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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 92
Monday, 5th September 2022
Message from our President
From the Desk of President Margaret
I attended the District DG and Presidents meeting on 2nd September. The following are items of interest and action for all clubs and members.
PDG David Tolstrup spoke on ‘Regionalisation’ and advised that voting will commence from 15th September. All clubs are encouraged to vote, as a missing vote will be considered a NO vote. Each club has one vote and it requires 60% of YES votes for all Clubs for the pilot programme to proceed.
Arrangements have been made for all club members to vote at our meetings on 7th and 14th September. As President I will then vote on behalf of the club, based on member's votes received.
Gus Rozycki from the RC of Belgrave spoke on Business Community Connections. This is an Innovative Social Business Network for all Rotarians to get to know each other. It is a multi-club project for Rotarians working together for the benefits of ‘Service Above Self’. Remember that Paul Harris established Rotary as an avenue for business
and professional people to network. All you need to do if you would like to register your business in this project is to email your business card to Gus. Also you can get in touch with him for further information.
His contact is gusrozyski@9810rotary.org.au (click on image at right to have a look)
Another exciting programme introduced by Peter Behm, who is the Image and Communications Chair in District 9810 is the ‘Incentive Awards Programme’. In essence, this means that the club will be awarded points for various activities they undertake. The points will go towards rewards such as hoodies or polo T-shirts for all members of the club. There will also be minor prizes such as Rotary caps, mugs and pens. Points can be earned by induction of new members, registering for the District conference at attending a District seminar as well as members visiting other clubs and clubs inviting District Chairs to speak at their club meetings. I will advise on the details of the award points as soon as they are available on the District website.
We can therefore ‘IMAGINE ROTARY’ and look forward to an exciting and interesting year.
Thanks everyone
With every best wishes
President Margaret Mason
Speaker info this Week: No speaker this week, (DG next week)
Instead we will be holding a Club forum
At Cilantro (details) and Zoom: Meeting ID 3532621046 Pwd 3191 or click here.
Coming Speakers
Meeting September 14 - Visit by District Governor, 9810, Ken Miller
On Friday 9th September the Interact Club at McKinnon Secondary College is having a fundraising sausage sizzle. As a way of re establishing our ties with the club post covid our Rotary club has offered to help out with a donation and also people to help with the BBQ on the day. Details here.
Social dinner at Arcobar
Monday 19th September at 6.00pm (NOTE time change)
Let's make a night of it! It's time to get out, relax and have some fun.
All details, including RSVP (registration) here.
Share Me a Dream Charity Ball 2022
October 1, 2022
details here
District 9810 Conference March 2023
Details and link to registration here.
International Convention May 2023 Melbourne
Info and registration here
Latest edition of District Newsletter can be found here
On Thursday 1st September 2022, our Rotary members were invited to attend the winding up of the Melbourne Business Awards that was held at the Woodlands Golf Course in White St, Mentone.
Special evening meeting with guests from Team Sports for All
Tim Moran was our chairperson for this evening’s club meeting at Cilantro. Glenda and Neville joined the meeting via Zoom. Leonie Ryan, Gary Ramage and Sarah Bennett also joined in.
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:Geoff, Roy, Helen, Sue.
Visiting Rotarians: Sam, Pres Margaret (complete with banana pancakes)
Market report: Some fathers were obviously having a sleep in today as it was a quiet start but remained steaming throughout the morning. A couple of stall holders reported an increase of theft, we can try and mitigate that simply by our presence around the market
Pedestrians 990
Leader Geoff Gledhill
Roster for the next 2 weeks
Meeting Chairman refer here for help
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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Meeting September 14 - 
On Friday 9th September the Interact Club at McKinnon Secondary College is having a fundraising sausage sizzle. As a way of re establishing our ties with the club post covid our Rotary club has offered to help out with a donation and also people to help with the BBQ on the day. Details 
l dinner at Arcobar
