The Market has now re-opened. The Club has returned to meetings in person and run them in conjunction with Zoom. Arrangements may vary each week. Please confirm venue below or via the website here.
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NORMAL MORNING MEETING THIS WEEK
Meeting This Week - we are at Cilantro 7am for 7.10am start
The meeting will also be available on Zoom - details here
Edition 106
Monday, 23rd January 2023
Message from our President
I hope, as I did, you all enjoyed our Fellowship meeting last week. It was a time to catch up after our Christmas and New Year break have a chat about our news and holidays.
Faye certainly had us laughing, entertaining us with her tales of a 28day Cruise she and Ken went on recently. The Cruise around Australia, Sydney return via Bali with numerous stops in between, however many of the Port visits including Bali didn’t happen due to Covid. Locked in a cabin for most of the time would likely cause a degree of friction between even the happiest of couples but for Ken and Faye laughter seemed to be the best medicine.
Rotary as we experienced last week has shown us that it isn’t just about what we do in the community but also it is sharing time with like-minded people whose company we enjoy. Rotary was based on Fellowship, a weekly meeting over lunch with business colleagues developed into what we know as Rotary today.
Allocating time for a Fellowship meeting once a month will not only allow us to enjoy time chatting but will also provide an opportunity to discuss the Clubs progress toward our goals plus any other matters members may like to raise for discussion.
I will look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday.
Yours in Rotary, Glenda
In October last year a District Rewards programme was reported in the Bulletin.
To date we have accumulated 8’600 points, the majority as a result of the number of members attending the District Conference in Canberra and by Peter O’Brien visiting various clubs.
10,000 points for hoodies for all members with your club’s name
7,000 points for polos for all members with your club’s name
3,500 points for 30 generic Rotary caps
1,500 points for 20 generic Rotary mugs
1,500 points for 20 generic rotary pens
We are so close to receiving hoodies for all members which would be so fantastic for those cold, wintery days at the market.
Inducting a new member will give us 1’000 points or visiting another club 400 points, so your challenge is to introduce new members and visit other clubs.
For more information go to the District Web site, “District Awards”
Speaker info this Week: DGE Ian Ballantine. Ian will speak about his recent trip to International Assembly in Florida along with his coming year.
Coming Speakers / Meetings / Events
Next Week No Speaker. We will be having visits from Marriott Services, The Men’s Shed, Calvary Care and the local SES.
Upcoming Events: The Rotary Club of Bentleigh Moorabbin Central Sunday 29 th January Social afternoon
Join us all at Linda and Peter O’Brien’s beautiful garden from 2pm. Food will be provided, please bring your own drinks.
Saturday 4 th February Beachside Gift A reminder, Greg O’Shea is asking for volunteers to assist with a BBQ at the Beachside Gift. This is a Rotary Club, hands on activity.
Upcoming Events: District February 4th and 5th “Inspire Rotary”
A training programme based on RYLA to re-energise Rotarians. If you are interested please go to on the District Web site where you can book through “try booking”.
‘Inspire Rotary’ is a fresh way to invigorate and inspire Rotarians. A unique training session modeled on the successful RYLA leadership seminar.
It will provide Rotarians invaluable leadership training and tools to create positive effective teams as well as nurture and create sustainable connections within our clubs, with Rotaract and our community.
When….
February 4th & 5th 2023
Deep Creek Golf Club - Pakenham
Day time sessions with an included dinner on Saturday evening
Cost: $115* per member
*Includes catering for breaks, lunch and Saturday night dinner
Tim L was chairperson for this week’s club meeting which was an evening meeting at Cilantro, with a full house of club members, partners and many guests. Partners included Asia, Angie, Leonie, Julie, Helen, Sarah, Angela and Gary. Friends and guests included Russell and Ian (friends of Neville), Chris (Pres of Beaumaris R.C.), Greg and Cathy Every (Beaumaris R.C.), Cassie and Rosemary (Helen’s family from Canberra), Michaela (friend of Julie Reid), a guest of Sue Loeliger, Jonas, and Jenny Le Marshall. My apologies if anyone has been missed.
Larry performed Invocation and Tony performed the Loyal Toast.
Our Club has undertaken a project to "rescue" push bikes from the now closed Camelot Traffic School in East Bentleigh and deliver them to the good people of Rochester, Victoria.
Larry was our chairperson for today’s club meeting and AGM at Cilantro. Alan performed the invocation and Tim L performed the loyal toast. Charles and Karin joined the meeting via Zoom.
After overcoming some minor issues, we were able to attend the 2022 Bentleigh Festival on Sunday 20th November. People started arriving before 10.00am and we were set up around 10.30am. Thanks to Jo Impey and Helen Nodrum for assisting in taking the Rotary marquee down Centre Road to just outside Aldi. The weather was very pleasant until the first of several rain showers swept in from the west. Nothing seemed to deter the thousands of attendees from enjoying themselves at the multiple food outlets and entertainment/amusement attractions. Obviously, the fact that this was the first Festival since 2019 meant that everyone was keen to be there. Plenty of dry spells during the day meant that the marquee was able to dry out before we packed it away.
Rotary Bentleigh Sunday Market chair, Ron Brownlees recently organised some great advertising for the market.
Two digital signs were set up on the corner Nepean Highway and South Rd Moorabbin , outbound. And another on the corner North and Tucker Rds Ormond-inbound.
They were displayed during the week of November 7th to 13th.
After discovering new perspectives and being inspired by new ideas at the 2022 Rotary International Convention, attendees and virtual participants are looking ahead to next year's gathering in Melbourne, the sparkling second city of Australia.
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Team members: Vishal, Jo and Ian from BMC and Venu from Moorabbin (all morning) and of course, Ron Brownlees. Visiting Rotarians: Sam Langridge, Helen Nodrum, and Charles Rener
. Pedestrian count 1260
Market Report: Nice busy day for the market. About 3 cars in the queue. Quite a few empty spaces but allowed a few cars to remain to fill it out a bit. Overall, great day. Leader, Vishal Mahajan
Roster for the next 2 weeks
Meeting Chairman refer here for help
Note Market start time is 6.15am
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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
A reminder to members to keep checking the calendar of upcoming events for evening and perhaps, one day, daytime events.
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