Rotarian Michael writes as follows:

While in USA  visiting my daughter and family in Framington MA late in June I attended a Framington Rotary Club meeting . Robbie already has the club flag the  president is handing to me in the attached pictures. His name is on their Framington website ..easy to google..They had around 60 members in attendance . I explained our Bali  Lovina Rotary  community projects  and also mentioned my Duyfken (Australia'ss first ship)  replica project. See attached photos.  In July returned to visit my brother and sister family members on east coast of  Australia and also visited my Uni brother Bruce Callaghan and also Duyfken now  in Sydney Harbour at the Australian National Maritime Museum (as in the photos). It was  so moving to witness the great Duyfken community support in Sydney. Many school groups and members of the public visit every day. Duyfken is proof that dreams can come true.

Rotarian Michael writes as follows:

My recent  pics of yesterday's sad cremation of young Putu from Kayuputih. She ran a very popular small warung with her mum next to Dolphin Statue.She was only 24 years old and great loss...a sudden ilness that doctors could not cure in time. She was great friend and counsellor to  overseas vistors and expats in Lovina including  Rotary Lovina members and a very large contingent of expats were there yesterday to mourn her  great loss with her large Bali family and many friends. 

On Tuesday November 23, 2010, our District Governor Al Purwa and his wife Marina hosted a dinner at the Hyatt hotel in Sanur.

Special guests of the evening were Rotary International President Ray Klinginsmith and his wife Judy.

Many Rotarians joined the event that was arranged around fellowship, good food and the opportunity to meet the President of our service Organzation.

On Friday 17 and Saturday the 18th of September a ‘Membership & PR Seminar’ was held at Sanur Paradise Plaza going by the name of the Triple-B seminars.What is triple B? Triple B stands for Bigger-Better-Bolder. Rotary Clubs are working on making their clubs bigger better and bolder in order to become even more successfully in serving their communities.This seminar was organized to work just on that. Clubs from Indonesia as well as Districts from the Philippines’ belong to zone 7a were represented.

It was a cooperation of Districts from within this zone that teamed up for this occasion with the PR seminar being a ‘first time event’.

On Tuesday August 3, Immediate Past President Robbie (on the right) hands over the new Baby Incubator that has been funded by the Rotary Club of Shoreline Breakfast to Gloria (centre), who is Manager of the Crisis Care Centre in Kaliasem, Lovina.  On the left is Nurse Kadek. 

A couple of months back the Rotary Club of Shoreline Breakfast contacted Rotary Clubs in Bali seeking opportunities to assist.  (Shoreline is about 20 Km north of Seattle in Washington State with the waterways of Puget Sound to the west, and Lake Washington to the east).  Rotarian Michael Young from our club thought of the Crisis Care Centre in Kaliasem so contacted Gloria.  She was wanting a baby incubator - she had previously had one but lent it to a Singaraja hospital which kept on using it.

The Council on Legislation, Rotary's “parliament,” meets every three years to deliberate and act upon all proposed enactments and resolutions submitted by clubs, district conferences, the General Council and Conference of Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland, and the RI Board. The Council itself also makes proposals.

The 2010 Council has released it's Report of Action and in the summary they say:

The Council considered 220 pieces of proposed legislation. These included 128 enactments(proposals to amend the constitutional documents of RI) and 92 resolutions (proposals whichdo not seek to amend the constitutional documents of RI). Of these, the Council adopted 47enactments and 19 resolutions. The Council referred 3 pieces to the RI Board for furtherstudy. The Council rejected 101 proposals, and 50 proposals were withdrawn or considered withdrawn. Of the 66 adopted proposals, the Council adopted 51 exactly as they wereproposed, while 15 were adopted with amendments. Those adopted with amendments arenoted in the report by an asterisk (*) after the number of the proposal. You will note that,where necessitated by amendments, the titles of the proposals have been changed toaccurately reflect the final intent of the legislation.

The complete report is 51 pages and you can read it at:

http://www.rotary.org/RIdocuments/en_pdf/col10_report_of_action_en.pdf