This bulletin from the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay provides updates on club activities and events for the following week. It announces an upcoming vocational visit to Linneys diamond company and the club's annual changeover dinner. It also discusses the club president's support for the Treemission environmental project and highlights guest speaker Jade Lewis who will discuss youth drug issues. International news covers the "Kick Polio Out of Africa" virtual soccer ball campaign raising awareness for polio eradication efforts across the continent.

1. New Horizons
The Official Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay Inc.
PO Box 168, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6909 ! District 9450! ABN: 99 602 195 617
Volume 2, Issue 49 4th - 13th June 2010
From the President Sporting Success Virtual Soccer Ball to Vocational Visit Rosters Rotary Foundation
Elect Katy Symons part of End Polio Details of the vocational When are you next Thought of the Week
Find out what is the winning WA Find out how a virtual visit to Linneys. rostered for duties at This week’s thought is
happening around the Diamonds Hockey Soccer ball can help Page 2 the club? about Polio.
club. Team. eradicate polio. Page 3 Page 3
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speaker, Colin Arthur from Trust (WA), with the primary each club's participation.
From the the Rotary Club of West aim being to rehabilitate the
Perth, who spoke about their eastern wheatbelt by planting If you like the sound of
President Elect Treemission project. trees on reserves and Treemission, please let
farmland which is not longer Projects Director Rob know.
Dear Fellow Rotarians, Treemission is a multi- arable. This relieves the You can find more
pronged environmental salinity problem and will information about
This week's meeting saw our initiative of the West Perth stimulate rainfall in the Tre e m i s s i o n a t
lowest ever turnout – just 5 club, conducted in region – a topic we will hear www.treemission.com.au
members plus our guest partnership with the National more about in October from
Jorg Imberger from the Next week's guest speaker
Centre for Water Research will be Jade Lewis, who has
will address our club. spent the last 10 years raising
awareness about youth drug
As Rotarians we can get and alcohol issues to provide
involved with Treemission in prevention, intervention and
many ways, including: recovery strategies. By all
accounts she is an excellent
• Making an annual speaker with a very powerful
contribution of $20 each, message - she is a reformed
to offset carbon drug addict who is now
emissions associated committed to being a positive
with our attendance at role model for troubled
our weekly meetings youths. Please bring along
(Treemission will plant at any guests who would
least 3 trees per person) benefit from Jade's message.
• Visiting schools to raise We do have a lot of people
awareness of the issues interstate or abroad at
and to solicit their present. If you are in Perth,
involvement with please do make it a priority
growing seedlings and to give up just one hour of
planting trees. your time to come along and
support our guest speaker
• Participating in the tree and our club. Low
planting activities, in a participation rates make it
local reserve or further much harder for our club to
afield. make a difference.
RC West Perth are seeking Yours in Rotary Service,
district-wide adoption of
Treemission, and as such, are Simone Carot Collins
encouraging each club to President Elect
appoint a “Treemission
Champion” to coordinate
Photo: (L-R) Colin Arthur, Simone Carot Collins
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2. N E W H O R I Z O N S
of the disease
Sporting Final Push to has been RC Freshwater Bay
reduced by
Success Kick Polio out 99 percent. Changeover Dinner
In Africa,
Peter and Mandy Symons of Africa only Nigeria The first Changeover Dinner of the Rotary Club
have just returned from Rotary International News r e m a i n s of Freshwater Bay.
Adelaide where they 7 May 2010 p o l i o - When: Thursday, 1st July, 2010.
watched their daughter Katy endemic, but Venue: Nedlands Golf Club, Melvista Ave,
play in the winning WA State A virtual ball today was the disease Nedlands 6009.
Women’s Hockey Team. launched to help kick polio still affects Time: 6:30pm for 7:00pm.
out of Africa and eventually children in Cost: $45pp
out of the world. The on-line many other Note: Please advise of any special dietary
WA Claim ball brings heightened high-risk requirements
awareness to the mass countries,
National immunizations this spring emphasizing
t h e
Hockey Crown
targeting nearly 200 million
children throughout Africa importance of Vocational Visit
with the goal of kicking polio protecting all
AAP, June 5 2010
out of the continent. A f r i c a n When: Wednesday, 7st July, 2010.
children from Venue: Linneys, 37 Rokeby Rd, Subiaco 6008.
The Western Australia
With a few simple clicks of a polio. Time: 6:00pm.
Diamonds defeated the
mouse, one can sign the ball RSVP: To Rob Rohrlach by 29th June
Queensland Scorchers 3-1 in
a t “Rotary and
the Australian Hockey
www.kickpoliooutofafrica.or its global Note: Light refreshments will be provided.
League grand final in
g and join the global partners are
Adelaide on Saturday.
movement of solidarity to on the brink Purpose: To study the unique WA pink diamond
save African children – and of eradicating industry.
