Chenny Chen first visited us on August 25th and at our meeting this week was able to fill us in a little more about himself and his background, together with some of the things he would like to do. Last Friday Chenny joined in on the first meeting of the Environment Project team, led by Kathryn Williams. Chenny has expressed his interest in Werribee Rotary Club and Peter Ross will be talking more with him about this.
New Visitors
It was a pleasure to have Michelle Yi and Rachael Hall visit this week’s meeting. Michelle and Rachael, as Wyndham residents we would be delighted to have you join us again, so that we all can get to know each other a little better.
Ian Hovey comes up Trumps
Thanks to Ian Hovey for arranging such a wonderful series of guest speakers.
This week Ian introduced Jala Shekho, the Community & Stakeholder Engagement Lead for Transurban’s Westgate Tunnel Project. In addition, Jala brought with her three of the Senior Project Engineers, in Chris McKenna, Sankel Gole and Hilary. Between them, they were able to provide fascinating information about this massive infrastructure project in Melbourne’s west.
Next week Ian’s invited guest speaker will be Kelly Grigsby, the CEO of the City of Wyndham.
Thinking about Rotary’s Walk With Us during October?
As part of Rotary’s End Polio Now campaign, District 9800 has arranged this fundraising activity during the whole of October.
Every one of us walks every day!
Why not convert your walking into your personal Rotary Service activity for October?
This week on Zoom we had a wonderful presentation by the Westgate Tunnel Authority.
We had four presenters from the stakeholders Transurben, Westgate Tunnel Authority & John Holland Joint Venture.
Jala Shekho - Community & Stakeholder Lead
Chris McKenna - Engineer Eastern Zone (Footscray Road to the Tunnel)
Sanket Gole - Engineer Engineer for the Tunnel Section
Hilary - Engineer for the Westgate Freeway to M80 Ringroad section
As a result of Covid restrictions, the builder had to reduce their staff levels by 30%. This is impacting progress on the project. As the project is going through residential areas, the builder is restricted by the amount of work that can be done at nights and on weekends. There is also a long running dispute with the state government over millions of tonnes of contaminated soil, and the relocation of gas and sewerage pipes.
The evening television news services only a few days ago, reported that a resolution on the toxic soil is imminent, and that the state government will pay the estimated removal cost of $3 billion. The state government is still maintaining that their contract is fixed, and that the builder is responsible for the soil removal cost, and completion on time. The builder believes works are about 12 months behind schedule.
The club is required to update its constitution & by-laws regularly, so they reflect the requirements of Rotary International.
Rotary International changes its rules every three years, following the Council on Legislation, where representatives of all districts around the world get together to consider rule changes, proposed by RI, Districts and clubs.
The latest changes have been incorporated in RI's rules, and now clubs must change their rules & constitution so that it does not conflict with the RI Rules.
75% of RC of Werribee members or 25-26, need to vote in favour of the changes. We were going to hold the meeting to vote on Zoom on 15.09.2020, but we only have about 15 members on Zoom each week. We need those members who are not attending on Zoom, to complete the paper based Proxy Form, and forward it to Secretary Kim Deneys ASAP, so we have 75% voting. Download the form below.
It's back - Alphabet Racing is back for season two, commencing on Saturday 3rd October 2020.
There is a maximum of 26 players.
$40 per person.
No skill required. Each week you are allocated a different letter of the alphabet, and you have all the runners starting with that letter, at the main Saturday Melbourne race meeting.
The girls have made 400 masks, of which 200 have been donated to Uniting Church Werribee, and 150 to the Salvation Army.
Mary will drop some off at Wyndham Cache Deli & Cartridge World to sell on behalf of the club.
Interact Club
The Interact Club are looking to make a brochure, to promote Interact to other schools in the region.
Guest Speakers
Everyone knows someone with an interesting story to tell. Pass them onto Ian Hovey so we can follow them up to speak to us on Zoom at a later date.
Support for Chris Ochaya in Uganda
Tamarind Australia is a registered public benevolent institution and is endorsed as a deductible gift recipient by the ATO.
ABN 55983038957
Your personal donation would be greatly appreciated by Chris and can be sent to:
Tamarind Australia (CBA Bank Engadine Branch, Sydney)
BSB 062 164
Account No: 10538981
Our footy tipping competition went right down to the wire. Nobody was able to catch Ross Conley.
After sitting in second place for the last 10 weeks or so, Peter Ross 'fell at the last hurdle', and got pipped for second by Ann Smith (thanks to the controversial bonus point for tipping all winners in a round)
Tony Todaro also made a late run, to tie with Peter Ross for third.
Thanks to Ian & Ross who ran the competition.
Round 18 – to 21st September 2020
This Week
Total after 18 rounds
Phil, Jeff & Elizabeth share $10 – nearest margin. A massive $3.30 each
Ann Smith
10
Ross Conley
112
Tony Todaro
10
Ann Smith
111
Ross Conley
8
Peter Ross
110
Alena Randall
8
Tony Todaro
110
Mary Macguire
8
Graham Roper
8
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ANNIVERSARIES
Member Birthdays
Mary Macaulay
September 29
Enzo Maddalon
October 9
Philip Purdy
October 9
Ian Knight OAM
October 15
Spouse Birthdays
Maria Todaro
September 20
Genny Knight
October 11
Anniversaries
Jason Daddy
Therese Daddy
September 14
Roland Wade
Margaret Wade
September 26
Lyn Fava
Rob Fava
September 27
Rob Fava
Lyn Fava
September 27
Lou Dowling
Lynne Dowling
October 11
John Micallef
Mim Micallef
October 31
Join Date
Graham Roper
October 1, 2007
13 years
Rob Fava
October 18, 2011
9 years
District 9800
Networker Weekly Newsletter
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