A Life In Chapters From Portsmouth to Perth - resilience turned into purpose.

Rotary will benefit greatly from Dawn choosing Rotary as her service home. 

“I build the safety nets I never had — so the next person doesn't have to fall as far before someone reaches back.” - Dawn France

From Portsmouth to Perth, from a childhood marked by hardship to the boardroom, Dawn turns hard-won experience into governance, advocacy and service — for young people through WA PCYC, and for forgotten children a world away through Nakuru Hope. Her next chapter is Second Chapter: a community centre to help women rebuild their independence

Join Rotary members and friends for a productive morning/afternoon in the fresh air helping bring back some biodiversity to our precious Banksia Woodlands through planting native seedlings.

This volunteer opportunity is made possible with SERCUL (South East Regional Centre for Urban Landcare) and funding from Bupa and Landcare Australia.

Location: Piney Lakes 555 Leach Hwy, Winthrop WA

Parking: There is a carpark to the left when you enter from Leach Highway (marked yellow on map picture) 

Planting: The planting will occur in a degraded Banksia Woodland to the north east of Piney Lakes along a sandy track (marked blue on map picture). We will be planting a mixture of banksia and tree species along with understory plants suitable for a changing climate. SERCUL will ensure all plants, and planting equipment are at site beforehand. SERCUL is also planning to auger holes prior to the event. The goal is to plant 3000 plants per day.

What To Bring: Participants will need to bring enclosed shoes, gardening gloves (although SERCUL will bring some spares), sunsmart clothes that can get dirty, water bottle, hat, sunscreen and wet weather gear. 

Prior to the planting a SERCUL staff member will give a quick safety brief, run through a site JSA (Job Safety Analysis)and a planting demonstration.

Saturday 1pm start, finish approx 5pm, with sausage sizzle/snacks at end

Sunday 8:30am start, finish approx 12:30pm, with morning tea break around 10:30am

All Rotary clubs, Rotaract clubs and members of the general community are welcome to participate. Registration is essential for safety, insurance and catering.

Another year, another Art Exhibition!

Once again Melville Rotary and Applecross Rotary combine to present the Annual Art Show at Garden City. It's a big job to gather the stands from storage, deliver and set up in the main display area at the centre, then hang the paintings as the artists deliver them, let alone actually arranging and managing the exhibition itself.

Would you guess? Same old same old doing the heavy lifting yet again. 

Setting up is quite a physical job, firstly loading the frames etc from the loading bay, then positioning and juggling the solid art frames into position into the slots on the stands. Always pleased when that job is done. Then comes the part of delivering the art and  loading up the frames to ensure that the various artists works are grouped and attractive to the crowds passing through the centre from Monday to Saturday this week.

 After all, selling exhibits is what it is largely about!

Across the week, Applecross and Melville share the overseeing of the exhibition, recording sales etc and being generally helpful for prospective buyers. It really is a major commitment in logistical management, with at least 12 attending each day to fill the 2 hour slots from 7am til 7pm, and a great opportunity to showcase Rotary at work in the community.

Well done to Hamish and the Melville Rotary team led by James and Tracey-Anne for getting this all into shape yet again!

Kenn.