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 184
Monday, 9th September 2024
Message from our President - Tim's Tattles
After much planning we were privileged to have Tim Wilson speak to us . Amongst his accolades he was the former human rights commissioner and
former member for Goldstein. He was a riveting speaker and had vast knowledge on subjects as diverse as goals for young people to world affairs involving China.
The Cilantro administration again made a fabulous Cordon Bleu dinner which was prepared by the apprentices. For me this is always exciting at the cutting edge of cuisine.
We had visitors from Hampton Rotary who seemed pleased with the prospect of becoming more involved with us in the future which is great. We had Visitors and friends which was wonderful to see to listen to such a high profile speaker
We had excellent representation for future members. Our future is starting to look good for the club.
I am further pleased to advise that the board has approved funding for the applied learning awards and approved funding for the venue where the awards are to be held. (Ed: details here) This is a cause which is close to my heart.
Yours in Rotary ‘The Magic of Rotary’
President Tim Lynch
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 September 11th, 2024
Chairperson Kruss, Neville
Cashier / O'Brien, Linda
Cashier Oliver, Barry
Regalia Green, Larry
Meeting September18th 2024
Chairperson Loeliger, Sue
Cashier Impey, Jo
Cashier Perry, Grant
Regalia O'Brien, Peter
Market September 15th , 2024
Market Leader Green, Larry
Assistant O'Brien, Peter
Assistant - Carruthers, Kellie
Market September 22nd, 2024 2023
Market leader O'Shea, Greg
Assistant Lucas, Margaret
Assistant - Jenny Stone
Gartly, Geoff
Assistant - Loeliger, Sue
This week's speaker / event
Coming Speakers:
This week - 11th September Morning Meeting
Cheltenham Secondary College. We will be joined by Peter Allen, Assistant Principal - Teaching & Learning and two students who attended the RYDA day, Atika Saysouk and Lauren Hermann.
More info here
Next week - 18th September Morning Meeting
A representative from GESAC
More info here
Note that Club Meetings on September 25 and October 2 will be at Onyx Cafe
Members are asked to advise us of their intention to attend or NOT via the Registration facility on the corresponding pages at: September 25 and October 2
Non members can be registered by a member or email via Contact on each event.
For help with Registration, refer here.
Please check the upcoming events on the Club website here
Please forward any events you want promoted to the Editor.
As members may recall, a couple of weeks ago we had reason to call for an ambulance to attend at Cilantro.
I am taking the opportunity now to recommend to members, and whoever else finds this article, to consider installing the Emergency Plus app on their smart device. And, to ensure you place a shortcut on your Home Screen.
Opening the app at a time of emergency will give you immediate access to the appropriate phone numbers and, very importantly, provide accurate location information. Often a simple street address may not be available or useful.
Read on into this article for how to obtain the app and a summary of what it contains.
President Tim was chairperson for this evening's club meeting at Cilantro where club members, partners and guests enjoyed a wonderful dinner prepared by students studying at the Cordon Bleu Cookery School. Tony Ryan performed Invocation and the Toast to Rotary and Australia. Guests included Leonie Ryan, Puja Mahajan, Gary Ramage, Kieran and Bronwyn Lynch, former club member Richard Wright, Marie Arendsen and Jenny Fox from the R.C. Hampton, Jenny Stone, Kirsten Oakley, Chris Burrows, Peter Cummins from the R.C. Box Hill, Ross Delahunty, Ian Crane, and of course our guest speaker Tim Wilson.
FROM OUR SISTER CLUB ROTARY CLUB OF SAVUSAVU {Rotary Club of Bentleigh Moorabbin Central donated $1500.00 to this project last month}
Rocket Burn Barrel
Waste disposal, particularly plastic waste, is a major problem for remote villages and islands in Fiji. There is no recycling possible in these remote areas, so all garbage is either thrown into a casual landfill, burned in an open fire, left at the side of the road, or thrown into the sea.
There have been some disturbing developments in the End Polio campaign, initiated by Rotary in 1985.
Please note, this is not an official update but one that I have prepared to update members of my own Rotary Club.
Background:
Since 1985, Rotary in conjunction with the World Health Organisation and more recently The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have sought to eliminate Polio from the planet. This has involved the immunization of some 2.5 billion children in 122 countries. Background of campaign here.
This campaign has been incredibly successful, to the point where it could be claimed that cases have been reduced by 99.9%.
Over the last two years, Polio (Type 1) has been endemic in only two countries namely Pakistan and Afghanistan where in 2022 there were 22 cases in total and 2023 there were 12 cases in total.
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. 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.
Helen Nodrum was chairperson for today's club meeting. Alan Kempton performed invocation and the toast to Rotary and Australia. Charles attended via Zoom, and Lili De Brango from Holmesglen attended as a guest. Apologies were received from Terry Kane, Fr James Grant, Kevin Egan and Linda O'Brien. We wish Faye Weeks all the best for her upcoming surgery.
Paul Ferguson, was our chairperson for today's club meeting at Cilantro. Tony Ryan and Charles Rener joined the meeting via Zoom. Barry Oliver performed invocation and the toast to Rotary and Australia. Guests included Jenny Stone, June Egan, and Don Elgin - our guest speaker for today's meeting. President Tim announced apologies were received from Kellie Carruthers, Greg O'Shea, Glenda Oram, Helen Nodrum, Linda O'Brien, Faye Weeks, and Sam Langridge.
The following message was received from Minh Nguyen who attended our Club Meeting on the 14th August.
Dear All, I would like to thank all of you at the Rotary Club of Bentleigh Moorabbin Central for giving me the opportunity to present ROMAC to you last week and your donation of $2000 to ROMAC. Such generosity is very needed and meaningful. It certainly gives us, the volunteer Rotarians, encouragement in continuing the work in giving life-changing opportunities to those disadvantaged children. The club atmosphere was fun, friendly, relaxing but not lacking its class despite the early hours. I enjoyed it. Thanks to all.
A number of Club members attended a RYDA (Rotary Youth Driving Awareness), website here, event held at the Sandown Greyhound Facility.
In attendance were Helen Nodrum, Grant Perry, Peter O'Brien, Jenny Stone, Ian Ballantine and Bruce Fitcher (Moorabbin Rotary Club). Helen Parker also came along as an observer and supporter for Jenny.
This was the first time our Club has been involved with RYDA. The school we sponsored was the Cheltenham Secondary College and there were about 115 students and a further 10 or so staff. We hope to have a couple of the participants come along to a Club meeting in the near future to tell of their experience.
I can assure you that all of us were very impressed by the program and were very proud of our Club for sponsoring the day.
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.
Team members: Helen Nodrum, Barry Oliver, Neville Kruss, Geoff and Stef from Moorabbin RC. Other helpers and visitors: Charles Rener, Helen Nodrum Cars in queue: 0. Night parkers : 0 Pedestrian count 1291 Market Report: Mild weather. 13 degrees. Market busier that winter time. Umbrella from stall 121 scratched Vehicle of stall 124. 1291 in attendance.. Leader, Neville Kruss
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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.
Ian Ballantine
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Coming Speakers:
There have been some disturbing developments in the End Polio campaign, initiated by Rotary in 1985.
