NORMAL MORNING MEETING THIS WEEK
Meeting This Week - we are at Cilantro 7am for 7.10am start
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The meeting will also be available on Zoom - details here
Edition 243
Monday, 1st December2025
The meeting last week was a more formal format than our usual meeting as it also contained the Club’s Annual General Meeting. Apart from the various official administrative functions that needed to be passed, the AGM also puts forward the composition of the Board for the next rotary year. As there were no objections nor multiple nominations for positions the proposed membership was accepted. I would like to congratulate all those who have accepted their nomination to the club’s board; and in particular Neville Kruss who will be next year’s president and now immediately becomes the President Elect.
I would like to remind members that this Wednesday is International Day of People With Disability, at GESAC. The community committee is seeking volunteers to run the BBQ this Wednesday. Please contact the someone on the community committee if you can help out.
Last Sunday was the second Community Group meeting for this year. Most of the meeting focused on social media and how to get search engines to list our clubs close to the top. The discussion was conducted by Steve Palamara from the RC of Belgrave, who is also on the District IT committee.
Michael Mullin the President of the RC of Mordialloc Mentone mentioned that they are running a Christmas raffle and luckily he had enough booklets for all of the presidents present, so bring along cash for this Wednesday.
Among the emails that you have received this week is one from District about the Governors Excellence Awards. For those new to Rotary these are acknowledgment of a club’s achievements in reaching various goals as set out by the district. I would like someone to volunteer to take on the task of recording our progress.
Finally, it was announced last week that this week’s speaker would be Jules Gaddie, giving his ‘Man Behind The Badge’ presentation. However this has been changed to Geoff Gartly speaking about the scouting movement in Australia.
Club President, 2025-26,
Grant Perry
Board Motion(s) Proposed
The following motion(s) were passed by members at the Club's most recent Meeting:
Motion
Moved that the Rotary Club of Bentleigh Moorabbin Central Inc. donates $5,000 to Polio Eradication.
Moved: Linda O'Brien Seconded: Peter O'Brien. Motion carried
Motion
Moved that the Rotary Club of Bentleigh Moorabbin Central Inc. donates $5,500 to Australia Rotary Health for their Indigenous Scholarship program for 2026.
Moved: Linda O'Brien Seconded: Neville Kruss Motion carried.
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 October 6, 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 December 3 2025
Chairperson Ballantine, Ian
Cashier Gartly, Geoff
Cashier Reid, Julie
Meeting December 10 2025
Chairperson Green, Larry
Cashier Kruss, Neville
Cashier Oakley, Kirsten
Market December 7th 2025
Market Leader Gledhill, Geoff
Assistant Oliver, Barry
Assistant Oakley, Kirsten
Market December 14th 2025
Market Leader Moran, Tim
Assistant Kruss, Neville
Assistant Impey, Jo
This week's speaker / event
This week's meeting.
Member Geoff Gartly will be speaking to us about the Scouting Movement in Australia
Wheelchairs for Kids always need blankets/rugs to give away with their wheelchairs.
Member Linda O'Brien is inviting any members or friends of our Club who would like to help in this project.
Please contact Linda for more information.
Alannah & Madeline Foundation
Looking for support to provide Buddy Bags for children who have experienced extreme violence HERE
December 9, 2025
“Where do my dues go? The greater workings of Rotary.”
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 30/11/2025.
Leader: Paul Ferguson
BMC: Linda O’B, Peter O’B (el guapo)
Moorabbin: No show till 0930. Anita from 0930
Holland Foundation: Felix, Changwei
Visitors: Ian & Billie, Charles Renner
Cars in the Queue: Nil
Overnight Parkers: Nil
Pedestrian Count: 890
Market Report: brisk, patchy rain
Traded slowly. Plant sellers did below average sales. Busker extraordinaire Dave Drummond played non stop Metallica songs at Linda’s request. Peter self purchased chocolate eclairs and a vanilla slice from Noisette & greedily goobled them down. Lots of friendly dogs today.
