club of Western Endeavour - Issue No.: 953 Issue Date: 7 Mar, 2021

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