PERTH ROTARY | PRESIDENTS UPDATE | 1 December  2020

Rotary does not stop ……..  rather like a rolling stone gathering momentum with every turn.  This week we welcome Mr Ron Manners AO as our guest speaker. Ron is kept busy running The Manners family company, Mannwest Group Pty Ltd, which has been in operation for the past 125 years.  Ron is also the founder and chair of the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation, which sponsors students to receive internships and attend conferences across the globe. These students have the opportunity to learn about policy from international thinktanks – and bring new ideas back to WA.

 

Kalgoorlie has been central to Ron’s business enterprises with the launch of Croesus Mining in 1986.  Ron served two terms as President of the Kalgoorlie Chamber of Commerce and was Patron of the Golden Mile Art Exhibition Group during this time.

 

In 1997, Ron established the Mannkal Foundation, a free market thinktank which promotes ideals of voluntary cooperation, personal rights, and individual resourcefulness.

 

Ron is a Miner, Businessman, Philanthropist and recent finalist in the WA Senior Australian of the Year.  In June of 2020, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for his ‘distinguished service to the minerals and mining sectors, and to youth through philanthropic support for educational initiatives.’  If you have not already done so, please rsvp via your paperless post invitation to our lunch meeting this Friday, 4 December at the Westin Hotel, 480 Hay Street, PERTH.  We look forward to your company from 12.30pm for a 12.45 start.  Registration is payable at the door ($55/pp) and includes a 2 course meal with tea/coffee.

 

 

The Path of Hope Foundation is making a list and checking it twice with the 2020 Christmas Gift Appeal in full swing at no less than 13 pharmacy’s throughout the metropolitan area.  The Pharmacies act as collection points for the gifts which are then collated and transported to the Salvation Army for distribution to women and children who are displaced due to family domestic violence.  Helen Leach and the Path of Hope Foundation along with the Salvation Army strive to bring joy, light and hope into the worlds of our most vulnerable community members.  Please go to www.pathofhope.org.au for the full list of participating pharmacies to drop a gift off, or please feel free to bring a gift (unwrapped please) to our Christmas Breakfast, Friday 18 December 2020 and we will ensure it is delivered.  We thank Helen Leach for her energy, compassion, drive and enthusiasm with this project.  Helen is the driving force behind the collection points and success of the appeal for which we are greatly indebted and thankful for.   

 

 

Please go on line to book your tickets to this event.  We are anticipating a full ballroom at The Westin Hotel and your cooperation in booking early greatly assists us with our event planning.  Please don’t hesitate – just go on line and book www.trybooking.com/BMOBT.  This is a family friendly | Work Colleague Friendly event – Rotarians are welcomed and encouraged to bring guests to this event as we celebrate and give thanks for the year that was 2020.  

 

Rebecca Tolstoy AM, Chair of the Path of Hope Foundation presented a Certificate of Appreciation to Mr Barry Fitzgerald, CEO of Roy Hill in recognition of Hancock Prospecting and Roy Hills’ generosity and support of the Path of Hope Foundation.  Suzanne John, Journalist and Friend of Perth Rotary and Path of Hope Foundation, has written up the full story which can be viewed by clicking on the following link. 

 

 

As you are aware, the Path of Hope Gala Ball is booked for Saturday 22 May 2021 and we look forward to your support of this event in the New Year.