Important message to Market Leaders: New Computer
The iPad is NO LONGER. Entry of Market Report and Try Booking access is now done via new computer in the office. The procedure for its use is in the office.
Note there is a separate story about the defib at the Market here.
Rotary Passport Melbourne is helping deliver vital aid and hope to Cambodian families displaced by the border conflict.
WORDS. Maria Hicks OAM. Vice President, Rotary Passport Melbourne, Vic
Rotary Passport Melbourne has been supporting the Rotaract Club of Siem Reap (RACSR) in its collaboration with the Cambodia Rural Students Trust (CRST) to provide humanitarian relief to hundreds of Cambodian families recently displaced by clashes along the Cambodia–Thailand border.
Across Cambodia, thousands of families have been displaced from their homes, left without land, food or access to even the most basic necessities. These are people caught in a cycle of hardship, often overlooked and underserved.
The Rotary Club of Liverpool West and FlyPink joined forces to raise nearly $150,000 for breast cancer research through a record-breaking Pink October Gala fundraiser.
A partnership between the Rotary Club of Liverpool West, NSW, and aviation charity FlyPink has provided a boost for breast cancer research, raising nearly $150,000 for the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF).
Larry Green chaired this week's club meeting at Cilantro, and which was also our club's Annual General Meeting. Ian and Helen joined via Zoom, as did former club member, Sue Loeliger. Committees also provided updates on activities within their committee.
CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS
President's Meeting Fri 21/11 - President Grant and Ron attended the President's Meeting which also included the District AGM. Emma Clark was confirmed as the incoming DG for D9815 for 2026-2027, and Murray Wilson as the DG Nominee for the year 2027-2028. Shalini Penny was confirmed as the District Secretary for 2026-2027.
Other topics covered during the President's Meeting included a project for Men's Health, Marketing, and a Film Night at the Dendy theatre in Brighton.
Riding for the Disabled Club Visit - Sat 22/11. Jo Impey attended the RDA in Moorabbin with a few other club members, and had the opportunity to see the horse that was partly funded by BMC. A lovely time was had by all. It is expected that all going well, the horse should provide a further 15 years of service for RDA.
Last Saturday morning, members were treated to a visit to Riding for the Disabled in Moorabbin. Our party was Grant Perry, Nicky Chung, Peter O’Brien with Georgia, myself and Tim Lynch.
We were warmly greeted by their past president Jane Baker, and current president, Kate Stankovich and were introduced to Remi, their newest horse, mostly funded by a $5000 donation by our club.
Taken from RDU HERE (Note Timau isa port city in the southern Canterbury Region of New Zealand, located 157 km (98 mi) southwest of Christchurch and about 196 km (122 mi) northeast of Dunedin)
Predator Free Timaru takes possession of AI cameras in fight to bring back native birds
The Rotary Club of Timaru has boosted local conservation efforts with the donation of six high-tech AI cameras to help Predator Free Timaru track and eradicate invasive species threatening native birdlife.
WORDS: Rachael Comer. The Timaru Herald.
Members of a group working to bring native birds back to Timaru, NZ, now have more tools under their belt, with a donation of AI cameras to detect and identify invading predators.
On 26 June, the Rotary Club of Timaru handed over six cameras and batteries, worth more than $10,000, to Predator Free Timaru to help in its eradication of possums, stoats, rats and hedgehogs from green areas such as the Scenic Reserve and the Highfield Golf Course.
Rotary Action Groups have a lot to teach about volunteer organizing
When Rotary club members thousands of miles apart decide to collaborate, something has to bind them together. For Marion Bunch and Stephen Mwanje, it was a shared awareness of the devastation of AIDS.
Bunch, a member of the Rotary Club of Dunwoody, Georgia, USA, experienced that devastation when her son died from an AIDS-related illness. Mwanje, a member of the Rotary Club of Mukono, Kampala, Uganda, had seen how the disease ravaged his country. The two met when Bunch visited Uganda, and they began talking about the complexities of fighting AIDS in Africa.frican National AIDS Council, one of the action group’s partners.
