Weekly Bulletin (Jan. 22, 2024)

The Market has now re-opened.
The Club has returned to meetings in person and run them in conjunction with Zoom. Arrangements may vary each week. Please confirm venue below or via the website here.

NORMAL MORNING MEETING THIS WEEK
Meeting This Week - we are at Cilantro 7am for 7.10am start
For full location details, please refer here.
The meeting will also be available on Zoom - details here

Edition 153

Monday, 22nd January 2024

Message from our President - Ron's Ramblings

It was great to see so many at our first meeting for the year at The Deck. It was also good that Charles and Asia could attend so that I could present Charles with a special certificate to celebrate his 50 years in rotary. Well done Charles.

Due to some unexpected changes we have had a request from the Rotary Club of Brighton wondering if we could assist in sharing the hosting an exchange student during the coming year. The request will be referred to the Board.

Our speaker this week will be Geoff Gledhill who will talk about his experiences and the challenges of being a ‘cherry farmer’ – the good the bad and the mouldy.

Due to the positive weather ‘forecasts’ the market has experienced a welcome increase in bookings over recent weeks, most unusual for January. Unfortunately when market day arrives the weather is often different from that predicted and a few stallholders choose to not attend leaving a few unnecessary empty spaces.

Glenda Stahel is currently developing our program and speaker list for the months ahead, so if you have any interesting people you feel would good for our meetings, please let her know.

See you all on Wednesday,

Yours in Rotary ‘Create Hope in The World.’

President Ron

Roster for the next 2 weeks
Meeting Chairman refer here for help
Note Market start time is 6.15am
Click on See all Rosters at right for future weeks. Members click here to see your own roster.

Meetings

Meeting January 24th ,2024

Chairperson Lynch, Tim

Cashier Kempton, Alan

Cashier Kane, Terry

Regalia Weeks, Faye

Meeting February 2nd, 2024

Chairperson O'Brien, Linda

Cashier / Regalia Mouradian, Anna

Cashier/regalia Stahel, Glenda

Regalia Soster, Karin

Market January 28th, 2024

Market leader Moran, Tim

Assistant - Stahel, Glenda

Assistant -Kruss, Neville

Market February 4th, 2024

Market leader Perry, Grant

Assistant - Ballantine, Ian

Assistant - Parker, Helen

This week's speaker / event

This week's speaker will be one of our own members, Geoff Gledhill. His topic will be " Growing, Maintaining and Harvesting Cherries."

Latest edition of District Highlights can be found here

This week's Meeting - 24th - Back at Cilantro

Club Meeting January 17 2024

Posted by Karin Soster

Tim Moran was today’s chairperson for our first club meeting for 2024 at The Deck in Brighton. The meeting was well attended and everyone enjoyed a lovely casual breakfast prepared by staff at The Deck. DG Ian and Helen P joined the meeting via Zoom. Guests included partners – Ken, Gary and Asia. Attendance apologies were received from Geoff Gledhill, Paul F, Kelly C, Vishal M, Samantha L, Julie R, Barry O, and Roy K.

Club Meeting December 13 2023

Posted by Karin Soster on Dec 13, 2023

Today’s meeting at Cilantro was our last for 2023 and what a fun meeting it was and enjoyed by all who attended. Alan chaired the meeting, and Glenda, Faye and Roy were apologies. Grant performed his International Club toast which, very fittingly, was toasted to President Svein Magne Sirnes of the Rotary Club of Drobak in Norway – Drobak officially being recognised worldwide as the ‘home of Santa Claus’.

Club Meeting December 6 2023

Posted by Karin Soster

Jo was our chairperson for today’s club meeting at Cilantro. Geoff Gartly performed the invocation and toast to Rotary and Australia. Charles and Karin joined the meeting via Zoom.

PRESIDENT ANNOUNCEMENTS – President Ron

Apologies for today’s club meeting - Alan, Faye, Tony, Sam, Glenda, and Roy.

Ron reminded everyone of the following dates and events:

Sunday 10/12/23 – is our end of year function at Dendy Café, Dendy Park in Brighton 1-4pm.

