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Edition 38
Monday, 22nd July 2021
Message from our President
Well, here we go again – Lockdown 5.0. A snap lockdown they say but do not hold your breath the last circuit breaker of 7 days lasted three weeks and the spread of this raging virus just gets faster each time.
Cilantro is now unavailable due to this lockdown and whilst we considered endeavouring to meet back at Virginia Park for just this one week the timing is too tight to accommodate us on the Wednesday morning, particularly if the lockdown does not end.
…BACK TO A ZOOM MEETING FOR THIS WEEK.
Following our board meeting last week, the service team chairperson’s will now gather their teams and start planning for this rotary year. I am looking forward to working with each team to bring about our projects and partnership outcomes.
The Kingston A cluster for this year has been expanded to include Springvale City, Noble Park Dingley, Chelsea, Mordialloc, Moorabbin and ourselves.
A huge vote of thanks to Ian Ballantine for the work he put into getting our club’s first hybrid meeting up and running. It was not as simple as it looked and there was quite a bit of planning and thought required to pull it off. Wonderful to provide our members who cannot get to Cilantro the opportunity of attending meetings.
The youth committee have got off to a flying start this year with regards Rotary youth programs. We are pleased to sponsor Tilde Verhoeven from Mentone Girls Secondary college to National Youth Science forum and we are presently interviewing a candidate for RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Assembly)
Tim Moran continues to do some great work in the background as our representative on the district committee looking at establishing a Rotaract club in our area. Whilst this will not be achieved overnight, I believe the committee’s action plan will yield success down the track.
Along with Terry Kane, Linda O’Brien and Peter Nolan I had the honour of being invited to Change over night for Rotary Club of South Davao in the Philippines. Our donation through Terry’s “share a dream” organisation was acknowledged during the ceremony and I was given the pleasure of responding on behalf of our club
As you will have guessed a Virtual event – but nonetheless a most impressive night
(see report further down the bulletin).
Keep in touch with each other and stay safe
Regards and all the best,
Helen Nodrum
Meeting this week
We are back on Zoom this week.Meeting ID 3532621046 Pwd 3191
Our guest speaker(s) are Jeff Needham - John Dixon from Moorleigh Men's Shed
Also, have a look at the article below on subscribing to our Events Calendar. Have all events update directly to your phone.
Ian Ballantine
Our Club meets weekly. It can either be a Zoom meeting, or an "in person" meeting.
This week, we will be back on Zoom, details here. The Zoom meeting will be started around 7.15am with the formal meeting starting at 7.30am Please check details of each week's meeting here or elsewhere in this Bulletin to confirm venue. You are very welcome to join us.
There are a number of upcoming events that are beyond the listing below. MLA Brad Rowswell is speaker on the 8th September. There is a community event to raise awareness of suicide prevention on the 10th September and a fundraising picnic for Rotarians Against Malaria on the 18th September. Please click here to see all and here to see how you can have events added automatically to your calendar.
Do yourself and Bentleigh Moorabbin Central Rotary Club a Favour.
Purchase an apartment with a retirement lifestyle for yourself at The Healey, or refer a friend who purchases an apartment and you will receive a $1000 Visa card. Plus Bentleigh Moorabbin Central Rotary Club will also receive a $1000 donation**.
The chair for the meeting was Terry Kane, and the guest speaker was Andrew Campbell from Neuaudio. President Helen welcomed members and advised that the Board, at its meeting on 13 July, decided to contribute $5,000 to the Storm Relief Fund in District 9810. This is to be ratified by members vote in 2 weeks time. There will be a dinner at Mulgrave Country Club for returned “Outgoing Exchange Students “ on 6 August 2021
This article is primarily here to provide links and instructions to obtain images from District 9810 Changeover held at Southern Golf Club on Friday, 9th July, 2021. The small number of images in this story are primarily of members of the Rotary Club of Bentleigh Moorabbin Central.
An Album of images can be found within this website here These images are at 1500 pixels and can be displayed via a slide show. You also have the ability to download individual images. Please read the instructions on the page.
Additionally, all images at different resolutions, (1500 pixels and maximum) are available on Google drive here. It is possible to download individual or all images.
Over the years, I caught glimpses of Shekhar Mehta when he came to One Rotary Center in Evanston, Illinois, for Board of Directors meetings. I met him formally during one of the days of back-to-back meetings with various staff members that every incoming Rotary president participates in. During the session I attended, he was the most relaxed person in the room, despite being the only one suffering from jet lag. He was alert, patient, and asked perceptive questions — not surprising for someone as successful as he is in his professional and philanthropic life. I kept thinking that he was assessing each of us to see how we could be recruited to help him achieve his dreams for Rotary.
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.
No report due to market being closed - will remain so until restrictions lifted.
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.
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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