Next week we are meeting at Allio 284 Highett Rd Highett as cilantro is not available to us.
Last week we recapped the conference and heard a motion to fund interplast for $10,000 from Paul Ferguson which we will put to the membership at the Wednesday meeting at Allio. It is a very worthwhile donation and will do so much .
Last Tuesday the board met and passed a motion unaminously to invest the funds from the sale of the houses into an ANZ Trustees fund.
This will protect and increase the capital base of the corpus and give us dividends to carry out our charitable works.
We will in due course send an analysis of this to review for your perusal.
Yours in Rotary ‘The Magic of Rotary’
President Tim Lynch
Roster for the next 2 weeks
Note Market start time is 6.15am
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REGISTRATION FOR MEETINGS All meetings will now utilise the Registration facility. asking members to register their attendance, or non-attendance, at Club meetings. Note that it is equally important that guests are registered as well.
Members can either register as soon as the event appears in the calendar or respond to the invitation(s) via email to members in the week prior to the meeting. This email will contain a direct link to the event registration page. Here, we ask that you either accept or decline the invitation. You will also have the opportunity to add any guests. Once registered for the event, you will no longer receive an email for that event.
If you choose not to register either your intention to attend or not, it will be assumed you are not attending.
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Ian Ballantine
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Link to photos from 2025 Conference here
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District Changeover - July 12, 2025 (Details to follow)
Members will recall that two weeks ago we had a joint Zoom meeting with the St Marylebone Rotary Club in the UK. Joint President Carole Harris has kindly sent through their latest Club Bulletin which includes reference to this meeting.
This story is taken from the Rotary International website here.
One of Rotary’s earliest service projects helped to bring public toilets to Chicago, the quickly growing industrial city in the Midwest of the United States where Rotary began in 1905. Club members didn’t construct the restrooms themselves, as they sometimes do today. But just as they do today, they worked with other local groups to raise awareness of the need for sanitation in this urban area and advocated to get the project funded.
These public toilets, then known as “comfort stations,” were typically underground structures at busy sites such as parks and public squares. Civic leaders and reformers in several American cities were noting a need for them, and Rotary members in Chicago were part of the movement.
At right - Entrances to public toilets at LaSalle and Washington Streets in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Before February 1955. These entrances no longer exist.
Our own PDG Ian Ballanine was chairperson for today's club meeting at Cilantro. Charles joined the meeting via Zoom.
Ian received feedback from Co-President Carole Harris at the R.C. of St Marylebone following our joint meeting in the week prior - and who was delighted with the story in our bulletin. She and her club were pleased with the joint meeting and having connected with a club in this manner, and they look forward to more joint meetings in the future.
Before the Club membership is a motion to support INTERPLAST to the tune of AUD$10,000. Our Club has a fine record of supporting INTERPLAST .
I thought it would be timely to summarise a little of what INTERPLAST does. For more information, please refer their website here.
Interplast, a not-for-profit organization, provides free reconstructive surgery and medical training to people in the Asia-Pacific region who otherwise lack access to these services.
Their mission is to 'repair bodies and rebuild lives' and they do this through providing surgical services to those who could not otherwise afford or access these, and by building the capacity of local medical systems through our training and mentoring programs.
Interplast was founded in 1969 by Dr. Donald R. Laub of Stanford University, who believed that reconstructive plastic surgery could transform lives. Rotary Connection: Interplast was founded through the partnership of Rotary and The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1983.
This is just a brief report regarding the District Conference held this past weekend in Bendigo.
It was attended by members President Tim, (with Angela), Karin Soster (with Gary), Peter and Linda O'Brien, Ian Ballantine and Helen Parker and Bert d'Unienville.
A summary of speakers and other activities can be found on the Conference website here.
Also included on this page is a link to all conference photographs here.
PDG Ian Ballantine was chairperson for today's special joint club meeting with the Rotary Club of St Marylebone in London UK. Charles joined the meeting via Zoom, as did Co-Presidents Carole Harris and Steve Rhodes and all the members from St Marylebone, whilst our club members convened in Cilantro. This special meeting was instigated by Carole who had travelled to Australia and visited our club on previous occasions, and suggested a joint club meeting for a connection and sharing of Rotary minds.
Yemeni journalist Tawakkol Karman promotes peace and women’s rights By Etelka Lehoczky
The first woman from the Arab world to win the Nobel Peace Prize will address Rotary International’s 2025 convention, which takes place from 21-25 June in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Tawakkol Karman has endured persecution and imprisonment for speaking out in favor of democracy and women’s empowerment.
Alan Kempton was chairperson for today's club meeting at Cilantro. Charles Rener joined the meeting via Zoom - including former club member, Max Trist.
Barbara M. of R.C. Moorabbin also joined the meeting as a visitor.
This article is intended to help members register themselves and/or a guest to a Club event. Note, your can also register your intention NOT to attend.
If an event is inviting members to register there will be a button with the word: "Members" below "Online Registration". refer image at left.
Note that you need to be already logged in as a member. If you are not a member, this page will not be of any help. It may still be possible to register for an event as a non member if the event is open to the public.
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.
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Team members: Larry Green, Jim Magee, Tim Lynch, Margaret and Lynn from Moorabbin Other helpers and visitors: Charles Rener
Waiting in queue: 0. O Night parkers : 1 Pedestrian count 1200 Market Report: Pleasant morning weather wise although wind had a bit to it. Very busy early with racks and tables hire. Trouble free.
Leader, Larry Green
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 far superior.
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
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.
Additionally, member's birthdays and anniversaries will no longer be listed in the Club Bulletin. This is to protect the privacy of members. This information is still available to members here.
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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This is just a brief report regarding the District Conference held this past weekend in Bendigo.
PDG Ian Ballantine was chairperson for today's special joint club meeting with the Rotary Club of St Marylebone in London UK. Charles joined the meeting via Zoom, as did Co-Presidents Carole Harris and Steve Rhodes and all the members from St Marylebone, whilst our club members convened in Cilantro. This special meeting was instigated by Carole who had travelled to Australia and visited our club on previous occasions, and suggested a joint club meeting for a connection and sharing of Rotary minds. 
Taken from Rotary International site 
