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 224
Monday, 21st July 2025
Message from the President
This week’s speaker was to be Rotarian Colleen d’Offay, unfortunately she has had to postpone her presentation. Colleen is a manager at Donations in Kind, generally known as DIK. This is a cross district Rotary organisation that accepts donations of equipment that are no longer useful to the organisation that has donated it. The donated equipment can be accessed by clubs and sent to other places in the world where they may still be useful.
Fortunately a replacement speaker has been found for Colleen and this is Darren Egdar from Psychs on Bikes. This is a group of mental health workers who volunteer there spare time to provide psychiatric services to regional communities around Australia. Darren has spoken to us before and is an informative and compelling speaker. I would encourage members to attend to hear how the programme has developed.
Very soon every member will be invited to take part in a short survey relating to our Club’s meetings. Please take the time to respond as this is your club and it needs to fit the members and not the other way round.
Club President, 2025-26,
Grant Perry
BOARD MINUTES
A reminder to members that Board Minutes are available for viewing from the Club's website. Note that you must be logged in as a Member in order to gain access.
Access to all documents including Board Minutes can gained here.
The last published Board Minutes were the meeting of June 10, 2025 - here.
Ian Ballantine
Roster for the next 2 weeks
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 July 23rd, 2025
Chairperson Oliver, Barry
Cashier Green, Larry
Cashier Kruss, Neville
Regalia Oakley, Kirsten
Meeting July 30th , 2025
Chairperson
Cashier / Regalia d'Unienville, Bert
Cashier Magee, James
Regalia O'Brien, Linda
Market July 27th, 2025
Market Leader Reid, Julie
Assistant - Lucas, Margaret
Assistant - Burrows, Chris
Market August 3rd, 2025
Market Leader Ballantine, Ian
Assistant - O'Brien, Peter
Assistant Parker, Helen
This week's speaker / event
This week -Meeting at Cilantro
Our speaker this week is Darren Eger - Psychologist - Psychs on Bikes
details and REGISTRATION here
Next week will be Grant Holland from the Holland Foundation
Please check the upcoming events on the Club website here
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.
A reminder that instructions for Registration are here.
Ian Ballantine
Please forward any events you want promoted to the Editor.
Rotary Club of Moorabbin Changeover - Monday August 11
Places limited - Details here
Volunteers needed - Thursday July 31, 2025
Details here
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Link to photos from District Changeover July 2025 here
Link to photos from 2025 Conference here
Link to photos from 2024 Conference here
Rotary and Road Safety Education: Keeping our young drivers safe behind the wheel - From July 2025 RDU Magazine here
As a community partner of Road Safety Education Ltd (RSE), Rotary clubs and members have been coordinating the Ryda program since 2001. Working side by side with RSE, state police and government departments, Rotary continues to deliver this essential program, keeping our youth safe on the roads and teaching them how to make responsible decisions as both drivers and passengers.
To address a maternal health crisis, Rotary members help midwives build leadership skills and professional networks - By Hannah Shaw
About 830 women and 7,000 newborns, mainly in low- and middle-income countries, die each day because of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. These deaths are mostly preventable. Midwives are key to preventing them, so an initiative organized by Rotary members is supporting the essential work of midwives in Papua New Guinea and Australia.
Jenny Stone was our chairperson for today's club meeting at Cilantro. Guests included our guest speaker, PDG Dr Daryl Moran, Jenny Moran, PDG Bob Richards, Nicki Chung, and Gary Ramage.
Past President Tim Lynch had the very pleasant duty of presenting a Certificate of Appreciation to our Youth and Vocational Chair, Julie Reid, who, together with her team, does a power of work in the background for the Youth/Vocational committee.
District 9815 held their Changeover function on Saturday evening at the Pakenham Racecourse.
