At our Meeting on Tuesday, 29 June 2010 (6 for 6:30 p.m.) our Guest speaker will be Ronni Kahn who will speak about her organisation, Oz Harvest.

Ronni was recently named Australia's Local Hero 2010. This award, one of four in the Australian of the Year Award categories, recognises outstanding community members who have made a significant contribution or achievement.

OzHarvest is a not-for-profit organisation that rescues unwanted food from restaurants, retailers, food outlets and corporate kitchens across Sydney, Canberra and Wollongong to feed communities at risk

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The Recognition of Youth Award is unique to District 9690 which includes clubs from Western Sydney and surrounding areas, stretching from Burwood to Lithgow.

It was set up to mark the 75th anniversary year of Rotary International and has been conducted successfully since.

It seeks to identify involved, concerned young people of all-round ability, already embarked upon community interests and conscious of opportunities to participate in a wide range of interest groups.

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Our guest last night was Miss Kikki Tagaroulias of The Karri Aboriginal Resources Centre in Liverpool. This was the first presentation Kikki has made on behalf of the centre and we were privileged to witness it. Not a bad job either for a first timer. KARRI was established in 1999 and is a dynamic Indigenous community organisation based in Liverpool. They provide Aboriginal Child Protection Services and Community Capacity Building Programs to the Indigenous community of South-West Sydney. They develop and implement best practices in all aspects of their management and service provision and are recognised as the largest Aboriginal children’s service in NSW. Their Vision: The Indigenous community of South West Sydney will become self sufficient

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This month was very good and a lot of fun. There was Easter for starters where we got to eat a lot of lamb, apparently more than half of all the lamb eaten in Finland is during Easter. I got to experience the Lutheran Church where there was a wonderful organist playing all sorts of music. It was a bit different from the Roman Catholic Church I have grown up in but I am quite sure that the content was fairly similar. We visited some family friends in Porvoo which is a lovely old town by a river. It is one of the really old towns in Finland although it has burned down a few times but it is still really beautiful.

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Last night, I had the pleasure of performing a number of very satisfying duties on behalf of our club. As with all other meetings this year, most our members were fittingly on hand to share the experience.

The culmination of our main fund raising effort saw the handing over of a rather substantial cheque to Drug Arm. National Fund Raising Manager, Jane Thompson and Management Team Member, Naomi Talamaivao were on hand to receive a cheque for over $54,000 from our club which will help administer their Street Outreach Service over the coming year. Drug Arm receives no government funding; therefore allowing a partnership to flourish with our club that has become mutually beneficial. The bottom line is that our club gets to stage a yearly Circus Extravaganza for children and Drug Arm receives much needed operating funds. To date, this partnership has seen in excess of $500,000 raised for Drug Arm and more than 100,000 children pass through the turnstiles of The Circus. Not a bad result in just eight short years.

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The Rotary Club of Liverpool West Inc. is looking to sponsor suitable candidates who wish to be considered for these opportunities.

In the Rotary year 2010-11, the Rotary District which our club belongs to will have 2 Group Study Exchange (GSE) Teams. One team will be going to Taiwan and the other to the Philippines. The team that will be going to the Philippines will be a focus team with a theme of emergency services.

The Exchange period both teams is from 12th February 2011 to 12th March 2011. Team members may wish to take advantage of personal travel at the conclusion of the exchange.

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Last night our club hosted the very successful and well attended Miller TAFE Awards Presentation. These particular evenings seem to be getting bigger and better every year, so much so that Liverpool Catholic Club moved the event to one of the larger function rooms to cater for the 66 people whom were in attendance.

Our club’s association with Miller TAFE is well documented and dates back some thirty years. Who would have thought that when Liverpool West’s John Leckey, Greg Peel, Bill Keech, Tony Everett, John Mula, George Kristen and Peter Houghton sat down with TAFE administrators in 1981 to work out an awards scheme our club could administer and call our own, that it would still hold such significance so many years later? The vision of these men now sees our club firmly entrenched as a supporter of one of the districts leading teaching faculties.

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Nominations are now being sought for the Rotary Clubs of Liverpool Police Officer of the Year 2010
This is your opportunity to acknowledge outstanding acts of courtesy, kindness, understanding, compassion, courage or devotion to duty by any member of the NSW Police operating in the Liverpool Local Government area.
This is your chance to say “thanks for a job well done!’

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The Rotary Club of Liverpool West has been involved with Miller College from Inception of the College. Our 1980/81 Board ( President John Leckey, Secretary Greg Peel, Treasurer Bill Keech and Directors; Tony Everett, John Mula, George Kristen and Peter Houghton), commissioned the Inaugural Rotary Club Presentation Night of Awards to Outstanding Miller Students in 1981.
Only one Student from each Faculty may be chosen by their teachers in any one year. Teachers consider Academic results, the personal contributions made by the student to the classroom learning environment and the initiatives of the student to further advance their own education and standing in the community. There is no obligation

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Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA) is part of an international Rotary Project to educate senior high school students (years 10 to 12) on the United Nations Organisation and its vital commitment to world peace along with health, education and living standards around the world. MUNA helps students to develop public speaking and debating skills along with the study of the customs, culture and problems of the world’s nations. Delegates attend MUNA wearing the national dress of the country they represent.

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