The coldest night of the year did not deter the new president of Liverpool Greenway from attending last night’s meeting where she detailed plans for her club’s year ahead. Mrs June Young is already renowned for her organisational abilities in putting together such successful functions as The Police Officer of the Year Awards and The annual Combined Services Dinner. June is now focussing on staging The Christmas in July spectacular which will again involve the input of all three Liverpool Rotary clubs. The focus for her year as president is to bring the three Liverpool clubs closer together by means of holding

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We had another very good roll up to tonight’s meeting. I counted 26 people in attendance. These included our special guest speaker, the inspirational Colin Taylor; Pastor Colin Davidson of The Inspire Church and Poppy and Duncan, fresh from their RYPEN Camp (with their family members).

Our speaker for the night, Colin Taylor, knows a thing or two about automobiles. His life basically revolved around them, especially Chevrolet cars, a passion he shared with long time friend

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So this month Rotary took us to Russia, we visited the grand city of St. Petersburg. It is an enormous city although not that old it still has many beautiful palaces and a fortress which are great to look at. We visited sites like the Hermitage, several churches, Peter the Greats chamber of Curiosities. We also saw a Russian ballet and some incredibly talented Cossack Dancers. There was lots of fun with the other exchange students on the busses and in the hotel as well as looking at all of the amazing sights. I took over a thousand photos and now that Eurotour is upon us I fear my camera might run out of memory

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Numbers for last night’s meeting were bolstered to twenty three with the return of myself and other Vietnam Vision volunteers; Joe Cauchi, Ted Mlynarz and Jimmy Leahy. Bob Groat was unable to attend as the stomach bug he procured some eight days ago in Saigon is still preventing him from functioning on all cylinders. Many of our wives were also in attendance which made our special guest, Professor Des Richardson feel right at home. Des is no stranger to our club. Besides being a local to the area, he has visited many times previously whilst also being the recipient of research funds provided by our club.

Professor Richardson’s major contributions to cancer research are focused on understanding the role of iron in cancer cell proliferation and the development of novel anti-tumour agents known as iron chelators. Indeed, these studies have resulted in highly promising and potent anti-cancer drugs

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Tuesday, 15 June 2010 - A New Direction in Cancer Therapy – Prof. Des Richardson (Sydney University)
Tuesday, 22 June 2010 – Colin Taylor – Working with charities in Laos (Colin is blind)
Saturday, 26 June 2010 – Liverpool Greenway Changeover – Fairfield RSL
Monday, 28 June 2010 – Liverpool Changeover – Hunts Function Centre
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 – TBA
Friday, 2 July – Inner Wheel Club of Liverpool Combined Change Over - Gemmelles
Tuesday, 6 July 2010 – Club Forum
Saturday, 10 July 2010 – Liverpool West Changeover Ball
Sunday, 11 July 2010 – District 9690 Change Over
Tuesday, 13 July 2010 - No Meeting - Transferred to Wednesday 10 July 2010

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Roster for the coming weeks is displayed on our website, but for our web challenged members, those on duty in the coming weeks are: -

Saturday, 12 June 2010 – Peter Houghton (Ron will fill in), George Kristen & Jim Leahy
Saturday, 19 June 2010 – Pat Murray, Ted Mlynarz & Shann O’Connell
Saturday, 26 June 2010 – Jim Rudling, John Squilacotti & Kevin Walker
Saturday, 3 July 2010 – Richard Watts, Adam Whyte & Steve Alexander
Saturday, 10 July 2010 – Peter Anjos, Peter Beadle & Frans Buskermolen

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We again had a depleted meeting last night which was expected with 20% of our members in Vietnam with the Vietnam Vision Team, 10% touring in places between Australia, Canada and the Danube,

Domini Stuart was our guest speaker and her topic was “Challenges & Choices”.

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The presentation by Ronnie Kahn, which was scheduled for Tuesday, 29 June 2010, has been postponed to avoid clashes with other functions (Change Overs) scheduled to be held over the last week of June and the first two weeks of July. A new date will be set and other local clubs will be invited to join us to hear Ronni talk on OZ Harvest.

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In July we commence hosting an exchange student from Finland, Henni NIEMI comes from Seinajoki a town of around 60,000 people, she is 16 and will be attending James Ruse High School during her 12 months in Australia. Apart from her studies Henni is a keen volleyballer and likes all other sports, she likes to read and meet people. We are in need of host families for her stay, this involves having Henni live with you family for a period of up to 3 months between July 2010 and June 2011. We need to finalise this as soon as possible as Henni is about to arrive. If you are able to help contact President Elect Peter Beadle as soon as possible on 0417 416 231 or peter_beadle@worxpace.com .

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We had a well attended meeting last night, particularly as we currently have 6 of our Members imbedded in the jungles of Vietnam assisting the Vietnam Vision Team with the planned 400 operations to restore the sight of needy patients, I should qualify the previous statement by clarifying that our members are helping logistically, not surgically.

Our guest speaker was Daniel Doherty from MerlinFX who

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