Please note this week is an EVENING MEETING at Cilantro 6.30pm For full event and location details, please refer here.
The meeting will NOT BE available on Zoom
Edition 183
Monday, 4th September 2024
Message from our President - Tim's Tattles
Another eventful wednesday morning with the dramatic exit of our past president Ron during breakfast after he had a bit of a turn.
The greatest club in the southern hemisphere rose to the occasion during the meeting and hardly skipped a beat. Ron was treated and the meeting proceeded with a very informative and fruitful discussion managed by Ian Ballantine on managing our website. Thanks Ian
Next wednesday we have an evening meeting (with Cordon Bleu chefs) with and we need 32 members to make it work. The notable Australian and former Human Rights commissioner Tim Wilson will be speaking to us about challenges facing Australia. Bring some guests to this exciting meeting.
We look forward to this.
Yours in Rotary ‘The Magic of Rotary’
President Tim Lynch
Board Motions
The following motion was put to the members at last week's Club Meeting and was approved:
That the Board of Bentleigh Moorabbin Central support a donation of $5,000 for the Applied Learning Awards and that this be taken to the club members for approval. (This motion will be voted upon by members at this week's (28th August) meeting.)
Editor's note - this event will take place on October 19 - details 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.
Meetings
Meeting Sept. 4th, 2024
Chairperson Gartly, Geoff
Cashier Nodrum, Helen
Cashier Reid, Julie
Regalia Ballantine, Ian
Meeting September 11th, 2024
Chairperson Kruss, Neville
Cashier / O'Brien, Linda
Cashier Oliver, Barry
Regalia Green, Larry
Market Sept 8th, 2024
Market Leader Nodrum, Helen
Assistant Kruss, Neville
Assistant Soster, Karin
Market September 15th , 2024
Market Leader Green, Larry
Assistant O'Brien, Peter
Assistant - Carruthers, Kellie
This week's speaker / event
Coming Speakers:
This week - 4th September EVENING Meeting Guest speaker Tim Wilson, former member for the Federal seat of Goldstein. President Tim has invited Tim to speak to us - topic: "The challenges facing Australia" .
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.
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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) 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.
Our new club member, Kevin Egan, was our chairperson for this week's club meeting at Cilantro. Charles, Tony and Helen N joined the meeting via Zoom. Guests included James Grant and Jenny Stone, and Min Nguyen - our guest speaker. Apologies were received from Helen P, Linda, John, Dee, Alan and Faye.
Peter O'Brien was chairperson at this week's club meeting at Cilantro. Charles and Karin attended via Zoom. Guests included James Grant, and Jean. Special birthday greetings for Linda O'Brien who celebrates her birthday today.
GUEST SPEAKER - Trish Carr - Rotary Club of Box Hill Burwood
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Team members: Ian Ballantine, Karin Soster, Jo Impey, Jenny and Intha from Moorabbin RC. Other helpers and visitors: Charles Rener, Helen Nodrum Cars in queue: 1. Night parkers : 0 Pedestrian count 781 Market Report: Very windy but dry. Only 6 tables and racks sold. Many many empty spaces but spirits still high. A great team thank you to all. Leader, Ian Ballantine
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This week - 4th September EVENING Meeting
There have been some disturbing developments in the End Polio campaign, initiated by Rotary in 1985.
