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Meeting This Week - we are at Cilantro 7am
The meeting WILL be available on Zoom this week details here
Edition 75
Monday, 9th May 2022
Message from our President
“Serve to Change Lives”
VIBRANT CLUB.
I wish to start this bulletin report with a couple of quotes, many of you have seen these before and I have used the modern rotary definition in previous reports.
DEFINITION OF A MODERN ROTARY
Adaptability, flexibility, stable platform – service as the major component.
DEFINITION OF INSANITY
Doing things, the same way over and over and expecting that will yield a different result.
During my president elect training some 12 months plus ago we held a session on what a vibrant club looks like. The key points from that session are as follows, each point as important as the other:
Communication, communication, communication – cannot be stated enough.
for each other – value everyone’s contribution
Fun, friendly – fellowship –
Reduction of cliques – No “my seat” attitude
Club leaders – who encourage opportunities for service
Community Service Projects – active in the community -“hands on projects”
Cluster meetings – combined with keynote speakers.
Within this vibrant club strategy, I would like to offer another acronym for consideration to sit alongside the Rotary “four-way test”.
“ T H I N K “
T = is it True
H = is it helpful
I = is it inspiring
N = is it necessary
K = is it kind.
Thnaks everyone, and warm regards
President Helen Nodrum
Speaker info this Week
This week's speaker info: Danny Frawley Centre - speaker Alessia
Meeting will also be available on Zoom Meeting ID 3532621046 Pwd 3191 or click here.
District 9810 Newsletter
This month's edition of the DG Newsletter, Changemaker is out now. If you haven't seen it in your inbox, click here.
There's lots of news from the District, including a run down of Conference 2022 and some great stories from Clubs withing 9810 and their projects. It really is worth having a look at!
ATTENTION St Kilda Fans - This is your chance to get your hands on a football signed by the 2022 St Kilda Football Team! To be Auctioned This Saturday at 8PM at the Bentleigh Club. Refer here for details.
Member Ian Ballantine, District Governor Nominee, attended a two day training session in Sydney with other DGN's. It was the first time we had the opportunity to meet in person.
Geoff Gledhill was our chairperson today at Cilantro, and called upon Greg O’Shea for invocation and Larry Green for the royal toast. Anna Mouradian, who visited our club last week, joined us again today as a club guest. Ian was absent from today’s meeting, so there was no Zoom.
Within hours of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, Iryna Bushmina fled her home in Kyiv. Along with her sister and her three-month-old nephew, she journeyed to Vienna, Austria, staying with Rotary members along the way. Their generosity inspired Bushmina, a member of the Rotaract Club of Kyiv-City and the district Rotaract representative for Ukraine, to organize a larger-scale relief effort — and now, an online platform she created has helped Rotaract and Rotary members find shelter for thousands of Ukrainian refugees.
Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation stand with the United Nations General Assembly in expressing grave concern at “the ongoing human rights and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, in particular at the reports of violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law by the Russian Federation.”
Faye Weeks was our chairperson at today’s club meeting at Cilantro. Sue Loeliger was invited to perform Invocation, and Paul Ferguson to perform the Rotary Royal Toast. Faye welcomed our visitors – Anna Mouradian, a former Rotary member of Balwyn North Rotary Club and who returned to Australia recently after two years in Armenia, Rohan Laging - Director of Sandringham Hospital Emergency Department, Emma Saddington - Nurse Unit Manager in the Emergency Department, and guest speaker Miriam Issa. Glenda Stahel and Tony Ryan joined the meeting via Zoom.
President Report – President Helen Helen reports we received two thank you letters: R.C. Whittlesea thanked our club for the money spinner we provided to them, adding it is collecting lots of coins for their club Rural Aid thanked us for donating $3,000 that will be used to aid victims of the recent floods etc.
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Pedestrians 962
Margaret Mason, John Mason, Charles
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Meetings
Meeting May 11th 2022
Chairperson Gartly, Geoff
Cashier / Regalia Chad, Graham
Cashier / Regalia Perry, Grant
Sergeant Session Mason, John
Meeting May 18th 2022
Chairperson Gaur, Gaurav
Cashier / Regalia O'Brien, Linda
Cashier / Regalia Green, Larry
International Toast Perry, Grant
Market May 15th 2022
Market Leader Green, Larry
Assistant Kaplan, Roy
Nomad
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Ian Ballantine
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Doing things, the same way over and over and expecting that will yield a different result.