Monday 11/12/23 – BMC Board meeting in Cilantro at 7.30pm

Wednesday 13/12/23 – our last club meeting for this year at Cilantro

Wednesday 17/1/24 – first club meeting for 2024 – morning meeting at The Deck in Bay Street, Brighton – venue to be confirmed.

Marriot Services Open Day

Posted by Kellie Carruthers on Oct 26, 2023

Om the 26^th Oct Marriot support service opened a new site in Hampton East . Marriott supports those in our community with disability to achieve their goals and live an independent life. Hampton East will provide us with a modern location that is close to all amenities to support the capacity building of our NDIS participants . Want to know more contact Kellie @ Marriott : kellie.carruthers@marriott.org.au

Click on Read More to see more photos

Special Evening Meeting November 29 2023

Posted by Ian Ballantine on Nov 29, 2023

This week we enjoyed a very special evening with guest speaker, author Laraine Stephens.
We had a number of guests attend on the evening and all appeared to have enjoyed the night.

Laraine had worked as a teacher-librarian and Head of Library before she became a writer of historical crime fiction. Her first novel in the Reggie da Costa Mysteries, was The Death Mask Murders (2021) followed by Deadly Intent (2022) and then A Deadly Game in 2023. Laraine sets her Reggie da Costa Mysteries in Melbourne, early 20th century, in the aftermath of the Great war and during the heady days of 1920's, when gangs, sly grog and gambling dens inhabited the back streets of Melbourne.

Laraine happily signed copies of her books at the end of the evening.
Our thanks to Tony and the staff at Holmsglen for making our evening so special.

Take read more link to see some pics of the evening.

Market Report January 24 2024

Team members:Paul, Jo, Alan K. Andrew and Anita.
Other helpers and visitors:Marg and Anita from (Moorabbin Rotary) and Sam Langridge, Peter O’Brien, Charles Renner
Cars in queue: 3. Night parkers : 0
Pedestrian count 950
Market Report: Booked out market. Queue of 15 people waiting at the office to greet us with smiling faces and best wishes at 0600. 13 stalls booked and were no shows - mainly regulars. A few casuals being very demanding about which stall they want. Cloudy day and coolish temps.

Leader, Paul Ferguson

Note from the Editor re Images and Events

A point regarding the submission of images for the Bulletin and Website: Members are reminded that images have to meet a minimum size requirement, as has been specified for some time in the section at the bottom of this Bulletin. 820 pixels is the minimum size required with larger being better as this allows for cropping. The submission of images via MMS is NOT preferred as they are too small and of inferior quality. Email or Whatsapp is preferred.
Would any member like to take responsibility for the updating of the Club's Event Calendar? I have created a page of instructions here so it is very easy to take over.
Thank you, Ian Ballantine

Member Birthdays

Kellie Carruthers

January 19

Join Date

Charles Rener

January 1, 1974

50 years

Julie Reid

January 23, 2019

5 years

Samantha Langridge

January 30, 2022

2 years

I remind members that you are responsible for the information contained in the Club's database. This includes, birthdays, phone numbers, addresses etc etc. Even your own photo. You maintain this via this link.
Ian Ballantine

A reminder to members to keep checking the calendar of upcoming events for evening and perhaps, one day, daytime events.

Thank you for being a subscriber to our Weekly Club Bulletin. I try to have it published each week by Tuesday morning.
If you would like to have something included please contact me at editor@rotarybmc.org.au and attach, as separate files, the words and any images (jpg files are fine, minimum width 820 pixels). Please DO NOT send information as pdf files.
Ian Ballantine, Editor.

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NORMAL MORNING MEETING THIS WEEK Meeting This Week - we are at Cilantro 7am for 7.10am start For full location details, please refer here. The meeting will also be available on Zoom - details here

Message from our President - Ron's Ramblings

Latest edition of District Highlights can be found here

This week's Meeting - 24th - Back at Cilantro

Note from the Editor re Images and Events

NORMAL MORNING MEETING THIS WEEK
Meeting This Week - we are at Cilantro 7am for 7.10am start
For full location details, please refer here.
The meeting will also be available on Zoom - details here