Ian was our chairperson for this morning's club meeting at Cilantro. Guests included Lisa-Monique Lee, Gary Ramage, and our guest speaker, Bruno Santi. CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS Board Motions at the last board meeting included: - Purchase of a pallet of Lego from DIK at $881 - Donations in Kind - for distribution to charitable organisations - Pledged a donation of $4,900 to the Salvation Army for their Safe Sleeping project for women and children escaping domestic violence BBQ - Volunteers required. BMC has been invited to set up and administer a BBQ to promote the opening of a local pharmacy in Centre Road in Bentleigh for a couple of hours on Saturday 6 December. This will also be a promotional event for our club - Peter O'Brien will coordinate the BBQ and seek volunteers.
Project Abigail: Restoring dignity and opportunity for girls in Uganda
Australian Rotary clubs in Districts 9705 (ACT and NSW) and 9423 (WA), assisted by a club in Washington DC, have helped turn one Ugandan student’s dream into reality, funding 10 new bathroom cubicles at Kimaanya Secondary School to restore dignity, improve hygiene and empower more than 750 girls to learn with confidence.
For too long, mornings at BS Kimaanya Secondary School in Masaka, Uganda, began with frustration and fatigue. Hundreds of girls queued for hours at the school’s crumbling bathroom facilities, some forced to bathe in the open, their privacy and dignity stripped away. What should have been a simple daily routine became a source of exhaustion before the first lesson even began.
Thanks to the vision of Rotary Peace Fellow Emily Nabakooza and the generosity of 16 Rotary clubs across Australia and the US, this story has been rewritten. Through Project Abigail – named after a courageous student whose video plea touched hearts across the world – 10 brand-new, modern bathroom cubicles now stand at Kimaanya Secondary School, transforming the lives of more than 750 female boarding students.
Donors to The Rotary Foundation celebrated some big achievements in fundraising in the past year, showing their support for the wide array of programs the organization sponsors all over the world.
A multiyear campaign to increase the Endowment to US$2.025 billion by 2025 exceeded its goal by US$25 million. In 2024-25 alone, members and others contributed more than half a billion dollars to the Foundation.
Club members and guests had a fabulous last night at Cilantro with everyone enjoying a lovely meal prepared by the students of the Cordon Bleu Cookery School. Linda O'Brien was chairperson, and guests included our guest speaker Daryl Moran and wife Jenny, Bob Richards, Sue Loeliger and club member partners - Bruno, Ken, Leonie, Julie, Sarah, Ruby and Gary.
GUEST SPEAKER - Dr Daryl Moran - PDG, former school teacher, and now historian and author.
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Market report for Sunday 30/11/2025.
Taken from Rotary Down Under 
Taken from Rotary Down Under 
Larry Green chaired this week's club meeting at Cilantro, and which was also our club's Annual General Meeting. Ian and Helen joined via Zoom, as did former club member, Sue Loeliger. Committees also provided updates on activities within their committee. 
Last Saturday morning, members were treated to a visit to Riding for the Disabled in Moorabbin. Our party was Grant Perry, Nicky Chung, Peter O’Brien with Georgia, myself and Tim Lynch. 
Taken from RDU 
Taken from the RI website 
Ian was our chairperson for this morning's club meeting at Cilantro. Guests included Lisa-Monique Lee, Gary Ramage, and our guest speaker, Bruno Santi.
Taken from RDU 
Taken from the RI website 
Club members and guests had a fabulous last night at Cilantro with everyone enjoying a lovely meal prepared by the students of the Cordon Bleu Cookery School. Linda O'Brien was chairperson, and guests included our guest speaker Daryl Moran and wife Jenny, Bob Richards, Sue Loeliger and club member partners - Bruno, Ken, Leonie, Julie, Sarah, Ruby and Gary. 
As Editor of the Bulletin and responsible for the Club's website I am asking members to please consider sending me any news about events they may have attended on behalf of the Club or any project that is being undertaken by the Club.
