Weekly Bulletin (Oct. 05, 2026)

MORNING MEETING WEDNESDAY at Gilbert's Cafe

We are now meeting at Gilbert's Cafe 7am

282 Centre Road, Bentleigh, 3204

Details here

The Meeting will NOT be available via Zoom this week

Edition 281

Monday, 5th October 2026

Last week Wednesday was a dinner meeting. The guest speaker was CEO of Interplast, Misha Coleman, who spoke about the great work that Interplast does and also the problem 3rd world countries have in having to deal with large quantities of donated goods not required by them. Dinner options replaced the spit roast and was a most welcome replacement.

This Wednesday we are back to meeting at 7am at Gliberts. Cheltenham Secondary College students from the college will be attending our meeting with a presentation about their experience at RYDA. (Rotary Youth Drivers Awareness). Which RCBMc sponsors.
Happy RCBMC anniversary to Kirsten Oakley (2 years) on Friday 9th and happy birthday to Peter O Brien on Saturday 10th.
CREATE LASTING IMPACT

Club President, 2026-27,
Neville Kruss

Editor's Note - Registration for Event

If you ever find that you haven't registered, or declined, for an event and you thought you had, please refer to the help instructions on the process HERE It is most probable that you have neglected a step in the confirmation. You will receive an email immediately following ONLY IF you have been successful.
Ian Ballantine

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 Wednesday 12th August 2026 - 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 October 7 2026

Chairperson Reid, Julie

Meeting Door Host d'Unienville, Bert
at Gilbert's Cafe this week details HERE

Meeting October 14 2026

Chairperson O'Brien, Peter

Meeting Door Host Lynch, Tim

Market 11th October 2026

Market Leader Reid, Julie

Assistant O'Brien, Peter

Assistant O'Brien, Linda

Market 18th October 2026

Market Leader Ballantine, Ian

Assistant Nodrum, Helen

Assistant Lucas, Margaret

This week's speaker / event

MORNING Meeting at Gilbert's

Students and a staff member from Cheltenham Secondary College
reflecting on their experience at the RYDA day

Details and Registration HERE

Please check the upcoming events on the Club website here

REGISTRATION FOR MEETINGS HELP HERE

Please forward any events you want promoted to the Editor.
For all Club events refer Club Calendar HERE

	Holland Foundation Ball October 16 2026 We now have 11 members, partners and friends attending Please check this list to ensure that if you intend coming and wish to be on our table you have your name here Details HERE
Sat 24th October we are planning another visit to Riding for the Disabled in Moorabbin Details and Registration HERE Stories about the Club and RDA HERE

Click on image above for latest issue

Link to photos from 2026 Conference here
Link to photos from District Changeover July 2025 here
Link to photos from 2025 Conference here
Link to photos from 2024 Conference here

Market report for Sunday 04/10/2026.

Leader: vishal mahajan
BMC: Jim Magee
Moorabbin: Kurt Francis, Venu Naidoo
Holland Foundation: manpreet Bumrah
Other Helpers: Peter O’Brien
Visitors: Charles
Cars in the Queue: Nil
Overnight Parkers: 2
Pedestrian Count: 940
Market Report: cloudy not very busy day at market but lot of other things happening. Please see non-reportable comments

Note there is a separate story about the defib at the Market here.

Share a Dream Ball October 3, 2026

Posted by Ian Ballantine on Oct 04, 2026

Once again member Terry Kane as President of the Share a Dream Philippine community organisation, ran her Rio Carnivale Ball on Sat, October 3, 2026 at Melrose Receptions.
In addition to Terry, in attendance were members Linda and Peter O'Brien and Helen Parker and Ian Ballantine.

Congratulations Terry on another successful event.

Rotary received a lot of exposure during the evening with many mentions of our own Club and others in the Philippines. Congratulations Terry on your wonderful work for the people of the Philippines.

There are a few pics following and an album of more HERE.

World Polio Day October 24

Posted by Ian Ballantine on Oct 03, 2026

Every year, the Rotary community mobilizes for World Polio Day to raise awareness about global efforts to end polio for good. If we stay committed, we can make polio the second human disease ever to be eradicated.

World Polio Day (24 October) was established by Rotary International to commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk, who led the first team to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis. Use of this inactivated poliovirus vaccine and subsequent widespread use of the oral poliovirus vaccine developed by Albert Sabin led to establishment of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in 1988. Since then, GPEI has reduced polio worldwide by 99 percent.

World Polio Day is an annual observance when members of Rotary International, along with public health advocates and individuals committed to a polio-free world, convene to commemorate their accomplishments in the global campaign against polio. This day also provides a platform for deliberation on the requisite measures to permanently eliminate polio from the face of the Earth.

Picturing polio pioneer Dorothy Horstmann

Posted by Ian Ballantine on Oct 03, 2026

Taken from RI website click HERE

For years, she stood in the shadow of great men like Salk and Sabin. Now she’s ready for her close-up.
by Geoffrey Johnson

“For one often catches a glimpse of them in the lives of
the great, whisking away into the background, concealing,
I sometimes think, a wink, a laugh, perhaps a tear.”
—Virginia Woolf

In the spring of 1944, even as a world war raged in Europe and Asia, a silent and unseen assailant crept into North Carolina’s Catawba County. Its first reported victim was a 17-month-old blond girl from Hickory named Linda Kiser. After falling ill in early June, the girl had been rushed to the hospital in nearby Charlotte by the county’s public health nurse.

