Hello everyone!
Thankyou for the warm welcome into the club. I look forward to getting
involved in the fundraising and events and getting to know you all!
Following are the minutes for the meeting in week 5.
Sarah Zhang
(new) Secretary
Rotaract Club of UWA
Attendance: Lauren Basanovic, Carly White, Sara Adhitya, Kylie Kerin, Joshua
King, Sarah Zhang, Julie Carruthers, Tara and Angus (Representative from
West Perth Rotary).
Apologies: Heather Cooper, Robin Chen, Jess and Lucy Shea.
* Letters were received from The Armadale Domestic Violence Intervention
Project and The Cancer Council thanking UWA Rotoract and particulary Carly
for funds raised. The money will go towards supplying therapeutic books and
toys for children suffereing from the impact of domestic and family
violence; and towards cancer research and cancer prevention education
programs.
* Daffodil Day is this Friday, 19th August! The Cancer Council have asked
for a helping hand in the selling of Daffodil Day merchandise to raise money
that will go towards providing education, community support, palliative care
and counselling. If you are interested in helping out visit
www.daffodilday.com.au or call 1300 65 65 85.
* A subcommittee has been formed to initiate the selling of bandannas, pens
and other merchandise around campus in support of CANTEEN on Friday the 28th
of October. Julie is a Canteen member and has offered to organise for a
staff member from the organisation to attend our next meeting!
* Karaoke night this Friday the 19th with the other Rotary clubs! Includes
club competitions! At 7pm at Utopia James St Northbridge. Let Josh know if
you are interested. BYO wine.
* Tara will be our representative at the next Dial a Santa meeting.
* The Visit to the Wheelchair Factory is this Saturday the 20th, 10am. Meet
outside the Tavern.
* Kylie has spoken to Cynthia from Subi Rotary about organising a chocolate
and wine tasting night! She will be emailling her to follow up.
* Angus, a Representative from West Perth Rotary, gave us a very informative
talk about their club. They have an international committee that looks over
international exchanges and have been involved in projects that range from
supporting volunteers in East Timor and providing them with funding to
running educational programs in Africa to deal with the issue of sex
slavery. They work with Clarkson Snr Highschool in supporting student
exchange and science forums. They also support the Great Bike Ride and will
provide food for the event in November.
He mentioned that they needed volunteers to usher at the Regal Theatre
around November for their Storm of the Stage and Magic Show events. They
were also keen to have a representative from Rotoract each week attend their
meeting at the Twarri Lodge in Nedlands. Meetings are on Thursdays 7.30 -
8.30 am and includes breakfast. Lauren will be putting together a roster so
we can take turns representing UWA Rotoract at their weekly meetings.
*Next Meeting - Tuesday the 30th August at the May Tannock Room 1pm
(Upstairs of the Guild Refectory next to Cafe Acorn)
