Guest speaker for Thursday 26 March is Rob Storey, Past President of MDAWA (Now Neuromuscular WA), speaking on "My Fundraising walk from Melbourne to Perth commencing in April 2026".
Please find a substitute if you cannot fulfil your duty.
2 Minute Noodle
This week Corrin Caine gave his 2 minute noodle on his weekly goal of walking 20kms and his three favourite places to walk are:
1. Mandurah Forum Shopping Centre because of the wide variety of people walking around.
2. Augusta, along the banks of the Blackwood river.
3. Lake Jualbup in Shenton Park
Announcements
President Kym announced that he and Neil Hancock are still searching West Perth for suitable venues and they are currently waiting for pricing to come back from the Celtic Club.
The Op shop had a good day last Sunday 15th March selling $340 of stock.
Geoff Simpson & Ian Hutton gave a quick report on the District Conference in Northam and said the lineup of Speakers were first class. In all it was a very good & enjoyable Conference.
Guest Speaker
Our Guest speaker this week was Councillor Catherine Lezer who gave a very enthusiastic and informative presentation on current and future projects underway in the City of Perth. Please see the attached map of Perth CBD for more information.
President Kym's Parting Thought
"They say that money is not the key to happiness, but if you have enough of it you can always have a key made." Joan Rivers
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President Kym requested the following summary be attached to this weeks Bulletin
Extension Clubs Summary by John Stockbridge from Southern Districts Rotary Club (SDRC) 10 February 2026
An Extension Club (EC) is a separate Club Committee with its own Director that sits on the Board.
An EC meets monthly only and usually meets at a different Pub each month as selected by the members of the EC.
John said that on average most EC members have only lasted about 18 months.
The membership fees paid by EC members is $250 pa.
SDRC do Bunnings sausage sizzles for fundraising to subsidise Club fees.
Each SDRC Committee is allocated $16,000 pa to spend.
Most EC members are under 40 years of age and want to network with other members in business.
Finally, the EC members don’t want older members to run the EC as they don’t want to hear ancient history.
Geoff Woods comments after recording the above:
We should only start an EC if we have 6 or more people who like the concept and do not want to be a full member.
The EC leader should only be a current full member in business younger that 60 who is not on our future succession planning for a potential President, we don’t want to sacrifice a future younger President for an EC.
It is preferable for the EC Leader/Director to be an EC member that does not want to be a full member so the EC runs itself.
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