Members Peter and Linda O'Brien, Ian Ballantine and Helen Parker along with 2025-26 Club President, Grant Perry were in attendance. Also there was Nicky Chung (member of RC Wonthaggi), who will be familiar to Club members as was Sandringham member and friend of our Club, Bob Richards.
It was great to see our Club well represented. If you click on Read more, you will find a couple of photos from the evening. A full Album can be found here.
This article has been taken from the RI site here. By Etelka Lehoczky
Final day of 2025 Rotary International Convention highlighted current and future Rotary leaders
The 2025 Rotary International Convention in Calgary, Canada, concluded in a spirit of fellowship and rejuvenation. Addressing the event’s closing general session, Rotary International President Stephanie A. Urchick urged members to recognize the power of their relationships.
This article has been taken from the RI site here. By Etelka Lehoczky
RI’s new president talks about his top Rotary moments, his goals as president, and his love of olive oil and opera
Francesco Arezzo was sitting with a friend at his district conference when he received a call, asking him to leave the room and join a Zoom meeting with the Rotary International Board of Directors. A few minutes later, Arezzo learned that he’d been chosen as RI president for 2025-26, the third Italian and the first from southern Italy to lead the global membership organization. Since the news hadn’t been officially announced, he couldn’t tell anyone. But soon, he noticed phones coming out all over the room.
Linda O'Brien chaired today's meeting at Aila once again - for our second meeting at this venue during the current school holidays. Another lovely breakfast was enjoyed by all despite the very crisp and cool morning. These informal meetings away from Cilantro are very enjoyable and provide great opportunities to catch up with our club members and chat about anything and everything.
Every day mothers risk their lives giving birth and millions of children die each year from treatable, preventable causes. At least 7 million children under the age of five die each year due to malnutrition, poor health care, and inadequate sanitation. To help reduce this rate, we provide immunizations and antibiotics to babies, improve access to essential medical services, and support trained healthcare providers for mothers and their children. Your Rotary projects ensure sustainability by empowering the local community to take ownership of healthcare training programs. And there is more.....
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.
Take the link, Subscribe to Calendar, from the Calendar Page.
Leader: Vishal Mahajan
BMC: Karin Soster and Alan Kempton
Moorabbin: Margaret Intha
Holland Foundation: Jen Serena
Visitors: Grant Perry
Cars in the Queue: 1
Overnight Parkers: 1
Pedestrian Count: 780
Market Report: Sun was out still freezing. Quiet in morning but picked up a little around noon
Leader, Vishal Mahajan
Note there is a separate story about the defib at the Market here.
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.
Thank you for being a subscriber to our Weekly Club Bulletin. I try to have it published each week by Tuesday morning.
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Ian Ballantine, Editor.
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Message from the President
This week's speaker / event
REGISTRATION FOR MEETINGS
Rotary initiative supports midwives in remote communities
nny Stone was our chairperson for today's club meeting at Cilantro. Guests included our guest speaker, PDG Dr Daryl Moran, Jenny Moran, PDG Bob Richards, Nicki Chung, and Gary Ramage. 
District 9815 held their Changeover function on Saturday evening at the Pakenham Racecourse.
This article has been taken from the RI site 
This article has been taken from the RI site 
Linda O'Brien chaired today's meeting at Aila once again - for our second meeting at this venue during the current school holidays. Another lovely breakfast was enjoyed by all despite the very crisp and cool morning. These informal meetings away from Cilantro are very enjoyable and provide great opportunities to catch up with our club members and chat about anything and everything. 
Every day mothers risk their lives giving birth and millions of children die each year from treatable, preventable causes. At least 7 million children under the age of five die each year due to malnutrition, poor health care, and inadequate sanitation. To help reduce this rate, we provide immunizations and antibiotics to babies, improve access to essential medical services, and support trained healthcare providers for mothers and their children. Your Rotary projects ensure sustainability by empowering the local community to take ownership of healthcare training programs. And there is more.....
A message to all Club members as regards the ClubRunner App I spoke about at the meeting on the 4th. June.