Evening Meeting Sep 30 2026 Misha Coleman

Posted by Karin Soster on Sep 30, 2026

Another wonderful evening was enjoyed by all who attended last week's club meeting at Gilberts in Bentleigh. Jo Impey chaired the meeting and welcomed club members and guests Jo Kirk, Dee Mason, Raymond Pepito, Sarah Bennett, Angela Lynch, Tim Kidman, Gary Ramage, and our guest speaker, Misha Colman - CEO Interplast Australia.
CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS
President Neville reminded club members of "The things we say and do in Rotary, and the Four Way Test",
Birthday Wishes to Vishal Mahajan
District 9815 Rotaract Representative - Lily Setnik, will visit and address our club on Wednesday 9 December 2026.
An album of pics is HERE

Interplast in Samoa

Posted by ball on Sep 27, 2026

This story was taken from the Interplast website dated March 9, 2026

Last year, you may have read about Dr Ben Norris and his fundraising efforts to get a volunteer surgical team to Samoa. Thanks to the support of his generous network of patients, friends, colleagues, and incredible supporters like you, a volunteer Interplast team has returned from a successful surgical program in Apia, Samoa, delivering critical care to many children and adults.

Dr Ben Norris and his fellow volunteers, reconstructive surgeon Associate Professor Damian Marucci, nurse Norma Schwalger, anaesthetist Dr Alan Goodey, theatre nurse M-J Laing, hand therapist Katie Anjou, and anaesthetic nurse Caz McLoughlin, have been visiting Samoa to provide surgeries, post-operative care, and training for local partners and clinicians.

The women who changed Rotary

Posted by Ian Ballantine on Sep 27, 2026

Taken from RDU HERE

PICTURED: Sylvia Whitlock paved the way for women in Rotary when she became the first female Rotary club president in 1987.

Once excluded from membership, women are now leading Rotary at every level, reshaping the organisation through service, courage and a commitment to opening doors for the next generation.

Words Juliet Potter. PR, Media & Communications Manager.

For almost 80 years, women could support Rotary. They organised fundraisers, volunteered behind the scenes and championed community causes, but they couldn’t become members.

Club Meeting Sep 23 2026 DG Emma Clark

Posted by Karin Soster on Sep 23, 2026

Ron Brownlees was our chairperson for today's special meeting with District Governor, Emma Clark, as our guest speaker. Guests included club member partners - Bruno Santi and Gary Ramage.

CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS

President Neville was pleased to be back after a week of leave, and he welcomed guest speaker DG Emma Clark whom he first met during a President Elect training course.

Happy Birthday wishes to Helen Parker

Interplast and our Club - Instagram

Posted by Ian Ballantine on Sep 21, 2026

Our Club got a great mention on Instagram courtesy Interplast and member Helen Parker.

Instagram link HERE

Click on Read More for the story

Other stories on Interplast on our website HERE

October is Mental Health Month

Posted by Ian Ballantine

The following message has been received from District Governor Emma Clark and is worthy of repeating here.

October is Mental Health Month – “Lift the Lid - Hat Day”

A focus on mental health research is a focus for my District Governor year, and in preparation for this month we are encouraging all Rotary Clubs and Rotaract Clubs across District 9815 to host a Lift the Lid - Hat Day at your club in October, in support of Australian Rotary Health’s vital mental health and general health initiatives.

Registering for an Event

Posted by Ian Ballantine on Aug 30, 2024

This article is intended to help members register themselves and/or a guest to a Club event. Note, you are also expected to 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.
As venues need to be advised of numbers PRIOR to the event, please register by noon on the day prior unless otherwise stated.
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.

Please refer to this Help article in full.

Subscribe to Calendar

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.

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

Breakfast Meeting RYDA

Oct. 07, 2026
7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

Victoria Police Legacy Trivia Night

Oct. 10, 2026
6:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.

Breakfast Meeting - Glen Eira Historical Society

Oct. 14, 2026
7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

Holland Charity Ball

Oct. 16, 2026
6:30 p.m. – 11:30 p.m.

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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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MORNING MEETING WEDNESDAY at Gilbert's Cafe

We are now meeting at Gilbert's Cafe 7am

Link to photos from 2026 Conference here Link to photos from District Changeover July 2025 here Link to photos from 2025 Conference here Link to photos from 2024 Conference here

PICTURED: Sylvia Whitlock paved the way for women in Rotary when she became the first female Rotary club president in 1987.

Once excluded from membership, women are now leading Rotary at every level, reshaping the organisation through service, courage and a commitment to opening doors for the next generation.

Note from the Editor re Images and Events

Link to photos from 2026 Conference here
Link to photos from District Changeover July 2025 here
Link to photos from 2025 Conference here
Link to photos from 2024 Conference here