The Market has now re-opened. The Club is currently trying to return to meetings in person but venues vary each week. Please confirm venue below or via the website here.
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Edition 53
Monday, 8th November 2021
Message from our President
“Serve to Change Lives”
Well, how good was last Sunday with the return of our Rotary market. Whilst the day started with drizzly rain by 8 am that had cleared. Lots of stallholders sold out of products and the plant and Theo’s Garden soil trucks went home fairly empty. There were over 2,300 pedestrians attending the market and gate donations were above average.
Ron B. had our covid market well and truly mapped out and planned to perfection.
Thanks, must also go to Geoff Gartly, I am quietly confident that the large foot traffic at the market was in no small measure due to his diligence with facebook postings over the last week or so.
Now for the next bit of good news, Face to Face breakfast meetings from this week onwards to the end of this year. Meet at 7 am for 7.10 am start at Royal Brighton Yacht Club, The Esplanade Brighton. Function Room upstairs (take the lift at reception or walk up one flight of stairs).
Parking is either inside streets or at the middle Brighton baths next door to the yacht club.
To enter the restaurant, you MUST have with you proof of your double vaccination, either on phone, app or the certificate in paper form. Without this, you will be denied entry and we as a club can do nothing to change that.
There are no limits on numbers for breakfast so feel free to bring along, family, or potential members.
For those members unable to attend in person Ian Ballantine will be providing the option of a hybrid meeting so you can log in using our club zoom link from 7 am onwards.
Hands-on Community Project.
Looking for volunteers to assist on Saturday 20th November, within the time frames 10 am to 1 pm, either all or just an hour of your time assisting Glen Eira Police with their “Community Safe Plate Day”, details are on our website as is registration of interest or let Linda O’Brien or myself know your availability.
We will also put up an information table promoting our club and Rotary during this event.
Rotary members will be fitting anti-theft number plate screws or engraving bikes and tools to reduce the risk of theft.
This is a fabulous event for our club to be seen responding within our community.
Another project happening at present is our club’s Christmas hampers. We are compiling 100 special treat hampers to be distributed through our community partners. Anyone with a spare hour or so to help put the hampers together or deliver out to the community is asked to let Margaret Mason know.
Thanks go to Tim Lynch and Ray White Real Estate for the photocopying of the letters that will go into each hamper bag.
Looking forward to seeing in person all your smiling faces on Wednesday.
Meeting this week - MORNING MEETING
This week we are meeting in person at the Royal Brighton Yacht Club - details here
Zoom will be an optionMeeting ID 3532621046 Pwd 3191 or click here.
All meeting info can be found here.
It will be a morning meetingstarting at 7 am for 7.10 am start
Guest speaker will be Michael Bury, Rotarian behind the badge.
Also, have a look at the article below on subscribing to our Events Calendar. Have all events update directly to your phone.
By the way, I have updated the Zoom help page about Raising your Hand in Zoom here. It works a little differently now.
Ian Ballantine
Our Club meets weekly. It can either be a Zoom meeting, or an "in-person" meeting.
This week, we will be on Zoom only - details here Please check details of each week's meeting here or elsewhere in this Bulletin to confirm the venue. You are very welcome to join us.
Please click here to see all events and here to see how you can have events added automatically to your calendar.
Annual General Meeting
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING & CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR ELECTION AS DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
The Annual General Meeting of the Rotary Club of Bentleigh Moorabbin Central Inc. Will be held on Wednesday 24th November 2021 at a location and method to be advised.
Business includes Presentation of accounts for the Club and Market, Statutory matters for the Incorporated Association, and the Election of Directors and Officers for the Rotary year 2022-2023
The formal Agenda will be issued later.
Election of Directors and Officers:
2 Directors to be elected to serve for 2 years from 22-23 to 23-24.
Ron Brownlees and Julie Reed whose terms have expired retire but are eligible for re-election. (Two other Directors, Linda O’Brien and Peter Nolan continue to serve their second year)
Officers to be elected for the Rotary year 2022 - 2023 (commencing 1 July ’22)
(Margaret Mason, currently President Elect, will become ‘President’)
( Helen Nodrum, currently President, will become ‘Past President’)
•President Elect Nominee. (To serve as President 23-24)
•Vice President
•Secretary
•Treasurer
•Auditor
The President-Elect has appointed a Nomination Committee to ensure there are nominations for each position. Members may also nominate themselves or other members for any position.
Nominations must be in writing and bear the signatures of the nominator and nominee, and be forwarded to the Secretary. A member may only be nominated for one position.
Where there is more than one nominee for a position, there will be a ballot.
Time Line:
Nomination are open now.
The Nomination Committee will present their nominations to the Club meeting on Wed 17th November (one week before the AGM.)
Nominations from members must reach the Secretary by Friday 15th November
From the Rotary website here London, 1 November 2021: The Power of Nutrition announced on 1 November a partnership with Rotary International, the Eleanor Crook Foundation, and The END Fund, to fund a new multi-sector nutrition program in Ethiopia. By pooling resources and working through The Power of Nutrition, the funding partners' investments are being matched to create a five-year, $30 million program.
Rotary’s goal of ridding the world of polio is within reach, global health experts said during the 2021 World Polio Day Online Global Update on 24 October. The 30-minute program, “Delivering on our Promise of a Polio-Free World,” provided encouraging information about the progress and remaining challenges in the fight to end polio.
From the Calendar page here you can subscribe to the Club's event calendar.
This will result in the Club's calendar being added to your existing calendar subscriptions, thus ensuring that as an event is added (or modified) to the Club's calendar, it will appear on your phone, tablet etc. Calendars supported are Outlook, Google and Apple.
Take the link, Subscribe to Calendar, from the Calendar Page.
Thanks again to Karin Soster for providing some great material.....
Winston Churchill loved paraprosdokians - figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected. Some excellent examples below:
1. Where there's a will, I want to be in it.
2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it's still on my list.
3. Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
4. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.
5. War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
6. Knowledge knows a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
7. They begin the evening news with 'Good Evening,' then proceed to tell you why it isn't.
8. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
9. I thought I wanted a career. Turns out, I just wanted pay checks.
10. In filling out an application, where it says, 'In case of emergency, notify:' I put "DOCTOR."
11. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
12. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street...with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.
13. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.
14. A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.
15. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
16. Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.
17. I'm supposed to respect my elders, but now it’s getting harder and harder for me to find one.
The Market re-opened last Sunday, November 7.
No report but here are a couple of pics. I have more in an album here.
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.
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.
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members unable to attend in person Ian Ballantine will be providing the option of a hybrid meeting so you can log in using our club zoom link from 7 am onwards.
The Annual General Meeting of the Rotary Club of Bentleigh Moorabbin Central Inc. Will be held on Wednesday 24th November 2021 at a location and method to be advised.