The win is WA's fourth title
all children -- from this this life
in six years, while for
crippling and sometimes threatening,
Queensland it was their fifth
deadly disease. Visitors to cruel disease,
successive loss in the AHL
the website will sign the but as long as to Egypt, en route to the
grand final.
virtual version of a soccer there is one case of polio, no Rotary International
ball that is currently child will be safe. A final Convention in Montréal,
With Queensland entering
traveling through 22 polio- push is needed to stop polio Canada, in June. The journey
the match as slight
affected and high-risk in its tracks, especially in is being underwritten by
favourites, things began
countries in Africa, with Africa,” said June Webber, DHL Express.
according to plan when
Rotary clubs raising Rotary’s South African
captain Madonna Blyth
awareness for polio campaign organizer. “As we In April, the campaign
scored at the 14 minute mark
eradication. The signatures commemorate the 20th received a further boost from
to set up an early lead.
will be formally presented to anniversary of the release of Nigerian national football
the spearheading partners of Nelson Mandela from prison, team captain Nwankwo
However WA remained in
the Global Polio Eradication Rotarians and our global Kanu, who plays in the
the contest, drawing level
Initiative after the 2010 FIFA partners are determined to English premier-league club
following a penalty corner
World Cup. provide Madiba (Mandela’s Portsmouth F.C., announcing
conversion by Lisa Eglington
Xhosa title) with a lasting that he had two goals for
prior to halftime.
“We are calling on the legacy.” 2010: Kanu wants Nigeria to
As the clock ran down in the continent's football players to shine at the upcoming World
bring their enormous On 23 February, Rotary Cup and also wants to
second half, the match
influence to this campaign. launched its “Kick Polio out eradicate polio from Africa.
seemed destined to go to
Only unified efforts which of Africa” awareness
extra time, however when
galvanise whole societies campaign with the symbolic The KPOA football’s journey
WA were awarded a penalty
towards these goals will kicking of a ball signed by can be followed on http://
corner, they made the most
succeed in kicking this virus, Emeritus A rc h b i s h o p kickpoliooutofafrica.wordpre
of their opportunity and
that looks so much like a Desmond Tutu. Afflicted ss.com. For video and still
grabbed the lead for the first
football, out of Africa and with polio as a child, Tutu photos go to:
time in the match thanks to
eventually, out of the world,” joined the campaign as www.thenewsmarket.com/
star defender Kobie McGurk.
declared former South goodwill ambassador. From rotaryinternational
African President Nelson Cape Town, one of the host
An impressive goal against
Mandela, in his 1996 address cities to
the run of play to Ashleigh
at the Organization for the 2010
Nelson sealed the victory for
African Unity Summit as he F I F A
WA.
formally kicked off the “Kick Wo r l d
Polio out of Africa” Cup, the
Virtual Ball campaign. ball
traveling
is
Raises Global Since Rotary and its partners through
22 polio-
began their fight against
Awareness for polio in 1988, the incidence affected
countries
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3. N E W H O R I Z O N S
raised a difficult question: strategy would condemn 10
The Rotary Can the world eradicate million children to polio over
Foundation polio, or should we try to
contain it?
the next 40 years alone.
We must not lose sight of our
Week 49: This week’s Rotary According to an article by vision of a world without
Foundation Thought is about H a r v a rd re s e a rc h e r s , polio. We must finish our
Polio. controlling the disease would work and hold true to our
be far more costly than promise to the children of the
The goal of polio eradication eradicating it. The world.
remains elusive, with four developing world can save
countries still polio-endemic. more than $1 billion a year
In recent years, some in the by eradicating, while
scientific community have switching to a control
Program for June/July
Introduction
Date Details
Date Name
9th June Jade Lewis - Drug Prevention
9th June Wilma McBain
16th June Committee Meeting
23rd June Rob Rohrlach
23rd June Aaron Chinyimba - Ambassadorial
Vote of Thanks Scholar
1st July (Thursday) Changeover Dinner
Date Name
9th June Claire Forsdyke
23rd June Elizabeth Bain
Welcoming Roster Board Club Details
Rotary Year 2009-10
Date Name Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay Inc.
Di Collins — President
president@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au PO Box 168,
9th June Browen Tyson Nedlands,
Ken Collins — Vice President / Western Australia, 6909
16th June Simone Carot Collins Membership Director
vicepresident@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Meetings
23rd June Bill Hassell membership@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Wednesday 5:45pm to 6:45pm
Cafe, Bethesda Hospital
Simone Carot Collins — President Elect / Queenslea Drive
Club Administration Director
Claremont
presidentelect@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
clubadmin@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Email
New Horizons: Winner of the District 9450 president@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
Bulletin Award for 2009/10 Rajah Senitharajah — Treasurer Phone
treasurer@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au 08 9385 0471
Fax
Daniel Forsdyke — Secretary
Bulletin Contributions secretary@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
08 9385 0472
Website
Rob Rohrlach — Projects Director
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Committee Director
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daniel.forsdyke@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
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